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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15h

Restorative justice also has huge limitations in the context of sexual violence. The perpetrator must confess. There cannot be a structural power disparity between victim and perpetrator. It is not safe for intimate partner violence. It is too time-intensive for victims with multiple perpetrators.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 16h

also: a reminder that restorative justice is definitionally within the control of the person who has been harmed and not ANYONE ELSE. it cannot be a route chosen for them, and they have full control over the process. otherwise it’s just sparkling mediation

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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 14h

Thread. And corollary: everybody knows and trusts at least one rapist. I think this is one of the factors that makes it difficult to take productive actions against rape. :(

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 3h

"But what if he says he's sorry and means it?! Shouldn't there be some way he avoids consequences?" No. If he's sorry and means it, he'll be happy to experience the loss of special privileges which makes people think he's less likely to do it again, and which erodes rapists' feelings of impunity.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 3h

I think you are mistaking the absence of a path of no consequences for mob justice. It feels like there's nothing he could do to avoid social consequences ... but that's fine, actually. Rape deserves social consequences.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 18h

People are not entitled to having a popular YouTube channel and being denied one isn't a punishment The vast majority of people never get this opportunity. I think it's fine if rapists don't get to have it.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 11h

And you know what Geller could do right now that would do the most good? Give up his public parasocial following and affirm that that's a reasonable minimum of consequence, to undercut unrepentant rapists who are trying to get out ahead of accusations and avoid consequences without change.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 11h

Somebody changing for the better doesn't mean there shouldn't be consequences for torturing someone for pleasure. Restorative justice isn't about opening up a painless path where no one experiences consequences, it's about trying to find a path where atonement can do good.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 14h

Inevitably the discourse turns to "restorative justice," which I think is deeply misunderstood because there is a sort of corporatized version that got copied and pasted as a policy for institutions looking for an easier answer. (Very similar to "anti bias" trainings).

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 11h

Sure, why not? He can get another job. It's not the end of his life. Most people don't have access to a massive crowd of adoring fans, it's no terrible thing to not have that. Gracefully accepting that there are social consequences for sexual assault is a necessary minimum for being better.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh it's even worse than that. isaiprofitable.com thenextweb.com/news/tech-gi... Current AI costs amounts to around $3.5 trillion, mostly over the past 4 years. Worldwide spending on all research, for *everything*, was about $2.5 trillion in 2020.

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Is AI Profitable Yet?

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Large language models: useful for analyzing language.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm sorry, but if someone tries to get me to use a product, and when I ask what it's useful for, they tell me I need to try it to understand, I will conclude the product is a scam

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do you ever think about stuff like how if teeth weren't a thing we wouldn't necessarily know that bone can be secreted in layers like that? And wonder just how many things like that *could* exist in biology which we just don't have examples of? How many ways can bones be made that we've never seen?

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calikalo.bsky.social @calikalo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I cannot endorse this enough. Unless you've heard/seen the victim's actual story from a recording, you're just reading what some random cop wants the story to be. Often there is zero correlation between the cop's version and the truth.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For a lot of students, their university has become what sociologists call a “total institution.” Their school is their school, but also their employer, their landlord, their grocery store, their healthcare provider, their coffee shop, their gym, and, yes, even their police department.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026

just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In case anyone else needs it, the magic phrase for shutting down men picking apart a sexual violence case by blaming victims is: “The only people who would say something like that are rape apologists, rapists, or both.” You don’t have to argue with them on merit when their claims have no merit.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So he *knew* how evil this was and decided to materially support it anyway?

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every single one of these institutions had the power to hold the others accountable too, and pressure the others to take this seriously. And yet.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's a nightmare and I hate that it's such a common story.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the reasons that researchers suspect police react to sexual assault disclosures that way is because the rate of sexual violence perpetration among police is much higher than the general population.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've already been talking about the systemic mistreatment of sexual assault victims at Cornell. Now, let's talk about New York police. One of the best available insights is into the New York City Police Department who commissioned an independent review of their sexual assault unit in 2021.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The reason cases stalled out is that New York City police only opted to interview 28% of identified suspects. In other words, they had enough information to move forward with a case, but they chose not to do it.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the kind of justification schools used for banning my book on campus sexual violence. If we say out loud what they did, they say it’s hurting survivors because no one will trust them enough to report anymore. Silence isn’t a solution. We needed change decades ago.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

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Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?

California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again: US police actively prevent consequences for rapists by hitting victims with a wall of demoralizing hostility and skepticism, and then using their institutional credibility to undermine victim testimony and sabotage evidence and process steps.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote this whole thread this before I had time to read yesterday's NYT story. And everything I'm talking about here is what actually happened to Jane Doe. She has been consistent in her story, but a game of telephone between people invested in not believing her led them to claim otherwise.

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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped

Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026

You can't be branding large numbers of accounts as "rude" and defaulting to hiding their posts, suspending people aggressively on tenuous interpretations of posts, and then with the other side of your mouth "well if you're so bothered about transphobia you're welcome to Do Your Own Moderation"

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They're not trending a HP hashtag or making a gifset about whatever latest HP media is out, and you'd literally never know their stuff exists unless you went looking for it. When that's a legitimate excuse it doesn't have to *be* an excuse, because the conversation isn't happening!

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also, wrt: "What about people reclaiming and transing Harry Potter because that's personally meaningful to them?" Well I know some of those people and they are notably *not part of these conversations*, because they don't trigger these conversations by privately sharing their work with each other!

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Specifically he delayed one execution by as little as one month.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Gov. Lee calls off executions for rest of 2026" www.tennessean.com/story/news/c... Ah, yeah, I think so, buddy. But, also, let's be clear how little this is: Bill Lee calls off ... one execution date.

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Gov. Lee calls off executions for rest of 2026
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing all executions this year after Christa Pike survived two deadly doses of pentobarbital.
"Carrying out a lawfully imposed sentence is among the State's most serious responsibilities, and the people of Tennessee expect it to be done in a manner that is not only legal and constitutional, but is effective," Lee said in a statement Sept. 30.
Lee is calling for a "comprehensive, third-party review" of Pike's execution.
"Therefore, the remaining scheduled execution will not be carried out this year," Lee said.
Gary Wayne Sutton was scheduled for execution Dec. 3.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CA law requires employers to provide tools unless workers earn double min. wage. Many growers and contractors ignore the law despite farm workers making far less. With a union contract they can stand up to the bosses. Make your donation today. act.seiu.org/a/tools?ms=b... #WeFeedYou

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A UFW union contract can stop farm workers being ripped off by growers

CA law requires employers to provide tools unless workers earn double min. wage. Many growers and contractors ignore the law despite farmworkers making far less. With a union contract they can stand u...

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's not blackmail. They all close ranks around each other's rapes and revel in the impunity of it.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

If you ruin the ~ bright futures ~ of Ivy League rapists, who will you rely on when you need a wet signature for state-sanctioned murder?

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Emphasis on the low velocity part. Anything in a decaying orbit is going to spend a lot of time moving sideways in the atmosphere, bleeding off speed and breaking up. The scary meteorites are the ones moving at interplanetary speeds relative to us, that punch through the atmosphere near instantly.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026

Black text on white page that reads:

The Rent Guidelines Board’s rent freeze for one- and two-year leases goes into effect today!

If you’re in a rent-stabilized apartment, any lease renewal starting today must remain at the same rent that it was last year.

Contact 311 and ask for the Tenant Helpline to find out whether your building is covered and your rights as a tenant.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

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Jessie Sullivan @jessiesullivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shut down all fratnerities. I am so for real. Segregation of men and women teaches men to dominate and women to participate in their objectification. Men, if you care about women, and want to do something to stop rape culture, leave your frat. Then shut it down.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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