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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 4h
Everyone demanding Senator Schmidtt apologize to Jack Smith are again setting the bar too low. They should be demanding his resignation from the Judiciary Committe. He's unfit to serve Pound the table. Make some noise. Turn this into a multi-day story
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h
So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.
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Luis A. Mendez @mendezmovierpt.bsky.social · 3h
The Schmitt gaffe was pure cinema. Schmitt looking on like he just pulled a Perry Mason. Kennedy pointing to the sign like " gotcha!". Senator Stepford Wife, I mean Britt, looking on as she realized what a bunch of dumbasses they look like. Klob mocking Schmitt (and she was still nicer than I'd be).
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 7h
A thing that was very clear at the time is that while it’s true that the United States has a lot of leverage, Israel is a sovereign nation with its own politics, and Netanyahu was, in addition to leading a coalition of aspiring genocidaires, literally going to go prison if the war stopped
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5h
"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism — which typically has no real victims — are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness. A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 5h
Many more questions: 1) Why did they think Smith going to a Hawks game was proof he had met with an Atlanta prosecutor? 2) When Sen. Eric Schmitt and his staff believed they were correct that Smith had gone to an Atlanta Hawks game, why did they only show the poster for 1 second and then hide it?
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 7h
Some issues are complex, with much to be said about them. This one is fairly simple. If someone entertains “The Indian Question” as a thing, and a political party welcomes them, I will not vote for said political party.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 5h
i remember talking to my dad my towards the end of my senior year about all the time i had spent at the sun over the years and he said "well, that was really your fraternity for your time there." never been prouder to be a small part of this brother/sister/siblinghood 🫡🫡🫡
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h
Bc the last 30 seconds of this are the best, reminder that @amyklobuchar.com's dad was a sports journalist, which may explain her utter contempt for Schmitt mistaking the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5h
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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countanton.bsky.social @countanton.bsky.social · 4h
Both these points are very fun and interesting. The picture is awesome.
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Kandorkovich @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 5h
Everybody else is just being a jerkoff trying to get VC money by threatening SkyNet, Thiel believes that literal demons live in the data centers
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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rusty time machine @rustytimemachine.bsky.social · 6h
bsky.app/profile/rust...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6h
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
kgw.com
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 12h
JCO for the win.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 12h
Jack Smith adopting the sort of bewildered deadpan affect of Coach Beard in 'Ted Lasso' throughout this clip might be the comic performance of the year
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
zeteo.com
First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 9h
617 days into his 2nd term, Trump's Department of Transportation has *still* not approved a single new transit project for full funding. The problems I highlighted in March—how this lack of funding only makes projects cost more & delays completion—have only worsened www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...
There have been no approvals for new transit projects in the entire 2nd Trump Administration. This graph, produced in March 2026, remains accurate now, in September 2026.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 15h
People always respond to stuff like this by speculating the person has himself raped someone and I'm certainly not going to discount the possibility but I think it discounts how much of misogyny is built on people who are in it for the love of the game
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Pete Massie @petemassie.bsky.social · 15h
Massive surge in wind power is driving extended zero and near-zero prices in Alberta over the past 24 hours - and massive exports to BC.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17h
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
"Mr. Olsen was central in persuading the F.B.I. to search an election office in Fulton County, Ga., in late January and haul away boxes of ballots as part of an effort to investigate the 2020 race."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s indeed possible to write a headline that says “Trump lies again.” It doesn’t violate any rule of journalism or shatter the laws of nature. it just tells the truth.
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The brother of the Trump-appointed Forest Service director started a wildfire on state land near their ranch that burned more than 5,600 acres. www.hcn.org/articles/ran...
hcn.org
Ranch manager tied to top Trump appointee started 5,600-acre Idaho wildfire - High Country News
A state investigation shines light on the unpermitted fire, which cost nearly $950,000 to contain.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
if you are playing the bias-variance tradeoff game and slamming the bias button every time someday variance is going to bite you
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 28/09/2026
This kind of bloodthirsty misogyny used to be the province of the fringiest fringe right wing, but with the advance of US fascism it’s becoming a mainstream religious right position.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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RappCatsAdopt @rappcats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The trash babies are named! They may have been found under a trash compactor, but these kittens are a treasure! Meet Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Zoe and Snuffleupagus! #oscarthegrouch #abbycadabby #zoe #elmo #snuffleupagus
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*
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Alan Dreams of Deep Quiet Snows @alans9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More music releases from #TheCramps! A famous bootleg and reissued Smell of Female! @punkrockhistory.bsky.social thecramps.bandcamp.com/album/rockin...
thecramps.bandcamp.com
RockinnReelininAucklandNewZealandXXX [Live], by The Cramps
14 track album
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Empire @flempire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TMZ reports that Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, has been fired from his job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation
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Cornell Student Diego Sarabia Loses Wells Fargo Job Amid Alleged Sexual Assault Case
Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, is suddenly out of a job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation of the alleged 2024 incident ... TMZ has learned...
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈 @mwbsf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Here’s what this title and subtitle doesn’t tell the reader: This “study” (and it’s extremely generous to call it that) was conducted by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), a White Christian Nationalist think tank."
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How The Atlantic Lied About Sex
Or at least presents a White Christian Nationalist partisan report as legitimate without evaluating the source (Recording at the end)
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/09/2026
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit.
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Prosecutor reopens probe into Cornell gang rape allegations after accuser files lawsuit
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's Trump saying tariff money is the Republicans' "income" and they can do what they want with it. The Republican Party is a Mafia-style gang, not a political organization.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?
1:55 to 2:25 pm Reforms at CMS

Chris Klomp Chief Counselor HHS

Mehmet Oz, Administrator CMS

Moderated by Russell BRand, comedian and brodcaster
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers wrote a House Intelligence Committee report which had false information in it about Iranian nuclear power *in 2006*. He was condemned by the IAEA twice. He is now the Republican nominee. Brett McGurk, Biden's top MENA aide, fought against reviving the JCPOA and supports the current war.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That’s 3.4 million Palestinians minus the 360,000 in East Jerusalem
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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wavedeva @wavedeva.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w... Having watched #Trump wade into other #elections & experienced his failed attempt to help Mr. #Bolsonaro ’s father avoid prison for plotting a coup, #Brazil is erecting a firewall to try to shield its high-stakes #vote from potential #US meddling. #PresidentLula
nytimes.com
Brazil’s Biggest Election Question?: Donald Trump’s Next Move (Gift Article)
As Brazil prepares to hold elections next month, Latin America’s biggest nation is taking steps to shield its democracy from potential American meddling.
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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