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We the People Matter 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @crabbyslathers.bsky.social · 11h
Sign the @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: STOP Censoring Posts About Cornell Gang Rape. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
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STOP Censoring Posts About Cornell Gang Rape
There are no words sufficient to describe the heartbreak and anger of processing the story from former Cornell University student Jane Doe, who alleges she was drugged and brutally gang-raped by seven...
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RandyResists2025💙🔵 @resist2025.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If they had believed Anita Hill, wouldn't have Justice Thomas. If they had believed Christine Ford, we wouldn't have Justice Kavanaugh. If they'd believed Epstein victims, we wouldn't have Trump. If Sandra MacDonald had been believed think how many Jane Does there wouldn’t have been.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Perfectly in keeping with RFK’s eugenic strategy.
Kennedy has echoed these points in remarks like the ones he made last year, after a six-year-old Mennonite girl died from measles.
"It's very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person," he said, adding that "we see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who don't have good nutrition or who don't have a good exercise regimen." Texas officials told The New York Times that the little girl had been healthy before she contracted the disease.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When did I first clock Russell Thurlow Vought? He was the guy who stopped the payments to Ukraine that led to first Trump impeachment, abcnews.com/amp/Politics....
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Democrats seek to question Trump budget chief in Ukraine impeachment probe
House Democrats are seeking to interview White House budget director Russell Vought on Oct. 25, according to a copy of a letter obtained by ABC News.
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Medicare Part B premium is $2,435 this year, plus deductibles, coinsurance, and potential supplemental premiums. President Trump says he’s going to send $90 checks to Medicare beneficiaries.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're one month out from Election Day. Listen to Willie. Vote for change this year.
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NER430 @ner430.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gift link www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Increasingly of the view that it needs to be made clear to AI companies and their executives that they will be held both monetarily and criminally liable for things their AIs do. I have a strong suspicion that will make them infinitely more pragmatic about safety.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.
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Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot Text RESIST to 50409 @porpentina2017.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No, it’s not just you… this is what happens when you remove 180k people from the department of Health and Human Services.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Total employees: 75,134
2025 staff cuts: 15,476
2026 staff cuts: 1,930

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Total employees: 16,602
2025 staff cuts: 3,859
2026 staff cuts: 473

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Total employees: 9,769
2025 staff cuts: 2,499
2026 staff cuts: 390

Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Total employees: 72,049
2025 staff cuts: 19,984
2026 staff cuts: 2,269
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

Total employees: 7,526
2025 staff cuts: 874
2026 staff cuts: 39

Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
Total employees: 1,224
2025 staff cuts: 545
2026 staff cuts: 19 

* Information courtesy of the US Department of Personnel Management (OPM)
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 18h
I'm tired.
Screenshot of my Instagram story because it won't fit in the text. In short, we've built social media apps that promote content about male violence only to the victims - - women - - and the men get to read about anything else. And then people wonder why we're angry and triggered while they haven't seen a word about Cornell.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🧊✈️ These are all ICE flights 👀
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court prohibits Trump administration from building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, for now.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
Alito weighs retirement. We MUST win the Senate so we can block any Trump judicial nominee. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Mike 🇺🇦🕯️ @mike-teevee-1971.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🙋🏼‍♂️😒
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🌮 Alacrity's Ghost @alacritysshadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t know about the rest of the country, but New England is entering heating season with less diesel and heating oil in storage than at any point in federal records in the last 30 years.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One month ago, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Americans have NO constitutional right to clean drinking water. I’m still letting that sink in.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ugh. The amount of people losing their jobs right now is not okay.
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David W. Pippy @davidwilliampippy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning! Cow Bay, Nova Scotia photographed today, October 3rd, by Adam Rondelez..
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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jflem2.bsky.social @jflem2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DAMN CONGRESS - YOU COULD STOP THIS!!!!
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VoteGirl @votegirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Our Nation votes in a Midterm election exactly 1 month from today. If you don't have one, make a voting plan. Consider helping to get other people to the polls, that may not have a ride. Everything is on the line in this election. EVERYTHING! PLEASE, get out and vote!
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look at these clowns.
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.
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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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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy Monday: 36 more days Check this out? #FlipTheHouse
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Defenders of Our Republic @defendersofourrepublic.org · 03/10/2026
#SNAP
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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Listen to #JaneGoodall ✊🕊️✊ Get up and #VoteBlue
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So.Tx. @irav9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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praying mantis @gentlem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.cornellsun.com Several current related articles headline the #CornellSun home page, featuring working embedded links to applicable past articles relevant to the content. There‘s no paywall. I get a lot of good coverage from university newspapers in general. I encourage everyone to read them.
The Cornell Daily Sun 10/2/26 main page features 2 articles about different facets of the gang rape investigation. The paper is linked in post.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These hideous Trump ads are outright theft from the taxpayers and election misconduct at the same time. $20 million in OUR MONEY spent on Illegal ads glorifying the would-be king. And his co-conspirators told him it was OK.
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Hope Himars 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🇻🇪 @hopehimars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good on you Sister's 👏
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Willow Tree @review1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
About time Universities started protecting Students from abuse.Rape on Campus is not new. Students should to be advised at orientation, Rape on/off Campus will not be tolerated. There will be consequences that will remain on their record with the Word Rapist on Record Transfers to other Universities
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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SEASONAL VEGAN @hbender55.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
STOP KISSING THAT FUCKER’S ASS AND GET REAL ABOUT WHAT THE FUCK IS REALLY GOING ON
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
5,401th Scandal That Would Have Killed Any Other Politician's Career Dead Engulfs Trump
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Men: “Jane Doe is lying! That’s why the Cornell 7 weren’t charged! Won’t you think of the reputations of the rapists?” Reality: Cornell lied. Not Jane Doe. They withheld crucial details of her story when they gave the information to police and prosecutors. They protected the men:
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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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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot
An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Catching measles does not make your immune system stronger… it does the exact opposite. It can wipe out your immunity (both natural and vaccine related) to all kinds of diseases. It’s a deadly and disabling disease that we know how to prevent. Get your vaccine. It saves lives.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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