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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 14/10/2026
At least 21 trans patients died by suicide while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, our investigation reveals. Subscribe to support our investigative journalism.
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The deadly toll of the trans healthcare crisis: 21 suicides and over 600 other deaths
QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide.
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dawurz.bsky.social @dawurz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sir this is an Intergenerational Center
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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dawurz.bsky.social @dawurz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How long until the felon's administration executes: An immigrant A journalist A Democrat Antifa Pelosi Clinton Joe Barack not born here Little Marco DeSanctimonious The people coming in and eating cats and dogs Deep state A Muslim Welfare queen Low intelligent Pocahontas Birdbrain Peekabo
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They intentionally destroyed a person's reputation and career with lies that they knew were lies just to avoid a minor amount of blame. And the media acted as accomplices to this cruel, targeted attack.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This thread illustrates, in horrifying detail, that when the media uncritically reports statements of the Trump administration, it's not just failing in its job, it's actively contributing to the evils the administration propagates.
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dawurz.bsky.social @dawurz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Only heartbreak on hearing Mr. RJ Mitte has passed away. What a truly amazing talent who gifted us with deeply compelling performances. He towers as tall as Gilligan/Cranston/Esposito/Gunn/Banks/Norris/Brandt in the stellar achievement we all know. Thinking of him. Thinking of his family.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
"He's just a guy who shows a weird focus on transgender kids ... typically people who say stuff like that tend to have some unusual search histories" -- JD Vance, who is obsessed with demagoguing trans issues, baselessly suggests that Talarico is a pedo
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's really remarkable how in race after race, Republicans are saddled with the worst candidates imaginable - Paxton, Whatley, Husted, Rogers, Marshall, Moody, M. Collins, Graham... Some of them may win, but my god what a collection of losers, crooks, and dumbasses
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Remember this when pundits and politicians tell us it would be a "weaponization of law enforcement" to hold Trump officials accountable for their crimes. *This* is what actual weaponization looks like.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
just a casual reminder that inciting violence against his political opponents and others he dislikes has been a core feature of Donald Trump's approach for more than a decade. It is a defining characteristic of Trump and his movement, but rarely centered as such by corporate media.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
ICYMI, great statement by former VP Mike Pence about Trump's betrayal of Ukraine. Scandal there's no one else left in Republican Party able to say it out loud.
President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin's ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey
Graham.
While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin's war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.
Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin's war machine.
As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.
America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin's war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.
Putin doesn't want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia's military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.
America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
TIL that public executions are an American value Turns out that ISIS and Iran are leaders on upholding American values
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Your fault, you deserve it." is some crazy work
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not to mention that we could’ve gotten plenty of diesel fuel-and cheaper, too-without helping Putin kill innocent Ukrainians. But now, the stain of their blood will forever remain on the hands of Trump and his soulless, hypocritical acolytes in the Republican party May they rot in hell
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.
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Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers
Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Reuters: “The Republican president filed his appeal after a federal judge threw out ‌the case and imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions against Trump and one of his lawyers for bringing a ‘frivolous’ suit.”
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Trump takes suit against Hillary Clinton over 2016 election to Supreme Court
President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton accusing her of conspiring along with former ​FBI Director...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't want to dunk-quote on this person, but actually, this is a perfect illustration of the problem. we can't become accustomed to or expect or concede constant monitoring from armed troops as we go about our business. it should always make us recoil. there's danger in it becoming unremarkable.
screenshot of a post that reads "Not to be all "you're getting sold" National Guard troops spend all day standing in out of the way corners of DC. Not great that they're standing in front of a ballot drop box, but c'mon, people, use some common sense. They're not stopping anyone from dropping something off." it is a quote-post of a post from the DC Council that says "this is clearly not acceptable" and features a photo of national guard members standing around a ballot box in Foggy Bottom
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
New in PN: Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low "It’s the certainty of staggering losses that makes clear this is nothing but a festival of bribery. No one who spends millions to attend these tacky dinners expects a return. They’re just giving the president money in hopes it'll buy them favors."
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Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In case you hadn't been following this disturbing sequence of events, here's a recap: RFK Jr wanted to fund a randomized trial, run by Danes, involving newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau Ethicists across the world, including in Nigeria, Cameroon, & Ethiopia, were horrified: it's an unethical study
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s hard to imagine how @bardcollege.bsky.social could have handled this worse. The administration, and many faculty members, stood by Botstein, defended him in the press, and made efforts to prolong his affiliation with the college. It is clear what their values are.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The House Judiciary Committee is now demanding an investigation into Botstein’s possible involvement in Epstein’s trafficking, as well as allegations that Botstein groped women and intervened on behalf of sexual abuse perpetrators in Bard’s Title IX investigations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
nytimes.com
Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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dawurz.bsky.social @dawurz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
May Andrew rot in hell.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Megyn Kelly: "...this is probably a first for her. She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up the incredibly beautiful one."
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Megyn Kelly on Cornell's Jane Doe: "I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal. She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs."
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."
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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And for those who don’t remember, Deripaska is close with Putin and is the one who Manafort allegedly passed internal campaign polling data via GRU Kilimnik (during the 2016 election)
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian-born American businessman Konstantin Sokolov gave $11M to MAGA Inc. and donated to Trump’s ballroom. He was recently tapped to lead Trump’s $201M TRIPP+ investment fund. @luchkov.bsky.social and I dug into his past and found that his former partner worked for Oleg Deripaska.
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Inside Trump Donor Konstantin Sokolov’s Business Ties to Russia
This investigation is part of an ongoing examination of Konstantin Sokolov’s network.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So… a man who thinks women’s reproductive rights are “abstract” got to take away our rights.
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dawurz.bsky.social @dawurz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kudos Sarah Nicolls! www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...
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Pianist unveils prototype ‘inside-out’ upright grand piano
Frustrated by heavy instruments and limited audience views, the concert pianist Sarah Nicolls used carbon fibre to create a 60kg vertical grand piano
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. In the last hours of Kristi Noem’s tenure as the homeland security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man’s firm at a substantial markup ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com 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 (Gift Article)
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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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 01/10/2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday sought to rein in a wave of legal claims that have pushed some local governments and school districts in California to the brink of bankruptcy, after earlier laws made it much easier to sue over child sexual abuse.
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Newsom signs bill to rein in sexual assault lawsuits poised to bankrupt local governments
Newsom sought to rein in a wave of legal claims that have pushed some governments and school districts to the brink of bankruptcy, after earlier laws made it easier to sue over child sexual abuse.
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dawurz.bsky.social @dawurz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hi, I wanted to share Jacqueline Durand’s story with you. She was 22 and building her business, Paw Paradise, when she was attacked by two dogs on December 23, 2021. Please consider visiting Jacqueline’s GoFundMe page to donate or share, and thank you for helping her story reach further.
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dawurz.bsky.social @dawurz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another sad moment in the most racist (and corrupt) administration in the history of the United States.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
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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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wrote this yesterday, about sexual assault and the people who turn a blind eye. About the abject failure to teach our youth how to disrupt the group chat or protect the drink at the bar. And the need to do better. We need to teach our children. 1/ dot-connecting.ghost.io/the-silent-p...
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The silent path from Cornell to Hope High
Three hundred and twenty six miles separate Cornell University from Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island, but right now those two schools sit adjacent in my mind. Two stories of sexual assault...
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