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In regard to FurAffinity being at risk due to censorship: Furries are now political targets. We are getting namedropped at high levels of government. They know that we are a large, influential, largely queer, community. Fighting for the spaces owned by our community is incredibly important

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Skittles Scary Skeletons ☕ @skittles6.bsky.social · 6h

He'd be snugged with a fuzzy pink blanket, have water, acetaminophen & electrolytes at the ready when he got up. Not to mention the bucket available in case he gets sick. Women are the protectors men claim to be.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 15h

Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...

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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12h

FA is being very up front about both the cost of hosting the site [it aint cheap] and how advertisers theyd been relying on prior are pushing all the same puritan bullshit weve been seeing other platforms push FA is one of very few Old Internet spaces around. Support em while we CAN

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11h

A police search of Flock producing 50 individual records of a woman's whereabouts across the country for an entire month violated her Fourth Amendment rights, Judge Sara E. Hill of Oklahoma's Northern District ruled yesterday. "Why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time?"

To be sure, ALPR technology does not provide the same precision in
location information as cell phones. But it could still reveal a lot about a
person’s whereabouts, and it is easy to imagine the kinds of sensitive
information it collects. It could track and log a couple struggling to start a family at the fertility clinic. It could show how often someone visits a liquor store or casino. It could show which doctor someone goes to or what lawyer’s office someone visits. It also collects mundane information about people’s commutes, but it collects a tremendous amount of such information all the time. It is possible that a dedicated team of law enforcement officers could

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constitutionally collect this information about one car—and its driver—by following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the question of why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year, nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate mass surveillance.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 7h

trans people* can't write about ourselves because it's going to be objective and centering ourselves and needs, so we need a big strong cis** man to write about us for us *any marginalize group **it's always some cis white guy who wants to look like he's d i v e r se

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 7h

anyway the atlantic has done an incalculable amount of harm to the trans community through soft power "just asking questions" journalism since 2018 and i do not like anyone who has done anything for them it's crazy that cis people are allowed to write about us "objectively" isn't it?

transphobic atlantic cover that also warns about a pandemic

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 9h

If USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide?

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Dread Meadow @deadlyflowers.bsky.social · 8h

Courage to be evil. He didn't lose enough friends.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 11h

Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10h

ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society. When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11h

Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16h

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18h

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18h

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 13h

Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)

On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc.
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting
the Petition.

Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 17h

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.

nbcnews.com

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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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 16h

TIL that this recurring TNG minor character was played by a stealth trans woman she’s in 43 episodes and several of the movies

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 17h

she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20h

for what it's worth Third Way has been afaik pretty good on trans rights for a while (2023, below). the various organs of centrism in the D party are centrist on different axes and Third Way's centrist thing is almost entirely that they don't really want to pay taxes.

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How to Talk about Transgender Youth

Third Way is a national think tank and advocacy organization that champions moderate policy and political ideas. Our work on the center left acts as a critical bulwark against political extremism.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 18h

like for real, I am trans, I didn't come out until decades later, but this knowledge means *this morning* I have learned I grew up watching a trans woman on my favorite TV show as a kid and just didn't know.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h

The most honest post, the realest post. I'm SO FUCKING TIRED of dickheads telling me I need to show grace to a bunch of people who voted for a guy they KNOW is evil and a party that is trying to be Nazis. I'm not showing grace to people that voted for Nazis. I'm not an idiot. Maybe you are

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21h

Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 21h

Big Tech companies like Flock Safety have built a mass surveillance system to harvest Americans’ private and personal data without their consent. I’m proud to introduce the Ban Flock Act with @sanders.senate.gov to enforce our constitutional right to privacy.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley are introducing the Ban Flock Act. This bill would effectively put an end to AI surveillance cameras that track Americans. /1

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 23h

And I don't want to hear any grumbling about how Bash Back might "make us look bad."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

The white nationalists are turning up the dial on racism against South Asian USians. Will we talk about the fact that the dial has been up on anti-Blackness among this same group for decades? Because I think that it's a barrier to solidarity.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22h

There's a pretty direct line between "When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything" and this kind of MNF banter. The rot is everywhere in our society but it's a lot worse in some places than others. (screenshot from sports.yahoo.com/articles/al-...)

Then, Michaels cited the familiar football phrase that "winning is the best deodorant," before Herbstreit predicted that Browns fans would eventually embrace Watson after previously booing him in the preseason.

"You want the fans to get behind you, and that goes for pretty much any market," Herbstreit said. "This is an extreme case because of what you laid out with Deshaun Watson, but if you convert on third downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22h

This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable

Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21h

Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.

economist.com

In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

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Dread Meadow @deadlyflowers.bsky.social · 21h

They will try. These filthy fucks are about to lose large numbers in Congress and the remaining filthy fucks are going to feel incredibly vulnerable.

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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 23h

Did you notice that when the woman youtuber was a confirmed plagiarist everyone was happy to end her career forever but when the man youtuber is a confirmed rapist we suddenly get dozens of posts about how "disheartening" it is that people don't believe in restorative justice

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 23h

Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23h

This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was hard, especially as a survivor, but I dug through the court documents and the right-wing reaction to the Cornell case. What I've learned is the backlash to #MeToo did its job, reinscribing hatred of survivors. We need more #MeToo, not less. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...

salon.com

Cornell assault case shows #MeToo didn’t go far enough

The backlash against the woman suing Chi Phi fraternity members is turning into a witch hunt

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Democrats have decided, for the second election, not to respond to Musk's Nazi-like propaganda against trans people. And that will probably work this time because of gas prices. But it might not. And even if it doesn't, why would you miss this chance to expose someone who wants to destroy you?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s extremely down to the wire here. If you know of a FOIA attorney in Idaho, please connect us. The Boise airport has told me they do not have any video of an ICE detainment that I know for a fact happened.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't believe her lies. Susan Collins is no "moderate" or "independent." A moderate doesn't vote with Trump 96% of the time.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

bsky fact: the "rude" label is hand-applied directly by human moderators in 100% of cases. if you disagree with what a bsky moderator would consider "rude", and this should be the case for everyone except a very narrow band of North Dakotan senior church bazaar organizers, just switch it off.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This wretched man fundamentally broke something in me. My late parents felt hoodwinked by Cox We saw a man stand up for a hyper vulnerable minority in Utah. Cry they just wanted to live their lives. Then in a year he threw them under the bus and the national press fucking cheered him as sensible

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A lot of guys I'm seeing are mentioing that they aren't saying anything because they're afraid to come off as "performative". Guys, please be performative. Please be cringe about it. That fear you have to look bad is the same fear that shut the 50 other group chat members up. Say something

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It bears repeating that all the people who said they would never vote for Gavin Newsom were never wreckers. They were presenting a gift that many people were too stubborn or bigoted to accept.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026

Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026

The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team:

In July, the school found Shanklin responsible for "forcible rape" and issued a one-year suspension, which is a full ban from campus and activities, according to documents reviewed by ESPN. After Shanklin appealed, an administrative law judge who handles appeals per LSU policy upheld the finding that the athlete was responsible for "forcible rape," but reduced the punishment to four semesters of probation with no restrictions, which allows Shanklin to remain enrolled and on campus and to participate in activities as long as he stays out of trouble.

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