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Dj Ripley

@djripley.bsky.social
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Scholar, teacher, DJ, radical, junglist. Former streetmedic, current assoc. prof. More at larisa-mann.com She/her. I wrote : RUDE CITIZENSHIP: copyright, Jamaican popular music & reverberations of colonial power tinyurl.com/RudeCBook

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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 22h
Robert Kraft’s stadium fyi🤗
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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 22h
ooh @mothercyborg.bsky.social are you there?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Men do not need to put on a dress and go into a public restroom to abuse women and children. They usually just go home. Or don a clerical collar. Or wear a badge. Or run for office. Or play pro sports. Or join a fraternity Or they just do it in public, wearing pants.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
exactly— and that invisible loss due to spaces becoming potentially unsafe extends to simple things like being able to take a walk at night to blow off steam. (Or hell even during the daytime sometimes, depending on the place.)
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Written entirely from a state security perspective, with no consideration of the migrants so used, nothing about their voices, and nothing about how Europe's hard borders and obsessional hostility to refugees turns the issue into an opportunity for hostile states (cf also Morocco, Turkey)
nytimes.com
A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe
The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin.
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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this but student loans and medical debt
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/10/2026
Alt text: "Michael Knowles on twitter saying "Have the state executioners considered taking Christa Pike to the woods and crushing her skull with a rock?" Catholic doctrine opposes the death penalty.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Danny Trejo is acting in that Ben Shapiro Nazi propaganda shitshow of a film. What a disappointment.
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender, "Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month"
theguardian.com
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 02/10/2026
The messages in which officers Daniel Valencia and Matthew Stewart strategized their reports were part of a longer string of texts that started one hour and 14 minutes after they’d killed Joshua Musselman from more than 100 feet away as he was fleeing into his apartment.
rangemedia.co
‘I’m hoping we hit him at least once each lol’: SPD texts from 2024 killing show lack of probable cause
In messages, SPD officers hoped they inflicted maximum damage when they shot Joshua Musselman, mocked the police chief’s response to the killing.
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 01/10/2026
A joint study by Yale University and George Mason University found that those who are disengaged, doubtful, or dismissive of climate change tend to highly trust healthcare providers on the subject — even more than public officials from agencies like NASA and news organizations. (Published 2025)
thexylom.com
The Fifth Vital Sign: Atlanta Doctors Are Talking Climate Change With Patients
Leveraging trust built over time, doctors hope to depolarize the issue and break through misinformation.
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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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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 02/10/2026
Native tribes denied greater say in water decisions with Newsom veto
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Native tribes denied greater say in water decisions with Newsom veto
Newsom vetoed a bill that would have given Native tribes greater say on decisions about water. One tribal leader said it shows he "doesn't care about tribes."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
while his shameless pandering and willingness to toss people under the bus oughta have already made him unelectable, in a better would this would be the kiss of death for his career. STEVE BANNON?
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When we finished our podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's in 2022, I knew that I wasn’t done with the story. Even though we had spent a year investigating my dad's experience at the St. Michael's Indian Residential School and uncovered a staggering level of abuse, the story felt unfinished.
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Who is protected by the destruction of Indian Residential School records?
“There’s not a single Indigenous person in Canada, who has not been touched by the legacy of Residential Schools.” - Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He is also a constant cheerleader for “age-gap relationships.” Hanania doesn’t seem to believe any man should be denied a teenager they find attractive. www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...
Allow me, if you can stomach it, to quote him at length:

There is no way to call attraction to 17-year-olds pedophilia without also stigmatizing attraction to women who are slightly older than that. We have an age of consent, and it used to be recognized that it was an arbitrary line that we have to set somewhere. But before the last decade or two, there wasn't this idea that men whose sexual preferences did not exactly line up with the legal minimum in the jurisdiction that they happen to live in were disordered or somehow abnormal. This is a bizarre idea that is frankly inconsistent with people being able to develop realistic understandings of sex differences and human biology.
If men who are attracted to 17-year-olds are disordered, on what basis can those who like
20-year-olds be considered normal? I've noticed that most of the women who are mad at age gap relationships are aggressive middle age types who seem to have a deep personal interest in the issue.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hanania has gone out of his way to try and persuade the mainstream media types and readers he wants to woo that he is no longer a racist. I don’t buy that, but he is at least putting on *the act.* So it’s extremely telling that this is how he continues to talk about women, rape, and even Epstein.
This manifests in Hanania's contempt for victims of rape and trafficking and his repeated support for age-gap relationships, even those that would constitute statutory rape in many jurisdictions. When The Bulwark broke news on Monday that Gen-Z looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular had been accused of rape, Hanania sprung into action discrediting the allegations. On X, he posted
Women who claim to be sexually assaulted or raped and then continue associating with their alleged attackers deserve zero sympathy.
They re either
1) liars; or
2) making it impossible to differentiate between real and fake allegations, hurting other men and women and society as a whole
A sane legal system would take this into account and not trust such women in criminal or civil lawsuits. They should also be socially stigmatized as bad people.It's no mistake that this is all entangled with Hanania's horrific defenses of Jeffrey Epstein and the abuses on his private island. Hanania has posted that "Hating Epstein represents the essence of antisemitism. The resentment of mediocrities, conspiracy thinking, and chud moralism."
He went so far as to baldly assert that some of the women not only had it coming but even benefited in the end from Epstein's systemic rape operation:
One of the Epstein "trafficking victims" is a prostitute who he met when she was in her twenties, who had sex with him and reported that he gave her an orgasm.
There's more evidence of Epstein being a stud than there is he's what conspiracy theorists
claim.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IMO it’s clear from Richard Hanania’s own words that he believes that rape, both statutory and violent, is the right of a certain kind of man. Elite men It’s appalling that this man is given a drop of ink or a second of interview time in our media. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...
liberalcurrents.com
Richard Hanania Doesn't Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism
Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Boston Globe has given rape denier Richard Hanania 7 columns in the last 10 months, and that tells you A LOT about who owns & runs the Boston Globe
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 30/09/2026
this court loves killing democracy and people
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
buzzfeednews.com
Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most racist person in the Senate is…. Pretty damn racist whew
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this thread is, as expected, absolutely spot on. if you don’t know what commonly happens in fraternity hazing, for just one example, you would be shocked. how many college-educated men are walking around having been both victim and perpetrator of torture, actively encouraged as “bonding.”
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If we are serious about dismantling patriarchy and rape culture, we would stop calling it Cornell 7. It's the Cornell 57. Passive bystanders are a pillar of misogyny. Men must actively intervene in shifting social norms & refuse to participate in rape *culture* Its the Cornell 57, not Cornell 7.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions
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Demy @demytra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is rape culture, full stop. An unrelenting and vicious hatred for women and rape victims by people who are protected by power and privilege and in turn are supported by so many people who would want to do much the same if they had the opportunity.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it's effectively the logic of revenge porn. an assertion of power over the victim by exposing her to the gaze of others, with the intention to terrorize, humiliate, and display
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”
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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please give these journalists their flowers.
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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm embarrassed that it took me a while to register the horrific and stupid cruelty of a system that takes kids away from parents who can't afford to raise them and then PAYS OTHER PEOPLE to raise them rather than just giving people the money they need to raise their kids.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In case it's useful to anyone, I put together a collection of links about a horrific 2024 sexual assault at Cornell and recent uproar about Cornell's response to that event. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/s...
scatter.wordpress.com
sexual assault at cornell
As most readers here likely know, Cornell has been in the spotlight this week as new details came out about a sexual assault that took place at a fraternity in 2024. This post contains a collection…
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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a low bar, but every governor oughta clear it @joshshapiropa.bsky.social
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
usatoday.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If a police dog dies and a member of the public is responsible it's considered killing a cop, but are they just dogs when cops shoot them?
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In addition to the names of the Cornell 7 we should also make famous the administrators and law enforcement officers who originally thought an apology letter would be sufficient.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"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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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
an absolute epistemological black hole
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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My neighbor told me his AI company keep eating all his investors’ capital so I asked how much capital he has and he said he just goes to the market and gets more capital so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding institutional investors to AI then his CFO started crying.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This front page will go down in history An entire strip of land, 2 million people, history spanning back to 8,000 BCE (!!) completely WIPED OUT of the map ‼️ Innocents KILLED / UNDER THE RUBBLE I’m so mad!!! You’re doing the same things people did to your ancestors! to my ancestors!!! Fuck Israel 🤬
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 28/09/2026
I hear the frustrations and know them well, which is why I cannot explain enough that @moderation.blacksky.app should be subscribed to if you do not want to be a part of Blacksky (as in migration). The tools are there; I hope y'all check them out.
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