Reposted by DorotheaHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 6hWhen my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists. 131799451
Reposted by DorotheaGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7hThis is psychosis. The president of the United States is psychotic. Is the media going to start talking about this, or continue to normalize it? 3312997880
Reposted by DorotheaTodd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators 421461
Reposted by DorotheaCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake". 872867957
Reposted by DorotheaTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"? 17767168
Reposted by DorotheaMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026Scoop: 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.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter 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. 481136649
Reposted by DorotheaRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There's misogynist horror in the news all the time.nytimes.comWoman Is Found Captive in Attic Near Boston, Leading to Charges for ManThe man, Jordende Pierre, 29, faces kidnapping, sex trafficking and other charges. He held the woman against her will for six weeks, officials said. 9756152
Reposted by DorotheaPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 952519669
Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026People who can’t afford to stay at home to care for their kids are exactly those who need free childcare the most. Do these people even think? 001
Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How long are we going to go along with this charade?! 000
Reposted by DorotheaZach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living. 542628437
Reposted by DorotheaDavid Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 25/09/2026It would be just terrible if this caused a Streisand effect 🤭 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing. 6240115
Reposted by DorotheaThe Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 24/09/2026Russ Vought is a monsterpolitico.comDemocrats warn Trump plans to kill $3.2B in Hill-approved foreign aidTop appropriators say the White House wants to use billions of dollars to shutter USAID. The rest would go unspent. 28020
Reposted by DorotheaAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/09/2026I don't say this lightly, but Pete Hegseth deserves to be impeached. I understand just how serious a vote to impeach is from experience, and I still believe impeaching him is the right thing to do. The Iran war. The purge of senior ranks. The boat strikes. The case is overwhelming. (Link below) 48471602084
Reposted by DorotheaMAinNC @martyd409.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The GOP needs to get serious. His family needs to get serious. This is not something that a stable mind puts out. 110372481696
Reposted by DorotheaScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982253351
Reposted by DorotheaDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤 20747236
Reposted by DorotheaNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be? 441632325
Reposted by DorotheaRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 18/09/20263/Wow "Officials involved in the investigation pointed to gaps that they said were left after Hegseth dismantled most of the Pentagon’s civilian harm mitigation, or CHM, units—cutting headcount across a number of teams by roughly 90%... No CHM team member reviewed the Minab site before the strike." 613979
Reposted by DorotheaLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I reject the AI booster insistence that you must understand any and everything about the tech to make even the tiniest critique, if they can be vibe coders I can be a vibe hater 735883
Reposted by DorotheaBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.gizmodo.com71% of Americans Say They're Completely ExhaustedA CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. 1401266996703
Reposted by DorotheaAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media 3739031177
Reposted by DorotheaRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Noting the gap between the infected and the well, the Gates Foundation pledges at least $1 billion to help the uninfected join this exciting development in which Microsoft is so precariously invested." 1631360
Reposted by DorotheaMike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/09/2026Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...cnn.comHouse to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN PoliticsSpeaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o... 14126761071
Reposted by DorotheaRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026They are supposed to be doing the jobs they are getting paid by taxpayers to do, not using their positions and government resources to fly around the country doing partisan political campaign events. 18431031216
Reposted by DorotheaBénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Exactly are they looking for? How? What happens if the find “something”? Moreover, why are companies proposing self-regulation rather than governments imposing rules of behavior? Smells fishy. 121
Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026To say nothing of the people going along with him. Pretty unbelievable. 001
Reposted by DorotheaGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/09/202640% more kids are eating breakfast and 15% more are eating lunch since we launched free school meals in Minnesota. Now we’re making sure 100% of kids eat their broccoli. 422137372575
Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Exactly. The risk/benefit calculation here is pretty obvious. 000
Reposted by DorotheaProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hey Siri, is it legal for the President of the United States to bribe voters by offering to pay them $5,000 if they vote Republican in the upcoming mid-terms? 0233
Reposted by DorotheaJacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 09/09/2026If he believes this, he should quit his job and enter another field. 5222
Reposted by DorotheaDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026SCOOP @telliotter.bsky.social and I identified the authors of the bogus noncitizen voting Census report and how they used bad data to make faulty conclusions They include a former DOGE guy (of course) and two people from AFPI, a Trump-aligned think tank www.wired.com/story/a-us-c...wired.comA US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty ConclusionsTrump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate. 11416176
Reposted by Dorotheae.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/09/2026Gibney is asked about the recent AfD electoral success, which the party credited to Musk, and Gibney says his film is a warning that Musk is pursuing a global right wing agenda for both ideological and self-interested reasons 117238
Reposted by Dorotheae.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/09/2026"I was offered $40 million not to speak... I wanted to set an example for my kids of not placing material comfort over speaking the truth" 219032
Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Looking over Bluesky this morning this could be because the world has collectively lost its mind. Nothing to see. . . 000
Reposted by DorotheaKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026One of the single most maddening things in this whole charade is journalists persistently failing to ask "why don't they then decide to stop doing it" It is just such a fundamentally, ground-level basic thought to have in response to this, and none of them have ever had it 314640
Reposted by DorotheaMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Elon Musk is supporting fascism in Germany — and in Texas. He‘s a threat to peace and freedom worldwide.theguardian.comGermany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’ 852334996
Reposted by DorotheaBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We overcame one Gilded Age and we can overcome this one. Time for a new square deal like TR’s 3 C’s: Corporate control, Consumer protection and Conservation of natural resources. Happy Labor Day. 221149251
Reposted by DorotheaStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/09/2026Friendly reminder to listen to your doctors & medical professionals and not the Trump admin! www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-...scientificamerican.comTop medical leaders urge Americans to get their flu and COVID shots in lieu of CDC vaccine campaignThe Trump administration has so far been silent on flu, COVID and RSV vaccine guidance for the coming season, even as these diseases kill thousands of people every year 318378
Reposted by DorotheaProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: 10547761907
Reposted by DorotheaNicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026MAGA has been obsessed with proving an alleged plot by Biden officials, social-media companies, and researchers to suppress conservative speech. Jobs were lost, a center was closed, and reputations were tarnished. Now we know it was all a fiction. @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu. buff.ly/BaSs2Cr 23855239
Reposted by DorotheaProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Holy shit, the MAGA/MAHA malign clown show continues—it’s all destruction, evil, and cruelty all the time 24813
Reposted by Dorotheadan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/09/2026This is absolutely incredible. Farage thought he was talking to an American and his UK son about funneling foreign donations through the son and instead he was talking to investigative reporters wearing wires. 181369415
Reposted by DorotheaNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Any candidate who accepts Musk's money will be repeatedly asked if they think it's a political liability to partner with an open bigot—blatantly racist, unambiguously sexist, egregiously antisemitic, you can pick one of many, many available examples—and if they'll give the money back, right? Right? 631934467
Reposted by DorotheaProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026☀️ Good morning Bluesky This is a beautiful thread on what true inclusion looks like Dems who throw trans people under the bus to “appeal to centrists” have lost their moral compass 36913
Reposted by DorotheaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026there are so many real and urgent threats to this country and its democracy and this pathetic “democratic” congressman is railing against socialism on bari weiss’s conservative rag 1603413518