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Dorothea

@dorotheamt.bsky.social
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A gardener. Corruption is a kitchen table issue.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 6h
When 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.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h
This is psychosis. The president of the United States is psychotic. Is the media going to start talking about this, or continue to normalize it?
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My 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
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The 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".
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?
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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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's misogynist horror in the news all the time.
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Woman Is Found Captive in Attic Near Boston, Leading to Charges for Man
The man, Jordende Pierre, 29, faces kidnapping, sex trafficking and other charges. He held the woman against her will for six weeks, officials said.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.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
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People 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?
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Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How long are we going to go along with this charade?!
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026
Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living.
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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 25/09/2026
It would be just terrible if this caused a Streisand effect 🤭 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The 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.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 24/09/2026
Russ Vought is a monster
politico.com
Democrats warn Trump plans to kill $3.2B in Hill-approved foreign aid
Top appropriators say the White House wants to use billions of dollars to shutter USAID. The rest would go unspent.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/09/2026
I 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)
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MAinNC @martyd409.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The GOP needs to get serious. His family needs to get serious. This is not something that a stable mind puts out.
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Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How about we just ignore these people?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT 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.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Truth
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dave Granlund
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Anthropic 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: …😬😤
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We 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?
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
3/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."
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I 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
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It 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
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Noting 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."
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/09/2026
Here 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.com
House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics
Speaker 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...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They 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.
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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Exactly 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.
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Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To say nothing of the people going along with him. Pretty unbelievable.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/09/2026
40% 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.
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Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In a nutshell.
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Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Exactly. The risk/benefit calculation here is pretty obvious.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hey 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?
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 09/09/2026
If he believes this, he should quit his job and enter another field.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SCOOP @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...
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A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions
Trump 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.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/09/2026
Gibney 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
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e.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"
Ashley St Claire speaking at a press conference
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Dorothea @dorotheamt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Looking over Bluesky this morning this could be because the world has collectively lost its mind. Nothing to see. . .
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026
One 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
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Elon Musk is supporting fascism in Germany — and in Texas. He‘s a threat to peace and freedom worldwide.
theguardian.com
Germany’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’
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We 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.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/09/2026
Friendly reminder to listen to your doctors & medical professionals and not the Trump admin! www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-...
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Top medical leaders urge Americans to get their flu and COVID shots in lieu of CDC vaccine campaign
The 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
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica 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:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
MAGA 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
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Holy shit, the MAGA/MAHA malign clown show continues—it’s all destruction, evil, and cruelty all the time
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/09/2026
This 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.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Any 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?
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Prof 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
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
there 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
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