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[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

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Gucky @gucky.bsky.social · 19h

It's convenient that the law has so many categories of SA so when I talk about it, I can say rapist, attempted rapist, sexual assailant, attempted kidnapper and so on to make sure the different stories are clear.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

“Upon reviewing the disciplinary action we took toward the seven Chi Phi brothers who allegedly gang-raped a student for over seven hours, we have concluded that the mandated two-page minimum on essays was woefully inadequate.” — Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell president

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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future

ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 19h

Sexual assault is on the rise. And recent examples in higher ed and across multiple industries, remind me how many grown men still apparently struggle with the concept of CONSENT. Here’s a useful illustration my colleagues in academia show incoming 17 and 18-yr-old freshmen: youtu.be/oQbei5JGiT8?...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge brought by the Democratic National Committee that could determine if state judges can extend polling hours after election-day disruptions threaten voting access. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Wisconsin Supreme Court agrees to hear case on expanded voting hours during Election Day disruptions

The DNC is asking the justices to clarify whether Wisconsin courts can extend voting hours when election-day problems threaten voters’ constitutional right to vote.

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Beast of Bourbon 🥃 @jenleepa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

cutting edge. just say you’re remaking the cutting edge and leave the hot gay hockey players alone.

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Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community @drlightningtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The Trump administration used Homeland Security funds to finance a set of ILLEGAL pro-Trump advertisements" There. I fixed it for you.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do we know anyone who works for The Trevor Project? @trevorproject.bsky.social Thanks, team!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Laura Bradley @lurabardley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Journo request: I'm looking for Youths™ who are watching, or have watched, Friday Night Lights. Basically, anyone who is *not* a millennial or older. Are you this person? Do you know someone who is? DM me!

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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Since we’re discussing sexual assault and the rape culture in universities, I remind everyone of Emma Sulkowicz’s Carry That Weight where she carried a dormitory mattress, identical to the one she was raped on, until her rapist was expelled. She sadly carried it an entire year until her graduation.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...

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Mrs. Peel @mrspeel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just got a Cornell alumni reunion thing in the mail begging for money and went YOU'VE GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME out loud

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never forget – conservatives are destroying our future.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At least 6 babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles.

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 28/09/2026

TRANS and INTERSEX students. When it impacts TRANS and INTERSEX students consequentially more than it does LGB or A students, just say the words.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not the flex you think it is, buddy

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026

Talarico: "Billionaires are pouring money into TX to try to buy this Senate seat ... they are hoping that Texans will care more about these manufactured culture wars than actual wars. They're hoping Texans will care more about pronouns than prices. But I think Texans see through this distraction."

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Michael @michaelnaphys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 26/09/2026

A weekend on the coast sounds pretty good. 👀 Support The Texas Tribune during our Fall Member Drive for your chance to win a Corpus Christi getaway. trib.it/help

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026

Minnesota Republican state Senate candidate Austin Peterson endorses NDAs for data centers: "There's a reason why there's NDAs out there"

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 24/09/2026

Heidi Overton has spent years attacking abortion access, and she helped engineer the Trump admin’s reckless rollback of the childhood vaccine schedule, a decision that puts countless kids at risk. She is unfit to head the FDA. Call your Senators 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/heidi-...

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Oppose Anti-Vax Heidi Overton for FDA Commissioner ⭑ 5 Calls

Trump has nominated Dr. Heidi Overton, an anti-vax, anti-abortion extremist, to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency …

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hannah Einbinder was just arrested protesting Benjamin Netanyahu's safe passage into New York and the genocide of Palestinians. Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon, and Chelsea Manning are among those currently blocking the road

Chelsea Manning among others at the protest against genocide and Netanyahu's visit

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Some skills can be safely given away" is haunting me. I miss everything I used to be able to do that I can't any more. There might be stuff I don't miss doing, but I miss everything I can't do.

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Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) @pcusa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As the genocide in Gaza continues, the Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion weapons sale to Israel, paid for largely with U.S. tax dollars. Contact your members of congress today and ask them to block the weapons sales to Israel here: www.votervoice.net/PCUSA/Campai... #PCUSA #Advocacy

A red triangle with an exclamation point above the words "Action Alert." Below, headline text reads: Support Human Rights - Urge Your Members of Congress to Block US Arms Package to Israel

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 24/09/2026

Rep. Casar and Senator Sanders are right. We need to hit the brakes on advanced AI development and ban the development of superintelligent AI.

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Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You don’t say: the Imperial Boomerang? Who could have guessed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...

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Imperial boomerang - Wikipedia

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wait…If you fight Trump’s frivolous lawsuits you will win??? Did anyone tell this to ABC and CBS News?

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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Everything is a slap in the face now, but This is grotesque

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DHS keeps tweeting at me instead of answering a simple question: How does shooting a DoorDash driver in the back in Austin make anyone safer?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

to people who are concerned that this suggests that 'Kavanaugh is not smart,' as opposed to 'Kavanaugh is evil,' I want you to rest assured that these things are not in opposition he is both evil and a dumbass

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

happy first (full) day of fall, bluesky

ina garten in a witch hat saying “If you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.”

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey-oh! If you are in SLC this Friday night and you like queers who write books, come out to this reading with me, @seananmcguire.bsky.social and @naomikritzer.bsky.social !! I am personally very excited to be adjacent to these two legends. Get your tickets now! legendariumbooks.com/events/63760...

Council of Queer Friends!
Author Panel
Sept. 25 @ 8 PM, Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande Street, SLC
Seanan McGuire Annalee Newitz Naomi Kritzer
Get your tickets now!!

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Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community @drlightningtx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

STFG these technodudebros don't know about power switches.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

then quit building it, man

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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When Trump's super PAC has to defend 10point red seats, the survival math has officially flipped. Crossing him is safer than sinking with him. Sharp read by @paulwaldman.bsky.social @atrupar.com ‘s Public Notice is independent media at its best. Grab their anniversary deal and subscribe today!

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 23/09/2026

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#StayReadyCrew If you live near an Aldi this might be a good chance for you to get ahead of the price increases & possible shortages coming this Fall/Winter. The price decrease is temporary...so far. It will run from 9/23-11/3. www.usatoday.com/story/grocer...

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Aldi is cutting prices on a third of its products. Here's when

The grocery chain said the price cuts are expected to save customers $86 million.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They’re calling it a syndicate in broad daylight I guess billionaire cabal was too on the nose

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/09/2026

Look, I don't know if that's true, but air travel is one of the safest forms of travel, so THANK YOU FURRIES, FURRIES WIN AGAIN

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 23/09/2026

Hi Colorado peeps! Did you know there are multiple terrible ballot measures on the docket for November, but especially two anti-trans measures that need you to VOTE NO on. No on 134 - bullshit anti-trans sports ban No on 135 - bullshit anti-trans medical ban

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