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I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...

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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right

For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

_From a political-institutional standpoint, an absolute judicial veto over legislation with a simple majority vote is tyrannical by definition and makes a hash of the basic checks-and-balances system of the Constitution. That’s why no other democracy has one._

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.

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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Systemic violence trickles down and ruins the lives of everyone it touches and it’s gonna touch us all.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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tante @tante.cc · 03/10/2026

Whenever someone legitimizes harmful shit with the importance of achieving "dominance" you have a fascist at hand.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Erica Palmisano (she/her) @eapalmisano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This whole thread is good but this part ✨ sings ✨!

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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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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 30/09/2026

A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.

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Nurse helped injured Mexican escape ICE custody at hospital: Feds

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026

Seattle is a growing city, and we can’t just keep adding more cars to the road. That’s why I was so excited to welcome the newest addition to the system this week, the Pinehurst station in North Seattle.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.

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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...

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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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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote about those who are being forced by events to see at least some of the damage Trump is doing, and the ways that his skyrocketing unpopularity opens doors for the rest of us.

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Opening the blinds

Authoritarians reveal themselves, even to followers who prefer not to see.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

"The US has grown used to the swift and dramatic erosion of women’s health and status that has followed Dobbs," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social, "to the horror stories and upward ticking body counts, grown into ease, and even a kind of compliant boredom, with women’s death and indignity."

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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan

The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI transcriptions are like washing machines. Both technologies help solve a problem, but create new problems and new expectations about productivity. Washing machines are more efficient in many cases, but some items still need to be hand washed or dry cleaned.

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No Hate in WA State @nohateinwastate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Stand against hate. Vote NO on I-001 and I-638 this November! ---- Paid for by No Hate in WA State PO Box 21961, Seattle, WA 98111 Top 5 Contributors: National Education Association, ACLU of WA, Washington Education Association, Service Employees International Union 775, and Gender Justice League

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This part!

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 24/09/2026

Kwaneta Harris’ crash course in menopause came in her late 40s, while she was incarcerated at a Texas state prison. She quickly understood that menopause care in prison is mired in a lack of resources and timely treatment options. This reality set her to find her own solutions.

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In a Texas prison, Kwaneta cultivated a menopause support network from scraps of paper

The incarcerated population is getting older, but correctional facilities lag in menopause care. Kwaneta Harris is working to fill the gaps in women's prisons.

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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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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 23/09/2026

If only there were some profession or establishment that could objectively state in a headline whether this pervasive sense was based in fact.

‘I Was Sold a Bill of Goods’: Americans and the Distrust Election
Americans have a pervasive sense they are being lied to.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/09/2026

This is the country that four decades of "personal responsibility" politics have wrought.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you couldn't visit the breathtaking, immersive abolitionist exhibit The Warehouse in NYC, check out this short video all about it! 👇🏾 #Abolition

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The Warehouse Exhibition - April to June 2026 at Bedford Library

YouTube video by Mariame Kaba

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

STRIKE VICTORY: Seattle Hilton workers just won a MASSIVE 23.3% raise over four years, making them the highest-paid union housekeepers in Washington state. Starting pay jumped to $31/hr! They also won healthcare and the first ever immigrant worker protections in Hilton's history

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Saskia W. @saskiawezenaar.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Gösta Hübinette (Sweden, 1897–1980) was known for the extensive, artisanal manipulation of his photographs. He had a strong preference for atmospheric, melancholic landscapes. Within Pictorialism, the goal was not to record reality in a purely documentary fashion, but to convey a painterly quality.

The work is a classic example of Pictorialism, a style in which photography is approached like painting, often featuring an atmospheric, dark, and dreamy tonality. It depicts a hilly landscape at twilight or by moonlight, with two trees and a prehistoric monument (such as a dolmen or *hunebed*) in the center. The signature "G. Hübinette 1928" is visible in the bottom right of the print.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are all straungeres. We are all lost. But we nevir are alone. Helpe somebodye. Give somebodye a kynde worde. Take comfort yn goode wordes and music and art from the past or present. And be kynde to thyselfe too. Thou art doinge thy best.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"

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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt

A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026

to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's no evidence that we can neutralize MAHA with a better health care system. Western Europe has universal access and lower costs — and still has huge anti-vaxx and “medical freedom” movements. MAHA is driven by right-wing misinformation, not legitimate grievances with US healthcare.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 05/09/2026

Y'all, alt text isn't that hard! Write it like you are explaining the image or video to someone in another room. What would they need to know to get the joke or reference or point of it? #AltText #DoBetter

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For my part, I find it comforting that these complicated, contradictory, flawed and fallible people made so much progress in the past, if for no other reason than because that’s the only kind of people we have available now.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Cancer capital” is a suitably gruesome term.

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Erica Palmisano (she/her) @eapalmisano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This quote is brilliant and from: "AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room. by Jordan Sand" www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...

I try to teach my students that primary sources allow them to make new discoveries and offer new historical interpretations. AI chatbots present a problem for the teaching of history not only because they hallucinate, nor simply because they threaten to make even conscientious students’ writing less original, but because they thwart the process that might lead students toward original interpretations in the first place. No matter how you refine your questions, the chatbot will generate responses reflecting what the greatest number of users are likely to want to hear, which tends to be close to what they think they already know.

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AngoraFish @angorafish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Someone walking through a CAR PARK suddenly wonders whether we are engineering physical activity out of daily life because of... e-scooters?

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Why the weird vibe about data centers?” Because the companies. DO NOT. Play by the Rules. Visibly. Repeatedly. Pathologically. We are under no obligations to be marks.

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Erica Palmisano (she/her) @eapalmisano.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"If, like Sanders, you’re also getting the sneaking suspicion that centrist Democrats are trying to throw the Michigan Senate race, you’re not crazy. Some of them are actually outright admitting it." Source: jacobin.com/2026/09/mich... Link w/o registration required: archive.ph/pApQa

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good job, Seattle Times Editorial Board. Excluding trans girls from sports (or telling them they have to play with boys, which is the same thing) is ritual humiliation. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

IL 26-638 would send Washington back to the days of “femininity certificates,” when amateur women athletes, including Olympic athletes, had to carry proof that they had passed visual exams and chromosome testing that proved they were women. Under this proposed initiative, parents of girls as young as 12 could be subject to this violation of privacy.

The ballot initiative states that athletes “must provide, as part of the required routine sports physical examination, a health examination and consent form or other statement signed by the student’s personal healthcare provider that verifies the student’s biological sex, relying only on one or more of the following: The student’s reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”

Aside from the humiliation and violation of privacy, testing for genes and hormones isn’t cheap, which would keep girls without means out of competitive sports.

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