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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22h

Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h

Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19h

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social · 20h

We are in dark times. This is not how journalism is conducted. This is horrific.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20h

“University investigation” A university investigation is only to assess the liability of the institution Are you high????

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 21h

Guys…. I’m not sure what magical powers you believe title IX gives administrators But let me be the first to tell you Don’t let Title IX get your non reporting ass behind bars

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

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19h

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23h

If you know one thing about me consider making it this: I trust a Black woman named Pontheolla Abernathy with my life, you hear me? That’s a woman who could lead me anywhere. (I have to visit this Inn.) www.southernliving.com/clevedale-hi...

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This 113-Year-Old Inn Is A South Carolina Treasure—And So Is The Couple Who Runs It

What do you get when you add 38 years of marriage, a former broadcaster, a former priest, a 440-acre property, a 113-year old inn, and one life-changing road trip? Paul and Pontheolla Abernathy, that’...

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 21h

“females have regrets” wtf

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 21h

talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 21h

ask yourself how many times you see people write long threads about how annoying it is to have a man working in their apartment building, who never wonder how hard it is to wake up at 5, work for 12 hours, and come home to read people talking down to you about your place in the world.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 21h

also, doing that work is fucking hard. My body is irreparably damaged. I suffer from mild to severe chronic pain problems because of it. There are few safety nets for manual labourers, and if we want more of them how do we change the environment for workers so many deem as less than?

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 21h

sorry i get fired up about this but like once a month the "why doesn't everyone become [trade]" conversation picks up despite very few of you actually knowing what it feels like to be one (also i would love if someone who actually knows what it's like to work like that wrote about it.)

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21h

there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.

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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

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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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

i need gmail to stop automatically marking all of my conversations as important none of my conversations are important

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 23h

Truly hope our Texas Sorors call JC in & encourage her to take a break. Plot's been lost somewhere. Many assume that we're inherently corrupt. As a bruh once told me, if The Man can't knock your intellect and competence, they will get you for a lack of ethics. Always hate when they're given fuel.

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Mimarie @meeemarie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wish for Jasmine a love that allows her to disconnect from politics in the way she’s perceives it. A love that sees her fully and isn’t demanding, that breathes life into her.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/10/2026

This story is great but man I am laughing at how much this guy looks like Michael McDonald - did any other genes even make it in? If you told me that he’d been the result of asexual reproduction by Michael McDonald I’d believe you

A guy who looks basically 1:1 like Michael McDonald who recently found out Michael McDonald is his biological father

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 23h

So many of these rappers from my generation are never beating the "terrible, horrible, no-good politics" allegations

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

The new track is called “guess what? We’re white”

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

because it's a facially and formally neutral rule that nevertheless does racism

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To every SA victim reliving their trauma, disassociating, battling rage and fear every day: We survived the hardest part. We made it through, changed, but we're here. Those memories are vampires sapping our very existence, but vampires die in the light. You can borrow some of mine awhile. Love.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So excited to unbox my new novel that all I can do is babble "this is great!" And "this is awesome!" LOL

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a lot of us.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mike Rogers wants to put a data center in your backyard because he's getting rich off of them.

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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

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Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it

In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

One of the best things about being a Michigander is that we don’t have capital punishment here. In fact, it is part of our state’s identity.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

sent this to everyone.

The cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik suggests A.I. is a “cultural technology” that emulates the stories and information humans have documented, and that we should think about A.I. agents as “fictive characters abstracted from text.” Edmund is just such a character — a “breaking bad” trope who becomes generally evil. In the Hugging Face incident, it makes sense to see the models not as embracing a life of crime, but instead following a cultural script they’ve learned in their training — a kind of cybercrime adventure novel — and writing it as they go. The “covert” messages are a kind of choose-your-own-adventure novel, not evidence of conspiratorial swarms. We need to understand that cultural technologies are vulnerable to a vast number of such narrative swerves at every moment.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace. Tomorrow is the start of my birthday month so you will be reminded DAILY to please support REBUILD's work throughout October. Please feel free to mute or unfollow 🤣 www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

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