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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 7h
This seems unwise to me. The victim will get blamed for snitching, not the alleged rapists. Of course, that's often the point of these collective punishments: to scare victims out of reporting. I hope that's not the intention here. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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Ithaca Mayor Calls for Moratorium on All Student Event Permits, Including Greek Life, Amid Chi Phi Lawsuit
Ithaca Mayor Robert Cantelmo M.A. ’20 called for an immediate moratorium on all student event and special event permits, including Greek Life events, in a Monday statement. He attributed his decision ...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 18h
This is the winner
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ResistanceRoots The fight for universal healthcare may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, dating from President Truman’s failed proposal for a national, publicly funded health insurance system in 1945. However, the fight goes back to the 1910s, and it’s linked to anti-labor forces. /1
President Truman addresses a joint session of Congress. On Nov. 19, 1945, Truman sent a groundbreaking Special Message to Congress recommending a comprehensive national health program. His five-part strategy included constructing hospitals and health centers, expanding public health services, investing in medical research and education, providing cash benefits and disability insurance to workers, and prepaid national health insurance. The American Medical Association launched a campaign against it, condemning the plan as “socialized medicine” and comparing it to communism during the early years of the Cold War. By 1946, “conservative” Repubs controlled both houses of Congress and blocked the bill. Truman tried again with subsequent messages to Congress, but the legislative effort ultimately failed. Truman later called this defeat the most troubling disappointment of his presidency. Photo credit: Harry S. Truman Library.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The 4-year-olds don’t know where they are and what’s going on" “I have no one. I have nothing.” This is beyond grotesque. Shame, Shame, Shame on Trump and everyone involved in this horror.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI isn't going "rogue" because it can't—and we won't get a grip on how companies like OpenAI are playing with fire until we have the language right
eoinhiggins.substack.com
There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
Trump illegally refuses to spend money appropriated by Congress. (FTFW)
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
With five seasons of Lower Decks, why don’t I have 100 episodes?
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I lost my beloved cat Zara to aggressive cancer today, but this was also published: youtu.be/4o2YEkmejU0?is @wired.com
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Biomedical Scientist Fact Checks Pseudoscience Slop
YouTube video by WIRED
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fact that they think they have the right, or the ability, to evaluate people based on appropriating their language is insane. No other industry oversteps boundaries with such smug contempt. My master’s thesis was on this specifically, and it is scary and will be wrong.
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September 23, 2026 Publication
Introducing
MentalHealthBench
An open benchmark developed with more than 80 licensed mental health experts to evaluate Al responses in realistic mental health conversations.
Read the paper
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats
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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 25/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/pete...
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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 25/09/2026
Click "Download Full Zip" at the bottom of this page before Flock gets it way. flocksurveillance.org
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Never forget that Frank Oz believes the stress of dealing with Disney's initial, relentless attempts to buy his creations is what killed Jim Henson. "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick," he told The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
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Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me’
He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - then became a brilliant comedy director. What is he most proud of?
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is powerful, but please note the 11k figure comes from DHS. That claim was analyzed by local orgs as well as Human Rights Watch, and the true number is closer to 4,000. We should be precise, because on top of the immense harm to the people taken, the lie in and of itself is a terroristic act.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey no offense man but shouldn’t I be asking YOU stuff like this? I’m not the damn World War II museum.
Cheesy fundraising mailer from The National WWII Museum with one of the fake handwritten notes asking, “Kenneth, did someone in the Jennings family serve in World War II?”
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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new NYT focus group is out, and it's bound to be full of the same morons that are present in every NYT focus group, but because I love making fun of the median voter I'm going to be posting my thoughts on it
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Opinion | Paxton, Talarico and the Senate Race in Texas: 12 Voters Discuss
The group discusses the economy, the president and the U.S. Senate race in Texas.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.
A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my name's Louis and if this happens I will change my name to Blouis for the duration of Senator Jamie Davis's term.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 24/09/2026
rapidly approaching the point where streaming service ux is as bad as if not worse than the 2000s pre-tivo/tivo era cable box experience
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
First, our global team of collaborators pulled together the largest dataset on emerging infectious disease outbreaks - two orders of magnitude larger than the best-cited study in our field.
A global map of infectious disease outbreaks, and graphs of data over time and by disease
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!
(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026
"comparing Trump to a fictional character is unfair — to the fictional character. After all, in Bananas the mad dictator is quickly removed from power." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-underw...
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It’s “Underwear on the Outside” Time
Trump’s continuing downward spiral into sundowning
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This map is incredible graphic journalism.
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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"and I am indeed being jerked around" is not anything you want to see in an order directed at you as Counsel, Jesus Christmas.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
They even made DoorDash apologize.
DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 22/09/2026
Good.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
what being alive currently feels like
4 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy steps in bear trap and screams 

Panel 2: Purple Guy gets punched in the penis by a boxing glove

Panel 3: Purple Guy gets set on fire

Panel 4: Purple Guy lying on the ground, almost dead. Blue guy sticks head into shot and says: Heads up, things are about to get bad
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wish we weren't living in the age of "people working out their shit, we deal with the consequences" but Newsom's broken home as a child -- life with poor mom was tough but dad's rich employers took him on cool adventures -- lets you predict literally every move he's going to make as a politician.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 22/09/2026
“The current El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere in which temperatures are already rising rapidly due to human-caused global heating.” Oh great. Just great.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
some idiot pundit: wow, libs hate him this much but they don't want him to die, this must be a sign they're interested in healing *Evelyn Normielib leaning into the mic* I want him to suffer
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 21/09/2026
Absolutely not.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The economist 
told me 
the coming months 
will just be worse. The epidemiologist 
told me 
the coming months 
will just be worse. The climatologist
told me
the coming months 
will just be worse. The historian 
told me 
nothing at all 
she just sighed.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 21/09/2026
Newsom is the worst. “What if Andrew Cuomo but California” John Oliver called him and it’s the best I’ve heard yet.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 21/09/2026
So turns out there is a line.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/09/2026
in addition to devaluing one of the great human virtues, the premise isn’t even true! curiosity for its own sake, love of learning, wide reading and experience, these are super useful in the job market!!
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Conservatives desperately want cultural supremacy and yet they are incapable of producing art. I don't even mean great or good art, I mean "works that are arguably artistic." Every cultural artifact they produce in any medium is instantly recognizable as vapid, disposable, and unworthy of attention.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
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