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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 3h
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 07/10/2026
Wow I bet that works for Palestinians held captive by Israel
NEW YORK POST
Israeli Oct. 7 hostage shares how she survived 50 days in Hamas captivity after massacre: I demanded that they respect us'
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israel demolishes properties of Palestinian who saved 30 Israelis on 7 October - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Israel demolishes properties of Palestinian who saved 30 Israelis on 7 October
<article data-history-node-id="448965" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-demolishes-properties-palestinian-who-saved-30-israelis-7-october" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-demolishes-properties-palestinian-who-saved-30-israelis-7-october" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel demolishes properties of Palestinian who saved 30 Israelis on 7 October</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;authorities have demolished properties belonging to a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;citizen of Israel, who rescued 30 Israelis from the Nova music festival during the 7 October 2023 attacks.</p> <p>The Israeli news site Local Call&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mekomit.co.il/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A9-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%90%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%93%D7%97%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%95-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%95-%D7%A9%D7%9C/" target="_blank">reported</a>&nbsp;on Monday that Israeli authorities razed a warehouse and chicken coop belonging to Yousef Zyadna, while his nephew's home was demolished.</p> <p>Zyadna, a minibus driver, drove to the site of the Nova music festival in the early hours of the attacks to help people escape.&nbsp;</p> <p>He was subsequently awarded for his heroism at an event at Israel's Friends of Zion museum.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-demolishes-properties-palestinian-who-saved-30-israelis-7-october">Israel demolishes properties of Palestinian who saved 30 Israelis on 7 October</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Israeli soldiers at a damaged house at the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip attacked on 7 October, picture taken on 31 October 2023 (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4b626ae2-cc31-4714-986a-cc43b7115c96" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/IMG_0584.jpeg" width="1242" height="684" alt="Israeli soldiers at a damaged house at the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip attacked on 7 October, picture taken on 31 October 2023 (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Israeli soldiers at a damaged house at the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip attacked on 7 October, picture taken on 31 October 2023 (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/10/2026
Call me crazy, but I do not think that people who are getting sick and dying because they can no longer access lifesaving abortion care would agree that the reliance interests created by Roe v. Wade are "abstract" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/10/2026
Pretty wild to see Alito describe reliance on Obergefell as "much more concrete" than reliance on Roe v. Wade, because Roe was merely about "women's ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in." If it's a Ladies Issue, he just doesn't give a shit. www.cbsnews.com/news/samuel-...
"One of the important factors we take into account in deciding whether we should reexamine a past decision is the degree to which there has been reliance on the decision," he said. "Obviously a great deal had changed in the country as a result of Obergefell. There was a lot of reliance in various ways on the decision in Obergefell." 

I pointed out that people thought Roe v. Wade was settled law of the land, had organized their lives around it. Overturning Roe also would have consequences.

Obergefell, he said, was different. 

"After Obergefell, people of the same sex got married and entered into contracts … it was much more concrete," he said. "Whereas with Roe, the argument was made that it had an effect on people's ideas, women's ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in, that this would have an effect on the society. It was much more abstract than what would've been involved had we been asked to overrule Obergefell."
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/10/2026
Sorry I’m not gonna do idea landlords discourse today. You want authors to not get paid? Cool go totally rework society so that we also don’t have to pay for things.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...
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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico
A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
nbcnews.com
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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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
nytimes.com
Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her.
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 01/10/2026
There’s this weird phenomena that, best I can tell, is only on Bluesky, but is people certain that “no one told Harris and Walz to stop saying ‘weird’, that’s a myth.” It’s not, and there’s named sources in CNN articles about, from August 2024.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026
the utter futility of appealing to the same system that demanded it must execute Christa Pike, asking it to produce justice for Jane Doe in the Cornell case…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said he regretted nominating three Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, .. according to a Time Magazine interview. ".. What can I do? .. I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often."
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In light of the news of Tennessee’s botched execution tonight, revisiting my colleague @laurengill.bsky.social’s piece on witnessing Alabama attempt to experiment with execution methods to kill a man. boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
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“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions - Bolts
Alabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Welcome to the Project 2025 war on women ... plus we brought on three Mississippi experts to talk about the failing "justice" system for Nolan Wells and other Black families whose loved ones have been found dead ... in some cases, hanged. www.youtube.com/live/-Pqo96r...
youtube.com
A War On Women | The Joy Reid Show LIVE!
YouTube video by The Joy Reid Show
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Voughtism is "a clear intensification" of the right-wing's relentless assault on governing in the public interest and to undo in devastating damage gives Dems chance to reset away from neoliberal politics enabling "a robust government capable of meeting people’s needs" @kennystancil.bsky.social
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com
Reversing Voughtism; or, Creating a Pro-Worker Government to Save Lives
The Trump regime is dismantling the federal government’s ability to protect you. Undoing the Vought-led onslaught is a matter of life-and-death, and it would be good politics.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting that both reactionary centrists and some of the more doctrinaire socialists have found themselves in the same place on the so-called (and entirely misnamed) "culture war". Facile economism really is an impediment to serious analytical and political thinking.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
newrepublic.com
Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...
axios.com
Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I assume the DNC is paying for this?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
you could say this verbatim about silicon valley. and honestly, if you are a democratic politician reading this, you should!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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epickdani.bsky.social @epickdani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you for sharing this lovely story! It made me go down a bit of a rabbit hole and I discovered further proof that Holly is the best bear mom ever: www.nps.gov/katm/blogs/a...
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Abandoned Cub Finds a New Mother - Katmai National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
In early July, bear 402 abandoned her yearling cub. Rangers, including myself, were routinely asked, “Will it find another bear to care for it?” My usual response to this question was coldly factual, ...
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness. A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👇🧵🎯 Blue states/Democrats have also defunded public higher education for 50 years, & they parrot the same lazy, evidence-free, right-wing talking points about education as jobs training as red states/Republicans. They just do it without the authoritarianism. That must change. Maybe this is a start.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 26/09/2026
Truly astounding to have a mayor who talks like this. He hasn’t done everything right and won’t, but refusing to be ashamed of your convictions is a real breath of fresh air.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Penn’s endowment surged by a record $6.3B in fiscal year 2026, its strongest year-over-year gain in recent history... The endowment saw a staggering 27.4% return last year... In its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, the University has continued to advocate for cost-reduction measures..."
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Penn endowment sees over $6 billion jump in largest single-year return on record
After years of steady growth, the endowment saw a staggering 27.4% return in fiscal year 2026.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 25/09/2026
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