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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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it confuses me why David Ellison is renaming Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery into Skydance, something with absolutely no brand recognition, but I have to keep reminding myself some things are not about logic and reasoning no matter how much I try and think about them

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 22h

Little Caesars is woke pizza. The founder supported schools and programs for disabled kids, and paid Rosa Parks's rent for the last several years of her life. Don't diss the Hot n' Ready.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 22h

There seems to be some confusion among those who've never sought arts grants. Every city has these. In fact, it sounds like NYC's were kinda low, and Mamdani is fixing that. States have them too. Even "red" ones.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 23h

Guess who this post is about. I'll give you one guess.

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Great post. Alt text in the replies.

Nicole @rolypolycoly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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My grandmother worked at the Main Street store for years and Mr. Marcus always talked to my dad when he was a kid. He always emphasized to my dad that business was something you learn on the job so if you go to college, do something in the liberal arts or fine arts to expand your mind.

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rm4.bsky.social @rm4.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stanley Marcus was an awesome human being. My favorite story about him is he was on the board of the Dallas Art Museum and during the red panic, a bunch of conservatives didn't like the modern art in the museum and said it was satanic and communist. He told them no and they weren't taking it down.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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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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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our model goes to 11

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The paper... was written by... a former geography professor at the University of Calgary.... “It is a hot mess,” Marcus Sarofim, a climate scientist..., told Retraction Watch.... He also pointed out the paper was submitted and accepted in under a month... the short timeframe “is always a bad sign.”

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/10/2026

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the Saudi government now enjoys a 15.1% equity stake in the new, bigger Paramount Warner Brothers

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

With the merging of these two iconic companies, Skydance is ready to soar into the future!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thinking of the famous, now-tenured academic woman who told me that she thought anti-rape activism was “inevitably reactionary” and how she’s the Title IX coordinator for her department.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's a mom who can't wait to show this to his future SOs.

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This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.

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Remember, California Democrats have a veto proof supermajority in both houses of the state legislature. It is not just Newsom failing Californians.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026

California has a veto proof majority. It is not just Newsom. They choose not to override him.

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it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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The good men, the friends and lovers even, say to me later "well why didn't you just tell that creep off" as though I wouldn't be accused of starting shit, as though they'd stand up for me and not interrogate me to make the creep comfortable instead. Experience tells me most men will do the latter.

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The next day I hear about what happened later, the wild experiences, strengthened bonds or odd opportunities all of which I would have loved to have been part of! But I left, bc for me, leaving was the smart choice, the safe one. But saying why I left makes the men roll their eyes; nothing happened!

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It happens so often it can be hard to even see. Men having the same experience I am, but I hit a place where the attention becomes unpleasant. Inuendos start. I have to wiggle out of something I did not start (cautiously! trying not to upset any dangerous egos!) so I leave, while the men get to stay

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Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo

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In the legal system and in these mainstream commentary spaces, victims’ post-assault behavior is positioned as evidence of them lying, so that any feminist response to the crisis of sexual assault brought on by these high-profile cases can be deemed hysterical and unnecessary.

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Socially and in the legal system, our understanding of responses to sexual violence is purposefully uninformed and therefore limited to only “perfect” victims (who don’t really exist), so that we don’t have to actually combat sexual violence or believe victims or hold perpetrators accountable.

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People are spinning the narrative that the Cornell victim consensually participated in group sex and changed her story later because she faced social ostracism. A lot of this is cherry-picking texts, but in reality a lot of victims initially claim they weren’t abused or raped as a coping mechanism

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine if a woman did this.

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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There will be a lot of things to worry about in the summer of 2028. The transportation demand management plan is not one of them. I got an inside look at SCAG's thoughtful strategy to update what already worked well in 1984 and leave behind a better connected and more multimodal region

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Here's what the Olympics will actually do to your commute

Almost certainly make it better

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Both this and the Texas outbreak started in unvaxxinated Mennonite communities. We need to be making that link. Not to vilify Mennonites or the Amish, but because education in those communities is needed. They were not always antivax.