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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2h

I probably should not have read this. The sterile language of this timeline only heightens the effect. There are so many layers of anger, but the “afforded the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting essays to CORNELL” part hits me where I live. I have measured out my life in essays…

174. At around 5:45 AM, this assault concluded and Plaintiff lost consciousness.
175. When Plaintiff awoke later that day, on October 20, 2024, Plaintiff returned to her
residence within the ALPHA BETA CHAPTER sorority house.
176. At this point, Plaintiff was in a state of shock.
177. At her residence, Plaintiff noticed a large bruise that had formed on her buttocks
and took preemptive medication for a urinary tract infection (UTI).
178. Later that day, Plaintiff became aware that what had happened to her at the XI
CHAPTER house the previous night was becoming public knowledge on CORNELL's campus.
179. With the encouragement of her friends, on or about November 8, 2024, Plaintiff reported the incident to CORNELL's private police force known as Cornell University Police
Department located at 117 Statler Drive G2 Barton Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853.
180. On or about November 8, 2024, XI CHAPTER was placed on a temporary
suspension for alleged violations of the Student Code of Conduct.
181. On or about November 8, 2024, temporary suspensions were also issued for several
students, including Defendants INGALLS, NEWELL, LEE, LOPES, SARABIA, NORRIS, and
KRETZSCHMAR, who were afforded the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting
essays to CORNELL.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6h

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6h

Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 3h

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 3h

#BREAKING 🚨 NSW senator David Shoebridge has been elected the new leader of the Greens, following the resignation of Larissa Waters Shoebridge ran on a joint ticket with Victorian senator Steph Hodgins-May as his deputy

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

Time for this classic again.

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 16h

this is all part of co-opting progressive language by conservatives, and you will notice is that it doesn’t start with conservative co-option, it starts with liberal co-option, conservative co-option is only possible because liberals already defanged the language, rendering it basically meaningless

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TelecomOne @telecomone.bsky.social · 14h

“I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the president or others.” “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation.” -Jack Smith Sept. 29, 2026

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.

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Diana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social · 5h

I learned in this piece that Cornell refused to give the survivor a refund of her tuition so she could transfer to a safe school after the attack. Many people need to be named and fired or the school should be shut tf down.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

very similar to what my brother went through when our dad was killed by ICE

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sam @samthielman.com · 14h

science has long said it is impossible to be both a pig and a worm. well,

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Congratulations to the Daily Beast for totally EXPOSING this day laborer from the Bronx who had the audacity to allegedly post a joke video about Nancy Pelosi on Facebook. Maybe you'll ruin his life! This is TRUE JOURNALISM in the public interest x.com/NoahShachtman/...
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 23h

Remigration in action:

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

I’m of two minds on these ads. They are clearly illegal. They are textbook examples of Trumps effort to push us into autocracy. They are also the last thing Republicans need when the albatross around their neck is Donald Trumps extreme unpopularity.

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026

ANOTHER DHS VOTER FRAUD CLAIM COLLAPSES Trump’s DHS claimed as many as 15,903 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. Nevada pushed back and demanded evidence. 15,903 became 185. Nevada checked the 185. The new number: ZERO. Every single one was a US citizen.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 28/09/2026

I'm thinking of the countless attempts to shut down and any all discussions about patriarchy and misogyny by invoking abstract charges of "gender essentialism", or accusing feminists of thinking all men are inherently evil. The reality is actually much worse---women's pain isn't seen as real.

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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/09/2026

When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.

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Atlantic's anti-harm reduction screed riddled with errors

A close read of "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs" found errors in basic arithmetic as well as more deliberately misleading elements

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rooshoes @roo.shoes · 28/09/2026

very pleased that multiple people get this

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

Honestly a lot of the “look at what AI can do for you!” things can be replaced with a basic shell script.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s not difficult to see that Chris Rufo is laundering white identity politics/white nationalism while proclaiming his supposed color blindness. Here’s a screenshot of the thumbnail for an episode of his podcast - the “great replacement” conspiracy theory is a racist trope.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube.

BillielsTheOne 9/20/26 “Rufo? The dude who earnestly repeated the lie about cats and dogs being eaten in Springfield? He believes in colorblind equality?”

Conor Friedersdorf • 9/20/26

“I'd missed his involvement in that and agree that, whatever it says about his beliefs, it reflects badly on him.”

@josephgfrancis, 9/21/26
“just incredible how people paid to write about politics for major publications can be more ignorant than random twitter users who didn't have to search hard to find this”

Conor Friedersdorf, 9/21/26 “Maybe I saw it and forgot. Or maybe I wasn't on X that week. You people are unbelievable--as if anyone has perfect recollection of every post relevant to something they do a quick x post about. Of course the hive mind of X collectively recalls more things than I do individually.”

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Pruit Igoe @pruitigoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Megan: I fear being cancelled. Me:You mean fired? M: No, cancelled. Me: What does that mean? M: People will disagree with me and vocally exhibit that disagreement. Me: Aren't they allowed? M: Well... Me: But you're not getting fired or anything? M: No. Me: So you keep your job as an op-ed

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In which one of the nation's most prominent opinion writers, a man frequently published in the most influential national outlets, wails about being on the weaker side of a supposed power imbalance with a professor of medieval history at a regional public university. Talk about victim culture.

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Probably the greatest parallel parking you’ll ever see. #WorldBollardAssociation

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Funnily enough, "bread prices skyrocketing >> the French Revolution" happened bc the French monarchy put "helping farmers"* as their top priority, over "keeping food prices sane." The things you can learn from history!

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a lot harder when you aren’t up against children, eh?

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GregoryWalters @catmanforever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@ronnisalt.bsky.social always has a way of just telling it like it is. 👍👏 #auspol #aupol

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like the "good husband" of yore who bought his wife valuable things so she could have access to liquid assets at a moment's notice have descendants! They are uninterested in recreating the conditions that made all that necessary.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

illegal protest: peaceful defense of community legal protest: sectarian march meant to spark violence

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m a dual national. I’m not planing on committing any crimes anytime soon, let alone ones with a sentence of 5+ years, but if I ever did I’m not sure why my second passport should disqualify me from facing the same British justice system as everyone else and instead strip me of my citizenship

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo has stabbed himself* Juliet: Fuck

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They are playing in our faces

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 27/09/2026

Apparently this is my fourth most popular on Bluesky so far. I think this says a lot about you people.

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't forget the main reason DOGE shut down USAID: to stop investigations into Elon & his companies. That was DOGE's entire job- stop all 32 active investigations which Musk feared would put him in prison. Killing people was the collateral damage from saving his own ass: bsky.app/profile/robv...

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 27/09/2026

#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965...

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026

Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.

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