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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
you give fascists an inch they take a mile stop giving them the benefit of the doubt
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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.
Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
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John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The annual curve of flu cases is starting to rise sharply in the US. This would be a great week to get vaccinated, if you haven't already
Influenza Positive Tests Reported to CDC by Clinical Laboratories,
National Summary, 2025-26 Season, week ending Sep 26, 2026. From: https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2026-week-38.html
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love this ❤️ People have all sorts of reasons they avoid vaccines- some as simple as this. Being open about it and having a simple thing like a friendly person helping you through it is great 👍🏻
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
When we concede fundamental rights like due process for some, we begin to concede those rights for all. When we fight only for those immigrants who have not yet been labeled “criminal,” we’ll find ourselves unprepared when authoritarians inevitably stamp that label on more and more of us.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
As the Trump administration’s enforcement net widens to target and arrest political dissidents, families, and even U.S. citizens, we must recognize the role criminalizing narratives have played in leading us to our present slide into authoritarianism.
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking about getting a flu vaccine for yourself or family? ➡️ Now is a good time to schedule 📈 Flu season picking up early this year and hitting a bit harder in some countries Stay protected 💪
Vaccine band aid
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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ev @evly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
can't just call it super intelligence without specifying what it is super to. thus, we may more precisely call it super-human intelligence technology
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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ev @evly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Again: *your* well-curated X experience and immunity to this poison keeps other people on the racism and fascism-promotion app, where they'll marinate in the toxic soup and a share of them will be swayed, in little bits and pieces at a time. also, none of us are as immune as we think.
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you work with international personnel, you may want to comment on this proposed rule change that would put visa holders out of status immediately (instead of after a 60 day grace period) when their employment ends keepthe60days.com
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Keep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace period
DHS proposes ending the 60-day grace period after a layoff for H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN visa holders. Comment on USCIS-2026-0364 before November 10, 2026.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 24/09/2026
Y'all @nora.zone and I are pleased to tell you that Gavbot, the bot that provides fun Gavin Newsom facts, is live. Follow @heygavin.bsky.social for facts every 48 hours, @ him if you need one RIGHT NOW, and please submit your sourced suggestions. Be nice to him he's a baby and we're still building!
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Let me talk about this OpEd from GOP PA Senator Dave McCormick (whose office doesn't answer phones or respond to emails) 1
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ev @evly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My thought about the Boston Globe lesbian bar story is that there's a lot of low-grade information circulating online (including by those who *mean* well) that is preying on and hurting real people, especially ones in marginalized communities and who are also trying very hard to do the right thing
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i like how mamdani seems to genuinely appreciate the opportunities that holidays present to celebrate religious diversity and pluralism, and to learn more about how and why these traditions are so important to new yorkers and their communities in the city he leads.
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ev @evly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
extremely disappointed in my AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov today more fighting less caving if we're to claw our way out of this mess
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Behavioral remedies like promises of film releases are simply unenforceable, and editorial panels for CNN and CBS are similarly dubious and have nothing to do with the core of the case ... Yet Bonta caved under pressure." @prospect.org
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Bonta Gives Up on the Paramount Case - The American Prospect
Why would California AG Rob Bonta settle the Paramount–Warner Bros. lawsuit when he’s winning?
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This pretty much says it all: “Andrew Wakefield, a former gastroenterologist whose medical license was revoked after he was found to have fabricated research indicating a link between vaccines and autism, spoke before and immediately after Kennedy.”
theguardian.com
RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak
The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If he had any sense of shame, Bo French would apologize to these amazing students. But of course, that’s why it will never happen. “When we woke up in the morning, that’s when I had a few texts from a few friends, and they’re like, ‘check Twitter,’” Gupta said. Vote for @jon_rosenthaltx
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UT community grapples with social media comments on student section racial makeup
Despite being a lifelong Austin resident and Longhorns fan, mechanical engineering senior Zaina Jafri had never been as close to the field as she was on Saturday.  Jafri said watching the Longhorn’s n...
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Steven Pergam, MD, MPH @pergamic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tragic and preventable.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
how does early voting help protect the vote? 1. it forces the regime to spread out their limited resources & manpower over weeks instead of a single day 2. it provides *weeks* of time to address any registration/ballot issues that come up instead of just hours
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ev @evly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's the laughter that really gets me. What, the, f-----
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
not a knock on indivisible, which doesn’t control this, but i think dems in congress underestimate just how corrosive it is to morale and trust to force their constituents to have to beg them to just do the right thing themselves for once on corruption issues like these. it’s exhausting
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ev @evly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is amazing "Now that...was legendary."
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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Unvaccinated adults will likely handle measles less well than unvaccinated kids, just like with Covid. Historical examples suggest this - measles introduced to naive adult populations (on remote islands etc) appear to have been devastating. (I’m sort of surprised we haven’t seen more of this… yet.)
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
an unambiguous ethnic cleansing campaign, exacerbated by the Kavanaugh stance that getting detained is no big deal and repeated baseless arrests are not a reason to put guardrails around DHS actions www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Illegal deportations spike under Trump's ICE push
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Elon Musk's site is evil and no one should use it share.google/M2iaQnTl2oMw...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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ev @evly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Purposefully directed reality distortion machine that benefits from every inch of relevancy we, individually and collectively, lend to it
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ev @evly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really happy to report no access issues *and* no noticeable after-effects from this year's updated COVID vaccine To the latter, that's three years running! I used to block out at least a full day after expecting to be laid low. Nowadays I don't even think about it. (n=1, etc etc)
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anyway. Delegalization remains the policy of this administration and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
newyorker.com
These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
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Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Abortion bans kill women.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
this is lovely labor day reading
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
if you haven’t, you should watch the spielberg classic, schindler’s list. imo, it’s important to see images of how the genocide progresses, and the parallels to the ethnic cleansing in progress here today. a very difficult film to watch, but it’s important
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Hypoautonomic, BS @hypoautonomic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The utility of lab leak trutherism adopted by the GOP becomes more clear. It paves the way to drain publicly funded science money and feed the war machine instead of
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ev @evly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I was utterly unprepared for the openness of the hate.
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Austin Franco Discusses Piers Morgan Uncensored Appearance, Confirms He No Longer Lives With Parents
Following a statement made by Austin Franco ’28 where he responded to a job offer with “Not interested in working for a jew. Thanks.” on Handshake, he appeared in a Piers Morgan Uncensored episode to ...
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/09/2026
As students head back to school, parents of immunocompromised kids have a new worry: How to deal with the resurgence of measles.
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Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Immunocompromised Kids to Make Impossible Choices
With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.
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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This straw tophat from 1820's France is just darling. It's like a little architectural masterpiece. The ribbon with stripes is just inspired.
A tophat woven of straw with a black and white striped ribbon around the brim.
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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Maternal vaccination protects infants from serious illness and hospitalization in their first few months of life when they are unable to be vaccinated." That quote is from me, our ACOG President @cclaremdmph.bsky.social is also quoted - #ObGynSky + #MedSky.
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