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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 23h

You know what I don't see on the agent who shot a dad with a military assault rifle? THE BODY-CAM THAT THE TRUMP ADMIN HAS PROMISED TO PUT ON ALL ICE AGENTS.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Between a new "Harry Potter" TV series and a new televised execution, December is shaping up to be a tremendous month for things that there's no legitimate justification for watching if you aren't professionally required to watch.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When the bad man finally drops dead we can all move on. We'll still be sharing a country with countless people who gleefully aided and abetted his crimes but they probably won't do it again

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/10/2026

Anybody accusing Loish of using AI is just admitting that they never paid any attention to online art spaces for the last couple decades.

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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.

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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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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ezra Klein is a sucker.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not a Libertarian (because I'm no longer 14), but i put myself in the mind of an Ayn Rand acolyte for this quiz. 9 states would let me start a school with no experience, no tests, no core curriculum, etc. See where you can open your dream academy: projects.propublica.org/private-scho...

You could open NextGen Free-Range Academy in Texas and eight other states.
Your school’s name comes from your answers to Question 3, “No. I want the freedom to teach whatever I see fit, whether it’s Scripture or homesteading,” and Question 10, “Cool tech words like ‘NextGen.’”

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the scene outside Bard high school this morning — FBI agents and armed soldiers acting as if children going to school on a Friday morning is some national security threat.

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 02/10/2026

In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)

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Saving Iraq’s Seeds, One Garden at a Time

Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 02/10/2026

"Medicaid work requirements" are above water with the American electorate (net +18). Calling the same policy "Medicaid eligibility cuts" meaningfully decreases support (net -11). I do not understand the insistence on adopting the framing of those trying to destroy Medicaid

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Voters Support the Same Medicaid Rules When Called "Work Requirements" and Oppose Them When Called "Eligibility Cuts".
Description: Under new rules, some adults can get or keep Medicaid only if the state confirms that they meet work, school, or volunteer rules. [Split A n=613] Do you support or oppose these Medicaid work requirements? [Split B n=598] Do you support or oppose these Medicaid eligibility cuts?
[Split A] Medicaid work requirements — Support: 57%, Oppose: 39%
[Split B] Medicaid eligibility cuts — Support: 42%, Oppose: 55%

September 25–28, 2026 survey of 1,211 U.S. likely voters.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026

absolutely insane economics. btw if anyone wants an excellent Petrof upright mine is still stuck in the Boston area because it costs so much to move

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this doesn’t actually make any sense

The Kennedy Center has held used Steinway piano sales in the past, so AlterNet reached out to Jenny at Steinway in Washington D.C. to ask if the sale was happening again this year. She explained that it would not, as the Kennedy Center had closed.
She said the shop owner intends to retire and close, so they're selling all their pianos at a heavy discount. With the Kennedy Center closed, the shop is also moving all the Steinways to offer for sale. AlterNet asked why the Kennedy Center would need to sell everything, and she made it clear that it was because it was "closed." She
referred all other questions to the Kennedy Center.

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Daragh Fleming gets the last word tonight. Good night friends. "Men being silent needs to stop. Silence is enforced by shame. You’re shamed for speaking, calling problematic behaviour out. We need to call out other men who are saying fucked up shit."

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're talking turning people away with illnesses such as kidney failure, multiple sclerosis and bipolar disorder. And what does this White House say? Well, as you can imagine, it's the "cruelty is the point" plan (see below). At this point, Trump & Rs aren't *even putting Americans first*.

“Aliens in the United States should be self-sufficient and should not depend on U.S. taxpayer resources to meet their needs, and the availability of public benefits should not be an incentive for immigration to the United States,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement this week.

Lauren Bis, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement that President Trump would “always put American citizens first.”

Some refugees said they had ailments that they informed the U.S. government about before they were granted status, while others developed them after arriving.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/us/politics/immigrants-medicaid-trump-bill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FFE.nb3l.JYJ9wd6x-ekY&smid=url-share

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Men lash out when you say something about their antisocial behavior because what you are actually doing is putting some of the discomfort, pain, and fear they put out into the world back onto the source. Remember, you didn't start it. They did.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Adam Hoffman was convicted of raping his friend's young son. He should be in jail, but Paxton used his power to get him on a misdemeanor. That means he only served for 60 days, didn't have to register as a sex offender in Texas, and then left the state.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026

Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scans from “Nomads” by Itsuro Naraki. Naraki is a Japanese photographer whose work is deeply influenced by Robert Frank. These portraits show people Naraki met on the street between 1986 and 1994. The book is available for purchase at Pinakotheca Books. IG t.archivist

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I will vote to send myself out to sea on a barge before I vote for Rahm Emmanuel. Please be serious.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Given that cops have been admitting to using Flock cameras to surveil, stalk, and harass women they know--- and in some cases, were in relationships with--- I have more questions.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026

Jeez. The court may have stopped some third-country removals at the last second yesterday, but ICE recalibrated quickly. Sept. 24 saw the most ICE flights+removals in the months I've been keeping a daily log. --at least 90 flights --at least 18 removals, including Haiti --plus a stop at Gitmo

A map of North and Central America showing dozens of flights emanating out ICE Air's hub of Alexandria, LA

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

really learning how many people out there have never worked in the arts, where not only are we all drinking coffee all day but it is just assumed the executive director keeps a bottle of desk whiskey

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Would love to see someone platform the three day weekend, with the tag, “Fridays are for friendships.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

this is one of the many reasons that "fuck you, come back to the office" was so infuriating, you've got a bunch of folks who were doing just fine with remote work and in fact may have bought a house assuming they could keep doing it and now they can't afford to live near the office

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/09/2026

Trying to explain to them that our teachers were racist, and that it was impacting our ability to learn, was basically impossible. And of course there was no structural remedy for that.

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I also don’t know what it means to have “competence” in the user-side of AI. You ask it questions and it answers them. You reword the question to get a closer answer. What’s to learn? Meanwhile AI is destroying the entire humanities education these students are paying for

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The first black-owned newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, was published in early 1827 by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm who, like many early Black journalists, really should be considered among the originators of contemporary U.S. media and muckracking.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026

The generative AI Ain’t NEVER went down to the thrift store found a vintage cavalli leather pencil skirt and a Grateful Dead t shirt and made it art

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Dave @daveb23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So, when can we stop destroying the natural world so a tiny percentage can live in indescribable luxury? When can we scale back fossil fuel use and shift to de-growth? If we don't start taking care of the natural world we'll follow on the way to extinction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Sea dragon populations decimated in ‘mind-blowing’ mass mortality event caused by South Australian algal bloom

Thousands of sea dragons, pipefishes and seahorses have washed up along state’s coastline according to analysis of citizen scientist records

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Mr. Shift Key @birdup21.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I Don’t Think You Can Talk About What’s Happening To Black Women In The Workforce Without Talking About What It Does To The Black FAMILY—And What It Means For The Future Of The Black COMMUNITY.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wish we still lived in a world where, “He can’t just knock down the Kennedy Center” was a true fact.

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Haunted Forest @uglyoldf4rt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been telling people for years that his goal is to make SURE we can't undo the damage he'll inflict upon us. East Wing, Kennedy Center willow trees, the Rose Garden, the cherry trees, and on and on...

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Big Bad Booty Daddy @bamaslymm.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

On God. Cuz I can give you all the smoke you asking for, muhfucka. I choose not to.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every time a young person emails me about what they should do at this moment, I say "organize a fundraiser for someone or a group doing the kind of work you value." I don't usually hear back after that, lol.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Thinking of/with antiwar activist A. J. Muste:

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Once a reporter asked him, "Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night in front of the White House with a candle?" A.J. Muste replied softly: "Oh I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me.

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