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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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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Haha, this fucking sucks.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

After months of withstanding inhumane treatment and retaliation from ICE guards, Martín Soto, who fled from Peru to find a new life for his family was finally released from Delaney Hall ICE prison on October 6th, 2026. Soto and his wife, who met each other at age 19, never gave up hope on the fight.

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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If a White Sox player hits a single, double, triple and homer in the same playoff game, it's now called an encyclical.

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Give it time. It’ll come together very nicely toward the end. Enjoy the ride!

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've reviewed 100s of inequality papers in sociology. Some fantastic, some abysmal, most in between. I can recall very few papers as weak as Rubin's report by criteria of logical coherence, objectivity, and evidentiary standards. The irony would be funny, if there wasn't so much at stake.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Realizing that I should have said something about, like, what the piece is about It’s about how settler colonialism conditions the aesthetics of power, and the dialectic between the respectable gentleman in a tie in the capital and the rugged, filthy settler on the frontier. Two faces of one system

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Curious what the citation is on this one? 100 percent correct obviously

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🎃Satan’s Little Ravioli 🏳️‍⚧️ @zoealicempls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Found out why I haven’t. (Bless you, @wfmu.bsky.social DJs)

a search of the WFMU archive, showing that the song “Choosin’ Texas” had been played never. Good job, WFMU

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh, that and "AI is an absolute disaster in the field of education, just a giant screaming comet descending from the heavens making all educational contexts less efficient and more time and labor intensive for a given amount of learning."

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the wrong take. You should be ashamed.

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.

BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The White Sox have to retire Munetaka Murakami's number immediately. This is the greatest interview of all time.

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Murakami loving his first clubhouse celebration 😂

YouTube video by Bleacher Report

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Recommendations for visual predictive checks in Bayesian workflow" published in Journal of Visualization and Interaction doi.org/10.54337/jov..., which is exciting also because this is our first Quarto html journal paper www.journalovi.org/2025-sailyno.... I wish more journals would adopt this!

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Recommendations for visual predictive checks in Bayesian workflow | Journal of Visualization and Interaction

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2026

Program's up! 30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com @ottergoose.net @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @chrisuggen.bsky.social @casemcnich.bsky.social @ngraetz.bsky.social @craigstetter.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Documenting the Impact of US DHS Activity in MN

Conference Date: Sept 22, 2026

Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Purpose

In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began a significant, sustained agent surge in Minnesota that affected the daily lives of many residents, but had severe impacts on immigrant communities and communities of color.

This one-day, in-person convening provides researchers from across disciplines and organizations with an opportunity to share and discuss research related to the effects of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 01/09/2026

Over the late 20th cen, policy influence shifted in the US from academia to corporate-funded, mostly conservative think tanks like AEI and the Manhattan Institute; now in the 21st, these think tanks are rapidly reshaping higher education & the humanities in particular in their image.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 02/09/2026

Evergreen

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

bitwarden is solid from my experience

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is the correct take imo. We’ve barely scratched the surface

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yeah; dags make the problem easier to see there I think

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

hadn't seen that hu post, been reading her papers, but this is great. thanks!

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

yeah, Kohler-Haussman and Hu are doing the best work in this space IMO; but I'm working on it, primarily though thinking about the federal indian boarding schools

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

here's Dolly's song about burning a juvenile detention center to the ground: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxYH...

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Evening Shade

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

They’re just really concerned with free speech on campus and academic freedom bsky.app/profile/polp...

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Woke up, made coffee, and sat at my laptop where companies gathered and shared information about my news consumption, entertainment preferences, shopping habits, and more. When I left the house, my departure time was recorded by my smart lock and my doorbell camera captured what I was wearing. 🧵

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are unquestionably sending people to their deaths, all because the President and his appointees are making policy based on pure racism and bigotry.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/08/2026

Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown

An ADSBx map showing 35 planes flying all over the Americas and Africa, emanating out of Louisiana and Texas

An ADSBx map showing North and Central America, showing roundup flights to northern cities, about a dozen removal flights to central America and the Caribbean.

A closeup of Alexandria, La, showing GlobalX's N966AD taking off and then quickly returning to the airport.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

NEW: For the second day, the Census Bureau's homepage, census.gov, features an unauthored report with analysis that @npr.org found was conducted not by career civil servants, but a team that included individuals affiliated with a President Trump-aligned think tank, the America First Policy Institute

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Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen voting

A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New paper: We look at compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act's foster care provisions across states. Native kids are still going into state foster care at unacceptably high rates, and ICWA's preferences for kin and Native foster homes aren't being adequately met doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Line plot of rates of foster care for Native kids going into foster care by age, and placement in ICWA preferred settings by age. Younger kids in foster care more often, and in ICWA preferred settings more often

Choropleth of probability of ICWA preferred placement for Native kids. Rates are lowest in the South, highest in Arizona, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana (around 0.6)

6 pane choropleth for probability of kin placement by child race. Rates are similar for AIAN, Black, Latino, and White kids in most states. HPI kids have low rates of kin placement

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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m not sure folks appreciate how bad AI’s effects are in this new paper The graph that went viral shows AI hurts students on regular class tests But the paper also looks at China‘s high-stakes national HS and college entrance exams — AI use leads students to do up to 18-24% (!) worse on those

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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