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Trump will not be held accountable for his illegal commercials. But it is still important that we recognize the commercials as illegal. There. Are. FOUR. Lights. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

thenation.com

PSA: Trump Continues To Commit Crimes

While the president is unlikely to face any consequences for his patently illegal, taxpayer-funded ads, it’s essential to remember he should.

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2h

AI would draw in people obsessed with their own poisonous waste products.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2h

Vegetarians have emerged as major opponents of eating meat

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 3h

obviously it's 12 years later but CAPE FEAR also does a phenomenal job of depicting how Max Cade's assault affects Diane Taylor

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 3h

For anybody interested, Ida Lupino's 1950 film OUTRAGE is the first major motion picture to include sexual assault as a plot point. It's tells the story about rape through the Hays Code restrictions, and does so by turning the victim into a noir film protagonist--who was generally a man with PTSD.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4h

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4h

I am not joking when I say this. Most of the things genAI purports to “solve” are not in fact “problems.” Some are in fact crucial social and personal goods. Does a life sentence in prison “solve” the problem of “permanent constraint on your personal mobility”? I guess? If you run a prison?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

Never been MORE VINDICATED he's literally using AI as Digital Jenny McCarthy to do vaccine denialism HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT I need to play the lottery

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 4h

We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

HOBBYLESS BEHAVIOR

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

turned the racism dial too far, guys

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 19h

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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All Grim Prints @allgrim.bsky.social · 4h

Starting tomorrow, everything is 20% off until December. I close the store every Dec, so if you want any holiday gifts, thems the times. Allgrimprints.shop

allgrimprints.shop

All Grim Prints

Block and Screen Prints, Shirts, Oddities

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h

did not honestly expect the ts elliot reference. in hindsight, that seems naive of me. always read Brian's footnotes.

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The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 5h

Discourse on ‘antisemitism’ in Canada and the US has reached a fever pitch. But, when you dig into the substance of the claims, it becomes clear that what is really being denounced is critique of genocide and antizionism. The CASE report is a paradigmatic example.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 5h

I will be in Reykjavik for two days in early November. Recommendations of things I must see and vegetarian restaurants very welcome!

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 6h

UPDATE: After our investigation into that company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, it has halted publication -- at least for now futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.com

That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation

Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 5h

“Scholars of colour often described having their objectivity and scientific rigour questioned, including suggestions that their work was below standard or ideologically motivated.”

timeshighereducation.com

Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences

Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 5h

The thing that is really killing me is that it is still not an entirely irrational course of action from non-western prospective phds. Yeah there's fewer abductions in NL or AU but the funding is still better here, even with the damage wrought. That may not last but shows there's no replacing NSF

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 5h

"When we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped." - Ken Paxton, surreptitiously taped at a donor meeting, according to the New York Times

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15h

And media making it official policy to treat those attacks as fair game that they would not take seriously, report on, or treat as harmful — even when leveled at their own reporters. Now the White House points GamerGate at its targets daily, through the owners of the social platforms themselves.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 16h

that fraternities serve any but the most anti-social purposes, providing sanctuary for entitled young men, whose criminal behavior is often excused, & whose later ascendancy to powerful & prestigious positions is all but guaranteed. Meanwhile, their victims are doxxed and left to carry the scars. 3/

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The new Liberty Mutual Muppet is incredibly lazy.

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 21h

i hate this stupid thing type-click-type.ghost.io/liberty-bibe...

type-click-type.ghost.io

Liberty Biberty Is My Enemy

Get it out of here.

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 16h

"If you learn these four words you can become chair." "If you tell me what the words are, I will punch you."

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 18h

Grinnell has a required writing class for first-year students. As part of the class, we have to teach about academic honesty and avoiding plagiarism. Easy enough, I thought, until I got the first student question: "Why does Grinnell seem to take this so much more seriously than it does Title IX?"

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 16h

Have any of you taken any classes on paranormal investigation? It’s for something I’m writing, please help me productively procrastinate

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17h

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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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18h

Eric Schmitt fucked up so badly today that even The New York Times isn't mincing words on how badly he fucked up.

NYT Headline: As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falls Apart

Subhed: A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

Gas prices are basically the only economic measure that people track on a near-daily basis. And right now they are significantly worse than when Biden was facing the 2022 midterms — and particularly in several states with close Senate elections. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17h

Sorkin: Bret Easton Ellis and Ryan Murphy are the same person, you just don't know what either of them look like.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

I can smell this picture

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 21h

The Eric Schmitt failed rollout as JD Vance's VP, sponsored by Axios, makes everything all the more maddening when you realize HOW MANY LAWYERS had Schmidt's obvious mistake run past them. Social media lawyers would have clocked it in two seconds, just saying. 💅🏻

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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 18h

Dead people gossip: The model for this painting was a young George Meredith. While the painting was underway, Wallis and Meredith's wife fell in love and later ran off together. Meredith would go on to write a number of works about how Victorian marriage was a fucked up mess.

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 19h

After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 20h

"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...

thecut.com

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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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 18h

a lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way:

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 19h

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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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19h

It has been an interesting few days in my feed, but one fascinating thing is people telling me that historians have caused as much damage as bad bridge builders, but the idea seems to be that anyone who makes claims about the past is a historian and son that just ain’t true.

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 18h

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 19h

Trying to explain to colleagues from elsewhere on the planet that the US has no public funding body with real resources* to fund research in the humanities is amazing. I just get dumbfounded stares, usually.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 22h

sorry netflix is doing a *straight* hockey romance to get on the heated rivarly train? there's like 4 seconds of actual hockey in that show lmao

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.meow @dotmeow.org · 19h

Out of curiosity, which is prettier: Athena, Aphrodite or Hera? I've got some fruit to sweeten the deal if that helps.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 19h

In another world Israel's offensive in Gaza petered out in November/December 2023 as they expended their entire strategic stockpile of aerial bombs, as the US followed its own laws and moral obligations and did not provide new supply.

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