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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 4h

plus I think Alito enjoys the attention

The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 5h

I'll also take the other side of that bet - vote-wise, McConnell is a vegetable, and Cassidy, Cornyn & Tillis have serious grudges - not to mention whoever might lose re-election next month & feel dragged down by the everpresent Himself (obviously, caving & craven still a good bet with these bozos)

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 8h

interesting thread and a reminder it's never good to think one thing is exactly the same as another thing - especially from a distance

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 12h

Kavanaugh's a rapist, flat out. Trump, too. Look at everything done to protect them. It's all corrupt. The entire ediface of GOP power. Time to tear it all down. The midterms are just the start.

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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social · 12h

Weird. On 8/24 I posted FOIA records reflecting that there's currently no Chief Administrative Hearing Officer at OCAHO, and that the statute requires there to be a CAHO for the agency to have jurisdiction. Days later, EOIR posted James McHenry's bio again as CAHO. www.justice.gov/eoir/staff-p...

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Chief Administrative Hearing Officer

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 13h

so Trump is at at one of his golf courses right now the fact that it's raining doesn't matter - he hasn't been physically able to play golf for a long time but he is able to meet with unnamed people outside the prying eyes monitoring the comings & goings at the White House so I guess that's a plus

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The NY Times says it’s “not clear“ why Trump is using taxpayer funds and not money from his super PAC for his self-glorifying ads. But it’s clear to me. It’s because HE‘S A CROOK.

It was not clear why taxpayer funds, and not money from the super PAC, were used for the spots.

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 15h

2 PM THURSDAY IN ORLANDO! Y'all come hear me yakking about my book WELCOME TO FLORIDA at the SW Branch of the Orange-Orlando Library. Remember, "WTF" always means Welcome to #Florida!

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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, hey! That’s me!

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heather MacDonald of the same Manhattan Institute that employes Chris Rufo. When institutions show you who they are, believe them.

Ayfkm Heather Mac Donald?

She’s doing apologia for the Cornell 7

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the same Mike Pompeo that smeared Jamal in his book. This is who Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs believes should be teaching the next generation of global leaders. share.google/3e5Yp0xTLu8J...

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Washington Post blasts Pompeo's "shameful" remarks on Jamal Khashoggi

Pompeo made the remarks in his new book.

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

and they say you have to look to history to find drama

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

well here's an October surprise (can't imagine this entering the election discourse in the next few weeks)

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Team Angie is hitting fifteen counties across the state for SUPER SATURDAY weekend and all we’re missing is YOU! Visit Angie4US.com/knock to sign up and hit the streets with us. #AngieforFlorida

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Abortion Access Front @abortionfront.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ENCORE ALERT 🚨 POD DROP 🚨 COURTS IN OUR SHORTS: ABORTION PILL ON TRIAL ❗ This week we took mifepristone to the nation’s Capitol to show lawmakers AAF won’t sit by while they gut our access to medication abortion.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 02/10/2026

Today's the 8th anniversary of the brutal slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, ordered by Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We cannot trust Saudi leaders, yet Trump wants to allow them to enrich uranium that could be used for nuclear bombs. Stop the deal.

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Monday! Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn! Me, Ari Berman, and the coolest pro-voting kids around! greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-1...

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Book Launch: Kevin T. Morris with Ari Berman at LAPC

Brooklyn independent bookstore

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"do to others what you would have them do to you"

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable

Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The very first image in David Ellison's tweeted video announcing that the new merged company's name is Skydance is the Titanic, the ship that was too big to sink.

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Callum Isaac Moscovitch @callumisaac.art · 02/10/2026

My friend Alex is a somewhat reclusive but very kind bike mechanic who rescues old bikes and is very NOT Online. He shared this poster with me — he’s having a refurbished bike sale at Carlo’s Garage (2537 Agricola) this weekend of October 3rd/4th. 10 AM onward. #halisky #bikesale #cycling

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I ask again today, because I just saw one of the country’s leading economic journalists just describe 29K jobs last month & rising unemployment as “not catastrophic,” & I’m sorry, but that simply is not the way we talked about job growth 5-10x as strong, for ~an entire presidency, under Joe Biden.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To aspiring journalists, your reminder to just send that cold email today.

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Handmaid @handmaid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's true that Mass Ballot Q-3 to establish "Jungle Primaries" is funded almost entirely by Private Equity Vultures, all of whom will not defend their investment to the press. Their silence, and fact that Q3 contributors have spent the most behind any of all 9 Questions, screams "No on 3" to me.

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Why is the investment world financing a Mass. ballot question to eliminate partisan primaries? - The Boston Globe

A wave of wealthy individuals with ties to various investment, private equity, and venture capital firms has put millions of dollars behind a ballot question to scrap the state's party primaries.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A reminder the election handicappers delay race rating changes and release them piecemeal to drive their content. They should be considered lagging, not forward, indicators

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

demented old fool with the nuclear codes

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

congratulations! also, verify me @joshuajfriedman.com - I walked past a bar

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 01/10/2026

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chris Wright iss such a nitwit that he might have actually convinced himself this fanatsy is true but the reality is that he knows he's lying and is just performing for his orange master they all lie the way the rest of us breathe - it's how they got their jobs & how they hold on to them

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Job Opportunity! The University of Hong Kong - Fellowship in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities networks.h-net.org/jobs/70393/u...

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The University of Hong Kong - Fellowship in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities | H-Net

Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Faculty of Arts

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why not add shit canning civilians and then putting these dickheads in charge, where the closest they've come to military service is Newt Gingrich's stepfather in the case of Newt Gingrich, and standing next to Newt in the case of Palmer and Elon.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Huh. @cnn.com is reporting early voting numbers consistent with my tally as of last night. They do not provide their data source. Using my work without reasonable attribution is a violation of my creative commons license www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/p...

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Early voting data shows emerging signs of a Democratic advantage in the midterms | CNN Politics

Election Day is still a month away, but more than 550,000 Americans have already voted across 29 states. There are signs emerging of the advantage Democrats have in motivating their voters – a trend t...

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