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Floof

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Writer/editor, parent, she/her. Old enough to probably have a lot of lead in me.

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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 2h
I regret to inform you that Aaron Sorkin got stuck in the microwave again
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 4h
TERFism’s proposition to cis women has always been “What if you accepted having fewer rights than men in order to guarantee that trans people have fewer rights than you?”
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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5h
And, look who is promoting this campaign. Also, there is a name floating around X. No one has any idea if the name of that person is truly this Jane Doe.
Benjamin Ryan @ @benryanwriter • 42m
Journalist Michael Tracey is looking to disclose the identity of
Jane Doe, who filed the lawsuit against seven Cornell men,
alleging they gang raped her in a frat house.

The suit names the men but not the plaintiff.

Should Jane Doe's name be made public? Why or why not?

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Michael Tracey 
@mtracey

If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is,
get in touch and I would be happy to publish her
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 3h
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 3h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 3h
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 7h
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ICIJ @icij.org · 4h
Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in October 2017 when a bomb placed in her car was detonated remotely. She had been working on #PanamaPapers stories. This month, the man accused of orchestrating her killing was found not guilty on all charges. buff.ly/rasQ0gk
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Jury acquits Maltese business tycoon in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia - ICIJ
Yorgen Fenech was the last of seven men prosecuted for her 2017 assassination.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 5h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 5h
This, of course, is happening in #FL27, Maria Elvira Salazar’s district - is there a statement from her or her office?
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/09/2026
More than 38,000 residential school survivors testified to the abuse they experienced as children. Next September, Canada plans to destroy their records.
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Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women are trying to save them
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DRONE TARGETS JOURNALISTS These images from the @afp.com show the aftermath of an Ethiopian drone strike today, on the headquarter TV station of the local Tigrai TV network in the Tigrayan city of Mekele, as war rages on. No info on casualties, Tigrai TV has been off air since the attack.
AFP photo showing the destruction caused to the headquarter building of Tigrai TV in the city of MekeleAFP photo showing the destruction caused to the headquarter building of Tigrai TV in the city of Mekele
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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 9h
The reopened newsstand at West 4th is going to distribute high school newspapers and my journalism students are pumped—a good school news story for those who need nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Artist brings shuttered West 4 St subway station newsstand back to life with giveaways and puppet shows | amNewYork
A group of creatives, led by artist and writer Al Mullen, have come together to take over an empty newsstand on the Brooklyn-bound B/D/F/M platform at the
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h
Lanae Erickson at Third Way said “practice saying ‘I trust parents in my district to make decisions for their kids more than politicians.’ Practice saying, ‘sure, we need rules but politicians aren’t the right ones to make it.’” This is basically how Democrats talk about abortion rights post Dobbs
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13h
Czechs would be ready to respond to attack on Baltics, prime minister Babis says reut.rs/4z55GfV
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Czechs would be ready to respond to attack on Baltics, prime minister Babis says
The Czech Republic would be ready to honour its NATO commitments in the event of a Russian attack on a Baltic ​country, Prime Minister Andrej Babis told a Czech news website on ‌Tuesday.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 19h
Yesterday, the Rusich group made ambiguous hints about the Estonian town of Narva on its Telegram channel.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026
This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.
nationalobserver.com
Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.
Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the biggest stories of 2027 will be the savagery of the GOP's Medicaid cuts. But the most indefensible cruelty has already begun, with disabled kids being ripped from their homes and sent to asylums, @matthewcort.land told me.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h
Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna: “Based on the information collected by the Estonian Internal Security Service we can conclude with certainty that the arson attack on Milrem Robotics premises that took place on the night of 14–15 august in Tallinn…
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20h
Cannot get over the beauty of this GIF: it’s Zidane celebrating last night after Olise scored a last minute winner for France. It looks like something from a movie or a high-end fashion advert. Probably the most elegant footballer of all time.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.
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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's an E. coli outbreak in the U.S. associated with raw milk cheese — 13 people known to be sick so far; more than half are kids. In our raw milk ep, we looked into the supposed benefits, plus the risks 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/e-coli/cdc-c... Listen here 👇👇👇 open.spotify.com/episode/3VgP...
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Raw Milk: Secret Superfood??
Science Vs · Episode
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026
much discourse today about using/automating AI for "household tasks" and suchlike but mostly it just bums me out because yes, it's a hassle to do a lotta things! but also those "lotta things" include tasks that enrich (or benefit) our lives -- from cooking to travel plans to doc appts
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe someone should be talking to women who went to school with Van Houten.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.
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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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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 28/09/2026
"Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students" thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exceptional solidarity from ASU hockey players who have demanded their coach be placed on leave for essentially overseeing the murder of their teammate and have disputed the university’s findings. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
Seven Arizona State men’s hockey players asked the university’s president to place the Sun Devils’ coaching staff on administrative leave pending further investigation into the workout that left sophomore transfer Matthew Mayich on life support.

In a 26-page letter sent to ASU president Michael Crow on Monday and obtained by The Athletic, the players disputed numerous findings from the university’s initial review of the Aug. 20 workout, writing that Mayich did not receive water and was provided inadequate medical care after his collapse.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What gets me about Mamdani is that he does things that are brilliantly good politics but were literally unthinkable until he did them:
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts from older women about how they won’t talk or think about Cornell because it’s too painful or the problem is too big to solve. I’m urging you all to remember how you felt as a college student when older women said that to you. Don’t turn your back on the next generation.
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The Hockey News - Women's @thehockeynewsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hockey Night in Canada is back as the PWHL and CBC have announced the historic entity will return to broadcast women's hockey games beginning December 5 with the Montreal Victoire hosting Hamilton. More: thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/...
thehockeynews.com
The PWHL And CBC Announce Return Of Hockey Night In Canada
Broadcasts will include pre- and post-game panel analysis, along with accompanying digital content on cbcsports.ca and social media.
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FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SURPRISE?!?! #Ontario The report states that cataract surgeries performed at Don Mills Surgical Unit were “more than twice as expensive” as those performed in public hospitals, while knee arthroscopies were “two to three times more expensive.”
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely it has! We now have the situation where, if a trans woman with a GRC were to get married, she’d be recognise as female for the wedding ceremony, but should not be using the women’s toilets at her wedding reception, unless they’re designated as trans inclusive.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Over 3500 people have been arrested in the UK for voicing support for Palestine Action. Anti-terrorism legislation was used for these arrests. The result is that one of the largest demographics of terrorist in the UK is now elderly middle class white people.
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Lynn Coady @lynncoady.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the second story I’ve read this morning about communities fed up with price gouging and grocery enshittification taking matters into their own hands.
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Duncan Poundcake @duncanpoundcake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Burnhim Meet the latest terrorist. 94 year old human rights lawyer and OBE. Nicked at Burnham's conference... morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...
morningstaronline.co.uk
94-year-old human rights lawyer among hundreds of protestors arrested in test of Burnham’s mettle
ANDY BURNHAM faced growing calls to deproscribe Palestine Action today as hundreds of protesters as old as 94 were arrested for supporting the banned group during his first Labour Party conference as ...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services My new @policyalternatives.ca research study evaluates whether this policy direction reduces wait times and serves the public interest www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #onpoli
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026
Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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