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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 7h
The shock factor is a big part of their thinking here. They enjoy it. I don't know what it'll take for more people to understand that these people cannot be negotiated with. They can only be fought. The only thing they care about is power at all costs.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 9h
Fascism is also about the pleasure of seeing unwanted bodies mutilated, tortured, killed. This has nothing to do with Hasan's crimes. It has to do with bringing back public lynchings. They're signaling to their base that they can now rejoice in the the death of undesirables.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everyone should get to be as educated as they want. Education is a public good.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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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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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS to re-start rapid third-country removals. This is the third time DOJ has taken lower court actions in the case to the justices. The first two times, the justices granted DOJ’s request — allowing the deportations to balloon. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: DOJ goes to SCOTUS to re-start rapid third-country removals
This is the third time DOJ has taken lower court actions in the case to the justices. The first two times, the justices granted DOJ’s request — allowing the deportations to balloon.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Catching up on the news at the of the day is traumatic.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
lol i don't trust greedy people because my politics is sharing
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20/09/2026
come to america, do it all the legal way, and then have ICE shoot you through your back window as they try to execute an extrajudicial arrest
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 13/09/2026
is this a rhetorical question? study after study shows that white people oppose their own economic interests if they believe advancing them will also help minorities and immigrants.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Short film about hope www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/CG...
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 10/09/2026
Really proud to have had the Texas Observer's cover story earlier this year about why trans inclusion in sport is good, actually.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
democrats should just come out and say youll get a $10k check if they win the midterms i mean who gives a fuck
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.
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Hope @hopejrc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"This is a bizarro-world definition of discrimination that equates *fighting* discrimination with *enacting* discrimination. Stopping a robbery isn’t theft. And policies designed to remedy historical and ongoing discrimination aren’t discriminatory."
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There have been six (6) versions of the Civil Rights Act & four constitutional amendments passed by Congress attempting to force the state to apply its laws & privileges equally, yet here we all are, confronting the same forces of white nationalism still shielded by that very system of governance.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Again. Again. It was just the usual white supremecist double standard the first dozen times. After Arday‘s sad, avoidable tragedy it feels like more than the usual distraction. They want to gaslight us to death. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“I came to this country to pursue my education. I didn’t come here to commit a crime or hurt anyone,” Pierre wrote in July. “Yet now I’m walking through the streets of the United States w/a GPS monitor on my leg, carrying a feeling of shame and humiliation that I never imagined I would experience.”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
no amnesty
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
What Black people think does not matter to them, how Black people have used the term and how we understand it does not matter to them. They don’t have any use for the opinions of Black people because they don’t think Black people’s thoughts hold any value.
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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Something remarkably telling in how the majority (left) and dissent (right) ascribe the actor undertaking the demolition project. Much easier to ignore illegality if you imagine the conduct as that of the whole fed govt. The president doesnt even show up as an agent at all in the majority's opinion.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
A (messy) Excel spreadsheet tracking all of the Trump administration's emergency applications, when they were filed, when they were decided, what kind of ruling they produced, and how each justice voted.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
The fact that the literal physical environment of cities in the country is shaped by a racist desire to stop people from intermingling in public spaces really doesn’t get enough weight when we think about this stuff.
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A person in pantyhose, holding a lit cigarette in their hand, which has a ring on their middle finger, and the caption “My idols are dead and my enemies are in power”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
peter oberacker, whose grandfather was a nazi, is currently a state senator who serves on the 'New York State Senate Republican Antisemitism Working Group'
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
THEY'RE NOT EVEN THE ONES DOING THE DRAMA
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026
it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
They want to shield racists, and make it out of line to describe people as racist, because they believe in racism and would like to proliferate racist ideas with as little friction as possible.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Riley did a very good blog about this as a Library Science nerd that’s worth reading aftermath.site/google-searc...
And in this presumption, Google tries to narrow and direct my search behavior in a way that infuriates me as a library science nerd. No database is neutral, but they generally tend to stay out of your way. When you go to your local library catalogue, your desires (and your skill at using a particular repository) are what move you through, not the library catalogue nudging you toward what it thinks you should be searching for.
Google, uninvited, attempts to steer me down the path it boldly presumes I mean to go, in the process inherently attempting to limit the information I encounter by pushing me toward itself instead of actual results.
Google has always done this with its opaque and changing priorities, but that priority has changed from making websites conform to its whims to trying to force me to conform to its obsession with Al.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 22/08/2026
A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation. www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asyl…
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In the american context communism is mostly unrelated to economics. Any progressive redistributive policy is communism, as is any egalitarianism of race, gender, or sexual orientation. Integration is communism, women in the workplace is communism, marriage equality is communism. It's deeply stupid.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Dear trump, I wrote you, but you still ain't callin' I slept in the locker room, the trunk, and dmed you im a bottom
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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 18/08/2026
this story is bonkers
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It turns out that when you massively ramp up recruiting goals while turning the job into something no remotely decent person would want to be a part of, you get a paramilitary force composed overwhelmingly of human garbage.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Private prisons making $1.4 billion charging corrupt ICE bureaucracy $307,000 “per bed” as top 15 cops in San Francisco make average of $700,000 is why shifting resources from systems of incarceration to systems of care is one of the most popular policies in 40 years of polling.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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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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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026
“In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million, including 17 ambassadors and the remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch.” apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump dwarfs his predecessors in the number of ultra-rich in his second White House, report shows
The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026
There's actually research on this and it involves scrutiny. If you're Black people are going to look at your work looking for mistakes in a way they would never for white people.
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Black Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as Good
African American employees tend to receive more scrutiny from their bosses than their white colleagues, meaning that small mistakes are more likely to be caught, which over time leads to worse perform...
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