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@infopleaseh.bsky.social
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Passionate about human rights, democracy, history, science, and 🐈. My worst nightmare is the Twilight Zone episode with the broken eyeglasses. I have champagne ready for January 20, 2029.

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Belana @belana9.bsky.social · 13h
Just call it WHAT IT IS YOU mother-f’ers‼️ CAMP-CORRUPTION-COUNTRY CLUB 🤨🤬 The #1 criteria for admittance: EVIL & RAPACIOUS, GREED‼️  #USDemocracy www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h
Trump keeps saying that a 1929-style Great Depression is likely during the second half of his term. Quite the midterm message.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 11h
4 of these justices don’t believe birthright citizenship is constitutionally required! This is not an originalist court!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12h
"Local community activists and faith leaders from Louisiana and beyond marched and prayed Thursday at the fenced-off barracks and trailers at the airpark site where the Trump Administration is preparing to open a privately-run facility to hold children..." religionnews.com/2026/10/02/a...
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As ICE readies Louisiana facility for children and families, faith leaders hold vigil
ALEXANDRIA, La. (RNS and Verite News) — Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations, the facility — which will hold unaccompanied minors and families — is situated beside an air...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19h
The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand.
The Earth from space; it is covered in scaffolding that is crawling with little rude mechanicals ganked from 17th century engravings of people operating machines.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h
It's not just how many men are not angry, it's how many of them side with the rapists that floors me.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 13h
been reading regime change and I had either forgotten or not realized that the initial justification for the ongoing national guard occupation of DC was that big balls got beat up by teenagers.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h
Bridges in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, that are used by many commuters are the latest target in a broad Russian bombing campaign against infrastructure.
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Russia Turns to Striking Kyiv’s Bridges, Threatening a Vital Lifeline
The bridges, used by many commuters in the Ukrainian capital, are the latest target in a broad Russian bombing campaign against infrastructure.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 18h
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
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Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 18h
This is everything that David and Larry Ellison now own
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13h
literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h
With the rise of the Far Right, we’re in a situation where every election could potentially be the last one. No excuse not to vote with rigour.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is so much damn work to keep up with which organizations are now owned by private equity. Half the time, I only find out because I experienced something bad—or someone else did.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Totally. I wrote back that I won’t go on record with USA Today in the future. Which is a heartbreaking decision, honestly. Kenny Jacoby’s Title IX reporting is groundbreaking.
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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This seems like a really efficient way to burn sources/experts. Presumably you agreed to speak to the interviewers specifically because you trusted them. You didn’t agree to speak to “Every employee of USA Today Inc”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As an update for anyone who isn’t digging through the comments: I found more articles by USA Today journalists I’ve never met. There are THREE that used quotes from my interview recording—including many quotes that were never publicly published anywhere else.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
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‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Introducing Stress Test from Mother Jones, our brand-new video podcast tracking the fight, the money, and the lies—and hunting hard for hope—all the way through Election Day. Subscribe today: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcoW_kXY…
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the baseline argument is young men are just unevolved gorillas, which is what the defense of those men boils down to, why aren't more men offended at being likened to animals. You're cool with that? You're SELF LABELING with that? Okay. Why are unevolved gorillas in charge and not in zoos.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For all we wring our hands about social media use and its ill effects on mental health and use in cyberbullying, the greater crisis is that it sets young boys up for violence. But the Misogynistic Generation is unfortunately never going to be a bestseller katemanne.substack.com/p/your-adole...
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Adolescent Boys’ Favorites are Alleged Rapists
What the news about Clavicular says about the dire state of the boyosphere
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1. The texts came from the DOJ. 2. Grassley knew about them. 3. Grassley did not include the texts in the memo to the committee. 4. Grassley did not share the texts with the Dems on the panel.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
gotta understand that the speaker of the house literally canceled work and sent everyone home just so he could doing this stuff without scrutiny
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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How Trump is meddling in Brazil's election – explainer
With the incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, running neck-and-neck with Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of the imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, the Guardian's Tom Phillips explains the tactics ...
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.’
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Intellectual giant is frying me
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And this is almost an aside in the story, but also absolutely bonkers. Meta claimed Zuck as a "researcher" to get a $355 million tax break on his $4.1 billion stock-based compensation.
Screenshot from New York Times article: "Meta is already in one sizable dispute with the I.R.S. over this tax break, for using it to subsidize its chief executive’s multibillion-dollar pay package. In 2013, Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense because he helped invent new software, such as Facebook’s News Feed. The I.R.S. is trying to claw back the company’s resulting $355 million in tax savings, court filings show."
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Gina @cissybgood67.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Schmitt punched himself in the d*ck.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While I have you here, let me also link to an article I wrote years ago about how to talk to your daughters about sexual violence—without blaming them, shaming them, or restricting their freedoms.
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What You Should Really Say to Your Daughter About Campus Sexual Assault
It’s not what you might imagine.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another big one is teaching your son to see girls as equals. Instead of enrolling him in sex-segregated sports, introduce him to a co-ed team. And help him foster his more “feminine” interests where we can be in mixed-sex spaces, making mixed-sex friend groups.
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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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Gosh Shammgosh @goshshammgosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it's important to note Schmitt has staff he relies on from both his personal office as well as the well-staffed Committee's majority office. This *big-Hawks-game-plan* had to have gone through a dozen people first and no one caught it as being, well, the dumbest god damn thing of all time.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court lets the Trump administration continue deporting people to third countries for now while justices weigh policy.
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Supreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume while justices weigh Trump policy
The Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump’s administration to continue deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal.
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So is this your standard now? Just making shit up? "Most parents of young children don’t use center-based child care, and they don’t want to" is a WILD claim to make with zero citations (the second part especially): www.ffyf.org/2026/01/28/n...
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National Poll Shows Strong Bipartisan Support for Child Care
New national polling shows voters continue to worry about the ability of working parents to find and afford child care.
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aytaylor.bsky.social @aytaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You don’t think blue-collar parents need daycare?
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