Reposted by HüskerBlüMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7hespecially if you work at the FBI 1363895
Reposted by HüskerBlüLibby @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 8hGood 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and 314543
HüskerBlü @inimitablevi.bsky.social · 7hwatching valley girl as i write. never sat through all of it. the shots of sunset in the 80's are great. love the woman who was in pee wee's first movie. the moms are the same age as the 'girls.' the plimsouls' "a million miles away," still a great vibe. cage's kissing technique *shudders* 010
Reposted by HüskerBlüCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 9hIf Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players. 31135193
Reposted by HüskerBlüBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9hGobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 233108291834
HüskerBlü @inimitablevi.bsky.social · 7hthe etymology of the word "scapegoat" a puzzle piece that brings the process into focus 010
Reposted by HüskerBlüKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes" 1142658524
Reposted by HüskerBlüjoe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple 312884465
Reposted by HüskerBlüJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Please 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 712545614
Reposted by HüskerBlüChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026In RBG hall. Symbolism vs material reality. “The latest allegation was reported to Cornell University Police by a third party on September 23 and is said to have taken place four days earlier inside Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, a residence dorm on the school's North Campus.“dailymail.comCornell rocked by new sex assault probe days after 'gang rape' lawsuitThe latest allegation was reported to Cornell Police by a third party on September 23 and is said to have taken place four days earlier at Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall on the school's North Campus. 214147
Reposted by HüskerBlüKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20452021402
Reposted by HüskerBlüKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense 201108251
Reposted by HüskerBlüStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place. 43688983323
Reposted by HüskerBlüStacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The timing on this ruling, as we are all learning more about the assault perpetrated by young men at Cornell, is just impeccable 618682
Reposted by HüskerBlüT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts." 151585319
Reposted by HüskerBlüDavey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam 151927578
Reposted by HüskerBlüProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026DraftKings has argued that its ‘responsible gaming’ system provides adequate safeguards to protect customers from spiraling out of control. So I decided to find out: If I bet like a compulsive gambler, would DraftKings stop me? by Jake Pearsonpropublica.orgI Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro... 11589211
Reposted by HüskerBlüAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows. 19489285344
Reposted by HüskerBlüKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026Many low income people are in fact stay at home parents because the cost of daycare is so high that their salary if they went to work would not cover it. 26816177
Reposted by HüskerBlürev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did 11789132
Reposted by HüskerBlüIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you. 22188457
Reposted by HüskerBlüImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026fucking reallythehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe 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… 672030662
Reposted by HüskerBlüCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing. 181985357
Reposted by HüskerBlüGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/09/2026It may not be entirely fair for me to assume that "A.i." thieves and scammers are probably also horrible creeps. But 🤷 616555
Reposted by HüskerBlüVoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.” 6854881000
Reposted by HüskerBlüArienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership. 193124797
Reposted by HüskerBlüMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women: 39871682840
Reposted by HüskerBlüRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem. 412400520
Reposted by HüskerBlüParkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I can't stop thinking about how many men read that Snapchat and did nothing. How many men in that house knew a woman was being gang raped and did nothing. This is why we say all men. Bc it's your friends, your besties, your fellow frat bros and you do nothing to stop them. 1232451664
Reposted by HüskerBlüAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9251723161
Reposted by HüskerBlüMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:meidasnews.com“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banksWeeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states 44194574484
Reposted by HüskerBlüMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime. 363566824
Reposted by HüskerBlü Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026Claude making a scientific discovery 182082479
Reposted by HüskerBlüGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026Lol Ben Shapiro’s “news” org tried to do DHS a favor pretending the “worst of the worst” lie had been reimposed, and DHS went out of its way to knock that down. “No one is off the table.” Show this to everyone you know. 7420161
Reposted by HüskerBlüscreaming until the void tells me to shut up @mutedscreaming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'll never forget the student journalists at Columbia who continued to cover the university bringing in an army of cops to dismantle the Pro-Palestine student encampments. Even when the folks at the SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM were prohibited from covering it, they stayed and kept covering. Amazing kids 5721120
Reposted by HüskerBlü"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Because why would engineering students ever need to study the ways their very expertise has been used and abused in the past, the way 'oh, I'm just an engineer solving a problem' has been a necessary and foundational lie in every modern system of oppression or extermination? 31802112
Reposted by HüskerBlücait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this signage is so compelling to me. I want more things to look like this please 1576450
Reposted by HüskerBlüMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/09/2026maybe this is all misplaced nostalgia for driving around with nowhere to be and just whatever is on the radio 5744
Reposted by HüskerBlüunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds. 9319191
Reposted by HüskerBlüCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Abusive parents blaming therapists for kids cutting ties is just an evolution of abusive husbands blaming therapists for wives divorcing their asses. The epidemic is dogshit people hiding behind the title of "parent" finally being called dogshit people 945792
Reposted by HüskerBlüClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor. 623736729
HüskerBlü @inimitablevi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Abuse is epidemic. As are a previous generation that believed abuse was acceptable. 062
Reposted by HüskerBlüAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026so a total of 500-600 parents were cut off? And that is an "epidemic?" Prove to me that this is in fact an epidemic, and not abusive selfish parents being very loud and angry about boundaries. Prove to me why parents who...consume their children deserve to continue to have access to their children. 1950973
Reposted by HüskerBlüAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026No, the assumption that disabled people require our colleagues’ stolen words and illustrations chopped up and spewed out in order to participate in art is ableist. We have BEEN creating art. Many of the works you love? Made by someone marginalized out of traditional jobs. 2628931005
Reposted by HüskerBlüIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026A record number of Democrats voted to stop sending more aid to Israel. This didn't happen by accident. It happened because millions of people spoke out, organized, and refused to stay silent. Our movement is making a difference. Keep organizing. Keep building power. 522793541
HüskerBlü @inimitablevi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Please take this to heart. I was disabled in my early 30s after back/hip problems were added to severe migraine and extensive endometriosis that required multiple surgeries. I was so young. At 50 I’ve dealt with pain and limitation every day since. 020