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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9h
Do we arrest those who shoot people in our streets? Or do we join them? The *only* cohort that has trouble answering that question is the one we're paying to play Candy Crush on our subway platforms, on top of $117 MILLION we paid for cops assaulting our neighbors last year. More than Jalen gave up!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9h
NYC is on track to have its lowest rate of shootings EVER, and the thing that is going to ruin that is the presence of ICE. If the police commissioner cannot pick the side of New Yorkers, she obviously has to be fired. The numbers do not lie.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 9h
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 8h
At least seven rounds likely from an AR-15 clone in a crowded city without an active shooter is as grossly irresponsible as it is dangerous
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h
begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t think Zohran Mamdani has committed genocide
Four freedoms guy
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Literally just cartoon villains
SOME OF YOU MAY DIE,
BUT THAT IS A SACRIFICE DAM
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Boss of OpenAl calls for a regulatory light touch because of the 'good stuff' the technology can deliver
Mr. Samuel Altman
Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam
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GiardianAaron Rupar®... • 10h Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026
Very annoying that despite being told that we are all paid protestors I don’t have anyone to text my credit card bills to and tell them to pay them
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montanakennedy⁷ (he/him)🌈🦋⟭⟬🌻🏳️‍🌈 @montanakennedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not like LA is home to the TWO busiest container ports in the US... and San Diego is home to USPACFLT (US Navy Pacific Fleet HQ)... But this is "Just Trump being Trump..."
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Arman Walker @armanwalker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My family lives in Los Angeles and San Diego. This man is unfit for office.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Innocent until proven guilty is for whether or not we put someone in jail. All men are dangerous until you have seen them try to protect women from harm is for navigating the world and believing victims.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And despite this, police officers believe that up to 90% of rape claims are false. 73% of them believe that teenagers reporting sexual assault are lying.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Only 14% of women who have been raped report it. 7.3% of rape claims are declared “unfounded”, which means insufficient evidence exists to indicate a crime took place, e.g. the victim does not appear physically injured. www.alanberkowitz.com/articles/Fal...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
False *claims* of rape (people reporting that they were raped when they weren’t) are still rare But actual *false accusations* of rape (identifying a perpetrator) are vanishingly rare They count it as a false claim when a victim recants WHICH ACTUAL VICTIMS DO ALL THE TIME
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We don’t need to make it harder for victims of rape to come forward by immediately jumping into every discussion about rape with “but what about the MEN who are FALSELY accused?” they’re about as common as actual witches were in the actual witch hunts stop encouraging people to disbelieve victims
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shut the fuck up. “Witch hunt”? None of the women accused of being witches were casting evil spells. A man, on the other hand, is more likely to be raped by another man or falsely accused of murder than he is to be falsely accused of rape. And the authorities have largely protected the rapists.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
14% x 7.3% =0.01. You can question 1 in 100 women who accuses a man of rape. In other words, fuck. all. the. way. off.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
For the last couple of weeks I've been tapping on this sign hard enough to break my finger.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Most Canadians, Americans, and Europeans do not even know this is happening. That is the type of information desert & misinformation big tech shit show we are in now. When it is your community’s turn, who will be there to speak for you? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada continuing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, international tribunal finds | CBC News
An international tribunal has ruled that the Government of Canada’s current policies constitute an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, following a gruelling week of hearings on intergeneratio...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Alito retires after the new Senate is sworn in, every single Democrat needs to hold the line on not confirming any nominee out forward by this administration
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck
RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...
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Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus
Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.
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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
coming around to an idea that part of why 2024 election broke so many folks is it finally made blue state Ds feel part of what being a red state D is like
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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
whoa place you love with your whole soul deeply disappoints you in a way that means things burn? yeah it sucks ass but you still gotta live like you can make tomorrow better
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I effing despise RFK Jr. I had a cancer caused by HPV that had a massive impact on my life. I would have loved to have a vaccine that could have prevented all of that and whatnot. Yet that fool has claimed that HPV vaccines themselves cause cancer and he’s making bank on that lie and others.
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Summer 🏳️‍⚧️ @artgirlsummer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Trump voters voted for $7 diesel and $15 beef. You're smarter than that. Vote Democrat."
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, thank you! So many people are blinded by stodgy proceduralist bullshit that they forget the process itself is a punishment. Stop meekly counting conviction votes and waste these people’s time and resources. Demoralize them!
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Ineffective Altruist @jddunn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Winning the midterms doesn't mean shit if you aren't allowed to govern; so you have to use whatever power the win confers upon you to start solving that problem or the rightward and unitary executive ratchets will just keep tightening and the elections will get less and less relevant.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Democrats gotta stop thinking that impeachment is about *winning* a conviction. It is about stop the behavior: funny thing is Ukraine still gets the money!
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".
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Stacey L. Scott 🌹Ⓥ @staceylscott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the
barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
—Rumi
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pr-babe.bsky.social @pr-babe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣💯 And you see how calm a person gets when they’re speaking the truth. There’s no yelling or pounding tables. Smith was genuinely confused by the fool’s accusations bc it wasn’t the truth.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I talk about how men are largely not participating in de-normalizing rape culture, and you, a man, respond to me by preening in a reply about how you’re one of the good ones you are, in response to my talking about trauma trying to use me for gratification Fuck. You.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
like I’m just blocking most of these guys and these are two I hadn’t yet “how can we learn to recognize it???” I dunno, man, maybe Google? it’s not like there aren’t books and podcasts and articles and lectures out there
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t use them and what’s happened to them as props to make me feel better and reassure myself that I am One Of The Good Ones the bar is in fucking hell, but hey, maybe start by learning to clear that one, the lowest and most minimum of them
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
like, as a white person, you know what else I do about racism that men could be doing about misogyny? or rather, DON’T do? go into the mentions of people of color talking about racism and self-soothe by saying well *I* would never do that, or *I* would have stopped them or *I* never see that
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and you don’t have to do it every time you get to have moments where you don’t have the time/energy/bandwidth but I don’t want to hear how you would have kicked down the door when I don’t see almost any men doing the everyday stuff that fantasy doesn’t help us
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you are self-soothing, getting to imagine being a hero what we need is for you to become sensitised enough that the everyday stuff makes you uncomfortable and then to MAKE OTHER MEN UNCOMFORTABLE not kicking down doors just saying WOW THAT SOUNDS KINDA RAPE-Y *hard stare*
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you keep saying that you’d stop it if you knew but in all that stuff I listed men didn’t stop it you say you would have but none of you did “would have” doesn’t help any of us, except you, by making you feel better
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What are you doing in everyday situations to make it real uncomfortable for other men to say misogynist stuff? what have you done to learn what everyday misogyny actually looks like? because if you say you don’t encounter it, you’re either lying or have chosen not to learn to see it
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, other men might not invite you to come gang rape a woman they drugged congrats I guess so you’re never going to be in a situation where you get to be a tv hero dramatically kicking in a door and saving a woman from dramatic rape
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men overwhelmingly ARE NOT DOING THAT about misogyny & rape culture. They’re not even doing that. All the men in my mentions being like I WOULD HAVE BATTERED DOWN THE DOOR AND SAVED HER maybe no one did but the point is, yeah, I believe that you’re the kind of guy who wouldn’t have been invited
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