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Sarah (BUY MY BOOK!) Moon @prettytranslator.bsky.social · 1h

even something as simple as not going on walks alone after dark

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Emine Yücel @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social · 2h

My latest: Following Wednesday's failed bid by Senate Dems to block Trump's pocket rescission, Trump WH, once again, trampled over Congress’ power of the purse. Several experts point out their use of the “pocket rescissions” loophole is more an admission of guilt than a clever trick.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And for any of you who do leave, I hope you call your brothers and ask them to do the same. If there’s one thing we know about fraternity men, it’s that they cave to peer pressure. We’ve seen them use it for evil. The least you can do is try to use it for good.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Men, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that?

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 4h

Someone said to me that there are frats everywhere, so why do I seem to have more ire for spaces like Cornell? Money & power. About 1/10 Cornell students have families in the top 1% of income. The institutions are by them, for them. This takes every other dynamic and amplifies it times over.

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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 4h

this is unfortunate but true; many (most?) universities are utterly beholden to their rich donor class, some of whom are frankly terrible people.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 16h

What kind of scandal will it take to lead to the widespread elimination of Greek fraternities? Hazing so severe it results in serious maiming or death? It's happened. Absolutely hideous sexual assaults? It's happened. Terroristic actions in pursuit of campus political power? It's happened!

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Kim Von Ahsen @kkvonahsen.bsky.social · 6h

After they passed I mentioned he seemed surprised about this person being in the area. I explained to him that I noticed blocks ago and he was shocked but then soon realized that is how women move in this world. Always on alert. He said it’s not anything he ever thinks about.

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Melissa Smith ❌👑☮️✌🏻❤️💪 @melissa4thrivingmt.bsky.social · 6h

💯 I have so many stories exactly like this from female friends who worked in high tech.

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Anjiolina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 9h

Someone told me he's gonna rape me at a beach party, so I didn't come. Everyone else had fun except me. You have no idea how many fun events I've missed because I had to be safe.

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Emily Anna @emilymanke.com · 9h

When I was fresh out of college I got a job (2010-hard to do!) that paid decently and was in my field. The first week of training involved my decades older direct manager grotesquely staring at my breasts and licking his lips and asking me if I had any single gfs. I quit and told his boss.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 15h

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

Who could have ever guessed that a guy with a Deus Vult tattoo who wrote a book entitled American Crusade in 2020 would do such a thing?

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 9h

Five years later, Robert Reich is still very shamelessly legitimizing the Monetarist mythology that Joe Manchin used to justify his votes for austerity, and this from so many "progressive" people is causing an incalculable amount of harm.

Facebook share post from five years ago today:

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2.) is really rich coming from a guy who does so much to propagate the commodity-money myths, the barter myth, and the "taxpayer" myth that Sinema and Manchin use to justify their actions.
Go ahead and point the finger, Reich, but you have three pointing right back at you, as you have helped to enable the outcome about which you are now complaining.

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Memo to the media: Please stop calling Sinema and Manchin “moderates.” There is nothing moderate about singlehandedly blocking every single policy we elected Democrats to pass.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16h

If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine thinking like this. 😬

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kerry ✨ @kschwenky.bsky.social · 23h

I’m here. I believe you. I’m sorry.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...

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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’

USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 22h

It's esp important for male academics to learn more about how problematic the Title IX process is and how poorly universities treat survivors. I helped organize a conference panel on this topic in 2022. The room was full--of women. Two men came. This isn't a women's issue, it's a human issue.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

I'm just real tired of hearing people claim that my position on trans rights is a purity test. You wouldn't say that about race. So what the hell. I have never said that people should not vote for Talarico. Never not once. Get a grip.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 22h

Today marks 50 years of the Hyde amendment. 50 years of harm, injustice, & politicians obstructing our bodily autonomy.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 23h

It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Y'all, We're never going to defeat fascism until putatively-anti-fascist people stop legitimizing "taxpayer" identity and thinking. The Barter Theory of the origin of money is wrong and serves an insidious ideological purpose.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program

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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's important to track not only which new website the government launches, but which ones it gets rid of.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I research teachers' work. There is a known gap between public perception and the actual day-to-day experience of teaching that sociologist Dan Lortie poetically described as coming from "the apprenticeship of observation." This imagination/reality gap creates lots of problems in ed policy.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.

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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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dymphna @dymphna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People react in different ways to another pedestrian in a wheelchair. Some people are much more likely to refuse to yield, lean over the chair, hit me (sometimes in the face) with their swinging arms or backpack, cut in front of me, etc. One gender does this more often than others.

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Joel Lesko @sunshowerlearning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolutely this. "The reality is that there are no silly culture wars happening in America. There are equality wars and justice wars and fairness wars. Democrats should try to win those wars—and the elections that involve them." And just look at Ossoff for example of how to fight those wars.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s pretty funny because there’s actually no possible way to cancel her: she’s been wrong about everything possible and people repeatedly point that out but she still has a job writing the same warmed-over culture war tripe every week as a columnist at WaPo. She’s proof cancel culture isn’t real.

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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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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We will never be able to grasp the potential wasted by ensuring that only rich people’s children get to do socially meaningful work

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ironically, the fact that e.g. art history degrees can’t be explained as “capitalism” is why a large part of the Marxist left either ignores them or codes them as elitist. At best we are the passive and decadent women and children that masculine class struggle protects. At worst, PMC HR ladies etc.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unless Democrats can muster something more than “culture wars are a distraction from kitchen table issues,” we are never getting these degrees back.

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trishmaher.bsky.social @trishmaher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It wasn’t enough to oppose equal rights for trans kids; he also apparently felt the need to feed into right-wing narratives that paint trans people, and especially transgender women and girls, as predators infiltrating women’s spaces.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Being pro trans rights is not only the moral thing. its helps you get elected. Being anti trans rights is a political liability. Democrats should learn this lesson. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/democrats-...

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Democrats Who Refuse To 'Moderate' On Trans Rights Are Showing The Way

Many say Democrats need to shift to the right on trans issues. But the evidence shows otherwise.

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ravenlore @ravenlore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When you hear people saying establishment Dems are throwing transpeople under the bus, THIS is what they're talking about. This right here. If you STILL needed a concrete example that it's really happening, here you go.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WOW, RCP polling average has Trump less popular than he was right after Jan 6 (which, to be clear, was *extremely* unpopular)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

Dangerous and creepy

This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google 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.

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Micah Gelman @mbgelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You’re old when Delta is playing instrumental piano Nirvana as boarding music

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DrewForOne @drewforone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My 14 y/o niece thought Nirvana is a T-shirt company

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She's much likelier to win Senate, but also not running for president pulls the field to the left more than running would. Running means she has the leftmost lane locked up and everyone else is competing over the rest. Not running means those votes are up for grabs, they're worth trying to get.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

Andy Beshear is proof that you can win a red state without abandoning trans people.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The broad hegemony of the "taxpayer money" paradigm will continue to make the "America First" grammar intuitive enough that it circulates in the Democratic Party mostly undetected, even if it *feels* reactionary in a way that's hard to place.

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