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Joé McKen

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 43m
Michael Tracey wants it to be known that he was *not* trying to "doxx" the victim of a horrible gang rape, he was merely trying to expose her identity and reveal it to their entire world. They're very different things, you see.
Someone described as a "CNN Creator" put out this video claiming I called for the "doxxing" of Jane Doe, and now a nationwide movement has been sparked against me. I NEVER CALLED FOR "DOXXING." CNN APPARENTLY OPPOSES WHAT IS CALLED "REPORTING" ON CLAIMANTS IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h
Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord...
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 8h
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 4h
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
So does the GOP force all of its candidates to prove they’ve physically and/or sexually assaulted a woman before they can run as a Republican? Sorta like a gang initiation?
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 18h
Good thing I’m no arachnophobe or else this spider that decided to crawl under my keyboard keys and refuses to leave would be really annoying
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 19h
“Buy my book about how the last president ALMOST did the right thing”
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 19h
this word "nearly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting
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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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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 20h
It will never not be funny how the people who most pretend to love Jesus are also the people who most hate everything Jesus taught and stood for.
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 20h
“Look at this woman. She thinks genocide is bad and that rich assholes shouldn’t hoard all the money! Donchya just hate her?”
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Time interview with Trump is a master class in subjecting yourself to a stream of lies, lunacy, and insults with no correcting him, no calling out his crazy shit, nothing to show for it, nothing accomplished. It’s enabling, not journalism. They should die of shame. time.com/article/2026...
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wild that he gets this coverage after he packed the Utah Supreme Court in order to try to prevent it from enforcing a referendum-passed gerrymandering ban to steal a congressional seat for the GOP (and disenfranchise his state's largest city)
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This Supreme Court allowed Alabama to keep killing people in 2022 after the state repeatedly botched its executions and left inmates on gurneys, cut up by needles. Of all the Roberts Court’s sins, its death penalty rulings have been especially nihilistic.
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 20h
If you’re a populist who pushes unpopular right-wing beliefs and policies, you’re a reasonable voice for the silent majority. If you’re a populist who pushes *actually popular* beliefs and policies that a clear majority of the country wants, you’re a crazy socialist in thrall to the lunatic Left.
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 20h
If you’re a populist who pushes unpopular right-wing beliefs and policies, you’re a reasonable voice for the silent majority. If you’re a populist who pushes *actually popular* beliefs and policies that a clear majority of the country wants, you’re a crazy socialist in thrall to the lunatic Left.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 22h
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 21h
The goddamned fuck we will.
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Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#BREAKING U.S. District Judge April Perry is moving forward with further fact-finding regarding potential prosecutorial misconduct in the case of the "Broadview Six," with a special prosecutor still on the table.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And what real man wants to be on a platform filled with GIRLS?!?! EW GROSS
Geiger Capital: Officially deleted instagram.

An inherently female app. Zero benefit.

Elon Musk: Instagram is for girls.
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
Time was a Supreme Court justice could sanction the president’s brazenly unconstitutional acts that degrade democracy and violate people’s rights WITHOUT getting mildly criticized at his getaways. Won’t somebody think of John Roberts’s getaways?
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
Time was a Supreme Court justice could sanction the president’s brazenly unconstitutional acts that degrade democracy and violate people’s rights WITHOUT getting mildly criticized at his getaways. Won’t somebody think of John Roberts’s getaways?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Republican incompetence has now reached the point where it's impacting the few parts of the job they truly love, like executing people.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yehonatan Ovadia – a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who has lived in the U.S. on a visa since 2022 – is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (a notorious federal prison) and facing deportation … for his criticism of Israel on religious grounds.
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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
No experience with Brave, so sadly I can’t help, sorry. Only recommendation would be, once it’s fixed, to back up your Brave profile folder (with all your history, plugins, preferences, etc.) so that if this ever happens again you can overwrite a buggy current install with a backed-up good one.
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
Jebus
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
Lol
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
Oh, this is gonna be … uh … what’s the opposite of “good” again
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
Oh, this is gonna be … uh … what’s the opposite of “good” again
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
For a wild second I misread that as Doctor Phil and was VERY confused
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Kris Wilson @kriswilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Finally, the podcast everyone has been waiting for: Two uncomfortably moist men speak Truth to women
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
I will be accepting exactly zero backtalk to this stupid post
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
So “muscular” Christianity means “un-Christ-like”, huh Makes sense, after all Jesus WAS a twink
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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phil @philjamesson.com · 30/09/2026
as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery
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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 01/10/2026
“Is the super intelligence in the room with us? Cuz I’m not seeing any”
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