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Which is not to say that the Times shouldn’t report on what it gets, just that it is worth thinking about who benefits from focusing attention on the state of mind of a teenager, versus the practices of a major institution

Cornell, citing student privacy rules, declined to give details about how the individual men were punished. It said Monday that it gave the men "a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions." Thomas Giuffra, the lawyer who represents Jane Doe, has said in interviews that only two of the men were expelled, and that his client did not feel justice had been done.

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My impression of the public response to this case is that it is largely focused on the failure of institutions with a duty of care to respond to rape, not about an individual’s “journey from an unknown sophomore to the embodiment of another searing national dialogue about sexual assault”

What had not been known publicly, until now, were the detailed filings collected during the private Title IX proceedings — hundreds of pages of emails, text messages, photographs and interviews with Jane Doe, her friends and those she accused.
Taken together, the raw materials sketch Jane Doe's journey from an unknown sophomore to the embodiment of another searing national dialogue about sexual assault and consent.
(Although Jane Doe is identified in the documents, The Times is withholding her name.)

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026

I have no idea how the Times obtained the Cornell investigation of the frat assault, but I am certainly curious about it, especially in light of the university’s solicitousness of the privacy of the accused when it comes to public demands for information about yhe school’s disciplinary procedures.

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in July an ICE agent killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. just 6 months prior, agents abducted 100 people in 3 days during "Catch of the Day" I joined Mainers monitoring an ICE facility despite harassment, making memorials, protesting Congress, and caring for their neighbors @us.theguardian.com

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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too

ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach

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The doctor who helps put prisoners to death

If you're just waking up to the news of Tennessee's botched attempt to execute Christa Pike, my colleague @edpilkington.bsky.social has done powerful reporting on the doctor involved, who also botched an execution in May

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Podcast Episode · Stateside with Kai and Carter · August 12 · 43m · Video

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it is a bookstore with a bar i am quite familiar with it which is how i came to post a photo of it

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I hope this is lucrative cause it sure looks like shit

An independent bookstore in Brooklyn with its storefront given over entirely to gaudy marketing for Netflix’s East of Eden series, including a tacky wrapper on the windows and sandwich board of Florence Pugh. The only book on display is a tie-in edition of East of Eden.

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that's very cool. i do feel like the stuff we were able to do with interns at the union was so far beyond what most internships end up looking like. not just busy work but actually devising and running mini-campaigns on boycott targets etc. it's good training for so many things!

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ok for real though i also have a former local 2 intern who is now a trustee of city college in sf. 2010s local 2 interns are killing it

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sadly (happily) i no longer accept interns but there are definitely labor unions out there that would use your journalistic skills (finding shit out, holding a grudge, basically) on a volunteer basis esp if they do corporate campaigning or boycotts

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people who have been my interns have gone on to become a state senator and, today, a macarthur genius fellow, which is pretty cool considering that i have continued to just be me. perhaps the more pertinent lesson if you want to be impressive is to intern for your local labor union and become great

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it's super bizarre i was just getting used to the world service app after getting booted out of bbcsounds and now we're not allowed to have a world service app either :(

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they've also forced international listeners to switch apps twice in the past year and the new app makes it very hard to find the. world service audio feed which ... why?

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what’s it called when you use the structures of democracy to install a system of authoritarianism is there a word for that or any kind of historical precedent perhaps?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is petty but I distinctly remember a certain tech journo scoffing at my long ago observation that Facebook’s supposed commitment to democracy was belied by its (at the time novel) share structure, which allowed Zuckerberg to maintain majority voting power after selling off a majority of shares

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I just got it from another person but thank you so much!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/09/2026

Watch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. It will be released in cinemas in more than 50 countries in the coming weeks, and then will stream on the Guardian’s website, for free.

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NAZA - official trailer

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like i dunno about you but i'm not sure that he should have a driver's license if that's the case

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

been thinking about that man not knowing his own home address all day

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me, being questioned by the police, after my personal robot holds up a liquor store: "it went rogue"

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I feel like if Sam Altman was criminally charged under CFAA they would figure out a way to stop doing crimes all the time

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I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned

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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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I respect that. Please believe me that I hesitated to even make the joke for similar reasons

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Wimpr, the latest Y-Combinator start-up, is the brain child of three serial entrepreneurs and first-time dads. Three male co-founders.

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makes sense babies famously have no way of communicating when they experience a physical need

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difficult to express how pleased I am to be seriously considering wearing a scarf today

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might even be the kind of guy who uses the turn of phrase “disease of the Arab mind”

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like I wouldn’t be surprised if the person who wrote that also objects to desegregated swimming pools

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sitting down to write a column about how too many minorities are getting nominated for prizes these days is real loser shit like scraping the bottom of the racism barrel loser shit

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trying so hard to gaslight myself but I don’t even know how

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writing is fun and I love it so much it’s really a privilege just the absolute best

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definitely not a factor in the editorial decision to include that “like” 🙄

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everything is terrible but it’s cool enough to wear a sweater so there’s that

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Neuroscience is gonna find the superego any day now I bet

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Despite the horrors, there’s been some great science this week. New cat and two brains!

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