Reposted by kat 🌻Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2hdo men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 2724351628
Reposted by kat 🌻Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 5hA friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally. 6367128
Reposted by kat 🌻Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7hThis isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions". 10712162
Reposted by kat 🌻ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2hit was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible 1346169
Reposted by kat 🌻Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7hIt's astonishing just how committed this SCOTUS is to burning its own institutional legitimacy to the ground. 430838
Reposted by kat 🌻Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 5hThere is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20... 8261107
Reposted by kat 🌻David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2hwas just having a conversation about this. it's true. of all the trump admin crimes since 1/2025, these killings are among the clearest cut, with the most law/jurisprudence to support prosecution of a whole range of ppl involved, from leadership to subordinates. 011835
Reposted by kat 🌻Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 2htheintercept.com/2026/09/30/i...theintercept.comICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical CareThree-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees. 05221
Reposted by kat 🌻Semafor @semafor.com · 2hVisitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2... 119543211
Reposted by kat 🌻Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 7hAny talk of "independent AI auditors" & FTC enforcement actions is meaningless when the ppl who do not want enforcement have actively captured both a) the people who'll choose the "independents" & b) the *FTC Itself*. Folx who aren't ex-Googlers who left on great terms maybe might tell you that. 15518
Reposted by kat 🌻Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1hPOLITICAL SCIENCE JOB AD: Tenure-track position in International Relations at the University of Waterloo. We're *very happy* to announce this. Applications due Nov. 1st; job start date July 2027. Details here (pdf): uwaterloo.ca/arts/sites/d...uwaterloo.ca 12122
Reposted by kat 🌻Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · 3hSCOOP: Australia eyes ripping up $2.3B immigration detention contract --new details of financial penalties being paid by Secure Journeys, US-owned private prison operator --Home Affairs asks AGS for all options including termination www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comAustralia eyes ripping up $2.3B immigration detention contractICE-linked contractor has been hit with millions in fines for its handling of immigration detention. 34819
Reposted by kat 🌻William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2hremember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 272152499
Reposted by kat 🌻Democrats Abroad Canada @demsabroadcanada.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If you registered for your emailed abroad ballot, you should be there. Be sure to check the spam folder. If you don't know if you're registered, go to your state rules page on VFA and clicking "Am I Registered?" It’s not too late to request a ballot! www.votefromabroad.org/states 036
Reposted by kat 🌻Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 10391522254
Reposted by kat 🌻Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 7hthere's this impression, I think, that AI-generated abuse imagery is hiding and hard to find. in reality, it's being propped up by some of the biggest internet infrastructure companies in the world. very interesting new report: www.404media.co/deepfake-abu...404media.coInternet Infrastructure Services Empower Deepfake Abuse, New Study FindsCloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found. 0148
Reposted by kat 🌻My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 7hPostmedia is controlled by Chatham Asset Management, LLC, which owns about a 66.7% stake in the company. Chatham is an American private equity firm with ties to the Republican party. We don't talk about this enough.valuechainanalysis.com 02211
Reposted by kat 🌻Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 7hi.e., a column being published in the National Post calling Avi Lewis a rodef is generally aligned with the politics of its editorials/opeds but you’re 100% right to call it shocking in the sense that the NP usually tries to position its tone as more reputable than tabloids & this piece is mask off 012
Reposted by kat 🌻Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 7hIt’s not a tabloid or the Canadian equivalent of the NYPost - that would be the Toronto Sun, but it’s owned by the same American-owned corporation as the Sun, and is well-known as the more right-wing of the two national newspapers in Canada. Maybe the Canadian Wall St Journal? 211
Reposted by kat 🌻Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This article is attempting to incite violence against @avilewis.ca . I am not being hyperbolic. Back during Covid, this “mosar“ rhetoric led to the mob beating of a Chassidic journalist. it was the rhetoric that incited the assasination of Rabin nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...nationalpost.comYoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi LewisHis Yom Kippur message was indefensible 312342
Reposted by kat 🌻Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 10hPlease see my statement for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. www.leahgazan.ca/mp_gazan_sta... 0209
Reposted by kat 🌻Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10hAI is reified anti-intellectualism In chapter 4 of 'Why We Fear AI', we argue that this results quite directly from its political economy as a tool to devalue skills and knowledge 212137
Reposted by kat 🌻Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21hPioneering Palestinian rapper, Antar has died. 💔 The story of a Gazan rapper in Cairo Mohammad Antar, a rapper from Gaza, on why he no longer has the words to describe the oppression he faced in Palestine and Egypt www.newarab.com/analysis/sto...newarab.comThe story of a Gazan rapper in CairoMohammad Antar, a rapper from Gaza, on why he no longer has the words to describe the oppression he faced in Palestine and Egypt. 0167
Reposted by kat 🌻JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 21hChee Chee was my first introduction to Indigenous artists and his work is still incredible. 1366
Reposted by kat 🌻Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 23hEveryone demanding Senator Schmidtt apologize to Jack Smith are again setting the bar too low. They should be demanding his resignation from the Judiciary Committe. He's unfit to serve Pound the table. Make some noise. Turn this into a multi-day story 535468
Reposted by kat 🌻I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 21hOne night in college I ended up very drunk in a sketchy situation behind a locked door in a frat house. Luckily for me, on the other side of the door another frat member raised HOLY HELL and would not rest until that door was unlocked and he walked me safely home. Thinking of him a lot today. 052
Reposted by kat 🌻Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 21hSeems like some of you are just now learning that TItle IX offices are on survivors' side in the same way that your HR rep is on your side in an employment dispute. 112321
Reposted by kat 🌻Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 23h“Patel is apparently planning a trip to Russia, a country that (a) is no friend of the United States nor the FBI specifically and yet (b) is quite friendly with Patel, including via a ‘Russia-linked production company’ that evidently previously paid Patel $25,000 to appear in an anti-FBI TV series.” 18385162
Reposted by kat 🌻Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 21hOh fuck off. It was not a "neutral takedown." This is just pandering to Danielle Smith's Big Lie, and is inventing whole cloth a history of federalism that never existed, and which provinces don't actually want. Stop pretending that this is actually helping combat separatism. It's really not.nationalpost.comGovernment overreach the true motivation behind Alberta separatism, not Canada itself, Poilievre saysIn an Edmonton speech, the Conservative leader set aside Liberal attacks in favour of a more neutral takedown of Ottawa's relentless excesses 03912
Reposted by kat 🌻Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”thecut.comHow Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.” 221507525
Reposted by kat 🌻Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists. 91937532
Reposted by kat 🌻Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 23hWhat if we thought women's lives had the same worth as men's? WHAT IF WE DID THAT? 03311
Reposted by kat 🌻Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 521823599
Reposted by kat 🌻Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21074682434
Reposted by kat 🌻🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 22hthe court ruling in favor of Drug Users Liberation Front in BC today declares a clear violation of human liberties created by the inconsistent moralism scribed into law by the carceral legislation of drug addiction. An astoundingly clear ruling on the intersectional materiality of human rights:bccourts.ca2026 BCSC 1855 R v KalicumCitation: 46626
Reposted by kat 🌻Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/09/2026This open letter is now circulating. Please sign and share through your networks. Thanks. sites.google.com/view/frenk-r...sites.google.comWe call on Julio Frenk to immediately retract his statements[Links to several other open letters and faculty statements are below.] 12515
Reposted by kat 🌻Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21hhallucination still implies that it's a different process from the usual one. i find it helpful to think of them as structurally indifferent to truth 3253
Reposted by kat 🌻Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is” 303144671
Reposted by kat 🌻Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21hBut Schmitt clearly did not have *any additional evidence that Willis met with Smith* (separate issue as to why this would have been a big deal). Like this guy was Attorney General for Missouri and his whole case was Smith went to a basketball game in a city where another Trump enemy lived? WTF? 1434126
Reposted by kat 🌻Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21hIf what I'm proposing is true, it definitely seems like someone (whether a Smith or Schmitt staffer, latter being more likely) was unable to tell the difference between the Hawkeyes & Hawks, and this led the Schmitt team to run headlong with a very poorly sourced accusation bsky.app/profile/donm... 1129329
Reposted by kat 🌻ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 22hshutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 83835730
Reposted by kat 🌻Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 21hFriends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....dair-institute.orgSurveillance WatchThis interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. 3217133
Reposted by kat 🌻Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026Fun fact, if you have a dog, it's probably smarter than the president of the United States 712618
Reposted by kat 🌻Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Historically, the quality of SCOTUS opinions and orders has been sometimes good, sometimes bad. But the stuff being issued by the current SCOTUS is almost a joke at this point. Totally unprecedented absurdity, law upside down. 0195