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the death penalty should absolutely be banned.

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فدائيي وليم @fedayeenwilliam.bsky.social · 19h

The Spanish-language short-form video ecosystem (and latam twitter) is something you have to see to believe if you only speak English; it‘s absolutely swamped with evangelical and MAGA propaganda

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Supreme Court allows Tennessee execution of Christa Gail Pike to go forward, overturning a last-minute stay.

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 12h

dude arranged for a whole PR hype campaign instead of checking his facts

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 13h

We should absolutely protect Jane Doe and talk about what we can learn from the failures before, during, and after the harm in this case, but we gotta keep pointing out that this is but one case in an overwhelming, gigantic sea of experiences like this.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 13h

But we have to be careful when this convo centers one case. The reason they want to dox this woman or focus on how many times her story changes (if it even does) or worry over the ruined lives of the men involved is because you can pick apart a single case. Everyone will find it in what they want.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 13h

Gendered violence is a systemic cultural and societal problem. And when one of these cases boils to the top, you can see that in how many survivors come forward to explain how similar their experiences are, in ways both big and small.

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lilli 🤠 @lillianbf.bsky.social · 14h

Cornell students have released their demands. More may be added in accordance with JD’s wishes, but for now this is the push.

Cornell student demands from @sdc.now

sdc.now and 5 others
& Public Enemy • Fight The Power
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STUDENTS DEMAND:
1. Cornell to expel or revoke the degrees of all perpetrators complicit in the gang rape of Jane Doe.
2. Rewrite Policy 6.4 to require independent hearings and minimum sanctions for Sexual Assault.
3. An external investigation of Cornell's administration and the return to an Independent Judicial System.
4. Mandatory Sexual Assault
Prevention Trainings for students and Trauma-Informed Training for CUPD.
5. Cornell's full compliance with the
NYS "Enough is Enough" Law.

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 20h

To speed up mass deportations, the Trump administration didn't just launch raids—it stripped $200M+ from nonprofit legal aid groups, bringing them to the brink of collapse. Here’s how immigrant legal defense barely survived the campaign to kneecap them:

motherjones.com

First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.

How legal aid groups survived the administration's attacks—barely.

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i can only hope the Cornell survivor has a strong support system. my lord what a fucking nightmare.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

The idea that women are given special rights based on sex is a remarkably absurd framing and not how discrimination protections actually work in practice. It can only stem from a thoroughly right-wing understanding of the world that believes marginalized people are granted extra entitlements.

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The old Uncle Sam Billboard on I-5 now owned by Chehalis Tribe. #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026

Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.

liberalcurrents.com

The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 28/09/2026

ICYMI: @propublica.org has a Chrome and Firefox plugin that allows you to grab your data from FanDuel and DraftKings. If you use it, you can upload your data to us to help us to continue investigating how these sites induce people to keep betting. projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...

projects.propublica.org

Help ProPublica Report on Sports Betting by Sending Us Your App Data

If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help ProPublica understand how these apps respond to their users’ betting behavior. Use our browser extension to download your betting histo...

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Roosevelt High School teacher who was tackled, choked and charged with felony by feds on school grounds just hours after Renee Good's killing has taken a preliminary step in filing a lawsuit against the federal government. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

mprnews.org

Roosevelt High teacher files federal claim over violent detention by agents

Roosevelt High School teacher Quentin Williams has filed a claim against the federal government alleging agents violently detained him, falsely accused him of assault and violated his civil rights.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I 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.com

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As 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.

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i feel like there are several ceos who need to be informed that “awareness of a thought experiment is not a federal emergency”

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

one of the wildest experiences i had in the service industry was telling a little boy he needed to put down a packaged cookie, after his parents had made clear they weren’t going to buy it for him. my woman COWORKER told my manager that i had been “disciplining other people’s kid” inappropriately

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AKuBiZ e.V. @akubiz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Den aktuellen Stand zu #Heidenau haben wir hier aufgeschrieben. Dauert alles ein wenig, wir können auch nicht immer gleich allen antworten. Ihr bekommt aber alle eine Antwort! Danke für die vielen unterstützenden Worte! akubiz.de/38-verein/ne...

akubiz.de

Stolpersteine (Heidenau) - Alternatives Kultur- und Bildungszentrum ::: AKuBiZ e.V.

AKuBiZ e.V. - ein unabhängiger Verein aus Pirna der sich gegen alle Formen der Diskriminierung einsetzt.

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Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/09/2026

Third Way are weathervanes and this is what it feels like to have the wind at your back again

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Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are there any Chinese speakers out there that would like a paid gig (one day or less) doing some online research and translation for @eastbaytimes.com ? Email me: cfarivar@bayareanewsgroup.com Text/Signal: 341-758-0888

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Check out yesterday’s episode and follow the links in the description to see the great work done on this topic by our guest, @joshkovensky.bsky.social. The figures we discussed are sure to be critical in stirring chaos and confusion around 2026 midterms. Learn who they are before they make news!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 29/09/2026

on top of the emails showing Epstein directly supporting individual predatory professors, a professor who planned a "campus rape and consent" conference with the intention of undermining mid-2010s attempts at progress around Title IX requested funding for it from Epstein

chron.com

Former UT professor sought money from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation

He sought $10K-$20K to cover the costs of a campus rape policy event.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.

A chart showing immigration arrests by local police, which have increased steadily since ICE's new enforcement strategy began in April 2026, reaching its highest amount above 200 arrests per day in late June 2026.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

And it's clear that ICE is using both familiar and novel tactics to maximize arrests, from jail transfers to so-called 287(g) agreements that deputize local police forces to carry out immigration enforcement on ICE’s behalf.

A chart that breaks down the trend of immigration arrests into four categories:

- Immigration enforcement in communities
- Transfer from jail or prison
- Local police
- Other

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵

Federal agents line up in front of community members at the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.

REUTERS/Tim Evans

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first requirement of restorative justice is a perpetrator’s confession. He has to admit what he has done and to take accountability. The men in this case are smearing the victim and threatening her with lawsuits. They are not candidates for RJ. They would turn it into a new site of violence.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Consent training isn’t going to stop a gang rape.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How it started/how it’s going

Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in Utah

BREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

taskmaster is getting me through 2026, highly recommend watching taskmaster (it’s also free on youtube)

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 29/09/2026

I wrote about something that was making me feel nuts: After weeks of discourse around hypothetical existential threats from AI triggered global calls for government intervention, we learned a faulty AI system almost triggered a US-China war. And no one really cared. theintercept.com/2026/09/28/a...

theintercept.com

AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care

The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.

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