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@lawless523.bsky.social
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Recovering lawyer. Politics and cats. Believes six impossible things before breakfast. She/her The US is an authoritarian country now. Decide which side you're on.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 3h
When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 3h
In another world Israel's offensive in Gaza petered out in November/December 2023 as they expended their entire strategic stockpile of aerial bombs, as the US followed its own laws and moral obligations and did not provide new supply.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3h
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7h
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 3h
It's a lot harder to fundraise during the midterms, so we're not even halfway to our goal. If you have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating to the Fated States Project. fatedmates.net/givingcircle
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All These Cats Feed+Rescue @allthesecats.org · 2h
14 outdoor cats depend on us daily for food/water. Tomorrow, we start rationing food. Donations have decreased dramatically. I get it…everything is expensive. 😔 These aren’t the cute kittens. These are cats that were left behind, born in wild. A bag/box of food? www.amazon.com/registries/g... #cats
A gray, black, bronze tortie cat lies in brown mulch near a patch of green grass. Community cat, Barclay. allthesecats.org
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 2h
also not getting enough attention: these texts are between one of the lawyers on Jack Smith's team and a US Marshall tasked with keeping people fueled by Republican conspiracy theories from murdering Jack Smith in public because he tried to prosecute the president for crimes that he did
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2h
The proposal is part of the Trump administration’s broader assault on federal efforts to expand access to voting, especially among groups that have historically faced discrimination and disenfranchisement.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2h
Miller, who has worked at a nonprofit that helps elderly and disabled people for six years, said she’s never faced regulators wanting to impede her work. “Shutting that down and making it more difficult for these Americans to access the ballot box is bewildering to me,” she said.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2h
The White House Office of Management and Budget wants to change spending rules to prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives or what it vaguely calls “related activities.”
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New Rule Would Ban the Use of Federal Grant Money for Voter Registration Drives
Advocates worry that the loss of federal funding will effectively disenfranchise many voters with disabilities.
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dallas @liketexas.bsky.social · 2h
Hmmm we may have assembled the cat kit incorrectly
Coal, a black cat, lies on his back on the footrest of a beige couch
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 2h
Minnesota Ends Conviction Review Unit With 160 Cases Still Under Investigation 📹
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Minnesota Ends Conviction Review Unit With 160 Cases Still Under Investigation - UNICORN RIOT
Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison has decided to "eliminate" the state's Conviction Review Unit (CRU) less than six years after he created it. The closure is a devastating blow to around 160 ...
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 3h
it's also an incredibly, unreasonably charitable alternative to burning down the university.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 3h
shutting 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.
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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 2h
We have mama Rainy and her little Clouds (who willl need colored collars to tell them apart but for now they are…): -Nimbus (girl) -Stratus (boy) -Cumulus (girl) -Cirrus (girl) -Wisp (unknown, remains at large, hopefully will wind up in the trap overnight. Trap is safe and secure inside closed shed.
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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 2h
I’m so sorry mama Rainy to have to squish you in the kennel with your very large & fat, greedy babies but it’s only for 24 hours ;-; I did sit with them to make sure she remembered & accepted them & that she didn’t seem too stressed to be stuck with them all. There’s still one left to trap.
Mama Rainy, a grey and white tabby cat, looks at the camera with a thousand-yard stare as she is swarmed by her 4 grey and white copy-kittens.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 4h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 5h
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 2h
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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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3h
HELL YEAH GET EM
Statement from Mayor Cantelmo on Campus Sexual Violence & Future Community Safety
Late last week, I learned of the heinous and sickening allegations made against the Cornell students who, according to a former undergraduate student identified as Jane Doc, drugged and brutally raped her at the Chi Phi fraternity house. Despite the severity of these crimes, Cornell University administrators and police failed to contact or coordinate any response with the Ithaca Police Department. Furthermore, the University failed to hold the perpetrators to account. This is a miscarriage of justice and continues to pose a significant threat to students and residents who may be victimized at unsafe and under-monitored on- or off-campus student events.
Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive and corresponding Common Council resolution, implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event and special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life and other student group gatherings, until such time that the University conducts an accounting of its protocols to prevent and prosecute crimes of sexual violence and publicly releases new standards and practices to keep our community safe.
Robert G. Cantelmo
Mayor of Ithaca, NY
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 2h
Only 11 Democrats voted for it in 2024.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 5h
Schumer and Gillibrand just voted yes for Van Hollen's resolution demanding a State Department human rights report on Israeli conduct in the illegally-occupied West Bank.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 5h
the whole point of exercising "equitable powers" on the shadow docket is to quickly address imminent, irreparable harm it is infuriating and disgusting for the GOP justices to deploy that to block the harm of, what, insufficiently slow ethnic cleansing? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Rain's Cats @catssurname.bsky.social · 4h
Some of the funniest Harpo moments were when he took a detour from bringing whatever I’d put out for him to grab something else that struck his fancy. The meow got even more intense when he did that. #CatsOfBluesky
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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 6h
This is not as impressive as that time Curb Your Enthusiasm filmed at a baseball game and proved a guy was there and not committing murder, but it is close.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5h
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 4h
Jesus this is bleak. Just boilerplate “we, the undersigned CEOs, promise to try really really hard to only make good artificial super intelligences. We’ve got this. We promise.”
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness. A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 4h
“The Tubasi family had been expelled because the IDF backed terrorists who besieged their house for weeks. They allowed terrorists to roam free while barring journalists and solidarity activists from accessing them,” said Breaking the Silence, an Israeli advocacy organization.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 4h
More than 100 Israeli settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank rioted to prevent the return of a Palestinian family that was driven from its home in the village of Jalud.
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Israeli Settlers Violently Block Displaced Palestinian Family’s Return Home
The family had been forced out after their home was besieged for weeks by state-backed settlers.
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CharlieBrown's Family @charliebrowntc.bsky.social · 4h
Ludo livin' it up
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4h
i remember talking to my dad my towards the end of my senior year about all the time i had spent at the sun over the years and he said "well, that was really your fraternity for your time there." never been prouder to be a small part of this brother/sister/siblinghood 🫡🫡🫡
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6h
They can, & should, also defund the Supreme Court itself, until such point as the Wizard in Robes decide to start following the laws & Constitution again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4h
The White House is bragging about reducing immigration (including refugees) from Muslim-majority countries to near 0. The U.S. is a nation of 340 million or so people. It was letting in just 18,000 people or less per month from these same countries prior to Jan 2025. Obvious anti-Muslim bigotry.
White House about reducing immigration from Muslim-majority countries to near zero
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...
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An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself
An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 8h
it is wild to have Biden out and about doing events, giving speeches, and meeting random members of the public on planes and trains and taking pictures and what not, 2 years after leaving office, and yet there are *still* people who will breathlessly scream about how he clearly had dementia
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h
This was planned as Schmitt’s big day, with a “national ambitions trial balloon” in national media. Instead it’s ending like this.
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Radical Mainiac @radicalmainiac.bsky.social · 5h
Kitty pretends she don't like the neighbor Kitty, but she's been asking to go out all day & looking out windows 🥹🥰😽 Lol I kept looking, but it's been raining all day, so he may be inside at home 💜🥰😸😺🥰💜
Kitty sitting on the front steps
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tkillion.bsky.social @tkillion.bsky.social · 4h
"The night is its own habitat. Artificial lights confuse animals who use the moon to navigate...Lightning bugs and frogs need darkness to complete their courtship rituals. Migrating birds get thrown off course by the bright lights of big cities."
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 4h
I wouldn’t stop suing until my name was on every building the school has and every trustee had to write me a personal check.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h
80% serious: some influencer should get a couple historians and natsec scholars on to watch and react to this anti-FBI TV series live
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
So, something midway between the second and third option - Senator can't tell the difference between basketball teams + perjury effort backfires but not so much on the emblematic of right wing conspiracy addiction
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 7h
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 3h
It really is something to see people who voted for Trump (sometimes two or three times!) not want to be held accountable for also voting for the current situation with tariffs, oil, destroyed international diplomacy, and general dysfunction in the US.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 4h
If the future of democracy depends on shared truth, and if shame is the right response to bad faith, what is the future of democracy when men like Eric Schmitt not only shrug off humiliation but are even rewarded for it? For an answer, I got in touch with @donmoyn.bsky.social.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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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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