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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 19h
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...
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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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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the investigation of alleged 'gang rape' at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 after a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month sparked outrage about the incident." abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wonderful to see @Indivisible.org support the “Democratize Yale” coalition. ⤵️ www.instagram.com/reel/DdwM7XF...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/09/2026
Famed social movements expert @chenoweth.bsky.social says you’re doing a great job! Check out our full conversation: youtu.be/vffFEEIVDKc
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How a movement can check an authoritarian, w/ Erica Chenoweth
YouTube video by Indivisible
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 25/09/2026
What does the latest SCOTUS ruling mean for your vote? The short answer: your path to the ballot box hasn’t changed. What happened? SCOTUS allowed limited, individual checks of the SAVE database. But federal law blocks bulk voter roll checks within 90 days of an election. Here's what to do ⬇️
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 25/09/2026
Our best response is preparation and participation. ✅ Check your registration status ✅ Vote early, if you can ✅ Track your ballot to ensure it's counted ✅ Have a backup plan Get prepared today ⬇️
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How you can protect democracy - Protect Democracy
These concrete actions are a tangible way to push back against abuses of power and create something better.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A nightmare. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DHS SAVE database has long and documented history of producing false positives of non-citizens voting, leading to sensational headlines of alleged voter fraud that turn out to be untrue on closer inspection. In St. Louis County, MO, for example at least 81% of the names flagged were incorrect
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 24/09/2026
In Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty, Anna Louis Sussman tells the story of economic insecurity driving down birth rates among young people in rich countries today. If you don't want to read my review, you could read Margaret Talbot's, which is excellent.
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What’s Really Behind the Baby Bust?
Are people having fewer children because modern life makes parenthood too difficult—or because the meaning of a satisfying life has changed?
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Princeton PLAW @plawpu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Prof. Lynda Dodd and the P·Law Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) were pleased to welcome Loriann Segula, Assistant Director of Admissions at Yale Law School, for lunch and an advising session. @ldodd.bsky.social #PLAW #LawatPrinceton
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very interesting research - this NYT article discussing it focuses in particular on academic career trajectories. @jessicacalarco.com has done a lot as well in recent years to help graduate students navigate these challenges. ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations (Gift Article)
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15/09/2026
The administration’s efforts to undermine the 2026 election are failing. They will succeed only if citizens stay home. bit.ly/4r1RAZY
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Election Interference Won’t Work If Americans Vote
The administration’s attack on elections has failed in Congress and courts. Now it’s up to voters.
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Indivisible One New Jersey ❌👑 @njindivisible.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy #VoterRegistrationDay New Jersey! 🗳️ Register to Vote Here! nj.gov/state/electi...
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NJ Voter Information Portal - Register to Vote
NJ Voter information about voter registration.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Relief we wouldn't need to feel in a stable democracy
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 15/09/2026
With today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling, voters can continue to confidently vote by mail in the 2026 midterm elections, just as they have done for over a century.
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Vote By Mail Remains Secure: SCOTUS Rejects Trump Administration’s Attempt to Enforce New USPS Policy
President Donald Trump has been relentless in trying to rewrite the rules of American elections, but the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling rejecting his effort to use the United States Postal Ser...
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ughhhhhh .....
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System (Gift Link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System
The technology is moving faster than elected officials can handle—and Anthropic’s CEO says the industry should slow down.
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stephen Witt in the NYT on the need for swift and comprehensive action on AI . . . and at least an idea for enticing Trump to act boldly. (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The concept of polarization, "Has no analysis of power. Why are we polarized? What are we polarized over? Why is this a problem? It obscures what’s actually happening, which is that we have extremism coming from the right that has a very anti-democratic streak to it," @shannimcg.bsky.social.
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System (Gift Link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System
The technology is moving faster than elected officials can handle—and Anthropic’s CEO says the industry should slow down.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Breaking: DOJ, Once Again Seeking to Leapfrog Over 1st Circuit, Asks Supreme Court Again to Let USPs Implement Its Mail Ballot Restrictions electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...
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Breaking: DOJ, Once Again Seeking to Leapfrog Over 1st Circuit, Asks Supreme Court Again to Let USPs Implement Its Mail Ballot Restrictions #ELB
This stay application should finally tee this issue up for the Court. I have explained why the government easily should lose. Let’s see if they do lose.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/09/2026
Breaking News: Robin Morgan, a prolific feminist writer, radical activist and former Ms. magazine editor, has died. She was 85.
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Robin Morgan, Voice of Radical Feminism, Dies at 85
She edited the landmark 1970 anthology “Sisterhood Is Powerful,” led Ms. magazine and helped build the institutions of the modern feminist movement.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Trump administration is trying to incentivize women staying out of the workforce by subsidizing a married parent who stays-at-home. It would take funds from a program that helps working parents afford child care, 80% of whom are single & mostly women. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 04/09/2026
"[T]he court finds [...] that immediate implementation of the Final Rule issued less than seventy days before the November 2026 election threatens disenfranchisement of millions of United States citizens who seek to vote by mail." From Talwani's order blocking Trump's EO buff.ly/dJNdWzY
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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The warning signs are flashing red about Trump's willingness to go to extreme measures to prevent a midterm election loss. My latest Authoritarian Watch column in the Nation plays out these scenarios. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Shadowy Powers that Trump Could Use to End American Democracy
Two Washington insiders are sounding the alarm about what could happen if Trump activates the top-secret Presidential Emergency Action Documents.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Steinem’s final essay published today in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...
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Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay
Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.
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National Organization for Women @nationalnow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thank you, Gloria, for showing the world what it means to speak up for women’s equality. Thank you for fighting for our rights so that every woman and every person can live with dignity, freedom, and equality. #gloriasteinem
Thank you, Gloria, for showing the world what it means to speak up for women’s equality. Thank you for fighting for our rights so that every woman and every person can live with dignity, freedom, and equality. #gloriasteinem
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rest in Peace Gloria Steinem. Thank you for your decades of persistence in the fight for gender equality. Your life was a masterclass in staying the course. We will continue the work.
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Devastating. Lord have mercy. All who care must do more to help.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/09/2026
NEW: Top USPS officials expressed concerns that new mail voting rules could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms, but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/09/2026
NEW: USPS’s final mail voting rule is in the thick of fierce litigation, and lacking the resources needed to comply even if it’s greenlit. Meanwhile, state election leaders say they’re largely in the dark on mail voting — just weeks away from when many are set to send ballots out to voters.
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As election looms, states are stuck in wait-and-see mode on Trump mail voting order
“If we have to do this, we have to do this, but there’s no guidance yet so I think we’re all in the same boat,” a secretary of state spokesperson said Monday.
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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yesterday @nytimes.com published an op-ed from me on what this moment calls for. While it is tempting to believe that someone else is going to save us, history shows that it is only we, the people, who can change the course of our democracy. Thread below for resources on *how* to do just that. 🧵
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 01/09/2026
“A U.S. Postal Service official has alleged that the agency is moving forward with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking those plans.” — @nytimes.com
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms (Gift Article)
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Praying for the victims and loved ones. Horrific.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has not ruled on the merits of President Trump’s executive order targeting mail voting. Today’s interim decision only addresses the timing. Voting rights groups will continue to vigorously pursue all available avenues to challenge the executive order. 1/2
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Voting Rights Groups React to Supreme Court Order in Trump v. California
USPS rule remains blocked due to preliminary injunction in League of Women Voters Massachusetts v. Trump
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Super interesting! ⤵️
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the Treasures Room at the British Library, an exhibit for America’s 250th includes a #NoKings banner. ❌👑
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John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Something like 1/3 of transgender Americans living in unfree "red" states have had to move.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Really important story here. The civil rights community is recognizing that the world after Callais has changed, "fair districting" is a chimera, & proportional representation is the only path for the House to look like America. Paul Starr writes about this shift, & a way to pass it that's feasible.
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Proportional Representation Gets a New Look - The American Prospect
Supreme Court decisions and unrestrained partisan gerrymandering are focusing attention on a fundamental election reform. But one version is more feasible than the others.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The 1997 Flores settlement says children can only be in immigration detention for 20 days. A new legal filing shows that kids at CoreCivic's detention facility in Dilley, TX have been there as long as 323 days, & includes firsthand accounts of the abuse guards are inflicting on children.
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Trump Administration Routinely Violating Immigrant Children’s Rights - The American Prospect
The 1997 Flores ruling requires immigrant children be released from detention after 20 days. Trump is keeping some for as long as 323 days, new filings in a lawsuit state.
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🧡🧡🧡
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Thoughtful response by Natalie Wexler: How Schools Can Counter "The End of Reading" open.substack.com/pub/nataliew...
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How Schools Can Counter "The End of Reading"
A recent article in the Atlantic highlights a real problem, but it undersells the possibility of education to address it.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Crucial from @ryanenos.bsky.social: If you doubt Trump might try to seize ballot boxes, recall that not long ago it seemed outlandish that armed government militias would be roving our streets, killing people. On the pod, Ryan is so good on the danger of this moment: newrepublic.com/article/2132...
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Trump’s Plot to Rig Midterms Gets So Unhinged that Even Fox Is Rattled
As Trump’s threats to corrupt the midterms grow more vile, a political scientist explains why his visible derangement shouldn’t distract us from the severe threat this moment poses.
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Lynda Dodd @ldodd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Thoughtful response by Natalie Wexler: How Schools Can Counter "The End of Reading" open.substack.com/pub/nataliew...
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How Schools Can Counter "The End of Reading"
A recent article in the Atlantic highlights a real problem, but it undersells the possibility of education to address it.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's speech was a total dud but he's still going to use it as pretext to interfere in midterms. In particular the discredited allegations of Chinese interference are intended to lay groundwork for fake national emergency. That's the real threat www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s primetime speech was a dud. He could still use it to interfere in the midterms.
The allegations of foreign interference by China are intended to create a fake national emergency.
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