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Leslie, the Collab Auntie

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 33m
From Tsawwassen First Nation: "An incident is currently in progress that has ended our Truth & Reconciliation event. Participants are asked to walk back the way we came and stay out of the area." Here's the alert: alertable.ca#/incidents/5...
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2h
don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h
But also this heroine: "Cereese Qusba, 22, a senior and reporter for The Sun, couldn’t shake her concerned curiosity about the case. This month...Ms. Qusba was ready to hit publish on her investigation, which was 23 months in the making."
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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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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2h
google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h
Raskin has the blood lust we need. youtu.be/8fbDmTsPEd8?...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2h
Imagine if a woman did this.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION? Check here: vote.org
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In-person absentee voting* is open in: -MICHIGAN -MISSOURI -MISSISSIPPI -SOUTH DAKOTA Forms + more info: www.vote.org (scroll down to search for your state, then scroll past the request form for more info) *In MO & MS in particular, "open" doesn't = "simple"! Pls don't let that deter you!
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 2h
Trump going all-in on "AI" self-regulation is no surprise, but please interview ppl from, e.g., @cdt.org, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, or anyone else with a perspective on regulation not informed by a primarily Rosy relationship w/ big tech
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h
WATCH: “Sometimes I make the wrong calls about where to put my influence.”🤔 @ChrisCuomo squirms as @dossdiscourse.bsky.social 🔥 holds his feet to the fire for saying he’d maybe vote for Trump in 2024 even though he now claims he wouldn’t have and knew he was “uniquely dangerous”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4h
Hey y'all, I don't usually share GFMs but Katra is a good friend and the fact that her job was terminated literally a day before her bottom surgery is atrocious. Definitely go give her some help if you can.
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Catesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social · 5h
"This is a ginned up trans panic, brought to you by Republicans who know that if you can manipulate public opinion on the culture war issue du jour, you can distract people from the economic issues that actually matter to them: outrageous gas prices and barely affordable groceries."
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The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion
Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone.
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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 5h
Big day for transit in Seattle! New Pinehurst light rail station!
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4h
“Similar claims have been made by ICE officers in other places when agents have shot citizens and they generally have been found to be lies.” baptistnews.com/article/man-...
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Man shot by ICE in Austin now charged with assault
The unarmed immigrant ICE officers shot in the back in Texas last week has been charged with with assaulting a federal officer.
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 4h
Those losing their health benefits ... include refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution, victims of sex trafficking, and interpreters who risked their lives assisting U.S. service members in Afghanistan — all of whom are in the country with the federal government’s permission.
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US Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health News
The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...
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Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden · 6h
stop saying grape. say rape. say murder. say killed. say the violence people have endured with the full force of what has happened
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Abbie @kabbiearlish.bsky.social · 5h
Don't let the weird rules on tiktok and youtube guide you to censor everything everywhere.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4h
While we're at it, I feel like I'm the only one who remembers that there were big Me Too stories published about Morgan Freeman and Jeff Goldblum, both of which were successfully squashed out of existence
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 7h
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 4h
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 6h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h
✍🏾 MY LATEST: I wrote about the moral panic Republicans manufactured about trans girls in sports. I decided to turn all my yelling on social media about trans girls in sports into a column.
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The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion
Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5h
When Third Way says that Dems should hold off their anti-trans strategies, you know things are changing. The organization tends to be more centrist, and they are noticing the same thing the far-right is... the Republican anti-trans campaign cycle is NOT working this year.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h
Precisely. And I make that point in the pod! If there's one thing SCOTUS hates more than Black people voting, it's lower courts ignoring its orders. That's why SCOTUS smacked the 8th Circuit upside the head. The goal wasn't to help Black voters in KC. That was just a happy accident.
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SCOTUS Did Something Nice for Black Voters in Missouri. I Know.
YouTube video by Rewire News Group
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 5h
This Yosemite land grab has been tried since the early 2000s. It lost in court. Now a private equity firm is back, and Trump's Interior Department is listening. Tell Congress to kill it for good: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 12h
Even a lot of "good" men, you challenge them even a little on what misogynistic assumptions they may have internalized without reflection, and boy is that rage usually pretty close to the surface. Not necessarily immediately violently but whew
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13h
Incredible work, no notes
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 14h
Gavin Newsom signed a bill meant to limit the Trump administration's ability to open the California coast to offshore oil drilling: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social
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Can California stop Trump from drilling off its coast? A new law tries
Gov.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19h
This is ferocious and empathetic piece. “In every study I have conducted with survivors, the participants whose parents told them “not to drink too much” or “not to use Tinder” were…the least willing to tell their parents about their assaults—and the tips did nothing to keep them safe anyway.”
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 15h
Local elections matter
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15h
Fund 1,000,000 social housing units Build and operate BRT lines in every city E-bikes on separated bikeways for all Massive development on public land around every rail station
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h
Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15h
IMEU
POLICY PROJECT
The following Senators voted YES on a resolution that would require the State Department to investigate and report on Israel's rampant human rights abuses against Palestinians in the illegally-occupied West Bank, as well as Israel's killing of 9 US citizens since 2022:
• Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
• Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

• Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
• Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)

• Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
• Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)

• Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
• Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

• Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
• Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA)

• Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

• Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
• Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)

• Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)
• Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)

• Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) • Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV)


• Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
• Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)

• Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
• Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

• Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
• Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

• Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
• Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

• Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
• Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)

• Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
• Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

• Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
• Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)

• Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
• Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)

• Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ)
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

• Sen. Angus King (I-ME)
• Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)

• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

• Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)




• Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 19h
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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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h
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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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 17h
The goal of the current fascist project is to enact and enable abuse on the national scale
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16h
Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h
UPDATE: Florida killed Curtis Beasley this evening. Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty noted this is the DeSantis administration's "44th execution." Beasley is "the 13th veteran, the 14th senior citizen, and the 27th person ... to die despite a non-unanimous jury vote for death."
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 17h
it is very easy to lose a patient, your honor
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Michigan nurse charged with helping ICE detainee escape
A Michigan nurse was charged with intentionally helping a Mexican ICE detainee escape from a hospital after a CT scan.
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Leslie, the Collab Auntie @lesliemuse.bsky.social · 18h
My video art history and theory course is covering feminist video art of the 20th century on Thursday and you better believe I’m going to be drawing a line directly from their context to Cornell, and today’s brand of rape culture. And if it makes the large number of men in my class squirm? GOOD
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Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why don't you trust me?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h
Cutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that? | Zoe Williams
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Cutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that? | Zoe Williams
‘Taking back control’ turns out to be staggeringly expensive. That’s something to mull over as budget day approaches, writes Zoe Williams
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 22h
NEWS: A federal judge just ruled that Trump's Justice Department illegally withheld Violence Against Women Act grants from more than two dozen domestic violence and sexual assault groups to force them into political loyalty tests.
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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 19h
Senator Schmitt: So, you’re telling me you’ve never posed for pictures with a naval officer? Jack Smith: No, I don’t think so. Schmitt: Then explain this photo! Jack Smith: That’s a paparazzi pic, not one I posed for. Also, it’s not a naval officer, it’s a box of Cap’n Crunch. Schmitt: GOTCHA!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h
A problem is that many people know that the vast majority of the people who voted for the fascist in chief in 2024 would vote for him again today. So folks know that many people are politically untrustworthy. It adds to the malaise.
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