Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 2hHochul did the right thing appointing Letitia James in the Cornell gang-rape case. You can feel the right-wing rage machine about to freak out. 010
Reposted by Lorraine BerryNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18hEvery single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them. 71221282
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 2hBeautiful new Amtrak trains on the Cascade route. Except it’s the same level of communication and service. 000
Reposted by Lorraine BerryMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3hit was so cute when people thought being polyamorous and working on the computer made you progressive 21127
Reposted by Lorraine BerrySarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com · 5h"We engage with works about guys who kinda seem to feel bad now that they’ve been told the only way people will get off their backs is if they feel bad. This includes YouTube apology videos, the works of Charles Bukowski, and screenings of The Cosby Show." —@malaletkin.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net 001
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 13hI cannot stop thinking how devastatingly accurate this satirical article about Cornell is. It hits the bone. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ann...mcsweeneys.netAnnouncing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh... 011
Reposted by Lorraine BerryManic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Don't trust the experts! Trust AI's billionaire backers who want to fleece you for every dime, then render your corpse for soap in order to make that last nickel. 012
Reposted by Lorraine BerryOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this would genuinely hit much better if he hadn't chosen to throw trans kids under the bus 816427
Reposted by Lorraine BerryErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝 41310251
Reposted by Lorraine BerryEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@kennyjacoby.bsky.social on X: NEW: I analyzed seven years of Cornell's sexual violence case data. Expulsions are very rare. 1,216 reports of sexual assault, DV and stalking, 2018-2024 162 formal investigations. 51 findings of fault. 14 suspensions. 7 expulsions or dismissals.usatoday.comCornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | ExclusiveA third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year. 46338
Reposted by Lorraine BerryBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026It didn't falter. It collapsed. 1330827
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As someone with an advance degree from Cornell University, I feel fully qualified to say: burn it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTexts about alleged Cornell gang-rape released after investigation reopenedTexts, including unnamed male defendant appearing to apologize, reportedly sent days after alleged 2024 assault 183
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Currently listening to the woman at the next table bragging she was descended from a king 1300 years ago. Wondering if someone has ever explained the Charlemagne phenomenon to her? 210
Reposted by Lorraine BerryAmber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This could have come out of my own mouth, and how great that it’s Kevin Wilson, whose work I love? 0164
Reposted by Lorraine BerryMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Unironically the PNW mindset lol 602019136
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I had no idea what a KATSEYE was. It’s as if AI designed pop music 150
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Safeway on Capitol Hill (Store #1551) has the ICE CREAM in a locked freezer case. What kind of tech billionaire wasteland locks up its ice cream? 051
Reposted by Lorraine BerryNicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yesterday's CSA share included 15-20 perfectly ripe Italian plums. No time to write a poem. I am racing against the clock to deal with them before they cross the compost bridge. 011
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Why not let Napoleon’s armies in to burn the papal archive while you’re at it, Oxford? They let them into the Bodleian. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian LibraryUniversity staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT 111
Reposted by Lorraine BerryDevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If he could read this he’d be mad. www.alternet.org/tommy-tuberv...alternet.orgTuberville says he avoids reading to maintain his 'own opinion'Capitol Hill reporter Matt Laslo had a conversation with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) in which the gubernatorial candidate revealed he doesn't 103483116
Reposted by Lorraine BerryKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026He did it, this is the final boss level of white people going can I say it? 662676550
Reposted by Lorraine BerryPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter. 1964267854
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you’re in line to celebrate the Mariners being eliminated from the postseason so you can stop doing impossible math, please stay in line. Everyone will get their chance. 000
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026How was anyone to anticipate this? I love how FAFO never applies to these guys www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...theguardian.comTrump complains about lack of TV coverage stemming from his own effort to ban CNN – liveThe president welcomed China’s Xi Jinping at the White House, which media outlets opted not to provide video feed for because Trump’s aides had not yet restored access for three outlets he banned last... 010
Reposted by Lorraine BerryAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech. 491401383
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you don’t like NYC’s mayor, may I kindly suggest you stay out of the city? How was Netanyahu not arrested for war crimes? 130
Reposted by Lorraine BerryWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103484405
Reposted by Lorraine BerryClaire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Want to buy some books for yourself? Good plan! Want to buy some books for children of migrant farm workers in Washington state? Check out the link in my thread below: ⬇️ 184
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You know it’s bad on the Amtrak when they start distributing the snack packs and water to all the hangry and frustrated train riders threatening revolt. I wonder what it feels like to live in a country with a working infrastructure? 030
Reposted by Lorraine BerryKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026Weird, I’d call that a structural improvement 959770
Reposted by Lorraine BerryKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026Just imaging the UPS update that’s like oops, we lost your package with the box checked next to “international dispute” 831437
Reposted by Lorraine BerryEmily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend 5795313400
Reposted by Lorraine BerryGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k... 61015659
Reposted by Lorraine BerryJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Omar's book is brilliant on so many levels and beautiful and layered and meaningful, among so many things it is. 1646
Reposted by Lorraine BerryNicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I learned about this earlier in the year from @djinnandtonic.bsky.social who had both some amazing posts about Minnesota people using similar tactics against ICE and has shirts via www.etsy.com/shop/WideAwa.... They inspired one of my favorite protest posters. 347565
Reposted by Lorraine BerryMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In response to that putrid Bret Stephens column, brilliant @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social made a whole Google Doc with buy links for all of the @nationalbook.bsky.social Prize nominees. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comBret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read themBret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them, not just the SCARY PR COPY that triggered him like a snowflake. No, I won’t link this fuckshit here, because I won’t drive tra... 38532
Reposted by Lorraine BerryKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We used to be a proper planet, one that rewarded its top scholars in style. 432020187
Reposted by Lorraine BerryTyler King @tyleraking.com · 23/09/2026That’s a helluva cover. With alt text. 18436
Reposted by Lorraine BerryNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My kids have measles, I can't afford gas, my country has been humiliated by Iran, and our senile rapist president is going to allow unregulated AI to destroy our civilization. But a lesbian bar in a town I've never heard of still has a mask mandate. I have never felt more politically homeless. 352567393
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Still hoping Pamela Paul will love him again, so he lets her write his book columns. 010
Reposted by Lorraine BerryKate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's a lot of words to say you don't care to read books by people who are different from you, isn't it? 1111
Reposted by Lorraine BerrySkeletired @skeletired.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I wonder how many families are turning off major league sports because the commercials are non-stop recruitment efforts for young gambling addicts. 2113324471
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026PSA: Covid is surging. Just got my 2026 VAX along with my flu shot. Please be safe out there! 020
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Trump just changed the name of artificial intelligence to super intelligence because “artificial” sounds fake. 210