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Lorraine Berry

@lorraineberry.bsky.social
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Writer and recovering book critic Former historian Grew up in the PNW Advocate for habitat restoration and pollinator gardens Petsitter and traveler

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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 2h
Hochul 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.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
Every 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.
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 2h
Beautiful new Amtrak trains on the Cascade route. Except it’s the same level of communication and service.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h
it was so cute when people thought being polyamorous and working on the computer made you progressive
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Sarah 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
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 13h
I cannot stop thinking how devastatingly accurate this satirical article about Cornell is. It hits the bone. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ann...
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Announcing 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...
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don'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.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this would genuinely hit much better if he hadn't chosen to throw trans kids under the bus
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝
Tweet by me saying “Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it’s starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time.”
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Eileen 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.
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026
It didn't falter. It collapsed.
"As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator's Accusation of Perjury Falters," per The New York Times.
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As someone with an advance degree from Cornell University, I feel fully qualified to say: burn it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Texts about alleged Cornell gang-rape released after investigation reopened
Texts, including unnamed male defendant appearing to apologize, reportedly sent days after alleged 2024 assault
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Currently 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?
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This could have come out of my own mouth, and how great that it’s Kevin Wilson, whose work I love?
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unironically the PNW mindset lol
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had no idea what a KATSEYE was. It’s as if AI designed pop music
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 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?
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Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yesterday'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.
A bowl of 15-20 Italian plums from yesterday's CSA pickup in a dark red bowl on a shelf in my fridge. All perfectly ripe. Resigned that some will end up in the compost.
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why 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...
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Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library
University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If he could read this he’d be mad. www.alternet.org/tommy-tuberv...
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Tuberville 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
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
He did it, this is the final boss level of white people going can I say it?
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If 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.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How was anyone to anticipate this? I love how FAFO never applies to these guys www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Trump complains about lack of TV coverage stemming from his own effort to ban CNN – live
The 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...
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If 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?
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The 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.
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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Want 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: ⬇️
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You 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?
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Weird, I’d call that a structural improvement
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Just imaging the UPS update that’s like oops, we lost your package with the box checked next to “international dispute”
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Astros started playing like the Mariners.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE 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...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Omar's book is brilliant on so many levels and beautiful and layered and meaningful, among so many things it is.
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Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I 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.
@djinnandtonic.bsky.social-inspired protest sign of the Boston anti-man hunting league sign with ICE at the center instead of SH (slave hunter). It's a bright green circle with magenta letters: ICE in the center, surrounded by 6 letters representing people who have different roles in stopping a kidnapping, one who tries to talk the kidnapper down, 5 to grab the kidnapper if that doesn't work, and an outer circle of 12 people who create a commotion so that the kidnapper can be removed from the situation).
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 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...
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Bret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them
Bret 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...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We used to be a proper planet, one that rewarded its top scholars in style.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23/09/2026
That’s a helluva cover. With alt text.
50 YEARS OF FEARLESS JOURNALISM
Mother Jones
September + October 2026
The Southern Strategy
Jim Crow was dead and buried.
Then came the Roberts court.

A hand from offscreen reaches for a KKK robe and hood that hangs in a white wall beside a black court justice robe.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My 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.
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Still hoping Pamela Paul will love him again, so he lets her write his book columns.
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's a lot of words to say you don't care to read books by people who are different from you, isn't it?
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Skeletired @skeletired.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wonder how many families are turning off major league sports because the commercials are non-stop recruitment efforts for young gambling addicts.
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
PSA: Covid is surging. Just got my 2026 VAX along with my flu shot. Please be safe out there!
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
artisanal intelligence
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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump just changed the name of artificial intelligence to super intelligence because “artificial” sounds fake.
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