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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10h

Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert died this morning. For 16 years, while he was a coach and government teacher at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Illinois, Hastert sexually abused at least four boys (and likely more). (thread)

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8h

If your newscast says Hastert was 'tied to' a child sex abuse scandal, you're failing your listeners.

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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 7h

“Before teaching young men how to run the world, teach them what to do when the world is one room, one woman, one terrible thing happening, and nobody wants to be the first man to ruin the evening.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 12h

This is a community note for the ages.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you Pete Hegseth for getting rid of the weirdos and beardos. by Elon Musk and JD Vance

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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Experts and administrators are publicly agonizing over men’s flight from higher education but seem willing to tolerate communities, behaviors, and campus environments where persistent sexual violence is essentially a tool that is informally filtering and expelling women students.”

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33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain

From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men

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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fawning is a trauma response. Sucks that he is a severe abuser in public life, so the rest of us have to deal with it too.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THIS! This situation is the perfect instance of WHY PEOPLE DO NOT TRUST HIGHER EDUCATION. Women’s lives are being destroyed, ruined, torn to shreds, but sweep it under the rug and compartmentalize it because the institutions have an agenda.

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And, the State Press at ASU continues to follow this story and has an update. Student journalists have so much more courage than his collaborators who seem unable or unwilling to say a word www.instagram.com/reel/Dd-r-9e...

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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This post from JWV is definitely worth your time to read.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the best questions we can all ask these days is, “How?” It’s simple and smart and a non-answer tells you as much as an answer. Skynet is going to kill is? How? We are moving to the moon? How? Build a big net around earth? How??

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway I don't want to be accused of starting drama. I don't want to be assaulted, and I don't want to be a problem! So I leave and the men assume I'm tired or dull or maybe they don't care bc without me, they don't have to confront the creeps, they can claim ignorance and buy the bar another round.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve lost count of the number of times our university leaders said things like “we’re going to defend our core values” & “we’re going to maintain our quality programs & instruction” through the Scott Walker years & now through the Trump years. No, we aren’t & we didn’t. We’ve done less. With less.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/10/2026

“we’re being assholes to virtually everyone, it’s mind boggling they don’t want to visit our country anymore”

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million

"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.

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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WISCONSIN GOVERNOR’S RACE, MARQUETTE POLL CROWLEY: 49 TIFFANY: 46 (Likely voters) CROWLEY: 46 TIFFANY: 45 (Registered voters)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're witnessing the Rapist-to-President and/or Rapist-to-Supreme Court Justice pipeline with this Cornell scandal.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The random civilian who illegally stole everyone's data & dismantled large chunks of the federal government, in an end run around Article I of the Constitution, should be jailed for life & not have large govt contracts, the ability to contribute to political campaigns, or stakes in large media orgs.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Know anyone in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? Please forward them this. We need their feedback on difficult choices facing the transit system. www.ridemcts.com/programs/mct...

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MCTS Forward is a collaborative effort to think about the future of public transit in Milwaukee County.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

r/crafts has banned all Harry Potter-related crafts due to JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry, after a 53-41 vote

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From the crafts community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the crafts community

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

some people replying and saying ed sheeran can’t take the same risks as an established legend like david byrne, but then you look at olivia rodrigo who is 12 years younger than sheeran and just organized an entire festival to support ABORTION. bravery has little to do with age/experience.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026

Erection interference?

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My husband put R.E.M. on the kitchen speakers (“it’s been a bad day”). Man, they’re good. So so so good. Sometimes I need the reminder that humans have made incredible art and music and poetry throughout history, in good times and especially bad times.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here’s the simplest bill I’m introducing: no ICE enforcement at school bus stops. Looking forward to a Republican explaining why they are against that. www.axios.com/2026/09/17/c...

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Sen. Chris Murphy introduces ICE bills to put GOP on defense

Murphy will introduce three bills Thursday afternoon to prevent ICE arrests near children.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is there a statement from WHCA yet?

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So many Dems have shown a total inability to leverage the failures of the GOP, and it takes work to be that inept.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed gave Democrats the template for dodging bad faith questions about sports. Call them unserious. Refocus the conversation on things people are actually struggling to survive right now. There is an energy crisis unfolding, this should not be hard.

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