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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁

@mandisbarnard.bsky.social
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Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her

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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 14h
The older I get the more such sounds bother me. Misphonia is not my fave, but also hydrate!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I wrote an introduction to my friend Rachel's haunting and deeply enraging book "Elegy for Mary Turner" years ago. It's an illustrated account of one of the most horrific lynchings of a woman in this country's history: www.versobooks.com/products/962...
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Elegy for Mary Turner
In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 09/10/2026
Seriously, please don't be too shy or polite to ask for ICE whistles if you need them, especially in SoCal. A bunch of us have stockpiles all ready to go in case of surges, if you have the ability to pass them out, we have the whistles!
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. to give 1.6M in CDC funds to allow his Danish friends to harm African babies in unethical trial. We will be launching ways to fight back in just a couple hours. GET IN, DORKS. We have an unethical study to stop! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#Collapse news: "(Methane) once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet" That's one of the big, scary climate tipping points we've been warned and warning about for decades. And it seems to be tipping, so that's great.
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Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet
As Ted Schuur stepped along the edges of Smith Lake, a bubble surfaced from the muck underfoot. And then another. They're bubbles of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas made from decomposing plants an...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
Alligator Alcatraz is now closed. But buried deep within the DHS report was a warning about possible similar conditions at the other state-operated immigrant detention center in Florida: the Baker Correctional Institution.
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Out of sight in North Florida: Life inside Deportation Depot
Advocates say conditions at the former state prison mirror Alligator Alcatraz’s worst.
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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Since Trump took office, @publiccitizen.bsky.social has tracked the admin's retreat from enforcement against corporate lawbreaking. Today, our new report documents the admin's cancellation of investigations, lawsuits, & penalties against more than *200* corporations. www.citizen.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Cascade of Canceled Corporate Enforcement Against Over 200 Corporations - Public Citizen
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Liliturra @liliturra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is the best overview I've read about the plague. Also, it brings up the thing to actually be scared of if you're in the US: measles. We're up to 1000 cases in Pennsylvania. If you've never been vaccinated, do it. If you have, check if you should get a booster. Protect yourself and others.
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My part of NSF has been destroyed effectively. I don’t trust future congresses to understand and restore it given they misunderstand knowledge creation and reduce science to technology. And that’s across the ideological spectrum.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Impressive,mind blowing,absolutely insane, any possible word can't give an idea of what's going on in California. Last week AVERAGE MINIMUM at Pasadena was an unbelievable 76F, 25F above average and 10F above of any other such a period in the past 126 years.
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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today is my youngest two adopted from across the street cats’ birthday- they are 6 years old today, a feat I wasn’t sure both would see. Mamie has the tall white boots, Emily just never grew very big- they are complete opposite Ls. Mamie is sugar and Emily is the spice and hot sauce. ❤️
Two 3 month old brown tabby kittens laying together Mamie in the back facing camera right, Emily in the front facing camera left. Now Emily will not be caught that close to Mamie.Emily, smaller brown tabby with pink collar laying in a felt vegetable planting pot.Mamie, the long, tall goddess, posing on the railing of the back porch, wall of forest behind her
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Three elected Alabama public officials, all Republicans, were running a human trafficking ring. They were arrested and booked this weekend. weartv.com/news/local/a...
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Three Alabama officials among 17 arrested in Atmore undercover prostitution sting
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Ala. -- Three public officials in Alabama were among the 17 people arrested Friday in a multi-day undercover prostitution sting in Escambia Cou
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I rarely share substack articles, but this is a good response to last week’s NYT “religious scholars”-meet-with-Anthropic’s-Olah piece. “One of the fundamental requirements of discernment is freedom from attachment to a desired outcome. Olah says he is uncertain whether these models are conscious..
read.lukeburgis.com
Anthropic’s “Discernment”
The ambiguous and sometimes manipulative spiritual language of Silicon Valley
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“It will take generations to recover from the harm that has already been done over the past three years, and in the preceding decades, said Amande Bazerolle, @msf.ca head of emergency response in Gaza. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/three...
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Three years on, Israeli forces are strangling Gaza
Palestinian civilians suffer from the ongoing violence and blockade of essential supplies.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have copies or web based pdf and go through it with them.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 05/10/2026
We need to keep re-phrasing these headlines for what they really mean: “Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘People from non-privileged communities should just shut up and accept having all the negative consequences from AI mess up their lives and environments for the benefits of the privileged people”
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026
nearly 40k likes on instagram
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Annie Altman (she/her/human) on Instagram: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset to once again hav...
39K likes, 914 comments - anniealtman108 on October 2, 2026: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/10/2026
New to me: the Museum of Looted Antiquities (an @omeka.org site, incidentally!) mola.omeka.net
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Museum of Looted Antiquities
The Museum of Looted Antiquities collects, displays and studies ancient art and artifacts that have been repatriated to their countries of origin since 1950.
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The leather bag that held the trial records of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, now at The National Archives. For more on this and the other records detailing the punishment of the plotters, cone along to my online talk on the evening of 4 Nov 2026. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...
Leather bag with Latin writing on it, 17th Century [TNA KB 8/59]
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Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The letter that gave us the name ‘Jack the Ripper’ was almost certainly written by a journalist. But when we filmed it at the National Archives, a criminologist asked me a very good question. His answer couldn't be included in our documentary, but here it is! lucyworsley.substack.com/p/what-reall...
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What really happened to Jack the Ripper
Revealed here slightly against my better judgement
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh my heart is so full reading about this. The US Colored Troops were huge in the story of emancipation and in the human dignity of enslaved Black people. For the first time they had weapons and uniforms, just like white men.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Israeli army sends warnings ahead of airstrikes to be conducted inside Southern Lebanese territories in the upcoming hours. Lebanese journalist Hadi Hoteit reports
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 04/10/2026
CNN: "Jared Kushner has been helping broker an end to the war in Gaza while his company sits on a billion-dollar stake in a group investing in Israeli military suppliers." While Gaza is used as a pawn by the powerful, the civilians are desperate for help. Please give to my dear friend. And others.
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Help A Mother in Gaza Protect her Children
Hello, my name is Lucy and I've set up this campaign to rasie funds for my friend in Gaza, a mother who is relying on donations to provide for her family at the moment, and needs your help.
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AI News @ainieuwtjes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro Starting in October 2026, Google will cut free access to its Gemini models. Users without a subscription will only get the smallest model, Flash-Lite, while Flash and Pro… Via The Decoder
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Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A partially unsealed court filing alleges that the US Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including their photos, license plate numbers, and other information—and stored them in a system called the... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights | Undermining democracy]
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1/ Last weekend, I received an email from someone whose friend was being treated for cancer. The doctor advised her friend to get the flu shot, but said to skip the Covid vaccine. So the friend asked me if risks from the Covid vaccine are still a concern.
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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thinking of creating a similar program? I think this www.librarian.net/notoai/ and this teenlibrarian.co.uk/2026/08/20/c... would provide helpful guidance and resources.
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you lik
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 02/10/2026
The Religion of Technology, by David Noble
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/10/2026
Massive US military deployment to the Middle East includes 50,000 troops, F-35s and Marines to pressure Tehran.
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US to send third aircraft carrier towards Iran: US official to Al Jazeera
Massive US military deployment to the Middle East includes 50,000 troops, F-35s and Marines to pressure Tehran.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
In mother-of-pearl suits, the Pearly Kings used to canvass East London for charity. The most famous one, George Major, died in August. A look back on this larger-than-life figure and the Pearly King tradition. trib.al/Ezfk3Ne
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What a Pearly King taught me about Cockney rhyming slang and East London history
In mother-of-pearl suits, the Pearly Kings used to canvass East London for charity. The most famous one, George Major, died in August. A look back on this larger-than-life figure and the Pearly King tradition.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The pro-Qatari newspaper Al-Arabi Al-Jadid reports, citing a source in the pro-Saudi Yemeni government, that the Houthis are preparing for a confrontation at the border with Saudi Arabia and are conducting a significant recruitment drive in anticipation of it.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches ft.trib.al/Wk1Itfp
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OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches
New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Global bond sell-off deepens as Japanese yields jump ft.trib.al/g4A1whc
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Global bond sell-off deepens as Japanese yields jump
‘Relentless’ pressure on sovereign debt comes amid uncertainty about interest rate rises
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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/2026
3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training
Opinion under seal for now.
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Chris “OH NO! DISASTER! WHAT A BAD IDEA!” Dobbertean’s Monster @bracketdobber.net · 30/09/2026
Is this bad? Seems kinda bad!
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The paint on my 18 year old VW is starting to fade. But that car will never betray me.
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Heather @alainnfocail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Important:
Bradish, Basallo, and Alonso holding kittens. Pete Alonso looking down at a kitten giving it a kissy face Pete Alonso holding a kitten looking at the cameraPete Alonso and Samuel Basallo holding kittens. Sammy is having the best time.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Listen, despite their obsession with T deficiencies, these guys are strategic geniuses. So nothing to worry about!
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US forces leave Iraq, raising fears of Iran-backed militias amid power vacuum
US forces are withdrawing from their remaining bases in Iraq on Wednesday, completing a pullout agreed under former president Joe Biden as fears grow over the security vacuum it could leave. Iraqi off...
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: 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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