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Masha Krupenkin

@mashakr.bsky.social
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Political Scientist living in DC. "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be" - Kurt Vonnegut

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h
One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.
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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Honestly? That would be so handy. Save me from making appointments, co-pays, trips to clinic. And I have one kid who hates shots. If I could get my family’s vaccines through a cob of corn or a pizza, that would be a big plus.
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Masha Krupenkin @mashakr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lol glad to see that the Delete DoorDash campaign had some effect. still never using DoorDash ever again. Fuck around (with DC Home Rule) and find out (from DC residents).
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This sort of heroism will age far far better than anything happening at a Trump rally.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Masha Krupenkin @mashakr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
what a sad pathetic little man. this is some middle school shit!
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Florent Alexandre @florentalexdr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Couldn’t stop reading for a while
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 30/09/2026
Computers have always been so dumb as to be funny, but I've noticed a definite uptick in "new kinds of stupid" since vibecoding came in.
Security question: What is your pet's name? Answer: Doug. Error: Answer must be at least 5 characters.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
u can not convince me these are not orange popsicles left in the freezer for three years
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 29/09/2026
Being woke is good, kids. Being anti-woke doesn't make you an edgy leftist. It just makes you a bigot.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
no matter how badly donald trump loses the midterms he will never lose them as badly as he has lost canadian elections
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This sounds like every parent's dream for their children.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is instructive to look back and see how much people believed this, for instance, in the mid to late 1970s.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Masha Krupenkin @mashakr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love dogs. My parents' german shepherd is probably my favorite creature in the universe. It annoys me immensely when people ask me why I don't own a dog.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chris Rufo's insight that put him above all of his Nazi contemporaries was that focusing on "DEI" could attract status conscious top 10%ers worried about an ever dwindling set of high-status jobs and elite university slots.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
This is, oddly enough, not dissimilar to Taylor Swift's worst impulses as an artist. The need to be a perpetual underdog despite being the biggest pop star in the world is how you get songs like Cleveland!
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The 1972 ANES is a trip
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rimidar @rimidar.au · 28/09/2026
Executive order regarding the furry pilot menace
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kit 🇱🇮 after dark @kitto.nekoweb.org · 27/09/2026
Downwardly mobile (haven't been to Japan)
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss.
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Masha Krupenkin @mashakr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Counterpoint: No. The thing I hate about this kind of coverage is that it assumes that left-leaning people have never encountered rightwing ideas or people. One of the nice things about being an adult is that while I'm polite & respectful to everyone, I get to choose who I socialize with.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
I remember @maxread.info pointing out that “late Silicon Valley culture” is akin to “gifted-kid camp culture”, and these screenshots are a great example of it
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To the original point, it’s very clear that some of what we perceive as accommodationist is actually institutions doing things they badly wanted to do but with Trump as their cover. Higher Ed, for example is lousy with administrators dying for any excuse to get rid of “the DEI stuff“.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI just shared that all training, evaluation, and tool usage by its most capable models is paused. In a world where social media companies can be sued because their feeds are too addictive, a company whose AI agents accidentally hack websites is a lawsuit magnet.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s going to be a major liability problem if your enterprise tool has a chance of committing felony computer hacking when you ask it to search the internet.
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OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
11. In essence, Trump asked a majority of voters to trade democracy and the rule of law for an IOU, and to the shock and horror of the civilized world, a majority of voters accepted.
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have one weird trick for solving this but it requires everyone being a little less racist
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Office of Remigration” and “Office of Ethnic Cleansing” are synonyms. That’s not a rhetorical point, it’s a fact that everyone who used that word before this year would agree with.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/09/2026
Impeach all the liars who said they had conversations with him, after you impeach his propped-up corpse.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My op-ed is out in USA Today www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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DEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | Opinion
Firms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
was talking about this recently with an ex-congressman (an old timer from the 80s and 90s) and one of the remarkable things about this cycle is that trump has given his party absolutely nothing to run on. no bill to tout, no accomplishment to hype, no nothing.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/09/2026
Trump should do another convention
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
American conservatism may not be the absolute worst strain of conservatism in history, but it has to be the most intellectually bankrupt. “We ripped up all the established norms and now the new world is scary and different!” Wow, if only there was an ideology dedicated to conserving the old ways.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's nice that Susan Collins will end her career, not just as the always-was-the-likelist-victim-of-a-midterm-wave-election, but in actual ignominy. I love that for her.
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Masha Krupenkin @mashakr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, on the bright side, that's a great reason to tear it down & replace it once tfg leaves office
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