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But who are the adults in the room? Certainly not the #Cornell Administrators, who refused to take this violent, disgusting event seriously. Or maybe they thought banning the frat was all they had to do. But that’s not what we mean when we say the problems are systemic.

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We keep us safe - A failure by Cornell's Leadership

Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 2h

The same Administrators who went after students doing pro-Palestine organizing, maybe they were distracted, one would think those two offenses should have held clearly different priorities. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/we-k...

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We keep us safe - A failure by Cornell's Leadership

Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 14h

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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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 14h

"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism — which typically has no real victims — are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

Weird the AI didn’t catch that

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YukonHCornelius @yukonhcornelius.bsky.social · 2h

It is really telling that for some a drag queen reading a children's story at at family event is waaaaaaay too much influence, but a sycophantic chatbot privately encouraging suicide is fine.

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We keep us safe - A failure by Cornell's Leadership

Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 2h

🧵AI is already killing people by coaching children how to die by suicide, or how to best hide their suicidal ideations and self harm from their parents or other adults in their lives who could help them.

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AI won't kill us — At least not like that

Gen AI companies are laying the groundwork for escaping accountability. Don't let them.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 23h

Dealing with a slew of abusive emails to the Complainant Code Counselors email address. I get that people are mad, but what is gained by clogging the inbox for the group that HELPS complainants like Jane Doe? They are making it harder for students who need our help to get in touch with us.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 23h

They are also preaching to the choir. Every one of us took a position in this office out of a desire to help complainants get justice.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today’s Cornell rapist is tomorrow’s Brett Kavanaugh.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 14h

The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 14h

These men make me feel sick to my stomach. Men like Michael Tracey and the rape-defending scum of the earth on that website need to burn in hell. I just hope she’s safe. Fuck.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 14h

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 14h

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." 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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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11h

Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11h

If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 13h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 18h

Jesus Christ dude

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 17h

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 16h

A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 17h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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Dr. Sandwich, PhD @drsandwich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hi @marisakabas.bsky.social I found the street where Tom Homan lives

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h

It happens every time. They bring up the extremely rare cases (usually they just bring up the Rolling Stone one) where allegations were fabricated to say we should doubt this victim. They try to poke holes in her story. They try to redefine and restrict the meaning of rape.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h

The shame and smear anyone who has an emotional reaction to the case and especially anyone who chooses to believe the victim based on her word. They consider believing survivors to be the ultimate sin because it actually threatens the status quo where only victims of rape and sexual violence lose

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h

This is why the DA smearing the victim and claiming she changed her story is so awful. A lot of these guys are already using that as their reasoning for why we can’t believe her and get upset. And many of them are journalists so they’ll influence much wider public perception and her actual cases

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h

THIS is an instrumental part of rape culture. This is the wider societal enabling of rape and smearing victims. This is what survivors often identify as the most traumatic part of the experience, and as a journalist who believes survivors I can say it’s one of the worst parts for me, too

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h

And imagine if the media turned this kind of scrutiny and skepticism against police, politicians, and powerful interests instead of vulnerable victims of gang rape? What a world we could have

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 22h

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

missouri can you explain

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

the moment right before the rake hits your face

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23h

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 22h

listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard

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