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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10h

Hassett lies a dozen times in this clip

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h

Will Bunch: The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it. And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head. www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...

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For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch

A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h

Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info

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Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 8h

Had the BEST conversation with Florida Senate Candidate Angie Nixon. I’m telling you, we can flip that seat and actually get a senator who puts the people, not the president first. Let’s go!! AngieNixon.com FULL INTERVIEW HERE--- youtu.be/tM51JFEAPQI

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21h

It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 18h

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

a competitive texas is like a vicksburg level defeat for the GOP

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Ty The Afronerd @afronerdmedia.bsky.social · 7h

TW: discussions of SA, rape culture, misogyny/misogynoir For anyone who's keeping up with the Cornell 7 situation, here's another case that needs your attention... youtu.be/QU-zNfaR71k?...

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Woman Leaves School After They Allow Her 🍇ist Back On Campus!

YouTube video by The Public Offender

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Not a porpoise but a ... @silverporpoise.bsky.social · 6h

Good for her to stand up for women and against censorship for her views. Headline a little misleading. She is ‘honored’ to be able to stand up against rape culture and not be silenced.

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Florence Pugh Is ‘Honored’ to Talk About the ‘Cornell 7’ — New York Magazine

She says she felt “so much rage” after Instagram censored her posts about a rape case that’s gained national attention.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 15h

This is on men. All men. You are not exempt.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Cornell rape story and the Silicon Valley professional orgy culture story are the same story.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Slut-shaming is rape culture

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Rufo boosted the conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating pets, offering $5,000 reward for evidence, and posting grainy video (of other people from elsewhere) he cited as proof. Now the Haitians are being deported, because this is how colorblind meritocracy works I guess.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

One more: the one organization Rufo has helped to run, has turned into a gold-plated cancel culture mill, where unqualified hacks get high-paying gigs, qualified faculty are pushed out, and academic standards have declined to ensure more men are on campus. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

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The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College

A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

Not on X, so I write about Rufo less though I am sure he is still destroying lives. On here, he usually pops up when a media actor presents him as a good faith defender or meritocracy or some such. Rufo's great gift has been to state publicly he will lie to co-opt these people and succeed.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

When Trump took over, Rufo personally led the campaign to get a hundred trans intelligence fired. Was this about merit? No. Rufo has been very clear. We protect our people, we denigrate and punish the others. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

He systematically targeted Black scholars, offering bounties for evidence of plagiarism. He's make the accusation, regardless of the evidence. In one esp bad case, I wrote a rebuttal and Rufo personally went after every faculty member who (rightly) disagreed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

I used to write a lot about Rufo when I was still on X. His stock in trade is to attack public officials for espousing ideas he disliked on gender and race, presenting them as deviants who must be fired. From *2021* when he got a school principal fired: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-pub...

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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 12h

Weekend scoop from me for @votebeat.org: Two GOP members of Georgia’s State Election Board say Executive Director James Mills sent letters to DOJ and DHS without telling the board or getting approval — and that the letters went beyond what the board voted to request. www.votebeat.org/national/202...

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Georgia election board director allegedly goes rogue, asks feds to crack down on state voting equipment

Two members of the Georgia State Election Board say their executive director sent unauthorized letters to the Trump administration.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h

This is very true. A huge theme in a lot of recent coverage that AI is a bit like Saving Private Ryan. Everybody's gotta step up and adopt AI to get it across the goal line.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

We can't afford to continue living under oligarchy, and as oligarchs' greed and folly drives the old system beyond its breaking point, we must seize the opportunity to build a better successor. eof/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

But after a forest fire, the canopy opens; and when it does, the seedlings that were overshadowed for centuries by the old growth can sprout in the ashes and the sun.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

As Piketty foretold, the misrule of oligarchs has led to an orgy of destruction, and while poor people will get the worst of it, oligarchs will *pay* the most, because they own nearly everything, which means they own everything that will be destroyed, too.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

The world we're in today is awful and terrifying. It's awful because of the climate ruptures we're living through. It's terrifying because we didn't just fail to avert this crisis - *we did nothing to prepare for it, either*.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

I'm talking about *fiscal* debt: the solar we didn't build, the carbon we emitted instead; the rail we didn't build, the wildly inefficient aviation we substituted; the walkable, livable, transit-oriented cities we didn't build, the car-choked disasters we built instead.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

That dream was destroyed by war and greed. Today, we are submerged in an ocean of debt. I'm not talking about the (fictional) "national debt" that is just a measure of all the dollars the government has spent into existence without taxing out of existence: pluralistic.net/2024/10/21/w...

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Pluralistic: Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar (21 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

Nearly a century ago, John Maynard Keynes published "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," where he extrapolated from rising productivity to predict a fifteen-hour work-week within two generations: www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ11...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

It's just that it's being misallocated by the ultra-wealthy who don't even believe the majority of us exist, and who want to bet the planet and our species on a bizarre scheme to feed so many words to the world-guessing machines that they wake up and become gods: pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/v...

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Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

We'll find that work by helping hundreds of millions of climate refugees, who will find work helping each other. This is all economically valuable, environmentally sustaining labor that we have labor, energy and expertise for.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

We can use the wages we earn by building a better world to acquire new homes, induction tops, EVs and ebikes, and beautiful heirloom computers that are built to last for generations, upgraded and maintained by their users: www.edn.com/as-moores-la... This is a world of abundance and prosperity.

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As Moore's Law slows, open hardware rises - EDN

At 8-years old, Andrew “Bunnie” Huang appreciated the fact that his Apple II came with schematics and source code because it allowed him to figure out how

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

For example, if we don't like the quality of public schools, we can fix them by giving schools more resources, not by letting billionaire dilettantes privatize and starve them in the name of "school choice": pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a...

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Pluralistic: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us (09 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

A post-oligarch world can recover democratic excellence by removing the malign influence that morbid wealth exerts on our policy choices.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

All of this has the potential to yield a second peace-dividend prosperity. A post-oligarch world can recover industrial capacity by diverting it away from destructive activity (data centers, luxury housing) to essential functions (climate defenses, decent housing for everyday people).

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

The rights-of-way for the interstate system would make dandy railbeds for arrow-straight, all electric high-speed rail powered by solar, wind and tides.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

That means that we need to build *lots* more of these, and they can be built with state-of-the-art climate hardening, including geothermal heat, "passive home" designs, modern insulation, and heat-pumps.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

As seas rise, we're going to have jobs for every person who is willing, building sea defenses and moving whole coastal cities inland. Two generations of neoliberalism has left us with massive shortages of housing stock, crumbling highways, inadequate schools and hospitals.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

Just as the post-war world led to the "30 glorious years" by mobilizing people and material to rebuild a shattered world and shattered lives, a post-American world might see full, meaningful employment for all of us, all of our children, and all of *their* children: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_...

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Trente Glorieuses - Wikipedia

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

A post-oligarch, post-American world could be a post-*austerity* world, one where we recognize that the limiting factor on public investment isn't *money*, but *resources*: energy, material, labor, expertise: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATQ...

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Stephanie Kelton: The big myth of government deficits | TED

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

And despite the horrible death toll that's locked in by waves of climate shocks - presided over by the dying, fumbling "drink bleach" guy - it's conceivable that the future we get will be a *good* one, if not an easy one.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

From oil to dollars, telecoms infrastructure to the internet itself, Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to end the American empire: pluralistic.net/2026/05/16/t...

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Pluralistic: Making sense of Trump’s unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

Also right on schedule: the misrule of oligarchs has elevated a con-man to the presidency, who trumps every other president for both corruption *and* incompetence.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

That's just the overture to the American run of this year's "Super El Nino," a blockbuster whose out-of-town previews have been slaying massive crowds all over the world: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes

With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

We are *clearly* steaming into one of these situations. The wealthy squandered two generations preventing the world from tacking the climate emergency, and now the inevitable has arrived. California is on track to see a *12"* sea-level rise in the next *month*: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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California rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level rise

Wave nearing southern California expected to reach San Francisco Bay Area by October as it crawls toward Alaska

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