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dipping a toe into Tom Morello discourse to say that voters and candidates alike might make different choices if we had a national popular vote instead of the fuckass Electoral College

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10h

Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.

From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."

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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 9h

Trump's new Title IX regulations make it harder for student survivors to get justice. So we're planning a public display of solidarity with student survivors of sexual assault—and we need as many people as possible to show their support. Add your name to our public display of solidarity:

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Show Your Support for Student Survivors of Sexual Assault

Students deserve to feel safe and protected. Sign on this petition to demand Cornell and the Trump administration do better for student survivors.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 8h

Altman does not see the future. Stop assisting him in selling and building this bullshit myth. Want to know who saw the future? It was not "Aw, shucks" marketing boy. It was a woman with an intellectual backbone.

Book cover of Hannah Arendt's Human Condition

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 8h

Artwork on a vintage postcard signed "love, Brad." It reads, "If you feel overwhelmed, try thinking of yourself as a very small, very brave muppet."

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 7h

"the mexicans took our jobs" is a racial concern not an economical one. "DEI is why I didn't get that promotion" is a racial concern not a merit-based concern. "HR ladies won't let me hit on my co-workers" is a racial and gender concern not a "male loneliness epidemic" concern.

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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes she left the party, sometimes she left the college. Maybe she went to another one or maybe she decided college or grad school wasn’t for her after all. Maybe she decided that career wasn’t it, and lowered her expectations for her whole damn life.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 8h

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 10h

Just look at that now. It really is doing its best to un-Monday the place, bless it.

Sun rising from behind a dark hill, sending separate rays of golden light into the early blue sky and turning the puffy clouds all golden.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 11h

Yes. I keep thinking about the phrase "rights stripping," which Judith Butler used in a talk at the New School in May, to capture a key element of the techno-fascist political project.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11h

The TESCREAL's dictionary

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Anjiolina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 14h

When one field's metaphors become society's default, they stop being "a way to see" and become "the only way to think." The power isn't in the words - it's in forgetting they're metaphors at all.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23h

for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I work with abortion providers in Colorado. One of them had a patient whose water broke at 4 1/2 months, was told by a Houston hospital they couldn't help her until she went into labor or went septic, so *she got on a plane & flew to Denver mid-miscarriage*. There's no respectful disagreement here.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So… a man who thinks women’s reproductive rights are “abstract” got to take away our rights.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hi. Clinical psychologist here! Sometimes, people’s souls are simply cess pools of rotten humanity mixed with evil and stupidity—no diagnosis necessary—and that’s the explanation.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sometimes I think about how the last ten years started as a publicity stunt for a fading reality show that went sideways.

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🚗 Computer Caitlin 🧀 @teacherontopic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People aren't breaking the law. The law is being used to break people.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can also reject the culture of compulsory confession that online culture has worsened. You don't have to publicly reveal past trauma or experiences to speak. Finally, take care of yourself if you're a survivor.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/10/2026

“he’s a piece of shit, but he’s our piece of shit, and it’s our duty to eat it” is quite the message pulling into the final stretch

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This fly has better executive functions than me. I’d forget what I was doing once I’d found the stool. But they should maybe give the fly a more distracting environment. Attentional capture is my downfall

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Slightly blurry lino print of a cartoon possum running away and the text "I HOPE THIS EMAIL DOES NOT FIND YOU"

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

every racist bigot ever

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!

Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 Years

Workers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Please learn to disagree with Black women without questioning our expertise

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johniwaniszek.bsky.social @johniwaniszek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When Alito cited a 17th century witch-hunter to justify eliminating Roe-v-Wade, the mask came off for good.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026

The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.

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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote

A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would find it much more interesting to name all the women who won Nobel prizes for men. I can start with Franklin and Meitner, anyone wants to go on?

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Jane B. Kulow @cvlkulow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“It wasn’t until April 1975 that women had a word for talking about what their male bosses were doing to them.”

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The Menopausal Marauder @menopausalmarauder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah, reporting posts like in the old days. That was defamatory as hell.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/10/2026

Religion aside: There is a small (at least currently) subset of people who have sworn off AI use for religious reasons — and at least one has already gotten a work exemption from using it. www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“Everyone should be assigned a fixed sex at birth that is policed by the state” is basically The Handmaid’s Tale. This is why many feminists oppose “gender critical” politics — it just enables authoritarianism. Trans rights and women’s rights are secured together by refusing biological essentialism.

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Austin @millennialelderaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Cornell Seven exist because patriarchy demands a pipeline

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The Menopausal Marauder @menopausalmarauder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Status: really fucking grumpy. But that’s just because, for some reason that I can’t comprehend, we’ve decided that the worst people in existence need to run things. Why? Could we just not?

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The Menopausal Marauder @menopausalmarauder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They don’t fund what they need to fund. They fund what they WANT to fund. And even in areas they fund because they want to fund it, they do it in the stupidest & most wasteful way possible. They work at cross purposes with themselves constantly. Horrible administration. Terrible decision making.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spent all day refining a press release for our upcoming symposium on Creative Writing in the Age of AI and then . . . he just tweeted it out.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/10/2026

he's finally done it. he's finally better at something than anyone else on earth has ever been.

the top 20 worst poll results of all time on inflation have all been Trump, in the last 6 months. He was the first person to hit -50 and now -60

actually he's at -65, maybe he can get -70 by election day

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The Menopausal Marauder @menopausalmarauder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She absolutely does belong in America. America is better with people like her in it. JD Vance can take his sorry ass down to Argentina with Thiel.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am so disgusted right now.

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The Menopausal Marauder @menopausalmarauder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

PAY. THEM. WTF? We throw billions at people like Elon & the people actually doing something important get nothing? Nah. My priority is people like this, not little shits like him. Fix this.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026

"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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