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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 20h
At exactly 0 times in my entire adult life have Democrats in Congress done what's actually necessary to hold Republicans accountable. I'm hoping this streak will be broken starting in January. But it's easy to see why Republicans think they can just keep getting away with it.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h
Children living safely with families are being picked up by ICE and referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which places them in shelters or foster care. These shelters were designed for new arrivals, not settled kids—and the children are struggling badly.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 23h
Is social media, which is run by a handful of morally insane fascists, the problem with American democracy? Is the media, which is dominated by white nationalist maniacs Rupert Murdoch and David Ellison, the problem with American democracy? Is AI, which is
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"There is no question that the number of police killings of civilians in the U.S. – who are disproportionately Black and other people of color – are the result of policies and practices that enable and even encourage police violence. ... American police kill civilians at incredibly high rates[.]"
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Not just “a few bad apples”: U.S. police kill civilians at much higher rates than other countries
Police violence is a systemic problem in the U.S., not simply incidental, and it happens on a scale far greater than other wealthy nations.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is exactly the same as "We shouldn't do impeachment because it will fail." You impeach. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And you make the far right authoritarian party block it in the Senate, again and again.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
Professional Republicans have given us fascism, murder, and corruption and have robbed us of money, health care, and decency.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Disturbingly, Alpha School ... collects data on the students themselves, including video recordings, and publishes it to a Google Drive online. That folder, 404 Media [(@404media.co)] reported in February, was made accessible to anyone who had the link."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the biggest ones is trust in the Title IX system. A school with a really low reporting rate isn’t necessarily a place where violence doesn’t occur, but rather a place where students know they will be mistreated if they come forward.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
one thing I remember thinking about during the NYT's wall to wall coverage of Claudine Gay's fake plagiarism scandal is how regularly the NYT denies credit to the work of local, independent, and/or student journalists
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Because of the broad design of the designation, those who associate with [CAIR] could also face harsh penalties. Universities would be mandated to expel students who 'promote' [CAIR]. ... [L]awyers would face prosecution from the state for [providing legal representation to CAIR]."
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People say they want "authentic" people as politicians. Interesting to me that she's not getting the resources she needs in this race.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/10/2026
“If I’m racist about noticing you, you haven’t assimilated” has always been the standard.
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cop is subject of community complaints (including for punching a driver in the face during a traffic stop). Local newsroom files a public records request about him. Eugene, Ore says sure thing, that’ll cost $2.5 million and take at least 44,000 hours to complete. My latest for @theintercept.com:
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Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.
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Tommy Beer @tommybeernba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
MSG has operated as an extraordinarily profitable private enterprise while continuing to collect a property-tax exemption granted by the city in 1982. The exemption had originally been justified as a means of keeping the Knicks and Rangers from leaving NYC.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You must internalize Oliver's point: 1) there are no "adults in charge" of the Democratic House comms machine 2) what you actually have is a consultantocracy telling a bunch of 20-somethings who started as interns what to think and say 3) I was 33 with comms experience. That made me a rarity.
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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If your proposal for reform requires a constitutional amendment, or Republican votes, your intention is to block reform.
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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let me say, once again, that Third Way is funded by billionaires, many of them openly right wing. So why in the fuck would we let them keep pretending they have any good faith interest in real democratic progress? They are fucking you from the inside. Stop taking their calls.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good thread about Third Way because the usual suspects around here were saying that they're totally on our side because they agreed with one good position. Anyway,
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For every story like the Cornell gang rape, there are thousands more that couldn’t make it into the light. I wrote about a few dozen of them at one university in On the Wrong Side. The university’s treatment of survivors is eerily similar to what Jane Doe at Cornell experienced.
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On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...
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ICIJ @icij.org · 30/09/2026
Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in October 2017 when a bomb placed in her car was detonated remotely. She had been working on #PanamaPapers stories. This month, the man accused of orchestrating her killing was found not guilty on all charges. buff.ly/rasQ0gk
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Jury acquits Maltese business tycoon in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia - ICIJ
Yorgen Fenech was the last of seven men prosecuted for her 2017 assassination.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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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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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Texas Tribune, one of the most reliable news outlets in Texas, just named the ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Gregory Feathers www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We absolutely, positively need to stop publishing articles whose headline is a question for which a full, complete correct answer is, "No." Doing so should be regarded tantamount to resigning from the publication.
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Anahita @anahita-yx.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"I don't think you can actually talk about Islamophobia without talking about empire – certainly not when it comes to the Middle East. One of Israel’s great achievements, in this period, was to make terrorism into a major concern for US foreign policy." www.equator.org/articles/sec...
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Second-Class Citizens • EQUATOR
How the persistence of American Islamophobia makes it painfully clear that we are still living with the War on Terror
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An under-made point: many right-wing politicians around the world “support Israel” less out of deep concern for the Jewish state but rather as a pretext/mechanism for pursuing their domestic agenda of defunding universities, cowing civil society & curbing free speech. www.equator.org/articles/gaz...
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The New McCarthyism • EQUATOR
How Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Read this by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "Rates of violence against women are significantly higher on Division I campuses than at Division II, III, or universities with no athletic programs. Game days at top college football schools are associated with a 28 percent increase in area reports of rape."
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Unmanned
Talking about male supremacy, conservative backlash, managing tetchy feelings, and embracing joyful feminist refusal. Click to read Unmanned, by Soraya Chemaly, a Substack publication with thousands o...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One reason the far right authoritarian party is s obsessed with voter fraud is because so many of its elected officials do not legally reside where they say they do
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/09/2026
Israel’s bombardment has damaged 82% of Gaza’s buildings, leaving many structures at risk of collapse. Residents of a six-story building that recently fell knew it was unsafe but stayed because they had no other shelter.
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Israel Damaged 82 Percent of Gaza’s Buildings. Collapses Are Burying Us Alive.
Residents of the recently collapsed six-story high rise knew they were in danger but could find nowhere else to sleep.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about this "AI is gonna go rogue" bullshit is that we've established that this technology requires extremely expensive unpopular infrastructure to run. Like oh god the super intelligence is gonna kill us all please keep letting us build the streaming diesel fume factories
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When fascists win, centrists get to feel good about themselves because they are kinder and more tolerant than those people. When progressives win, centrists find themselves cruel and narrow minded by comparison, and can't bear that feeling.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The customer is always wrong, now” is a great way to capture how specialize finance has ruined everything from our favorite store to your political process. Margins are now the only customer. The only voter. We have but one real way to exert power over any of it anymore.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Once again, a core feature of a major piece of AI technology will actually just be people working in a call center." www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”
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