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A plea to all you wonderful folks who are thinking to adopt (not buy) a dog or cat… The shelters are FILLED with animals who’ve been surrendered. Yesterday they had a bed and a family and now they are confused and terrified through no fault of their own. Consider giving them a next chapter.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 3h

I've been a journalist for 35 yrs &never done anything like this. Esp in this area, I can't think of anyone reputable who'd do this. I hate this happened to you & IMO it's not ethical. IF it were possible they were going to share yr interview internally, you should have been told up front at MINIMUM

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 3h

This is completely unethical and honestly shocking to me.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11h

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 11h

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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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 01/10/2026

“Very few editors are going to say, ‘You’re not a very good writer and your ideas don’t deserve a public hearing,’” he said. “It is such an obscure and opaque business for people outside of it that I understand the desire to make up stories about why things are happening.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you’re not opposed to capital punishment in principle, oppose it in practice.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Boston Globe has given rape denier Richard Hanania 7 columns in the last 10 months, and that tells you A LOT about who owns & runs the Boston Globe

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 30/09/2026

Getting mad at Joyce Cato Oates for being a snob after cheering all her epic burns is a different form of being a member of the Leopards Eating Faces party. You can’t contain that heat, you can only hope to avoid its gaze.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love journalists, I love student journalists even more

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In light of so many women sharing their experiences of being sexually assaulted in college and then doubly traumatized by Title IX, a good time to re-recommend the best book I’ve ever read on rape on campus: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742169...

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Notes on Surviving the Fire by Christine Murphy: 9780593801499 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

When Sarah’s only friend in her graduate program is found dead of an alleged heroin overdose, Sarah is forced back into the orbit of the man in their department who assaulted her. A hurtling ride...

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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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hope we get some real reporting on how this came to happen. Did Schmitt know it was a lie, but believe that Smith somehow wouldn’t be able to disprove it on the spot? Or was it that he really just jumped the gun in the most idiotic possible way? What was with them yanking away that placard? Etc.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You act like a dipshit in front of Amy Klobuchar and she WILL whip your ass

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

yeah i am reasonably sure that i have a better chance of winning the democratic primary for president than rahm emmanuel

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With alt text. The Hague is too kind a destination for Miller. Hell is too cold. I utterly despair for that children.

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"Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?" The judge asked.
"I don't know," Angel, 13, replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: "I have no one. I have nothing."

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NEW: In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews - a 9yo rested her head on the table, a 6yo pretended to fly an airplane, and a 3yo played with the mic. Many in attendance didn't have an attorney — and a 13yo was ordered removed. A look inside, thru sketches.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive…implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event & special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life.” - Mayor of Ithaca, actually doin’ shit

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Ithaca Mayor responds to reopened sexual assault case

ITHACA, N.Y. (WETM) – Robert G. Cantelmo, Mayor of Ithaca, has issued a statement on suspending Greek life at Cornell University until certain official procedures are put into place. Below is the s…

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

"Misty Green is a woman’s story told entirely in a man’s voice, and that voice seems to hate her on a level that feels intensely personal and perverse."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yet another example of the NTYBR barely functioning… this is barely a review. It’s a synopsis. A good review is worth reading even if you’ve read the book, it adds to your understanding or perspective. This is utterly empty.

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's always positioned as "no masks ever" vs. "mask totalitarianism!!! oh no!!!" (mostly by the people who feverishly want "no masks ever") but abled people can do a lot for themselves and disabled people, too, with just a little bit of *thoughtful, situational* effort

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If someone wants to give me a million dollars to recreate this I wouldn’t say no youtu.be/G4r_I0N9U3Y?...

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Conversion of Milk Bar to Library

YouTube video by Simon Pockley

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t even know what to say anymore. The only thing Covid conscious people are trying to do, truly, is not get sick. That we’ve become the country’s newest freak show is predictable given the pandemic, but truly despicable on a base human level.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The NYT reviewed Thomas’s previous book, MANYWHERE. Ironically, Thomas is trans and I think that was under Pamela Paul. No review for MAD EDEN under the current regime. Per Bookmarks, the only real reviews are from the trades. Stars from Kirkus and PW… leading to zero reviews. What are we doing?

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reading MAD EDEN from the NBA list (fantastic). I looked up their previous book, from 2022, the publisher page cites 10 reviews etc excluding trades. MAD EDEN’s page cites… two. (Both from listicles I think.) It’s impossible to overstate how extreme the review crisis is, or how fast it happened.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All of the older, now establishment Hollywood figures who are embracing this technology are basically pulling up the ladder behind them as they head into their sunset years

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

THE POPE: CHICAGO WHITE SOX CANNOT REIGN FOR 1,000 YEARS IF AI DESTROYS HUMANITY

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John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thread. This crap is so dumb. But more importantly, a waste.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Okay. We all know that Gilbert Cruz, former EIC of the Book Review, is now "Canon Editor" at the Times. Lots of us have been critical of this, both because "Canon Editor" is an absurd title and because the Book Review still does not have an EIC. (Someone is doing the job on an interim basis.)

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The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century

More than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV voted on the best series released since Jan. 1, 2000. See what they chose.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Will post about the NYT tv list tomorrow when people are actually awake but this list is so bad and makes their investment in this project so embarrassing lol

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"

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