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@mrscrabapple.bsky.social
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feminist killjoy born at 333ppm. writer of letters and winner at cards. pfp is old, but i like it. i am not a serious person, but i wish you well with that. no is *always* golden.

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Lokke Heiss @lokkeheiss.bsky.social · 4h
Basically, anybody interviewed by someone from a newspaper or media chain, will have to expect the entire non-edited interview will be gobbled up by their AI for future use, unless strict conditions are first set.
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 5h
I wish I had a more chipper way to frame this, but the difference between polite and repressed bigotry on one hand, and outright dehumanization on the other, still stings, even if things weren't that great before.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11h
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 7h
This is genocidal rhetoric, if you're keeping track. This is the kind of thing they go for in the "Heterodox" community.
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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 15h
Did you notice that when the woman youtuber was a confirmed plagiarist everyone was happy to end her career forever but when the man youtuber is a confirmed rapist we suddenly get dozens of posts about how "disheartening" it is that people don't believe in restorative justice
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 7h
i finally took the time to get my vcr working and connected to the tv and i may never log back on.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h
One simple way that you know the United States is not a full democracy & has experienced significant democratic backsliding is that, in actual democracies, it does not matter "which party runs elections" heading into the next one. "Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"
Przeworski, Democracy and the Market coverDemocracy is a system in which parties lose elections
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 20h
One of the most valuable things a policymaker could do is rein in the fucking NDAs This shit is most definitely a matter in the public interest, and approximately zero(0) percent of us give a shit about protecting the slopmongers' trade secrets
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 22h
apparently i fully fell asleep at 7, and am now waiting for evening meds (taken way too late) to kick in so i can sleep the rest of the night after my little couple of hours goofing on here. life is weird sometimes. i need better rest that's no joke.
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 23h
I'm old enough to remember smoking on airplanes as a child. I hated it but they made you do it.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 02/10/2026
I want a world where women can exist without constantly worrying about the violence their peers can inflict on them. It hurts every time this happens
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Jennifer—em Dash—Graham @jgriffingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today one of my podcasts had a regional Paxton ad that was 100% a fictionalized case in which he stepped in and halted child trafficking. Like, made up entirely, spouted as if fact. No one can prevent him from doing this.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everytime, the modern Republican Party has done something constitutionally crappy, even after they have pardoned said constitutional crap, we are then supposed to pretend that it was not constitutional crap. Nope: Nixon was a crook and J6’ers were a bunch of rioters who tried to Hang Mike Pence.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 01/10/2026
I should note: the debate over Trump's decision to end the "sensitive locations" policy is arguably one of the biggest religion stories of his 2nd term, involving dozens of faith orgs/denominations in 4 separate lawsuits. Over and over, it has directly pitted the admin against religious leaders.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This👇👇👇👇👇👇
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
seems to me boomer parents just loved to brag loudly about their precocious kids with photographic memories until those kids are 48 and calling them out for the entire history of ways they've not kept promises, ignored their very real traumas, or deeply fucking betrayed them. weird.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹
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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack
Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court's decision to vacate that stay interferes with the Sixth Circuit's routine administrative handling of a capital case and unnecessarily prevents that court from giving due consideration to Pike's claim. Worse, the Court grants such extraordinary relief solely to allow the State to execute Pike before litigation over her conviction has properly run its course in the lower courts. I see no reason to short-circuit the ordinary process of appellate review, particularly in light of the grave consequences of an erroneous de-cision. Tennessee's desire to expedite Pike's execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her "fundamentalinterest in [her] own life." Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U. S. 1,
9 (1985).
In capital cases, "[a]ppreciation of our own fallibility, and respect for the judgment of an appellate tribunal," demand caution before "acting irretrievably." Bowersox v. Williams,
517 U. S. 345, 347 (1996) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Indeed, this Court often states that it is "'a court of review, not of first view?" McLane Co. v. EEOC, 581 U.S. 72, 85 (2017) (quoting Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7
(2005)). Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook that principle precisely when it matters most.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am going to say what I've been saying for some time. If they succeed in restricting and criminalizing abortion pills, more people are going to die. ALSO, I think that the public is overly complacent right now.
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hegseth and miller are already living in fort mcnair. we genuinely might need a fucking serious national conversation about whatever the fuck is happening because they are taking it very seriously. which is horrifying.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026
South Florida is becoming what the Middle East and East Asia used to be for the neoliberal American university. The place to open a satellite campus, in this case to spread the "brand" to tech capital. Meanwhile, what of public higher ed in the state? www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/i...
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Vanderbilt in West Palm Beach
Expanding Our Presence Vanderbilt University is proceeding with a planned graduate campus in West Palm Beach and has launched a new $250 million phase of the fundraising campaign for the project. With...
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
knitting a swatch for a fun little gift for a friend (who knows and appreciates fiber arts). first time using size 1 needles in FOREVER and it is so deeply satisfying, no idea why. when i finally get to the proper knitting and am back on 5 needles, no one will be able to tell me a goddamn thing.
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i stumbled into the small blessing of no fraternities at a jesuit university for undergrad, and i'm just saying this take is correct.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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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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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the signature page has a lot going on. wow.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29/09/2026
This is an astonishing self-own by the Internal Revenue Service that will keep scores of hardworking, tax-paying, non-refund-seeking immigrants from paying billions in federal taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...
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Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens (Gift Article)
The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
automating the bigotry is one of the main goals of the "AI revolution"
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
maintenance deferred forever seems to be what the fall of empire felt like, if i'm remembering that one history podcast i listened to for a while correctly. "slowly collapsed like a flan in a cupboard." wait no, that was suzy eddie izzard in dress to kill. nevertheless!
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A car marked "New York Times" turning hard to the right off a highway labeled "Reality" to an exit named "Bedtime Stories for White Centrists""
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
It ALMOST feels like we’re just starting to reach the normies with “the federal government and Silicon Valley have joined forces to spy on every aspect of your life and it’s called Palantir” and it’s either going to be the turning point for radical privacy or cripple the concept forever.
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ashley should be hounded to the ends of the earth, no mercy.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is really remarkable that in a time of historic impasse in Congress, with both houses have been reduced to complete standstills despite a mounting number of political, economic, and ethical crises, both parties have spent months working to pass a bill limiting the pay of college athletes
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
yoiiikkkessss
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
jessica.substack.com
Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
an odd moment was the president posting an image wearing one glove and posing with xi, a photoshopped blonde woman, and a row of droids the president running an overtly political campaign ad paid for by the us government is a sign of blatant corruption and disregard for the rule of law
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my heart!
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Also like we're five years into a conservative cultural project to keep kids from learning that LGBTQ even exist in the first place.
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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