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The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 6h

ok i think this really needs to be said: zuckerberg is not a fan of high-end fashion, he is a fan of visibly expensive t-shirts

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 10h

Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 15h

I can’t stop thinking about these (leftist, supposedly) people who in the face of horrific allegations default to “won’t someone think of the rapists” - you guys are telling on yourself.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 18h

TikTokers are doing an “I am Spartacus!”deal with this. Buncha young women outing themselves as Jane Doe. At least some of the kids are alright.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

So does the GOP force all of its candidates to prove they’ve physically and/or sexually assaulted a woman before they can run as a Republican? Sorta like a gang initiation?

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 13h

there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12h

incredible to take days saying you’re verifying doe’s identity and then be tricked by a clearly fake court website

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14h

you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 14h

I think it is evidence of how so much we have been made to think that gaining an audience is the goal of life in this attention-seeking economy that saying "a rapist shouldn't seek a public persona that is available for consumption" is taken as equivalent to saying they "can never rejoin society."

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 16h

the response should be immediate contempt proceedings all the way up the chain of command to the ICE/ERO directors including escalating fines and orders to personally appear in court. if that doesn't do the trick, criminal contempt, throw them in jail. play stupid games, win stupid prizes

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19h

Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19h

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19h

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16h

So former NFL kicker Jay Feely is running for Congress as a MAGA guy and his opponent just put out an ad with a bunch of his missed kicks lol

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 19h

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19h

one thing which i think should be taken into account when selecting a presidential candidate is "did that candidate cover up the homicide of a first-grade teacher"

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22h

In some ways, the biggest difference between me and a person who is "successfull in media" is this clip right here. Thompson is summoning every ounce of her strength to sit there and listen to sports praise of a sexual predator. I'd... lose my shit and get fired.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20h

Michael Tracey claims he took his post down out of principle, and that it wasn't a "retraction." But it should be. He ran with information from a junk website without looking into it. If he worked at a publication with any sort of standards, this unforced error would be a fireable offense.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20h

I don't know why this site listed a name that didn't appear in actual New York court records, but the name has been floating around far-right circles on X. Given the curation of other purported court records on the site (Lindsay Clancy, Clavicular, etc), the site operator may run in those circles.

A list of the other purported court records on "ecourtrecords.org" (taken from an archived copy of the website)

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20h

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22h

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/10/2026

IDK this surge of “if every rape survivor self-IDs on the internet change will happen” is sure making me wonder if you all have collective amnesia from 2017

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lol time.com/article/2026...

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eh I think it’s a pretty accurate mirror for how much of society thinks about violence and SA against women

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Texas is basically saying it wants to encourage fraud as a matter of public policy and you should keep that in mind whenever you see a large firm incorporated in Texas

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Texas bragging about eliminating the "Delaware-style" implied covenant of *good faith and fair dealing* in contracting is about all you need to know concerning where we are in the race to the bottom.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

because it's a facially and formally neutral rule that nevertheless does racism

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“No they really believe it” is a way better heuristic for understanding political actors than “they are on the take” 9 times out of 10. Sometimes beliefs are downstream of materialism and political economy. But these relationships are more complicated than “bribes”

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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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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is good, and there should be a lot more of this tbh. not just directed at the justices either. noah feldman should get a version of this for all the fucking pr he does for the conservative justices, eg. to say nothing of the more actively evil law profs and lower court judges and lawyers

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cox has also banned fluoridation of water and packed his state supreme court so Republicans can gerrymander at will. Thoughts and feelings ass motherfucker.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

this tracks, since nixon being forced to resign was the original sin that led to the modern conservative media environment that gave us trump

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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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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I say John Roberts is a liar, hack, anti-democracy ideologue, and enemy of the Constitution, I do so in a civil manner. No yelling or cursing here. But since he will be remembered as an utter disgrace who tried to destroy the republic but failed, some in the future might say it less civilly.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/10/2026

This guy literally packed the courts because Utahns passed an anti-gerrymandering referendum and the state Supreme Court justices, many of whom he appointed, repeatedly sided with the people over him and his fellow Republicans. Spare me the white man tears www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms

Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.

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