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JazzyBelle

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@moiradonegan.bsky.social is so good, about such a horrible subject. The fact that she remains heartbroken by this means she has a heart. Everyone should read her, but especially men.
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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society
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The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why do cases like the Cornell rape lawsuit keep happening? @moiradonegan.bsky.social, columnist at Guardian US and co-host of the podcast "In Bed With The Right" talks about the cycle of outrage and inaction that follow cases like this, and why they keep happening: wnyc.org/browse/shows...
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Why Do Cases Like the Cornell Fraternity Rape Lawsuit Keep Happening? | WNYC
Moira Donegan, columnist at Guardian US and co-host of the podcast In Bed With The Right, talks about the Cornell fraternity rape lawsuit, the cycle of outrage and inaction she says follows cases like...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The House Judiciary Committee is now demanding an investigation into Botstein’s possible involvement in Epstein’s trafficking, as well as allegations that Botstein groped women and intervened on behalf of sexual abuse perpetrators in Bard’s Title IX investigations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes, Botstein had unilateral authority to determine outcomes in Title IX cases for years, and was widely rumored to routinely intervene on behalf of perpetrators. pod.link/1696774612/e...
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Episode 123 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- The Botstein Files
Listen to Episode 123 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- The Botstein Files from In Bed With The Right wherever you get your podcasts!
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...
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‘Shocking’ swatting incident and death threats against Jane Doe | CNN
Jane Doe’s Attorney Thomas Giuffra tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the swatting incident that left Doe’s family at gunpoint was “one of the most shocking things” he’s seen.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 10/10/2026
Lethal injection was a way for us to deny the reality of capital punishment. Pike’s experience shows us what it is
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Christa Pike’s botched execution is a reminder of the horror of the death penalty | Moira Donegan
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13h
Seems bad that the security services are being used to persecute opposition leaders
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h
This is also just empirically untrue as a matter of reading consumption: women do, in fact, read books by men. It’s men who do not read books by women. I suspect the reason is not “biological.”
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 8h
Jokes aside, this kind of casual misogyny—no longer even shielded with the pretext of “transgressive” humor, but smugly asserted as fact and even science—has become really ubiquitous. Sucks IMO.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h
Checking in on Jacobin
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 6h
In a world with actual journalism the front page tomorrow would read, TRUMP LIED ABOUT CEASEFIRE DEAL
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h
Huh. Apparently Katie Miller deleted this tweet that I had the foresight to screencap. Turns out I can TOO make things go viral on Xitter, even.
My RT of a Katie Miller tweet which RTed the NYPost coverage of the Ilhan Omar raid. 

She said: Promise made, promise kept.
I said: Katie Miller is not going to do very well in a deposition.
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Jus 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🚜 🌲 @defaoite26.bsky.social · 12h
We need more Operation: Quiet Piggy...🇺🇦
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 11h
Operation "Quiet Piggy."
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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 17h
Someone is calling this a brilliant name… “Operation Quiet Piggy”. 👏🏼🙌🏼👏🏼
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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o... genuinely disturbing article
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Opinion | The Authoritarian Future Is Already Here
A crackdown in Uganda shows how new technologies, Chinese influence and America’s moral retreat are making the world safer for autocrats.
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JazzyBelle @nazrafel.bsky.social · 23h
Yes, true, absolutely. But also I'm going to need to name my lesbian punk band the Tat Splatted Slut Butts.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
People really don’t realize how much of the far right online activity is just a Russian op. The idea is to make it seem popular but it is not at all.
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Sam Clemente @samclemente.me · 12/10/2026
Yes. That's kinda the point.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If this is being leaked to Fox News (which had not published a Guilfoyle story for years) then Guilfoyle is gone this week. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The reason why you see a bunch of accounts all suddenly start posting the same phrase at about the same time is because there's a bunch of GRU interns at setups like this and they get a slack notification and start copy/pasting the marching orders given to them
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
ICE: all lies, all the time. Houston today: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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JazzyBelle @nazrafel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I feel like the perfect example of a show like this was Breaking Bad.
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JazzyBelle @nazrafel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That's interesting. For me personally that makes it more immediate. I get to be myself, the third person, but for first person stories the artifice is more palpable - I am not "I" here, I would not do or say that, and I don't want to be in "that" brain. So, the same problem but the other POV?
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JazzyBelle @nazrafel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Interesting!! This would probably explain why people have a hard time reading about "bad" people or anti-heroes; they're over-identifying with the main character. Fascinating.
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whattheactualf.bsky.social @whattheactualf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Time to get out of AARP?
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crooksandliars.bsky.social @crooksandliars.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Five-Year-Old Traumatized After Watching ICE Shoot His Father
The boy was in the back seat when ICE shot into the car seven times, hitting his father in the neck. #ICEShootingNYC
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I get messages from people asking why I don't focus on Trump that much anymore and it's like asking why you don't talk about gravity enough. It is what it is and it's a useful lens to make clear the larger thing that's happening, but he's just a vessel, a mascot, a front man for the larger con.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
👉 bit.ly/4eqWuKZ
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Uproar as Trump admin creates 'havoc' for air travelers ahead of midterms: 'Holy smokes'
The Trump administration will implement a new rule next week that it expects will reduce the “amenities and compensation” airlines provide to travelers, sparking uproar among critics.“No more cheap airlines, we are paying through the nose for flights now — and, under Trump, all the consumer protecti...
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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JazzyBelle @nazrafel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
How do they cut so they're harder to repair? Multiple sections??
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
SA Victims, for example, are charged with felonies or held in jail to ensure they testify. Often they serve longer than their abusers. Prosecutors seem to think these "loopholes" are fine. typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
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The Defund Movement Aims to Change the Policing and Prosecution of Domestic Violence - Type Investigations
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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JazzyBelle @nazrafel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wow. The POV was the critique? People have a hard time engaging with 3rd person?!? That's.... Disturbing.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/10/2026
Breaking news: The Pentagon acknowledged that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops killed during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This. "The three most fundamental factors that have made India cohesive and stronger over the decades. These are: trust in the Constitution and the belief that nobody can take it away; fairness of the top judiciary; and independence of the Election Commission. All three are under strain now"
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Modi at 25 is staring at a cascade of crises. A perfect storm is building
Multiple headwinds make the turbulence Modi is battling as he steps into his 26th year in public office. This has brought the 3-point Modi proposition under the greatest pressure since 2014.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Trumpism with a human face" 🙄
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
PSA What nightmare for coastal Orange County California Salt Water and Lithium Batteries big hazards to electric vehicles Be safe !!
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The crowd’s at Trump’s staged events are getting smaller and smaller. Probably why they’re holding them in high school gymnasiums. A rally deep in the red state of Tennessee was overshadowed by the copious amounts of empty seats.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
Actor Keegan Allen was beaten & robbed at gunpoint in West Hollywood, then immediately took to social to blame Karen Bass. I’m sorry this happened to him, but W. Hollywood is its own city, patrolled by the LA County Sheriff’s Department. Karen Bass isn’t the mayor of WeHo. Wrong city. Wrong mayor.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I’m very comfortable saying “it is no more likely that current AI is conscious than that pocket calculators are.”
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Less than a week after mass layoffs at local newspapers across the US, McClatchy emailed staff celebrating five new hires for its AI-focused Content Innovation Lab. Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo reports on growing concern among local journalists.
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Cutting Local Journalists, McClatchy Embraces AI Content
Reporters at McClatchy newspapers across the US are concerned that the company's pivot to AI spells trouble for local journalism, reports Chris Mills Rodrigo.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The WSJ‘s coverage here has been outrageously great. Everything is about an inch from “In the text messages, Guilfoyle instructed the billionaire playboy to put the money in a burlap sack with a dollar sign on the side and wrote ‘In exchange for cash, I’ll do you favors in my official capacity ❤️.’”
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Exclusive | At Davos, Kimberly Guilfoyle Boasted of Private Jet Trips, Luxury Stays
A recording captured the U.S. ambassador saying that Greek businessmen were paying for her travels and pleading for an invitation to an event with Eric Trump.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump
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