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When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 3h
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
usatoday.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 3h
And another story about how entire sections of the regulation were written by men’s rights groups—and added into the final text without *any* revision:
thenation.com
How Men’s Rights Groups Helped Rewrite Regulations on Campus Rape
E-mails shared with The Nation reveal a deep collaboration between the Department of Education and organizations that believe in a crisis of false rape allegations.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 3h
In case anyone missed it at the time, a part of why schools handle sexual violence so badly is because perpetrators were more involved in writing Trump’s 2020 Title IX regulation. It literally comes up in the Epstein files.
nwlc.org
Jeffrey Epstein Loved Trump’s Changes to the Title IX Rule. That Tells You All You Need to Know. - National Women's Law Center
Content warning: reported sexual violence, reported homicide As an attorney who focuses on gender-based violence, I wasn’t surprised that the “Epstein files” confirmed what my gender justice comrades ...
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Hot Little Mongoose (aka Stacey) @hlmongoose.bsky.social · 10h
No one looks more uncomfortable than Kruk in a suit.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.
propublica.org
The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Nicona @nicona.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sister-in-law's dog is barking at the PPA and we're just kind of like, yeah, you go puppy girl.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tommy Tuberville, we found the furries, they’re at Mar-a-Lago.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Nicona @nicona.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore
The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am a one-issue voter: Get Republicans out of office.
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Miss Bekka🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @brattybekka.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026
Somehow, Mitch McConnell returned.
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Poe Dameron's Heavy Sigh
Alt: Poe Dameron's Heavy Sigh
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Hot Little Mongoose (aka Stacey) @hlmongoose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Phillies win. Birds win.
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Archer: My Penis Can Only Get So Erect
Alt: Archer: Kreger saying “Stop. My Penis Can Only Get So Erect.”
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Congress is back in session on Monday so there is no excuse for Republicans not to get a bill filed and passed to give out those $5,000 checks next week. Why wait? Give us our free money now when we all need it because prices continue to rise. You control the government.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The reason why they think their voters are this dumb and gullible is because they are.
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KYW Newsradio on 103.9 FM @kywnewsradio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Montgomery County Coroner's Office has ruled the police shooting death of 23-year-old Glenwood Pysher IV last weekend a homicide. spr.ly/63326B1L4Uo
23-year-old Glenwood Pysher.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
rollingstone.com
Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The 60 largest planned data centers could produce the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27 coal plants. Big Tech CEOs are polluting our planet and selling out our future to line their own pockets. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Melissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The number of Black men and women being found hanging from trees is outrageous and terrifying. The silence is beyond comprehension. Black people are not suddenly choosing to lynch themselves. What in the actual fuck is happening in this country, and why isn’t anything being said or done about it.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/08/2026
“The demolition of the Corporate Transparency Act is just the latest and most dramatic move to cater to the president’s deep-pocketed buddies and fellow cronies,” @cjcmichel.bsky.social argues.
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A Green Light for Crooks
The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026
“These men and women signed up to serve their country. The least their country owes them is hot water, a working toilet and a real meal. Hegseth cannot even manage that, and he has the nerve to look their families in the eye and call them liars.”
theguardian.com
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
All across America, the public is rising up against data centers. Good. We need a national moratorium and robust AI regulations NOW.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump Violates Constitution Again
Trump tries new tack against birthright citizenship after Supreme Court snub
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Contrary to what you will hear from the idiot in the White House, America does *not* have a communist problem. It has a fascist problem. And it starts with him.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/08/2026
"A.i." fucking sucks and everyone knows it almost everyone pushing it outside of limited and specific scientific applications is exhausted and defeated from exploitation by billionaires or just selling something
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
theguardian.com
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 30/07/2026
🧵 Who's profiting from the imprisonment of children at the Dilley ICE Camp? #1 is of course CoreCivic, which expects to generate $180M in revenue annually running the facility. 1/4
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/07/2026
My sixth grade geography class could do better. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.
nytimes.com
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ballou: Based on reporting, Larry and David Ellison, talked about transforming CNN and potentially even firing anchors the president didn’t like. Once that happened, the regulatory barriers melted away. When you’re talking about giving a private benefit in exchange for a public act, that’s bribery.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I'm old enough to remember when prominent evangelical leaders in this country claimed hurricanes are God's punishment for homosexuality, and Republican lawmakers declined to condemn those claims. I wonder what the National Mall being struck with a thunderstorm tonight means in their view.
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Nicona @nicona.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Went down to the tracks to see Big Boy, the world's largest steam engine, roll through. Amazing to see it in person!
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/06/2026
Sparklers burn at around 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Never let kids play with sparklers.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 26/06/2026
OPINION: "While everyone is using the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as a metaphor for the rot, contamination, and botched job Donald Trump has done to America, they're missing the man who helped create the conditions for the whole mess in the first place: Mitch McConnell."
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bebeinwa.bsky.social @bebeinwa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Sen. Mitch McConnell. Rep. Tom Kean. How can elected public officials just “check out” of their jobs without being open and transparent about why they are not performing their public duties? Trump has done the same, days when his schedule is empty.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.
youtube.com
Hayes: Musk wants you to forget his deadly DOGE legacy
YouTube video by MS NOW
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aliii✨✨ @gigixmelo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Also don’t invest in Space X… Per ig: @/your.richbff
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/05/2026
WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Need to revive the concept of ‘book-smart’. Only this time round it’s a good thing.
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