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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 21h
I asked and the universe -- or, rather, the Guardian -- answered. This article is right on-point: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
Cornell case raises questions about rise of ketamine in sexual assaults: ‘You might not realize you’re being touched’
After a Jane Doe claimed she was encouraged to take ketamine in an alleged gang rape, advocates are urging for tighter laws around the dissociative
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David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s October and the Braves and Dodgers were playing in 100+ degree weather
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#Operation Red House @arxivofourminds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad. truthout.org/articles/bor...
truthout.org
Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This guy never heard of the radium girls, I take it?
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
$90 is nothing. Nothing.
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I hate to say it, but not necessarily. The victim might herself be Black. In that case, it's likely that the outcome would be similar, or that the assailants would all have been expelled; but charges still would not have been pursued. Why? Because Black women in America are not culturally valued.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 02/10/2026
looks a lot like the name getting thrown around by Michael Tracey etc as the Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 case is the wrong person, but the Pervert Squad has decided to ruin that girl's life just in case and her selfies are now everywhere on Twitter since she's pretty and seems confident
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More than anything, this picture shows that he's just a guy. He's just a guy, standing on a wooden platform. He's nothing special. Mindblowing that's he's fallen into such a position of power.
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Vance's words are the semantic cousin of "Go back to Africa."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😂 Trumpers now investigating whether Watergate investigation was also "weaponization"
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Chef Rocky @chefrocky413.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What could possibly go wrong…. 🤡🤡🤡
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Repeated Flu And Covid-19 Infections Linked To Higher Parkinson’s Risk, CCMB Study Finds" Dr Swasti Raychaudhuri said "not every viral infection leads to Parkinson's disease." However, she warned that "the risk increases significantly with repeated infections" as biochemical reactions can change.
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Repeated Flu And Covid-19 Infections Linked To Higher Parkinson’s Risk, CCMB Study Finds
Dr Swasti Raychaudhuri, who led the research, noted that although cells possess protective mechanisms, biochemical reactions can undergo changes depending on the circumstances.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"COVID fatigue linked to reduced brain blood flow" Brain scans found lower overall cerebral blood flow in people with Long COVID, especially in regions involved in attention, sensory processing and cognitive control. Lower blood flow was also linked to slower reaction times and concentration.
medicalxpress.com
COVID fatigue linked to reduced brain blood flow
Playing with your children or meeting a friend for coffee are everyday activities that many people move between without giving much thought to how much mental or physical energy they take.
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is true, and by design. Specifically it's White Christian nationalism that's being effected. Trump, Hegseth & Co. want a monoculture for racial camaraderie & single-mindedness; and males only, as males sort readily into social rank (simian behavior). It's crystal clear where this is going.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm attempting to get more information about the FlyDubai flight that was diverted to Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, most of the information available, at least that I've run into, leads with statements by Benjamin Netanyahu or folks from his gov't. Netanyahu's word should not be taken at face value.
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MICHIGAN Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed leads his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, by seven points. In the race for governor, Democrat Jocelyn Benson has a double-digit lead against Republican John James. (@maristpoll.bsky.social) maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In terms of the avalanche of scrutiny this young woman is about to experience, it is different only in kind from Jason Arday, not degree. The vindictiveness, the cruelty, the harping will all be there, with prurient rubbernecking added. (Arday took his own life after a media-driven onslaught.)
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This ad, very straightforwardly, counts as psyop material. It's part of a long-running psychological operation upon a certain segment of the American population, meant to activate / agitate them. I suspect the timing is due to the fact that the GOP has no good way to prod folks to the polls.
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So I wonder what all the folks who laughed when I said there's a sustained, extended smear campaign being leveled at Hasan Piker make of this new development? Netanyahu's mention of Piker is the equivalent of shouting his name around the world.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026
Damn, socialism seems pretty fucking cool if you ask me
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 24/09/2026
So, JD Vance is a national security threat. Got it.
newrepublic.com
JD Vance Planted the Story That Sparked White House Media Ban
The White House says a media ban is needed to protect national security. But one of the stories it cited as a threat came straight from the vice president.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour to benefit humanitarian aid organisations
theguardian.com
Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour to benefit humanitarian aid organisations
The US rapper, removed from Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after voicing support of Palestine, has convened a charity show that will visit Dublin, Paris and London, with a North American run to be announced Macklemore has announced a “Free Palestine” tour, a series of live shows that will feature the US rapper performing alongside musicians and friends to raise funds for humanitarian causes in Palestine. The news comes after Macklemore (AKA Benjamin Haggerty) was removed from Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after he called for a “free Palestine” onstage and said he wanted the people of Gaza and “the occupied West Bank” to know “we have not forgotten about them”. Continue reading...
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great news for a good newspaper.
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Sarc-o'-Lantern @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Duckworth's path basically guarantees a repeat of all this in 4-8 years after 2028, no matter what else happens. Impeaching, investigating, etc. *is the work*
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anton Petrov hosts a great channel on YouTube, where he breaks down complex scientific topics for a lay audience. Here he gives a synopsis of several recent neuroscience papers that each point to aspects of what might comprise consciousness. Clear & fabulous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUa9...
youtube.com
Is Our Consciousness Created by Ripples and Vortices Inside the Brain?
YouTube video by Anton Petrov
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mike LaRosa (R), former spokesperson for Jill Biden, is the guy who was taken to the woodshed by a C-SPAN caller a month ago for speaking against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed once the latter had secured the nomination for MI Senate. LaRosa trafficked in Islamophobic tropes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIm-...
youtube.com
C-SPAN Caller DEMOLISHES Zionist Hack On Live TV
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#metoo lives
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The Suffolk University survey included responses from 500 likely Michigan voters between September 16 and 20 with a margin of error of approximately 4.4 percentage points." (The HIll)
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/09/2026
Jason Eaton has been convicted of attempted second-degree murder in the November 2023 shootings of three 20-year-old students in Burlington, Vermont. Hisham Awartani was paralyzed from the chest down, while his two friends Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid were wounded.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A four-panel meme using scenes from Star Wars featuring Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala. 

Top left: Anakin looks skeptical. Text reads: "THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS AND THE PUTLITZERS ARE WOKE AND IDEOLOGICAL"

Top right: Padmé looks at him expectantly. Text reads: "AND YOU'RE GOING TO PROVE THAT BY LISTING THE GREAT BOOKS BY RIGHT-WING WHITE MEN THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED"

Bottom left: Anakin looks blankly or judgmentally.

Bottom right: Padmé looks frustrated. Text reads: "SERIOUSLY, BRET, NOT ONE EXAMPLE? GOING BACK TEN YEARS??? NOT A SINGLE BOOK THAT YOU COULD EVEN PRETEND SHOULD'VE BEEN INCLUDED?"
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: Israel is paying for a new website to seemingly influence AI chatbots to spout out pro-Israel answers, per foreign agent documents. It's barely been a month and the site has already churned out 110+ articles.
zeteo.com
SCOOP: Israel Is Funding AI Chatbot Propaganda
Yet another website appears precision-engineered to propel favorable AI narratives. Plus: Justin Baragona on the Democratic AGs who caved to the pro-Trump Ellisons and greenlit their takeover of CNN.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/09/2026
US strikes on alleged drug boats may be ‘crimes against humanity’, UN says aje.news/ojbo7l
US strikes on alleged drug boats may be ‘crimes against humanity’, UN says
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What's interesting about this post is that it completely obscures those of us who voted for Harris yet also think her policy in the Middle East would not have substantively differed from Biden's (because she basically said so). Thus, as Netanyahu had the upper hand, she indeed would be bombing.
Bsky post by R. Souissi (@rsoussivibes.bsky.social):

"Saying, 'Had Harris won, we'd still be bombing Palestine,' as a way to free your conscience for helping Trump win, is a bullshit cop-out, and you're just scared folks want to put BTA to you."

September 21, 2026
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We estimate that 4.9% of non-Hispanic white US adults support white nationalism after being informed of its core precepts, a rate that rises to 13.5% among young white men."
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The hindbrain develops separately and parallel to the forebrain/midbrain regions, according to these findings, which hold promise for teasing out crucial discoveries about spinal diseases and disorders.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For over a year, genocide scholar Omer Bartov & others plainly said, "Israel is completely flattening Gaza." None of our mainstream press focused on this. But we know what happens when MSM wants us to know something. They've scrutinized Hasan Piker, for example, for 6 weeks in fine-grained detail.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/09/2026
Investigators are illegally accessing state voter rolls—and likely flagging U.S. citizens as “unlawful voters” in a rushed attempt to meet their quotas, a whistleblower warns. trib.al/KCGJbKG
trib.al
Trump’s Voter Fraud Quest Is Turning Illegal, Whistleblower Says
Investigators are illegally accessing state voter rolls—and likely flagging U.S. citizens as “unlawful voters” in a rushed attempt to meet their quotas, a whistleblower warns.
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A discovery! *nods earnestly*
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This saddens me. "Barely Breathing" was hands-down one of the best songs of the '90s. I loved it so much I bought the single on CD, a nearly unheard-of practice.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/09/2026
A Punjabi Sikh truck driver in Wyoming said he was followed into a bathroom and stabbed repeatedly in an attack that has stoked fear across the greater South Asian community.
npr.org
A Sikh truck driver is stabbed amid a rise in anti-South Asian rhetoric
The driver said he was shaken by a violent encounter at a rest stop, which he described as unprovoked.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat? We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film.
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novapsyche @novapsyche444.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I daresay democracies don't do this.
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