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Neil Stenhouse

@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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Data, research, progressive politics, climate, energy, scicomm. Formerly @EmpowerProjUS @GQRResearch @UWMadison @Mason4C. From 🇳🇿 (Palmy)

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10h
Incredibly good stuff here: defector.com/resident-evi...
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Accept The Expanding Ball Of Infected Corpses You Cannot Change | Defector
“Here are the main things you need to know about the Resident Evil games,” I explained to my friend Liz over the nonsense of the Digger trailer. “There’s a big outbreak of some kind of mutagenic virus...
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 10h
Fry bread is maybe pound for pound the most under appreciated S tier food in the United States
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 10h
the annual lenape pow wow in prospect park is this weekend! go get some fry bread prospectpark.org/powwow
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Third United Lenape / Lunáapeew Nations Pow Wow
Family friendly fun, culture, art + learning with Indigenous dancers, drummers, craft + food vendors on October 3 + 4.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 10h
Eric Schmitt thinks the Wisconsin football mascot is Bucky Buckeye
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 10h
remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 11h
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 11h
We should do this now, but if Democrats are not conducting rolling impeachments and congressional investigations—process as punishment—when we hold both houses in a couple months, we will be derelict to democracy.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 12h
"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences
Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 11h
The Lomez-Rufo podcast gives us a snapshot of the conservative movement's metabolism in action.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/from-shitp...
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From Shitpost to Bullshit
The Function of Conservative Intellectuals
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14h
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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404 Media @404media.co · 11h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 11h
me watching this without sound: nope, too big. snuggly? apparently. but terrifyingly big. big as hell me watching this with sound: that's just a lil guy
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 11h
Wonderful news. Congratulations to everyone involved. www.popville.com/2026/09/the-...
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“The African American Civil War Memorial Museum Is Reopening!” - PoPville
"Dear PoPville, Some long awaited U Street Corridor news: After some delays, the African American Civil War Museum is finally reopening in its permanent home in the historic Grimke School, tomorrow We...
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 12h
Engaging in procedural hardball may also help get the word out about why that is needed. Media will cover it as a scandalous man bites dog thing - “Why are Dems acting like GOP now??” Giving them an opportunity to have their message heard-we are doing this until GOP renounces antidemocratic tactics
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12h
Procedural hardball is disruptive, but makes perfect sense from a radical perspective. The whole question is whether there’s a good basis for radicalization. Given [gestures everywhere] the answer’s clearly yes. www.offmessage.net/p/the-new-ra...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 13h
That seems worrisome.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 14h
The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It isn’t talked about enough how traumatizing even “minor” racist encounters can be for the targeted party I’m thirty-two years old and still tryna process shit from when I was like 15
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When I was in college there was this frat who made being “southern gentlemen” their whole identity. Them white boys used to be at intramural b-ball games, calling the black teams the N-word, “boys”, and all type of shit . Whenever I think of it, I damn near fly into a rage like I’m still there
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 13h
Even some GOP pollsters (well, Kristen Soltis Anderson) get it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14h
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 13h
A welcome change to see Dems go left on immigration, something Obama didn't do until pushed by DACA activists and Biden didn't either. We need to see a full-throated defense of immigration as a good thing, and not just on economic grounds. Talarico is doing that. Hope more Dems follow.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13h
got to the part of the making of the atomic bomb by richard rhodes where Merle Tuve independently discovers the scientific discipline of Marketing from first principles. NIMBYs also harder to defeat than splitting the atom
When Tuve had first proposed the Van de Graaff to the zoning board of the prosperous Chevy Chase neighborhood the board had turned him down.
Smashing atoms smacked of industrial process and the neighborhood had its property values to consider. Tuve noted the popularity of the Naval Observatory, across Connecticut Avenue a few miles west, and rechristened his project the Atomic Physics Observatory, which it was. As the APO it won approval.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h
I've obtained new data showing that in 3 House districts in South Texas, big majorities of Latinos are swinging hard against Trump on immigration. This is where the "multiracial working-class realignment" behind Trump restrictionism was said to be happening. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 15h
someone should do an 'OJ: Made in America' style documentary about the 2000 election, bc NOBODY remembers how completely insane it was
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 16h
The more I hear about H*rry Pott*r references shoehorned into recent Warner Bros. TV shows for Brand Synergy™️, the more I remember this sadly prescient essay I wrote for Vulture in 2018:
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Ralph Breaks the Internet and the Rise of Mash-up Cinema
It’s not unreasonable to expect that branded mash-ups are on their way to becoming a staple aspect of blockbuster movies.
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colin feral @sal.gay · 16h
More ppl need to know about this
Marisa tomei saying “it’s a fact” on threads while reposting a threads post from user jonsavoy that reads 

“When you realize the Chevy Bel Air wasn't offered with a 327 engine and a four barrel carburetor until 1964” with a photo of Sen. Katie Britt with an expression of consternation and concern reacting to sen. schmitt’s questioning of jack smith
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." 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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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 29/09/2026
my position is that everyone should be calm, but that the polls are clearly drunk, but also that theyre so drunk that even if they get 50% less drunk between now and election day, there will be reason for people not to be calm. but people should be calm.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ah yes, combining many of Trump’s strengths, cooperation, commitment, and responsibility
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People like Friedersdorf need to punch left to stay in business, but also need plausible centrist deniability to stay in business. The shame is not that he’s done it again, but that he seems to have lifetime tenure at one of America’s most important magazines.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Evil is good" is a bit Eddie Murphy did in Vampire in Brooklyn www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Pe...
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Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) - Evil Ass is Good! Scene | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my god the direct use of the hot dog guy sketch from I Think You Should Leave in a political ad
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just buy a snipe proof shirt
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ceej @ceej.online · 14/05/2024
walking around with red dots painted all over my body to confuse snipers
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Manischewitz Fruity's (1994-1998): Crunchy, apple-flavored puffed cereal, released seasonally for Passover five years in a row. They were made with only four ingredients--certified Kosher Passover cake meal, sugar, salt, and apple juice concentrate
A white, orange and green cereal box, with an image of a puff ball in shades and colorful bermuda shorts "surfing" on a spoon that is being dipped into a bowl of puffed cereal balls, as other colorful puffs high-five in the background
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I suppose my concern is around the hubris of it all. Across all of these folks, there is a shared theory of exemption: exceptionally intelligent people, having understood something everyone else missed, are entitled to extraordinary freedom, because the stakes are too high for ordinary safeguards.”
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I'm too stoned to remember the word Christians
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tremendous thread
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