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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Share the story with someone you believe would be interested in it. Even that small gestures makes a difference.
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The story is free to read as it's all based on public records. But this type of reporting isn't without costs to us @defector.com The best way to support this work is to subscribe: defector.com/products Or make a one-time contribution: defector.com/tip-jar Or ...
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Very little has been publicly known about the 2019 possible child abuse investigation involving Tyreek Hill, back when he was in Kansas City. But a deposition taken in his ongoing civil trial provides new details about the investigations done by police and child protective services:
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New Details Emerge About 2019 Child Abuse Investigation Involving Tyreek Hill | Defector
In early 2019, Tyreek Hill was already proof of just how far athletic talent can take you. Yes, he had pleaded guilty to domestic abuse in college, including signing a document in which he said he pla...
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nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social @nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
US Soccer could have put a stop to this long ago if they actually cared about cleaning up the sport and protecting youth players. Not that anyone involved has any, but it is an eternal shame to everyone involved - doubly so for the parents.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Chicago started burning on October 8, 1871. Here is a Chicago magazine story I wrote five years ago, for the 150th anniversary:
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The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It
As the city marks the 150th anniversary of the defining event, ROBERT LOERZEL mines the archival record to offer a compelling portrait of what it was like to live through those disastrous days.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/10/2026
Every step of this path is sickeningly familiar to people who have lived under authoritarian regimes. Conservative and Liberal Americans decide with our actions, now, whether we’re better than that.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 12/10/2026
Today is Indigenous People's Day. Last week, I spoke to Native WNBA fans about the loss of the Connecticut Sun. "The handling of the Sun sale was roundly criticized, but for Native fans of the league, it hit particularly hard. They say it brought up centuries of disenfranchisement and erasure."
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‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss
The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move echoes centuries of erasure and displacement
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From the state government and your tax dollars for example…
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I mean, to have New York, a supposedly progressive state, penalise people who are sexually abused for drinking is disgusting,” Boylan told Al Jazeera.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Every step of the way, we have a system that penalises people for speaking up about their own harm,” Boylan said.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Changing legislation is incredibly important. But legislation can only go [as far as] the paper it’s written on,” Boylan said. “It would be a miss to orient this horrible, tragic, unacceptable, infuriating case in isolation without looking at the broader rape culture of our state & our country.”
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Cornell case puts New York’s progressive image at odds with its rape laws
New York lawmakers will review sexual-assault laws, including voluntary intoxication rule at the heart of Cornell case.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’d missed this: Annie Altman, Sam Altman’s sister who alleges in civil lawsuits that he ​sexually abused her repeatedly — starting when she was 3 years old — uploaded the first hour of her deposition to Instagram (and YouTube) this weekend. It has about 38k likes. www.instagram.com/reels/DeAx3h...
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Annie Altman (she/her/human) on Instagram: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset to once again hav...
39K likes, 916 comments - anniealtman108 on October 2, 2026: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset...
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did I like getting a $500 check in the mail? Yes. Will I cash it? Yes. Does it feel like a bribe from the president, especially considering the weird letter it comes with blaming democrats for health insurance or whatever? Yes. Will I vote the same way anyway? Uh yeah, obviously.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
gonna be sick www.wired.com/story/meet-t...
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Meet the Vendors Selling ‘Cornell Seven’ Merch
Brands, influencers, and Etsy sellers claim they're hawking T-shirts, mugs, and buttons out of solidarity with the woman who accused seven male classmates of sexual assault. Some say it’s shameless.
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nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social @nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If only the same show of solidarity extended to staff. @nwslsoccer.com is still covering up for sexual predators. defector.com/sixth-ex-wav...
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Sixth Ex-Wave Employee Joins Lawsuit, Alleges Supervisor Sent Her Dick Pics | Defector
Another former San Diego Wave employee has sued the NWSL and the Wave, bringing the number of former employees suing the club and the league for creating an abusive and hostile work environment to six...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026
I wrote this story bc I was frustrated at the lack of discussion about the Mohegan Tribe in mainstream coverage of the Sun’s sale. I had to pitch it around for nearly a month before my editor at The Guardian finally said yes. Native stories deserve to be told & Native voices deserve to be heard.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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pete rogers, professional diaper changer @petemrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of my favorite tweets of all time
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Search and rescue operations have been completed at the sites of yesterday’s russian aerial bomb strikes on a sewing workshop and a residential area in Kharkiv. 6 people were killed and 59 others injured, including 3 children‼️ Russian terrorists must be stopped!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"we talked to the ohio truck driver who supported the insurrection accidentally hit and killed haitian immigrant who jumped in front of his car" is still a story. i don't understand why a new one had to be seemingly concocted in its place.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i think this is often the case. there's often a need to believe the story is much more complicated below the surface, but sometimes it's not.
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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026
it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dawg I WISH
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026
“The handling of the Sun sale was roundly criticized, but for Native fans of the league, it hit particularly hard. They say it brought up centuries of disenfranchisement and erasure.” My latest for @us.theguardian.com:
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‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss
The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move echoes centuries of erasure and displacement
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026
For @us.theguardian.com, I spoke to Native WNBA fans about the loss of the Connecticut Sun. “For a tribe that fought long and hard to be granted tribal sovereignty, the [sale] decision being taken out of their hands can feel like a violation of that sovereignty.”
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‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss
The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move echoes centuries of erasure and displacement
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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Tim Thomas @tthomaswrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I remember when calling Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables”was a massive scandal. Now the president can just casually say Americans should be wiped off the face of the planet by nuclear weapons to a collective shrug and feigned confusion. Watching the Overton Window shift in real time.
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Justin Horneker @hornekerjustin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I miss the days when this would’ve been a scandal that tanked a presidency
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berserk @worstplace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Big shout out to the editors, too, for not being cowards.
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berserk @worstplace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Defector is the only site I'm aware of that closely follows the intersection of sports and sexual violence. Diana's reporting alone is worth the subscription price. Go sub.
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Share the story with someone you believe would be interested in it. Even that really does help.
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The story is free to read as it's all based on public records. But I this type of reporting isn't without costs to us at Defector. The best way to support this work is to subscribe: defector.com/products Or make a one-time contribution: defector.com/tip-jar Or ...
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I Got Friends That Will Hurt Her”: Court documents describe audio recordings and video footage that Tyreek Hill wants kept out of his divorce trial. It includes a proposed confidentiality deal that would have barred his estranged wife from sharing video with the NFL.
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"I Got Friends That Will Hurt Her": Court Documents Describe Audio Recordings And Video Footage Tyreek Hill Wants Kept Out Of His Divorce Trial | Defector
To hear powerhouse sports agent Drew Rosenhaus tell it, his client, the once-electric receiver Tyreek Hill, could sign with a new NFL team at any moment. From a football-only perspective, the agent’s ...
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nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social @nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social @nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sixth Ex-Wave Employee Joins Lawsuit, Alleges Supervisor Sent Her Dick Pics defector.com/sixth-ex-wav...
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Sixth Ex-Wave Employee Joins Lawsuit, Alleges Supervisor Sent Her Dick Pics | Defector
Another former San Diego Wave employee has sued the NWSL and the Wave, bringing the number of former employees suing the club and the league for creating an abusive and hostile work environment to six...
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nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social @nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
San Diego Wave, NWSL Sued For Team’s “Abusive And Hostile Work Environment” defector.com/san-diego-wa...
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San Diego Wave, NWSL Sued For Team's "Abusive And Hostile Work Environment" | Defector
Jill Ellis wore a smile in June of 2021 when she appeared in a press release photo announcing the new San Diego NWSL club, and her as its president. The former U.S. Women’s National Team coach who led...
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nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social @nwsltoughconvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm sure @nwslsoccer.com just loves being mentioned alongside Cornell's covering up of a gang rape. Apropos however since the league is still covering up for sexual predators.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the legal system and in these mainstream commentary spaces, victims’ post-assault behavior is positioned as evidence of them lying, so that any feminist response to the crisis of sexual assault brought on by these high-profile cases can be deemed hysterical and unnecessary.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Socially and in the legal system, our understanding of responses to sexual violence is purposefully uninformed and therefore limited to only “perfect” victims (who don’t really exist), so that we don’t have to actually combat sexual violence or believe victims or hold perpetrators accountable.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People are spinning the narrative that the Cornell victim consensually participated in group sex and changed her story later because she faced social ostracism. A lot of this is cherry-picking texts, but in reality a lot of victims initially claim they weren’t abused or raped as a coping mechanism
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @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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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because it sounds insane!
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And when you try to explain this to people who don’t know what gawker is (understandable) and also don’t know who hulk hogan is and some of them don’t know who peter thiel is… it sounds like I made it all up!
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spoke to a class a Columbia earlier about press freedom and anticipated having to explain what Gawker was but it did not occur to me for even two minutes that I would also have to explain who Hulk Hogan was
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's insane that we would allow someone who orchestrated a coup to stay in office last time to run for president again knowing full well the only way he leaves peacefully next time is in a coffin
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