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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 23/02/2026

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl. If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

A way I am (apparently?) weirdly wired is I can't imagine having the patience to be corresponding with some schmuck with an island. Even if I knew no details. I legit can't conceive *wanting* to trade note after note with some boring-ass fauxvocative dipshit who can't spell.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

‘Don’t pay attention to the murder and kidnapping, it’s all a distraction from the Ep-‘ Shut the fuck up.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

First of all, good for her for calmly standing her ground and ignoring all the empty threats -- "we're gonna put you in the car and ID you!" -- until these goons give up and slink away. Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

LOL. Got blocked for asking an LLM pusher to clarify their contention that, by any definition of consciousness, if all people are conscious so too must be every machine. Truly shameful the flimflam people will try to sell us in the course of insisting we must have moar chatbot.

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Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/07/2025

The 14th Amendment was ratified today in 1868—guaranteeing equal protection under the law. 157 years later, Trump’s trying to erase it like it was a typo. No birthright citizenship. No due process. Just Trump doing what he does best—breaking the law.

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Yes, Ma’am 💙🇵🇷 @isaidyesmaam.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This video needs to be spread far and wide. We torture people in public now. Walmart let this happen in their store. (Time to boycott Walmart if you’re not already.)

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If the city famous for having absolutely nightmarish garbage mayors can pull off an upset like this YOUR CITY CAN TOO.

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Times Union @timesunion.com · 18/06/2025

Four years after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo resigned in disgrace, New York City's Democratic voters should look elsewhere for leadership.

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Editorial: Don't rank Andrew Cuomo

Four years after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo resigned in disgrace, New York City's Democratic voters should look elsewhere for leadership.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If you are National Guard or active duty military & you are ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of your fellow Americans, call the Gl Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487 There is support, you don't have to go through with it.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at the Appomattox Court House on this day 160 years ago. I am thankful for Lee. His mediocrity as a general and arrogance as a strategist were of enormous benefit to the Union. I encourage all to shit on his grave if the opportunity is ever presented.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Our access media should reckon with the fact that the president is very suggestible, and they play an active role in creating his fixations. His behavior is on him, but his enthusiastic selling of US citizens to foreign slave prisons will be in part bc he was goaded into it by this sort of thing.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I owe you an apology, Ken. I wasn’t familiar with your game.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Seen enough of Howard Lutnick, thank you! No more of that guy is needed at this time. If I need some more I will simply go to Oyster Bay, find the most expensive restaurant, and look for the person who is being the most obnoxious to the servers. Do not need additional exposure at this time.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Elno big mad, gonna cancel some kidney transplants and call off christmas.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Well-meaning folks ask "why" the techreich seek to destroy biomedical science and patient care. Asking commits one to hearing the answer, which is: public health impedes their rule. We are ill, but not ill enough to maximize their power over us. So we must suffer. That is the whole sum of it.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Booker is modeling a generous patriotism, condemning the indefensible, but giving offramps to those in thrall of evil. It will not change votes. But! What he is doing is essential. It is a ghostlight, stubbornly illuminating the space where civic ethics lived, and will yet live again.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Here's the thing. Fuckups gonna fuck up.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I'd like to say my never-Newsom position is simply a moral stance, and it is. But also: we need winners. A person whose judgement has them lighting their credibility on fire for clicks is not a winner. Failing both the moral test and the stench-of-loser-shit test? It's gonna be a no from me.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This all day. Show some spine and win, or don't and lose.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

No, Jim, look: I don't want Tim Curry, or even Gary Cole doing Lumbergh. Get me the dampest, smarmiest, limpest pantload of an empty suit, where the slightest glimpse of his pasty visage tells you he is terminally full of shit, and if he says it's sunny out you pack a fucking poncho and galoshes.

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Specific circumstances and wording aside, the thrust of this point is inarguable. It's a disaster to conceptualize one's vote as a sop to be thrown to the politician that 'earns it' most theatrically. In fact it is a duty, to be undertaken with the goal of maximizing good and minimizing suffering.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

February 18, 2024
TO:
Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH
CC:
John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH
Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH
FROM:
Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH
SUBJECT: Resignation
Dear Dr. Memoli,
On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment:
I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included:
• For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual

nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system.
• Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats.
• Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them.
• Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn.
• Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity.
I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind.
As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha…

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Lawyer recruitment to assist illegally dismissed Federal employees 🧪

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othere.bsky.social @othere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Vance epitomizes the lazy cowardice animating so many of these clowns.

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Society for Epidemiologic Research @societyforepi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Dr Bill Jenkins had a long career in epidemiology, contributing through research & education. He created an anti-discrimination newsletter (The Drum), publicizing the Tuskegee experiment atrocities. Read about his achievements in epidemiology & public health here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Je...

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Bill Jenkins (epidemiologist) - Wikipedia

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