Reposted by Derek FoxMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 3hThey'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. 12637941780
Reposted by Derek FoxKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 2hToday, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. 421638506
Reposted by Derek FoxChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3hI reached out to Manhattan Institute, where Rufo derives so much of his legitimacy as a "senior fellow," to see if it has any comment about him pushing "The Indian Question." No response, will let ya know if that changes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 823228
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 4hBut if we don’t buy a bunch of bananas every week and let them brown on our counter, how will the colony of fruit flies in the kitchen sustain itself? 1162
Reposted by Derek Foxemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23hRenee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda. 473084834
Reposted by Derek FoxDavid W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.nejm.orgRetatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJMRetatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign... 13384110
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Deport the Courttheguardian.comUS supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countriesConservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling 041
Reposted by Derek FoxChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters. 15543185
Reposted by Derek FoxKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thread on Dan Boultwood's victim who waives her anomity to talk about the experience. For those who didn't see the original reporting, this is the only significant coverage. Maddie says how she's disappointed there wasn't more public introspection and conversation over this, and she's right.bleedingcool.comDan Boultwood Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Child Sex OffencesComic book creator Dan Boultwood was sentenced in court yesterday, after pleading guilty to child sex offences 419591
Reposted by Derek Fox🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault. 281489305
Reposted by Derek FoxImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026fucking reallythehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 672165717
Reposted by Derek FoxJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.jessica.substack.comCarrying That Weight—AgainI can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case 141122311
Reposted by Derek FoxSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.” 561198323
Reposted by Derek FoxRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies. 251371407
Reposted by Derek FoxAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I 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... 4954141200
Reposted by Derek FoxDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t. 7833191108
Reposted by Derek FoxBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.thecityreporter.nycDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst. 14692381
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Actually! “Fraud” is soliciting premium payments with a promise of health insurance and then dropping families from the rolls before they’ve made their first claim. 1111
Reposted by Derek FoxApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 381374572
Reposted by Derek FoxProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.propublica.orgI Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro... 11838911491
Reposted by Derek FoxBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year. 32974409
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The relentless bulldozing of consent by the AI Bros has really been something to live through. Ingest all the books, all the movies, all the Web! Reanimate dead celebrities! Face ID everyone! Record everyone surreptitiously! Turn your users into dancing pitch-people for your advertisers! 1289
Reposted by Derek FoxParis Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026But the real threats are already here, and are already taking lives. After the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC, OpenAI told authorities it had banned the shooter’s account. The truth was that a second account was made and used for months to plan violence. disconnect.blog/the-media-ha... 114121
Reposted by Derek FoxAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 12331341285
Reposted by Derek FoxWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103484405
Reposted by Derek FoxMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That's just fraud, my dude. Even if you use an AI agent. It's just fucking fraud. 1464403516
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Love every one of these “oh no he didn’t!” moments because you just know he’s big mad. Keep pumping up that blood pressure! 1123
Reposted by Derek FoxJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/09/2026There have been lots of malevolent Supreme Court justices, but there's not really a precedent for a Supreme Court justice who is as *dumb* as Brett Kavanaugh. A complete rube. Shows his ass every time he tries to write down more than two sentences of original thought.ballsandstrikes.orgBrett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every DayThe fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America. 672011412
Reposted by Derek FoxLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970122261
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah this seems bad, but what’s really going to bake your noodle is wondering who told the Chinese this was happening? And who initiated the shipment with the idea that this would be possible? 1131
Reposted by Derek FoxGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...newrepublic.comStephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New LeaksSordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down. 13127771320
Reposted by Derek FoxAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 231759734
Reposted by Derek FoxChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together 12583220
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My spouse would murder me if I said this… and no jury in the land would convict 151
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So much wrong but maybe start here: The people **paying for insurance and not using it** are NOT the reason health care in the US costs too much. 2100
Reposted by Derek FoxAmy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people. 172059807
Reposted by Derek FoxErin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is human trafficking on a massive scale. 332304782
Reposted by Derek FoxScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982253351
Reposted by Derek FoxAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it I had to cite a key moment from Trump's speech, it would be this one. it is a threat not just to the Iranian government but to the Iranian people, and in that sense it contravenes both the international laws prohibiting war and the international humanitarian law that protects civilians 4383120
Reposted by Derek FoxKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out. 773574676
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“That’s all right babe, it’s just that your principles were tested and found to be totally lacking. Not one drop of courage at all! No big deal.” 191
Reposted by Derek FoxSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen. 1461380
Reposted by Derek FoxPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command. The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc. 111385529
Reposted by Derek FoxAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view. This will severely interfere with legal access. 21934315
Reposted by Derek FoxCameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A key point: you do need a theory of communication, alongside a theory of politics, to be an effective operator I think the centre and left struggle, generally, with "playing the game" - it's not enough to just have policy prescriptions you think will work 960599
Reposted by Derek FoxNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24841331667
Reposted by Derek FoxJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Last week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway. 6793183
Reposted by Derek FoxJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...thedartmouth.comOp-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector PangramSchnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.” 711481490