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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 14/10/2026
2023: “We demand our employees stop working from home and return to the office. We’re at our best when our team members can collaborate in-person, and we really missed seeing them.” *adds AI to business* 2026: “We’re firing all of you. Leave the premises immediately or we will kill you.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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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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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please share. #Pinks
girlyfeminist girlyfeminist
l've been a SA advocate for decades:
NEVER go to campus resources for a SA. Call a rape care hotline/program (off campus), get a SA advocate (they're free), go to a SART hospital for care (and evidence collection if you choose).
They activate the police. Schools have NO business in this process and will minimize and bury it. It's a criminal matter, not an administrative matter.
Period. No exceptions.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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SEIU Local 1000 @seiu1000.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Curious about the next steps in the contract process and don’t know where to start? Here’s a compiled list of questions and answers we have for you to refer back to easily! #2026Contract #SEIU1000 #FAQ
Strike Faqs Answered
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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Kaepernick took an action for one season, and it cost him his career. Rodgers has spent a half-decade relitigating an anti-vaccine stance that costs him nothing and earns him a monologue on McAfee whenever he decides to take a shot.“ www.nytimes.com/athletic/753...
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Colin Kaepernick knelt quietly. Ten years later, everyone just performs (Gift Article)
Activism is different from speech. Kaepernick jolted the sports world, but in the following years, many have extracted the wrong takeaway.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’re not in the habit of recognizing celebrity deaths here at 925. That said, Dolly Parton is a national treasure and some folks here joke that Dolly is our Locals patron saint. After all her song “9 to 5” is our anthem. Today we remember all the love and kindness Dolly brought the world.
Tribute-style portrait of a Dolly Parton performing in a ruffled light purple blouse, arm raised and singing into a microphone, overlaid with the lyric: "You're just a step on the bossman's ladder / But you've got dreams he'll never take away."
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One of the more obscure facts I remember about Dolly Parton is this: just like Star Trek would not exist without Lucille Ball, Buffy would not exist without Dolly Parton. She was a silent producer of the movie and show. That's why Buffy Summers has the same birthday as Dolly: January 19.
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sean pagliacci aka doctor dog with a gun @ghosthardware05.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"one day the sadness will end but i dont think todays the day" david lynch
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
we lost an actual saint
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
yeah hi, I'm the eyeliner expert. she has downturned, hooded eyes, she is starting her wings too low, and drawing them straight out instead of upward. she also wears heavy half lashes on the outer corners only, which drags her eyes down further. I could go on but I'm trying to be a nicer person
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What’s Up With Natalie Harp’s Eyeliner?
We asked five makeup artists to decode the techniques — and motivations — behind the presidential aide’s signature look.
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/08/2026
I'm sure this take has been took already but it's worth saying: the obscene, cynical performance of "It's about being against plagiarism" re Arday is absurd when the entire academic superstructure is being reorganised around mandating plagiarism using advanced plagiarism automation software
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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[No//Thrones] @krakoan-lorax.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Diarrhea in the lettuce, glass in the popsicles, E. Coli in the berries, screw worms in the beef, salmonella in the chicken & eggs, listeria in everything else. Man I love deregulation. Libertarianism is such a great philosophy.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media? This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
chicagoreader.com
The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation center
Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.
wired.com
Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
1. Fire all employees on week 1 of a Democratic administration. Everyone. No exceptions. 2. Start now to pull together state-based ICE People's Assemblies. Collect testimonies about impacts on your communities. Release reports by December 2028. 3. REPARATIONS for all ICE victims - $$ & citizenship
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
When a man says he was “falsely accused,” he probably actually means “I think I should be allowed to do that to a woman.”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Community Activism Forced Federal Government to Abandon Plans for ICE Warehouses
Activists are now watching to see whether the Trump administration will instead further privatize immigration detention.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1/3 The men were and are attracted to him. That’s it. This is “Heated Rivalry: Politics.”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Time to repost Sara Ahmed’s essay about how the language of carcerality is misapplied to any attempt to hold a perpetrator accountable—or deny him more power.
feministkilljoys.substack.com
The Complainer as Carceral Feminist
I am often asked how my arguments about complaint activism relate to the projects of transformative and restorative justice as well as abolitionist feminism.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I've been doing sexual harassment and assault research and advocacy work since 2012. If there's one thing people need to understand is that everything, literally everything, is stacked against the victim. Every one who comes forward risks their reputation, identity, safety, and more. 1/2
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Intimate partner violence and sexual assault usually co-occur. In fact, men who hurt their significant others are among the most likely to commit *all* kinds of violence. The idea that men can mistreat women in private and be trusted in public is absurd.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So painful. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Four Black women. Nine degrees. Not one steady paycheck.
The president promised to save “Black jobs,” but his policies have resulted in fresh pain for the Black middle class as the employment gap widens.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 23/06/2026
How much food do you think Starbucks wastes? A union Starbucks barista explains how workers are held to an unrealistic standard while corporate wastes more than they let on...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/06/2026
My gf has roped a load of churches into getting their members to collect a load of food that can then be distributed to those who need it across Belfast. Many are afraid to leave their houses, even to get food. People have been delivering food to strangers since this started.
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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There is a problem with the stories we tell & the way we perceive how change happens. The Union of Pinnacle Tenants, the largest tenant-led union in NYC—are the reason Mamdani took action. Organized people power is pivotal. Top down stories of elected heroes (even ones we like) are not sufficient.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Some men never recover from having been a boy with a mother. Rather than successfully integrating their animus and anima and individuating into psychologically whole individuals, they remain entrenched in a position of hostile dependency in relation to all that is feminine.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
www.nj.com/news/2026/06...
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Detainees speak out: What they say is going on inside Delaney Hall
Detainees describe overcrowding, mistreatment and inadequate medical care as controversy over conditions at the facility grows.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is excellent, and especially thrilling because it's the first thing I've read on this topic that gets past its supposed inevitability to assess what AI ed tech is actually like, and what it actually does. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.
Alex Pretti and Renee Good
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21/05/2026
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
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DavidP @davidp-p.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Anybody who defends awarding tax dollars to the pardoned criminals who attacked our government on January 6 is complicit If this doesn't enrage you, nothing will
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.
jessica.substack.com
Exclusive: She Helped Plan Her Teen's Abortion, So CPS Took Her Daughter Away
Child protective services is being used as an anti-abortion weapon in banned and pro-choice states
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Powerful reporting on how security forces in Israel use rape and sexual abuse as a form of torture against Palestinian men, women, and children (CW: This piece includes graphic details of sexual trauma.) By @nickkristof.bsky.social Gift link:
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Not that it's OK for ICE to treat anyone this way, but this woman is a green card holder. She's a legal immigrant who did everything legally and she's been kidnapped by ICE.
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