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dracaena marginalia @opheliainwaders.bsky.social · 34m
I walk on this exact stretch of sidewalk every week. It is always busy (there is a subway stop, a MetroNorth station, a bunch of stores, and multiple schools around. Any federal officer using a firearm here is *dangerous* & out of line (let alone the fact that the entire premise of ICE is horseshit)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 1h
Slave ships?!?!?
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
days like this it should be absolutely illegal to work inside. the teacher should do class outside. mayor mamdani can you work on this
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 2h
“WhY dOnT mOrE wOmEn RePoRt?”
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
So yeah it’s not the same thing when Black people are conspiratorial, because (this is true in many sectors), we have documented evidence that they are out to get us & use us in subhuman ways. White people’s medical conspiracy theories are, like their others, largely rooted in ignorance & malice.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 6h
“We want people to come in the right way,” they said — and then barred every entry except a hatch labeled “white South Africans only.”
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 4h
This is not some one off poll btw - years of data shows the same. But for whatever reason, establishment pundits and politicos are intent on buying into conservative’s propaganda
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 5h
Judge Sorokin orders vindictive-selective prosecution discovery & disclosure of grand jury minutes for Ksenia Petrova, the frog embryo researcher. "Credible showing [she] was prosecuted due to her status as Harvard-affiliated researcher & J1 visa holder." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
They, in turn, reproduce under-oath statements made by a longtime customs
attorney in Petrova's federal habeas proceedings, which also concerned the events at issue in this
case. Doc. No. 45 at 13. The attorney had provided a sworn declaration attesting that, during his thirty-five-year career, he was not aware of any person having been prosecuted for smuggling without having been processed by customs officers for a "failure to declare" violation, nor could
he recall ever seeing smuggling charges brought for failing to declare a research sample
regardless of the traveler's willfulness. Id.; Doc. No. 67 at 22 (quoting same declaration). In the
circumstances presented, the foregoing suffices to satisfy Petrova's burden of supplying "some
evidence" of discriminatory effect as the relevant caselaw requires. The cited declaration
comprises a credible showing that Petrova was prosecuted due to her status as a Harvard-affiliated researcher and J-1 visa holder-
facts which "some evidence" before the Court also
shows placed her in the crosshairs of those presently controlling the Executive Branch. E.g., Doc. No. 67-2 (referencing visa and "educated individuals with a pedigree"); Doc. No. 67-4 at 5 (responding to "fake news" and mentioning Petrova's affiliation with Harvard); see also Doc.
No. 67 at 9-10 (describing context in which Petrova's case arose and actions targeting Harvard
and higher-education-related visa holders). The same declaration also credibly shows that other
travelers who have willfully failed to declare research samples or similar items but were not
Harvard-affiliated visa holders were not treated the same way.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h
"threatened to report someone's marriage as fraudulent to chase them out of a rent-controlled apartment" is about the most evil thing I've ever read that didn't involve physical violence
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 4h
Fucking wild that this person is still employed/followed. "No, it's good that [insert group] children were murdered, I support that" should render you toxic to any employer or social media mutual. Don't care what group you want to insert there.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h
cool option for at-home flu vaccination!
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Welcome - Flumist
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h
I decided to donate to her campaign.
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Bernadette for Congress | Arizona's 8th Congressional District
Meet Bernadette, Democratic candidate for Arizona's 8th Congressional District, fighting for working families and a stronger future.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23h
Disgraceful pandering to conspiracy theories. We know the names and numbers of those killed from friendly fire on 7 Oct 7. 22 people. That's 2% of the victims of that day. Out of these 22, 17 were potentially killed by "Hannibal"-style orders (not so clear).
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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 5h
“Bianey Garcia, an organizer at Make the Road NY said the funding is necessary to meet the staggering demand for services among immigrants. 'We know that many in our community are escaping their countries because of transphobia & homophobia, so we need to create that space for our community.'"
gaycitynews.com
At City Hall, advocates call for $15 million fund to support LGBTQ immigrants
A coalition of LGBTQ organizations gathered with city lawmakers at City Hall on Oct. 6 to call on the city to allocate $15 million to fund legal services for
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"In my 65 years of living, I've never seen the city in such an uproar..." deceleration.news/san-antonio-...
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'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility
Community organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 7h
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 8h
jesus www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 8h
Hey, this is that “study” that was previously cancelled after outcry at how monstrously unethical it was. It’s sentencing the poorest kids on earth to die of completely preventable liver cancer for white antivaxxers’ curiosity. How a medical doctor could co-sign this atrocity is beyond me.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 9h
One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
& thewrap.com
But mass-slander-by-anecdote has a long tradition. As The Atlantic explains:
In The Nazi Conscience, Duke historian Claudia Koonz notes that the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer ran a feature called "Letter Box," which published readers' accounts of Jewish crimes. When the Nazis took power, the German state began doing something similar.
Frustrated by the failure of most Germans to participate in a boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, Adolf Hitler's government began publicizing Jewish crime statistics as a way of stoking anti-Semitism.
Trump introduced a new government entity Tuesday that will similarly flag and highlight crimes by illegal immigrants - without, of course, providing any context about how many crimes they commit compared to U.S. citizens, or how illegal immigrants as a group might contribute positively to American society.
"The office is called VOICE - Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement," Trump explained. "We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media, and silenced by special interests."
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 10h
I think Ben Collins needs to address the fact he has an actively pro-October 7 Nazi-level racist working for him and whether he’s going to tolerate this on top of everything else.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h
NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.
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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
ICE is already setting record arrests, fueled by a growing push towards arresting people with no criminal records and people who are technically out of status but are checking in with the government and waiting for a bureaucrat to decide their applications. Now they want to ramp up arrests by 50%.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.
NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
Not beating the eugenics accusations
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22h
Update on US-Ecuadorian maritime ops: "An Ecuadorian judge declared 32 crew members of two vessels that were intercepted and bombed by the United States in Pacific waters innocent on Wednesday." efe.com/mundo/declar...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20h
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 21h
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/m...
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 07/10/2026
Council calls on city, state to use vacant government buildings for emergency shelter for Haitians losing their homes www.universalhub.com/2026/council... #Boston #immigrants
Ruthzee Louijeune tries to maintain composure as she speaks
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
According to a 2013 paper, almost 40% of female homicides globally are due to intimate partner violence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At my @texastribune.org festival panel last week, I spoke about my miscarriage and how I considered not attending the festival when I thought I still pregnant bc of the state’s dangerous abortion laws. For journalists working under fascism, the things we cover are also personal. Audio clip here:
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
since apparently the original article failed to upload:
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this is fucking insane. fuck this country. jesus.
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I didn't really like Mamdani's statement, but I gotta say that if this is how the actual antisemites feel about it then he must have done a better job than I give him credit for. "A good compromise leaves everyone unsatisfied"
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty clear that the Trump admin's "Civil Rights" department is actively seeking to force schools to segregate further and deny more Black students.
The Department’s investigation found that post-SFFA, UCLA Law’s application includes personal statements and essay prompts, which are designed to elicit information about race. And UCLA Law’s admissions staff instructed prospective applicants how to reveal their race in these sections of the application—during race-based recruitment efforts, such as its annual “Diversity Admissions Open House”.

The Department’s analysis revealed that UCLA Law rejected white and Asian applicants who had the same LSAT scores as admitted black and Hispanic applicants. Plainly, lower-scoring white and Asian applicants would have been admitted by UCLA Law if they were black or Hispanic. Further, in 2024 and 2025 (combined), half of the admitted black applicants had LSAT scores that were at or below 90% of the admitted white applicants.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
forgot to post in time my favorite samuel pepys passage, his muddled depiction of the time he visited a synagogue and it happened to be simchat torah
Thence home and after dinner my wife and I, by Mr. Rawlinson’s conduct, to the Jewish Synagogue: where the men and boys in their vayles, and the women behind a lattice out of sight; and some things stand up, which I believe is their Law, in a press to which all coming in do bow; and at the putting on their vayles do say something, to which others that hear him do cry Amen, and the party do kiss his vayle. Their service all in a singing way, and in Hebrew. And anon their Laws that they take out of the press are carried by several men, four or five several burthens in all, and they do relieve one another; and whether it is that every one desires to have the carrying of it, I cannot tell, thus they carried it round about the room while such a service is singing. And in the end they had a prayer for the King, which they pronounced his name in Portugall; but the prayer, like the rest, in Hebrew. But, Lord! to see the disorder, laughing, sporting, and no attention, but confusion in all their service, more like brutes than people knowing the true God, would make a man forswear ever seeing them more and indeed I never did see so much, or could have imagined there had been any religion in the whole world so absurdly performed as this.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The radical change of saying you'll do very obvious things that people desperately want and desperately need.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
We’re absolutely going to land in a place where “let the police handle immigration enforcement once they’re properly trained” as the response to mass deportation. It’s going to drive me up a wall and I’m going to repeatedly point out how this will only further entrench mass deportation as a policy.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/10/2026
And this is why she should have stayed in jail www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 06/10/2026
That’s my mayor 🫡 gaycitynews.com/nyc-9-millio...
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NYC to allocate $9 million to non-profits for youth gender-affirming care as private hospitals retreat
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is planning to steer nearly $9 million to non-profit health providers to deliver gender-affirming
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We need people in college/university administration to be able to work together to make sure that victims of college rape can A) take time off if they need to and B) transfer to a different school if they want to without losing credits, money, etc.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m realistic enough to know that we’re not going to fix the campus rape problem overnight, because patriarchy is multifaceted and cockroach-like in its survival abilities, but something I think we could get in place fast is a program for letting victims transfer without penalties.
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