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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 5h
"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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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 2h
🤡 Sen. Eric Schmitt, who made a fool of himself today wrongfully attacking Jack Smith, still pushed unwarranted attacks against him. Republicans are disgraceful crooks. @TMZ
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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 40m
not even my virulent "fuck the TSA" feelings can agree to this
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 49m
“The Transportation Security Administration says it's taking away chairs at airport checkpoints nationwide and that TSA officers who check passengers' IDs must stand, saying the move is designed to help officers remain alert.”
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TSA officers told to stand, chairs banned at airport checkpoints nationwide
"This welcome change reinforces both our security posture and our commitment to hospitality by having these officers on their feet and alert," a TSA spokesperson said.
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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 11m
Antisemitism has just proliferated on the far-left on Twitter over the last year or two, it’s incredibly depressing and scary to witness and experience
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Reinventing_again™ @realityred.bsky.social · 2h
A reprise is in order.
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Jay W @jaydeedouble.bsky.social · 10h
This is just an incredible photo... The smug look you give when you think it's courtside at an Atlanta Hawks game, while conspiring with Fani Willis And not back behind the basket at a Women's College Basketball Hawkeyes game, to see Caitlin Clark
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 6h
Later in the thread. Two problems: (1) many of these folks are *not* undocumented—they’re just removable; and (2) in any event, whether they received the process that is due before being deported to somewhere they might be tortured is, in fact, much of what’s *actually being litigated.*
“To be clear, this is a big win for President Trump and gives him an important tool to ensure that illegal aliens are promptly removed after receiving all process due.”
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6h
A revolting new development. The stupid handsome man manifested this atrocity into being through ignorance.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6h
We have no evidence that these bears do anything but wipe their asses and talk about wiping their asses. This confidence is revolting.
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Torturously Okay @torturouslyokay.bsky.social · 6h
I still say the LibbBibb guy is worse because it started as a kinda funny gag about an actor who couldn’t get his line right but then they were like “Oh you dumb pigs like that??? Here, have it every day 30 times a day you fuckers, what’re you gonna do, *pay* for *ad free*, lick our libberty nuts”
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 6h
For years I've been all "ugh, ethically I guess I should switch to Duck Duck Go," but them having a NO AI page you can link to from their YES AI page is basically Colonel Tom Parker selling "I love Elvis" and "I hate Elvis" buttons. Yes, it isn't uncommon, but THINK ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS MODEL, NERDS
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Captain Coal @coalj.bsky.social · 10h
"you may blend the fish in the fish tank until we determine if it is legal to blend the fish!"
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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 10h
why is trump the one harmed in this exercise and not the people being unlawfully deported?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10h
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 9h
This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.
Guy Christensen being antisemitic
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h
i personally feel that mamdani should stick to the jewish community like glue and flush out these freaks
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 16h
I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why
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Spiked Doormat @spikeddoormat.bsky.social · 6h
"Free Palestine" has been turned into 'Israel Delenda Est:.
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Walter Mondial @dabenner.bsky.social · 6h
I think you can
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 6h
"There is always a box, and our job is twofold. First, we don’t let anyone get put inside the box. And second, we destroy the box."
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Every Dictator Wants You In the Box
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 11h
If there isn't a custom Iowa Hawkeyes jersey using Atlanta Hawks colors, in Schmitt's size, waiting for him at his office by close of business then I'm about done with democracy.
Bad photo composite of an Atlanta Hawks jersey in red and black with the Iowa Hawkeyes mascot and the word "eye" careted in to make it read "HAWKeyeS"
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Geelinz @geelinz.bsky.social · 10h
I'm sure Iowa Republicans are enthused that the Jack Smith hearing has been converted into a local news story that makes Republican senators look like assholes and makes Jack Smith look like a guy you'd want to get a beer with.
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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 12h
Also, there's a good chance that Democrats will control the Senate in January and be able to choose which hearings they hold and I hope people remind Senator Schmitt that his bar for accusing a witness of perjury was this low.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17h
A new Democratic Congress needs to investigate this hateful man.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I've got his trunk all packed, I've had it packed for a week now.” CITIZEN KANE (1941) ORSON WELLES was just 25yrs old when production began on the masterpiece he was starring in, directing & had co-written. Genius.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
"The taxpayer money used to fund the ads that started airing last week came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an arm of DHS that oversees the Border Patrol and customs and immigration at airports..."
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Mary Sauer" (American Artist, born 1986) "Figure with Black Cat" • 2020 Oil on Canvas • 30 × 24 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover #caturday
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Jillybean @jillybeanbuttle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Responding to this with a gif is a moral imperative
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Knowing Look
Alt: Val Kilmer as Chris Knight in Real Genius giving a ‘knowing look”, he has his panda earmuffs around his neck
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Bongtologicalshock 🫲👁️〰️👁️🫱 @bongtologicalshock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
counter point :
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The Office: Kevin's 'Few Word Do Trick' Wisdom
Alt: The Office: Kevin's 'Few Word Do Trick' Wisdom
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GPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Shaka When the Walls Fell! (Star Trek)
ALT: Shaka When the Walls Fell! (Star Trek)
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 15h
Today is the 85th anniversary of the #BabynYar massacre by the Nazis. Over two days at the site in Ukraine, approximately 100,000 Jews, Roma, Ukraine nationalists and resistance members and psychiatric patients. Today Pres Zelenskyy attended and spoke at the memorial.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heart-breaking scenes in Odesa as Olha Shilimina watches her animal shelter burn down after being hit by a Russian drone. The "Loving Hearts" shelter looked after 150 dogs and 14 cats. It's not known how many Russia killed.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 14h
Sumy: As well as joyfully killing civilians, Russia is even attacking the dead. One aerial bomb in Sumy landing in a cemetery. Pure terrorism because Moscow has lost every argument, fears no laws and only respects military strength.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 13h
Ukraine's Ombudsman confirms this video as genuine, protesteing to the UN + ICRC. It's said to show Russian military, having removed their uniforms, using the elderly, infirm & kids, as human shields as they retreat in Kupiansk. Ukraine's troops filmed this but withheld fire.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 17h
This is extra funny because right now in comics Poison Ivy is mayor of Gotham and it’s going horribly. I’m imagining people with this argument voted for her. It’s very fun.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Mike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"
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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 16h
LOL no surprise... “A retired Army colonel turned social media influencer, who has worked with the Pentagon to promote Defense Secretary Hegseth’s agenda, has a history of praising dictators, denigrating women and minorities, and suggesting that only people with children should be allowed to vote,”
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scott Lemiuex @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social reinforcing Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net on this point; they're both 100% correct www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/john...
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John Roberts's royalist presidency - Lawyers, Guns & Money
We discussed yesterday how Trump using taxpayer money to fund campaign ads is yet another illustration of his total contempt for any legal restraints. As Jamelle Bouie explains [gift link], one critic...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.theunpopulist.net/p/justice-ro...
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Justice Roberts Subverted the Separation of Powers and Created a Dangerously Unaccountable President
The court's immunity ruling will make it hard to punish Trump for his past lawlessness, while inviting future abuses
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Oakmoss 🌲🐀🦝🌿 @sylvanrat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So it's... basically a private company but with extra steps?
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
The absolute worst argument I see is that Trump was impeached for withholding aid to Ukraine. No he was impeached for withholding aid as part of an attempt to extort the Ukrainian government for his sole, exclusively personal benefit. POTUS has wide powers to withhold aid for normal reasons.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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