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Wolfers: Imagine we had a female president who was so idiosyncratic and so moody and whose policy decisions were up and down like crazy... Could you just imagine the coverage? It’s utterly bizarre what we allow to happen.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 6h

"...with Roe, the argument was made that it had an effect on people's ideas, women's ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in, that this would have an effect on the society. It was much more abstract than what would've been involved had we been asked to overrule Obergefell."

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 12h

You want to read this thread

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.

The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 14h

Jack Smith in a No Kings t-shirt!!!

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 15h

“Well, we wouldn’t have had to take care of Pierre. Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do,” Jack said. “We did not do right by him.”

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 16h

The problem is not polarization, it's radicalization. Why has the GOP radicalized? And what can be done about it? Watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwW9...

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Forget about "polarization"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h

The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.

Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 16h

Do it. More ammo for us to then reform the court.

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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wrote about Cornell, the burnerverse, and how the distinct behaviors of fraternities—sexual aggression as an expression of male bonding and male power—now define male communities all over the internet. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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Is College Getting Less Safe for Women?

A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a Wired story about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17h

LOL. Rufo is a fascist whose entire career strategy is racism. The fact that these folks believe anything about the current GOP is colorblind is an indictment of their ability to think, their honesty, their grasp of reality. It‘s also revealing of their political sympathies.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026

Of all the politicians Navatek’s CEO courted, Susan Collins was its most important patron. The senator’s office steered federal contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping its CEO and his network for donations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fox News talks a lot about the WNBA, but it’s not because it likes to see talented female athletes putting the ball in the hoop. To Fox, women’s sports is good for 2 things: 1. To agitate for white grievance. 2. To foment anti-trans hate. (This is No. 1, but there’s a lot of No. 2 on Fox as well.)

Fox headline: Sports media celebrates Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham losing in the playoffs.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Speaking of Kushner… cc: 🇺🇸 media

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"...the question of whether equal protection allows trans kids to access the same hormones and prescriptions available to cis kids is, fundamentally, a question of who is allowed and enabled to participate in our republic. Who is an equal citizen—and who is separate "but equal.""

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/10/2026

the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 03/10/2026

Jared Kushner's investment firm is the largest shareholder in an Israeli financial company with at least $456 million invested in 9 firms supplying Israel's military

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

you bet! @autonomynews.co is such a great resource on what's going on in the repro justice world, and I like to nod to both the work that activists are doing and the people whose thinking/writing informs my own thinking/writing

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do yourself a favor and read this for your local elections before you fill our your ballot. It's really useful now and will be really useful after the election.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Citing Edmund, researchers at Anthropic wrote that they believed..." How about Shylock instead: "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" No, no, and no. Shylock is human. Computer programs are not. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

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Opinion | These Things Are Computers. Stop Talking About Them Like They’re Human.

If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.

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Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meet the mega-donor Pete Hegseth just named as the leader of his new automated war initiative, along with mega-donor Elon Musk and Newt Gingruch. Donald Trump Jr. invests in his company. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal

Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All possible through normal legislation:

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The cultural critic Maris Kreizman said, 'There are people claiming antisemitism when they didn’t get a book deal, but maybe they’re just bad writers.'” jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you are horrified about what happened at Cornell and wonder about how this could happen at an elite institution, here's a book on *why** this kind of thing happens there and how it feels to be betrayed by those who are supposed to keep you safe. bookshop.org/p/books/note...

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think about this back-and-forth several times daily. Abuser logic from Blanche and Campos-Duffy [insert Worst Person in the World meme] recoiling physically: "I don't want that!" WE DON'T WANT THIS.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

watch Trump's head jerk around as he tries to stay awake

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Run to the school—they hit the school!” she yelled. “The children are under the ruins. Go save them!” The US military and Palantir did this. They killed children through sheer negligence.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Compare this to how the university punishes protesters." Oh! They run them over with their cars!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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