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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
But also this heroine: "Cereese Qusba, 22, a senior and reporter for The Sun, couldn’t shake her concerned curiosity about the case. This month...Ms. Qusba was ready to hit publish on her investigation, which was 23 months in the making."
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h
Maybe contemplate all the female undergrads instructed by Cornell's example that they don't matter, that justice will be entirely out of reach or come at a horrendous cost, that some of their classmates are rapists or would like to be..... The Trump Administration sides with the perps.
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Trump Officials Revise How Title IX Sex Discrimination Rules Are Enforced
The change follows a court ruling barring Title IX from protecting L.G.B.T.Q. people and has angered advocates for sexual assault survivors.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 11h
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h
> @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/p...
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Susan Taylor @sataylormd.bsky.social · 1h
"Spoiler: They found zero noncitizen voters!" www.wonkette.com/p/dhs-does-b...
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DHS Does Big Boy Investigation Of ‘Noncitizen Voters,’ Turns Up Big Surprise, If You’re Dumb
Surprise! Nevada has zero noncitizen voters, down from an initial estimate of 15,000.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
It worked as intended. The constant threat of being blacklisted, losing employment, facing criminal charges and enduring relentless harassment caused the group’s ambitious plans to fall apart. Under immense pressure, the Sojourners for Truth and Justice were forced to dissolve by late 1952. /end
Louise Thompson Patterson, 1960. Patterson was the operational backbone, executive organizer and administrative engine of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice. After the initial Washington mobilization, the collective voted to establish a permanent national framework, appointing Patterson as the Executive Secretary. She took on the task of transforming a three-day protest into a sustained national movement. She traveled extensively to raise money and establish local Sojourners chapters. Because she was the administrative nerve center of the organization, the Department of Justice and the FBI subjected her to relentless surveillance. They eventually seized her passport to cut off her ability to connect with international leftist and anti-colonial organizations. However, Patterson never renounced her leftist commitments. She carried the same organizing blueprint into the 1970s, where she served as a leader in the successful international movement to Free Angela Davis.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
The FBI viewed the Sojourners for Truth and Justice as a national security threat because they combined Black nationalism, civil rights and communist ideology. The Bureau compiled a nearly 500-page file on the group and used surveillance and intimidation tactics to crush their operations. /9
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (left) and Attorney General J. Howard McGrath confer on the government’s roundup of Communist party officials in Washington, 1951. An informant notified the FBI during the first meetings of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, triggering the creation of their official file. Informants attended their strategy meetings, monitored travel plans and identified the core leaders. During their initial D.C. mobilization, special agents in dark suits followed the women everywhere they went. Agents physically blocked the women from entering pre-arranged meeting spaces. To justify their surveillance and alienate the group from mainstream civil rights organizations, the FBI manufactured alarming narratives about the women. By painting them as violent insurrectionists, the FBI successfully stoked public fear and scared away moderate allies.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
A major effort was the defense of Rosa Lee Ingram, a Black mother sentenced to death after defending herself against a white attacker. They framed Ingram’s imprisonment not just as a miscarriage of justice, but as state-sanctioned violence against the bodily autonomy and safety of Black women. /8
Rosa Lee Ingram (left) and her teenage sons in jail. In 1947, Rosa Lee Ingram, a widowed Black sharecropper in Georgia, and her teenage sons were sentenced to death for killing an armed white sharecropper who had assaulted her. The immediate, explosive backlash from civil rights organizations, legal defense funds and grassroots coalitions, including the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, forced the trial judge to commute their death sentences to life imprisonment a few months later. The family spent more than a decade in prison, during which time activists persistently campaigned for their release and continuously applied pressure on the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles. On Aug. 26, 1959, Rosa Lee, Wallace and Sammie Lee were finally granted parole and freed. Rosa Lee relocated to Atlanta, where she lived until her death on Aug. 5, 1980, at age 78.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
The group formulated an early form of Black left feminism, blending anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist perspectives. They sought to expose state complicity and violence directed against Black Americans, pointing out the hypocrisy of the government promoting “democracy” abroad. /7
Shirley Graham Du Bois. Du Bois was the chief intellectual strategist and public voice of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice. While history frequently frames her through her marriage to W.E.B. Du Bois, she was a radical force in her own right, working as an accomplished opera composer, playwright and political theorist long before 1951. Alongside Louise Thompson Patterson, she conceptualized the organization as a radical defense front. She recognized that the government wasn’t just attacking an individual. It was attempting to decapitate Black radical leadership during the Red Scare. She leveraged her extensive network to bring together the 14 founders, framing her husband’s defense not as a private grievance, but as a collective fight for the survival of Black intellectual freedom. Because of her uncompromising leadership, Graham Du Bois was monitored by the FBI and blacklisted.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
The founders only gave themselves two weeks to pull off the mobilization and were surprised when 132 women managed to travel to Washington, D.C., on such short notice. Fueled by the momentum, they formally established a permanent organization and immediately scaled up their efforts. /6
Civil rights and labor activist Thelma Dale Perkins speaks at an event, ca. 1951. Perkins was one of the brilliant, highly experienced political strategists of the Black Left who served as an architect of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1915, she brought decades of battle-tested labor and youth organizing experience to the group. Because Perkins was a Washington, D.C., native, she understood the city’s political geography. While other co-founders handled regional recruitment, Perkins managed the precarious logistics of hosting more than 132 Black women in the segregated capital city. Her family home in the historic Barry Farm/Hillsdale neighborhood served as an organizing hub. During the mobilization and subsequent campaigns, Perkins and her parents used this residence to host high-profile radical dissidents such as Paul and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Photo by Mildred Grossman.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
On days 2 and 3, the women marched to and held meetings with officials at the Department of Justice, the War Department and the Pentagon to demand the protection of Black lives. When President Harry S. Truman refused to meet with them, they staged a silent vigil on the White House lawn. /5
Charlotta Bass speaks at the inaugural meeting of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, Sept. 29, 1951. As a veteran journalist, publisher of the California Eagle and a fierce civil rights leader, Bass was known for delivering speeches that targeted state-sanctioned violence and connected local struggles to global movements. She emphasized the vulnerability of Black women under the American legal system, using her platform to proclaim that Black women could no longer afford to play a secondary or quiet role in politics. She argued that because Black women suffered the brunt of economic exploitation and state violence, they had to be at the vanguard of the civil rights struggle. Bass refused to moderate her radical, anti-imperialist views for mainstream appeal. Her address established an early foundation for Black left feminism, intertwining the dismantling of racism, sexism and war.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
When the women arrived in the capital, they gathered for an inaugural convention in which young poet and playwright Lorraine Hansberry read the group’s indictment of racial capitalism and state violence. She said, “We cannot … sit by and watch our lives destroyed by an unreasoning hate.” /4
Lorraine Hansberry. Years before she achieved global acclaim for her 1959 masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun, a 21-year-old Hansberry was immersed in radical, left-wing journalism and organizing. At the inaugural convention for the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, she took the stage to read the group’s proclamation to the 132 assembled women. Working as a writer and editor for Paul Robeson’s progressive newspaper, Freedom, Hansberry subsequently published a groundbreaking report titled “Women Voice Demands in Capital Sojourn.” This piece documented the group’s actions for the public, bypassing the heavily censored mainstream media of the McCarthy era. Organizing with the Sojourners shaped Hansberry’s early grasp of “the woman question,” helping her weave early intersectional feminist and anti-colonial themes into her later literary works.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
The effort was spurred by the indictment of 83-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois on charges of being an “unregistered foreign agent” due to his peace activism and anti-nuclear stance. Black women leaders were alarmed by the government’s weaponization of the Red Scare to silence civil rights leaders. /3
W.E.B. Du Bois (center) and other defendants from the Peace Information Center prepare for their trial in 1951. The federal indictment of Du Bois was one of the most high-profile and controversial government prosecutions during the peak of McCarthyism. At 83 years old, Du Bois — a revered Black intellectual, sociologist and co-founder of the NAACP — was targeted for his anti-war activism. After WWII, Du Bois became deeply involved in global peace movements, linking the fight against nuclear weapons to the fight against Western imperialism and racial exploitation. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that Du Bois and the PIC were operating as a front for Soviet propaganda. On February 9, 1951, the DOJ indicted Du Bois and four of his colleagues. They were charged under the Foreign Agents Registration Act for willfully failing to register as agents of a foreign principal. If convicted, Du Bois faced up to five years in a federal penitentiary and a staggering $10,000 fine.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
In early September 1951, 14 prominent Black women penned the manifesto “A Call to Negro Women.” They invited Black women nationwide to join them for a “Sojourn for Truth and Justice,” using the name to honor the legacy of Sojourner Truth and describe a brief, targeted trip to Washington, D.C. /2
The cover of the zine titled A Call to Negro Women: A (Little-Known) Black Feminist Manifesto, with an introduction by Mariame Kaba, an essay by Ashley D. Farmer and design and illustration by Jordan De Loach. It centers on the 1951 founding document written by the radical civil rights group Sojourners for Truth and Justice. The manifesto moved away from polite civil rights rhetoric and replaced it with a fiery, uncompromising indictment of the U.S. government. It put the concept of “triple oppression” into raw, emotional prose. It argued that Black women bore a unique, devastating burden under American capitalism because they were simultaneously exploited as Black people, as women and as workers. The manifesto refused to blame racism on “ignorant individuals” or Southern extremist groups. Instead, the authors accused the state of being complicit in racial terror by failing to pass anti-lynching laws and using the legal system to cage Black families.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h
#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1951: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice begin a three-day assembly in Washington, D.C., with a march and silent vigil on the White House lawn. More than 132 Black women from 14 states arrived in the capital to demand federal action against racial terror. /1
Members of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice gather during their initial mobilization, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, 1951. More than 132 African American women from 14 states descended on the nation’s capital to demand an end to racial violence, Jim Crow laws and the systemic oppression of Black women. While the poor quality of the photo makes it difficult to pinpoint every face from left to right, several core organizers and notable figures are prominent in the center-front cluster: Louise Thompson Patterson, Charlotta Bass, Shirley Graham Du Bois and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Other trailblazing figures who participated in the Washington, D.C., delegation included legendary activist Mary Church Terrell, journalist Claudia Jones and a young Lorraine Hansberry, who read the group’s manifesto aloud during the convention.
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james folta @jamesfolta.com · 15h
Happy birthday Caravaggio, here’s something I wrote a few years back for McSweeney’s #50
A humor piece……continued!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h
No, our @davidcorn.bsky.social did not say, “Apparently, there’s a fissure somewhere in the US that leads straight to hell." Fake Russian bot accounts impersonating him did. Here's how David got dragged into a Putin disinformation op:
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How I got dragged into a Putin disinformation op
This just confirms the warning in my new book.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12h
This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.
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kristofarian @kristofarian.bsky.social · 14h
. see also: Iceland .
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 14h
that fraternities serve any but the most anti-social purposes, providing sanctuary for entitled young men, whose criminal behavior is often excused, & whose later ascendancy to powerful & prestigious positions is all but guaranteed. Meanwhile, their victims are doxxed and left to carry the scars. 3/
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 14h
had ever been a part of campus life. We cld return from the weekend to find no signs of debauchery & vandalism. I’m under no illusion that the abolition of fraternities eliminated sexual assault, and I wish I could report actual statistics on the matter. Then, as now, I’ve never been persuaded 2/
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 14h
When I taught at Colby College years ago, the trustees abolished fraternities, which dominated campus social life & were notorious for sexual assault &rowdiness all around. “Donations will decline,” cried the fierce opponents.Their threats never materialized. Before long it didn’t seem that frats 1/
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
Time for this classic again.
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 7h
Tunga, Cooking Crystals, 2006-2009 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Purchased with funds provided by Andrea and José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, Bernardo Paz, Ivo Vel Kos, and the Latin American and Caribbean Fund
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 6h
New: John Fetterman has been working with GOP fundraising consultants—and paying a hefty commission, @michaelscherer.bsky.social and @mviser.bsky.social report.
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Right-Wing Groups Are Making Money Off John Fetterman
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 13h
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Susan Taylor @sataylormd.bsky.social · 6h
Without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can be anything erratically—kind, fair, true, generous, all that. But to be that thing time after time, you need courage. MAYA ANGELOU
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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Susan Taylor @sataylormd.bsky.social · 23h
oy oy oy!
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 23h
Jesus Christ dude
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 23h
People really want the story of Trump's second term to include a lack of grass-roots protests (outside of the handful of No Kings events) and it's just not true. Listen to @chenoweth.bsky.social, folks.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23h
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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Susan Taylor @sataylormd.bsky.social · 23h
oy! www.wonkette.com/p/we-found-t...
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We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along
Former Republican mayoral candidate Gaea Powell found guilty on eight counts related to voter fraud.
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oy! www.wonkette.com/p/we-found-t...
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We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along
Former Republican mayoral candidate Gaea Powell found guilty on eight counts related to voter fraud.
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Susan Taylor @sataylormd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company. RACHEL NAOMI REMEN
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This truly is horrifying. Not only is he unlawfully spending OUR money on a political ad, the whole point of the ad is that roughly half of the country consists of enemies who must be conquered.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Democrats can only disburse legally-collected income.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: After a week of intensifying public pressure and reporting from Cornell’s independent daily newspaper, prosecutors in New York have reopened a criminal investigation into the alleged 2024 gang rape of a former student at the campus’s Chi Phi fraternity house.
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Prosecutors are revisiting allegations of gang rape at Cornell
Intense public outrage and reporting from the school's daily newspaper appear to have prompted the decision.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump: "We have the best — I guess you could say poverty…We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country."
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOW
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
SCOOP: Nevada Republican David Flippo has reported spending millions on his congressional races in Nevada, while failing to file a financial disclosure for years. What is the source of the money? The latest from @nlanard.bsky.social:
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The mysterious millions powering a Nevada Republican’s bid for Congress
David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh my goodness, it CAN be done!
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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New: Nevada GOP congressional candidate David Flippo has failed to file legally required financial disclosures for years. Previously unreported records raise many questions about the nearly $2.5 million he has reported putting into his campaigns. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The mysterious millions powering a Nevada Republican’s bid for Congress
David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.
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Susan Taylor @sataylormd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nice people and good news! www.wonkette.com/p/the-nice-t...
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The Nice Times They Are A Changin’
‘Come gather 'round people, wherever you roam.’
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/09/2026
The U.S. murder rate reached a historic low in 2025, and evidence suggests it has continued to fall in 2026. What’s driving the decline? New research points to billions in federal aid that helped communities invest in violence prevention and behavioral health. bit.ly/4xMoks9
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Crime Prevention and Mental Health Spending May Have Contributed to Drop in Violent Crime
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars shoring up state and local budgets and funding new public safety initiatives.
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
man it got really easy and popular to dunk on the guy but he’s always been more fucking real than any of the successful artists you reckon are good
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/09/2026
A Trump appointee said the administration would end a federally required review of how President Trump’s planned arch would harm historic sites. Preservationists and advocacy groups had been consulting with the administration on the planned 250-foot arch.
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Trump officials end review of how arch could harm historic sites
A required consultation process with local preservationists is being terminated, a Trump appointee said Thursday.
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