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Scott Banville

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Cyclist. Victorian Lit & Culture. Reader. Writer. Teacher. Associate Professor. About cycling: offthebackweb.wordpress.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h
High school football players threaten to sexually assault female student-message her in group chat. "If you think Cornell was bad just wait for us," text said. What's worse? Some parents are excusing the football players' behavior saying, "Boys will be boys." Boise, Idaho.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social · 10h
Ghouls.
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Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social · 11h
The party of sexual predators.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18h
Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts, and pedophile said he still intends to win his election for Clerk and Comptroller after being arrested in August for molesting a male relative under the age of 5. He’s been endorsed by the GOP. amp.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h
Three elected Alabama public officials, all Republicans, were running a human trafficking ring. They were arrested and booked this weekend. weartv.com/news/local/a...
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Three Alabama officials among 17 arrested in Atmore undercover prostitution sting
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Ala. -- Three public officials in Alabama were among the 17 people arrested Friday in a multi-day undercover prostitution sting in Escambia Cou
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 22h
A federal judge on Monday denied a request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and four Harris County judges to vacate a landmark settlement that allows most people facing misdemeanor charges to be released from jail prior to trial without having to pay cash bail.
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Harris County’s cashless bail policy for misdemeanors upheld
The policy dates to a 2019 settlement after the county’s cash bail system was found to exacerbate poverty while not “meaningfully” promoting public safety.
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Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social · 14h
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h
Palm Beach GOP comes out in favor of pedophile county clerk candidate. Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts, said he still intends to win his November election for Clerk and Comptroller after being arrested in August for molesting a male relative under the age of 5.
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Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19h
In the last hours of Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man's firm at a substantial markup, documents show.
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social · 15h
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Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social · 16h
Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
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Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/10/2026
Media outlets exposed that the Pentagon was hiding how many Americans have died in Trump’s war with Iran. That very same day, Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Coincidence? I don't think so.
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Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social · 17h
Alabama Republican Rep Brett Easterbrook arrested for first-degree human trafficking. Charges then reduced 🤷.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
EL-SAYED: Now you've got a situation with the Strait of Hormuz where we can't move oil and gas-- FOX: That's not true. The WSJ put out a piece the other day that said we're almost a level of getting oil out of the Strait that we were at before the war started AES: So why are gas prices so high?
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 21h
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
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Todd Kennedy @bayoufilmprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An evening celebrating #AnthonyBourdain at Snake & Jake's featuring (1) A food truck (Panchita's authentic Veracruz cuisine) (2) drink specials (3) a chance to mingle w/ other Bourdain fans (4) local writer Todd Kennedy, author of Anthony Bourdain, Filmmaker. Oct 28, 2026 7-930 todd-kennedy.com
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 19h
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21h
We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis.
Mayor Mamdani and others make an announcement at a podium with signage that reads “Child Care for all”Children hold hands in front of signage that reads “Child Care for all”
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nineteen people--whom we'll never know--were going to defend a serial child molester until they realized it would be public knowledge. Anyway, the bastard got to live the rest of his life in relative comfort after serving only 13 months in prison. He died today. Rest in piss. /thread
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He would eventually be convicted of a charge related to his "hush money" structured payments to the victim he molested but not charges for the molestation because the statute of limitation had passed.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He was still sexually abusing students when he began his political career and ran for the Illinois State House. He was elected to the U.S. House in 1986 and became Speaker of the House in 1999. He would become the longest-serving Republican Speaker.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert died this morning. For 16 years, while he was a coach and government teacher at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Illinois, Hastert sexually abused at least four boys (and likely more). (thread)
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 05/10/2026
OPINION: "Many of these facilities are in rural communities where federal funding cuts have hollowed out social services, from healthcare to food stamps, leaving them desperate for economic relief," Ella Siegrist writes. buff.ly/KLIHsk2
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Opinion | Immigration Enforcement Is Supplying an Economic Market for Prisoners
Ella Siegrist writes about how several states are using immigration enforcement and detention as a revenue stream.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another secret Paxton recording, and this time he’s admitting he doesn’t even control his own campaign. “I don’t control the message or what we’re doing.” “I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign. It’s all coming, you know, from DC.” www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h
The Bari Weiss-ification of CBS News continues. Dennis Hastert was convicted of the sexual abuse of high school students under his supervision as a high school wrestling coach. Banking rules violations were his transfers of hush money payments which he misdescribed and which allowed
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Will never get over the generational bait and switch of student loans. By the time the loans are declared impractical for the purpose of funding meaningful learning, who will even remember that they were put in place to facilitate mass cuts to public goods?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hours before Kristi Noem left her job as DHS secretary, her agency bought five planes from a donor at a huge markup. They were supposed to fly deportees but have sat idle. Another symbol of waste and fraud under Trump. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Got political mail? Go to paidforby.info For federal races, you'll immediately get detailed information about who is behind the mail and their donors. And all uploaded mail will be reviewed by an independent journalist. (It also works for ads on TV and YouTube.)
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Former Rep. Liz Holtzman, who served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Nixon, told me the reported Trump DOJ effort to review whether Watergate prosecutors committed misconduct is "beyond stupid." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pI_...
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‘BEYOND STUPID’: Watergate vet BLASTS Nixon rewrite as ‘excusing Trump’
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got really annoyed that so many stories about the "Cornell 7" case don't link to the underlying court documents. So I compiled the key filings from Jane Doe's civil suit and from a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them here: annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-c...
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Read the “Cornell 7” Documents
I compiled key court filings from Jane Doe’s civil suit and a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them on Slip Opinion.
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Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump Corruption.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox. ‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Editor: so, all of these men are in love with the same woman? Bram Stoker: err, yes, sure, I mean, yes, not each other tho, to be clear Editor: and how do they save her? Bram Stoker: they fill her with their combined blood like some kind of hemoglorgy Editor: Bram Stoker: for medical reasons...
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Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear University. The software you bought won’t let me do a degree evaluation. It’s been broken since Thursday. Advising starts on Monday. Fix it please. K. Thanks. Bye.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rodriguez: It was at least 20 times more expensive than the average detention center. $1.4 billion paid for by Floridians to help the contributors of my opponent. He did the whole thing to get a pat on the head from the president. He got it and left us with the mess.
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Scott Banville @sbanville.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sexism more broadly, and sexist marketing like this Novig ad, makes men into compliant weapons of their own destruction.
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Opinion | That Sydney Sweeney Novig Ad: What Harms Women Is Bad for Men, Too
Laura Norton-Cruz writes about Sydney Sweeney’s gambling advertisement for Novig and the harm it represents to both women and men.
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🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Part owner of Canada) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 04/10/2026
A heat study of the Farish Street District in Jackson, Mississippi, found it was one of the hottest areas in the city. “It was hard to really bring people back into the community with no shade, nowhere to really hang out,” resident Dorothy Davis said. buff.ly/aPa8Pxo
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Farish Street Green Marks Resolve to Revitalize Historic Jackson Neighborhood
The Farish Street Green opens on Monday, Oct. 5, bringing green infrastructure and cooling to Jackson’s historic Black district.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you Pete Hegseth for getting rid of the weirdos and beardos. by Elon Musk and JD Vance
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When you’re an American soldier, you go to work every day, and step back like 20 or 30 years with tech.” Dan Driscoll wanted to modernize the military. Pete Hegseth forced him out. The former Secretary of the Army speaks for the first time since resigning in September. Hegseth's big problem
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He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out
Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Will Bunch: The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it. And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head. www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...
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For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch
A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.
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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At the tram stop just now, right next to some of the best bicycle infrastructure you'll ever see, an American tourist came to me to ask me if the Dutch government was doing anything about "this terrible bicycle problem" we have in the Netherlands. 🙃
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/10/2026
At the direction of the President, I am calling Senator Tom Cotton on his cellular phone to tell him to STOP making fire trucks full of cats and pigs climb HIGH DANGEROUS LADDERS to change the village square clocks in Busytown
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 04/10/2026
Electricity bills are already rising faster than inflation in much of the U.S., which is being blamed in some areas on demand from data centers. The Iran war has sent oil and gasoline prices sharply higher, too. buff.ly/7tKf5r4
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Mississippians Will Pay Higher Energy Rates Due to Trump’s Policy Changes, Think Tank Says
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040, a nonpartisan think tank said Friday.
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