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Funny Karate Bear (But Festive) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 39m

Wow it’s almost like journalists who were translating meaning and making him appear able to talk on a single subject for more than ten seconds were committing a malpractice the scale of which usually involves prison time in most occupations

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h

But it’s also true that these systems are just misogynistic. And we’re so busy holding victims to an impossibly high standard that we forget to ask the most basic questions about whether people like police did their jobs effectively.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h

This really is textbook stuff: some intensely motivated wingnut crank horks up a bullshitty dossier of vaguely incriminating quotes, and then the whole bestiary of media shitehawks start oinking in unison all over newspapers, radio and TV podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

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Conspiracies of Yore: Climategate

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 30 September · Bonus · Subscribers Only · 1hr 5min

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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shite - a professor at Harvard who advocated for the survivors was denied tenure. She was later terminated. The same day the termination notice arrived, she received the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 10h

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 13h

As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.

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socraticme.bsky.social @socraticme.bsky.social · 12h

I think Josh is largely right here. I also think that major news orgs maybe should have thought of that before shitting on their customers. I MIGHT be convinced to buy that one useful article from the NYT, but I’ll be fucked if I will SUBSCRIBE to that den of transphobes and right wing apologists.

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prince egregious, heir apparent @sonofahurricane.bsky.social · 12h

it is My Assessment that the University learned last year that the people of Minnesota do not particularly care about the University as a whole, and have decided to run with that in making these cuts. I think blaming the state for a lack of funding is taking the U's leadership at their word.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 14h

Using my tax money, the state of Tennessee attempted to lethality inject a woman with a known vascular condition using the doctor who botched the state's most recent execution. After two attempts Christa Pike did not die, but she does have brain damage. Call it what it is: state-sanctioned torture.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 22h

honestly the most depressing thing to me is that we have to talk about this again and again and again and again and again. how to teach men to have human feelings, how to get people to believe us

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 13h

"Adults are harmed when their data is leaked, but kids suffer more," writes Logan Kolas of the American Consumer Institute, arguing that age verification laws meant to protect children could put America "on a collision course with its newly discovered AI-augmented cybersecurity reality."

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Age Verification is an AI Cybersecurity Problem

AI cybersecurity threats are exposing the privacy risks of age verification laws, which require companies to collect sensitive data, writes Logan Kolas.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17h

If you’re a Minnesotan, please email your legislators and candidates and ask them what they want the U to do less well. What they’re willing to sacrifice. If the answer is nothing, then we have to rethink this endless death spiral where we do less with less forever.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17h

I’m not going to tag in the state legislators that follow me, let alone the ones who don’t, but there are a bunch of you here and I want you to have that debate. What functions of the university of Minnesota do you now want us to do badly or not at all?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17h

I understand and share the impulse to blame university administrators. I have written plenty about them. But right now I’d like us to turn the focus to Minnesota politicians and Minnesota voters and ask what functions of the university do you want to see cut? What don’t you care about Amy Klobuchar?

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 15h

in other words, "participating in group social-norm–breaking is a strong signal that someone can be successfully isolated from wider society and convinced to ignore the advice and concerns of outsiders" this is uhhhhhh not an uncommon dynamic for high-control groups

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Extremely randomly: did you know there are no machine made clothing? All garments are handmade! Every dang one, from the luxury atelier dresses to the overseas-sourced threadbare undershirt, is handmade.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15h

it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.

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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 16h

Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?

Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances"

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 17h

there should be no university police forces. Cornell has failed in every way and every process, including the lack of regulation of greek life before this horrible rape even happened, the police, the title ix processes. it is disgusting.

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

just like the Fugitive Slave Act, conservatives demand that they can impose their evil systems upon liberal states, democracy be damned, but if liberal states so much as offer a mild disincentive for evil to make conservative state maybe Suck Less then it's unconstitutional tyrannical overreach

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These systematic failures aren’t specific to Cornell. In dealing with American University’s response to the allegations against W***** L*****, we learned a lot about how Title IX fails women @nbedera.bsky.social’s book came at an important time for me www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the...

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On the Wrong Side by Nicole Bedera - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 01/10/2026

the supreme court made a ruling TODAY that made this happen TODAY, despite a stay to revisit her case, and legal process was pending the state felt it was urgent to kill her today and they couldn't even do it beyond horrible, this is a hellscape this is the bad place

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a good list. The #1 biggest problem in Title IX is that there is no oversight and massive conflicts of interest. Schools can (and do) prioritize the institution over survivors, even when it requires breaking the law. Independent investigations would change that.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, while addressing the 58 deaths that have occurred in ICE custody, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the conditions of immigration detention centers by stating, "We’re not providing Holiday Inns." Indeed, they are not.

Image of a severely overcrowded immigration detention center.

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socraticme.bsky.social @socraticme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am trying so hard right now to build a space that just says “it’s good to be around other people and hang out, actually”. It’s a big lift, but substantially buoyed by a decent chunk of society being DESPERATE for this right now. Urban. Rural. Everywhere.

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Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's right. Dems literally campaigned on "Trump is WAY weaker than us on the border," while media outlets prioritized "oh Trump only means BAD GUYS" denials whenever something he actually said broke containment. Dem voters outraged by this were smugly told that Dems had no choice because 'polling'

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Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glad I don't have to apologize for my position on this in 2024, at least bsky.app/profile/ross...

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socraticme.bsky.social @socraticme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know we are supposed to think this is funny, but this is straight up who we are globally right now. We are a country where a room full of obviously corrupt white male plutocrats stand around giving nonsense speeches to appease their sleeping senile President. Everyone with power says this is ok.🤷‍♂️

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2025

Amazon’s goal is to transform all public and private space into the Amazon warehouse, and it’s never been more clear.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

I love the tech industry and their cool new product: fraud

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The same type of process that decides potatoes and water coolers are the optimal package deal for consumers also decides whose job application gets considered and whose does not, or whose mortgage gets approved and at what interest rate.

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Tengrain @tengrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day It's astounding to have the world’s leading liar announce to the runner-ups to police themselves, but it is another thing entirely to call it morally binding. There’s not a person in that room who would not take-away Oliver Twist's bowl of gruel and demand a…

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Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day

It's astounding to have the world’s leading liar announce to the runner-ups to police themselves, but it is another thing entirely to call it morally binding. There’s not a person in that room who would not take-away Oliver Twist's bowl of gruel and demand a co-pay from Tiny Tim:

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Caitlin Clark's aggro fans are so annoying that I can sometimes forget that she's good at basketball.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 30/09/2026

We felt so helpless. How could she be blamed? ‘She went of her own free will.’ As if consenting to walk into a house was consent for everything after. The frat houses sent invites for free food to every freshman girl. Then they shoved a red cup in your hands. ‘She was drinking.’ Is not consent.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 30/09/2026

A friend of mine was raped by football players at one of our college’s frat house in 1998. She went through the internal system, which exonerated the men and accused and blamed her. We wanted her to bring charges and a court case… but she was so broken by then. She dropped out. Burn it all down.

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“prosecutors had also obtained roughly three hundred [‼️] photographs of Martinez’s and Ruiz’s cars from Flock ALPR cameras throughout Cook County,” over a 30 day span.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, no. The months prior to Trumps inauguration featured record-low truck entry into Gaza and the frequent effective closure of Kerem Shalom crossing due to violent looting if aid trucks by the IDF-backed Yasser Abu Shabaab gang. I'm talking like 2-6 trucks per day, vs the 500 minimum needed.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ever notice how much harder women and non-white people have it when it comes to harassment? And how few editors and colleagues are willing to put their body in front of the blow? Ever notice how women and non-white gamers are treated as a niche and white men as the core audience?

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Essentially a white reconciliation politics premised on anti-Blackness.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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