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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 11/10/2026

sorry but seeing men write positive pieces about Shane Gillis' latest run at SNL, where is opening monologue was "women dress like whores now" after the weeks we've had of women yet again pouring a collective trauma about violence at the hands of men that trade on these same sentiments is fucked.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 11/10/2026

Look, I know I’m being reactive and irrationally angry. But men are the ones that write about these things. Men are the only culture critics left with steady gigs. Men are steering the conversation. Men are saying they’re mad about the things that happen and i wonder when they will do anything.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

I’ve seen Black people across social media platforms talking about picnics at lynchings and so many white people are in our mentions insisting that the last public execution was 1936 and that lynchings were “mob murder” not state sanctioned. So confidently loud and incredibly wrong.

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

washington square park

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

White people attended public lynchings in droves and had picnics with their children there. I mean, PLEASE.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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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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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the 8th amendment is so deeply inadequate; it has failed to stop so much suffering and death in jails and prisons every single day. at this point it is practically a tool for professionalizing and institutionalizing violence against incarcerated people

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Girls don’t want boys girls want books that scratch precisely the same itch as the Westing Game

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

as a bookstore owner, we cannot do the work or offer the benefits which public libraries do—fund libraries and everyone, including bookstores, will thrive

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

used to hang out at this bar whose other regulars were mostly straight middle aged men and my god their drama. most of em were banned for pissing on the floor or stealing fistfuls of cash from the register. for some reason no one acted like it was a referendum on straightness maleness or ‘the left’

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I no longer hang out on ex-Twitter, I missed this worrying declaration from the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration last week. This new policy emphasizing building new nuclear warheads rather than maintaining the 3,700 we already have has not been debated or approved by Congress.

A September 14, 2026, tweet from Brandon Williams:

“The era of primarily emphasizing Stockpile Stewardship is over.

Going forward we will be defined primarily as an organization focused on weapons production.”

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Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I learned about this earlier in the year from @djinnandtonic.bsky.social who had both some amazing posts about Minnesota people using similar tactics against ICE and has shirts via www.etsy.com/shop/WideAwa.... They inspired one of my favorite protest posters.

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social-inspired protest sign of the Boston anti-man hunting league sign with ICE at the center instead of SH (slave hunter). It's a bright green circle with magenta letters: ICE in the center, surrounded by 6 letters representing people who have different roles in stopping a kidnapping, one who tries to talk the kidnapper down, 5 to grab the kidnapper if that doesn't work, and an outer circle of 12 people who create a commotion so that the kidnapper can be removed from the situation).

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kid was asking some pointed questions about how babies are born which led to me drawing the best picture I’ve drawn in my life

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I reviewed Benjamin Moser’s ‘Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History,’ and Omer Bartov’s ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?’ for this week’s issue of The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?

Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I try to avoid being online on this day; the relentless, inescapable images of the burning towers. Here’s another image, a photo I took in those early days. Union Square, 2001. I will never forget the missing posters or the New Yorkers who said Not In Our Name.

A banner across the base of a statue reads “We mourn our dead, We stand for peace.” The words “Love” and “No War” are scrawled on the base, along with missing persons posters of people unaccounted for after 9/11.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 15/07/2026

A new year, a new goal! Help us raise $180,000 before Rosh HaShanah for the Gaza Soup Kitchen, which provides food and medicine to thousands of displaced Palestinians each day.

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High Holy Days 5787 Tzedakah Campaign

By Gaza Soup Kitchen

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 05/09/2026

IMPT. UPDATE on Anthropic settlement claims mess re: rights-reverted books. 🧵 Just heard from a writer who called the settlement info line & was told that reversion would have had to happen "in 2022 or earlier" for authors to claim 100%. 1/3

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are going to keep doing this until we decide that everybody deserves health care

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Sophia Holtz @sophiaholtzzz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Excellent piece and by one of my former mod-mates, no less!

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf

A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

peter oberacker, whose grandfather was a nazi, is currently a state senator who serves on the 'New York State Senate Republican Antisemitism Working Group'

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.

Dolly Parton in a great jean jacket and Miss Piggy in a purple satin top and white boa and cowboy hat. What more do you need?

Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn and Tim Curry as Long John Silver in _Muppet Treasure Island_

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this punk we used to know turned out to be an abuser and the scene wouldn’t eject him so my buddy was like ‘ok then i’m just gonna beat the shit out of him every time i see him.’ and he did! like three times a week on the sidewalk or at the store til the jerkoff quietly disappeared on his own lol

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 19/08/2026

Starting a new semester so I'm gearing up for responses to students who want to use AI "just for research." My response to this is to try and recalibrate what the student thinks research is. It isn't just having a specific question or set of questions and setting out to find answers. 1/

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If Claudine Gay can be hounded out of her position without even having plagarised then "plagarism" doesn't mean plagarism. It means something else.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...

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Sophia Holtz @sophiaholtzzz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

wish I'd remembered to write down a source in an actual notebook so I wasn't now searching texts to myself/browser history, and fruitlessly googling the a description of an article I bookmarked for later that I now cannot find

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.

Nagasaki, bomber's eye view: Close-up view of the head of the mushroom cloud at the Nagasaki explosion, as seen from either the bomber or the observation plane.

Nagasaki, distant ground view: Photo of the Nagasaki cloud taken ~15 minutes after the atomic bomb detonation, by Hiromichi Matsuda, stationed at Koyagi-jima Island, some 5 miles / 8 km away.

Nagasaki, before and after, aerial views.

Nagasaki, ground view, some weeks after the attack.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If you replaced “Muslim” with “Jew” here, this would be almost verbatim something from “Der Stürmer.”

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