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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good! Prosecutors in New York are reopening an investigation into the allegations of a gang rape of a former Cornell University student after a civil lawsuit was filed earlier this month by the woman’s lawyer, claiming the school did not do enough to protect the accuser www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...

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New York prosecutors reopen investigation after student files lawsuit over alleged gang rape at Cornell University | CNN

Prosecutors in New York are reopening an investigation into an alleged gang rape of a former Cornell University student after a civil lawsuit was filed earlier this month by the woman’s lawyer, claimi...

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 18h

vampires be like that, cracking opens few boys with the cold ones

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 2h

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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Michael Tracey @m-tracey.bsky.social · 2h

Interesting theory

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 2h

This is a good example of how 'dirty rationalism' feeds reactionary thought. It over-relies on rigid ideas of rationalist epistemic authority, which has deep ties to patriarchal hierarchical tradition and eschews the 'feminine' moral intuitions that are likely innate and thus difficult to control.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 2h

“The office that you sit in is obviously off campus and that’s for a reason...Our main obligation is accountability." If there is legitimate karma in the world, these women will be professionals feted and respected as Theo Baker was www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...

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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)

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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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 4h

"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences

Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 2h

And this is almost an aside in the story, but also absolutely bonkers. Meta claimed Zuck as a "researcher" to get a $355 million tax break on his $4.1 billion stock-based compensation.

Screenshot from New York Times article: "Meta is already in one sizable dispute with the I.R.S. over this tax break, for using it to subsidize its chief executive’s multibillion-dollar pay package. In 2013, Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense because he helped invent new software, such as Facebook’s News Feed. The I.R.S. is trying to claw back the company’s resulting $355 million in tax savings, court filings show."

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 5h

it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3h

Check it out: 8 percent of Ds are Black Protestant. 10 percent are mainline Protestant (i.e., like Talarico and Hamilton). 9 percent are other religions. And 40 percent are not religious. www.pewresearch.org/religious-la...

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Democrats and Democratic leaners | Religious Landscape Study (RLS) | Pew Research Center

The Religious Landscape Study is a comprehensive survey of more than 35,000 Americans' religious identities, beliefs and practices that's been conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24. Pew Research Center.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 20/09/2026

"In truth, we felt utterly stuck. Our child was suffering, but all these children were — they were languishing in classrooms with educators who did not take their academic potential seriously and largely refused to teach." What is happening. This is so right wing.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 3h

@matthewdtaylor.bsky.social Worries about people who seem to love humanity more than humans. Great insight.

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Danielle @daniellie.bsky.social · 3h

The fuck is a foot bag?!

A hacky sack in packaging calling it a foot bag.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 3h

Abortion really seems like the ultimate wedge issue, but there's also something fascinating about its epistemology. We know the story, conservatives didn't seem to find it so immoral until the 1970's, coinciding with their overwhelming loss on race as well as on gender civil rights issues.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Yesterday @politico.com was out with a story giving some context into the weird situation with TPS for El Salvador, which everyone expected to be terminated but is now in an unprecedented and indefinite limbo. Surprisingly, it was the White House that intervened. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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White House pumped brakes on TPS termination for 200,000 Salvadorans

DHS was set to end temporary protected status for El Salvador before the White House stepped in.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 4h

This is a good diagram (Smith et al., 2020)

diagram of active ice sheet margin showing features associated with processes related to mass loss. Ice sheet, Ice shelf and Sea ice are shown respective to one another

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 9h

Not interested.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 10h

A feature of post-war German democracy has been that the left has traditionally had far more of a firewall to the far left than the center right has had with the far right. The central role of anti-communism in Cold War West Germany created a structural asymmetry that has not been reckoned with.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 11h

I'm reminded of the stupid Camille Paglia essay arguing for why we should blame college girls because because getting drunk is just dumb, like leaving your keys in your car. As horrific as it sounds, this visual captures perfectly the mentality of rape culture.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 12h

Sword of Damocleez Nutz - this post brought to you by pain management THC. #chronicpain

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 12h

I enjoy the Majority Report, and I think the team there is insightful. There certainly are reactionary centrists in the Democratic party Establishment who would love to spike progressives in order to suppress the left in the party. But #NotAllCentrists are reactionary! Some are team players!

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 13h

(Daily) reminder that conservatism denies the social sciences.

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seattle

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 13h

this renaming shit is getting out of control

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 16h

SCOTUS 3rd country ruling ruling by the majority today reminds us that yes, they are just as much white supremacists as the GOP congress and administration.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 16h

The old claim of conservatism of "Family, God, Country" was always about a *certain* God, family and type of loyalty to country - all others are disposable enemies. Now that they've seized total control it's abundantly clear what they meant.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

Earlier today, @zeteo.com revealed that Israel has kidnapped an American teenager and has kept him in detention for three months, with no charges. And then hours later, only one Republican voted to even somewhat hold Israel accountable for acts like this.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 18h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, Schmitt is an idiot for the Haws/Hawkeyes gaffe. But in light of the fact that Axios and others fired up the Schmitt for Vance’s VP machine during the hearing, we can over look the fact that he may be the most racist person in the Senate. youtu.be/HY4quehYBmc?...

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Senator Says USA is a White Homeland

YouTube video by Axis Mundi Network | SWAJ

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

Trump’s evangelical allies thought overturning Roe would cement their influence. But some of their leaders are discovering just how little sway they still have. @cheetah.bsky.social went inside a major evangelical summit to see why cracks are starting to show. lnk.thebulwark.com/4hSCSS6?utm_...

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 18h

Too many Christmas albums, not enough Halloween albums.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 18h

It’s remarkable that quite literally the worst people on the internet are staffing this administration. In some sense the internet has served as a recruiting device for fascism.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What do Nick Shirley, Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Katie Daviscourt, Savanah Hernandez, and Tyler Oliveira have in common? They make clickbait in service of, and sometimes collaboration with, the Trump Admin. Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...

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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky

Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · September 28 · 1h 12m

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18h

Picture of him with me would probably be worse for him tbh

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 18h

The root of Trump's most durable support is that he is stupid, and deep down, his most fanatical supporters know that he is. Like recognizes like. They don't like scientists, minorities, journalists, and professors being high-falutin' -- and neither does Trump.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 18h

I wrote this column yesterday about the widespread feeling in the industry that David Ellison lacks the experience and temperament to run one studio, much less two. I also foreshadowed the resignation of Cindy Holland today.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 21h

This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18h

And, look who is promoting this campaign. Also, there is a name floating around X. No one has any idea if the name of that person is truly this Jane Doe.

Benjamin Ryan @ @benryanwriter • 42m
Journalist Michael Tracey is looking to disclose the identity of
Jane Doe, who filed the lawsuit against seven Cornell men,
alleging they gang raped her in a frat house.

The suit names the men but not the plaintiff.

Should Jane Doe's name be made public? Why or why not?

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Michael Tracey
@mtracey

If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is,
get in touch and I would be happy to publish her

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 20h

Destruction of social sciences, Christian nationalism, poverty and minority access and eugenics as disability access is heavily dependent on a strong federal dept. of ed.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 20h

“Small hands (and other things) will also now be referred to as big.”

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