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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 18h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/09/2026
Evil, just pure evil
Commissioner for Human Rights & X.com
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I am alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Oleshky, a town in the temporarily occupied parts of the Kherson region of Ukraine.
Civilians, including children, are trapped without sufficient food, medicines, medical care, running water or electricity. Reports indicate that they face a high risk of death.
Under international humanitarian law, Russia, as the occupying power, has the duty to provide food and medical supplies and to facilitate humanitarian relief.
I call for an immediate local ceasefire, unhindered humanitarian access, and the safe evacuation of civilians.
The hardship and suffering of people caught along the frontlines of the war and in occupied territories demand international attention and action. #humanrights #Ukraine #Oleshky #Kherson
#HumanitarianLaw
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Julia" shared this photo with us from the carrots in the Cuyama CA area. "We are paid piece rate and we only are given 4 hours of work a day. This makes it impossible to cover our expenses. The high was 97° when this photo was taken." #WeFeedYou
A carrot field where you see the Bunches of harvested carrots laid out
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.
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UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t know how many more times I’m going to say this but truly fuck Newsom
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People like Ezra Klein have got to stop asking Jensen Huang questions like this. He's a billionaire CEO of a company that makes GPUs and whose life doesn't resemble any normal person's. Why would he have an informed opinion about whether it matters if kids get worse at math and reading?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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TM @tmoore88.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A middle-aged white man approached me at a DC-area coffee shop and asked if I'm Matthew Yglesias and I've never been more offended.
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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
MAHA Is a medical experiment on the US population and should be considered a crime against humanity.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/08/2026
You see a lot of glib analysts repeating the line that "Americans just don't want EVs" without taking into consideration that the US auto buying experience is dominated by a network of extremely ignorant, Republican car dealers dependent on the kind of maintenance that EVs don't need.
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Children will die because of this.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I saw a Wall Street Journal article attacking @francescahongwi.bsky.social for campaigning on free child care, mass transit to publicly run grocery stores, the elimination of all college debt, defunding the police, Medicare-for-all, and abolishing ICE, and I immediately donated to her campaign.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is a 1938-level story from Nazi Germany
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In the last week, a GOP nominee for statewide office: -Apparently invoked the conspiracy theory that led to the Holocaust -Called to round up Chinese people -Quoted an obscure white nationalist novel -Called the nonworking "low IQ parasites" We asked GOP leaders to respond. None did. (Gift link).
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A GOP Nominee for Texas Office Keeps Peddling Fascist Ideas
Bo French was once criticized by members of his party for his offensive posts. Now that he’s the nominee for the Railroad Commission, they’re silent.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
They are coming to drive your electricity prices through the roof, destroy your environment, take your water, pervert your politics, enrich billionaires, take your jobs, and make you pay for the privilege. What’s not to love? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/07/2026
Healthy diet too expensive for one in three people globally, UN report finds
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Healthy diet too expensive for one in three people globally, UN report finds
Global hunger declined for the third year in a row in 2025 but experts call for action to bring down costs of fruit, vegetables and dairy as report shows 2.69bn people can’t afford to eat well
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The same Harlan Crow who has a mansion full of Nazi memorabilia?🙄
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
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ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Many of us are familiar with how the Trump administration has politicized the award of FEMA by denying disaster aid to blue states. Now, imagine that dynamic applying to *all* state and local discretionary grants. That's what OMB's grants proposal threatens to do www.crisesnotes.com/russell-voug...
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Russell Vought is Using the Plumbing of Fiscal Federalism to Create a New Patronage System
EDITORS NOTE: I (Nathan) have struggled whether to rush to comment on this proposed OMB rule. Being a recent Fiscal Year 2026 OMB memo, and knowing that the OMB will continue to create new forms of bu...
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
$1.3 BILLION. That's how much the 50 richest donors in America have already spent to buy the midterms. The vast majority are buying the same thing: Tax cuts. Deregulation. More wealth for them. Less for us. This is how you rig an economy.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 05/07/2026
Better rehire all those profs
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A lot of govts have limited this guys company in order to ensure affordable housing, but he has a different explanation for housing shortages, one courtesy of an organization too racist even for William F. Buckley. And he also in charge of digital branding for the US government under Trump.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
No matter what Elon Musk says, the evidence is clear & devastating: Hundreds of thousands of the 🌍️'s most vulnerable people - many of them children - have died as a direct result of DOGE's aid cuts. That is a moral outrage. Congress must fully restore aid to stop more needless death & suffering.
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Journalists Set the Record Straight After Musk Claims ‘Not a Single' Child Died From DOGE’s USAID Cuts | Common Dreams
​"Come with me on a reporting trip," said New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff. "You'll see the dying children themselves."
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
So ICE waited more than a week to disclose a 85-year-old German man died in ICE custody.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I guess this wasn't news last year because Haberman & Swan needed to make money publishing books instead of doing their jobs.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Sure, these journalists should write books. But <these> books, based primarily on withholding information from their reporting in real time, again their day jobs? I don’t get it.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is especially wild if you’re old enough to remember when Van Jones was painted as the radical far-left activist who the Obama administration simply had to sacrifice if they wanted to prove they were the reasonable moderates.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Tulsi Gabbard’s deep connections to a cult run by a man named Chris Butler have been reported on for at least a decade. But man, this is wild. This report suggests he actively directed her political strategy while she was in Congress. Right down to what she said during TV appearances.
Saltzburg told me Butler did not use a computer. Instead, he delivered his advice for Gabbard verbally, she said, sometimes to her directly over the phone and other times to his secretaries or other followers. The secretaries
transcribed his remarks and turned them into
memos.
It was clear from the documents that the emails, with the memos attached, were often sent to a small group of people, in varying permutations, who I knew from my reporting were close to both Butler and Gabbard. They included Saltzburg, Gabbard's parents and a few other devotees. Saltzburg said this group was known as Butler's "political team."Their content was extraordinary.
Dozens of attached memos appeared to document directives and advice for Gabbard from her time in Congress. Some contained instructions on what legislation she should propose, which policies she should embrace and how she should conduct herself on television.
They had an air of authority. A memo about a proposal to partition war-torn Iraq into three states quoted an unnamed person as saying it was "time for TG to come up with this idea."
Some of the language was harshly critical. One memo I found, from January 2015, contained a derisive assessment of a statement Gabbard was to give in response to President Barack Obama's annual address to Congress.But before all of that occurred, I compared the content of the memos against Gabbard's record in the House and I found unmistakable parallels. The main speaker in a 2014 memo pressed for her to propose legislation penalizing countries with citizens who had fought for the Islamic State, and to issue a statement about it.
"Get it started in the morning," the person said.
"You need to be the leader in this regard. Don't dick around." I found that Gabbard released a statement the following day. A week after that, she introduced a bill in the House.
An Oct. 12, 2015, memo labeled "CNN Wolf Blitzer Talking points (Final)" contained this language about reports that she had been asked by Democratic leadership not to attend a presidential debate: "It's not a boohoo, I don't get to go to the party situation, Wolf." I dug up the clip of her appearance that day and found that she had used the line almost verbatim:
"The issue here is not about me saying boo-hoo, I'm going to miss the party."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2026
this is just an expression of the conservative belief that it was outrageous for barack obama to try to win an election
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026
A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...
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Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.
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Chris Becker @chrisbecker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A literal cure for cancer, and the Trump administration is against it
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The socialism will continue until everyone has healthcare 💃💃💃
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
DSA candidate defeats “lock ‘em up” prosecutor to become DC’s most progressive mayor to date! Janeese Lewis George is also Trump’s worst DC nightmare. Now if only we can get him to declare war on us and pay out $300 billion in reparations when he surrenders.
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Kenyan McDuffie concedes mayoral race to Janeese Lewis George
The Ward 4 councilmember is leading in partial first-round results by double digits.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This does. Not. Happen. The government does not agree to pay defendants’ legal fees. It is not done. They are doing it in the hopes of avoiding discovery, because they are hiding something that is somehow even worse than what we already know.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Goooooood evening and happy Sunday! The out of pocket cost of the birth of my son, after “good” insurance, after meeting my deductible (despite a wicked pregnancy, everyone was healthy) was OVER TEN THOUSAND US DOLLARS. And then I went back to work still bleeding. So I don’t think it’s the phones.
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
did you guys know they still allowed good news
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Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report
The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This would put Elon Musk in the company of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and the great mass murderers in history.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
-Multiple studies suggest Musk killing USAID led to about 750,000 deaths, of which 500,000 were kids -IMHO it’s hard to estimate what the number will be by 2030; I think deaths in different countries will vary according to how quickly/slowly they can raise domestic finance to replace lost aid 1/2
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 13/06/2026
Oil and gas has captured a lot of politicians and political parties, but few more than Donald Trump. … to the point where the Trump is eliminating a key science network used to measure both climate change, and… the weather
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 12/06/2026
When you accept that Elon Musk turned the once-Twitter into the new 8chan, the enduring presence of democratic (and Democratic) organizations on there becomes gross and delegitimizing. 8chan had normal context mixed in with the owner-approve abuse, just like X. We need to treat it the same way.
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Epstein survivors eviscerate Blanche. “We are deeply disturbed to learn that so many senior members of the administration gathered in the Situation Room to discuss the release of the Epstein files as a reputational problem… We are especially concerned that Todd Blanche… was at that table.”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is why all of you have a DUTY to stop paroting austerity language at the Federal level. The money is there. It's just not going to supporting life affirming institutions and programs.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Statement from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan calling for Musk and his platform to be held to account:
MAYOR OF LONDON
The knife attack in Belfast on Monday was truly horrific. My thoughts are with Stephen Ogilvy and his family, who deserve justice.
Targeting and terrorising innocent people because of the colour of their skin, including setting fire to their homes, has nothing to do with justice or a desire to keep communities safe, however. It is racist mob violence, which has been organised, enabled and whipped up by those seeking to profit politically and financially from hatred, fear and disorder.
Social media platforms who give money and reach to these individuals to promote their hate need to be held to account. They cannot be allowed to continue pouring petrol on the flames.
The disgraceful violence is a direct consequence of the normalisation of vile, racist rhetoric across the UK, which needs to be challenged far more robustly in our political discourse.
I welcome the steps the Prime Minister has taken to work with police and the First Minister of Northern Ireland. We must stand together to prevent further disorder, and to take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
BIG MONEY: Pro-@kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social independent expenditure group People for a United D.C. has raised $827k and spent $813k on anti-@janeese4dc.bsky.social mailers and ads. Most of its funding ($650k) comes from a dark money group. $100k from realtors group. Also: Nats owner, developers.
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