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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 8h

I was just thinking about the fact that Amy Coney Barrett told Congress that her children have had to think about things that children should never have to think about. But for children of immigrants shipped off to torture dungeons, I guess it's ... character building?

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Of course Roberts issued a stay Put yourself in SCOTUS's shoes. Your options are: ➡️ uphold the law, get ignored by Trump/Musk, and lose all your power in the public's mind ➡️ protect Trump, pretend there's a reason this is OK, and remain exalted after he's dead They will pick Door #2 every time

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”

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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 8h

NEWS: The Senate GOP just blocked our resolution to stop Trump from further sabotaging the Affordable Care Act. Trump and Republicans own every closed hospital, every person without insurance and every skyrocketing premium that follows.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9h

I think that is true, but I do not think it is necessarily an immutable law of the American Voter. It is a product of leadership and culture made up of individual decisions. It's a feedback loop, in part, of political leaders telling voters that it is right and good and just to be that way.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15h

Ah yes, because historically women who accuse men of rape receive damages and the rapists receive justice and consequences for their actions! (See: The President of the United States of America)

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 10h

This was very clearly not a misunderstanding, but rather grandstanding built upon malicious lies; a fact so obvious and humiliating that what the NYT’s is doing here can only be described as janitorial.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h

After Eric Schmitt lied and was corrected at the Jack Smith hearing, the NY Times called it a “misunderstanding.” This might be fair if Schmitt had a record of honesty (he doesn’t) and if Schmitt didn’t repeat the same lie after the hearing (he did). What the hell is the NY Times doing?

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Jack Smith, who as special counsel twice charged Donald J. Trump with criminal offenses after his first term, defended his actions in testimony before Congress on Tuesday, as a Republican senator accused him of perjury based on what appeared to be the lawmaker’s misunderstanding about a basketball game involving the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 10h

Joke about non-consensual contact right out of the gate at the MAHA Summit's "Reform in CMS" panel from moderator Russell Brand, the comedian who has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of rape and sexual assault for which he will stand trial in London next month. Dr. Oz slaps his knee. MAHA!

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 11h

It’s the Axios thing that bugs me. Yes yes everybody can sneer that they’re in the tank but this seems really bad.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 12h

This is a huge shift. The data is so clear even Third Way is on board. Strength and clarity beat “heterodox” mumbling and weakness every time. Hopefully next time we have this debate Dems can skip over the years of running ads that help Rs.

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Willie Dustice @fightingbaseball94.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every day it’s this

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

John Kennedy takes over. He has no clue why Grassley left.

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𝗕𝗮𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀🇮🇲 @bagofsweets.bsky.social · 12h

It’s been taken down already. 😆

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 12h

Just scratching my head at the notion that people who benefit most from free childcare are educated and affluent rather than working class people who need multiple income to survive. But the author knows that's not true. They're just using the trusty Atlantic to gaslight. Fire all your editors.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h

Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 12h

Republicans making it clear who the real victims of J6 were: Republicans like Ted Cruz, who had to call Trump and beg him not to let his mob murder him and therefore got swept up into the collection of evidence in the J6 prosecution. If you remain a Republican you are a categorical coward.

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 13h

Why do editors let assumptions like "all working women with children are educated and affluent" just sail through?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

A lot of Trumpism boils down to the belief that accurately pointing out facts to a man caught up in emotion and false conspiracy theories is a terrible wrong, one that demands retribution.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.

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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

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jane57lisa @jane57lisa.bsky.social · 13h

He deserves to be banished from the hearing! A sitting US Senator maligned and lied about Smith and called him a dirtbag. That demends more than an apology. Schmitt should be ejected and not allowed back into the hearing. When did Congress stop believing in accountability?

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17h

You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)

Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

A core issue of AI writing is reciprocity between writer & audience, well expressed by the slogan "why should I take the time to read what you didn't take the time to write?"

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 14h

There is a vision of what the Real Electorate is in the minds of people like this that is mostly about their own experience of their long-ago childhood and is not troubled at all by reality, in which women in lower income households are overwhelmingly part of the workforce and long have been

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 13h

I made a meme! I swear I'm not old! But actually I like this one.

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 13h

The thing is, doctors and nurses could very easily wipe out humanity. We've just trained ourselves to think they won't and the Hippocratic Oath from old Greece will protect us. But when they turn evil, we get our present FDA and measles outbreaks.

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AlpenglowDreams @alpenglowdreams.bsky.social · 14h

The fact that trump managed to evade justice due to having the resources to delay his day in court mixed with Garland’s incompetence will haunt this country for decades

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah, the perfect way to greet the national furor over the Cornell case. Masterful gambit as usual.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

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

Aww man why is Sweetgreen speaking at the Trump Admin's "MAHA Summit" tomorrow. Can I not eat my $16 salad in peace

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it.

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Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.
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“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/09/2026

"This is judicially blessed ethnic cleansing motivated by nothing—nothing—other than naked white nationalism."

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The Hard Lessons of Springfield

There are plenty of people happy about what is happening to the Haitian community.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

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TomP @tgpudney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cornell University is not ever going to do anything to hold Greek life accountable because they want money from the alumni. It really is that simple. Something happens every couple years and they just rely on the fact most the people paying attention will be gone in 4 years max.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is incredible how in the tank some journalists are for Trump and the GOP

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, COME ON.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

preview: "Referring to AI development as 'the frontier' is a laughable ploy to get men who’ve never had a creative thought in their life to believe they’re an NPC in a gritty reboot of the Oregon Trail."

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure

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Ironic Star Wars Moment

Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She gets a check and everyone’s attention She’s watched every single colleague of color she has be fired or penalized She may be a joke to you but yes people she’s targeted have been harmed in the way she wanted You can laugh . Her targets are hurt She’s won. It’s her victory lap

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