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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 2h

i am once again saying that there of a lot of White leftists (particularly men) whose ideas to improve society boil down to "white supremacy and patriarchy but with healthcare".

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2h

Now some think if you don't say the phrase "racial capitalism" you don't consider the intersection between racism and capitalism. As if many scholars, activists, and organizers who challenge capitalism didn't make the connection before the concept. Goodness, what kind of reading practices are these.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 5h

This detail from the NYT obit of disgraced and resurrected televangelist Jim Bakker, and his oldest pivot in the book www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...

The new ministry was low-key compared with that of the Bakkers’ high-flying PTL days. Its focus was different, too. The end of days was nigh, Mr. Bakker now preached, and he offered viewers what he said they would need to ride out the Apocalypse: long-lasting food, 10 buckets of it for $600 plus shipping costs. His message had a bluntly conservative political cast. “God has called” Donald J. Trump, he said. Barack Obama “sounded like the representative for Antichrist,” he said in 2016, and Hillary Clinton was “a bride of Satan.”

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 5h

Screw Alito. His book comes out today, same day as mine, but my book is about the brilliance of Black women, power of community action, resistance to racism & oppression, & world-changing impact of books. Oh, and music. Which one do you think should be a bestseller? bookshop.org/p/books/free...

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Freedom's Daughters: How a Generation of Black Women Resisted Oppression Through Literacy and Education

A stirring contribution to America’s historical narrative.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything t...

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 16h

Tfw the thing you do to rectify one of your crimes is itself also a crime

Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 22h

I'm on the edge of my seat over here. a journalist in South Africa is digging into the subject of my absolute favorite series of episodes of weird little guys -- the South African pro-apartheid terrorist who married an American klansman.

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The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA right

Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.…

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide?

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Monday! Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn! Me, Ari Berman, and the coolest pro-voting kids around! greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-1...

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Book Launch: Kevin T. Morris with Ari Berman at LAPC

Brooklyn independent bookstore

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT! The 2027 Meeting of the Race and Stratification in the Economy Working Group at @nber.org will be held on April 2, 2027! The deadline for submissions is December 10,2026. Please Share!! More details are here: www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Apparently, it's the same with universities.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Over and over some people demonstrate that racism IS a material interest in their decision making and that the racism supercedes everything else. But some refuse to take these folks at their word.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-bui... In the spirit of intramural rigor (as in, we are on the same side), I wrote a review of Sarah Longwell’s highly engaging but at times flawed new book on how to build an anti-MAGA coalition.

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You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History

Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The conservative quest for diversity of thought was always leading toward mandatory reading of approved authors.

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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Flávio Bolsonaro got 56 million votes yesterday. He's under investigation for alleged “money laundering, illicit capital flight, corruption" after he negotiated a $24-million investment from a now-jailed banker—accused of leading the biggest bank fraud in Brazil's history—to finance the movie.

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How a Bolsonaro biopic ended up at the center of Brazil's presidential election

“This movie is going to be a nightmare for the Left.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ten years and I have never taught THICK, which means I have never taught the class I want to teach. We may be close to pulling this off thanks to my friends in creative writing. Fingers crossed.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

maybe this is ego talking, but i’ve had two popular left-leaning podcasts for several years now and never once has anyone reached out to us looking to invest, help expand, etc. there’s just no infrastructure for that on the left.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

there are people who make serious money on the left, but the ecosystem just has less money flowing around overall. there are streamers and podcasts and YouTube channels doing well, but you won't peel back the curtain and find 6 figure investments from partisans like you do on the right

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

one thing i’d be interested in hearing from, e.g., Ashley St. Clair, is whether she was surprised by how much less money there is on the left once she got there

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yglesias is connected enough in lefty media to know that he’s lying here. the idea that there’s significant money to be made pandering to the left is ridiculous.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Resist the temptation to do that. The reality is that sexual violence is a problem at every university in the US. National comparisons aren’t hugely useful. And even the “best” school isn’t safe enough for women.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And one last thing: When the data is this confusing and the trends can be indicative such contradictory things, you see people ties themselves into knots to absolve schools they love.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: more states need transparency laws that require schools to collect and share data about sexual violence and sexual violence response. Enough is Enough is a good blueprint. Take it to your state legislatures.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And to be clear, in states like New York with a law like Enough is Enough, we do have climate survey data and Title IX data. That’s why experts have a good sense of what’s driving changes in reporting rates at Cornell.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Even at an individual school, it’s easier to understand reporting rates with the context of longitudinal climate survey data on students’ self-reported rate of sexual victimization.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reporting rates are not a good proxy for sexual assault rates. There are a ton of confounding variables.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you’re feeling like everything I’m saying is making it really hard to know how to interpret reporting numbers without a ton of context, then you’ve gotten the right takeaway.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But again, that trend is complicated. Schools with expansive mandatory reporting policies tend to see a long term decrease in reports because victims are so traumatized by the surveillance culture created that they tend to self-silence.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Many of these reports are not actionable. They are things like, “[student name] disclosed they were a survivor during office hours.”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Which brings me to the other big variable: mandatory reporting policies. If a school has an expansive mandatory reporting policy, then they have more reports made about survivors than by survivors—including multiple reports about the same incident.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On the opposite side of the coin, we also see reporting rates explode after high-profile cases. People like alumni who are angry about the school’s institutional betrayal file reports about things that happened to them years ago. Faculty may also be more inclined to file mandatory reports.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the biggest ones is trust in the Title IX system. A school with a really low reporting rate isn’t necessarily a place where violence doesn’t occur, but rather a place where students know they will be mistreated if they come forward.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With that caveat aside, we can get into some of the reasons schools might have real disparities in reporting rates.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In general, researchers find that a school’s Clery Act reported numbers of sexual assaults is NOT reliable enough to use as an indicator of the rate of sexual violence on campus OR the rate of reports made to Title IX.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Conversely, some schools have much lower Clery numbers because they are more selective about what they include (e.g., only counting on campus incidents), knowing that Clery numbers are public and can affect reputation.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The number of reported sexual assaults in a school’s Clery numbers can be higher than the number of students who reported to Title IX, especially if a school requires confidential spaces (like a victim advocacy office) to share basic information like the number of their clients for Clery.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Clery Act is a national law that requires schools to self-report the number of crimes that happened on campus each year.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The first thing to note is that a lot of these national comparisons are apples and oranges. They’re a mix of Title IX-specific data (from state transparency laws like New York’s Enough is Enough) and Clery Act data.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are some news articles going around about sexual violence reporting rates at different universities. Let’s talk about why some schools have higher reporting rates than others:

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Will Smith where you at

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Dude was mad that the pope wouldn’t say his imaginary friend had a soul. You can’t make this shit up.

Before he flew out, Olah received a copy of the encyclical the Pope was about to publish — and what he saw was a disaster in the making. One of the most influential people in the world full stop, and almost certainly its most visible faith leader, was completely dismissing even the possibility of AI consciousness. So indignant was Olah that he reportedly threatened to pull out of the event, though in the end he decided to show up.

According to the NYT, once the Anthropic delegation arrived at the Vatican, Olah and his team lobbied the pope’s advisers to take the possibility of AI consciousness seriously. Anthropic declined to discuss the details of the conversations when the NYT reached for comment.

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JDG @cottonmather.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A huge chunk of elite poli-tastemaking is writing essays from the unstated perspective “Let’s just act as if this obvious liar is being genuine,” like people’s lives are just the score in a debate competition.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.

Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The economists Justin mentions here are all on the pro-democracy side of the divide, regardless of their economic views. In other words, there are table stakes that are the ante to sitting down at the table & discussing ideological differences over tax policy or regulation or interest rates.

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