The biggest loophole that needs closing is getting prosecutors and police to actually care about sexual assault... www.courthousenews.com/ny-governor-...

NY governor slams response to Cornell gang rape report

Governor Kathy Hochul said Cornell University police and the local district attorney's office failed to properly investigate the 2024 report, so she's tapping Attorney General Letitia James as an inde...

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Again, what do you think the police are doing to people you can’t name if they’re willing to do that to the mayor?

Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629@feralrobots.bsky.social · yesterday

I beg people to remember that NYPD openly threatened the lives of Mayor deBlasio's children.

People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos

If elected officials don’t feel safe then how are professors in a Department studying sexuality and gender supposed to feel safe? How is a tenant organizer supposed to feel safe, student protesters etc all the people in political life who are targeted by the same reactionaries without any support.

We don’t have any privacy protections which matter, we don’t have any limit on the resources we’ll spend on giving guys guns on behalf of the state. And yet, the people making the decisions are more afraid than ever?

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

The Onion@theonion.com · 4d ago

From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment

This is very good (although I've been told by a researcher in this area that National Panhellenic Conference sororities overturning their alcohol ban is "never gonna happen" for insurance reasons)

Finding New Ideas for Campus Sexual Assault Prevention

Learn from schools with better climates.

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Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...

The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right

For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.

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Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · last wk.

Megyn Kelly: "...this is probably a first for her. She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up the incredibly beautiful one."

Great column. And folks should read @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's piece (below). And then maybe if you want to see how this abusive behavior starts from high school, read my book. sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/33-underst...

33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain

From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men

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Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last wk.

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday ​persuaded a US ‌federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ​ban on AI-generated ​fake nude images as ⁠the technology and ​social media company pursues ​a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

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"New survey data from Siena suggests close to 50% of men aged 18–49 have an active sports betting account… Instead of fighting what is clearly an emerging crisis, we have some of the biggest names in professional sports acting as spokespeople for DraftKings and Kalshi."

Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater

Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.

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Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

Oriana González@oriana.bsky.social · last wk.

SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...

But it’s also true that these systems are just misogynistic. And we’re so busy holding victims to an impossibly high standard that we forget to ask the most basic questions about whether people like police did their jobs effectively.

As a preview - loot boxes banned everywhere EXCEPT games - age estimation techs have impossible tech requirements - U-15s have 1 hour daily limit on strava & spotify - accidental age rating obligation for all kindle ebooks - 14 yos on work experience can only use slack through a parent's account

Once again it’s @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social bringing AI panic back down to earth. For the love of god people please listen to them

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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On CNN’s 5 Things Podcast quotes PERIL Founding Director Cynthia Miller-Idris on findings that misogyny is "among the top three predictors, of support for political violence and willingness to engage in it." 🎧https://bit.ly/4z2x2Uh

He Called Women “Fat B*tches.” The GOP is Standing by Him. - CNN 5 Things - Podcast on CNN Podcasts

CNN has new reporting about crass and sexually degrading comments about women made by a congressional candidate in Texas who is running in a key district Democrats hope to flip. While he is framing…

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John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.

Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · 2w ago

Public anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.bsky.social · 2w ago

yet the lack of training wasn't the issue here, so why are we bringing it up.

Folks. I am seriously concerned over some of these feminist responses to the Cornell rape case. The militant conviction that incarceration and the PATRIARCHAL state are the solution to sexual violence is ... astounding.

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

Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 2w ago

"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...

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

Folks. I am seriously concerned over some of these feminist responses to the Cornell rape case. The militant conviction that incarceration and the PATRIARCHAL state are the solution to sexual violence is ... astounding.

This is genuinely true. Epstein perpetrators had a heavy hand in developing today’s campus sexual violence response.

Jeffrey Epstein Loved Trump’s Changes to the Title IX Rule. That Tells You All You Need to Know. - National Women's Law Center

Content warning: reported sexual violence, reported homicide As an attorney who focuses on gender-based violence, I wasn’t surprised that the “Epstein files” confirmed what my gender justice comrades ...

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Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

Deb@sailebed.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update: abcnews.com/US/district-...