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Early voting underway in South Carolina through Oct. 31; Election Day is Nov. 3 abcnews4.com/newsletter-d...
Early voting underway in South Carolina through Oct. 31; Election Day is Nov. 3
Register voters are now eligible to vote early in South Carolina.
abcnews4.com
This is a masterclass in effective communication while also not being afraid to point out bigotry for what it is. We should be so lucky to have someone like this in our government.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
This is not beautiful to see. This is the most racist democracy on planet earth, and people just expect Black people to sing negro spirituals and "overcome." It's not working. This still happens for one reason and one reason only: white US folk don't hold each other accountable for this racism.
BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is just beautiful to see
We don't need flying cars. We need peace, warmth, a government that functions for everyone, libraries in every neighborhood, and a haunted forest encircling every town, which we can explore at our leisure.
feels like those stories of racists filling up pools with concrete because Black people wouldn't stop swimming, so now NO ONE could swim
There is no way to deport a 5 year old with dignity because deporting a 5 year old is wrong
School shootings happen this often because Republican politicians think gun worship is good for their careers.
4 killed, including 3 children, in shooting at Oregon elementary school, source says. Shooter is also dead | CNN
Three children and one adult were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, according to preliminary information from a law enforcement source.
cnn.com
some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "They want to cut your children. It's unbelievable what they do. Your son leaves as Jimmy and comes home in three days as Janet, and they don't even ask you. They can take your child out of school and do whatever the hell they want. Minnesota is one of those states."
Schools can not even give a child an aspirin without parental permission.
this is how you have to treat these guys. with genuine contempt. your genuine contempt makes their smarmy fake contempt look weak and inauthentic. it immediately exposes their game. these guys are just losers who have sworn revenge for every humiliation. humiliate them again
Making more girls & women hypervigilant about harm reduction keeps the focus on the likely victims rather than the likely perpetrators. Research scholarship is better spent on examining widely accepted societal underpinnings of rape culture: the cluenessness, the entitlement, and the impunity. /4
this whole thread but especially this bit is illustrative of exactly why experienced experts and victim advocates should be deciding policy, not whatever emergency PR committee institutions slap together after getting national media attention
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 5d agoThe example given in the book is that there would be less rape if students had more chairs in dorm rooms. That there is too much ambiguity when students sit side-by-side on a bed for a rapist to realize their victim did not consent.
absolutely maddening how news outlets treat police statements as gospel and seem to think it's illegal to get more information about an incident, to plainly describe what happened, or to treat well-known social media phenomena as utterly incomprehensible & unknowable www.404media.co/theres-nothi...
There’s Nothing Mysterious or Unusual About the Viral German Sexual Harassment Robot
Livestreamers used a robot to harass a woman for social media clout on the street in Germany.
404media.co
I’ve been biting my tongue on this one. But I’m just going to come out and say it: The Sexual Citizenship approach is the next era of symbolic compliance for campus sexual violence. It’s trying to solve sexual violence by putting more chairs in dorm rooms. Literally.
Ansley Erickson@ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 6d agoMy very fav young journo + the ever brilliant Shamus Khan & Jennifer Hirsh on why our rage at Cornell & the world is right and how it can be put to good use to make this “the last Jane Doe.”
The parallels between AI culture and car culture just keep on coming. Remembering the saleswoman at the NY Auto Show who told me how bad men were at buying cars in good part because when they go into dealerships they spend the time showing off their "knowledge" instead of asking questions.
Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
wired.com
It's not just frats. It's not just universities. It's not "just" rape. It's all the systems and structures of our institutions.
Holy shit ASOS released an adaptive clothing line specifically for people with disabilities?!?!!! Magnets instead of buttons, special pockets and holes to hold wearable medical devices that have tubes, and zippers to make them more comfortable for wheelchair users. www.asos.com/women/fashio...
This isn’t a “controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr,” this is “playing with the lives of vulnerable infants in a developing nation, which is being pushed by malicious grifters who couldn’t care less about the innocent lives they hurt.”
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
theguardian.com
Charleston museum marks 500 years since first documented U.S. slave revolt www.live5news.com/2026/10/09/c...
Charleston museum marks 500 years since first documented U.S. slave revolt
Saturday will mark the 500th anniversary of the San Miguel de Gualdape Revolt, which, according to historians, is the first documented revolt by slaves in the United States.
live5news.com
media assets now owned by david ellison: cbs cnn hbo paramount+ tnt mtv tcm showtime adult swim dc studios nickelodeon comedy central cartoon network (and don’t forget his dad bought tiktok too)
my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
paidforby.info
How @propublica.org Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required. / by @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
propublica.org
It's good news that NY Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Leticia James special prosecutor in this case, and here remember that Hochul became governor because Governor Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign in disgrace because of his serial sexual harassment...
“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:33-34 (ESV)
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
Rich people "rent" talent. That's what money is good for. That is WHY they want AI. AI allows wealth to access talent without letting talent access wealth. Now what rich person would not want that? And what poor person would want that? See the problem yet?
You are very welcome. As the cool aunt to twin toddlers, let me just say that the most basic lessons are the most inportant: - Don’t hit people or animals - Say sorry when you make a mistake - No, we won’t move on to something fun until you’re ready to apologize - Listen—and don’t interrupt
