Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
🚨my book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America is on sale today on the Kindle store for $2.99! Sorry to link to Amazon but $3 is a solid price for a book that took me three years to write www.amazon.com/Wild-Faith-C...
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you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
In my first-year college writing course about AI, I made a chatbot that could help students "stress test" their arguments by providing potential counterarguments. The class was about AI so it made sense to try it. It wasn't bad at the task but when my students saw that it didn't give answers and /1
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3w ago"We observe how students actually used the AI tutor, and the answer is: not much." hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
Was the Force With You? How Beliefs in the Force Influence Attributions and Subsequent Decision Making
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat’s your fake starwars academic paper
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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EXCLUSIVE NEW VIDEO OBTAINED showing how Pete Ricketts got his jobs.
7th grader becomes world record holder with recent catch
7th grader becomes world record holder with recent catch
An Arizona seventh-grader just checked off "world record holder" from her goal list.
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“.. The Atlanta Fed calculates that as of May, a household would need income of $124,674 a year to afford a median-priced home … that is 45% more than the median household makes.” - Schwab
The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.It gets worse when you remember that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war started. So we’re spending $40B and people are dying on both sides to return to the status quo from January. Everything is socialism unless it’s money for killing people in pointless forever wars.
I recently finished a book called "Revenge For the Sixties" by Peter Canellos about Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito. But I wanna focus specifically on the book title here, because that's what I believe is going on here, and it even alludes to it in the article 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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I've been tasked to cover data center issues at work recently and I've learned some interesting things about data centers' environmental impacts that I thought I'd share Some really unexpected stuff beyond the energy/water stuff most people know about at this point
I wish more students understood that they can positively shift the dynamics of an entire semester by consistently giving nonverbal feedback during class. A few students who nod, smile, show confusion, etc can genuinely make the teacher a better teacher, and then everyone has a more enjoyable time.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last mo.Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes
I had this conversation with a young man a few weeks ago. I told him that a lot of straight men don’t like women. They fall in love with them, they like having sex with them, but do they LIKE them? Not at all. They hate everything feminine. They see it as weak and silly.
Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian)@gaudynight78.bsky.social · last mo.It's extremely possible to hate women while thinking you appreciate them!
Is doomscrolling bad for you? A meta-analysis of 42 studies (N=46,912) finds that consuming short-form videos is linked to increases in inattention & impulsivity; reductions in working-memory span & self-regulation; elevations in anxiety, depression & stress; and a surge in addiction symptoms.
I'm a veteran. I know what it costs to send people to war. Bombing people creates MORE resistance. It creates generations of kids even more radicalized than their parents. Our service members put EVERYTHING on the line. They deserve a strategy worthy of that sacrifice.
Say hello to @6zoneduo.com, a brand new women’s volleyball podcast (executive produced by @splitzoneduo.com. I wrote a little bit about it on Counter Read, my newsletter with Brandon Vogel where we will continue to tell good sports stories. open.substack.com/pub/counterr...
A new volleyball podcast, with a big Counter Read thank you
A quick Wednesday note on a new women’s volleyball podcast, Six Zone Duo, why it matters and why I wanted to share it with Counter Read readers first.
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don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA
No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Nebraska helmet law repeal linked to more severe brain injuries, UNMC study finds
Nebraska helmet law repeal linked to more severe brain injuries, UNMC study finds
A new study from the University of Nebraska Medical Center found that not wearing a helmet on a motorcycle can more than double a rider’s odds of a severe traumatic brain injury in a crash. The findings are the first hard numbers released since Nebraska repealed its universal helmet law.
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