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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 18h

The Banner has obtained heavily redacted audio and transcripts of the calls made the night Christa Pike’s execution failed.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h

The administration's goal, openly stated, is to consolidate police power in the country and create a huge, well-funded, extremely aggrieved, pro-MAGA, anti-immigrant, anti-protestor police force the likes of which we have never seen in this country.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Of all the patently false ideas MAGA is scaffolded on, the idea that we were a less violent society 150 years ago might be the most egregious.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

dril/ISIS Postulate and all that, but I half-agree with Jeffress here. You shouldn't be too chicken to watch your public policy made manifest.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is why they gave that anti gambling talk last weekend. Think how much worse this would sting with money on it

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital and taken back to the women’s prison in Nashville where she was incarcerated before her failed execution.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Statement from Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, and Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, attorneys for Christa Pike

"Christa Pike was discharged from a local hospital and is now at Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center where she has been housed for more than 30 years. She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances. She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery."

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Brother Shamus @brother-shamus22.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is one of the things that the “it was always this bad” crowd misses - our expressed values matter, and failing to live up to them is different from disowning them.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026

Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hard to overstate how crucial Sarat is to this moment.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think this might be worded a little harshly (as was my initial response to it), but it's hard to ignore the way the Democrats have left wins on the table in an electoral strategy that clearly didn't make sense long before they dropped it (if they even really did).

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Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Arizona's dem governor had a capital punishment off ramp right in front of her (for at least as long as she was in office, maybe longer) by way of a recommendation from an expert she hired. So she fired him and has had 3 people executed in 3 years and currently seeking another warrant.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Most people in the USA have been very willing to allow a great deal of state violence so long as they do not need to witness or experience it regularly. MAGA has used this to push the limit of how much violence the USA will tolerate. There is no reason to think the escalation will stop.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't know if I have a fully-formed opinion on the "public" part of public executions, but most of the quotes here are "I have no qualms with doing everything in my power, but I draw the line at reckoning with that."

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My latest: Fair enough that Christa Pike woke up shocked and angry that Tennessee botched its attempt to kill her. No one else has any excuse. medicineandjustice.beehiiv.com/p/christa-pi...

medicineandjustice.beehiiv.com

Christa Pike Gets to Be Shocked. We Don't

Everything that could have gone wrong did for Tennessee—and all of them were risks they knew about.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Newsom should do at least one good thing in political career because people should do things that are moral and just. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

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Newsom Mulls Sparing Lives of All 563 Prisoners on Death Row in California

Gov. Gavin Newsom ramped up talks after a botched execution in Tennessee.

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

During ongoing court hearing, one of Christa Pike's attorneys, Luke Ihnen, tells judge that defense team was able to see her after a 2.5 hour wait yesterday and says TDOC has denied requests from medical staff to remove handcuffs and shackles from her. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCp...

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Emergency hearing on Christa Pike's failed execution

YouTube video by FOX NASHVILLE

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like fundamentally this is the same principle. Someone in power wants something. What, are you gonna cause a problem by withholding it? Or are you gonna find an amicable solution? Different scales but the same instinctive, groveling worship of power & privilege

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, there's an outlier. Argue with your mother about it.

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Songs in the Key of Life, Pet Sounds, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Orphans, My Cherie Amour, Tapestry, A Long Way Home, Born to Run, Deliverancr

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Unlike five hookers, you cannot kill Mike Leach in any way that matters

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.

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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts

As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We don't—likely won't—know the level of certification Christa Pike's would-be executioners held. However, Tennessee changed its protocol to let EMTs, who don't as a rule receive *any* training on IV placement, to place IVs for lethal injection, despite death row's vasculature-destroying conditions.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My latest @ms.now, on why it‘s not (legally) cruel and unusual for Tennessee to try to execute Christa Pike again, even w all the risks that remain, but also on why Gov. Bill Lee has far more political room to use his clemency than our conventional political narrative suggests.

ms.now

Opinion | Tennessee botched its attempted execution of Christa Pike. It shouldn’t try again.

John Pfaff: Gov. Bill Lee can do what the Supreme Court will not — and prevent a punishment that already feels morally cruel and unusual.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What is the point of this stupid country if not that? Pack it up we’ve lost our reason to be

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New details suggest a difference of degree, not type, between Christa Pike's execution and your "typical" botched lethal injection.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember when the Democratic party removed "ending the death penalty" from its 2024 platform.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 01/10/2026

What's happening in Tennessee is yet another reminder that the death penalty is state-sanctioned torture. It's an inhumane practice that has no place in a just society. The criminal legal system should never get to decide who lives and who dies.

Infographic with text:
Since the 1970s...
At least 1,683 people have been executed in the U.S.

At least 203 people have been wrongly convicted & sentenced to death, later being exonerated.

More than half of all people sentenced to death have been Black or Latino/a.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seeing reasonable people have a take on here I can't quite get on board with. A botched lethal injection is practically business as usual. What happened to Christa Pike tonight (if early reports are accurate and I'm reading them correctly) would be the strangest way one has ever been botched.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been studying this issue for the better part of six years, and I've never heard of *this* specific iteration of a botched lethal injection.

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is the law indeterminate? Trump can simultaneously call for harsh treatment of people sentenced to the death penalty and murder 234 people in boat strikes The 16 people executed since 1988 have caused the deaths of 195 people (most by Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people) LAW ≠ Ethics

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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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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

Chris Hansen is on Twitter TROLLING and working his standom up to harass the director of Primetime cause he’s angry the movie wasn’t jerking him off. What a child.

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~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the problem with interacting with 22 year olds isn't that they're annoying, it's that they force me to reckon with the fact that at 22 I was so much more annoying than they are

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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

everyone's heart should be broken

Oh rascal children of Gaza,You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my window,You who filled every morning with rush and chaos,You who broke my vase and stole the lonely flower on my balcony,Come back –And scream as you want,And break all the vases,Steal all the flowers,Come back,Just come back…

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

Congresswoman @pressley.house.gov has been working for years to pass the Fair & Independent Experts (FIX) Clemency Act to reform the clemency and pardon system at the federal level. To put experts and formerly incarcerated people first. And now you can just buy one openly. Wow.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One thing I don’t think I realized fully at the time was what an impact Harris losing the popular vote would have, psychologically. I felt it even if I tried not to - the sense that America just wasn’t behind us, that it wasn’t worth fighting for things that Americans had rejected. Its bad…

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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Popular country music is made in laboratories by highly professionalized city folk. So is bullshit TV like Landman. These people would receive ass whoopings from Abilene to Atmore and back again.

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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Shaq played against Muggsy Bogues and they never said anything

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romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Never bet against Everton when we should lose 5-nil.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'll add that, even taking the author's AI claims at face value, we teach people to do it "the hard way" all the time. I was taught how to use a card catalog in 2005, and how to do my own med math in 2019. I'll never need either as long as the device I'm typing this on works, but what if...?

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Shawna @mitsubishe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

best one i've seen yet, from the king of the hill subreddit

The meme where bobby holdsholds up somethonf in front of a class room and the principal takes it down and says dsmn it Bobby if those kids could read they'd be very upset but in this case Bobby holds up then news that Dolly Parton died and the principal says "because of Dolly those kids can read, and they are very upset." Tears have been drawn on all the kids' faces.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An incalculable loss for country fans, the literacy community, and the world. My favorite part of all three (my daughter) dressed as Dolly Parton for her school's Living Wax Museum earlier this year.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Neither "going high" nor "fighting fire with fire" have appeased voters' double standard for Democrats. Cautiously optimistic about this half-and-half approach.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?

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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Before Tucker's death, his mother, Katie, took him to the doctor 25+ times, but doctors reassured her there was nothing wrong. When he was just over 2 years old, he had a seizure and died. Katie was convicted of shaking him to death and sentenced to life in prison. truthout.org/articles/sha...

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Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Largely Debunked. Courts Are Still Catching Up.

Katie Smith, whose murder conviction was based on what’s increasingly seen as junk science, is fighting for her freedom.

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