amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No, her legal team will likely argue that subjecting her to another execution attempt violates the 8th amendment, but results have varied. Kenneth Smith's lawyers argued that after a botched lethal injection in 2022, so AL said ok we'll do a new method instead, which is how we got nitrogen hypoxia. 020
Reposted by amelia merrillLiliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country. 111284376
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And a reminder that lethal injection was developed to be more humane for us, the people witnessing and reading about executions. Because other methods were too barbaric to watch. 010
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tonight’s news is too disgusting for words, but it’s also not very unexpected. I highly recommend @mauricechammah.bsky.social’s book about how lethal injection came to be. It’s not easy to stomach, but it is essential reporting IMO. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554923...penguinrandomhouse.comLet the Lord Sort Them by Maurice Chammah: 9781524760281 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re... 120
Reposted by amelia merrillMary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So if today is the first you've heard of the fact the current setup for lethal injection in the few states that still murder people, here's an article from 2023 that mentions a third of the lethal injections carried out that year in the US were botched due to the med sourcing being sketchy as fuck. 03014
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Can you clarify the role the physician played, to your knowledge? I thought physicians only confirmed time of death during executions. 101
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Turns out there is not a super chill way to execute someone, who’d have thought 010
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nitrogen hypoxia. But the firing squad is not a foolproof method: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comS.C. inmate's firing squad execution was 'botched,' with bullets mostly missing his heart, lawyers sayOn April 11, Mikal Mahdi became the second man in South Carolina to be executed by firing squad. His attorneys say he suffered longer than he should have. 121
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Drug companies that make painkillers, as an example, do not want their drugs used in executions. Extremely bad PR. 1160
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Come to my play, New York friends! Oct 15 and 18 www.tickettailor.com/events/spark...tickettailor.comBuy tickets – I don't know, then we die – 28th Street Theater, 15 W. 28th Street, 2nd FlI don't know, then we die – 28th Street Theater, 15 W. 28th Street, 2nd Fl, Thu Oct 15, 2026 - Claire and Mona lock themselves in the bathroom and get ready for one last school dance before the climat... 000
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I, for one, will not be canceling my subscription to the Globe because they make you call to do it and they know I'm simply never gonna do that. 000
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ben: So my mom wants to put you in charge of sukkah decorations Me: Oh no, a CRAFT PROJECT?! You want me to drop everything I'm doing and CRAFT? You're saying I should stop all my other work right now and focus on crafting? Oh no how terrible 002
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 11/08/2026the only thing scarier than nobody coming to your play is people coming to your play 000
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Facebook “memories” keep reminding me it’s been 15 years since summer camp when I was 15, a summer that kept me going, kept me grounded, kept me hopeful, kept me grateful. Strange to think I have as much distance from that summer now as I had years then. My summer camp has since shut down. 000
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Last month, I got to film my one-act play "I don't know, then we die" for a digital slot with the Rogue Theater Festival. This play takes place in a high school bathroom, and filming was an exhilarating (and very humid) challenge. You can stream the piece through July 12: cur8.com/17616/projec...cur8.comI don't know, then we die | Allison Hohman and Rogue Theater FestivalBrowse details for I don't know, then we die with Allison Hohman and Rogue Theater Festival, Astoria. View dates, ticket price, venue info, and more, and purchase tickets for this must-see event ... 010
Reposted by amelia merrillbijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts! 129100041848
Reposted by amelia merrillAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/06/2026Little Jessica wants to participate in middle school volleyball with her friends? Turn over her DNA and subject her to a genital exam. Turns out she has CAIS and is intersex? Oh well, too bad. She can't compete on the girls team anymore and has to use the boys bathroom despite having a vagina. 728845
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 22/06/2026This is what checking the mail or turning on the TV in NY-12 feels like www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaL3...youtube.comParks and Rec - Bobby Newport's never had a real job in his lifeYouTube video by Josh 010
Reposted by amelia merrillTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A big deal: a federal court has BLOCKED Alabama from using nitrogen gas to execute. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... My colleague Lauren Gill has done essential work witnessing what nitrogen gas does, and writing about this torturous method of execution in Alabama specifically. Revisit:boltsmag.org“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions - BoltsAlabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments. 524859
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Timely again because of the International Gymnastics Federation's decision this week to allow Russian gymnasts to compete under their flag again... 000
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 13/05/2026My play is on the homepage of @newplayexchange.bsky.social! So grateful to be on this list of Experimental Work alongside some other fabulous artists. You can read it here: newplayexchange.org/script/20199...newplayexchange.orgDear Kitty (or, not another anne frank play): a travesty | New Play Exchange 011
Reposted by amelia merrillBaltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 05/05/2026After spending 35 years growing Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre, Vincent Lancisi — the company’s founder and lone artistic director, will retire at the end of June. buff.ly/NklXJ0z 031
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I was looking up an article I wrote a few years ago about Russian gymnasts + other athletes aiding propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine, and I found out it was cited in an academic journal! 🤩 Thank you to Leo Goretti and the Istituto Affari Internazionali www.iai.it/sites/defaul... 000
Reposted by amelia merrillChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/03/2026Re Chavez: Thread for sexual assault survivors/victims (however you see yourself is ok!) and people supporting them today. Here are some things that I think are useful. I am not an expert, just someone who has been navigating being public about my experiences, including in media interviews. 🧵 7561218
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Sometimes I'll start talking about a gymnastics things and later Ben will talk about a football thing and I realize we're just doing "blorbo from my shows" at each other. Blorbo from my sports. 010
Reposted by amelia merrillShammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026"So we've got the firestone and the wood, but no sheep. And you're saying we're going to do a sacrifice with no sacrificial animal?" ABRAHAM: 0295
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 04/03/2026when you roll up to the inclusive trad egal megilla reading and three different couples' costumes are each other but you kiiiiinda can't tell 010
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Every time I do a minor fast* I think I can go back to sleep with a brick in my stomach and then feel like death *religion not disordered eating 020
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 23/02/2026is kara eaker ever gonna do beam again. asking for a me. 010
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Today we are all alt, gay, and from New Jersey 😭😭😭 010
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 17/02/2026If you're gonna victim blame this hard, at least proofread. 100
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 15/02/2026It's funny how half of any given Olympic gymnastics team or NCAA roster goes into commentating but in figure skating if you want to work in sports media you have to have a bedazzled duel with Johnny and Tara 120
Reposted by amelia merrillAndrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 05/02/2026The administration routinely calls ordinary Minnesotans terrorists and says observer video is doxxing. You just handed them a pass, Chuck. Remove Chuck Schumer now. Every second he spends talking about—and compromising on—masks is unbearable. 28416
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 04/02/2026The phrase “not on my bingo card” is not sufficient to describe the theatre news of today 010
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8r...youtube.comBest In Show - God Loves a TerrierYouTube video by Darren Williams 000
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026okay I am genuinely devastated and unwell and will be singing "god loves a terrier" all weekend 100
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026My new mission is to get @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov to DIRT at The Tank. He would have so much fun! In other news, I reviewed Elevator Repair Service's ULYSSES adaptation at Under the Radar: www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/ulys...newyorktheatreguide.com'Ulysses' Off-Broadway review — a breakneck run through a James Joyce masterwork | New York Theatre GuideRead our review of *Ulysses* off Broadway, a stage adaptation of James Joyce’s classic novel created by experimental theatre company Elevator Repair Service. Read all our theatre reviews at NewYorkTh... 020
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026But it's also an impossible conversation because you can't de-center your own experiences...like, I *personally* think she might not like being the model of Holocaust memory. I gather you feel the same. But *obviously* we don't know so every conversation about her just goes in circles 000
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026No and that's the part that keeps a person up at night (and I wrote a play about it)! She was and is THE model victim. 110
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Also, "it must've been an incredibly difficult experience for him" is the understatement of the century, nay the universe. Like I obviously cannot fathom having my entire family murdered and then finding my children's diary(s) (Margot's was allegedly missing or destroyed) 010
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026If you're assigned the diary in school now, it's the restored version with all of the talk about boys and puberty, all of the jokes about the Germans, mentions of Jewishness that the original publishers thought were too polarizing/specific (she had to be a universal victim!), etc. 110
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Oh I think the publishers did get it wrong! She was very mad at her parents a lot of the time and Otto said he felt like he didn't know her after reading the diary. It must've been an incredibly difficult experience for him and there's no way to make him an unbiased editor. 110
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026But Anne actually did do a lot of editing with an eye toward publication. Lots of reordering entries and crossing some out. (Gies attested to this.) She specifically mentions hearing on the radio that the cultural ministry wanted accounts of people in hiding to publish after the war. 110
amelia merrill @ameliamerrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Otto Frank redacted anything he thought was embarrassing (mostly stuff about puberty, boys, etc) in partnership with Doubleday. The German translation did some further redacting to make it more palatable for audiences. It was all restored in editions in the 90s. 220
Reposted by amelia merrillJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 24/01/2026Chuck, I have terrible news. The feds shot the Baileys. Point-blank range, right in the face. They're gone, Chuck. You let them die. You have the Baileys' blood on your hands. 10823198
Reposted by amelia merrillDaniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 19/01/2026COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLStheguardian.comBack-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cowsBrown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees 212180745022
Reposted by amelia merrill🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 16/01/2026ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings 1236851738
Reposted by amelia merrillAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Conservation nonprofit American Prairie in Montana has acquired holdings now spanning more than 2,428 km², the nonprofit aims to stitch together 12,950 km² of shortgrass prairie, home to bison, badgers, prairie dogs, ferrets, pronghorn, sage grouse and swift fox. buff.ly/PJYfnwi #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyVictory for public access: American Prairie unlocks another 70,000 acres in MontanaConservation group opens gated road and tears down "no trespassing" signs with purchase from Texas billionaire brothers. 217646