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@annebefore.bsky.social
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Like most other folks, I assume, I was just trying to live a quiet life, volunteering in my community and enjoying long walks among trees.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1h
What is the #CostOfTrumpsCorruption for you? Your healthcare Your groceries Your gas Your utilities Your housing Your joy of living Your livelihood Your sanity Your life Are you willing to keep paying so Trump can keep paying billionaires, or are you ready to start healing? You decide in 26 Days.
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Karen Sue Waters @karensuew.bsky.social · 7h
I miss having a president. I mean a REAL president -- someone who works and lives the position. Someone who doesn't shame us but instead is always a person to respect and be proud of. Someone like Barack Obama.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1h
The war begins. It will be ugly. I really hate this.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1h
Jax is 18. She should be focused on college. Instead, she's battling depression because her father is stuck in an ICE detention center. Episode 5 of Fractured, a docuseries exposing the human consequences of ICE enforcement, tells her story. Watch the full episode here: act.link/gi-MSO1ui
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Fractured: The Human Toll of Trump's Deportation Regime
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h
Imagine being Blake Johnson, an Iowa father of 3, discovering your water has 3X the legal nitrate limit. He goes to Washington for answers, and Rep. Ashley Hinson, who takes agribusiness money, reportedly RUNS AWAY and hides behind a locked door. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h
I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h
this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 4h
Moving jobs overseas or hiring foreign workers is capitalism. Policing children's bodies is fascism. State-run sports programs that prohibit minority participation is fascism.
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Kiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hi friends, I am participating in a symbolic pilgrimage in October where we walk a physical path reflecting the historic path from WWII Japanese American incarceration to current ICE detention centers. If you're in the area, please check out our public events, especially the Solidarity Day at NWDC
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2h
“In the United States, the census is the backbone of our representative democracy,” says danah boyd, an author and expert on the census. In our new Q&A, she answers readers’ questions about Trump’s efforts to transform the census.
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Trump's Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
In our new Q&A, an expert explains how census data shapes politics, and how Trump is trying to skew the count.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
"Because his two terms were non-consecutive and he remained in the political spotlight throughout Biden’s term, Trump has polluted the national discourse for *more than 11 years*. His act is profoundly old." — @schaller67.bsky.social
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Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet
His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h
my main comment is, do they remember who won the battle of the alamo bsky.app/profile/dber...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
This was a choice. Remember this.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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John Surico @johnsurico.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For years, municipalities and advocates have asked: should oil companies pay for the damages wrought by the climate crisis? And now, for the first time, the Supreme Court will weigh in. I dug into the immense stakes of the case for @statecourtreport.org: statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
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Will the Supreme Court Let States Sue Oil Companies for Climate Harm?
Local governments are seeking to hold fossil fuel companies financially liable for climate change-related damages, so far with limited success.
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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a lot of thinking to be done about how to give full expression to the reproductive freedom amendments that have passed in 10 states (and counting). This piece (and the report it's based on) digs in to what these state constitutional doctrines should look like. It's definitely worth a read.
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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 28/09/2026
A new report from @law.ucla.edu's Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy offers guidance to courts, policymakers, and others interpreting state reproductive freedom amendments.
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California’s Reproductive Freedom Amendment: An Opportunity for a New Constitutional Standard
Legal advocates should push for expansive court interpretations of new state constitutional amendments.
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 2h
The surge is real. Operation Safe California has started! It's a 45 day surge in California cities like San Diego, LA and SF. Some have already seen a major uprise in racial profiling and kidnappings. Think smart and stay extra vigilant and don't travel if you are undocumented.
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SiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 3h
"The 1965 Voting Rights Act is often considered the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement, one of the most effective pieces of legislation ever passed" - @kevintmorris.bsky.social of @brennancenter.org explains how the Voting Rights Act came to be Listen @msignorile.bsky.social at Signorile.com
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Democracy Defenders Action @democracydefendersaction.org · 3h
Trump keeps testing how far he can go. Congress’s job is to stop him. He used $20M in taxpayer funds for partisan ads glorifying himself, then said his super PAC would pay going forward—but taxpayers still haven’t been reimbursed. Oversight means accountability—not a shrug. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Hold Trump to Account on Promotional Ads
Trump continually tests how far he can go, and it is the job of Congress to impose limits.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 4h
Thank you for leading the team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon. Yours is an amazing legacy & everyone should know your name. Goodnight and godspeed, Margaret Hamilton. 🕯️
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 3h
'Research on the gender differences in how people think about global warming suggests campaigns and communications may need a rethink.' It's *always* toxic men.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h
This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3h
Sorry, you're saying that *in the middle of a war of the United States is involved in* an agent of our government adhered to a co-belligerent rather than America by suppressing intelligence from our government that he knew it needed and wanted? That's Treason, right?
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4h
Recall that RFK Jr cancelled $500M in funding for cutting edge mRNA research & decided to fund an unethical vaccine study in Bissau New Guinea earlier this year. It was halted. Now it’s on again. Erika Schwartz is doing Kennedy’s bidding. We have measles to contend with. 🧪 archive.today/0sSUu
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h
Recently unearthed records show that, in one set of trials carried out by the US Army, the electric shock gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers in a mock forced cell extraction scenario, who then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org · 3h
A Yelp notice stating that a crisis pregnancy center does not provide abortion is at the center of a new Texas lawsuit. In a new op-ed, @ReproRights' Jacob Sims explores what’s at stake and whether states can punish platforms for information they dislike. bit.ly/4yI6BU8
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Who Gets to Warn Women About Crisis Pregnancy Centers? Texas AG Ken Paxton Takes Yelp to Court.
Search Yelp for "pregnancy care" and you may encounter a crisis pregnancy center (CPC)--an organization that may advertise as a full-service clinic but does not provide abortions or referrals to abortion providers. Yelp labels these listings accordingly...
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404 Media @404media.co · 3h
Iowa man kicks off controversy over religious freedom in the small town of Ottumwa by opening a city council meeting with a prayer to Satan, which then kicked off a debate about the proper time in the meeting agenda to undo the “curse @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...
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Frank D’Elia @frankd7.bsky.social · 6h
Fascists attack universities, especially elite universities, because they are the loci of independent, critical thinking. The fascist project is fundamentally anti-intellectual and deeply hostile to logic and fact because it is engaged in replacing them with myth: the myth of white supremacy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Vance: "Some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents. There are 9 universities in particular we believe merit an investigation. Those are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburg, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT."
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annebefore.bsky.social @annebefore.bsky.social · 7h
“Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen.”
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Darnese Foster was one of the thousands of Black women who lost their jobs when Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency gutted the federal workforce. More than a year later, she is still looking for work to support her family. bit.ly/4y624cM
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The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After DOGE Layoffs
Part 1 of a three-part series, FIRED: The DOGE Layoffs Hit Black Women Hard, a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, edited by MindSite News. Photographs by Kuwilil...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 8h
The England Airpark board in Alexandria, Louisiana can still halt the planned ICE facility for unaccompanied children, set to open in a few days. The Board of Commissioners traded the safety of immigrant families and kids for a $530,000 contract on a toxic site. thelensnola.org/2026/10/08/a...
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The England Airpark board in Alexandria can still halt the planned ICE facility for children and families. | The Lens
The Alexandria child ICE detention facility is nearing its opening as critics urge the England Airpark board to terminate the contracts behind the project.
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 7h
"If we want to take them seriously as beings with their own preferences and ways of navigating the world,” Raza said, “I’m not going to make tiny Cartesian modernist villas.” Instead rats particularly enjoy chaotic spaces with lots of entries, exits, places to hide. #rats #multispecies #animals #art
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‘Curious and circumspect creatures’: the artist making sculptures for the rats of New York City
For his latest project, Asad Raza made ‘public art’ for rats with pieces designed to appeal to the city’s maligned rodents
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 7h
"When he looked at the footage later on a bigger screen, he found another lit flare in the video, in addition to the first three. One shot — four flares. This despite the fact that New Mexico has banned nearly all flaring since 2022. " When you hear they have "banned" flaring, don't believe it.
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‘It’s a Beautiful River in the Middle of a Hellscape’
As climate change dries New Mexico, the Pecos faces a growing threat as it runs through the Permian Basin oilfield.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 18h
Anyways, it’s interesting to see the time capsules getting filled and filed away; both of those pieces are honest looks at how shitty things got during Metro Surge - any effort to preserve that history should be encouraged. … and, as we know, ICE never left - twenty people were loaded yesterday.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23h
Hey look, more blatant corruption. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 17h
When you clear a forest in the Congo Basin, you don't just cut wood. You wipe out gorillas, forest elephants, pangolins, and thousands of species we haven't even named yet. Extinction is not development.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 19h
CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is worrying news. But anxiety is not a strategy. Join @indivisible.org's midterm election protection program to help make sure we're ready for whatever tricks Trump tries to hold on to power. indivisible.org/campaigns/ou...
MS NOW: Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h
This was one of the more diabolical Trump admin moves on immigration; ordering ICE to stop taking biometrics for detained immigrants seeking immigration benefits from USCIS, which meant that the agency would deny their applications by default.
In December 2025, USCIS announced that DHS would stop collecting biometrics related
to USCIS immigration applications for people in its custody. ECF No. 14-2; ECF No. 14-3 at 2-
3. In its press release, USCIS said that going forward DHS "generally will not take biometrics of detained aliens unless they are in removal proceedings and have a pending application or petition filed with the Executive Office for Immigration Review." ECF No. 14-2. That means DHS would continue to collect biometrics only for certain applications for relief, including those that can be made to immigration courts (which fall within the Executive Office for Immigration Review), but not for applications for many kinds of immigration status, including the plaintiffs' applications
(which must be submitted to and determined by USCIS). See 8 C.F.R. § 245.2(a)(1) (adjustment
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 21h
If you're interested in running a student-centered book arts/printing makerspace ("emphasis on institutions w/more modest resources"), I took+recommend @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social & Kari Kraus' "Building a BookLab" online class, happening again this January. Apply by 11/1 for best chance of seat
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Building a BookLab (Online) - Rare Book School
This short course will explore practical approaches and strategies for building a student-centered book arts makerspace—a “booklab”—with an emphasis on institutions with more modest resources. It will...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19h
The civil suit filed by Renee Good’s survivors is a good rough draft for a future indictment of Stephen Miller for criminal civil rights violations. www.headsupnews.org/p/if-stephen...
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If Stephen Miller wants to find a domestic terror conspiracy, maybe he should look in the mirror
A lawsuit filed by Renee Good’s family describes a coordinated effort to deprive Somalis, Latinos, and protesters of their civil rights
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
moments after saying he didn't expect anything in exchange for pardoning Cueller, Trump admits "I guess I expected maybe he wouldn't run or maybe he'd run as a Republican"
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Atlanta had over 142,000 eviction filings in the past year. More than 10,000 in a single month. Absolutely staggering.
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Metro Atlanta leads US in highest eviction rates with over 142,000 filings
Metro Atlanta is leading the nation for the highest eviction rates in the United States, with over 142,000 filings as of June 2026, according to new data by The Eviction Lab, a Princeton University-ba...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 20h
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h
Texas executed Jamaal Howard by lethal injection exactly one week after Tennessee tried and failed to do the same to Christa Pike. Howard’s lawyers tried to use Pike’s horrific experience as a reason for a stay, but the courts said no. Beyond comprehension.
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Texas kills man in first US execution since botched lethal injection of Christa Pike
Jamaal Howard, 46, executed by fatal dose of pentobarbital after lawyers’ bid for stay had been denied
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