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Here's a collection of reporting from Trump's execution spree. I would also emphasize that this DID NOT begin with Trump and if you really want to know who to blame for largely paving the way for so much of the expansion of the "modern" death penalty, it is the Democrats. (End rant.)

In his second term, Trump has ramped up new federal death penalty prosecutions.

Out for Blood

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I, too, feel revulsion over recent events. But part of me also feels anger that so few people even seem aware of the fact that Trump carried out 13 executions in the last 6 months of his first term. I was in Terre Haute, IN for all of them. And for much of that time, they felt utterly invisible.

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Also in 2017 I was outside the prison when Ohio tried unsuccessfully to execute an elderly man named Alva Campbell, a horrifying ordeal we've seen some version of over and over again since.

Cruel and Unusual: A Second Failed Execution in Ohio

The botched attempt to kill Alva Campbell marked the second time an Ohio man has survived an execution in less than a decade.

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It's been almost a decade since I wrote this piece about Arkansas but I often think about that execution spree because of what it showed me up close about the death penalty, prisons, and torture in this country.

Arkansas Justice: Racism, Torture, and a Botched Execution

Despite its long history of torture, racism, wrongful convictions, and botched executions, Arkansas is still intent on carrying out the death penalty.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 5h

We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.

Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South

At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 5h

I've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been.

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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 2h

“…absorbed into the body politic…” When you vote in colonial systems you become Duncan Campbell Scott’s and Sir John A. Macdonald’s greatest dream come true. Especially while the Indian Act and Section 91.24 of the BNA(Constitution) Act are still in place.

Meme of colonizer with quote: "I want to get rid of the Indian problem. I do not think as a matter of fact, that the country ought to continuously protect a class of people who are able to stand alone.
Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian question, and no Indian Department, that is the whole object of this Bill." (1920)
Duncan Campbell Scott, Indian Killer Deputy Superintendent Indian Affairs

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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 2h

If you participate you might as well hand in your status card. Participation in colonial systems is why our people who are suffering from state induced colonial trauma are out on the streets and why our youth suffer from identity crises. You’re self terminating by casting your ballot.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 1h

And its ok to not love all tactics. Just dont make it your entire personality.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 1h

If you find yourself angry that Palestinian solidarity is too brash or bold or too much, and you just think that we should all mourn the dead, you should be happy that your list of the dead must be finite.

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There is no "we mourn all dead" in these conditions. Because there are the dead, whose lives are over and their bodies mourned and buried, and then there is the dead -- the thousands and thousands who died in such indingity that mourning rites are in and of themselves acts of resistance.

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Can one be uncomfortable with this tactic, of showing up at a memorial and disrupting it? Of course. It is an uncomfortable tactic. Its also the refuge of a movement that has tried literally everything short of political violence to get the world to stop their abuser, and nothing has happened.

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The hardened position of people who would show up at a memorial of an event lead by Hamas to praise Hamas is another kind of hardened position, one that I dont think needs to be condemned, because the oppressed have the right to hardened all the way through. They do not need to moderate themselves.

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There are many problems with this piece but I'll focus on one ... the prowar cries that the author dislikes comes from a hardened, extremist position of the occupier. It is uncomfortable and easy to condemn. But on the other side ...

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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 1h

As a kid, I participated in remembrance ceremonies a lot. Traveled to Holland and Vimy as a kid to sing at war monuments and memorials, singing Never Again. In 2002, it all changed -- "not so much a vigil as a war rally" was how the ceremonies now went, because Canada was in Afghanistan.

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Just a reminder that I’m not antisemitic. I hate all religions equally.

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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 1h

It’s totally child abuse. It’s also abuse to teach of eternal paradise. Let them find out their true self without influence. Like Nisargadatta said: “the seeking itself is god.”

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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 1h

My views on voting in colonial systems was called out as Russian and Chinese interference on Twitter on more than a couple occasions. Doesn’t matter. I will never assimilate.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2h

Women should be allowed to kill one (1) person

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mānas 🤎 🇵🇸 @annihilationofcaste.net · 1h

getting traumatized severely, possibly the worst ever experienced, from the comfort of your own home is one of the greatest achievements of "western civilization"

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mānas 🤎 🇵🇸 @annihilationofcaste.net · 2h

I don't see people discussing the spiritual-level effects of rape & pedophilia. These privileged men and women aren't engaging in all this awfulness for fun.

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7/ political power. On his death anniversary, we honor his extraordinary contribution and recommit ourselves to the pursuit of dignity, equality, representation, and equal participation in every space of power. Jai Bhim. 💙

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6/ marginalized communities to vote, but to develop their own organizations, leaders, candidates, and political institutions. Kanshi Ram’s legacy reminds us that lasting social change requires education, organization, representation, solidarity, and meaningful participation in

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5/ major 1983 campaign covering approximately 4,200 kilometers across seven states in 40 days. Through decades of organizing, Kanshi Ram helped transform millions of politically overlooked people into an increasingly powerful electoral force. His vision was not simply for

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4/ founding the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), he transformed political consciousness into an independent political movement. He also took his message directly to the people. His organizing campaigns included remarkable long-distance bicycle journeys across India, including a

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3/ captured in the powerful call: “Jiski jitni sankhya bhari, uski utni bhagidari.” A demand that people should have representation and participation in proportion to their numbers. From organizing employees through BAMCEF, to building the mass movement DS-4, and ultimately

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2/ positions of influence. Known as Manyavar Kanshi Ram and Bahujan Nayak, he believed that social transformation could not be achieved through awareness alone. For Kanshi Ram, meaningful change required organization, representation, and political power. His philosophy was

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