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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.

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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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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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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 · 5h

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

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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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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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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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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 4h

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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Women should be allowed to kill one (1) person

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mānas 🤎 🇵🇸 @annihilationofcaste.net · 3h

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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This could never be turned into a product, this could never be consumed regardless of the depth of delusion that anyone constructs. Privilege is a product for the lazy, the ineffective, the inept, the incompetent, the deluded, the violent, the abusive, the toxic, and the dysfunctional.

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… progressively better at surviving, recovering, healing and continuing to move forward.

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To be a human being with intact basic humanity as an adult means, to me, the ability to experience these undesired states as gracefully as possible and learning how to avoid such states if possible. If it is not possible to avoid, to learn from each instance of such undesired states to get …

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People want shortcuts. People want the vibes, the image, the optics, but they don’t want to actually have to be human with all the weakness, the helplessness, the despondency, and the desperation that can arise.

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I think that this is part of the reason why privileged people are so mediocre at practically everything. The struggle of developing, attaining, and maintaining humanity is a constant, perpetual struggle from my experience. People are lazy.

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Privileged people have never shown the way forward. It has always been Black peoples, Indigenous peoples, Dalits, Adivasis, Trans people who have shown the truth of what this world is and the way forward towards something better.

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I think that their notion of money is tied to this deep spiritual backwardness that consumes the humanity of people who are defined as inferior. Even with all the energy & humanity extracted, harvested, distributed, and consumed, Europe and its descendants/derivatives do not show the way forward.

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I think capitalism arose due to Europeans' lack of serious development of humanity and the spiritual backwardness that resulted where they never went beyond consumption and placed consumption as the peak of human existence.

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… convoluted approaches to generating the delusions of "power" that it seeks to achieve. There is no humanity developed with this approach at all.

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Within capitalism only an underdeveloped and delusional cult-type spirituality is possible which does not know the causes & conditions for anything and instead only forcibly amasses as much dukkha as it possibly can for the purpose of developing …

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Serious religion/spirituality has always preached the opposite of all of the forms of greed, ignorance, hatred, and lust that capitalism seeks to normalize as not only 'good' but as the only way forward for humanity.

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I do not think that serious religion or spirituality is at all possible within capitalism.

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… serious and deeply aware Buddhist monastic who can support me directly in addressing this dukkha. Perhaps the deeply aware and serious monastic will find me first.

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I think part of it could be that I have been designated as an inferior, as an 'other', on a spiritual level and thus I am constantly subject to that consumption from whites, fair-skinned colorist Asians, and casteist Savarnas until I find a …

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