Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them. 11879166
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings. 412388828
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ICE shot a man in New York City today while he was in a vehicle with a 5-year-old child. Abolish ICE.nytimes.comICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City (Gift Article)The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti... 38830328
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Precisely. 512537608
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Republicans gave corporations a huge tax cut. The deficit exploded again. Now they want to blow another massive hole by borrowing billions more for weapons to feed the endless series of Republican wars. The national credit card is maxed out while Republicans enrich themselves. 641951725
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6. 127757320
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialMary Beth Schneider @marybschneider.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yes, about time someone protects the white men who only have about 75 percent of Congress and are about 85 percent of CEOs in major corporations. The poor dears! 051
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yeah so that’s attempted murder. 8523171
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...npr.orgICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors sayThroughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. 12521831204
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.rollingstone.comCDC 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 791453686
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The option of not moving on from "this is an illegal, unconstitutional outrage that should end his presidency immediately" was available to Peter Baker & every other journalist in the country, not only in 2019, but still in 2026.publicnotice.co“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase. 335996
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex AccountText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 931596580
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This man is unfit in every possible sense of the word. He is the worst impulses of this nation given physical form, and it is the duty of every single one of us who actually believe in freedom and democracy to make sure he and his followers are banished from power. 32925151
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts, and pedophile said he still intends to win his election for Clerk and Comptroller after being arrested in August for molesting a male relative under the age of 5. He’s been endorsed by the GOP. amp.miamiherald.com/news/politic...amp.miamiherald.comPalm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges. 52832702040
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialMike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"I choose to remain hopeful that one day we will remember that nobody elected these nine petty kings and queens. Power in a democracy flows from the people, and if the people ever remember that, this Supreme Court can be stopped." - @elienyc.bsky.social 224662
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes. 271346235
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialKatherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I hate SO MANY THINGS here (the 1st 57 being the rapists & all the men who knew & said nothing--& then the ppl trying to dox Jane Doe or sending threats to ppl they think are her). 1 is how ppl who run universities have become the enemy of ppl there to learn & to teach. www.cnn.com/2026/10/06/u...cnn.comFirst on CNN: Cornell faculty prepare no-confidence vote against administration over handling of alleged sexual assault case | CNNMembers of the Cornell University Faculty Senate have introduced a resolution for a vote of no confidence against the university administration for its handling of the 2024 alleged gang rape on campus... 0163
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/10/2026The President of the United States just offered to sacrifice American lives. 35621451042
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialJeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Receiving life-saving medical care so they can try to kill her again. Does anyone else see the absurd perversity of all this? Good lord, we Americans can be a thoroughly disgusting people. 520233
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better 320235
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine. 462219777
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Meanwhile, earlier today Pete Hegseth bragged about how he fired 20% of the country’s generals, weeding out the ones he and Trump find disloyal to their agenda And while I hope to G-d these things aren’t related, I’m terrified that they are 511113423
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yup. Though I think the more troubling aspect is that it's not that nobody *can* stop him -- it's that those who can, don't want to, and therefore will do nothing to rein him in. 6844153
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 01/10/2026"What went wrong" is that we have state-ordered/sanctioned murder; that we have 6 SCOTUS justices who believe the only life that matters is the life in a womb. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...nytimes.comTennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers SayChrista Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was. 26118
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 21667165
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”ballsandstrikes.orgThe Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court NeededSCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it. 9674205
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up. 331206189
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026He sure as hell did all he could to keep innocent people in prison, even when the DA offices that won the convictions said they should be released. www.injusticewatch.org/archive/2020...injusticewatch.orgMissouri Attorney General’s Office pushes to keep innocent people in prisonIts decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years. 228789
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026imagine failing to execute someone and then providing them medical care so they survive this whole thing is insane, we shouldn't pretend it's not 311124
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We elected the absolute worst of us who surrounded himself with absolute clowns. Like this punk. 5740763
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialACLU @aclu.org · 30/09/2026Today marks 50 years since Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, banning abortion coverage in Medicaid. Hyde has taken a deeply personal decision away from millions of people, especially women with low incomes and women of color. Congress must pass the EACH Act to end this cruel policy now. 530170
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Republicans used Smith's hearing today — the coda of a 2-year investigation — to hurl insults at him and home in on the procedures he used in his Trump probe. They spent no time rebutting his findings about Trump or the substance of the charges. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comRepublicans wanted Jack Smith to give them a smoking gun. They got a gaffe instead.The former special counsel’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was marked by personal insults rather than new revelations. 623862
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Holy shit this is delicious. That smarmy little smile on Schmidt’s face when he thinks he has Smith. Then the utter humiliation. 1835730
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms 9899253
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED 62169761570
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped. 491997338
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere. 12781192013
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Jesus fucking Christ 581405365
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752441427
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Adam Dean Hoffman sexually abused an 8-year-old boy dozens of times. But because he was a good Southern Baptist and loyal Republican, Paxton offered him a 60-days-in-jail plea-bargain. Paxton thinks this was a tough sentence. 13214115
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I missed Hegseth’s announcement and press conference on this. 411501419
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026yeah i am reasonably sure that i have a better chance of winning the democratic primary for president than rahm emmanuel 3075075465
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen 262886666
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.social Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026lol www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comYouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer AdThe Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent. 191342249
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialMichael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Freedom of speech vs the world’s richest man: “The studio releasing Alex Gibney’s new Elon Musk documentary Musk is finding itself unable to buy an ad on the biggest social platforms.” Via Hollywood Reporterhollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 25923
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 5054221202
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialPolitics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 11030641222
Reposted by @beninindy.bsky.socialJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026He literally just voted "no" on a resolution to end the Iran War 8531162
![Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiafwdmp63odeydunst4aizjbnunnu5s26f6bk22yqg6drbdmutqf4)
![It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreidewrh2r7x4l3whf3llsqoenslqugawxzj3p43gflsa5pd4zqmuhi)
![interest in [her] own life." Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U. S. 1,
9 (1985).
In capital cases, "[a]ppreciation of our own fallibility, and respect for the judgment of an appellate tribunal," demand caution before "acting irretrievably." Bowersox v. Williams,
517 U. S. 345, 347 (1996) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Indeed, this Court often states that it is "'a court of review, not of first view?" McLane Co. v. EEOC, 581 U.S. 72, 85 (2017) (quoting Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7
(2005)). Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook that principle precisely when it matters most.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreic2pj24tnxhjgzvpr7n777r27ac5liklla2vxxbiypqvjaouxvh4q)
