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there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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Ben Wildflower @benwildflower.com · 2h

May we all have the courage and moral clarity to not hesitate in cases like this.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, yes. the thing about tradwife culture is that the only responsibility the patriarch has is to properly dominate his wife. note that the tradwife content is frequently the household's primary source of income -- in reality, the husband is something more like a pimp.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Why are we treated like cars by the law, but like obnoxious and unwelcome obstructions by people in cars?" Flyer for the very first Critical Mass ride, which took place on September 25, 1992 in San Francisco. Critical Mass rides have since been held in hundreds of cities around the world.

Flyer for a Critical Mass bicycle ride featuring an illustration of some bicycles and text. Text includes: Reduce Invisibility! Join the monthly ride home together! Aren't you sick and tired of having to fight for your life on city streets? Why are we treated like cars by the law, but like obnoxious and unwelcome obstructions by people in cars? Where are we supposed to go?

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/09/2026

It's honestly bizarre to me that abolishing the jackbooted fascist paramilitary shooting people over paperwork is considered extreme and radical but having a jackbooted paramilitary shooting people over paperwork isn't.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You’re objectively wrong and now are doubling down because you’re a loser hack

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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very fun how Americans are always “remember Tiananmen Square” and never “remember Kent state”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They call it "artificial intelligence" but it's actually the opposite--real dumb!!!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh, Annie Dillard. ❤️‍🔥 "At a certain point you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself & wait, listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing but those things only, (cot'd)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wild that Macklemore turned out to be among the politically least cringe rappers of his generation

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Ben Wildflower @benwildflower.com · 13/09/2026

American football fandom makes as much sense to me as people getting urinated on for sexual pleasure. People have explained to me how each of those is pleasurable to lots of people and each time I was like, This is a bar. Stop yelling about weird shit.

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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

I legitimately believe that the Democrats would sweep to power if they ran on a platform of 'we will execute the treasonous dogs who have robbed you blind for years'. This still would not be ideal as an anarchist (treason is cool and good) but I could find common cause with it.

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 13/09/2026

seeing a lot of discourse about the Dems and I'm going to reiterate by universal political opinion: Treat every politician like they are a conservative piece of shit until they prove themselves otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 13/09/2026

What's up guys im Omelas Child and today im counting down the top 10 reasons why it's totally fine that everyone tortures me for their own benefit

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Will Republicans be asked to disavow their Republican colleague's extreme statements and the death threats from an attendee at the Republican convention? Hard to say, as there's no direct connection between them like Democratic candidates have with that Twitch streamer

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026

all life is sacred except for the god damn mother fucking piece of shit mosquito

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 05/09/2026

I missed this when it was published.

A new report by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, released today, pulls back the curtain on a stunning level of sexual criminal behavior within ICE and CBP. Out of 152 cases of identified immigration officials or contractors accused or convicted of criminal behavior, 131 of them, or 86.2 percent, were charged with sex offenses. Seventy-eight of them—51 percent of the entire cohort—"committed sex offenses against children—the single largest category on the list," the report states. Cases involving a CBP officer, the report finds, "are more likely to involve underage victims" than those of an ICE officer. Yet fully half of ICE officers accused or convicted of sex offenses (12 of 24) had a minor as their victim.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Ben Wildflower @benwildflower.com · 05/09/2026

The band only came back on stage because I was yelling One More Song the loudest.

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Ben Wildflower @benwildflower.com · 28/08/2026

Kinda chic to have no idea wtf this “kinda chic” thing is

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Ben Wildflower @benwildflower.com · 28/08/2026

I have just been informed I am the bestest dad ever. Please disregard recent reports that I am the worst.

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

bad news the bad thing we aren't reacting to appropriately continues apace

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Ben Wildflower @benwildflower.com · 18/08/2026

Explained global warming to the five year old. He said he will go to space and destroy the sun. Possible I did a bad job explaining the situation.

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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Ben Wildflower @benwildflower.com · 13/08/2026

Just learned my wife has a two corn dog a day habit.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

Can’t count how many times the dystopian stuff that make people want to abolish ICE is also something that’s already being used by police or subjected upon people in the criminal legal system.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Un Duel" Extra points for the hat-holder

Illustration of a man on a velocipede holding a handgun, with another man in the distance also with a gun on a velocipede. The close man has a hat-holder sticking off the side of the front of the bike with a hat on it.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

still seeing the odd "trump is making the US look foolish!" wrt the iran situation, & i want to point out that that is not the bad thing about the US attacking iran. the bad thing is the violence and destruction, the US losing face is the silver lining

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the president is not merely a rapist recreationally; he has a strong ideological commitment to rape.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

THREAD. The New York Times just published a propaganda piece that portends dangerous trends in the coming months. Corporate media wants to help a group of sociopathic monied interests (called "moderates" here) to boost fascism by deceiving people about their true motives.

NYT headline about moderate democrats planning war on the left.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 05/08/2026

I have this rule of thumb about political pundits: Would I have a more accurate or less accurate view of the world as it is today listening to this person vs. simply listening to Rage Against the Machine's self-titled debut? If the answer is "less," which it almost always is, feel free to disregard

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Your regular reminder that there ISN’T a “war on cars.” Any objective observation in most cities however, would conclude that for 60+ years there’s been a war on every mobility choice EXCEPT cars. And that’s been bad for EVERYONE, including drivers. Poster via @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” – Union of Concerned Scientists.

Background image is a highway jammed with car congestion, and good luck, thanks to car dependency by design.

Tag line at the bottom says “Their profit, your cost.” All via the Urban Truth Collective. #UrbanTruth @UCS.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

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Ben Wildflower @benwildflower.com · 05/08/2026

Positive visualization: John Fetterman is pacing back and forth, holding back tears, punching holes in the drywall, vomiting, screaming about DSA “colonizing” the Democratic Party.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's weird when people bristle at the idea of abolishing billionaires. Are you a billionaire? Is your mum one? Why do you care? It would be good to abolish billionaires. More money for public services, less money for them to buy rape islands.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/01/2026

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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