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BarbJoan

@bjgt.bsky.social
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Former ESL, reading teacher, and retired elementary principal Love art, oil painting, word puzzles, Lake Michigan, and the Cubs Lived in Türkiye, MO, MI, MN, KS, DC, and now Chicago I used to be nice Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h
It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 6h
Breaking: "Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing all executions this year after Christa Pike survived two deadly doses of pentobarbital." Calls for a 3rd party review of Pike's botched execution. Tennessee had planned to kill another person on Dec. 3.
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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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fiercelady.bsky.social @fiercelady.bsky.social · 7h
Jack Smith Calls the Justice Dept. ‘Corrupted’ by Trump and His Allies www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u.... No paywall
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Jack Smith Calls the Justice Dept. ‘Corrupted’ by Trump and His Allies (Gift Article)
At a private event in Washington last month, Mr. Smith, the former special counsel, accused Justice Department leaders of targeting people for prosecution to please and impress the president.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 6h
"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.
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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 6h
Taken away in an ambulance to what…save her life?? The most horrific catch-22 joke imaginable. Just depraved.
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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 13h
He charged his patients 18% interest. On medical debt. He's not a US Senator. He's a loanshark.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11h
Roger Marshall couldn’t get out of his own Kansas town hall fast enough.😂
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Republican senator abruptly leaves contentious town hall
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 7h
Here's a list of 64 previous botched executions in the United States. Christa Pike will make 65.
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Botched Executions | Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Ossoff on Mike Collins: "This is a congressman who called for executing immigrants by throwing them out of helicopter. He is a fanatic and Trump puppet."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
Pretty clear Hegseth’s primary mission is to transform the military ideologically by overtly indoctrinating troops with Christian nationalism and apocalyptic holy war messaging while rooting out those who don’t want to participate and just want to serve their country admirably.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h
“What a crock of sh*t!” Katie Phang torches Todd Blanche after he declares, “There’s not a prosecutor in this country that should ever, ever violate a court order,” pointing to the Trump DOJ’s documented noncompliance with court orders in her OWN Epstein files lawsuit.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 7h
Sharon Stone: “We don’t want to give women OBGYN care and we want to prosecute women for having a miscarriage? What kind of arcane bullshit is this? If men got pregnant you could get an abortion from a vending machine” 🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
militarytimes.com
Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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Tim Murphy @tmurp1953.bsky.social · 8h
Very important thread👇🏼
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 9h
For people unfamiliar with this list of schools Hegseth claims are essential to America's defense, Liberty and Hillsdale are small religious colleges. Hillsdale is the pet project of the DeVos/Prince families, and its whole admin helped Trump with his fake elector scheme, organizing MI electors. 1/
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 8h
This is preposterous as it is monstrous Pike survived the execution procedure and now her lawyers, unable to reach the governor or state AG office, are rushing an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court in their *car* seeking an order to get her medical care
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 8h
This is monstrous. Lethal injections are neither painless nor humane; the paralytics just make it look that way. The government should not be allowed to execute people in this way, if at all. The Supreme Court Justices who ignored new evidence to push through this order are complicit in torture.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h
NY Post: Dennis Rodman is expected to meet with President Trump on Thursday as prez plots Kim Jong Un reunion I wish I was making this up.
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BarbJoan @bjgt.bsky.social · 9h
Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now. Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now
Contact Congress today!
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13h
BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.
meidasnews.com
Judge Forces DOJ’s Hand in Explosive Trump-Epstein Records Fight
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 13h
Britain arrested a prince and a former ambassador over Epstein. Here, the Attorney General is fighting a federal judge to keep files hidden. Send Congress a letter demanding every page: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now
Contact Congress today!
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10h
Per Politico citing 6 diplomats familiar with the matter, Trump admin is excluding the UK, France and Baltic countries from a NATO meeting on alliance’s future next month in Poland — after threatening to deploy a “naughty and nice list” against governments that have run afoul of Trump’s priorities.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15h
I can't stop thinking about this. American farmers have lost $30 billion since Trump took over. Thirty. Billion. Thirty thousand millions. Holy shit.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 12h
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
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The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
Great thread:
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12h
Trump is fully intending for the Kennedy Center to be his 7th bankruptcy. This isn't mismanagement, this is deliberate destruction in revenge for Trump not being able to make it a tribute to himself. www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
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Kennedy Center 'in free fall' as Trump allies max out credit and spend opera funds: WaPo
President Donald Trump took control of the Kennedy Center 19 months ago. Since then, the center has used up nearly every financial cushion it had, and one arts management expert says it now appears to...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h
I want a military that doesn't recklessly put soldiers in harm's way or blow up a girls school. I don't care if our troops are bearded or not.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h
JD Vance is a soulless turd.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13h
JUST IN: A federal judge has denied DOJ's effort to obtain Georgia's complete, unredacted voter list, the latest in a string of more than two dozen defeats for the Trump administration in efforts to obtain state voter rolls. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#146 in United States v. Raffensperger (N.D. Ga., 1:26-cv-00485) – CourtListener.com
ORDER. It is ORDERED that Defendant Raffensperger and Intervenor-Defendant's BVMF's Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 16, 23 ) are GRANTED IN PART as set forth in this Order. Intervenor-Defendants' Common Cau...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12h
This affects many different industries, and they can thank Trump for this
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
meidasnews.com
EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 21h
new meme template
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 20h
I'll say again, for a guy that actually was an officer, Hegseth has the most 3rd-grade school-boy vision of the military and war fighting imaginable. He thinks winning wars just means being able to blow stuff up bigger than the other guy. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 18h
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 12h
This is unbelievable and frankly unprecedented. Trump may have caused this slide, but the GOP all up and down the ballot have embraced these policies and allowed them to happen. If anything they are trumpeting the disastrous policies that have utterly collapsed the economy.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h
CODA: @mattgertz.bsky.social catches Rs revving up the old migrant caravan again. This makes it more urgent for Dems to speak to the fact that immigrants are getting viciously demonized and subjected to cruelty/injustice all around us. Let's not get inured to it: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h
Dems now leading GOP on every issue Quinnipiac polled, including the economy, national security, and immigration:
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20h
"When we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped." - Ken Paxton, surreptitiously taped at a donor meeting, according to the New York Times
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
alert the press -- Trump is conked out in the Oval Office again
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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 16h
Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
He's so far gone he can't even maintain consciousness as his little toadies blow him
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21h
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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