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Christina Coffeebean

@chriscoffeebean.bsky.social
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Trying to stay hopeful in Texas. My thoughts are 50% sarcasm and 50% bewilderment. Blocking is exercising freedom of association.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 6h
if you see kristi noem doing a stop drop and roll it’s bc kacey musgraves just lit her ass on fire
kacey musgraves, after seeing melted candle-faced kristi noem saying “l'll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day. And if I'm choosin' Texas, I'll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico,” replied, “I don't think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h
it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 6h
The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.
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JJCornflower @jjcornflower.bsky.social · 6h
- Mitch McConnell missing 3 months. - Tom Kean absent 4 months (supposedly for mental health reasons ) - Kay Granger missing 5 months before noticed, she never returned. None of their absences were even acknowledged
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 6h
lol that’s a deep dive to disprove a clearly idiotic conspiracy theory, but bravo.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 16h
if you have even a second of wondering, "well maybe she did something..." -- she was raided by DHS, not the FBI
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16h
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 16h
As a girl, she watched a Native woman die after a white doctor repeatedly failed to show up. She decided to become the doctor her people were denied. In 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #SheShed
Black-and-white portrait of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, wearing a dark dress with a high patterned collar.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This goes on for pages. Hell hath no fury like a Neanderthal scorned
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In case you aren't knee-deep in the latest MAGA conspiracy theory, this is a response to the "bombshell" that James Talarico spent the past week-plus secretly seeking treatment at an Ohio mental health facility, and a GOP operative broke the case with a late-night phone call.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
they never learn bsky.app/profile/oluf...
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
this was the conclusion of the Castillan crown while he was literally still fucking alive
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
these people are so fucking stupid that it’s embarrassing to inhabit the same planet
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ashley Moody has 10 MILLION reasons she won’t debate me. She stole Medicaid money from sick kids. And, she’s taken millions of dirty money from the AI lobby. Floridians deserve honest answers from the two candidates running to represent Florida. #AngieForFlorida
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
KARL: JD Vance called your views 'left wing radicalism dressed in the skin suit of our religion' and said they 'aren't Christianity.' ADAM HAMILTON: I thought it was a sad statement that the VP would come here and attack the faith of the pastor of the largest church in the state of Kansas
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I hate it when US officials refer to warfare, includng the deaths of thousands of noncombatants, as "kinetic engagement." Euphemism is the weapon of charlatans.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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Save Our Country (we/us) 🇺🇸 @rlab53.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
THIS!!!! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Politico: Sen. Rafael Warnock: “No amount of spin can erase the pain of being unable to afford health care. And I think people are going to hold those who are responsible for this accountable, they're going to hold Republicans accountable." #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
idk man you’ve been blowing up a lot of fishermen and school girls for a guy worried about innocent life
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Saigonbond @ogsaigonbond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is opening a prison for children on a toxic waste site in Louisiana. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Children facing the camera | text: ICE is opening a prison for children on a toxic waste site in Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/10/2026
Whenever I say I am opposed to the death penalty - which I would argue is consistent with, not contradictory to, my abolitionist worldview - people say the death penalty is necessary to deal with fascists. And don't get me wrong, I get the appeal, at least on an intuitive or emotional level.
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I called a bunch of people today to ask: what can Mamdani actually do to keep ICE out of NYC? The answer? Legally, not much. But advocates on the left say he can do more than offer harsh words for Trump and ICE. And he can start with his own NYPD theintercept.com/2026/10/09/i...
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ICE Shooting in NYC Inflames Mamdani’s Policing Problem
After ICE shot a young father in Manhattan, New Yorkers asked the mayor to protect them from his police department and federal agents alike.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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G Spitsfire @ogspitsfire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The thing about him doing all this is like most abusers... he could have been doing this the whole time he's been in office but only does it because he wants something. Soon as he gets the vote he's gonna continue crushing you.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This 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.
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]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]へ
End of public executions in
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As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEVER FORGET that Hegseth, who wants to livestream an execution, also asked Americans to pray for "Death and destruction... in the name of Jesus Christ". Also NEVER FORGET which president picked this abomination for Defense Sec. And which senators confirmed him. #VoteBlueToSaveTheUSA
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mortgage rates have increased now for *7 weeks in a row* They're at the highest levels in almost *3 years* This is EXACTLY what Donald Trump said he wants to do Can't afford to buy a home or even rent an apartment? Now you know why It's the #CostOfTrumpsCorruption And we're ALL paying for it
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
“Nobody wants data centers. Everybody’s fired up about it.” For our latest episode of Stress Test, @timothypmurphy.bsky.social discusses how data centers—and other AI-boom technologies, like Flock cameras—have upended political fortunes and ripped up the partisan playbook ahead of November’s vote.
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"The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms": How America Turned on Data Centers
► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/ America is hopelessly divided along party lines. That's a stubborn fact, we're told, and the polling bears it out: Democrats dislike…
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m loving the “well akshually he didn’t REALLY mean let Iran take out Los Angeles and San Diego” excuses today. Cool. Explain the assholes in the crowd who thought it was fucking hilarious. Deplorables wasn’t strong enough.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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