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elisabeth epps

@elisabethepps.bsky.social
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🐘🗝️🍋abolitionist. former public defender, legislator. forever afol. NC-VA-CO.🇸🇩🇨🇺🇵🇸

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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
little baby Jesus virgin mother Mary and stepdaddy Joseph.
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
according to TN.gov, Christa Pike was 19 yo when she killed “Collen Slemmer” of “Jobs Corps” (sic). yet every real news outlet seems to say Pike was 18, Slemmer’s name was “Colleen”, and >Job< Corp. if only [^] were why Tennessee should be deeply ashamed today. www.tn.gov/correction/a...
mobile screenshot of www.tn.gov website. text reads:

TN Department of Correction
Search Correction (ex: Offender Search)

Death Penalty

Women on Death Row

Inmate Christa Pike is the only woman currently serving a sentence on Tennessee's death row.
In 1996, Pike was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Collen Slemmer, a fellow Jobs Corps worker from Knoxville, Tennessee. Pike was 19 years old when the crime occurred in a remote area of the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus. At the time of her incarceration, she was the youngest person on death row at age 21. On March 30, 1996, Pike entered the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center (formerly the Tennessee Prison for Women).

On August 24, 2001, while incarcerated, Pike was convicted of attempted first degree murder in the assault on inmate Patricia Jones.
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a judge select the jury foreperson as was just done in Commonwealth vs. Lindsay Clancy. Is that common outside of Massachusetts?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We used to be a proper society
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Kevin Reddington’s brutal cross-examination of prosecution witness Dr. Avram Mack in the trial of Mass. vs. Lindsay Clancy— —will be on syllabi for law school trial practice clinics and trial advocacy CLEs by Monday morning at the latest.
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
clearly Kevin Reddington has been playing with us mortals for weeks. months. 3 years. everything until now has been light work. mere wind up. turns out Puppet Master been holding back, only to now unleash heretofore unfathomable legions of fury and righteous wrath in defense of Lindsay Clancy. ⚖️🐐
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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Nearly every past atrocity was legal, nearly every liberatory movement to end it was not. Resistance is criminalized because oppressors write laws that protect their cruelty and make our objection to it illegal.
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
unless you’ve ever put yourself out there, you can’t possibly know what it’s like to run. you can’t fathom the toll it takes—for those of us with a soul, that is. [note: do NOT put yourself out there. it is very bad out there. 10/10 would not recommend going out there.]
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Cmon Michigan. Let’s go St. Louis. You got this.❤️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Ireland would never. 🇮🇪⚖️
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 27/07/2026
gonna make a tshirt — “all four of my grandparents survived the holocaust and all i got was a genocidal apartheid garrison state instead of a system of international justice to hold war criminals to account”
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Here's to Silas Soule, the US Army officer who refused to participate in the Sand Creek Massacre. He was later murdered for his testimony against fellow soldiers. coloradosun.com/2026/07/26/n...
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At Silas Soule's gravesite, a minister honors a heroic figure by reading his letters
Visitors converged on Soule’s grave at Denver’s Riverside Cemetery for what has become an annual ritual organized by Rev. Dr. Nancy Niero
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The regime is doing A LOT behind the scenes so most of the public has no idea what the repression of movement work currently looks like.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's right to be outraged. Just as it's right to be outraged when ICE guns someone down. But I also want us to remember all of the people dying due to deplorable conditions in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers, bc they are also being murdered by the state.
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Kate @gaylekate.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
👏👏👏 "When activists n Ireland heard that Peter Thiel’s secret club, Dialog, was planning to meet n the Irish countryside, they launched a campaign to stop it. They succeeded" PEOPLE OF IRELAND CAME THRU & SHOWED THIEL THE DOOR: DON'T LET THIS PASS W/O THEIR PROPS therealnews.com/peter-thiels...
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Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action
A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland.
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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Periodic reminder that I would love to line edit or copyedit your nonfiction books about building a better world or understanding the world with an eye toward liberation. Organizing books, academic books, books in the interstices...
My logo for "Radical Care Editing," with roots to the lower left of the words, and a line under the words that emerges from a pencil to the right of them; the pencil becomes a dandelion with seeds blowing from it to the right of the words.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
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This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats to all the Democratic Party electeds and staffers over the last 30+ years who validated the rightward shift in immigration policy every step of the way.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Perhaps one of the best things these media outfits have done in a while. Do not allow a lying president with the power of his office to demand that you give him a platform to tell his lies.
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Socialism Conference @socialismconference.org · 15/07/2026
Join @chenjerai.bsky.social, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social at Socialism 2026 for a live recording of Unruly Subjects. Don’t miss it! Register today: socialismconference.org
Featured Session

Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment

Chenjerai Kumanyika, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò

From indiscriminate warfare to an AI-fueled tech oligarchy and sprawling new punishment systems, our moment poses new challenges that demand new answers: What are the key features of our political landscape? What solidarities remain untapped? How do we stop the oligarchs and the fascists?

Socialism 2026
September 4-7
Chicago, IL
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
you know that kwame ture quote about how nonviolence only works as a strategy when your opponent has a conscience? something similar at play with pointing out your opponent's hypocrisy. that only works if your opponent agrees that he's playing a word game not prosecuting a holy war
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Colorado is one of the least religious states in the U.S., but even in this land of heathens & heretics, over a million Coloradans regularly drink the blood of a son of god and pray to cast out demons. claiming to kill a man at 7? noteworthy. but spiritual warfare is run of the mill Bible thumping.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
if you shared this photo at any point, please consider a donation to bernita and her family: www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...
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Donate to Support Bernita and Her Family in Tough Times, organized by Paul Chosen one
I would like to get help for my sister and family she need ls she is a t… Paul Chosen one needs your support for Support Bernita and Her Family in Tough Times
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📣 What do we want? INVESTIGATIONS! 📣 When do we want it? EVERY DAMN TIME THE SAME PREDICTABLE THING HAPPENS!
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
If you followed me from just one post you liked I promise I’ll disappoint you soon with my unpopular opinions lmao
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I know everyone’s making their jokes, but to be real: it’s an American sickness that the media and political class are praising someone who has spent last year calling for a genocide. Lindsay Graham was the worst of us. He wanted the blood of children to flow in the streets of Gaza and got his wish.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Welp, the Donald Trump Of Getting Away With It team has advanced once again
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026
what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 11/07/2026
It's diabolical to say things like "defang the white Left" about Black people who are the actual children and grandchildren of Emancipated people, who lived through Jim Crow as CHILDREN. Innocent kids! You're entitled to have your little opinions about "idpol," but NOT alternate histories & facts.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
realizing yamine lamal spends his time off the field hoisting the palestine flag for no money while leo messi spends his time off the field making hideously cheesy ads for chatgpt for obscene amounts of money and now i badly want to see spain win the cup and argentina to be sent home packing asap
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
25 years later and I still find myself randomly remembering how The Onion decided against running the scathingly brilliant dark headline: “America Stronger Than Ever, Say Quadragon Officials.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026
DNC Vows To Replace Graham Platner With Establishment Rapist
DNC Vows To Replace Graham Platner With Establishment Rapist
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years Judge Reed O’Connor reportedly said at sentencing that he “wants to send a message to anyone else with similar ideology.” This ideology, in the words of FBI Director Kash Patel, is “Antifa-aligned anarchis[m].”
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Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years - UNICORN RIOT
According to federal prosecutors, the defendants were the members of a murderous “North Texas Antifa Cell.” The Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison -- the longest sentence...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
old enough to remember a few years back, when a book called Elite Capture came out, and a few people asked its author incredulously why it went so hard in emphasizing that elite capture was not a special problem of identity politics in particular
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
when you call for ICE cops to be prosecuted…oh how I wish you’d dream bigger, demand more. Trayvon Martin’s killer was prosecuted. So were the killers of Emmett Till, Ta'Kiya Young, Amadou Diallo, Terence Crutcher, Elijah McClain, Cyrus Carmack-Belton… ⚖️ how’d those trials go? did we get justice?
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026
I just want you all to know that this is what your granny meant when she said a lie don't care who tell it. www.instagram.com/reels/DajPL7...
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Graham Platner for Senate on Instagram: "My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine."
2,004 likes, 659 comments - grahamformaine on July 8, 2026: "My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine.".
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Just an amazing speech from Erika Hilton, describing how multiple segments of society (different social movements, LGBTQIA+ community) mobilized in class struggle to pass a bill giving workers 2 days off per week. Cherry on top was telling opponents of the bill that they lost and the workers won.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I guess we just imagined Bill Clinton.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid
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Daniel 🤘🏼❌ @danierusan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
NOTHING should have been carved into The Six Grandfathers. Washington and Jefferson owned slaves. Roosevelt coined the phrase: “the only good Indian is a dead Indian.” Lincoln, on the day after he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, ordered the execution of the Dakota 38+2 at Fort Snelling
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Register now for this training next week with IC cofounder Mariame Kaba! Come identify your most sustainable, effective role in social change based on what fits your skills, capacities, relationships, & lived realities. 🗓️ Weds, July 8 🕰️ 7pm ET/4pm PT
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Find Your Role in the Work With Mariame Kaba (Learn To Do #1) · EducateUS
This session with visionary, legendary organizer and activist Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This ‘Till We Free Us and other books, helps participants identify their most sustainable and effective role...
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Enid Cox, DSW @enidcox.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I guess those truly rotten adds against Melat on large expensive media didn’t help much!👏👏👏
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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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elisabeth epps @elisabethepps.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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