Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have a crazy idea… CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION: midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/verify/... 23540139
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump's plan to betray Ukraine and align the US with Russia in their current war continues to unfold in predictable fashion. www.ft.com/content/7fd4...ft.comUS warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharingDonald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow 22363174
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 10/10/202610/10 Court filings confirm ICE agents did add Mainers to “nice little database” of “domestic terrorists” #maine #MEpolitics 9393206
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/10/2026NEW: Like many states, Missouri initially refused to give the DOJ a copy of its voter rolls containing sensitive personal information. But records reveal the state's chief election official later proposed a compromise: allow federal officials to conduct an "in-person audit" of its voter records.democracydocket.comMissouri offered to let DOJ inspect its unredacted voter rollsThe records provide the clearest explanation yet for why Missouri escaped the wave of lawsuits the DOJ has filed against 30 states that rejected its demands for private voter files. 914891
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Umm, *I was the “somebody”! www.c-span.org/clip/house-c... 342576421
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8751071854
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Aaron 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. 412389828
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/10/2026🚨BREAKING: In a loss for Wisconsin voters, a state court ruled to leave voters without an option to cast an in-person provisional ballot on Election Day if they are concerned their mail-in ballot may not arrive by the deadline.democracydocket.com🚨 League of Women Voters of Wisconsin et al v. Wisconsin Elections Commission et alLearn more here. 14195122
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Disney raises theme-park ticket prices: “.. the peak 1-day price for holiday dates in Nov.-Dec. 2027 is now $229, up from $219.” (via Piper) $DIS 2716055
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20268/ Amanda Trebach, a nurse and member of an immigrant advocacy group, was detained in California while filming and protesting immigration enforcement operations. Trebach says she was held for almost 36 hours without access to a phone call or a lawyer. 4749226
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20264/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck. 6625701254
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇 522173477
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Openly bragging about ethnic cleansing. That's how you know they're the Good Guys. 361200368
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 44159263761
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026TAPPER: Trump wants to send checks from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which the CBO says is supposed to be used for insurance programs. Do you have concerns about that? RICK SCOTT: I'm sure it's gonna have to be used the right way or they won't be able to do it. Somebody will stop them. 281863207
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“.. It is the second time in five years that Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, has paused executions because of questions over the effectiveness of the state’s lethal injections.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 2122458
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026TIME: You said you might annihilate Iran TRUMP: Yeah, I would do that. It's possible. TIME: How can the president of peace be calling for annihilation of an entire people? TRUMP: Bc by annihilating Iran, we've created peace in the world. With Iran, I don't think you could ever have peace.time.comRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview TranscriptThe U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections. 278947279
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.” 691722609
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.socialpropublica.orgHe Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ... 9539259
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them. 16435248
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 30/09/2026A Mississippi grand jury declined to pursue criminal charges in the Nolan Wells case, ruling it a drowning. But there are still so many questions. Congressman Bennie Thompson talks about this and more on The Tea with April Ryan: www.contrariannews.org/p/the-tea-ft... 44910
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026Hegseth: "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" 9071389432
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...sfchronicle.comICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026. 0220140
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now. 122489
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That's a $96,318 fine for being raped. 232015656
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026 6073160660
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency. 298152523604
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 28/09/2026On Friday, ICE awarded a $1.3 million sole-source contract to RADeCO, an authorized reseller of Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog. The upgraded version ICE purchased contains specialty tools for detecting chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazards.projectsaltbox.comICE Buys $1.3 Million in Robot Dogs From Connecticut CompanyThe agency bought the robots without seeking competing bids, and chose a version built to detect chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards. 13723
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Please share. #Pinks 321500691
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone. 788178394787
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship." ~ Fidel Castro @mwuerker.bsky.social 216456
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess 512074532
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to revive the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for the midterms also suggests the justices may be eager to weaken one of federal law’s most important safeguards against last-minute voter purges." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comIn SAVE ruling, Supreme Court signals path to weaken key protection against last-minute purgesA crucial voter protection could hinge on whether the Supreme Court wants to narrow the definition of “systematic” as applied to purges. And there’s reason to fear that it does. 41879436
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)ACLU @aclu.org · 26/09/2026Banning Flock and other surveillance companies from tracking our every move isn't a partisan issue. Tell Congress to ban automatic license plate readers at aclu.org/get-flock_out 9435133
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices 30025601063
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comOleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and waterThe BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled". 7619071179
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026Q: Will you coordinate with Zelenskyy that Ukraine could work toward Patriot missiles? TRUMP: I agreed with Zelenskyy that we talked about a lot of different topics. But you know what I want him to do? Make a deal. I want him to settle with Putin. 307793179
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait." 9612265640
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected. 43361753162
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Flock CEO Garrett Langley’s picture goes viral after senator claimed he skipped hearing over being “nervous about being on camera”primetimer.comFlock CEO Garrett Langley’s picture goes viral after senator claimed he skipped hearing over being “nervous about being on camera”Garrett Langley skipped a Senate hearing about Flock’s AI surveillence days after his company was named in a misdemeanor case involving five Indianapolis police officers. 1323586
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Another fight over who controls the nation’s purse strings. The White House announced that it plans to cancel $810 million in spending already approved by Congress, using a rarely used maneuver known as a “pocket rescission.” 28638391651
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning? 501153694912
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157... 10870300
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...wbir.com 23336851851
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas Ice Processing Center. He’s being taken to the hospital. He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side. He can’t move the left side of his body. 41952417
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845982953
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty 3035901147
Reposted by Emily Kessen (she/her)Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The Deportation Project tracked them. forbiddenstories.org/the-deportat... 115986
![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)
