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North Carolina Independent, democracy lover, moon watcher, scientist, dreamer, pragmatist

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NPR @npr.org · 2h
Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona. n.pr/4e4P0gD
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Drugs in jars, bags of cash: Tennessee ignored warnings from Arizona's botched executions
Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 8h
7 shots fired. 4 pm in afternoon. At a car with 5-year old in it. Can’t use deadly force except in response to imminent threat of death of serious bodily injury. As in, from what we know, a blatantly illegal shooting. That’s without regard to victim’s criminal record. 7 Shots Fired.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
🔥 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “THIS CITY WANTS ICE OUT. We do not need them to keep us safe. All they do is terrorize our city.”
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francesprice675.bsky.social @francesprice675.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't think the book tour is going to plan. @lukerussert.bsky.social Gorgeous and vital questioning of the book selling, accountability dodging, selective amnesiac that I still have the misfortune to call my Senator. Thank you for standing up for us all!
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francesprice675.bsky.social @francesprice675.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@lukerussert.bsky.social Gorgeous and vital questioning of the book selling, accountability dodging, selective amnesiac that I still have the misfortune to call my Senator. Thank you for standing up for us all! @theweeknightmsnow
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This story is horrible, enraging, and far too common. They treated him like a criminal because as a Black teenage boy, they assumed he must have been. They didn't care about his life at all. He missed his prom, he lost his job. I hope his family sues them all.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
* US SECRETARY OF STATE RUBIO ON DEATH OF PLAGUE INSTITUTE WORKER IN RUSSIA: KEEPING AN EYE ON IT * US SECRETARY OF STATE RUBIO ON DEATH OF PLAGUE INSTITUTE WORKER IN RUSSIA: DON'T THINK IT'S CAUSE FOR ALARM @reuters.com
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 02/10/2026
Trump's "trapped in a fantasy world" where "he is doing a great job, he's fantastic, the economy's great," says John Harwood. "His psychological disfigurement will not allow him to feel the voters' pain."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are plenty of laws that can cover this guys corrupt actions. the statutes of limitations shld all the checked. democracy dies without accountability.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.
Before learning Monday that Lee would not be intervening in her case, Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News, shared by her spiritual adviser:
"Whether my clemency is granted or not, l am at peace."
"I am not afraid to die," wrote Pike, who has been on death row for more than three decades. "I'm only nervous about the process."
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HELL YEAH GET EM
Statement from Mayor Cantelmo on Campus Sexual Violence & Future Community Safety
Late last week, I learned of the heinous and sickening allegations made against the Cornell students who, according to a former undergraduate student identified as Jane Doc, drugged and brutally raped her at the Chi Phi fraternity house. Despite the severity of these crimes, Cornell University administrators and police failed to contact or coordinate any response with the Ithaca Police Department. Furthermore, the University failed to hold the perpetrators to account. This is a miscarriage of justice and continues to pose a significant threat to students and residents who may be victimized at unsafe and under-monitored on- or off-campus student events.
Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive and corresponding Common Council resolution, implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event and special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life and other student group gatherings, until such time that the University conducts an accounting of its protocols to prevent and prosecute crimes of sexual violence and publicly releases new standards and practices to keep our community safe.
Robert G. Cantelmo
Mayor of Ithaca, NY
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
DILLEY DETENTION CENTER NUMBER 2 Call it a “staging facility” all you want. The contract says detention. There’s playground equipment behind the fence. And Dilley has already held children far beyond the roughly 20-day Flores limit. Now they’re building “Dilley 2.” We know what this is!
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“As young as 2” 😳
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Callie Barr for Congress (MI-01) @calliebarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you, Petoskey & Charlevoix Chambers of Commerce & North Central Michigan College, for tonight’s candidate forum! Where's Jack Bergman? He's absent again. We deserve a representative who shows up & fights for us. It’s time for a change. Vote Callie Barr for Change.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Choosing love again ❤️ youtu.be/CP5tjL1wwG0
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Stevie Wonder - As W/Lyrics
YouTube video by Mugician
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francesprice675.bsky.social @francesprice675.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"City Council candidate Misael Ramos ...was arrested [yesterday] by DPS troopers and booked into the Travis County Jail at around 9:30 a.m. on a Class B misdemeanor charge of engaging in a riot" LAST WEEKEND www.kvue.com/article/news...
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francesprice675.bsky.social @francesprice675.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha people.com/trump-booed-...
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Trump Booed at the Tennessee vs. Texas Football Game as He Appeared on the Jumbotron
President Donald Trump was booed by the Tennessee crowd during a game-day appearance in Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 26, when the Vols hosted the Texas Longhorns. He was seen seated in a box a...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy National Public Lands Day! 🌅 From the Rio Grande to the top of our mountains, our national parks, and the forest lands and acequias that have sustained our communities for generations, these lands are part of who we are. Public lands are our lands. And we will keep fighting to protect them!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🇺🇦💛💙💛💙
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
The Supreme Court’s willingness to use the 14th Amendment to emancipate white people from Black elected officials—but not to help Black people elect officials—signals its fundamentally racist priorities.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everywhere I go, working families tell me that they’re struggling just to make ends meet. There is something fundamentally wrong with that.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a disability advocate I’m heartbroken by this. Please for the love of everything you hold dear, vote blue in November. Republican policies, their shenanigans and their hand picked court jesters are harming the most vulnerable amongst us. Check your registration! Register! Get out the VOTE!
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He wrote this in a hammock. In Hawaii ❤️ youtu.be/enC1I2idG-k
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Dan Fogelberg - Longer (Lyrics)
YouTube video by SoundKream
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥 MAINE — @troyjackson207.bsky.social on why Schumer shouldn’t be leader: “It’s time for new ideas… Medicare for All — a group of us running understand how important healthcare is to everyday people. I don’t know that Schumer understands. Susan Collins doesn’t.” #MedicareForAllNOW
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/09/2026
If "your goal is to advance science in the United States," Jeffrey Flier, former dean of Harvard Medical School said, that kind of political interference "would be like shooting yourself in the head."
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This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research
Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.
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88.5 WFDD @885wfdd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Federal court heard arguments over restoring access for three banned media outlets, focusing on journalists' constitutional rights. #WFDD #PressFreedom #FirstAmendment #FreePress
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Judge considers restoring journalists' access to White House after Trump's ban
Lawyers representing the White House and the three media outlets banned from the property sparred over the constitutional rights of journalists at a hearing in federal court Wednesday.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/09/2026
ICYMI: Missouri has been ordered by a federal appeals court to reinstate a gerrymandered map that eliminates a Democratic district in Kansas City. The shock decision likely means the Supreme Court will be asked to make a final ruling on Missouri’s redistricting battle: demdock.com/4y2RRi4
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 22/09/2026
A look back at the very first White House correspondent and where the press finds itself today.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Note: Major win in the DVD v. DHS case on Sept. 18: the First Circuit has ruled that the third-country deportation policy is unlawful. #legal www.humanrightsfirst.org/library/firs...
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First Circuit Affirms District Court, Strikes Down DHS’ Third-Country Removal Policy
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions.
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 15/09/2026
House Republicans have cancelled votes for the next two months. The next scheduled vote after this Thursday? November 9th. Seriously.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why is anyone analyzing Trump’s blatant lie about checks as if it’s a real policy or has any chance of happening, thereby advertising fake benefits? If I claimed I could fly to Asia propelled by my own farts, you don’t need multiple pieces like “Grossman’s Plan for Inexpensive Flight—Will it Work?”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
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1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
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https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When you go to the polls and vote for a Republican, you are voting for an escalation of preventable deaths, continued erosion of food safety, and anti-science disinformation. Not a single Republican has done a goddamned thing about the destruction being wrought by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In Missouri, Trump has lost 19 percentage points in net approval since he took office in 2025. This includes 14 points just since February. Trump fatigue is real. Use that pressure point in your communities to drive out voting in November. Remind them who is to blame for their pain.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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