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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 3h

"The rights of the civil power are limited; there are things beyond its province; there are matters out of its control; there are cases in which the faithful citizen may say,—ay, *must* say,—'I will not obey.'"

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17h

Fucking barbaric. If I didn't already oppose the death penalty on grounds there is no way to make the process equitable and error-free, I would oppose it on grounds of it being state-backed torture.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17h

THERE IS NO NONPARTISAN SOLUTION TO A PARTISAN ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/10/2026

a thing anyone can do is look up jury nullification

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Gov. Lee calls off executions for rest of 2026" www.tennessean.com/story/news/c... Ah, yeah, I think so, buddy. But, also, let's be clear how little this is: Bill Lee calls off ... one execution date.

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Gov. Lee calls off executions for rest of 2026
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing all executions this year after Christa Pike survived two deadly doses of pentobarbital.
"Carrying out a lawfully imposed sentence is among the State's most serious responsibilities, and the people of Tennessee expect it to be done in a manner that is not only legal and constitutional, but is effective," Lee said in a statement Sept. 30.
Lee is calling for a "comprehensive, third-party review" of Pike's execution.
"Therefore, the remaining scheduled execution will not be carried out this year," Lee said.
Gary Wayne Sutton was scheduled for execution Dec. 3.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: Statement from Christa Pike's lawyers: ”Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. ... Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.” www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...

Statement from Christa Pike's attorneys Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN
Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee
Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy.
Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here is @iamstevenhale.bsky.social, who I directed you all to be following earlier and was a witness tonight, reporting on what Tennessee did tonight. Just absolutely horrifying.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've included the witness update into my story at Law Dork, but this is just horrifying — and cannot be in fitting with the state's execution protocol.

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Christa Pike's status unclear after execution attempt: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She is scheduled to be executed Sept. 30.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A428
KENNETH NELSEN, WARDEN v. CHRISTA GAIL PIKE
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY
[September 30, 2026]
The application to vacate stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 30, 2026 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-cuit, case No. 26-5864, granting a stay of execution is vacated.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
The State of Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay of Pike's execution solely to "adequately address and resolve" the issues presented in Pike's pending application for relief. Order in In re Pike, No. 26-5864, ECF Doc. 10-2, p. 2. Tennessee now asks this Court to vacate that stay and permit it to proceed with Pike's execution today. Stunningly, the Court acquiesces. Because its decision clears the way for the State to execute Pike before her still-pending legal challenges to her conviction can be properly considered, I respectfully dissent.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's the version of it I remember from 10+ years ago:

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the compelling, moving, and no-brainer district court ruling the Supreme Court's six Trump acolytes just overturned. District court judges are routinely finding that Trump has violated the law. Then SCOTUS happens. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AND ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT MURPHY, J. This case is about whether the Government may, without notice, deport a person to the wrong country, or a country where he is likely to be persecuted, or tortured, thereby depriving that person of the opportunity to seek protections to which he would be undisputedly entitled. The Department of Homeland Security has adopted a policy whereby it may take people and drop them off in parts unknown—in so-called “third countries”—and, “as long as the Department doesn’t already know that there’s someone standing there waiting to shoot . . . that’s fine.”1 It is not fine, nor is it legal. Congress made it “the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country” where that “person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.”2 Congress decided that the Government “may not remove” someone to a country where her “life or freedom would be threatened” on account of

her “race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”3 These are our laws, and it is with profound gratitude for the unbelievable luck of being born in the United States of America that this Court affirms these and our nation’s bedrock principle: that no “person” in this country may be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

get in losers we're doing woke 2.0

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Rob Wallace @futurerobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm too online because I read Ceonzo as Glonzo

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Rob Wallace @futurerobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pick your explanatory theory: Everyone is 12, Pedocon, the Cruelty is the Point, corruption is legal, self-aggrandizement

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Rob Wallace @futurerobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of course it's always corruption with this administration

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Rob Wallace @futurerobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The stock market *shouldn't* just be gambling, but earlier this year I overheard two bros in an Indian restaurant talking about their "investments" in both stocks and on polymarket/kalshi in the same gambling terms. So at least anecdotally there are some folks who treat them the same way

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 28/09/2026

The Privatize-Losses-Not-Just-Gains Challenge levels Common sense: High Economic sense: High Difficulty: High (due to corruption)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember when they said (lied) that USAID was corrupt? $400 million was handed out to 30 countries, with no real oversight and with workarounds to bypass human rights safeguards typically given to U.S. foreign assistance payments. Immigration is just a giant trough of corruption right now.

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God, the inadvisability of this ad is insane. this is doubling down on the fact that you are a specific kind of hateful evil that most middle-class-and-above people do not even have to contemplate the existence of

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Rob Wallace @futurerobert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay I recognized all the Video of the Year nominees except the Gener8ion dude who'd performed immediately previously, so that makes me feel marginally better. It was my mistake getting home just in time for Best New Artist

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Create an unnecessary sequel by adding an -er to a book’s title. I’ll start: Jude the Obscurer

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Rob Wallace @futurerobert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm now too old to know who basically anybody is on the VMAs. I've seen about 10 minutes and only recognized Olivia Rodrigo and for some reason Jeff Probst from Survivor

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026

Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Rob Wallace @futurerobert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hell yeah these are all great takes, especially Somebody Somewhere. Wildly underrated and underappreciated show.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 26/09/2026

The Trump admin admitted it made a mistake in illegally deporting this man TWICE, but — like it initially did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia — it's defying a court order & refuses to bring him back. This federal judge is right to hold the admin in contempt. There must be a penalty for flouting the law.

X Post from @kyledcheney: JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him.

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Rob Wallace @futurerobert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In some ways aren't Pedocon Theory and Everyone is 12 Theory the same thing

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A scathing court ruling decrying the overcrowded and "inhumane" conditions at NYC's notorious ICE detention facility included diagrams that are eerily reminiscent of slave ships. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the successor species we should be encouraging, not the abused sand.

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great story of AI productivity! It has created an arms race for insurers and providers try to squeeze money out of the government and/or patients. Let's put JD Vance's fraud task force on the case :)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally, segregationists have achieved their dream of capturing the Civil Rights Division and turning it to their own ends

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2026

really fascinating to see isgur conduct this interview as if conservative election mistrust has materialized out of nowhere or as if liberal claims of voter suppression are totally baseless. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?

And how we learn to trust elections again.

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rstevens 👻💨 @rstevens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

welp, that was heartbreaking in a very well-written way

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 24/09/2026

these people are out of their fucking minds and they are going to be responsible for more deaths than they've already caused. truly, literally evil.

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A protest organized by @jvp.bsky.social has just blocked traffic on First Avenue at 39th Street to protest today’s speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026

No president has ever gone into a midterm election as unpopular as Trump is today. Not even George W. Bush in 2006. Trump's net approval is twice as low as it was at this point in 2018. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/no-preside...

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Democrats hit midterm high as Trump approval reaches new low

No president has gone into a midterm election this unpopular. Not even George W. Bush in 2006.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026

The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse.

Ewan McGregor looking a lot like Alec Guinness

Hayden CHristiansen looking a lot like Dave Prowse

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.

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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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