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Mad Madam Maggs @madmadammaggs.bsky.social · 5h

O Blues Brothers Where Art Thou?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 7h

"My fondest memorye as a childe ys the A.I.-generatid voyce of my fathir, sayinge, 'as sure as handes are vague globs of paste, my son, and as true as hydrogen tarifffs are enshrined yn the bill of rights, you are loved by your ChatGPDad.'"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

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]

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End of public executions in
Kentucky
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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Another Movie Geek @anothermoviegeek.bsky.social · 5h

Logan's Run Lola Run

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Boo Literal the Friendly Ghost @benliteral.bsky.social · 5h

It Could Happen to You, Me & Dupree

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 5h

The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 5h

Life is Beautiful Metal Jacket

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Dave @hammer59.bsky.social · 5h

I’d pay to see that in a theater

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 5h

Holy crap. NYC man shot by masked ICE agents and whisked away. 5 year old in car, street crowded w/ families & children. Mamdani now speaking, calls it an outrage. Remember: can't use deadly force w/o imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. ICS "sows chaos and terror across our country."

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 17h

I'm picturing Dan Quayle retweeting this with an eye roll emoji.

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OldmanbytheC @oldmanbythec.bsky.social · 8h

The writings on the wall and Trump is desperate to start a conflict in order to invoke the Insurrection Act or a National Emergency in order to take over or suspend the mid-term elections. This is right out of the Authoritarian Playbook for Dummies, aka Putin’s Playbook.

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Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 5h

"It's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors…"

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 6h

I will haunt you forever and not even have the courtesy to be dead

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Dave @hammer59.bsky.social · 7h

The Year of Living Dazed and Confused

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Dave @hammer59.bsky.social · 7h

The Breakfast and Furious Club

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 8h

One of the truly awful fallouts of the public execution is that, like Charlie Kirk before it, the images will be near impossible to escape on the internet. People will just show you, just so you see it and can get their joke or point. I *never* tried to see Kirk's death, but I have. And I hate it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Anita @anita1956.bsky.social · 8h

The only thing I’ll give Collins credit for is having the nerve to show up for an ass whoopin’

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly. This is who they are.

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Dave @hammer59.bsky.social · 8h

I was just thinking about the Bron-Embiid “Diva Off”, but, yeah - Iggles gots Issues

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 8h

In addition to this being the plot of The Running Man, this is pretty much textbook cruel & unusual punishment, even by the reactionary standards of scotus precedent

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 8h

ANOTHER PERSON SHOT BY ICE AGAIN. THIS TIME IN NEW YORK CITY.

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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 10h

My cat scratched at the bathroom door so I let her in, but once she was in she seemed to forget why she’d wanted in, and I felt that.

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Travandboo @travandboo.bsky.social · 16h

The last of the stack going in the mail today. Godspeed. Good luck in this last month @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 8h

WTF …ANOTHER PERSON SHOT BY ICE AGAIN. THIS TIME IN NEW YORK CITY WITH A FIVE YEAR-OLD IN THE CAR

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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tuberville Dumber Than A Rock

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 11h

the fact that so many somali people traversed to the united states and have chosen minnesota as their home is one of the single greatest things about our state and our community and this is a belief i am extremely prepared to defend in any way necessary

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Liana @pontifux.bsky.social · 10h

your mom made the news

a headline reading "jurassic fossil shows mammal-like throat evolved earlier than thought"

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Dave @hammer59.bsky.social · 10h

Normalizing the outrageous and desensitizing state performed violence are likely part of the operation, as well.

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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 11h

Kids, back in my day we didn’t have autotune. If you couldn’t sing, they made you play the bass, and usually carry the amps too. That was your lot in life, and you just accepted it

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Spooky Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 16h

haha this is how global research typically works but he was trying to smear Fauci for funding that went to Wuhan so let's see what he says when the shoe is on the other foot

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South Dakota Democrats @sodakdems.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Another SD Republican lawmaker is facing criminal charges, as Sen. Mark Lapka is now facing a drunk driving charge. A video obtained by the Dakota Scout connected to the incident shows a combine "entangled in a tree after striking roadside stop signs and a power pole."

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16h

"With this merger, the entire media space is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs, all of whom you’ve seen whispering sweet nothings into Trump’s ear. Ellison has CBS and CNN, Musk has X, Zuckerberg has his Meta empire, and Bezos let democracy die in broad daylight when he gutted WaPo."

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The Rightwing Media Machine Just Got Way More Dangerous

The right has been consolidating the media for three decades, and the left keeps sleeping through it.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16h

Sometimes I need the table and the chair for my own use. Too fucking bad.

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Mr. Bea Arthur, Batshit Crazy™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 17h

*mouthful of LSD I have hope for the future.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

I think in reality what socialism actually means in the American context is that trillionaire Elon Musk got $38 billion from the U.S. government and you got rejected trying to buy a $1 soda on SNAP benefits.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Eric Deters: "Kimberly Guilfoyle is a grifter. Kimberly Guilfoyle I have no doubt has done this to more than me. She's doing it right now in Greece. I know Corey Lewandowski did this stuff. I know Kristi Noem did this stuff."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19h

Whether it's Bill Clinton using tax-payer money to pay for the postage on letters back to people who wrote to his cat or Donald Trump steering hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts to his son's companies, both presidents engaged in corruption on an unprecedented scale.

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Donald J. Drumpf @realdonaldrumpf.bsky.social · 17h

I can't understand why China is catching up with us in Super Intelligence!! Dario at Anthropic is shredding all the old books to train the robots faster!! Xi is having children waste their time reading entire books!! It's a Thucydidean Trap!!! unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/jane...

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Jane Eyre: Mandatory in China. Contraband in Texas.

Why does MAGA want to protect kids from a Victorian novel that helps them “establish a more balanced value system”?

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SpecialKimtamine™ 🚩🏴‍☠️🇮🇹🇺🇸🦈 @lorazekim.bsky.social · 18h

Me and my bestie running from a serial killer but getting caught because we’re laughing at the way he runs

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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 06/09/2023

[2035] ME: We used to burn music into flat mirror donuts that played the songs when you shot lasers at them. KID: Okay, millennial.

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Dave @hammer59.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Prince Marvin Gaye Sam Cooke Aretha Franklin

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And they voted for him anyway 😕

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