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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz

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College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado he/him/his

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 6h
i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h
Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 5h
social media is a nightmare these days, but i just need to say: the way you talk about strangers’ experiences of sexual assault tells the survivors in your real life whether or not you can be trusted with their stories and their safety. and there *are* survivors in your life, so don’t fuck it up.
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Liz Jarvis MP @lizjarvis.bsky.social · 2h
Many years ago I interviewed a woman who had witnessed the execution of the man who had killed her son and daughter in an armed robbery. She said it gave her no comfort at all, and spent the rest of her life campaigning against the death penalty.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7h
That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h
Barbaric.
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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 8h
we all are 57 men were on that text chain women have been reporting they have been dismissed or even blamed “Victim blaming" by law enforcement is cited in 25% of cases as a reason why survivors stop cooperating 98% of rapists will never spend a day in prison #cornell
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h
This is horrendous. What a cruel practice.
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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 8h
This Supreme Court allowed Alabama to keep killing people in 2022 after the state repeatedly botched its executions and left inmates on gurneys, cut up by needles. Of all the Roberts Court’s sins, its death penalty rulings have been especially nihilistic.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h
I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.
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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 9h
I'm giving a guest lecture on medieval music (antiphonals) tomorrow and I forgot how much fun it is to sight sing neumes.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
So not only did @GovBillLee’s sadistic clown car mess up another execution, neither Lee or AG Skrmetti had anyone on-call during a scheduled execution?? Insane.
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 14h
🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."
Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h
oh my god this is fucking horrifying. they lethally injected her twice and she didn't die and now they're trying to save her so they can presumably.... try again? I ran out of words for the barbaric horror with the Alabama gas executions but somehow TN is inventing new nightmare torture
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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 7h
There are many reasons the state should not kill people. The fact that they can so horrifyingly fuck it up does not even top the list. But if that's enough to set people against it, then I guess let's make this the biggest fucking news story of the hour. This should never have happened.
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grace @acab4cutie.top · 7h
oh to be a former stray lounging in a scratcher chaise 🥰
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 8h
"snoring" is probably not what it sounds like here fyi she's likely agonal and barely alive
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 8h
agonal breathing is not real breathing and sounds like snoring or gasping and happens when someone is suffering a major medical emergency like a cardiac arrest
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katie dzwierzynski @kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · 8h
the baseball vibes are bad but this guy’s rainy day fashion was good
bentley, a small, cream-colored dog, wearing a light blue raincoat with yellow duckies on it
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 7h
What's the point of having witnesses if you block the view? 🤔 At 7:46 p.m. prison officials closed the curtain to the media room. The curtain raised 3 minutes later, then closed at 8:06 pm The mic cut off at 8:53 p.m. & media were escorted out... Emergency vehicles were seen coming to the prison
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Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say
Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.
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Philip Nelson 💻🧙 @blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network · 8h
dear Lord www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
At 7:26 p.m. the blinds into the death chamber opened for witnesses to see Pike strapped to the gurney.

Media witnesses reported hearing Christa Pike speak multiple full sentences throughout the process.

“My arm feels like it’s about to bust. One spot is really throbbing," said Tori Gessner, a WKRN reporter and media witness.

The blinds closed at 7:46 p.m. Witnesses said they could still hear her breathing when the blinds were closed.

Just 3 minutes later, the blinds were opened again. Pike was still breathing and began snoring, witnesses said.

The blinds closed again at 8:05 p.m. Witnesses said the breathing continued while the microphone was still on. Prison officials removed the witnesses from the room at 8:53 p.m. When the microphone cut off, witnesses could still hear her breathing.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h
UPDATE: At a call with the federal court tonight, "the state [of Tennessee] represented that medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion."
ORDER finding as moot 123 Motion to Expedite. At a conference call with counsel for all parties, the state represented that medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion. This is the complete order of the court. There is no document associated with this docket entry. Signed by District Judge Clifton L Corker on 9/30/2026. (Corker, Clifton) (Entered: 09/30/2026)
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h
The Tennessean: Christa Pike still alive after administered drugs, attorneys say www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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BREAKING NEWS: Christa Pike still alive after administered lethal injection drugs, attorneys say
• 8:48 pm CT
Christa Pike still alive after administered drugs, attorneys say
Evan Mealins
A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.
Kelly Gleason, an attorney for Pike, said she heard this from another of Pike's attorneys, Randy Spivey. Gleason said Spivey was in the death chamber with Pike but stepped out to call Gleason.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h
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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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 8h
So the character Phoebe Bridgers plays in PRIMETIME is real and after working on TO CATCH A PREDATOR she went on to be the Trust and Safety Head at Twitter who made the call to bounce Trump from the platform after January 6! Wild stuff www.wired.com/story/del-ha...
wired.com
Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence
From Israel vs. Hamas threats to Donald Trump’s “wild” posts, Del Harvey helped make the platform’s hardest content moderation calls for 13 years. Then she left in 2021 … and disappeared.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22h
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 8h
Cornell is no the only place where violent horrors happen. Here at Football State University we see it as well. www.lawcommentary.com/articles/lsu...
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LSU Found Football Player Responsible for Rape, Reduced His Suspension and Allowed Him Back on the Team | Law Commentary
LSU found a football player responsible for sexual assault and forcible rape through its Title IX process, then reduced his one-year suspension on appeal to two years of probation without restrictions...
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 8h
"Authorities appeared to give Pike two doses of pentobarbital, and she was still awake and snoring more than 40 minutes after the last dose. At 8:53 p.m., there was an announcement to escort media witnesses out of the area."
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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 13h
My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h
Emergency court filing from Pike's lawyers seeking to "halt and stay" the botched execution tonight in Tennessee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION TO HALT AND STAY EXECUTION
The Tennessee Department of Correction began the execution of Petitioner
Christa Gail Pike at approximately 8:00 p.m. CDT. According to counsel witnessing the execution:
1. Both syringes of pentobarbital have been administered.
2. Ms. Pike has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is
audibly snoring.
3. Curtains have gone down twice.
4. It took counsel approximately 7 minutes to be connected via phone.
Accordingly, the Petitioner requests and order immediately staying her execution
and ordering immediate medical care.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 9h
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 8h
Between the USPS trucks with constant capture cameras and hanging these on Amazon drivers, they want to watch us at all times and capture us all. This should be stopped.
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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 9h
I found her. Her name is Riley Williams. Riley asked for everyone who hears her story, to please sign her petition. c.org/8zxvWpYTms
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Tara Dublin, Rock Star Author📚❤️‍🔥🤘🏻 @taradublinrocks.com · 9h
This guy just gets cooler Nas is also 😍😍😍
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 9h
The smallest bat in North America is the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also called the western pipistrelle or American parastrelle. They weigh about 3–6 grams, the weight of a US penny, sheet of paper, or teaspoon of sugar. In flight, they're sometimes confused for moths or butterflies.
A tiny smoke-grey furry bat with darker face, ears and wings.  The big story is the tiny size.  The entire bat fits on a portion of a human's thumb, a tee-weeny tiny little guy.

This is a viral photo that's circulated for years, but I found it on r/BatFacts posted by u/Pardusco.
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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 12h
Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 9h
A third of male university students say they would rape a woman if there no were no consequences. From 2015
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A third of male university students say they would rape a woman
A significant proportion of men who said they would force a woman to have sex did not recognise it as rape
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h
@nbcnews.com: LSU student says she was raped by a football player who is still on the team By Corky Siemaszko “LSU does really protect their athletes, especially their football players,” says the woman, whose claims are being investigated by the local district attorney.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 9h
Exactly.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15h
I’ve been reminiscing with friends about Take Back the Night rallies we did at Cornell in the late 90s, and how now it’s our high school daughters planning rallies and signing petitions and it’s just incredibly demoralizing how little has changed.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: The big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee execution. SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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The big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee execution
SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts.
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 10h
"Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’: Amazon doesn’t have much to say about privacy when it comes to drivers wearing camera-equipped smart glasses."
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Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’
Your Amazon delivery could come with an unwanted photo op.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15h
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11h
thomas potato
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 15h
I'm grateful to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger Library for ensuring that my mom's work will be accessible to her many students, past and future
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Lani Guinier’s legacy, in her own words - Harvard Law School
Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 15h
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
techcrunch.com
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11h
"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues
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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 19h
capybaras taking a bath in a fountain
painting of capybaras taking a bath in a fountain in a floral garden
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 10h
"In West Philly, Karen refugees put down roots in a community garden of their own: The Southeast Asian community broke ground at the Lee Cultural Center on Saturday."
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Karen refugees put down roots in a community garden space in West Philly
The niche Southeast Asian community broke ground at the Lee Cultural Center on Saturday
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