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Jessica Pishko

@jesspish.bsky.social
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she/her Book on sheriffs & democracy www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/70… Repped by @rhaliterary DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com “Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 12h
ah yes, "poor judgment" and "missteps"
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 13h
My only bummer is they didn't do this for all the sheriff/ coroner offices -- there are still 47 of them, including OC, San Bernardino, Fresno, etc. (I know why they didn't but still)
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Sara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social · 13h
The new law means that, by July 2027, an independent medical examiner will be responsible for determining how and why unnatural deaths occur in Riverside County, where roughly 2.5 million people live and more than 370 people have died in sheriff’s custody since 2005 — 151 of them under Bianco.
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Newsom signs bill stripping MAGA sheriff of his coroner title
In what amounts to a laser-focused rebuke to a Republican sheriff who has dismissed concerns about deaths inside his jails, California has stripped Sheriff Chad Bianco of his duties as coroner.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 13h
seems bad for journalism www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/colu...
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Columbia Journalism School will pause its M.A. program (and launch an online degree)
The Columbia Journalism School will pause admissions for its Master of Arts program, dean Jelani Cobb announced on Thursday. The country's most prestigious journalism school also announced a new onlin...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h
It’s extremely down to the wire here. If you know of a FOIA attorney in Idaho, please connect us. The Boise airport has told me they do not have any video of an ICE detainment that I know for a fact happened.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 13h
The criminal system sees women as resources to be consumed for its own benefit. Their bodies are the site of assault, rape, attempted murder (or murder). They can be useful, but disposable. It "protects" women so long as they accept patriarchy as a master.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 14h
Remember when the Democratic party removed "ending the death penalty" from its 2024 platform.
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American Immigration Council @immcouncil.org · 16h
ICE arrests continue to soar month after month while most detainees don't have a criminal record. Senior Fellow @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social speaks with @biannagolodryga.bsky.social of @cnn.com about ICE's new enforcement tactics.
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‘ICE is not prioritizing people with violent offenses’: Immigration expert on ICE arrests surge | CNN
As ICE arrest numbers surge quietly across the US, Bianna Golodryge speaks to Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council Aaron Reichlin-Melnick about what is driving the policy and the legality...
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Disappearance Machine: ICE’s jail boom By @jacknorton.bsky.social @nplusonemag.com “the money — every single day, every moment — follow the money. That money tells the truth about everything, everything, and about what has happened.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/pol...
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The Disappearance Machine | Jack Norton
As I listened to Ahern in his small office, I was struck by how much he knew about, and how much time he spent thinking about, immigration detention. He was a competent and civic-minded public servant...
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 15h
I devour everything @jacknorton.bsky.social writes www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/pol...
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The Disappearance Machine | Jack Norton
As I listened to Ahern in his small office, I was struck by how much he knew about, and how much time he spent thinking about, immigration detention. He was a competent and civic-minded public servant...
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 17h
You only matter as a victim if you are useful to the carceral system and its narratives.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 16h
Gavin Newsom signed a bill that separated the Riverside Sheriff's Office from the Coroner's Office. About time. www.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...
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Bill Text - SB-1379 County of Riverside: separation of county offices: in-custody reports.
SB 1379 County of Riverside: separation of county offices: in-custody reports.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h
Steven is one of our best here in Nashville. Stellar reporter, exceptional writer, and all around admirable human being. Follow him here: @iamstevenhale.bsky.social.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h
the utter futility of appealing to the same system that demanded it must execute Christa Pike, asking it to produce justice for Jane Doe in the Cornell case…
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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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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the institutional sanction of sexual violence against women and the state trying to kill a woman and failing. galling to take those together
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
okay so i sincerely thought this was a joke
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay this is incredibly weird and if you know something about it, please let me know! Per this article, the Lancaster PA (whom I wrote about in @newrepublic.com ) is "on track to criminally charge more than 100 undocumented immigrants this year." My question is charge with what?
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Christa Pike’s attorneys say the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a stay of execution. News spreading now outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, where the execution is scheduled for 10am.
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WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio @wpln.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Execution of Christa Pike is halted by a court in final hour wpln.org/post/tenness...
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Tennessee set to carry out rare execution of a woman
One of the youngest women sent to death row is set to be executed in Tennessee. Christa Pike was 18 when she killed classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995. The case drew attention due to its brutality and ...
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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, the deadly ban on federal funding of abortion that has shaped the lives of over a million low-income women. For @motherjones.com, this excerpt of my book explains why the death of Roe started w/ Hyde: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights
The men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It was the back scratches and he totally deserves it
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"At the end of the event, which was widely advertised and open to members of the public, Mullin's brother and chamber chairman Jamey Mullin said he was told by the secretary's staff members that the event was "off record."" www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...
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DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin defends ICE in Oklahoma shouting match
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin compared undocumented immigrants to child rapists before clashing with an Edmond man over ICE.
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This took me 2 years off-and-on to finish & dig up all kinds of new info. Academic articles don’t pay so if you’d like to support publishing like this, please sign up for my Patreon. For $2+/mo you get exclusive content & support independent antifascist research. www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
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Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spencer is one of the best on this topic. I expect this to be good.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A heartbreaking story by @lilianasegura.bsky.social on Christa Pike, a victim of abuse from the people around her, including the criminal system. She is scheduled to be executed tomorrow. theintercept.com/2026/09/27/c...
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The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.
After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/09/2026
“I simply do not believe that Nolan simply and accidentally drowned. . . . And nobody saw anything? And no one knows anything,” the mother of a Black teen-ager who died this summer on a boating trip in Mississippi said. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Nolan Wells’s Family Still Wants Answers
A Mississippi grand jury declined to bring charges in connection with the death of a Black teen-ager during a boating trip, but it’s still unclear exactly how he died.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Abortion: What's happening, what's new, what's next? If you're in NYC, come to this amazing teach-in next week. Register here: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin
Abortion: A Community Teach-In October 3 LES, NYC 11AM - 4PM 10:30 AM registration & continental breakfast Register at: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin
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