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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
BRENNAN: Nidal Hasan is in a wheelchair. Doesn't the administration risk livestreaming this and making him a martyr? Couldn't this be a risk to the homeland? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No one has to watch it B: Well then why are you livestreaming it? MULLIN: The president is restoring American values
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 1h
Death threats should not be part of public service. It’s no coincidence that this climate of fear coincides with Trump‘s rhetoric. I’m grateful for the public servants who serve anyway, but there are also good people unwilling to risk the safety of their families.  www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 2h
ICYMI, great statement by former VP Mike Pence about Trump's betrayal of Ukraine. Scandal there's no one else left in Republican Party able to say it out loud.
President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin's ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey
Graham.
While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin's war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.
Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin's war machine.
As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.
America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin's war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.
Putin doesn't want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia's military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.
America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:
nytimes.com
Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)
The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Houthis making progress, says RAPIDAN:
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump just issued a warning to Texans, saying he will “never forgive” them if they flip blue and elect James Talarico. time.com/article/2026...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Part of what happens with this strict separation between "policing" and "immigration enforcement" is the refusal to connect the dots on a child being shot in Mississippi and a father being shot in front of his child in NYC because this Black guy happens to be from Senegal.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Yeah, and it's particularly notable considering we *just* saw what the worst-case scenario would be here.
abcnews.com
Officer involved in shooting outside Walmart that killed 1-year-old boy placed on leave
One-year-old Kohen Wiley, his mother and a family friend were in the vehicle at the time, according to Ben Crump Law, which has been retained by the victim's family.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026
WH has a new press sec - Katie Zacharia
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Got to see & hold the most famous Roman coin in history, the Ides of March coin Brutus had struck after assassinating Julius Caesar. The numismatist said it was Caesar putting his own face on coinage that precipitated his assassination, so Brutus doing the same thing did not go over well.
Two fingers give scale to a small silver-green coin featuring two knives and a Liberty cap between them. Under them is written in capital letters Eid Mar which is the Ides of MarchTwo fingers give scale to a small silver-green coin featuring the face of Brutus and the legend BRUT IMP
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Terminator John Connor: Want Some Fries?
ALT: Terminator John Connor: Want Some Fries?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
PIMCO: “It is certainly possible, even from a short-term trading perspective, given that some of the activity we’ve seen in the last couple of weeks is tied to some negative technicals, some stop-out activity from the platform hedge funds .. You can certainly get there.” www.ft.com/content/a752...
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for willing viewers. Even if you support the death penalty, consider what happens next: Footage of a man being shot to death, pushed into our kids' feeds. It won't be contained. Hope the parents in the Trump Admin are cool with that
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remarkable. 🚀 @elerianm.bsky.social @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Deeply American sentence (from Davy Crockett’s wikipedia page)
Despite Crockett’s opposition to the institution of slavery in the United States, he did enslave people.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 08/10/2026
Good pts from Kyle. Many indicators are significantly more Dem than 2018, including POTUS approval and the generic ballot, but the big diff is Democrats are polling about 6 points better on average in red-state Senate seats
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump on migrants: "They kill old. They kill young. They kill them all."
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 08/10/2026
If Pete Hegseth looks at what transpired aboard the USS Lincoln and thinks the real problem is with “a few folks in the media,” his relationship with reality is badly broken. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
Even now, Hegseth tries to blame news organizations for the USS Lincoln scandal
If the secretary looks at what transpired aboard the carrier and thinks the real problem was “the media,” his relationship with reality is badly broken.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 06/10/2026
Could this be the moment copyright holders have been waiting for?
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Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use
A US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence's training of its AI model didn't amount to "fair use."
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A modern record: Measles Outbreak in Pennsylvania Is Now the Biggest in U.S. in 35 Years
wsj.com
Measles Outbreak in Pennsylvania Is Now the Biggest in U.S. in 35 Years
Cases in the state surpassed a prior record as falling vaccination rates have fueled the disease’s rapid spread.
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Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Depressing to say, but three years on I remain profoundly grateful for everyone who has been outspoken in their conviction that killing innocent people is equally wrong regardless of who they are.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 07/10/2026
Team Trump is effectively saying it misappropriated $11.5 million in taxpayer money, but they're promising not to misuse any *additional* funds. That’s nice, but there’s still the matter of the money that the White House already (and illegally) took from us. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
White House rejects calls for reimbursements on publicly funded campaign ads
Democrats Team Trump’s gambit as the “theft of public resources,” which comes with the expectations that the money must be paid back.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year. Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program. (Published August)
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Goldman goes red for the year. @cnbc.com $GS
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In *general*, predictive skill from seasonal models regarding CA winter precip is modest. HOWEVER...these are not normal conditions! El Niño will strengthen to above-record strength. During extremely strong east-based EN events, *conditional predictive skill is much higher.*
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Global seasonal predictive models are not only "aware" of current and projected ocean conditions, but they now have advanced two-way ocean-atmosphere coupling. This means that things like the PDO or other ocean temperature patterns are not "missing"--they are fully integrated.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today in how Bari Weiss screwed up CBS News, we bring you the network's social media apology for royally screwing up the Dennis Hastert obit post. Focusing on banking laws vs child sex abuse is a mind boggling oversight.
former speaker of the house dennis hastet, who represented illinois for two decades in congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died.  shows photo of hastert.


cbs news postDennis Hastert, the disgraced former GOP Speaker of the House, died earlier today at 84.

A prior version of this post stated that Hastert was jailed for violating banking laws. That post missed the mark. Hastert was jailed on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover up sexual abuse.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oof "...putting it into speculative-grade investment territory (aka “junk”). variety.com/2026/tv/news...
 Paramount Skydance Debt Downgraded to Junk Status by Fitch Ratings Following Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

Credit rating agencies Moody's and S&P Global have placed Paramount on review for potential downgrades

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On the left: President Trump false claims of violent crime in Chicago (as prelude for laying a pretext) On the right: Most recent official stats showing Chicago success in back-to-back years of historic reductions in violent crimes
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Having written and now edited my piece, my gut is that it's 6-2 for the fossil fuel companies. I think the *chaos* of ruling for Boulder will be too much for Roberts and Kagan. But *how* exactly they get there, I can still only guess.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
cbsnews.com
The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pompeo supported a man who tried to overturn an election and destroy American democracy. This shows what the real threat it. It's not Trump and his authoritarianism; it's the acceptance of it.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last night I handed my 18 yo the 242-page San Francisco voter information guide/sample ballot and said "time to study" up and he was horrified. Wait till I follow up with the 176-page California election/ballot guide.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And one more time, prescient JP Stevens dissent: “Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law”
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I assume David Hearn will collect millions from the Justice Department's weaponization victims fund.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An all around weak -- but not tragic -- payrolls report for September. +29k jobs created, about 60k below expectations. Revisions made both July and August look weaker, too. Over the past 3 months, we've an average of a mere +17k per month.
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Bill McBride @calculatedrisk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The economy has only added 496 thousand jobs over the last year.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.
Line chart titled "So far during Trump's second term, just 8% of all job growth has gone to men" showing change in employment by gender since January 2025. Total nonfarm employment grew by 776,000 jobs through September 2026, with women gaining 711,000 positions (92% of growth) while men added only 65,000 jobs (8% of growth). Women's employment gains accelerated sharply through 2026, reaching 711,000 by September, while men's employment growth remained flat with brief periods of decline, including a drop of 96,000 jobs in February 2026.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.
economist.com
In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
It shouldn't be difficult to get the money you're owed. On day 34 of our administration, we launched NYC Free Tax Prep for the 2026 filing season. So far, it’s saved New Yorkers $226.6 million. Visit nyc.gov/TaxPrep to find a Free Tax Prep site near you.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: The 2026 elections in most states will decide which party runs elections heading into 2028 (see map). We detail how Democrats could hold or gain this power in 14 potentially competitive states—and form a bulwark against MAGA subverting the 2028 elections www.the-downballot.com/p/voters-can...
Map of the United States titled "2026 Elections That Will Decide Which Party Runs Elections," with the subtitle "Includes secretaries of state and other elected offices where relevant." Source: The Downballot. States are colored by incumbent party.

Democratic (blue), 14 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Republican (red), 18 states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.

Bipartisan (yellow), 4 states: Hawaii, Illinois, New York, and Wisconsin.
Not up in 2026 (gray), 14 states: Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia.

Footnotes: Illinois and Wisconsin have Democratic secretaries of state who do not run elections. Pennsylvania's Democratic governor appointed a Republican who typically aligns with Democrats.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tennessee's bumbling executioners, as they tried in vain to kill Christa Pike last night, stuck "at least 7 needles into her left arm. "One of them appeared bent when it was withdrawn." Now, Pike is in critical condition and is - yes - "receiving lifesaving medical care" Gift link wapo.st/4j02JJ6
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Christa Pike in critical condition after botched Tennessee execution, lawyers say
A lawyer for Pike demanded that the governor commute her sentence after an attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed.
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