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I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 11h

Congratulations to CBS' newest NFL analyst, Bari Weiss.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 12h

The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.

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John Payant @jpayant70.bsky.social · 9h

I have a scorching hot take I need to share. Songs in the Key of Life is an absolutely perfect album. The only double album I have heard that comes (very) close is Prince’s Sign o’ the Times.

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Red Sox @redsox.com · 12h

Thank you for the late nights under the lights. For going tarps off in the bleachers. For the energy at Fenway each and every night. For being part of a run to remember. For falling in love with this squad. It was a joy to share it with you. Thank you for all of it, Red Sox Nation. ❤️

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THANK YOU

IMAGE: A photo taken at Fenway Park from the stands on the first base side with white text overlaid on it.

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 13h

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 13h

I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 14h

So I’ve got this right: While the whole country is talking about the Cornell 7 the folks behind TNF decided to run an interview w/ a QB accused of sexual assault & harassment by two dozen women. An interview that never mentioned the crimes and had (clearly) pre-approved questions & no follow-ups.

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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks, I hate it.

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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 14h

Earl Wilson was born 92 years ago today. On July 28, 1959, he became the first Black pitcher in Red Sox franchise history. His debut came just a week after Pumpsie Green broke the Red Sox color barrier. The team was the last to integrate—12 years after Jackie Robinson integrated the Dodgers.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15h

A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own is granted parole after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence.

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Former Dallas officer who shot Black man in apartment that she mistook for hers gets parole

Amber Guyger was convicted of murder in the 2018 killing of Botham Jean, an accountant, who had been eating a bowl of ice cream when Guyger entered his home and shot him.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h

I miss Maria Bartiromo's reactions to Trump's vandalism of the economy.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 15h

"Artists for AI" like Kelly Clarkson are corporate robots - basically AI in bellowing, human form - and leave the word "artist" absent of meaning. Art if nothing else is about intentional creation. This is an "artist's" call for artistic cyanide.

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bsox72.bsky.social @bsox72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On this date in 1983 after playing 23 years, the Red Sox honor and celebrate Carl Yastrzemski at Fenway Park. The fans give him a 6 minute standing ovation, he receives gifts, gives a speech and then runs around Fenway Park to high-five and shake hands with fans.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 16h

Today I wrote about the botched execution of Christina Pike and how the death penalty must end, in all situations, with absolutely no exceptions. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Tennessee attempted to kill Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night but they botched it. They gave her a dose of phenobarbital, it did not kill her, so they gave her a second dose of phenobarbital which also did not kill her. Witnesses said that Pike was kicking her feet, knocking off sheets, and showing signs of obvious pain. Eventually she fell into a state of semi-consciousness and at various points was heard snoring by witnesses. The botched execution spanned more than two hours from the beginning of the lethal injection protocol to the time it was halted and Pike was transported to the hospital.

Pike is said to be in critical condition in the hospital. There is a good chance that she sustained severe brain injuries by virtue of her respiratory and cardiovascular systems being subjected to massive doses phenobarbital for over two hours which likely led to prolonged oxygen deprivation to her brain.

How did this happen? There are any number of theories. One possibility is that the people conducting the attempted execution failed to properly tap a vein, which may have been more likely due to a condition Pike has called thrombocytosis. If so, they probably just pumped the phenobarbital into her muscles and surrounding tissue. It's also possible that the phenobarbital used by Tennessee was degraded or substandard due to pharmaceutical companies' refusal to sell such drugs and drug administration equipment to death penalty state prison authorities, which leads them to pursue questionable substitutes from compounding pharmacies and suppliers. Those are just theories, of course. There will be an investigation into all of this and we'll find out more eventually.

But the specifics of this don't matter much to me. All of it just underscores how wrong and evil and depraved capital punishment is and how it should be abolished everywhere immediately. With absolutely no exceptions.

I’ve long opposed capital punishment in any and all cases. There is nothing — no fact, no argument, no sufficiently depraved or horrifying a criminal or crime, hypothetical or otherwise — that will ever change my mind about that. I’d oppose the death penalty even if it was not discriminatory and arbitrary, which it absolutely is. I'd oppose it even if our system was incapable of legal or factual error, which it obviously is not. Indeed, it makes errors all the time, and there have been several cases in recent years in which states have killed innocent people. While legal errors can cause extreme hardship in cases that don’t involve the death penalty, once you’ve killed someone there are no take-backs. Utah just released a man who spent 37 years on death row after they discovered that he was innocent.

But like I said: I oppose it in all cases. Even when guilt is not in question, as is the case with Christa Pike, who admitted what she did long ago. I simply think that it is illegitimate to give humans the legal right to end the lives of other human beings. That's especially true given the manner of political power, how it is obtained, and how it is employed in this country.

I do not think that the purpose of our criminal justice system should be retribution or the satisfaction of blood lust. We can and should incapacitate criminals by locking them up. We can and should rehabilitate criminals who are capable of being rehabilitated while they are locked up. We should do what we can to deter future crime, but in so doing we must acknowledge that the death penalty does nothing to deter crime. We should not, as a society, be in the revenge business, which is what the death penalty is really about.

The State of Tennessee tortured a human being for two hours on Wednesday night and quite possibly inflicted traumatic brain injuries upon her. There is nothing that justifies that. There is nothing that justifies the state from taking the life of a human being.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 23h

Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this

My dad used to work with Ted Bundy at the University of Utah and every Friday my dad would say, "See ya Monday-Bundy" and I can't imagine how much Ted actually thought about murdering him for
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John Payant @jpayant70.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of all the bullshit that comes out of this dope’s cake hole, the “dumb has a b at the end” routine drives me the most nuts. I truly fail to see how this came about.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 23/04/2024

This is the most American headline I’ve read in a hot minute

The Oregonian tweet Portland approves Chick-fil-A location at strip club, site of recent shooting homicide

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He would know

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Reveal @revealnews.org · 01/10/2026

The botched execution of Christa Pike supports what Rev. Jeff Hood, spiritual advisor to the condemned, told us last year: This country's use of capital punishment shows that we, as a society, "have moved in a more violent direction."

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Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them. - Reveal

On this week’s “More To The Story,” death row spiritual adviser Jeff Hood talks about how his longtime activism for racial justice led him inside America’s execution chambers for the final moments of ...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Right, it's not that I disagree that some of the people sentenced to execution are monsters -- many of them are! -- it's that I disagree that we all should be monsters too.

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Lamont Price @lpizzle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's officially Vince Guaraldi Trio Season!

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John Payant @jpayant70.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember this well; losing my mind too. To be fair, while I would sweep that category, I’d be like them if it were Opera.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ms Brown is entirely right here Every word of this 👇🏻❤️👇🏻

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This will probably be a mess, with like six really kickass scenes among a bunch of general incoherence, but I've been on the James Spader train for 40 years now and I'm never, ever getting off, so here we are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXKn...

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Marvel Television’s VisionQuest | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Marvel Entertainment

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."

Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”

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John Payant @jpayant70.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Protect Ms. Rachel at all costs.

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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?

Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances"

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.

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Bobby Krivitsky @bobbykrivitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

While discussing the differences in building relationships with Chris Cenac Jr. compared to Mike Conley, Joe Mazzulla says that being a step-father has made him a better coach. “You can't fall on the crutch of authority…We’re in this together.”

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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Actually didn't know that he'd been cosplaying here as humble Maine fishing village guy. That Times piece might lead to more protesters.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The next Democratic attorney general should dedicate a deputy full-time to investigating everything Kushner has done over the past decade with the explicit aim of clawing back billions from him and throwing him in prison. It's the most blatant corruption in American history. bsky.app/profile/cnni...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"differ on outcome of 2020 presidential contest" okay so we have an election denier in the race

ELECTION 2026
County clerk, nurse practitioner face off in secretary of state race
GOP's Ramona Goolsby, Democrat
Amanda López Askin differ on outcome of 2020 presidential contest
BY OLIVIER UYTTEBROUCK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
Two candidates vying to become New Mexico's next secretary of state appear to have starkly different views about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
"I always laugh because I get that question all the time — Joe Biden was sworn in," said Ramona Goolsby, the Republican nominee. Does she believe that former President Joe Biden was legitimately elected six years ago?
"I'm not going to speculate on that," Goolsby said. T'm going to say that he was sworn in, he was certified by Congress, and that he served." The Democratic nominee, Amanda López Askin, who has served as Doña Ana County clerk since 2018, said Biden decisively won the 2020 election, which she described as one of the most closely scrutinized presidential contests in history.
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Political Party:
Democratic
Age: 52
Education: Ph.D.
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Higher Education
Focus, Social Justice Emphasis, Latino Critical
Ramona Goolsby
Political Party:
Republican
Age: 63
Education:
Master of Science in Nursing, University of Arkansas (2004)
Occupation:
Ciudad Soil and Water

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can believe some crimes are worthy of the death penalty. But if you believe the justice system — ANY justice system, nevermind our incredibly flawed/corrupt justice system — can be trusted to NEVER execute an innocent person, you're just not living in reality. That's why it can't be an option.

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Marlo, Support me Bitch! @ceereespeaks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m never going to agree with the death penalty in this country….. Too many of us are wrongly convicted and murdered by this system for me to ever agree that it’s something that should exist 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i've never played minecraft but my hunch is that the frustrations of terraforming and city planning with a playstation controller are not unlike trying to go 10-7 with kenny pickett

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I detest that everything has gone so thoroughly to shit that we, as a right-thinking society, are simply unable to dedicate enough anger to the fact that we still do this ridiculously inhumane thing.

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