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Elizabeth West

@limeylizzie.bsky.social
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Ex pat Brit with a tumor in my rear view mirror, actor, knitter, and decent person.

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 26m
Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Neil @neilc-atl.bsky.social · 3h
There’s a reason most governments do not have the death penalty. Trusting employees to “humanely” kill people is absurd, barbaric and wrong-headed
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 4h
“I counted at least seven needles on her left arm alone, one of which appeared to be bent when it was pulled from her arm after an unsuccessful attempt,” Randy Spivey of the Tennessee Office of the Post Conviction Defender said. people.com/app/article/...
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Christa Pike Asked a Haunting Question During Failed Execution, as Attorney Saw ‘Bent’ Needle on One Arm
Christa Pike’s attorneys say she did not have access to them as the events unfolded in the death chamber on Wednesday evening.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 4h
Christa Pike Was Unconscious and on Ventilator After Execution Attempt www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Christa Pike Was Unconscious and on Ventilator After Execution Attempt (Gift Article)
The Tennessee inmate was brought to a hospital with burned and blistered arms after an unsuccessful attempt at lethal injection, her lawyers said in a court filing.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 7h
It’s fucking October! I hate this city.
Los Angeles with a heatwave six days over 90 degrees and one day of a hundred degrees. It’s October
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When white nationalist are a part of your voting base
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 22h
He didn’t even bother to couch the misogyny in subtle terms.
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Marc P @mcpozz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Translation: Trump breaks the law but it does not merit investigation
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That poor woman complained about her arm blowing up, as the state of Tennessee tried to murder her.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UNREAL: US convicted murderer Christa Pike is in hospital and being given "life-saving measures" after Tennessee authorities failed in their attempt to execute her by lethal injection. Tennessee screwed up the execution and is now trying to save her life to execute her later!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/10/2026
Tennessee remains a horror show run by the world's most repulsive people.
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‘It was a mess’: Tennessee fails to execute woman after 2 lethal injections
Christa Pike’s attorneys said she was being treated at a hospital but her condition is unknown. May Martinez,, the mother of the murdered teenager Colleen Slemmer, called the botched execution “a mess...
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I do think if you survive a state execution then you should get to walk out of prison the next day. That is totally fair and square to me.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are a failed country. www.tmz.com/2026/10/01/c...
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Christa Pike Said Arm Felt Like It Was About to Burst During Botched Execution
Christa Pike repeatedly pointed out a shooting pain in her arm during her horrifically failed execution attempt ... according to one eyewitness.
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cliffdubya.bsky.social @cliffdubya.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Since Republicans are about to be completely wiped out in the midterms, this is going to be a bloodbath like we haven't seen before," Coulter said on her podcast Unsafe. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Ann Coulter Delivers Dire Prediction About Trump’s Party
A conservative commentator delivered a stark warning to the Republican Party about an impending “bloodbath.” Ann Coulter, 64, predicted that the GOP would get slaughtered in the midterm elections as P...
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Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Normal. Illegal, but normal. 😏
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny
Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 01/10/2026
Fuckface slapped his name on the Kennedy Center, acts fled, and his handpicked board is quietly selling every Steinway while a judge ordered the building to stay open. DOJ claims it's just renovations. The piano shop says plainly it's because the place closed. Someone's lying.
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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FCC head says government-funded Trump ads are ‘normal’ and ‘don’t raise any red flags’
Brendan Carr said the ads are “normal-course public service announcements” and nothing that would “merit any sort of” review by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FFS this is not how a civilized society should operate. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
‘It was a mess’: Tennessee fails to execute woman after 2 lethal injections
Christa Pike’s attorneys said she was being treated at a hospital but her condition is unknown. May Martinez,, the mother of the murdered teenager Colleen Slemmer, called the botched execution “a mess...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Christa Pike received medical care following an execution attempt, according to a court filing. Her attorneys reported she was still breathing after receiving two doses of lethal pentobarbital.”
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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🇪🇺🇬🇧 #UK would be ‘welcome’ back in #EU French President #EmmanuelMacron and Spanish Prime Minister #PedroSánchez have welcomed #AndyBurnham’s plan to unpick #Brexit www.politico.eu/article/macr...
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Macron and Sanchez say UK would be ‘welcome’ back in EU
Andy Burnham’s suggestion that the U.K. could rejoin the EU was met with a more muted response from Brussels itself.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely horrendous , ffs get rid of the death penalty www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Utterly barbaric Supreme Court Allows Execution of Tennessee Woman to Proceed www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee’s Lone Woman on Death Row (Gift Article)
Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years, until a lower court paused the execution.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Doughy white men will save us?https://newrepublic.com/post/216045/pete-hegseth-elon-musk-newt-gingrich-help-lead-military
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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military
Pete Hegseth revealed that the men will help direct a project to determine the future of the military.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
G.O.P. Nominee in Texas Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Most Laughable of Trump’s Many Lies www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Most Durable Lie: Election Rigging (Gift Article)
“Rigged.” “Fraud.” “Hoax.” The president is a broken record.
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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 30/09/2026
Abolition Teapot by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, c. 1760 www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/s...
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andrew and I discuss the Jack Smith vs. Senate Republicans mismatch, why it's worth considering impeaching Trump in 2027, and why November's blue wave could be even bigger than many people expect. www.youtube.com/live/lihUZzt...
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BREAKING: Jack Smith Comes Out Swinging in Hearing | Morning Shots
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE (Also, imagine still doing Kamala "Word Salad" segments a month out from the 2026 midterms.)
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WARNING: Do NOT try this at home. Sen. Schmitt brought a poster board, a perjury trap & zero fact-checkers. Result? Atlanta Hawks ≠ Iowa Hawkeyes. Jack Smith was watching Caitlin Clark in Maryland. Lesson: Research first. Gloat second. Or you ARE the cautionary tale.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The camera cut to Katie Britt right after Eric Schmitt’s attack on Jack Smith turned out to be bogus. Schmitt claimed Jack Smith attended an Atlanta Hawks game in Atlanta. However, the texts were actually about the Iowa Hawkeyes playing Maryland in Maryland.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The author of this ill-timed, two-graph beat-sweetener is none other than Axios's co-founder, Jim VandeHei
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026
The physique of a man whose exercise routine is refreshing his mentions.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can't recall ever seeing anything quite like this during a Congressional hearing. And I've been in and around politics for 50 years.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The underlying theory Senate Republicans are going with is that Joe Biden secretly ordered DOJ to investigate Trump, something they have produced no evidence to support and also they're all fine with Trump publicly ordering DOJ to investigate his enemies.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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stevemartin35.bsky.social @stevemartin35.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"With malice toward none,with charity for all..." A. Lincoln. "With malice toward all,with charity for none" , D.Trump We've lost our way.
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Xeynon @xeynon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Would be absolutely hilarious if Dems get to 54 and Fetterman spends the last two years of his political career being completely irrelevant.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
meidasnews.com
GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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A.L. likely @alvildalikely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There’s a 98% chance that my dog is going to excite-pee when he sees me, and only slightly lesser odds that I will when I see him.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
David Horsey, Seattle Times
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