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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2h

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Unmarked lunatics with guns attack your car when your kid is with you— you drive off too. Anyone who say otherwise is a liar. They almost killed the kid. What the fuck are we doing? 😳🇺🇸

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23h

If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.

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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1h

RUSSIA TARGETED A BUS FULL OF CIVILIANS AND MULTIPLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THIS WEEK ALONE. Maybe the ingrate is the guy who made the decision to fund that terrorism by purchasing oil in a last ditch attempt to boost his poll numbers?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22h

hollywood releasing a bunch of movies about how an insane, radicalized cabal of billionaires are trying to gobble up the world economy approximately 3 weeks after said insane cabal gobbles up the entertainment industry is what historians call a "whoopsy doodle" moment

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 18h

300,000 tons of diesel is something like 2.25 million barrels, which is considerably less than what the U.S. goes through in a single day (~4.0 million barrels). I assume he chose the bizarre unit of "tons" rather than the more familiar barrels to mask this fact.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h

1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

There’s always a tweet

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I like it and I'd like more of it

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 18h

Buying diesel from Russia instead of ending the war with Iran as a way to lower prices here is like taking a payday loan to pay off the credit card you used to buy a house you can’t afford … as a way of lowering your credit score.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19h

So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

In the span of one week, Tennessee tried and failed to execute Christa Pike, Texas carried out the execution of Jamaal Howard, and Curtis Flowers—a man who spent 22+ years on Mississippi's death row for a wrongful conviction and was finally released in 2019—passed away at 56. This country, man.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This would be the most corrupt act in US history if not for like 25 other Trump things

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 09/10/2026

Great @marisakabas.bsky.social interview w/Steven Hale of the Nashville Banner, who served as a media witness to the botched execution of Christa Pike. Having to witness state-sponsored murder is heavy; and then witnessing that murder fail not once but twice? www.thehandbasket.co/p/christa-pi...

MARISA KABAS, THE HANDBASKET: How many people have you witnessed being executed?

STEVEN HALE, THE NASHVILLE BANNER: So this was my fifth execution where I've been a media witness in Tennessee—I guess only three of those have ended with a person actually being killed. Oddly enough, I was a witness at the Tony Carruthers execution in May here, which was called off because of issues placing IV lines. And then of course this recent one. So five times, but two of them have been rather unusual.

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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"In the summer of 2023, after he was impeached on charges of abusing his office for personal gain, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was suspended and barred from conducting any official business for more than three months while awaiting trial in the state Senate. So, he traveled."

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Ken Paxton took nearly 1,000 trips with state-funded security - The Texas Tribune

The Texas attorney general’s use of a taxpayer-funded travel security detail stands out when compared with his predecessor and other state officials, our analysis found.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People have never wanted to engage with the level of political and state- sanctioned violence it took to create and maintain segregation, and for that matter, enslavement.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Precisely.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose
Favor Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10
Limited terms for justices 79 21
Increase number of justices 53 47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Christa Pike’s attorneys have just released an update on her condition. Full release here:

UPDATE ON CHRISTA PIKE’S CONDITION

Statement from Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, attorneys for Christa Pike

The turnaround in Christa Pike’s health in the last three days has been profound and a credit to the medical team caring for her. She woke up from unconsciousness Tuesday morning (Oct. 6) and began taking limited steps Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 7). Today, she is walking with some assistance, and her arms—which sustained significant injuries during the execution attempt—are healing and regaining movement and strength. Her lungs are clear, and she has started to eat a regular diet. Physicians are encouraged by her physical recovery.

While her physical recovery has been remarkable, significant questions remain about the long-term effects of what she endured. Christa is dealing with the profound psychological trauma of having survived a failed execution, including the terror, pain and uncertainty of believing she was about to die. We cannot yet know the full emotional and psychological toll of that experience or how long it will take her to begin to heal. Even as she struggles to process what has happened, she continues to express concern for others, particularly the family of her victim Colleen Slemmer.

Christa also continues to experience cognitive challenges with concentration and memory. Her physicians have cautioned that it may take months to fully understand whether she sustained lasting cognitive injuries.

Christa committed her crime at just 18 years old after a childhood marked by rape, sexual violence, physical abuse and neglect. Later into her incarceration, Christa was finally properly diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder and PTSD caused by her upbringing.

Christa has endured more than enough. We continue to call on Gov. Lee to commute her death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She should never be subjected to another execution attempt.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just thinking about Ida B Wells being described in 1894 by the New York Times as a “slanderous and nasty-minded mulatress” because of her commitment to covering the social, economic and political reality of lynchings

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The administration’s resort to increasingly horrific forms of state violence as Trump loses his grip on power doesn’t make me feel super great, I have to say

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I hope White House & Pentagon reporters will demand an explanation as to how the administration plans to prevent children from accidentally or intentionally witnessing a live execution. In addition to the general barbarism, there are significant dangers to the public from this nonsense.

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Of course live-streaming the firing squad execution of a Muslim America is beyond sick. But announcing it now, weeks before the election, is also pretty clearly (to me) a campaign move by the GOP. They want the outrage from elected Dems so they can twist it into anti-Dem messaging. Disgusting.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/10/2026

This is very bad.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Probably not a good precedent to set for an administration that's got a Gestapo and is committing treason and war crimes every damn day and will soon be out of power

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is what I said before about RFK Jr. wanting to use our tax money for the unethical study in Guinea-Bissau, in which they will experiment on infants from one of the poorest countries in the world by withholding the HepB birth dose. My opinion hasn’t changed. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The US canceled much of its global aid and research earlier this year, Jacobs said.
"In the face of the US canceling all this funding for vulnerable countries, and then it's still going to pay for this research to be done - that is really worrying" she said. "It seems to say we don't value your lives enough to continue to provide support overall, but we won't hesitate to experiment with your population."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Lindsay Spell @lindserg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love voting by mail in Maryland. Got an email when the ballot was sent to me and just received another email that it’s been received. Can’t wait for the email I’ll get when it’s counted!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/10/2026

Note: That is not, in fact, what socialism is. However, this may be one of the more revealing political moments of the past decade: a leading politician openly acknowledging efforts to redefine a political term based on contemporary political rhetoric, as opposed to its original/historic meaning.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once again, I have no hesitation in saying that RFK Jr is evil. I rarely use that word to describe people, its mostly not useful. But that man desires the suffering of the most vulnerable amongst us.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone who listened to In the Dark is intimately familiar with Flowers’ story. This is so very sad.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every GOP lawmaker believes this, by the way. It's just that most aren't dumb enough to say it where it could get leaked in an election year.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 07/10/2026

Wynn's Law remains undefeated.

Contrapoints saying "They don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly 'critique' power."

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People always ask “where are you going to get the money to pay for stuff like housing and healthcare and public transit” and the answer is the same as it’s always been Make the rich pay their fair share

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is fucked up

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/10/2026

I don't think the Supreme Court is going to get rid of same-sex marriage tomorrow, but when the justice who says that overturning a landmark case is "not realistic" is the *same guy who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade*, you should not take anything he says seriously

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Sam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always Works

Activists are chipping away at the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell because Alito told them exactly how to do it.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?

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