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Craig Getting

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Arts Education. Philly. I also co-host @OverduePod. He/him.

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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 7h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxWe...
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Gonna Fly Now (Theme From "Rocky")
YouTube video by Bill Conti - Topic
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kylie b @roguesquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
we literally root for charlie brown every step of the way, he is the main character the show has told us to love. he is who we want to see win. and then when lucy pulls the football away, the show is telling us it does not respect our time as a viewer.
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just voice
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.
Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps.
1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says:
"Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!" 
2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!" 
3rd panel: "Good ol' Charlie Brown..." 
4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, "How I hate him!"
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
see ya whenever the lockout's over Phillies!
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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All the hate is going to go to the expensive guys everyone knows but the last two outs of the season being Bryan De La Cruz and Otto Kemp is a much better illustration of what the Phillies need to fix
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
how im feelin
a picture of Phillies shortstop trea turner showcasing that in the year of our phanatic 2026 he has been worth negative 0.1 wins above replacement despite being on a 300million contract until the year of phillis and phil 2033
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
renamed them the Philadelphia GIDPs
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Ponsonby Britt @hockeenight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here’s the thing - when it was originally pointed out how racist it was, they stopped. Then they chose to start again knowing full well how goddamn racist it is.
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
everyone can agree that Rob Manfred and Liberty Biberty should never be heard from again
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is uniting all baseball fans
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i won't hold it against you if you leave
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
goddamit
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Phillie Phanatic Dancing
ALT: Phillie Phanatic Dancing
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
go phillies boo atlanta
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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TONY GRAYSON 🗻 @tonycomputerentertainment.com · 01/10/2026
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
abolish the death penalty
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This stuff genuinely makes me sick in my body and soul. There is simply no room for compromise.
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh no I’m worried they still do it on the radio
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m just in the emotional trap where I went into this series expecting to get swept and last night was a real fuckin shot in the arm
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it feels weird to get excited about this team because they seem SO unserious at times. but its hard not to be romantic about baseball...
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
okay hear me out the Rav4th Inning can't hurt Nola because it's a national broadcast.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In light of the news of Tennessee’s botched execution tonight, revisiting my colleague @laurengill.bsky.social’s piece on witnessing Alabama attempt to experiment with execution methods to kill a man. boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
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“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions - Bolts
Alabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments.
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nothing is worth this.
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
abolish the death penalty
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't you dare tell them it's my birthday, Kakarot. I am a PRINCE and I will not be infantilized by their song. I must enjoy my Sizzlin' Butter Pecan Blondie in silence.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Nick Piccone @piccone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Nick Piccone @piccone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
THAT'S WINNIN DA GAME
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
abolish the death penalty.
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Tim Kelly @timkellysports.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cristopher Sánchez on his vantage of the Bryce Harper homer: “I was in here [the clubhouse] and I just slammed everything I had close to me.”
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Nick Piccone @piccone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ANDREW PAINTER. STONES.
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Nick Piccone @piccone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCHWARBER. HARPER. BOHM. FRANZKE.
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The yelling when Bohm hit the go ahead homer. I love my city.
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
nothing like walking home with the boy on Broad St, listening to Franzke call the Phillies win
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I HAVE NEVER SAID ANYTHING BAD ABOUT ALEC BOHM
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
PHILLIES
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phylan @phylan.website · 30/09/2026
they call it free baseball only because the vast cost to your spirit isn't measurable
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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join the club.
These Phillies, they're trying to murder me.
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
edmundo :(
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
these fuckin phillies
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
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Franzke & LA @franzkela.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Phillies were 18–7 in the postseason before they got on the plane to Arizona and 3–11 since I need Pablo Torre to find out what the hell happened on that flight
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Protoman the OG
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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
what Pike did was horrific, but we have the resources to live in a world where her ability to cause more harm is limited without allowing the state to mete out death.
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