Reposted by i am a rockgeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no 423176771
Reposted by i am a rockLiliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country. 111276376
Reposted by i am a rockshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better 122500446
i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@universalhub.com mbta announcer said there are red line delays up to 15 min due to police activity at South Station. Any intel? 011
Reposted by i am a rockмальчик-гей @riz0me.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"To be fair, I'm not doing so great with men. I told my most recent date that I was working on a novella. 'Because you're Mexican?' he asked. I asked what he meant. 'Isn't a novella a Mexican novel?'" -- oh wow 115513
Reposted by i am a rockMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"The judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual abuse and rape as a child were fully considered before she was sentenced to death." 18745119
Reposted by i am a rockautumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ 1233853752
Reposted by i am a rockKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it 372812506
Reposted by i am a rockSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275612492
Reposted by i am a rockNae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 27/09/2026LRP: additionally important to know that if you’re allergic to coconut, you’re also allergic to most activated charcoal products. Many of them are made using burned down coconut husks, but no one advertises that/it’s extremely hard to find out. So be careful this Halloween season! 0202146
Reposted by i am a rockJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.jessica.substack.comCarrying That Weight—AgainI can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case 141122311
i am a rock @mildbannered.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and please don't take time out of your day to message me "not all men are like that!!!!! :)" fuck you. 160
Reposted by i am a rockDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895441937
Reposted by i am a rockSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.coautonomynews.coNew Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to LifeLawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense. 12446825
Reposted by i am a rockMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"A university's obligation to the physical safety of its students is not one commitment among several, to be weighed against reputation or litigation exposure. It is antecedent to everything else the institution does." -- I wish our "professional " media had the guts of this student paper.  116541
Reposted by i am a rockDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195202200
Reposted by i am a rockDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026omg. i love this version so much 4632134
Reposted by i am a rockAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282159855
Reposted by i am a rockDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460531068
Reposted by i am a rockrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted 191428228
Reposted by i am a rockBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know it goes without saying but as the right wing media-political complex runs from Trump we should remember that they played a leading role in--and gleefully profited from--enabling and promoting him. Accomplices trying to get off a sinking ship, trying to salvage what's left of their reputation 202244371
Reposted by i am a rockAsk a Manager @askamanager.org · 23/09/2026askamanager.orgmy momMy mom, Barbara Green, died two years ago this week. I wrote this for her. It is not about work. My mother scheduled her death for 10 a.m. on a Wednesday. Two years earlier, she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer — metastatic, we learned one horrible afternoon at Johns Hopkins, which meant surgery wasn’t […] The post my mom appeared first on Ask a Manager. 8668
Reposted by i am a rockScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982253351
Reposted by i am a rockDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling. 33930780
Reposted by i am a rockClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually 11016207
Reposted by i am a rockMicah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace 201284374
Reposted by i am a rockLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 20/09/2026Thousands march in Paris against bill granting police presumption of legitimate self defenselemonde.frThousands march in Paris against bill granting police presumption of legitimate self defenseIn July, MPs in the Assemblée Nationale approved the bill, which says that any law enforcement official who uses force is assumed to have acted legally in using their weapon. It now faces a vote in the Sénat. 792654905
Reposted by i am a rockalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good. 8941321
Reposted by i am a rockAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18945992953
Reposted by i am a rockTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability. 91320415
Reposted by i am a rockTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ask yourself why a CEO who can call the president on the phone needs to write a pleading open letter like he is a daycare provider who needs money for markers? 2779146
Reposted by i am a rockghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i was worried that Trump wouldn't be on TV because of the press pool thing, which would have been bad, because i think we want him on TV right now, but this? this is perfect 2327833
Reposted by i am a rockScott @smadin.net · 21/09/2026Wait a minute, I think I've heard this one before 3315
Reposted by i am a rockClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have no beef with the “everything wrong with America is Reagan’s fault” contingent except that in numerous areas you’ve got to rewind a notch or two further back Nixon is Patient Zero for so much fuckery 2791113
Reposted by i am a rocksouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Briefly detained” = beat half to death 7549271649
Reposted by i am a rockMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Distressing update from Wilber’s lawyer via IG a short while ago: 6799225
Reposted by i am a rockJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026r/crafts has banned all Harry Potter-related crafts due to JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry, after a 53-41 votereddit.comFrom the crafts community on RedditExplore this post and more from the crafts community 3369371070
Reposted by i am a rockMira @thefreeradical.org · 21/09/2026yall, ICE shot *someone else* in austin, TX today. the guy in question is still alive but has serious wounds do not let this go silent or ignored. people already stopped talking about lorenzo araujo's murder, do not forget what ICE is doing as it murders and assaults innocent peopleapnews.comICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials sayLocal authorities say a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, where anti-ICE protesters gathered at the scene. 5609246
Reposted by i am a rockGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard! 1347831230
Reposted by i am a rockKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026It’s going to be really funny when this is all over and all these companies are like oh, that hate campaign we ran against you for years? Yeah, we were just kidding 281757251
Reposted by i am a rockMB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it. 7172181583
Reposted by i am a rockmady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 16/09/2026solidarity is a beautiful thing to witness. ten years ago if you told a Palestinian that multiple artists would drop out of a career-changing tour in solidarity with their people against genocide, they would not believe you. never give up hope in any struggle for liberation, never stop fighting. 41181210
Reposted by i am a rockUna Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour. 10497191990
Reposted by i am a rockUniversal Hub @universalhub.com · 15/09/2026Whoa: Supreme Court tells regime it can just fuck off with its attempt to control mail-in voting in November www.universalhub.com/2026/whoa-su... #lawsuits #elections2026 15810
Reposted by i am a rockPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues. 31570522539