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Nicholas Cote

@nicholascote.bsky.social
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Advocate, organizer, and coalition builder for ending the death penalty. Expect posts about sports, movies, hiking, and travel. Home means Nevada, but often elsewhere. Peace be with you. linktr.ee/nicholascote

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Jon Crane @joncranetv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The state of Tennessee has shown the world it cannot be trusted to implement capital punishment in a way that preserves human dignity and the rule of law. This has to stop now,” said Laura Porter, leader of the @uscedp.bsky.social wpln.org/post/tenness...
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Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say
Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts consider...
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I got back home a bit ago from Tennessee's execution of Christa Pike. We sat in the witness room for nearly 2 and a half hours as she received two rounds of pentobarbital. She was taken away in an ambulance shortly after that and I can't say for sure if she is dead or alive at this moment.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I watched many syndicated return episodes of Cheers growing up, but not in order. Just completed season one. This image killed me.
Screen cap from the climax of the first season finale of Cheers, the reveal that everyone else in the bar has been listening to Sam and Diane.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Every DirectTV customer in Vegas right now….
Photo of TV at a bar in Southern Nevada. The bar’s TV service is provided by DirectTV, which is in a contract dispute with the owner of the ABC affiliate in Vegas. ABC is airing the first game of the Stanley Cup final featuring the Vegas Golden Knights.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tennessee is all but certain to execute Tony Carruthers here in Nashville tomorrow morning. He would be the 11th man from death row killed by the state here since 2018. I will be one of the media witnesses inside the prison. Threading my stories for @nashvillebanner.bsky.social about the case here:
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Here's our updated story -- with a much better photo! -- on Richard Glossip's release from jail. His fight isn't over. But it's pretty amazing to see. (With @jordansmith.bsky.social for @theintercept.com)
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“It’s Overwhelming But It’s Amazing” -- Richard Glossip Released From Jail After Three Decades
After nine execution dates, three last meals, and a Supreme Court ruling in his favor, Richard Glossip should soon walk free.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Feeling even better that I traded him for Sal Stewart
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
What Life’s Like for the Muslim Constituents of Congress’s Nastiest Islamophobe open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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What Life’s Like for the Muslim Constituents of Congress’s Nastiest Islamophobe
A visit to Nashville’s Little Kurdistan.
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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Gov. Ivey has spared the life of Sonny Burton, an Alabama man on death row. He was scheduled to be executed Thursday. www.treadbylee.com/p/ivey-spare...
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Ivey spares life of Sonny Burton
The Alabama governor announced the commutation Tuesday, just two days before Burton's scheduled execution.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Heartbreaking sign of the times. Richmond's excellent Black-owned newspaper is shutting down. A huge loss for the entire region. www.vpm.org/news/2026-02...
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Richmond Free Press ceases publication after 34 years
A pillar of journalism for Richmond's Black community is closing its doors.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The de-aging in the Jurassic Park commercial is especially awful because all of those actors have aged incredibly well
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Reader, I canceled.
Washington Post describing subscription renewal in an email received after the newspaper made sweeping layoffs
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Seen in Boulder City, one of the more conservative areas near Vegas
Sign outside shop in Boulder City, Nevada. “The 2nd Amendment is not the right to summary execution.”
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Five classes from college: Catholic Imagination of American Film Philosophy of the Mind Politics of the Sixties Contemporary Moral Problems Immigration Experience in US Since 1890
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
If only
Signs in a high school social studies classroom explaining the separation of powers.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Nevada Day!
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Feeling pretty good about drafting Trey Yesavage in my dynasty league.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
There’s a lot going on in this godforsaken country but if you have found yourself wondering “What’s up with Richard Glossip’s case?” here you go. My latest for @theintercept.com:
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Her Mentor Sent Richard Glossip to Death Row. Can She Give Him a Fair Trial?
Judge Susan Stallings refuses to recuse herself from the third trial of Richard Glossip, despite her ties to the Oklahoma County DA’s office.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I’ve written about people who were exonerated after being imprisoned for 20, 30, and 40-plus years. Some were nearly executed. None of them ever saw anything near $320 million. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
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Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Spotify should be fined for their Power Pop playlist inexplicably including the boring studio version of Cheap Trick’s I Want You to Want Me.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
@sickoscommittee.org I’m at Vegas airport waiting for my flight to Boise (will be going to the UNLV game tomorrow!) and next gate over the UNM women’s volleyball is here rocking the turquoise.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/10/2025
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It’s not law. It’s not order. It’s just power.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I wrote about the 69-year-old man Tennessee plans to kill tomorrow. @theintercept.com
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Tennessee Is About to Execute Byron Black — Despite His Intellectual Disability
Decades after sending him to death row, Nashville prosecutors admitted he shouldn’t be executed. Tennessee plans to kill him anyway.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
@sickoscommittee.org look who is at Dbacks game
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
@sickoscommittee.org has anyone corrected Jordan yet about Sam Boyd Stadium? It’s as off-campus as you can get. (Also, I miss it.)
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A firing squad in South Carolina missed the target over Mikal Mahdi's heart during execution last, causing him to suffer a prolonged death: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution
Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi according to protocol, which lawyers say caused prolonged suffering
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A Big East Pope!
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” My intent with this was just to depict the temporary interstate closure, but there is a lot going on here about our local/state politics and public policy.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Thinking about this thread I read earlier in the day, after on my drive home I saw that a portion of I-11 NB between Boulder City and Henderson/Vegas was completely shut to traffic. Apparently a fatal accident earlier. The presumption that driving entails safety and freedom is…weird.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
At a AAA day game in Vegas for Jackie Robinson day. A father has been trying to point out to his child how the Aviators all wearing 42, but without being clear about *why.* Maybe the kid already knows. But it’s worth repeating.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I see human beings with dignity being used as a backdrop and it’s grotesque
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There’s a code talker statue right across from the Arizona Capitol. Is that woke too?
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
First dem governor in EIGHT YEARS to oversee an execution. We’re going backwards. boltsmag.org/secrecy-as-a...
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Secrecy Clouds Arizona's Lethal Injection Protocol as the State Restarts Executions  - Bolts
The decision by Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs to resume capital punishment aligns with a larger trend of death penalty states hiding key details about executions.
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Jon Crane @joncranetv.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“This is the ultimate state power. Even if you believe the death penalty is appropriate in certain situations, the people have the right to know the law is being followed,” said @nicholascote.bsky.social of Conservatives Concerned. Read more in @bolts.bsky.social ...
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Secrecy Clouds Arizona's Lethal Injection Protocol as the State Restarts Executions  - Bolts
The decision by Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs to resume capital punishment aligns with a larger trend of death penalty states hiding key details about executions.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This weekend I brainstormed something to write. @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com got there first.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
At the Old Idaho Penitentiary Site. This sign, sadly, could use an update.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Gulf of Mexico. That’s it. That’s the skeet.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🇨🇦 should throw Jordan Binnington his own parade
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This American VGK fan of French Canadian heritage cheered a Connor McDavid goal. Times are weird.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
IIRC in college many moons ago I ran a debate case for the line-item veto in which one argument was something along the lines of establishing it would prevent a future president from aggressively asserting impoundment power.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Watching the national championship at my dad’s. Although he watches college football often, he’s apparently been blissfully unaware of Pat McAfee until now.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Good to know, being a resident of Boulder City.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
My colleague Nan Tolson breaks down reasons for “Texans across the political spectrum to confront the realities of capital punishment”
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Texas' Robert Roberson case is reason why the state should abolish death penalty | Opinion
Robert Roberson’s case only scratches the surface of the multitude of faults that permeate this system of death in Texas.
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Love Hurley’s sweater, but love the score more. Friars up 12 at half!
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Nicholas Cote @nicholascote.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Metaristocats
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