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Patrick Walls

@patrickw.bsky.social
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I do tech support but post about politics | US Senate, Sojourners alum | Opinions are my own

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23h
Someone should do a piece on this. There is *SO* much more money easily available on the right.
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 19h
Ngl, this is absolutely crazy to see. Both that they made an arrest after these 20yrs, but also that the suspect graduated a year ahead of me in HS! www.wthr.com/article/news...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump defends the men in the Cornell gang rape case, saying he “feels bad” for them and they won't get a “fair shake”
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#BREAKING U.S. District Judge April Perry is moving forward with further fact-finding regarding potential prosecutorial misconduct in the case of the "Broadview Six," with a special prosecutor still on the table.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The 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.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
abolish the death penalty
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026
Breaking: "Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing all executions this year after Christa Pike survived two deadly doses of pentobarbital." Calls for a 3rd party review of Pike's botched execution. Tennessee had planned to kill another person on Dec. 3.
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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
two doses of lethal drugs and still alive. heartbreaking and barbaric
A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.
Kelly Gleason, an attorney for Pike, said she heard this from another of Pike's attorneys, Randy Spivey. Gleason said Spivey was in the death chamber with Pike but stepped out to call Gleason.
"She's alive and snoring," Gleason said.
Another attorney, Amy Harwell, is driving an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court, Gleason said.
"She needs immediate medical care," Gleason said.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is incompatible with a free society.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
okay I'm sorry to literally beg for this, I've done part time jobs and you all have been amazing sponsoring for me doing work around the community But I go 1400 a month rent is due at the end of the month and I'm freaking out, they can delay it until the 8th but I think I honestly can't pay it
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
another incredible Murakami champagne celebration interview (via CHSN White Sox)
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Talkin' Baseball @talkinbaseballbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Munetaka Murakami champagne celebration interviews are must-see TV
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I still think we should raise the pay for members and staff, but we should absolutely not be doing this with tax money.
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lol, the only trip I was even offered as a staffer was to tour a passport office, USCIS office, and border crossing in El Paso, and the Consulate in Juarez. Only reason I didn't go was I didn't have a current passport. But I guarantee I would have only been staying at a basic hotel in El Paso
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2026
if you take seriously Musk’s stated beliefs i don’t think there is any plausible explanation other than door #2
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
God forbid you slow down the livery vehicles that crowd downtown to pick up one party at a time instead of allowing the double-length buses to go faster through the one corridor THEY ALL TRAVEL THROUGH
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Smol Boy Trump apparently has to be allowed to keep deporting people to places they've never been where they could be tortured or killed, according to John Roberts.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
theyre just all so fucking stupid and lazy
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
tell me you flunked geometry without telling me you flunked geometry
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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You see how this looks, right?
Alt: You see how this looks, right?
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Tracy Greer @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seems like a lot of folks are hearing the national anthem performed by mariachis for the first time! • It is Hispanic Heritage Month • Chicago has a very large Mexican population • Yes, it’s really cool • Where I’m from, large high schools often have a mariachi group as a subgroup to marching band
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am advising you to keep saying this in public
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mikerevolution.bsky.social @mikerevolution.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
me to the Chicago Bears anthem booker
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Jeff Zimmerman @jeffwzimmerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I like cold water as much as anyone, but that's so much fridge real estate that could be used for so many useful things
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/09/2026
The big thing on the horizon
Ja'mal green campaign bus stuck in the mud
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that this was *previously used as a campaign ad during the presidential campaign* removes any real defense as to its purpose. Its not a public service announcement. Its a campaign ad that has become state propaganda.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
“To the extent that the court has put the brakes on the president’s assertions of executive power, it is arguably cleaning up its own mess,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
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Opinion | Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King?
The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I saw a pig in Ravenswood. His name is Snoopy.
A large black pig in the front yard of a house
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 26/09/2026
In case you missed it: I sat down with Rev. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor running for U.S. Senate in Kansas — as a Democrat. He’s been an outlier throughout his career, and he’s running a campaign that could end up making Kansas — no joke — closer than Texas. religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...
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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas
LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some really good reporting in this very bleak story www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>
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Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.
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