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For what, being CORRECT all the time? jfc

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(CW for graphic discussion of execution) This was a good, though obviously upsetting, read. Especially this part by Corinna Barrett Lain, about why states fight to keep using lethal injection despite multiple high profile failures slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why are they sticking with this? My conclusion is lethal injection just does one thing well, only one. It hides the violence of state killing. With lethal injection, you don't have the blood of the firing squad. You don't have the sickly smell of burning flesh like you do with the electric chair, or people gasping with the gas mask, or with the gas chamber. With lethal injection, we get to tell ourselves that these people are just falling into a forever sleep.
I was thinking of this saying that | had read, "The heart stops reluctantly." And I was like, Oh, right, the heart stops reluctantly. Before a person is ready to die on their own, it takes physical force to stop the heart from beating. It takes violence to stop the heart from beating. And it could be a car accident or a homicide or an execution, but it takes violence. And what's special about lethal injection is it hides the violence.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 1h

Oh this is VERY good.

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. n.pr/4zo45Cp

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Actress Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar for 'On the Waterfront,' dies at 102

Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 3h

It is really so wild to see folks whose whole experience of conflict is getting powerful institutions to resolve friction for them.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 3h

Not that you were saying otherwise, and I think that capital punishment flat-out shouldn't be an option anyway. Sorry, my brain is just mushy right now, end of another long day.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 3h

What the victim's family wants always strikes me as completely irrelevant--it's often used as a reason *for* capital punishment and then ignored when the family is against it. I don't think it's wrong for Slemmer's mother to want it, and I feel awful for her, but I don't think what she wants matters

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 5h

The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade

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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 14h

What can I do to make sure my vote is counted?! Plenty! From checking (and rechecking) your registration, to signing up to be a poll monitor or to cure ballots, there is so much we can do. Print out an "Election 101" zine for yourself and a few friends! cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/fil...

Black and white illustrated zine cover that looks like a composition notebook with stickers on it. Title is "Election Protection 101."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Alas, I was scared by Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and also Move Over, Darling, a Doris Day-starring screwball comedy in which Day goes through a car wash with a convertible with the top down, which freaked me out so much as a child that to this day I am scared of car washes.

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N.S. Dolkart is gathering signatures @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please share this one! I reviewed all 9 Massachusetts ballot questions, and gave explanations and a recommendation for each. It’s under 20 minutes long, less time than it takes to even read the voter information packet. #mapoli youtu.be/cJdvMnLpMpE?...

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Stoughton Politics With This Guy: Ballot Questions Review

YouTube video by Stoughton Media Access Corporation

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Ginnette Powell Bluesky is not a dating app @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ICE protest posters in Copley square at a church.

Ice protests and memorials on a church gate.

A.sign on a church gate protesting ICE. It says Stop ICE
Don't arrest facilitate citizenship.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 02/10/2026

Don't let copaganda fool you — police violence is not tied to their safety. In 2025, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported.

Screenshot of chart showing how police killings in 2025 began. 680 were suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported. 112 were traffic violations. 84 were unknown.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 03/10/2026

“Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.” Many such cases!!!!!

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Combination of AI summary + lack of basic reasoning from customers, and you get an Amazon AI review summary saying some people say the NON-ELECTRONIC lightsaber toy doesn't like up.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I also thought we were talking about the horse!

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I like my gym a lot and it's specifically a body positive LGBTQ space

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have fun at Oktoberfest! My gym is there and you can win a 14-day free trial.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oooof condolences!! Wishing you a speedy recovery. It's definitely a Bad Time.

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My baby cousin is a freshman at a business school and he recently described the frats there as "the lacrosse to private equity pipeline" (derogatory)

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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Two completely different issues that by no means are contradictory. Prisons are institutional. Public shaming is social. We do not get to control people feelings. And reform by no means should require putting someone back to the position they held before. Especially as a media figure.

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Jane B. Kulow @cvlkulow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“It wasn’t until April 1975 that women had a word for talking about what their male bosses were doing to them.”

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t stop laughing

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"People who suddenly pour big money into something like that aren’t just trying to “raise awareness” — whatever that really means. They are trying to influence public policy. And the public has a right to know who they are, and what they really want." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/03/m...

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‘Dark Money’ comes for the Boston Public Schools - The Boston Globe

The education advocacy group claims its mission is to bring awareness to what it says is the sorry plight of the city’s public schools.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To be fair, I was like ... 23, and the pain-related aspects of the anesthesia were in full force. I had to do an unsedated one years later and it was one of the worst medical experiences I've ever had.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

omg this is like when I woke up during a colonoscopy and was excitedly asking about it

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Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Better day (mostly just a calmer day) except that my students are being discriminated against and I can't get anyone to tell me how to handle it.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I say this now, mostly to myself, because I had such a profoundly bad day at work, and a lot of what was bad about it is systemic and unlikely to improve. It's very unlikely that September 2027 will see me at the same school, if I'm even feeling well enough to work.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A special education teacher also told an administrator that the students in my class (that she sometimes is present in, working with a group of students) love me. It was so nice to hear.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two things happened at work today that were really meaningful to me. A student who is majorly struggling was able to lock in, and at one point called me over during his quiz to tell me he was REALLY understanding the concepts, and he was so excited.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

good example of the "legally present" vs. "lawful status" distinction. she's allowed to be here but is also deportable whenever ICE finds a country who will take her. US immigration law is fundamentally cruel

Traore is in the United States legally on a 2011 “withholding of removal” order, which grants recipients legal protection from deportation to a country where they face harm or torture. She has no criminal history.

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Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik @hatethathedgehog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you arent a burden. you are a human being with wants and needs. having desires does not make you selfish. unless you are sonic, in which case you are not human and everything you do sickens me.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What's wild to me is that if you're religious and in favor of the death penalty, I feel like you should take this as a clear sign that a higher power does not want this woman to be executed.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The argument that cinched opposition to the death penalty to me was "Should the state pay anyone to be an executioner?" I think the existence of that as a job is socially and morally corrosive.

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a wrong that can't be made right. We are now seeing or hearing of its horrors. Usually we shield ourselves from them. Tonight, I pray for Christa Pike that she be spared any further violence inflicted in our name

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North Shore Progressives @nsprogressives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A good way to remember how to vote on this year’s ballot questions: 3 + 5 =8 Vote NO on questions 3, 5, & 8 Vote YES on all other questions. I am fully in agreement with @progressivemass.bsky.social & am very disappointed that @lwvma.bsky.social is agnostic on Questions 3 & 8.

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Bob Geraghty @vulgeraghty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every bit of this hits home. If there is no financial crisis then why the proactive cuts that will certainly produce a crisis?

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And I have to be at work at 6:45 tomorrow in order to be able to get everything done that I need to before 8am. Fuck me.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Couldn't sleep so went to work early. Worked from 7am-3pm, dashed to pick up 8yo and take him to Hebrew school, spend those 2 hours working, drove him home, changed, drove to the gym, came home, showered, argued with 6yo about going to bed. I am only just now making dinner.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 30/09/2026

Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.

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