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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3h
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I’ve been sayin it. I’ve been sayin it for 10 damn years! Ain’t I been sayin it?”
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Charles Goldman @goldmctnfl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Per the NFL: Chiefs RB Kenneth Walker, who has at least 175 scrimmage yards in three games this season, joined Detroit Lions RB Billy Sims (1980) as the only players in NFL history with at least 175 scrimmage yards in three of his first four games with a franchise.
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Charles Goldman @goldmctnfl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chiefs HC Andy Reid addressed the wide receiver injury situation after the Week 4 win over the Raiders, with updates on Tyquan Thornton and Rashee Rice. Where does Kansas City stand at the position heading into the Week 5 bye? 🤕
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Charles Goldman @goldmctnfl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Raiders got KC into base personnel on three of four plays so far. - 10-yard gain - 9-yard gain - 27-yard TD No answers for the Chiefs.
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is Trump's $5000 vote-buying scheme illegal? Let's have a look at the text of the law prohibiting "expenditures to influence voting." Join us live on Substack at 8:30 pm ET. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: Is Trump's $5000 vote-buying scheme illegal? Let's have a look at the text of the law prohibiting "expenditures to influence voting."
Starting Oct 3 at 8:30 PM EDT
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💙 R Gale 💙 @rayleengale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The plans have drawn condemnation from some residents of central Louisiana, and immigrant advocates and child welfare experts have expressed concerns about possible trauma inflicted on detained children..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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New Facility at Louisiana Airport to Hold Immigrant Children and Families (Gift Article)
The site in Alexandria, La., a major expansion of the Trump administration’s busiest deportation hub, will streamline and accelerate removals.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The wealth of the richest 0.1 percent of Americans has more than doubled since 2019. If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, renowned economist Gabriel Zucman will. Watch.
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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 MASSIVE HUGE MAJOR BREAKING: Trump to give $90 to senior citizens for Medicare premiums Can someone explain WTF seniors are supposed to do with 90 bucks when premiums are gonna hit all-time highs January 1st????? www.cnn.com/2026/10/03/politics/med…
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Trump to give $90 to senior citizens for Medicare premiums | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said late Friday he will give around 20 million senior citizens $90 each to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, marking his latest effort to dole out funds to certain Americans weeks before the midterm elections.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝟗 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 🚨 What the fk are we doing? How can we sit by and let this happen? It's up to US to push back on this, because silence is complicity! We have a month before the election, so volunteer & recruit friends! #ICELawlessness
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Witch of November 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇨🇺🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱 🇪🇺🌍🐕‍🦺🐾🍉🐈 @scotiasheppard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am very much against capital & corporal punishment. This botched attempt and the recent account of Douglas Carter being freed after 37 years on death row prove it is just plain wrong.
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Tennessee governor halts executions after Christa Gail Pike survives lethal injection attempt
Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.
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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is so fucking gruesome. Look, she was a horrible person and what she did was evil but how we treat the worst of the worst says more about us than it does criminals and as it stands, we enjoy torturing criminals UNLESS they're rapists. Then we make them president.
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𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So if they give you two doses of lethal injection and you're still alive, they take you to the hospital to stabilize you so they can just kill you again? Or is there a loophole for botched attempts because this is inhumane.
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Supreme Court clears way for Christa Pike's execution after last-minute stay
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an order the morning of Sept. 30 staying Pike's execution 'until further order of this court.' The U.S. Supreme Court vacated it later in the day.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The sheer existence of the phrase "officials suspended the execution and had her taken to a hospital" is grotesque www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Warning - deeply disturbing. What a state the US is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is horrific. Horrific for its barbarism, but also utterly unsurprising that a political party that can't win wars, can't control gas prices, can't bring down grocery prices and can't stop basic preventable diseases also can't kill prisoners correctly.
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Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike still alive after failed state execution attempt, lawyers say | CNN
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failur...
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last night six justices allowed Tennessee to barrel ahead with this monstrously botched execution www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the many horrific aspects of the death penalty is that states are not good at carrying out executions. Every time I post about this, someone responds by saying that it should be simple. But it’s not, and proponents of the death penalty need to own that.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026
Press release I woke up to, on Christa Pike’s condition (sent 9/30 at 11:36pm ET)
Statement from Christa Pike’s attorney Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee

Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy. 

Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The White House has removed CNN — again — from the press pool that's set to cover Trump today.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.
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♡ Scary Kate. 🇵🇸 @katespeace.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
I saw a good number of people wanting bloodlust in their posts despite others explaining how barbaric the death penalty is. Congrats, look at how fucking cruel and horrific the end result turned out. Abolish the death penalty. I don't give a damn about your appetite for death under the state.
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ande91.bsky.social @ande91.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FUCK SCOTUS The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Christa Pike by denying a last-minute stay.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This has to be the worst thing I think any journalist should be required to witness. What a damn horror show. My god this thread.
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día de les muertos @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is inhumane. When I worked at the ACLU, our legal and policy teams were working hard to end executions via lethal injection because the government was not being transparent about the contractors supplying them with these drugs, their origins and makeup. The lawyers warned this would happen.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 01/10/2026
The thing about the death penalty has always been that it relies on an infallibility — after all, there's no reversing the punishment once administered — that no state in human civilization has ever achieved. But now there's another, rhyming problem: the state can't even properly administer it.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely insane, & I'm saying this as someone who has zero sympathy for Pike. They're not even giving *reasons* for blowing up a lower court's one & only chance to decide an important justiciable question because they want to execute ppl as fast as humanly possible. Legit courts aren't like this!
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This isn't morally defensible as anything other than cruel and unusual punishment.
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CNN @cnn.com · 01/10/2026
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death for a 1995 murder Wednesday, media witnesses said. Her lawyers filed an emergency motion to the US Supreme Court seeking to immediately halt and stay the execution, saying she was in "unnecessary agony." cnn.it/46QotQn
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Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say | CNN
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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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026
Here's a list of 64 previous botched executions in the United States. Christa Pike will make 65.
deathpenaltyinfo.org
Botched Executions | Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital punishment is barbaric regardless of its form, but it is interesting that the more clinical its presentation, and the further our remove, the greater and more prolonged the suffering. It is still premeditated murder committed by the state even if it’s dressed up as a medical procedure.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier Wednesday.”
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is horrifying and in the name of the law nonetheless.
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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm appalled by the death penalty in general but lethal injection esp. makes me see red in how it's presented as a "humane" option that actually just quietly tortures people to death without making a mess. it's entirely about helping those complicit feel less guilty. and then shit like this happens.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here’s Pike’s 2024 constitutional rights complaint challenging Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol: “it fails to provide a contingency plan with emergency medical services on-site in the event of a botch“
Tennessee's new lethal injection protocol, calling for a single drug
(pentobarbital), is plagued with the same issues that have marked botched executions for decades: secrecy, intentional omission, inattention to detail, and untrained and unlicensed prison personnel attempting to fill a medical role. As the State of Tennessee seeks to execute its first woman in 250 years, and the only woman on Tennessee's death row—Christa Gail Piko—those problems have come to a head.
The new protocol, as applied to the Plaintiff and her unique medical conditions, is unconstitutional under the United States Constitution and the TennesseeConstitution. Tennessee's execution protocol further violates the Eighth Amendment because it fails to provide a contingency plan with emergency medical services on-site in the event of a botch. This violation applies to clectrocution as well as lethal injection.
Because of these failures the new protocol and is sure or very likely to result in unnecessary and superadded pain and suffering, terror, and disgrace as applied to the Plaintiff.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How much more absurd could lethal injection protocols be than “at this juncture we aren’t sure whether we should kill the subject or get life-saving medical treatment for the subject”?
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is preposterous as it is monstrous Pike survived the execution procedure and now her lawyers, unable to reach the governor or state AG office, are rushing an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court in their *car* seeking an order to get her medical care
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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rep. Behn is calling on Governor Lee to issue an immediate reprieve for Gary Sutton and every scheduled execution following tonight’s botched execution of Christa Pike. aftynbehnfortnpress.substack.com/p/rep-behn-c...
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 30/09/2026
this court loves killing democracy and people
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another botched state sanctioned murder.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The appellate court system had stayed this execution today to allow for additional proceedings. John Roberts’s Supreme Court stepped in and said, “nah, kill her tonight.” This is the result.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.
Before learning Monday that Lee would not be intervening in her case, Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News, shared by her spiritual adviser:
"Whether my clemency is granted or not, l am at peace."
"I am not afraid to die," wrote Pike, who has been on death row for more than three decades. "I'm only nervous about the process."
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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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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS *grants* Tennessee's request to vacate the stay of execution the Sixth Circuit had entered in the case of Christa Pike, clearing the way for her execution: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is horrifying.
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Sunsette / Cynthia Skye @sunderedmarches.com · 01/10/2026
There is absolutely nothing but cruelty accomplished with this execution reminder that capital punishment was slowly being phased out until the right wing had oppositional defiance disorder about SCOTUS trying to make it official
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