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Joe Rojas-Burke

@rojasburke.bsky.social
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I'm a #ScienceWriter based in Arizona (most of the time) and in Brooklyn. Sharing stuff about science, journalism, politics, beloved plants and animals, #RockClimbing, #Bicycling, #Gardening...

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24m
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where 
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as 
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
 The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc. 
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
 Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting 
the Petition.Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that 
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable 
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately 
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily 
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when 
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE 
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make 
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court 
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of 
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches 
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to 
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the 
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he 
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 12h
France’s ongoing drought has once again pushed soil moisture further below historical levels than any previously recorded drought. Uncharted territory.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23h
Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23h
I wrote a thread earlier today (before even reading this story, actually) about how commonly the “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story are actually procedural distortions made by people in positions of power who are invested in disbelieving her:
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 19h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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AAAS Mass Media Fellowship @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are you ready to try something new and work in #SciComm? Apply now to be a part of the 2027 cohort of @aaas.org #MassMediaFellows! Spend the summer using your STEMM background as a journalist writing the news. English and Spanish language placements available. bit.ly/3KugH6D
The 2027 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship Application opens on October 1 and closes January 4, 2027.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23h
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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Yana Kunichoff @yanak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data collected by Humane Borders using Pima County Medical Examiner numbers counted the remains of 86 people found in the desert and presumed to be people attempting to migrate as of August this year. azluminaria.org/2026/10/01/f...
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Federal government denies permit for 12 public land water stations run by Humane Borders - AZ Luminaria
The federal government has denied permits for 12 water stations run on public lands by local migrant aid group Humane Borders, removing 30% of the group’s water stations they say are crucial to saving...
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lethal injections often fail to bring quick, painless death while the person gasps and grimaces with eyes open. In one case, autopsy revealed chemical burns where IV lines missed the veins and slowly infused the drugs under the skin.
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you haven't read Gene Wolfe (you haven't read Gene Wolfe!?) this is a fine chance to dive in US$23.20 for 38 novels/short story collections (DRM-free ePUB)
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Xavier Becerra put the Steve Hilton contradiction right on the debate stage: enforce Trump’s federal immigration laws, but ignore California’s own protections? Then he dropped the hammer: “You seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me.”
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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.
tennessean.com
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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How do Cornell students tolerat this, and how do parents send their kids there? Ban frats everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The high-speed rail authority can't force PG&E to move it's stuff out of the way of the people's rail project.... But the governor and state lawmakers do have that power. They can pass laws and regulations that make PG&E play nice. The lack of movement is on the politicians, not the engineers
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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Marisa 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."
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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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Brooklyn Rousseau's Lonely Heart @glamgothcollective.mu.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
AND
ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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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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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month to those who celebrate.
Graffiti illustrations of Homer Simpson and a Simpson’s style man with an accordion. Homer is wearing a red devil costume, with red flames in the background and maracas in his hands. The other figure is singing, has a mustache and a sombrero. The accordion is colored with the colors of the Mexican flag.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’d like a signed copy of the final Sandman Slim novel, IN THE DEVIL WIND, you can order it from the link below. And if you’d like signed copies of my other books, scroll down the page or email samantha@riverstonebooks.com shop.riverstonebookstore.com/book/9780063...
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The presence of a group text is both gobsmacking and banal. It conveys that whatever was happening in that room—however drunk or drugged everyone was in that room—several people still thought to document the evening in real time. To make it a bonding experience. To make it a party." wapo.st/4AFQ305
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Column | The three most chilling words in the Cornell rape case texts
Were these young men discussing a 7-Eleven or a young woman? It's both gobsmacking and banal.
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Word of the day: himpathy (noun) - the reflexive hand-wringing over the loss of a male perpetrator’s bright future instead of a female rape victim’s welfare. Coined by Kate Mann, author of this essential essay: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mullin is lying. These were not identified as "high-risk" nations, and it was not "tougher vetting" that cut entries. The absolute number of denials is LOWER now than under Biden. They just aren't even processing applications, and you owe every American sponsor an answer.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some brilliant words from Graie Hagans on Sukkot & community organizing. "The practice of gathering under the fragile, 3-walled sukkah reminds us that true safety doesn't come from rigid, heavy structures, but from collective care, community, and standing together in moments of uncertainty." Read:
lifeisasacredtext.com
I Am Because Everyone Is
Sukkot, Radical Hospitality and Organizing; a Guest Post by Graie Hagans
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
youtu.be
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
Musk
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
The algorithms of social media have so rewired the brains of millions of people that they hate their neighbors on sight. Begging everyone to read “A Paradise Built in Hell” and remember who we are!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 26/09/2026
How do you know this doc has Elon rattled? Because all of the other oligarchs are trying to protect his ego. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
*You should read this thread, because it's great when he starts describing the actual titles that he probably deserves to have *Probably we should all have Claude read everyone's CV and generate individual "titles" for every individual person on Earth *Maybe with a machine-readable QR code
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another #KavanaughStop
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
malpractice story packaging in that the more pertinent details are: this guy is a bodybuilder promoter who killed his own son with a $100K divorce on wheels but is crowdfunding his funeral on a page that just says he was “accidentally struck by a moving vehicle” and they’re close to half that amount
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Young boy killed after father backs Cybertruck into him, police say
A California man accidentally hit and killed his 6-year-old son while backing out of the family’s driveway near Temecula in a Tesla Cybertruck, according to police reports.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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