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Sadie Reeder

@sadiereeder.bsky.social
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American. Retired PT. Extremely proud mother of rational and highly educated sons who have sired perfect grandchildren. Without me, they might have ended up being those stupid Trump voters we all judge. #GoCards

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy fuck. SCOTUS overturned the circuit court ruling, sending Christa Pike to her death, and then the state of Tennessee botched the execution and she’s still alive. There are no fucking words.
lawdork.com
After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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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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The Gazette @thegazette.com · 01/10/2026
Hundreds rally for Iowa City mother detained by ICE: ‘I want my sister back now’
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Hundreds rally for Iowa City mother detained by ICE: ‘I want my sister back now’
Fatou Traore, 43, was detained by ICE on her way to work at the University of Iowa on Sept. 24. From the Ivory Coast, Traore has been told she’s being deported to Sierra Leone — a place she’s never been — leaving behind a husband and four sons.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is, like all people whose racism is simultaneously casual and bone-deep, racist in ways normal people don’t even know about. Brain like a slot machine for racism. Hispanics can fall real far. Black people have an extra tendon. Indians can see in the dark. Japanese people hoard matchbooks.
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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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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Final appeals
In June 2026, after the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers, Pike challenged the execution protocol, alleging that the state could not guarantee a constitutionally compliant execution. She argued that her thrombocytosis would complicate IV placement and increase her risk of suffering, and that an all-male execution team would force her to relive past sexual assault trauma. 45]
In August 2026, a special master for the Tennessee Supreme Court declined to
intervene, stating that Pike's legal team had not convinced him of the alleged risks related to her PTSD and blood-clotting disorder. Her attorneys argued that these conditions could
complicate the execution and cause pain and suffering, violating her constitutional rights. 46]
Pike also asked to be executed by hanging, believing a botched hanging would be less painful than a botched lethal injection. The state denied the request because hanging is not an approved execution method in Tennessee and the death chamber is not equipped for it. 47]
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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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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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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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
what are we doing here? just a profound tragedy in the service of cruelty
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
techcrunch.com
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 29/09/2026
ICE is deporting parents without their children. The Atlantic follows a 2-year-old in Mobile, Alabama, left behind when his parents were sent to Venezuela. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 29/09/2026
Brookings estimated in May that about 205,000 children, 145,000 of them U.S. citizens, had likely had a parent detained since January 2025, and more than 22,000 citizen children had every parent in the home detained.
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A Christian Resistance @xianresistance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Listen to the groans of the prisoners, & by your great power free those who are condemned to die." ~ Psalm 79:11 #ChristaPike #GovernorBillLee #AbolishTheDeathPenalty
From Amnesty International:

Color Photo of Christa Pike.

Christa Pike faces execution in Tennessee tomorrow. There is still time for Bill Lee, governor of Tenessee, to reverse his decision & halt her execution. Amnesty opposes the death penalty unconditionally.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.
A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you have to understand that all ICE does is lie literally 100% of the time
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh fun 😬
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/09/2026
Raw milk 🧀 recall - Sierra Nevada Cheese Co. Graziers cheese has been linked to 13 E. coli cases in 9 states so far. While raw milk cheese is legal for sale if aged for 60+ days to reduce pathogen survival, the risk of illness is not zero, especially among immunocompromised people.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Truth 👇
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Taryn @thayden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
think that every survivor of SA should write an essay about the impact it had on their lives and send it to Cornell. This is bullshit. These guys need to be punished. Shame on them and Cornell.
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are more rapists walking free at Cornell than there are transgender college students competing in sports. Guess which ones American oligarchs want you to focus on so their Republican buddies get reelected?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jon Husted just voted to continue the Iran war for the 14th time. While Ohioans are paying record high costs at the gas pump and the grocery store, Jon Husted is voting for more war – and costing you more money – every chance he gets.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don't worry. We will remember.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Can you give my dad back? I miss him.” 💔 ICE kidnapped her father Luis at a DOT inspection. Her mother says he is legal and did everything the right way. #AbolishICE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👇🏽 #AbolishICE
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.
propublica.org
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is what masked federal thugs are doing on the streets of America. This is the evil that America is doing in the name of Donald Trump. This must not be what America is, and we must make it crystal clear in November that this is not what America is.👇
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
nbcnews.com
Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FBI: While it may be detrimental to agency morale the threat facing immigration enforcement is of such a serious nature we must inform you that, yes, you are all unfuckable losers.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
NEW: @amnesty.org says Ahmed Soliman & another man, Samson Birhane, had bags put on their heads, were beaten when arrested in Equatorial Guinea. They demand their immediate release. Both lived in the US since they were kids, ICE expelled them unlawfully. TAKE ACTION: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
amnesty.org
Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane - Amnesty International
On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily h...
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Two ICE deportations to Venezuela in a day. Had been 1 per week so will be curious if pace is now 2 per week going forward.
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/09/2026
If he moves to demolish the Kennedy Center, we surround it and don’t leave.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
8 months ago.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/09/2026
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 16/09/2026
MAGA Republicans are delivering corruption at an unprecedented scale.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Two teenage U.S. citizens were beaten and detained by ICE agents on their way to a recruiting station to enlist in the Marines.
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 15/09/2026
Felicia "Opi" Freeney, a formerly incarcerated youth who fought to shutter San Francisco's juvenile hall, has died. She was only 22 years old. missionlocal.org/2026/09/feli...
missionlocal.org
Felicia ‘Opi’ Freeney, daughter of Bayview and juvenile justice advocate, dies at 22
Freeney shared her own experiences as an incarcerated young person in the fight to shutter juvenile hall
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 15/09/2026
BREAKING NATO fighter jets have shot down a drone over Lithuania, says the country's President Gitanas Nauseda
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 15/09/2026
Damn. We really are through the looking glass.
Karl Rove, former adviser to President George W. Bush and longtime Texas GOP political consultant, said he will vote for Jon Rosenthal, a Houston Democrat running to serve the Texas Railroad Commission, after Republican Bo French posted racist comments on Sunday about South Asian students at the University of Texas at Austin.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🧊🛩️ HEADS UP SAN DIEGO‼️ ⚠️ 2nd ICE flight inbound to SDIA Air Wisconsin ERJ-200 Tail: N468AW – ETA 9:45am 👀
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Police have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the Black woman found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi
cnn.com
Mississippi police make arrest in Tasia Fortune case after medical examiner rules death a homicide | CNN
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medic...
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Memo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
10 year old remains in ICE custody as mother escapes in Los Angeles on their way to being deported. 9/11/2026 6:45 - 7:00 pm
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧊✈️ NICARAGUA⛓️🌎 😲 A GlobalX jet (tail: N570TA) departs Louisiana, trafficking chained humans to Managua 🇳🇮
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🧊✈️ HEADS UP DUVAL‼️ ⚠️ Trafficking flight to Honduras 🇭🇳 GlobalX jet inbound to JAX Airbus 321 – Tail: N570TA ETA – 11:05am 👀
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