Reposted by Alex G. Howardmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5hThe reality is that there is no non-violent way to non-consensually end a healthy human being's life. The effort spent to fool death penalty advocates into thinking they are participating in something clean and surgical makes an already barbaric spectacle disgustingly hypocritical as well. 325737
Reposted by Alex G. HowardAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h🇷🇺 Kremlin critic and chess legend Garry Kasparov said Thursday that US and Lithuanian security services had told him and his ally that their lives were in danger and urged them to take security precautions. ➡️ u.afp.com/S92K 1155
Reposted by Alex G. HowardSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1hIt’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed? 1021650
Reposted by Alex G. HowardJon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 6hNow is the moment for us to reach down and pick up the power we have as citizens and rebuke these abuses so decisively that no president will try anything like this again for centuries. 17846216
Reposted by Alex G. HowardLee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 5hChamber of commerce got their money’s worth with that slogan. 1211
Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 5hThis article's hed and subhed have been gone through four different versions tonight 000
Reposted by Alex G. HowardZach Everson @zacheverson.com · 5hBreaking: "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.comCourt stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: UpdatesChrista 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. 23400147
Reposted by Alex G. HowardLewie Pollis @lewispoll.is · 7hWhat an absolutely bananas combination of speakers 382
Reposted by Alex G. HowardJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 8hThe 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... 903452906
Reposted by Alex G. HowardSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 7hi think about this sometimes www.vice.com/en/article/p...vice.comPalmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the GameThe man who created the Oculus Rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game. 3131860
Reposted by Alex G. HowardKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8hI read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill. 401944490
Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 8hThere is no way for the state to put a person to death ethically in the best case scenario, and this is certainly not the best case scenario. Fuck the Roberts Court. 180
Reposted by Alex G. Howardashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 8hmy stomach just dropped 810413
Reposted by Alex G. HowardBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8hThen you’re too young to be on Bluesky Point Break, all of us watched Futurama Season 1 as it first aired 2953336
Reposted by Alex G. HowardKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8hHoly crap. Can’t make this stuff up 2648868
Reposted by Alex G. HowardSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 9hi do genuinely worry that the 2028 Dem nominee, whether prog or centrist, is going to end up fucking up DoD appointments again and we end up with the worst parts of Truman Project/CNAS 51327
Reposted by Alex G. HowardIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14074141778
Reposted by Alex G. HowardChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h“Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.” 1223265
Reposted by Alex G. HowardAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11hLet’s remind Hegseth of Casimir Pulaski’s example, in the spirit of 1776 that the Secretary touts. General Pulaski— the father of the American Calvary and hero of Savannah— was an intersex or trans Polish horseman who came to this country, saved George Washington’s life, and died for our Revolution. 1716646
Reposted by Alex G. HowardWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12hremember: 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. 373404801
Reposted by Alex G. HowardGore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 14h"Operation Blood Meridian will be led by Judge Holden, one of our finest legal minds, who will mold our youth into true warriors" 2565
Reposted by Alex G. HowardMy Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 14hLots of folks responding with pics of US Grant but the thing you have to remember is that Hegseth believes the Union forces were enemy invaders against the smol bean US South that was simply trying to “preserve its institutions” 38215
Reposted by Alex G. HowardGlobe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 14hThe people affected by the health insurance restrictions include refugees, asylum holders, and some groups of parolees and victims of human trafficking who do not yet hold green cards but may be eligible. Many fled war zones.trib.alThese New England immigrants arrived legally. Now, thousands will lose Medicaid benefits. - The Boston GlobeRoughly 15,000 documented immigrants in New England will lose full Medicaid coverage 042
Reposted by Alex G. HowardGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15hWe 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?! 2664082856
Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 15hThe only thing I wish about Darktide was that there was some Tyranid or Genestealer Cult content/DLC 200
Reposted by Alex G. HowardSteam Hype @steamhype.com · 29/09/2026Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Gets Down with the Sickness in a Free New Campaign steamhype.comWarhammer 40,000: Darktide Gets Down with the Sickness in a Free New CampaignA free three-mission expansion with a sack of new weapons 1193
Reposted by Alex G. HowardStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 15h"Juan Linz...Looking Vindicated: Some Musings on American Democracy" 2131
Reposted by Alex G. HowardAlex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 15hThis appears to be the reason for the Fetterman emails through Parler. 57527
Reposted by Alex G. HowardTremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 16hThis is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline. 9872270
Reposted by Alex G. HowardCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18hThere is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 10564481857
Reposted by Alex G. HowardThem Dawgs Is Hell Don’t They? @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 16hNo offense meant to the lawyertariat on here, but I think this also illustrates the value of having non-lawyers in Congress/politics 0417
Reposted by Alex G. HowardNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16hIncredible chutzpah from a Congress whose one major legislative act was a budget bill that among other things imposed significant new administrative burdens on Medicaid recipients 4419110
Reposted by Alex G. Howardthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 30/09/2026if you want to know what 'Zohran filling potholes' looks like at the federal executive level it's this. little but noticeable steps towards accountability. it doesn't make the structural crises go away, but it makes them a hell of a lot less noticeable and buys you good will. 331356
Reposted by Alex G. HowardRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 148157535251
Reposted by Alex G. HowardMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 43566671821
Reposted by Alex G. HowardKyle Orland @kyleor.land · 18h[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you've never played World of Warcraft? [JACK SMITH]: Correct [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you farming gold in Eversong Woods! [SMITH]: That is Elden Ring, sir. 353783
Reposted by Alex G. HowardCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17hThings I wish my Mayor could say: I sat down with Nas 725513
Reposted by Alex G. HowardLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18hLot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p... 781505266
Reposted by Alex G. HowardJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 106101602485
Reposted by Alex G. HowardIf Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 18hThis month's bonus episode is about how climate change is fake but the hosts' body horror is real.patreon.comConspiracies of Yore: Climategate | If Books Could KillMichael and Peter discuss Climategate, the scandal that rocked the climate science world. With scientists on one side, and paid lackeys for 111797
Reposted by Alex G. HowardMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18hI'm sure it wasn't the first time it happened, but this was the first time I noticed the pattern where conspiracy theorists declare complete vindication on the basis of LEAKED SECRET DOCUMENTS that even more strongly prove that they are wrong. 1463564
Reposted by Alex G. HowardJames Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 19h"In 2026, the people yearn for Bill Clinton." — Gavin Newsom, apparently. (www.vanityfair.com/story/gavin-...) 7274
Reposted by Alex G. HowardDecision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 19hDDHQ POLLING UPDATE: North Carolina Senate 🟦 Roy Cooper: 49.6% 🟥 Michael Whatley: 40.5% No Republican has lost a Senate race in North Carolina since 2008. This race is seen as a must-win for Democrats. The DDHQ Forecast rates #NCSen as Likely Democratic. 15818