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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 5h

This is heroism. This is resistance.

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The 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.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4h

🇷🇺 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

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

It’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?

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 10h

Now 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.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 8h

Chamber of commerce got their money’s worth with that slogan.

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 8h

This article's hed and subhed have been gone through four different versions tonight

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 8h

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.

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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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Lewie Pollis @lewispoll.is · 10h

What an absolutely bananas combination of speakers

Social media flier advertising the Brown Political Union speaker series, with pictures of the featured guests: Francesca Hong, David Morales, and Curtis Sliwa

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 11h

"Baby, no, seriously. Seriously. SERIOUSLY. I will die without you"

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 11h

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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11h

I 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.

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 11h

There 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.

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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 11h

my stomach just dropped

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

Then you’re too young to be on Bluesky Point Break, all of us watched Futurama Season 1 as it first aired

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

this guy is truly pathetic

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12h

Holy crap. Can’t make this stuff up

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

i 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

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 13h

Doc Cochran is a close second. The two most tightly wound characters are Bullock and Cochran, neither of them can stomach injustice, both of them turn into yelling balls of rage, but Cochran turns it into pathos where Bullock turns to violence

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

“Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.”

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14h

Let’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.

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 15h

There's also just a strong prescriptivist streak in genre fiction forums online, which I don't think you get in the academy which is allergic to boxes that might be designed to satisfy commercial or audience pressure

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 15h

I will say, you find some absolutely crazy, to the literal word count, plot formulas for romance writing online, but that kind of prescriptive formula isn't unique: Lester Dent had the same thing for Doc Savage stories

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16h

remember: 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.

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 17h

"Operation Blood Meridian will be led by Judge Holden, one of our finest legal minds, who will mold our youth into true warriors"

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 17h

Lots 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”

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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 17h

The 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.

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These New England immigrants arrived legally. Now, thousands will lose Medicaid benefits. - The Boston Globe

Roughly 15,000 documented immigrants in New England will lose full Medicaid coverage

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18h

We 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?!

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 18h

The Space M1 Garand tech class introduced in the last paid dlc was a real itch scratcher for me, and something Tyranid related would scratch the last remaining bit.

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 18h

The only thing I wish about Darktide was that there was some Tyranid or Genestealer Cult content/DLC

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 18h

"Juan Linz...Looking Vindicated: Some Musings on American Democracy"

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 18h

This appears to be the reason for the Fetterman emails through Parler.

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 18h

I read it for the stories, I swear

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile, on SNAP

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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 20h

This 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.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 21h

There 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...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Them Dawgs Is Hell Don’t They? @shorterexcerpts.bsky.social · 19h

No offense meant to the lawyertariat on here, but I think this also illustrates the value of having non-lawyers in Congress/politics

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19h

Incredible 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

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if 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.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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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

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 19h

I would wager he caused it by beating Smiley.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 21h

[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.

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 20h

I will say, some part of me was certain this was going to be about Michael Crichton's 2004 novel/polemic "State of Fear"

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