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SlimHickman

@slimhickman.bsky.social
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/10/2026
Billionaire political spending was about $16 million in 2008. In 2026, it could reach $2–3 billion. Whatever your politics, that’s a staggering shift in who has the financial power to shape American elections.
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SlimHickman @slimhickman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
just saw the trump ad on ABC - shameful. I'm going to donate and vote for the people that come hard after all this unlawfulness and want to actually claw our tax dollars back.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In light of the news of Tennessee’s botched execution tonight, revisiting my colleague @laurengill.bsky.social’s piece on witnessing Alabama attempt to experiment with execution methods to kill a man. boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
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“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions - Bolts
Alabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments.
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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.
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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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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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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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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon doesn’t need a theology department. Service members need their religious freedom protected, including the freedom to practice a minority faith or no religion at all. Hegseth’s job is to defend the Constitution, not use the military to advance his own Christianity.
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Greg Fingas @gregfingas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Executions, extralegal renditions, destruction of public safety services and regulations - however the regime wants to kill people, they’re happy to oblige.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This should not be close, Wisconsin. We all hate what trump has done to us. Tom Tiffany might not seem like a wild trumper, but he's just as deranged and dangerous. Help make sure we elect Crowley! Vote early. Make a plan. Volunteer. Donate. #WIgov #WIvote
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Annie D. @delsannio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Abolish the death penalty.
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What to know about Christa Pike, first woman to be executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years
Christa Pike is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday in Tennessee. If it proceeds as planned, she would be the first woman executed in Tennessee since at least 1820.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America, 2026 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Christa Pike execution: Tennessee governor rejects clemency plea
If the execution proceeds, Pike would be the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
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SlimHickman @slimhickman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sorry to say that I don't think there is much we can do about this case now, but we need to take a hard look at what we have become...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026
Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike on September 30. Christa has spent nearly three decades in solitary confinement after committing her crime as an 18-year-old girl with severe, untreated mental illness stemming from childhood abuse. Tell Governor Lee to stop her execution now.
mercyforchrista.org
Petition | Christa Pike
Sign the petition to support Christa Pike's clemency campaign in Tennessee.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026
👀 Holy Shit.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need to get a full accounting of every dollar each media company accepted of our money stolen by Trump to run his partisan political ads on their channels. Companies who accept these ads are receiving property stolen from the American people & are a disgrace for accepting them
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
inquirer.com
We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My belief: This election isn’t about the economy in 2027. It’s about the economy in 2060. Prosperity comes from institutions like the rule of law, markets, a free press, and capitalism (not crony capitalism) newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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We Spend So Much Time Talking About Gas Prices
But is that what we really want to focus on? Also: Is the U.S. economy really the envy of the world?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The leader of the Republican Party is stealing money paid by American taxpayers to buy campaign ads for Republicans in the midterms. You can’t vote him out in 5 weeks, but you can vote out the people he’s trying to help with your money he’s thieving while they remain silent.
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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dear Maine Democrats -- Here's your new commercial. You're welcome.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remember the Uihleins, the billionaire couple who helped fund the January 6th rally? They’re back and are pouring more than $35 million into keeping Republicans in power.
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George Stanley @georgestanley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Three billionaires are financing most of Tom Tiffany’s campaign — this is the story that led him to bar the Journal Sentinel - the story he didn’t want Wisconsin voters to see: www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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3 billionaires put Tom Tiffany in a big cash lead over David Crowley
Three billionaires are responsible for the about two-thirds of the campaign cash raised so far by Republican candidate for governor Tom Tiffany.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Truthfully, I discounted the story, assuming the theater was simply one of many sites on a list of those controlled by the Interior Department (and thus easier to slap a name on) until I saw his denial. If he says it's false, you have to assume it's true.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wrote about solitary confinement, penal isolators, and "the box."
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There is always a box
And authoritarians will put everyone they can inside it.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not sure our National Embarrassment Counter has made it a full 24 hours without a reset in two-plus years now.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These Rams unis
Bananas
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the documentary when this shit is all over is going to have to be like 5 parts to include all this type of shit... like removing real art and putting extremely ugly far right art in the kennedy center just to further violate it before bulldozing it #political
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SlimHickman @slimhickman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
give @candicequestions.com a follow folks, she is on the ground in Austin
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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#TomTiffany is a pedophile-defending kumquat who should NOT be in Congress, and certainly not in the governor's mansion either. #WIunion
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/09/2026
We cannot let history forget what happens when a federal government uses law enforcement to terrorize innocent people.
 And let me say to any agent or administration official who thinks we've forgotten or that their cruelty will go unchecked: Illinois remembers.
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many ruths @r-uthseugeneor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
9/18/26 Make your way to DC this week. 👍Just DO it!!! 🩵Discovery by Van City Nancy.bsky <--We Thank You
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i blogged about it badfaithtimes.com/if-trump-can...
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If Trump Can’t Have The Kennedy Center, No One Can
The abuser in the Oval has given the Kennedy Center a choice: I own you or you get annihilated
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
8 months ago.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump said that if I didn’t vote for him, gas prices would double. It looks like he was right.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
as don jr and his new wife clutch their pearls about the story that says someone else subsidized their wedding a quick reminder that this is how his engagement to his first wife happened
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Still, I think the Republicans won on their essential goal, which was CHAOS. Put it like this: *I’m* sure as hell not going to mail in a ballot. I might still vote early, but in-person for sure.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 12/09/2026
Read it slow: he told a crowd he doesn't care if they're registered, just go cheat like the other side does. That's not a gaffe, it's an instruction, on camera, with his own name attached. Every Republican in that arena who cheered instead of walking out owns this too. Fuck you.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1. The president of the United States gave the impression Tuesday that he was part of the 9/11 recovery effort, as well as among those who were rescued, in New York City. It was a big lie, but it was more than that. It was stolen valor.
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Van Orden could be standing up to trump, but instead racing down to Texas to speak on his behalf. Evidently proud of these “accomplishments”. Wisconsin, vote for Dems. Up and down ballot. Fire trump stooges. 🌊
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Anyway, the AfD did not organize a violent coup to overturn a national election, nor have its politicians voted to negate the results of said election If we’re going to (accurately) call them a far right party, then we <must> be honest with ourselves & do the same with the Republican Party now in 🇺🇸
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If I were the chair of the DNC and a Democratic gubernatorial candidate was attacked in the critical midterm election year, I’d probably highlight the fact that Donald Trump and the right have been stoking political violence for years with conspiracy bullshit and civil war rhetoric.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every day I become more convinced that the only way to defeat the surveillance state is to recreate pre-Internet institutions so we don't depend on tech bros for every aspect of our social and professional lives
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SlimHickman @slimhickman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
she speaks the truth, LFG
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump's secret police moves to create an enemies list for the White House. The database would have all US voters, their party affiliations and their political preferences. Now for the question: what does any of this have to do with immigration enforcement? www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
wired.com
ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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