Reposted by The Mafia In BlueMaria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 15h“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.” 541739383
Reposted by The Mafia In Bluederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12hrepublicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution 9572381309
Reposted by The Mafia In Bluee.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22hjust to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand 582454713
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11hat this point people getting carjacked are gonna assume it’s ICE 5442110
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12hThe NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas. 1122524839
Reposted by The Mafia In BluePreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 13hOssoff is hitting hard bc we are all furious and he knows it. The corporate press can elevate those loud, minority of voices praising what’s going on as much as they want, but most of us are angry and tired of being forced into living in pain. 1925128
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15hOssoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it. 382322426
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueJustin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 18hThis is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.storage.courtlistener.comMemorandum & Opinion – #51 in COMMON CAUSE v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01352) – CourtListener.comMEMORANDUM OPINION re the 29 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and the 32 Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment. See the attached document for details. Signed by Judge Spark... 17686268
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14hwashington square park 6935218
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10hThe machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine. 241745417
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueAbby Ruggiero @ruggie13.bsky.social · 14hI filmed this at Stadium-Armory Metro Station in Washington, DC this evening around 6:30 pm. He was minding his business waiting for the train, he wasn’t fighting them, but all of them piled onto him without giving him time to react to that many of them surrounding him. 17313138
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 14hWhat Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders. 131623520
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueLiliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 22hOne more thing about the death penalty before going offline. As disgusted as we should be by Trump's bloodlust, we should NOT lose sight of the CENTRAL role of Democrats in upholding, expanding, and enabling this system that seems to horrify so many people right now. It really cannot be said enough. 43712171
Reposted by The Mafia In Bluebrian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 14hThe way people are freaking out on Liliana — who knows the death penalty beat as well if not better than anyone — is yet another example of how overconfident so many Americans are about their knowledge of a punishment system that virtually NONE of them have examined up close 619725
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 8140151012
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20hI’m getting really tired of the knee-jerk pushback to the reality that anger at “Zionists” is largely a cover for straight-up antisemitism. And the immediate assumption that American Jews pointing that out have ulterior motives. 47614
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20hIf you’re wondering who exactly Trump and Republicans are looking out for…it’s probably not you. (@itep.org) itep.org/impact-of-trump-policies-o… 301175617
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 21hThis is so embarrassing. 015936
Reposted by The Mafia In BluePrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21hthe U.S. is a pathetic country. 825546
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueGothamist @gothamist.com · 21hPolice said five people were taken into custody as protests swelled Thursday night after ICE officers shot a man in northern Manhattan: gothamist.visitlink.me/hkjCaj 18325
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueThe Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I agree with this completely, but I think we should also recognize the opportunity here. These three people will commit lots of demonstrable fraud in these contracting processes, and it provides a critical opportunity to for IGs and the DOJ to publicly address military industrial corruption. 118640
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol. 6570792831
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19hI love that it's totally cool and legal to use social media to rile up an angry hateful mob and incite them to attack doctors and send in bomb threats to children's hospitals but texting Shrek dong to a politician gets you hauled into court 191529318
Reposted by The Mafia In Bluemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h"freedom of speech" became code for a series of privileges our masters get. harsh punishments for speech is for us. tyranny 351180
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueJamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 21h“Another message allegedly read, ‘If Jews are so special then they should be placed in special camps and receive special treatments.’” “Special treatment” (Sonderbehandlung) was a Nazi euphemism for murdering Jews in camps or gas vans. Holocaust-deniers are often familiar with that term. 02211
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21hWhen ISIS killed my friend James Foley on camera they put him in an orange jumpsuit as a direct reference to images of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Not fucking interested my government having a fucking propaganda CONVERSATION with tomorrow’s terrorists, thanks. 3537161
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 22hI am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people. 241656386
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 23hSo a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts 922340788
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026btw thank you Mr. Secretary for announcing to all the world's potential psychopaths that they can get a livestream of their martyrdom sponsored by the United States government if they shoot up a federal facility 127144
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026it’s never a bad time to remember how hilariously unpopular this guy is. didn’t it take him like twelve rounds of ballots for his OWN PARTY to grudgingly hold their noses and pull together enough votes?? he hates his life so much and honestly some days that’s such a balm to my soul 349641
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026like yeah obviously if he loses the House he’s gonna flee town so nothing that happens afterward can get pinned on him the man has a spine like capellini 01858
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueMarcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @marcellograz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You misunderstood the point: these folks want to set gta in their surroundings as a catharsis for the pillaging they want to commit. 🤣🤦♂️ 161
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/10/2026if you shoot guns enough (I do), you quickly meet this type of guy, who will tell you just how Excited he is for someone to break into his house so he finally has the excuse he needs to dump a mag into them [and this type of guy is unfortunately quite dominant in US gun culture] 44118292
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration. 4734181
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueProtik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Corruption is still a political nuke in countries with a functioning media ecosystem 111523
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6238021388
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueS.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 09/10/2026*That’s* a headline. 221768
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueBugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me 2767847905
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people. 8544181030
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026How dull and lifeless of a person are you that you think like this. 1478228
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "on Marco Rubio's watch the world is on fire, we are hemorrhaging our munitions stockpile, the administration appears to be trying to coverup combat casualties ... and he's trying to soft launch his presidential campaign. These people are not focused." 6847081161
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings. 402375823
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942 4241481184
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...cnn.com‘Shocking’ swatting incident and death threats against Jane Doe | CNNJane Doe’s Attorney Thomas Giuffra tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the swatting incident that left Doe’s family at gunpoint was “one of the most shocking things” he’s seen. 3351101
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026There’s already video of some NYPD helping ICE leave after the shooting and the role of the police in aiding these incidents has to be addressed. 181083286
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026The funniest thing on here this afternoon is the people who are responding to news of a televised lynching with “omg, I feel like I live in some foreign country” 321909336
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026This is why I want to emphasize that this type of behavior is seen or called for throughout US history. 120636
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026This is why I bring up the fact we make jails and prisons into spaces for our entertainment. The titillation is the specter of someone being raped and/or stabbed and it’s a source of content across prestige, mainstream, and less formal entertainment. 218442
Reposted by The Mafia In BlueKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026He doesn't even deny his son-in-law is a white supremacist. He simply claims it's out of bounds to ask about his support of white supremacy because he's family. 613634807
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Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiafwdmp63odeydunst4aizjbnunnu5s26f6bk22yqg6drbdmutqf4)
![It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreidewrh2r7x4l3whf3llsqoenslqugawxzj3p43gflsa5pd4zqmuhi)
