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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 6h
Another botched execution to illustrate the majesty of the State of Tennessee and the resplendence of its justice system.
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike, who was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995, was set to be executed by lethal injection. Officials had gone ahead with the execution after a temporary court-ordered pause.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6h
FIRE's rankings are wildly unserious & not in good faith. Yes, sure, we let Chris Rufo come to lie about higher ed & then get an F in political tolerance in allowing controversial speakers. We invite the FIRE director himself, & get a D. It would be funny, were it not so sad & predictable.
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UW-Madison given a D in college free speech rankings, up from last year
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked 61st overall, climbing 40 places from last year’s Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s ranking.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 5h
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 9h
Did an extremely fun commission for @rachelsacksmph.bsky.social and @michaellehrer.bsky.social!
Chief O'Brien in his Niners baseball uniform with the slogan "He was more than a hero... HE WAS A UNION Man!"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h
abolish the death penalty
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14h
#OtD 30 Sep 1953 British communist boxer, Len Johnson, went for a drink at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester, but was refused service because he was Black. Soon after, 200 people picketed the pub until the landlord agreed to stop discriminating. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...
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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 14h
If Americans in general start to loathe Republicans the way I do, and keep on loathing them for the next few decades, we might just make it after all.
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chairmanbell.bsky.social @chairmanbell.bsky.social · 14h
If only Kamala Harris and Tim Walz had told the Democratic messaging consultants to fuck off and continued to relentlessly call them weird we wouldn't be here right now. 🤦‍♂️
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14h
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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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h
Every single person needs to read this book ASAP.
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End Times Fascism
A New York Times BestsellerA scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist surviva...
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 16h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social · 14h
New photos of Connor Storrie, Hudson Williams, Jacob Tierney, Ksenia Daniela, Rachel Reid, Christina Chang and Brandon Brady at the launch the Irina Foundation with Kate Spade! via _katkhan
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Gosh Shammgosh @goshshammgosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it's important to note Schmitt has staff he relies on from both his personal office as well as the well-staffed Committee's majority office. This *big-Hawks-game-plan* had to have gone through a dozen people first and no one caught it as being, well, the dumbest god damn thing of all time.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOLD UP. A US Senator just royally f*cked up on live TV in a crucial hearing. This isn't a 'misunderstanding.' This was a high stakes political ploy to set a perjury trap for Jack Smith and it failed miserably. Say that. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
Live Updates: Jack Smith, Who Charged Trump, Testifies in Combative Hearing

Republicans have called for the former special counsel to be criminally prosecuted. One Republican senator accused Mr. Smith of perjury, though the accusation appeared to be based on a misunderstanding.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do the stats for women! It’s 5.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a survivor reading between the lines of this very carefully written story it sounds like Jonathan McKinsey was a trans man in an abusive and controlling marriage who was targeted for violence repeatedly by his ex-wife and her parents and eventually murdered. But as a reporter? I can't be sure.
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/09/2026
More than 38,000 residential school survivors testified to the abuse they experienced as children. Next September, Canada plans to destroy their records.
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Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women are trying to save them
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 28/09/2026
Driver Ticketed For No Insurance Despite Having Insurance Just Because Flock Said She Didn’t We've moved past cops doing stuff because a dog gave them permission to... www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/driver-…
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Driver Ticketed For No Insurance Despite Having Insurance Just Because Flock Said She Didn’t
We've moved past cops doing stuff because a dog gave them permission to do it. Now, we're at the post-truth era of policing, where cops will do stuff because a machine told them to do it. We already know ALPRs (automated license plate readers) generate false positives. And we know that these false positives can...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Desperate Christian women are turning to "wife school" and similar courses, hoping they can save their marriages. But there is no hope, ladies. The only fix is to divorce your MAGA husband. www.salon.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Wife school can't fix MAGA husbands - Salon.com
A new wave of Christian influencers claim women can save their marriages with more self-loathing
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe this, but a mere decade ago, we had a presidential election in which effectively the only issue on the table was the security of communications at the highest level of government.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026
Star Trek: The Next Generation started 39 years ago today. The future began again at this (Encounter at Far)point.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
This whole article is so bleak. Maybe try accepting your kid for who they are?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Juvenile crime is on the decline in Tennessee, but officials plan to spend millions on two new youth prisons. “The argument that’s made is that [juvenile crime is] worse than ever,” said one advocate, but “the data doesn’t back that up.” with @wpln.bsky.social
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Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.
Tennessee officials say they need more high-security facilities for kids who commit crimes. Experts say this approach flies in the face of crime data and research that shows youth prisons are not reha...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it's not really "odd" it was totally predictable. Trump's chief of staff from his first term publicly condemned him and and warned that he was an unstable fascist in the run-up to the election but your newspaper ran the story about it on A14
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OK, Washington Post, enlighten me. What is the bright side of being a Nazi?
Washington Post headline and subhead: "She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her. Inspired by female conservative influencers, Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model 'groypettes.' A vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame."
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration has deported tens of thousands of immigrants to so-called "third countries" that they have no connections to. "This is extraordinary rendition all over again, in broad daylight," says Tutu Alicante, a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea.
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“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned
Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditi...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Evanston RoundTable in my Chicago suburb interviewed 2 people who saw ICE agents beat up a citizen and leave him lying on the ground last weekend. One witness said the man “was screaming ‘I'm a U.S. citizen. Leave me alone.’” Another witness said the feds told an “absolute lie” about the case.
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Witnesses recount Sunday's ICE incident: ‘He was screaming, "I’m a U.S. citizen. Leave me alone."' - Evanston RoundTable
When federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempted to detain a resident — who they later discovered was a U.S. citizen — last Sunday
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In Wheatfield with Crows (July 1890), painted weeks before his death, Van Gogh set dark birds against a golden field and a sky in turmoil. The scene’s unrest mirrors his own—a landscape caught between persistence and despair.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump routinely says idiotic things like this that you wouldn’t know about if it weren’t for @atrupar.com. Why is that? Allow me to explain: presswatchers.org/2026/09/donald-tr…
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/09/2026
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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She’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have Kids
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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Ice Cream Maker Guy @icecreammakerguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When creating a trilogy, make sure the writers and directors for the films can agree on an overarching theme
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel
Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1. The Washington Sun called it "panic week." Republicans seemed to wake up to the fact that things are not going to get better. This was the week in which they realized, all at once, that the light at the end of the tunnel may be from an oncoming train. mailchi.mp/washingtonsu...
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Panic Week
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 26/09/2026
"The unwillingness of platforms to accept even paid advertising is sure to raise concerns about free speech and the dwindling number of companies that control many of the platforms in this country — and ironically provide a proof-text for the point the film is coming to make." Sci-fi had warned us.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Anaximander's Elbows Up Tardigrade Brigade 🍁🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @centristhumanist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Found this without trying too hard: youtu.be/-52sVAzXwLM
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Musk - Official Teaser Trailer (2026)
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So this game called "Dverghold" came across my Steam homepage. Interesting retro vibes, apparently collabing with a dungeon synth artist for the OST. The art was kinda tickling my AI-dar though, so I scrolled down to look for any disclaimers.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/09/2026
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓
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Elon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New Doc
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk.
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