e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 5hWe dont need to make figures of politics, of social change, or of history into someone palatable for a wider audience, we shouldn't sanitize this shit. We can let these people be hated for the incredible evil they enacted for decades of their lives Henry Kissinger should have rotted in piblic view. 010
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 5hStain it with blood and describe the suffering and torture and how human people, no fundamentally different from you or I, allowed, enforced, and reveled in it. Admit that we sre proudly founded on inhuman evil, stop celebrating the mass murderers. 100
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 5hFrom a grand statue celebrating colonizers and european hyperviolence, a poorly maintained plaque hard to read in the colorful flashung lighting, acknowledging such facts as the local native population being reduced from 300,000 to *15,000.* Tear down the statue and make this 50 ft tall. 100
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Sounds familiar. Fascist see fascist do. 11363127
Reposted by e.g. Alice Lastnamejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21halso i know i have said this a million times but this dude is unbelievably smarmy. it’s crazy 67269376
Reposted by e.g. Alice Lastnamejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h1) vance has this weird preoccupation with demanding that people show him gratitude 2) this is just another expression of the idea that some americans don’t count and at most should be seen and not heard 2846927916
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22hJD Vance’s not so subtle point is that the United States belongs to white Christian men, and the rest of us who don’t meet all three qualifications only belong here insofar as our betters choose to tolerate us. 61868335
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21hMEMPHIS: “we cannot allow this to be normalized” @justinjpearson.bsky.social announces those the council attempted to ban for speaking up AFTER the council delayed a data center moratorium vote without letting the public speak and RECESSED are now SUING for having their rights violated: 8502175
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameMike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/10/2026Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening. 3235571069
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Legalized Bribery. (H/T @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social ) (Core Civic is based in Brentwood, TN) 6935451747
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you understand that political antisemitism was not just the hatred of the Jew qua Jew, but an entire worldview in which the Jew stands in for border-crossing cosmopolitan ideologies that threaten the nation-state, then you understand why the Israeli right had to reinvent it from first principles. 161010219
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced. 14804997611735
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnamePuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave. 32754668
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026They call migration an invasion. Their "solution" to migration is paramilitary invasions of states. They've made the hate for us and malicious intents clear. We have a right and responsibility to stand against malicious invasion. The migrant is not a malicious invader. 000
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I said this before but you’d seriously much rather your city be invaded by pirates or some terror cell than by DHS. All those groups are equally lawless but at least you can defend yourself against pirates and it’s not a give local law enforcement would aid them. 17867161
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 12/10/202611. The Republicans are anti-political. They resent competing democratically, on issues and problems that affect a majority of people's lives. 32710
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The unaccountable secret police breaking into the home of a dissenting brown woman. We know they're prone to kill on whims and then fabricate justitifications. Their boss is a deranged maniac who wants dissent silenced and broken. I'm glad she's alive. I fear the next victim may not fare so well. 000
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026As a piece of art, it felt like true passion was poured into exemplifying a set of concepts in every way allowed by audio-video tale. I loved the all the work on the sets, props, and puppets. It was a much needed, very refreshing taste of young love for ones work. As a movie for watching for fun, 🤷♀️ 000
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameDavid Raikow @david.raikow.online · 12/10/2026White guy: “The culture at the Nazi bar today is remarkably friendly and inclusive.” No it isn’t. There are non-Nazis having “normal” conversations there, but they’re choosing to do so in a Nazi bar. If you like hanging out in a Nazi bar, don’t be surprised when people judge you for it. 550555
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda 684625956
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic. 476201457087
Reposted by e.g. Alice Lastnamederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty. 11280931669
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameNick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Do I think Trump is a Nazi? No. His animal brain doesn’t permit him to claim anything so specific. But his governing instincts are clearly fascist and his electoral success has culled actual Nazis out from society’s wretched little crevices and into the open. 211146108
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 337621341
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird 17245221001
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A classic case of bigots crying foul of an uppity black man who is just minding his own damn business. 010
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026And their hatred for the native, for the woman, for the foreigner, for the queer and the changing, for the neighbor, for the lowly, for the righteous, and for those who threaten their cancerous confidence, it is as disgusting as your every humane instinct screams it is. May they rot. 000
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The way these people spit jargon in circles of unsupported claims contrasts well with the plain idiocy of their insults. It makes it clear which side is a haphazard weave of spittle and trash trying to place at the rug making competition, and which side is genuine to their thoughts and feelings. 100
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameRachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers 12623841033
Reposted by e.g. Alice Lastnamejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026a livestreamed execution is just a lynching 285103572010
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We are watching in slow motion the things that happen before ethnic cleansing happens. People get that, right? 581056352
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If you‘ve studied history, you know what Trump and his fellow fascists are doing in Minnesota. They’re calling Somali Americans “garbage” and “enemy combatants“ because fascists need to create enemies and foment hate to excite their sick supporters. 351374430
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8751411860
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameAaron 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. 412416838
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In yesteryear, that was chattel slavery. White people demand rent in blood, agony, humiliation, and total submission. 000
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Today, you'll find white communities who rail against POC and immigrants, but who rely financially on their local super-racist prison and PD rounding those folks up. In white communities, it's always been acceptable to some Others as foul-smelling fuel for the flame they see and survive by. 100
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026sorry if I seem weird and intense now, it’s because I’m now weird and intense 2197380733
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I will eat the same thing everyday at the same time while loving it the whole time, and then one day even just thinking about that food will make me nauseous and then i cant have it for like 5 years. As to why? I have to imagine its because whatever god is in charge of such things got bored hah. 110
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When the president blatantly violates federal law, it's "controversy." When people with health insurance don't constantly use that health insurance, it's fraud deserving of federal invasion. 000
e.g. Alice Lastname @thinkinthot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Theyre offense peddlers. If they can't offend you, then you've obviously offended them, because how else are they gonna start an argument to feel like they won? Pulling from Tracey, a man psychologically trapped in his highschool loneliness, its like schoolchildren starting fights then tattling. 050
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120343576
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison 7957041108
Reposted by e.g. Alice LastnameDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pretty much 18336105
![Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
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)
