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Kathy E. Gill 🏍️

@kegill.bsky.social

Writer/speaker/journalist/professor. @kegill almost everywhere. Deep south ex-pat, she/her. Fights #disinfo. #UX #Elections geek #BookLover #BreastCancer “facts maxer”

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Julie DiCaro@juliedicaro.bsky.social · 21h ago

Capital punishment is cruel and unusual punishment and has no place in a civilized nation. But even if you don’t object to it on moral grounds, the number of times we have botched convictions AND executions should be enough to convince you that it should be abolished.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · yesterday

“Wyden Introduces Bill to Ban Data Centers on Public Lands *** Wyden bill follows public reporting that Trump administration is trying to transfer over 17,000 acres of public land in the West for data center development” 9/30/26 h/t @amptsuper.bsky.social 1/ www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Wyden Introduces Bill to Ban Data Centers on Public Lands | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

wyden.senate.gov

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 24h ago

Here‘s your reminder that Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home early so they wouldn’t have to vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment before the midterms. Republicans were terrified that they’d have to face voters and explain why they were covering for a racist, sexist, war-losing piece of crap.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · yesterday

BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.

Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.

As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.

ms.now

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h ago

Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”

Goldy@goldy.horsesass.org · 2d ago

To put this in perspective, one hour of wages at the federal minimum buys you about one pound of ground beef. One hour of wages at the Seattle minimum buys you about *three* pounds. Same ratio for a gallon of diesel.

Goldy@goldy.horsesass.org · 3d ago

In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the NYT's third headline, the perjury scheme finally gets top billing: "Mr. Schmitt focused on the basketball game in the hopes that he could show Mr. Smith had perjured himself and was involved in a conspiracy with local Atlanta prosecutors to ensnare Mr. Trump." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falls Apart A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d ago

These NYT headlines are going from bad to worse. Topic turns to basketball? Misunderstanding? It was a US Senator's failed perjury trap wrapped around a suggested secret meeting between Jack Smith and Fani Willis. Something Schmitt is still clinging to in post hearing media interviews btw.

Live Updates: Hearing Aimed at Jack Smith, Who Charged Trump, Devolves When Topic Turns to Basketball Senator Eric Schmitt, a Republican who accused the former special counsel of perjury, based his allegation on text messages about a basketball game that he appeared to misunderstand.
Chelsea Harvey@chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEW - Conservative orgs are filing records requests by the dozens at public universities, demanding documents from climate researchers. @lesleyclark.bsky.social @corbinhiar.bsky.social & I have uncovered more than 100 requests, a campaign targets/allies say is an effort to derail climate litigation

Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

politico.com

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.

IV The appellants mount two main attacks on the district court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith. Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 2d ago

Eleventh Circuit refuses to block the district court's sanctions order in the "$1.776 billion Weaponization Fund Settlement" case I'm reading through the panel's 22-page decision now... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · 2d ago

Trump is stealing nearly $1 billion from the American people, plain and simple. Republicans don't care. It seems like every time Trump says “stoop” The only response most Republicans can muster is: “How low?”