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Sara Jane La Liberté

@sarajanemaki.bsky.social

Ace I complain a lot.

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❌ 👑 Indivisible01027@indivisible01027.bsky.social · 6h ago

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Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 6h ago

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Sara Jane La Liberté@sarajanemaki.bsky.social · yesterday

How about no executions, ever, for anyone and for any reason? NONE. The death penalty should not exist at all. Period.

Owen Barcala@obarcala.bsky.social · 2d ago

Considering the news, I want to share this dissent in the 9th Circuit, suggesting that maybe all executions should be by firing squad. "If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should be willing to face the fact that the state is committing a horrendous brutality on our behalf."

Whatever the hopes and reasons for the switch to drugs, they proved to be misguided. Subverting medicines meant to heal the human body to the opposite purpose was an enterprise doomed to failure. Today’s case is only the latest in an unending effort to undermine and discredit this method of carrying out lawful executions. Another symptom of the problem is the decade-long inability (or perhaps unwillingness) of California state officials to come up with an execution protocol, effectively putting the state’s death chamber out of commission. See Jones v. Chappell, No. CV 09-02158-CJC, slip op. at 5 n.7 (C.D. Cal. July 16, 2014). Old age, not execution, is the most serious risk factor for inmates at the San Quentin death row. Then, again, you get odd cases like that of Russell Bucklew, who obtained a stay of execution on the ground that the drugs that would be used to kill him would cause a lingering, painful death. See Bucklew v. Lombardi, 134 S. Ct. 2333, 2333 (2014).
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 2d ago

When Project NINJA told us about the Dover raid, we filed a FOIA request with ICE for CCTV footage from the Roxbury warehouse that day. ICE closed it within days and told us to ask GSA. We appealed. GSA doesn’t own the warehouse or its security system. ICE, not GSA, carried out the raid.

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. n.pr/4hzvA5M

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

He means your Social Security benefits, Medicare, and Medicaid. That's what Republicans want to cut instead of simply asking billionaires and giant corporations to pay their fair share in taxes.

Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio

In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...

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

Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.

Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)

Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.

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Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump said whoever doesn’t call AI ‘SI’ is an enemy. But SI will always be Sports Illustrated to me. My interview for SI in 2017 with the mother of Bruce Maxwell, the first MLB player to take a knee to protest police brutality against Black people. www.si.com/mlb/2017/10/...

Bruce Maxwell's Mother Speaks Out

The mother of Oakland A's catcher Bruce Maxwell, the only MLB player to kneel during the anthem to protest racial injustice, gives her first interview about her son, their family's military background...

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Jon Ossoff@ossoff.bsky.social · 2d ago

That's the problem, Mike. It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your Congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online, it's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.

Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm delighted to say that, after many years anguishing over the desperate state of Killarney NP, I'm seeing a partial ecological recovery, like this wild baby arbutus tree. Such positive signs can only mean one thing: the NPWS must finally be taking a more proactive approach to invasive sika deer.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d ago

This Thursday! We have a great speaker lineup at this ballot question event highlighting the @massdems.bsky.social endorsed positions. Boston WardWorks Alliance is a coalition of progressive and proactive Democratic ward committees in Boston. www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...

Boston WardWorks Alliance Virtual Ballot Question Rally · MassDems

Join the Boston WardWorks Alliance, a coalition of Democratic ward committees across Boston, for an evening of learning about—and learning about how to get involved with—the nine ballot questions on t...

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