Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens.

Steven Hale@iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 6h ago

Story here. Attorneys say Pike is unconscious, on a ventilator and that both of her arms were “swollen, burned, and blistered” upon her arrival at the hospital Wednesday night. nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/02/c...

The Dems getting better at this

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺@tonysomo.bsky.social · 4h ago

Thank you for your courage and for reminding us about this murder & cold blooded dismemberment of a courageous journalist. I can never forget Pompeo’s off the cuff dismissal of Jamal’s fate and Kushner’s divulging of intelligence about MBS enemies in exchange for deal$; all of them put to death!

Kevin Hassett on the unemployment rate going up: "People are seeing the strong labor market and they're saying, 'Oh! I need to get bad to the labor force because I'm going to make so much money.' That's one reason the unemployment rate just ticked in a different direction."

Hassett: "Real relief on gas prices is coming virtually immediately" ("Virtually" is doing heavy lifting there!)

incredible spin from Hassett on mortgage rates being well above 7%: "When the economy is growing really high, then longer-term interest rates can sometimes go up not because of inflation, but because like all these businesses have a high demand for capital because they're building factories."

"Not disappointed even a little bit, and you knew I was going to say that" -- LOL even Hassett knows he's full of shit

Trump #TravelsWithNatalie yesterday (USA Today Networks)

Clown Car Krusty

Alt: Clown Car Krusty

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

Trump #TravelsWithNatalie yesterday (USA Today Networks)

was discussing this at dinner last night: one of the many problems with trying to make policy 'that the American public wants' is that the American public change their minds all the time and are frequently very very stupid.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

"Voters have a regret or two, and we've seen this in poll after poll. The regret has grown since the beginning of Trump's presidency" -- Enten unpacks polling showing that Kamala Harris would easily beat Donald Trump if they were both on the ballot again next month

Russle Vought confuses himself with Congress.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Russ Vought: "We fund what we need to fund. I'm not at all shy about we want to spend billions of dollars on a new shipyard. We're up there defending the $1.5t that the Department of War needs. But it's also coming at a ton of reduction on the non-defense side"

Fun facts: Chris Rufo’s grandmother was an Italian immigrant who, I’ve heard from a reliable source, never learned to speak English fluently. Rufo’s wife meanwhile is an immigrant from Thailand. And the director of the Manhattan Institute who employs him? The son of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh

Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14h ago

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

If the whites were to get rid of the rest of us it would be nothing but peace, quiet, and harmony until 45 minutes later when they start the hair color killings

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

'It disrespects everybody': Why union Nevada veterans are filming ads opposing Flippo thenevadaindependent.com/article/it-d...

'It disrespects everybody': Why union Nevada veterans are filming ads opposing Flippo - The Nevada Independent

The national AFL-CIO is launching ads targeting the ruby red 2nd Congressional District seat.

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Please show me the statutory or constitutional authority that this man holds to do anything that he is actually doing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Russ Vought: "We fund what we need to fund. I'm not at all shy about we want to spend billions of dollars on a new shipyard. We're up there defending the $1.5t that the Department of War needs. But it's also coming at a ton of reduction on the non-defense side"

In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Russ Vought: "We fund what we need to fund. I'm not at all shy about we want to spend billions of dollars on a new shipyard. We're up there defending the $1.5t that the Department of War needs. But it's also coming at a ton of reduction on the non-defense side"

Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: this election is akin to the '24 general election in Britain. It is a vote against. Don't mistake it.

I was hoping this was "he died" but it turned out to be "he got bored of me and our four children."

BREAKING: NY Governor, Kathy Hochul, has named NY Attorney General, Letitia James, as the Special Prosecutor to investigate the Cornell rape case. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...

Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case

Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her.

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Well, gee, this certainly makes $6 per gallon diesel worth it

It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN

It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.

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Boy Howdy. Breathing through it this morning. Abolish the Death Penalty. youtu.be/qNuc5KlXCZU?...

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Vietnam war music video)

YouTube video by Diverzant

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- it is proactive constituent service. Second, he is young and smooth and good on television; it would be easy to paint him as a show horse. And it's word of mouth you can't buy.

At least once a week Ossoff cold-calls people in Georgia: mayors, school principals, clergy, farmers and so forth. Political affiliation doesn't matter, and the people have no idea it's coming. To some degree the last set of calls dictates the next one. It is smart for several reasons. First -

OK, I am done for the night. Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2d ago

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hostility gripping the country. The Republican governor is expanding on that message in a new book. https://to.pbs.org/3VmTJnx

MAGA says they only want judges born in the US. Fine. Start with Trump’s BFF, Aileen Cannon, who was born in Cali, Colombia. Let’s see how long that rule lasts.

Whatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Update: Christa Pike still alive after administered execution drugs, attorneys say. www.tennessean.com/story/news...