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Patrick Habecker

@seloriste.bsky.social

sociology, fiction, history, research methods, substance use research, and other random things

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Harm Reduction International@harmreductionintl.bsky.social · 5d ago

Did you know that aid donors spent approximately $60 million over the last decade on 'narcotics control' projects in countries that retain the death penalty for drug-related offences?

Aiding Executions?: How Aid Donors and the UN Enable the Death Penalty for Drug Offences - Harm Reduction International

Report on international aid for narcotics control programmes in countries with the death penalty for drug offences, human rights concerns

hri.global

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 5d ago

I got you! Lawyers, volunteer coordinators, social media ads showing people how to cure their ballots. There's all this stuff that I guess we just assume...materializes out of thin air when A Candidate appears? But something as basic as "showing people how to cure their own ballots" takes money.

Anarchic Squid@leahanelson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Scott Colom keeps asking me for $25 and I will send it if he needs it. But why does he need my $25? Doesn’t he just win if he won and lose if he lost? This is a real question. Election law knowers, and/or @mississippifreepress.org, can anyone break it down?

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 6d ago

This Day in Labor History: November 9, 1935. The Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations) was created. This brought industrial unions into the labor movement, transformed the lives of the American working class, and unionized this nation!

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Elanthe@avendar.net · 2w ago

If you like tabletop-style roleplaying games this is a perfect time to try out Avendar! We are a RP+/PK+ MUD in active development, releasing new areas, new mechanics, and new stories. Be a hero or villain. Rob the powerful. Topple states. Leave a mark on the world, or be marked. www.avendar.net

Avendar

avendar.net

alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 2w ago

THREAD. Every single time you see Democrats, Jacobin Magazine, Malcolm Gladwell, or a non-profit organization telling you to support existing levels of policing and police budgets, understand this is what they want you to support:

But a quieter kind of surge was spreading across the country at the same time. In September 2025, ICE announced new incentives for a partnership program known as 287(g). The program’s most aggressive form, the so-called task force model, which Ingram opted in to, enlists local police officers as deputy immigration agents, and the new incentives included a $100,000 vehicle stipend, a $7,500 equipment stipend for every participating officer, quarterly performance bonuses and funding to help cover officer salaries and overtime. “By joining forces with ICE,” the announcement read, “you’re not just gaining access to these unprecedented reimbursement opportunities — you’re becoming part of a national effort to ensure the safety of every American family.” Alexander completed an online course with ICE a few weeks after the baptism party, qualifying him for time-and-a-half pay whenever he helped the agency pick up immigrants. Here in the Texas Hill Country, he soon became the local face of the national crackdown.
The Trandalorian@charliejaneanders.com · 2w ago

"There is no way you will ever be able to write something so straightforward that Elon Musk will understand it... You cannot adjust for readers who are arbitrarily bad at reading." - Ted Chiang

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.

In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts

As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.

boltsmag.org

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve gotten a lot of questions from journalists like, “If my son were in that group chat, I’d want him to say something. How can I teach him to speak up?” The question should be: “How do I raise a son who would never rush a fraternity?”

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · last mo.

Don't let copaganda fool you — police violence is not tied to their safety. In 2025, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported.

Screenshot of chart showing how police killings in 2025 began. 680 were suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported. 112 were traffic violations. 84 were unknown.
Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · last mo.

I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.

Semafor graph with catastrophic drops.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1945. 24 fired female employees of the Lindstrom Tool and Toy Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut picketed outside the factory in protest of their firing to replace with returning men. Let's tell the often untold story of women workers in World War II!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

ballsandstrikes.org

Hannah Riley Fernandez@hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the US is set to execute three people in a 24 hour period starting tomorrow. Texas, Georgia, and Alabama are all planning to kill people in their death chambers tomorrow and Thursday. increases in state killings should concern all of us and are a harbinger of worse to come