Televised executions? Killer Pete Hegseth is a sick person. He, like his boss, never should have been allowed near the levers of power.

The death penalty is an abomination. The Secretary of Defense promising to livestream an execution, as Pete Hegseth did this week, should itself be a crime. Bloodlust is not a virtue, and as a nation that styles itself the beacon of freedom for the world, we cannot behave this way.

'It's like they're doing a tribute act to ISIS.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to the US' plans to livestream the execution by firing squad of the Fort Hood attacker.

Not two weeks after Tennessee taught us a stark lesson about the abject cruelty of the death penalty when it tried to execute Christa Pike America, the former shining city on a hill, tarnished with the stain of a dark public spectacle, all to sate the twisted bloodlust of Trump and Pete Hegseth

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 18h ago

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

When the government turns punishment into a public spectacle, it's worth asking why. Intimidation? Desensitization? Political theater? Whatever the answer, this is being done with the full support of the president. Pay attention.

Wouldn't it be "cruel and unusual punishment" to livestream an execution? I know it's quaint to bring up the Constitution, but some of us still support it.

Hegseth is going to execute Nidal Hasan with a firing squad while he’s sitting in his wheelchair and televise it live. MAGA is salivating.

Christian Nationalism is just white ISIS www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".

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Yep. The martyrdom aspect of the U.S. military livestreaming the public firing squad execution of a man in a wheelchair could be quite significant!

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 18h ago

Beyond matters of taste and decency and whether or not you even believe in the death penalty due to moral reasons, livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan is a dumb idea because you're giving him his moment of public martyrdom.

Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read

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Mark my words, they're gonna make a reality game show of this shit in the future & sell tickets. Winner gets to pull the trigger. And people will be up for it. We're the saddest species like, ever

America, where we can watch public executions, but not Stephen Colbert.

A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.

Special Issue featuring Shadowdocket's arch-nemesis, The Professor!

It’s October and the neighbors are back with #SkeletonCrew. Strong start!

Another court has rejected Trump’s efforts to evade Senate confirmation and override court appointments of US Attorneys. My thoughts in @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump’s Firing of US Attorneys Is Another Power Grab

The Trump administration’s latest effort to evade the Senate confirmation process and upset the constitutional balance of power is focused on the fifth floor of a federal office building in downtown S...

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SCOOP @wired.com: Abdul El-Sayed is out with a new paid digital ad in the Michigan Senate race attacking Mike Rogers for helping expand government surveillance, seeking to tap into voter anxieties about tech and Flock cameras weeks before the midterms

As Trump crisscrossed the country last week trying to help his party avoid a blowout in the midterms, two of his top political advisers — James Blair and Chris LaCivita — were in the Balkans helping a pro-Russian government looking to tighten its grip on power.

Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government

James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.

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“Refusing election observers is usually something that countries in a position of weakness do, when they know that they have corrupt or unfair elections."

Intimidation Feared as Trump DOJ Boosts Its Own Election Monitors While Rejecting International Observers

International election observers criticize Trump's refusal to invite OSCE to monitor US midterms, raising concerns of voter intimidation. Is the administration trying to manipulate the elections?

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Ever heard of Election Truth Alliance? @electiontruthalliance.org You should check out Nathan and the team. They've been on this.

In recent months, the DOJ and DHS have issued an increasingly number of press releases featuring arrests and charges (but not convictions) of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud, bolstering a false narrative that non-citizen voting in U.S. elections is widespread and impacting election results.

The latest “rigged election” strategy from the Trump administration involves producing a series of strategically timed arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud & promoting those events to feed the false narrative that non-citizen voter fraud is widespread. uwcip.substack.com/p/federal-fr...

Federal Fraud Charges Resonate With Debunked Non-Citizen Voting Narratives

A flurry of recent charges and press conferences amplifying alleged non-citizen voting make a small phenomena seem bigger

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Even if Donald Trump’s voter suppression and subversion efforts fail in November, they may create lasting doubt over the 2026 midterms result — and further undermine the faith Americans have in their democracy. Read the latest analysis by Bruce Stokes for the autumn issue of @theworldtoday.org.

What will happen if Trump rejects the midterm results?

The administration’s efforts to undermine confidence in the US electoral system could spark a political crisis in November – with consequences for the 2028 presidential race and beyond, writes Bruce S...

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The biggest threat to America, are people who are convinced their vote doesn't count and then sit around and complain about the results of the election, they could have changed the result of... who wins aren't the result, what they do with that win is...

Jane Voter@janevoter2018.bsky.social · 3d ago

In ‘24, out of approximately 245M Americans who were ELIGIBLE to vote, 174M voted. Trump created an affordability crisis, war, dared Iran to bomb 2 American cities, & attacked our rights to free speech, press, privacy, & due process. Don’t sit this one out! Vote for a better life, & vote early.

This should alarm every American. Trump is shutting out independent election observers while preparing to send his own DOJ monitors to polling places. That's a page out of Putin's playbook. Our elections belong to the people — not Donald Trump.

Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

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Via Jonathan Shorman: As President Donald Trump refuses to rule out taking extreme action in the midterm elections, voting rights advocates and civil rights leaders are bolstering their voter protection efforts in anticipation of possible federal interference. https://ow.ly/L5jR50ZVaQ8

Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups - this is a blatant attack on civil society using the word and work of known election deniers. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups

The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.

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🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

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This should be considered a 5-alarm democracy fire.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.