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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 14h

Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.

Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.

www.treadbylee.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 18h

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

FWIW, I know language barriers or various other factors can sometimes make it where some written tests aren’t necessarily reliable or proper measures of what a student has learned or knows. Good teachers generally grasp this. Still, that’s a seemingly steep number of folks not making the cut.

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

“The academic requirement includes an exam in which officers are allowed to consult their textbooks and notes at the end of a legal course on the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Fourth Amendment, which outlines when officers can and can’t conduct searches and seizures.” - Bless their hearts.

“Nearly half of new recruits who've arrived for training at the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center over the past three months were later sent home because they couldn't pass the written exam, according to the data. The academic requirement includes an exam in which officers are allowed to consult their textbooks and notes at the end of a legal course on the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Fourth Amendment, which outlines when officers can and can't conduct searches and seizures.”

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

Hang tight for how almost “half of new recruits who’ve arrived for training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center over the past three months were later sent home because they couldn’t pass the written exam.” AND test-takers could look at notes and books! 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting

The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

www.nbcnews.com

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 1d

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One week after Pentagon reporters exited over DOD's press policy, a new crop of right-wing media and influencers has signed on including Tim Pool, Gateway Pundit, TPUSA, and Lindell TV.

My latest for @washingtonpost.com with @drewharwell.com:

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout

A new crop of conservative media and influencers signed an agreement with the Pentagon, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse.

www.washingtonpost.com

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

To regularly unleash hell on their hooey, ridicule their conspiracy crap, mock them for operating off mystery money, and just directly confront the dangerous and reactionary approach Dawson and so many of his bunch favor seems like the proper approach. He’s regularly providing ammunition to use. 🤷🏻‍♂️

John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

… rallying a segment of the citizenry, keeping certain legislators or other influential people hemmed up, shaping the debate, etc. This is, of course, considered alongside the multiple other ‘conservative’ media and messaging efforts located here in Alabama. I’m still in favor of 🎯ing them.

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

… people across the state see or hear 1819 ‘News’ or Bryan Dawson and think zealots, cranks, dark money-funded, Breitbartesque, loons, Bubba Coleman, etc. And those who like their work were probably already rather jacked up already. At the same time, I often wonder how much they have to do with …

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

… the ‘Big Mules’ and/or just sufficient regular folks with some resources and reach will decide Dawson and his 1819ers can’t be largely ignored and left to do their damage. Sure, I understood the idea of not giving them any attention and hoping harm would be manageable. It’s possible that most …

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

That the crank and zealot at the helm of 1819 ‘News’ was engaging in some casual conservative theory silliness about how Anne Frank’s diary was largely ginned up by her father, something that unsavory sorts have been doing for decades, shouldn’t surprise. I keep thinking that eventually enough of …

Reply tweet of Bryan Dawson of 1819 ‘News’ to a portion of Anne Frank’s writing about people being dragged out of their homes asking, “Didn't Anne Frank's dad manufacture the majority of that journal?” For those who might not know, this is some rather hardcore conspiracy slop some rather unsavory characters have raised over the decades. Yup, it’s no surprise Bryan Dawson would do such as this.

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

… like damn near everything this scoundrel says or sends out. While it’s likely various people at the top of different industry or lobbying groups know they’ll need to tiptoe around his unpredictably and tender feelings, it’d still be nice to read a few producers ripping him to shreds for this 💩.

John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 1d

The One Special Boy telling cattle producers they’re too dumb to understand their own business, how it’s only because he’d slapped tariffs on 🇧🇷 that they’re doing so well … doesn’t seem like an especially smart response to mild pushback on his 🇦🇷 bailout involving beef imports. It’s balderdash …

“The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don't understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil. If it weren't for me, they would be doing just as they've done for the past 20 years - Terrible! It would be nice if they would understand that, but they also have to get their prices down, because the consumer is a very big factor in my thinking, also!”

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 2d

An AP investigation found that more than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses this year, part of a campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law. https://to.pbs.org/43dxCkD

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

to.pbs.org

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 2d

My experience, reading or understanding of history, … is that reds or economic leftists have often been marginalized or downright driven away from Brand D. Instead, donor-class concerns commonly carry the day. Even pinkish types were, until recently, often viewed with suspicion.

John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 2d

Palmer’s 🎭 is perfectly pathetic, of course. It’s ludicrous to suggest these relatively bourgeois, polite progressive, resistance wine mom involved … events were all that ‘red.’ Sure, I suppose people of different perspectives or persuasions participated. But as always, if only Brand D was so left.

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 2d

… to shovel out silliness and stupidity for an audience expecting and needing to have their priors affirmed is an easy ask. What he’s less likely to do is put himself in a position where he might face pushback, be asked cogent questions from an informed interviewer, etc. Nope, no link to this 💩.

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 2d

For decades US Rep Gary Palmer (AL-06) was at the helm of the Alabama Policy Institute as well as being a big cheese with the State Policy Network as a whole. He’s been telling tall tales and engaged in ‘conservative’ agitation basically his entire adult life. Going up on ‘conservative’ talk radio …

1819 ‘News’ article filed
by former Yellowstainer Austen Shipley on 20 October 2025. Headline is “'Painted themselves into a corner': Gary Palmer says communists dictating what the Democrats do' after 'No Kings' protests

“U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) spoke about last weekend's nationwide "No Kings" protests on Huntsville WVNN's "The Yaffee Program" on
Monday morning.
The congressman mentioned two far-left organizations that helped fund thousands of the demonstrations across the country: the Democratic Socialists and the Communist Party of the United States. Palmer argued that they were "dictating what the Democrats do."

<radio interview embedded>

“"I would point out that the Democratic Socialists were one of the sponsors of the rallies and also the Communist Party of the United States was a sponsor, and just these really radical groups funded by people like George Soros are now dictating what the Democrats do," Palmer stated.

He was then asked about the large number of elderly, white individuals disproportionately taking part in the demonstrations.
"They're pretty much the people that grew up in the
'60s, the radicals from that time period," Palmer said.

"This is their philosophy and it never has changed."
The Democratic Party is now firmly aligned with the ideals of communism, Palmer argued.
"I never, in my wildest dreams, thought that we would have a major political party tied to the Communist Party, but the Democrats are there now, and I think they've really kind of painted themselves into a corner, he asserted.”

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 2d

Alabama folks especially may want to read this ‘un. It’s focusing on Ed Aldag’s Medical Properties Trust, Inc., a REIT with hundreds of international facilities. 😳

Hannah Levintova @h-lev.bsky.social · 3d

This July, @acleek.bsky.social & I made a radio show about a major hospital landlord named Medical Properties Trust.

Now, we’ve unraveled MPT's aggressive effort to silence and surveil its critics as they tried to raise alarm, using docs leaked to @occrp.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire

When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled.

www.motherjones.com

John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 2d

One additional thing to do, at least if the shoe fits, might be to try to put the pieces together on how bad-faith actors are funded, organized, etc. Little of their sort of slop gets much traction absent money, maintenance, ‘conservative’ messaging, etc. Sunlight on such diminishes their designs.

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve told this story before, but worth repeating: When Alabama’s ban on gender-affirming medical care went before a federal judge in 2022, the families challenging it had doctors, data and personal testimonials. The state had irrelevancies, insinuations and vibes. (1)

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 3d

Watson starts around 13:40 in from this recording out in Vancouver, WA. Of all the places she could’ve landed, that Fairhope got her was extraordinarily awful luck. rumble.com/vkcfo9-vps-s...

VPS School Board Public Comments 13July21

As compared to the recording on the school board site, you can actually hear and see the public commenters approx. 3 minutes. Separate videos of each commenter are available. (Sensore d off YT)

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 3d

She and some of her fellow travelers are featured in the following. youtu.be/Auz0-5EaHFY?...

Fairhope City Council squashes immigrant rumors

YouTube video by WKRG

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 3d

Rebecca Watson of Fairhope even managed to be pictured on the late Charlie Kirk’s show for one of her innumerable instances of agitation.

Rebecca Watson appears to have even made the cut on the late Charlie Kirk’s show. If memory serves, the former Breitbarter that’s the editor of the apparently dark money-funded 1819 ‘News’ outfit here in Alabama was a big part of pushing her and that story along.

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John Gunn @johngunn.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve a fair amount archived on Watson as she’s constantly carrying on. She’d been one of the more visible raising a ruckus about all the immigrants/migrants arriving in Alabama. That they weren’t and how this was apparently another agitprop operation wasn’t followed up on. www.al.com/news/2024/09...

Fairhope officials: Misinformation fueling panic over unfounded migrant influx

City officials Monday debunked social media misinformation about thousands of immigrants migrating to the Baldwin County city.

www.al.com

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