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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, right. 15% off everything, and the discount will be reflected in your cart.

Carry on.

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 5h

This might actually make me like Brooke Jenkins a little bit.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

Sign in a bookstore window:
FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees let Mississippi kill Charles Ray Crawford tonight, despite treatment at trial that was of the same type that SCOTUS later held in another case is unconstitutional.

All three Democratic appointees, in a lengthy dissent, would have kept him alive.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25-385 (25A378)
CHARLES RAY CRAWFORD v. MISSISSIPPI ON APPLICATION FOR STAY AND ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI
[October 15, 2025]
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE ALITO and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is de-nied.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from the denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari.
Charles Ray Crawford will be executed tonight for a crime that his own lawyers told the jury he committed, despite his express instructions not to do so. Had this case come to this Court on direct appeal, Crawford could have proved that his Sixth Amendment rights were violated under our decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414
(2018), in which we held that lawyers may not override a defendant's explicit and unequivocal decision not to concede guilt at trial. He would also likely be entitled to a new trial, as a McCoy violation is a structural error that mandates reversal.

Charles Ray Crawford has identified an important constitutional issue that this Court has not addressed and has divided courts around the country. The Court refuses to
Cite as: 607 U.S.
(2025)
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SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
resolve that question, even though a man's life is in the bal-ance. For these reasons, the Court should have granted Crawford's motion for a stay of execution and petition for writ of certiorari. I respectfully dissent.

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder if there was any leftover cake?

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

i do firmly believe in the end, we will win, but the dread and the loss of watching this nightmare unfold is really something. These assholes are undermining everything we've taken for granted as a democratic and open society (however imperfect) with such vile hubris

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS killing VRA would really be the culmination of a Second Redemption

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 17h

At least one of them will be hired by the administration in less than a Scaramucci.

Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 17h

This was such a curious thing to discover when I lived in Kenya.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

It's going up to $40 billion.

USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 20h

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 17h

makes me want to jump up and down and scream. so helpless feeling. thinking about what they've done to USAID just breaks my heart.

Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 17h

How does anyone in the military continue to vote for the GOP, and this president in particular? It's utterly baffling to me.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”

(Published August)

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

www.propublica.org

Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 17h

"Trumpire" is really good!

Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 18h

good.

Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 18h

(don't get out over your skis with that "social media is good" stuff. Jury's definitely still out.)

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 18h

It's still wild to me that Congress and SCOTUS are just letting him get away with all of this. The folks who founded this place never could have foreseen this.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19h

NYT: Susan Griffin, a Leading Voice of Ecofeminism, Is Dead at 82

By Penelope Green

With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment. (Gift link!)

Susan Griffin, a Leading Voice of Ecofeminism, Is Dead at 82

www.nytimes.com

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 18h

so good!

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, right. 15% off everything, and the discount will be reflected in your cart.

Carry on.

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 18h

You may not know it, but I'm a chocolatier and decided to have a 48-hour flash sale on everything in my online store (ends Friday at Noon.)

Right now I have Pumpkin Spice Truffles and three different chocolate-dipped toffees. One of them even has bacon in it (shown below.)

NoshThis.com

close-up of many half-dome shaped chocolate truffles clustered together and receding into the distance. They have an orange swirled design on the dark brown chocolate.

An artsy-fartsy photo of a stack of three chocolate-dipped tiles of toffee with one broken in half piece of toffee leaning up against it. On top of the stack are two crispy strips of bacon. This is a product I make and sell called Bacon Crack.

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 21h

oof. forgot they existed

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to the oral arguments today (not a lawyer, just a weirdo) and was repeatedly struck by just how nonchalantly they'd admit to gerrymandering for political advantage because SCOTUS blessed that undemocratic act. The whole system is broken.

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 1d

NY not until next cycle though, right?

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 1d

I can't imagine the anxiety of sharing war plans with the US government right now. Tulsi Gabbard is still in the administration. So is trump for that matter.

Kai [I am anti-fascist] Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 1d

tbh, I wouldn't mind seeing a Nazi boxing ring where they just beat the shit out of each other and did the "Punch Nazis" thing to themselves

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