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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6h

SCOTUS just allowed Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas.

@laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...

Take out your phone, go to the clock app, and find the
stopwatch. Click start. Now watch the seconds as they
climb. Three seconds come and go in a blink. At the thirtysecond mark, your mind starts to wander. One minute
passes, and you begin to think that this is taking a long
time. Two . . . three . . . . The clock ticks on. Then, finally,
you make it to four minutes. Hit stop.
Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating.
You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are
strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping
your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the
gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe.
That is what awaits Anthony Boyd tonight. For two to
four minutes, Boyd will remain conscious while the State of
Alabama kills him in this way. When the gas starts flowing, he will immediately convulse. He will gasp for air.

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Gov. Beshear and Gov. Dewine joined us today at the University of Cincinnati for a discussion hosted by the Portman Center

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Results are not weighted by likelihood of voting in 2026, and among these particular respondents, Brown would have won in 2024.

So this is as tepid a 1 point poll lead as you can get.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4d

A YouGov poll of Ohio's upcoming Senate race:

Sherrod Brown, the former Democratic senator: 49%
Jon Husted, the appointed GOP senator: 48%.
scholarworks.bgsu.edu/depo/14/

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Prosecutor cuts corners, makes shady deal, defense attorney phones it in, and the defendant is left defenseless. Alabama justice.

boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd...

He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. - Bolts

No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

boltsmag.org

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

No idea of an actual number, but the volume of people at the Ohio Statehouse was clearly the biggest in our contemporary fight for democracy

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Columbus, Ohio No Kings

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 5d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · 12d

They're putting up a new display over at the Museum of the Disingenuous.

Republican Cincinnati city council candidate advises city voters not to cast a complete ballot...because VOTING DILUTES YOUR VOTE.

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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 14d

A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill.
by Megan Henry
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/09/o...

Ohio Republicans want public schools to teach positive impacts of Christianity on history • Ohio Capital Journal

A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach the positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill, named the...

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · 17d

Every city in Ohio spends the majority of its revenue on public safety. Understand this about the Ohio legislature's war on local government funding -- every dollar they take away from a city threatens, first and foremost, police and fire.

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · 17d

The City of Cincinnati now gets more of its budget from building inspection fees and permits than it gets in state aid.

www.cincinnati-oh.gov/sites/budget...

www.cincinnati-oh.gov

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · 17d

The "anti-tax" state legislature has created a top-10 property tax state.

A 20-year campaign to grind down state support of local government -- the local government fund sliced, the estate tax eliminated.

Cincinnati gets more of its budget from building inspection fees than from state aid.

David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 17d

Ohio lawmakers trying to figure out why Ohio has the 8th highest local property tax levies, after lawmakers repeatedly cut state funding for local government, services, and public schools decade after decade.

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · 21d

The value of a degree program is irrelevant in Ohio.

State legislators -- hoping to harm Women's Studies and the like -- imposed a formula that is canceling medical, business, education degrees at CSU and skilled trade apprentice programs at Tri-C.

Making Ohio dumber and poorer to own the libs.

cleveland.com @cleveland.com · 21d

🔗: https://l.cleveland.com/2w8b4y

Cleveland State University is cutting 22 programs, including the Doctor of Nursing Practice, accelerated MBA, and several environmental and education degrees. Students in affected programs can still finish their degrees.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 22d

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

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ACLU of Kentucky @acluofky.bsky.social · 27d

It's not happening in some far-off place.
This is Kentucky.
This is now.

‘I need her’: Son of Honduran mother detained by ICE in Louisville speaks out

The family of a single mother from Honduras who’s been living in Louisville for more than ten years says she has been detained by ICE.

www.wave3.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 28d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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David Niven @nivenpolitics.bsky.social · Sep 19

If there is one thing every university president should have learned from Santa Ono's saga -- it is that there is simply no level of debasement sufficient to protect you from the purge, so you might as well go down fighting

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/06/21/t...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 19

Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 19

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

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