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Em
@emwils.bsky.social
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Basketball and abolition and human rights and dignity and anti-Amazon shitposts and so forth || she/her
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emwils.bsky.social
Em @emwils.bsky.social · 3d
Big-time "lunatics, haters, and punk trash" energy
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d
Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Michael Barajas @michaelbarajas.bsky.social · 4d
Anthony Boyd was sent to death row for murder with no physical evidence but rather on the word of a codefendant who testified against him to avoid execution. Boyd’s court-appointed lawyer admitted he was unprepared at trial

important new story by @laurengill.bsky.social 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.
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Death Penalty Action @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social · 6d
🚨This is a week of shame in America. Four people are scheduled to be ex*cuted — one maintains a serious claim of innocence.

Regardless of guilt, every case deserves our attention, our compassion, and our voices.
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emwils.bsky.social
Em @emwils.bsky.social · 9d
The frogs are hands down among the most powerful political iconography of this century
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 10d
Death row inmate Robert Roberson's execution, scheduled for next week, has been stayed following a ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. bit.ly/3IO5Nbx
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emwils.bsky.social
Em @emwils.bsky.social · 10d
I can't fix the structural asymmetry in our media ecosystem but here's a gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
www.nytimes.com
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11d
One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health
One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health
Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.
www.motherjones.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11d
JUST NOW IN MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social announces his run for Congress: “Believe in me, because I believe you deserve the best. It’s about US.”

Full: www.facebook.com/share/v/1A8A...
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emwils.bsky.social
Em @emwils.bsky.social · 12d
New York City is so lucky to count this man among its own.
bradlander.bsky.social Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d
On this awful second anniversary of October 7th, as we come out of Yamim Noraim (the days of awe) and begin Sukkot, we need to conduct cheshbon ha’nefashot, an accounting of souls.
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An accounting of souls
You don’t get to t’shuvah just by accounting. You have to earnestly commit not to keep causing harm, and start working for repair.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13d
Frodo: I wish it need not have happened in my time.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Frodo: I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13d
Social media sites where people in the US get their news from:

Facebook 38%
YouTube 35%
Instagram 20%
TikTok 20%
X 12%
Reddit 9%
Nextdoor 6%
WhatsApp 5%
Threads 3%
Rumble 2%
Truth Social 2%
Bluesky 2%

Source: www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 16d
America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"
ICE crosses another big, important line.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
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Bryce Maschino @bmaschino.bsky.social · 16d
It's only going to get worse
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16d
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18d
Breaking News: The organizers of a flotilla trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza say Israel has intercepted some of their boats.
Activists Say Israel Has Intercepted Boats Headed to Gaza With Aid
The vessels are part of a flotilla carrying activists, including Greta Thunberg, who are trying to deliver humanitarian goods and protest Israel’s war.
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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 24d
Will Berry opposed the execution of Geoffrey West, the man who took his mother's life. Alabama suffocated him anyway. Read the full story here.
'We Pray He Gains Peace': Over Objection of Victim's Family, Alabama Executes Geoffrey Todd West
Will Berry opposed the execution of his mother's murderer. Alabama suffocated him anyway.
www.treadbylee.com
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Em @emwils.bsky.social · 24d
Overwhelmed by Mr. Berry's bravery, keeping him, Mr. West, and their families in my heart today, and in awe of my friend @leahanelson.bsky.social for continuing to steadfastly add stitches of humanity to the gaping wounds of alienation and cruelty.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24d
William Berry has urged Alabama officials to stop the execution of his mother's killer, Geoffrey West. Over the years, Berry said the lessons of a hard life pushed him toward forgiveness and has argued that West's scheduled death penalty would bring neither justice nor closure.
Son of Mother Killed by Geoffrey West Urges Alabama to Halt Execution
William Berry has urged Alabama officials to stop the execution of Geoffrey West, arguing that it would bring neither justice nor closure.
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Death Penalty Action @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social · 24d
"When I go to Holman, I want to speak with Mr. West heart to heart. I want to tell him I forgive him, that my mother forgives him, and that God loves him."

🗞️Read more of Will Berry's inspiring testimony of forgiveness 👉 thespectator.com/topic/dont-e...
Don't execute my mother's killer, I forgive him
I do not want the state of Alabama to kill Geoffrey West who shot and killed my mother while robbing the gas station where she worked
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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 24d
Will Berry is opposed to the execution of the man who took his mother’s life. Here’s what he told Alabama’s governor. www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...
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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 24d
Please watch this
leehedgepeth.bsky.social Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 24d
Will Berry is opposed to the execution of the man who took his mother’s life. Here’s what he told Alabama’s governor. www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...
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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 24d
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
He Forgave His Mother’s Killer. Now, He’s Fighting to Spare the Man’s Life.
www.nytimes.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25d
As @timmiller.bsky.social says: “irresponsible & sick”
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