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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education.

Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book!

Schools should teach, not preach.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.

Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.

Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.

Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Sanders: They have refused to negotiate. And anyone thinks that tomorrow they'll suddenly start negotiating. I think, is smoking what is illegal in many states

AOC: And should be legal in more.

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🌞Enjoy The Day🌞 @enjoytheday.bsky.social · 1d

Morning all. Another wonderful one! Enjoy the Day🌞

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10h

Capitol Police are literally protecting the same scumbag assholes who refuse to pay them but are still fighting to give money to January 6 terrorists. That’s another level of evil.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 8h

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🕊️KatarinaKriz🕊️On the turning away~Pink Floyd @katarinakriz.bsky.social · 7h

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

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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Viking4Life @viking4life.bsky.social · 8h

Allowing Trump? Who holds the purse? Congress. Who has the majority? REPUBLICANS. You get that, right?

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RR Edmonds @rredmondsart.bsky.social · 14h

Same.

Sure they need to have consistent messaging, but ignoring what is happening in our cities is just cowardly lame ass shit.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 13h

Sadly, my milquetoast Dem representatives are still too afraid of seeming anti-cop or pro-scary-brown-people to say anything critical of ICE.

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jackmoli.bsky.social @jackmoli.bsky.social · 13h

This. Republicans do this ALL THE TIME. Anytime they find a camera they’ll throw in, “Democrats are in your kids’ school cutting off their little genitals,” regardless of what they’re talking about. Why can’t Democrats be bothered to mention things that are ACTUALLY happening.

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Cheryl Davis @cherylrjohnston.bsky.social · 14h

"while sending $40B to Argentina, the country that is now supplying China's soybeans while our farmers watch their soybean crop rot in their fields". So many opportunities to simplify and make the corruption message relevant.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14h

…a throwaway line, attached to the broader message of them stealing your and your loved ones’ healthcare

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14h

I am not an expert partisan communicator or anything but for months, it was weird to me how so many Dem leaders and key figures just didn’t tack on things like “… while using armed troops to invade american cities, and using your tax dollars to fund a secret police terrorizing your town” even as…

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 15h

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Speaker Johnson is protecting pedophiles. That's what this is all about.”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

Just a feckless, feeble, snot flap of a man

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10h

If you’ve recently awoken from a coma, the Speaker of the House is stalling the swearing in of a newly elected member from Arizona because she would be the deciding vote in the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, which would be trouble for his boss.

You’re caught up.

Ps: Welcome back.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Check it out!

From the vault: Mike Johnson said he’d take a blowtorch to the ACA.

Here’s the thing… 45% of marketplace enrollees are Republicans. Cool! So he’s threatening to burn the GOP’s own base. 🔥
#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

JD Vance said today on the TPUSA podcast that these guys were “just a bunch of kids in a chat room.” bsky.app/profile/blue...

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 17h

These are some of the leaked messages Young Republicans were sending in group chats.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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SubAtomic @subatomicash.bsky.social · 15h

Just as bad shit crazy as her lunatic husband.

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ytscks.bsky.social @ytscks.bsky.social · 15h

I cant watch because I know it will make me cringe.

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Jack Beeblebrox @fourteetwo.bsky.social · 15h

I hope Cheryl Hines is happy knowing she will be right next her husband when the trials begin to punish these piece of shit.

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 14h

There's only one moral and ethical tack to take - stop inviting people on your show when they do things that cause babies to die.

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 13h

Plus, FAUCI DID NOT SAY THAT VACCINATED PEOPLE CANNOT GET COVID! We can't continue to let the media allow repeating this lie. No scientist would EVER say that. Biden made a sloppy statement once, but Fauci only talked about how the virus would be less symptomatic in vaccinated people.

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