This week the courts finally blocked Alabama from executing someone with nitrogen, a grisly new method that experts say likely causes immense suffering
My colleague @laurengill.bsky.social witnessed one of the first nitrogen executions, describing here how the man gasped and thrashed for minutes
A 23-year old influencer who says he is "anti-universal suffrage" and that "women generally do not have what it takes to endure the pressures of a public office" has been hired to help run elections in a Utah county.
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Alabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments.boltsmag.org
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The Utah County clerk is facing backlash for filling the role of chief deputy clerk with a 23-year-old conservative influencer.
NEWS:
Another one!
Michael Gavshon, the longtime 60 Minutes producer who worked on the Anderson Cooper/South Africa story that Bari Weiss tried to meddle with (and led to Cooper quitting 60), announced to staff today that he's leaving the show.
😆 DL Hughley: “There’s more evidence to suggest that Trump is a pedophile than the election in Los Angeles was rigged. The one thing MAGA hates more than Black people is proof” @marcofoster.bsky.social
Breaker reports that Bari Weiss's newest hire for the London bureau is Trevor Phillips, a 72-year-old ex-British politican known for his Islamophobic views.
"What an utter joke," one senior CBS staffer told me. "His anti-Muslim views are clearly a qualifier."
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“I have a feeling that Bari will not be overseeing ‘60 Minutes’ for very much longer. I think once the deal gets done with Warner Bros., people will demand that she be let go or move into another position,” Steve Kroft says. “Everything she’s touched has turned to shit."
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Charlie Cook on last week's Fox Ohio poll (which had Sherrod Brown up 8): "When reading the numbers that follow, you should know that unreleased, private, high-quality polls conducted for both sides show similar results; this poll is not an outlier" www.charliecookpolitics.com/p/ohio-poll-...
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The Alaska elections division has issued a preliminary decision to remove (the other, other) Dan Sullivan from the ballot after GOP complaints. www.adn.com/politics/202...
In honor of #StephenColbert and #ScottPelley, LET’S #BoycottCBS
#StrongerTogether #UNITEDWeStand
TYVM @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social
#BlueCrew #democracy #indivisible #resistance
Justin Baragona
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Enjoy the festivities!!!
Yam tit's name being torn off the Kennedy Center
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