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Alabama is set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey must stop it. Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row and his execution is scheduled to be carried out this week — unless Ivey grants clemency or courts intervene.

NEW: Alabama is set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey must stop it.

Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row and his execution is scheduled to be carried out this week — unless Ivey grants clemency or courts intervene.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

That’s just the life of a frog in a cowboy hat. Gotta keep on mozzyin’

Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be.

The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.

We’ve got 10 days til the election. Circuit and I need your help!

Oh fuck that.

I will say it again: There are no moderate Republicans. There are just proud MAGA and sacred MAGA. The scared ones leave. The proud ones stay.

It is still happening. No country is stepping in. Cuba has helped so many movements and people around the world and they are being abandoned to die

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

The bitch wore his campaign hat to salute dead soldiers.

I was told Claude wasn’t gonna be involved. 🤷🏻‍♂️

He doesn't need to "direct" the board in a formal legal sense. He can have his Deputy Mayor pick up the phone and talk to Katz, who was just reappointed by Mamdani. He can have his ex officio board members raise it. He can create political pressure for them to act.

I think it makes a lot of cis, straight people deeply uncomfortable to remember just how queerphobic society was, because a lot of them mostly went along with it in public, no matter how they might have personally felt about it.

It's the middle of the night in Chicago. Reporters and electeds are trying to figure out why a US citizen was detained by CBP, why her phone was inside an ICE detention center tonight, and where she is now.

Also unclear what happened to the other five people she was detained with at O'Hare airport.

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I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

a woman is holding a pink purse and the word understandable is on the bottom ALT: a woman is holding a pink purse and the word understandable is on the bottom

It’s understandable

I think a lot of rich people philanthropy can be explained by them trying to wash away past sins.

Of course, it wouldn’t be needed if we taxed these freaks properly.

The Institute for Independent Journalists

I had a great time at the IIJ conference ( @indiejournalists.bsky.social ) and think more independent journalists should join them because they are holding space for the future of independent journalism in all forms. Had super hopeful discussions with journalists.

Be part of it: theiij.com

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools - purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration - to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

The Trump administration's mass deportation dragnet has unleashed a new wave of government surveillance across the country.

In Minnesota, federal agents continue to surveil, track, and intimidate people for exercising our First Amendment rights.

I demand to know which gay is still friends with a maga gay and one that that works at the WH. There’s no other explanation for how they’d know this exists.

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A bill that would ban #RankedChoiceVoting across Ohio is now on Governor Mike DeWine’s desk.

Please take 30 seconds to send him a message asking him to veto #SB63.

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Wordmaxxing? Am I doing that right, kids?

One thing I learned while reporting this story was that even though sex trafficking dominates megaevent headlines, "there is no empirical data demonstrating an increase in sex trafficking" during major events.

What does increase dramatically during megaevents? Labor trafficking

CCTV video showing the moment a missile struck next to a boys’ school in Iran’s Qazvin, causing panic amongst students and staff, has been released by IRGC-affiliated media.

Iran blamed the attack, which reportedly took place during the first day of the war, on the US and Israel.

What the hell is Greg Landsman's problem? The derisive nickname "Genocide Greg" might have been an understatement.

A Capitol Hill source recently interviewed for Congressman Landsman’s legislative director position.

First question of first interview was how they felt about Israel, given Landsman’s “passion” for the issue.

www.rooster.info/p/greg-lands...

Why she didn’t ask him what he thinks an average gallon of gas costs is insane to me.