20,000 people watched a Black man hang in Owensboro 90 years ago. A new book looks at why A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, and examines it through the lens of lynch culture in America.

A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro in 1936, examining it through the lens of lynching culture in America. From @doperle.bsky.social at @wkmsfm.bsky.social

It’s getting very dark very fast. 🇺🇸 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Disney shareholders demand reasons for Kimmel suspension A group of shareholders including the AFL-CIO are asking for records related to the decision.

First in @semafor.com : A group of Disney shareholders represented by attorney Roberta Kaplan are demanding that the company turn over documents related to its decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

YouTube video by James Talarico I’m running for the U.S. Senate

I’m running for the U.S. Senate.

Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people.

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“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”

It appears the ED of Israel’s cyber defense team was just popped in a child sex sting in Vegas… then allowed to leave the country.

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Another Tennessee community is dealing with the same developers who are part of the Christian nationalist effort in Jackson County. MONDAY on @NC5 at 6PM, we travel to that county to investigate.

Should the headline be this?

Ghislaine Maxwell Says Trump Is as Innocent as Epstein

Everything's on the table.

Republicans are using every method they can, whether it's cheating or breaking the law.

We've got to do everything we can to stand up and fight back — we're not sitting around and complaining from the sidelines when we have the ability to stop them.

We are very far over the cliff here folks

Full DHS reply to MeidasTouch:

Oh look— the @RepTimBurchett video got community noted, because Burchett said Trump told him China has no wind turbines and they actually have the most in the world. #BumblinBurchett 🤦🏻‍♂️

Kentucky health advocates ask U.S. House to reject Senate’s version of ‘big beautiful bill’  • Kentucky Lantern Kentucky health advocates are urging the U.S. House to reject Senate changes to a budget bill, warning it will leave many without access to medical care or food assistance.

Kentucky hospitals, health advocates urge House GOP to reject Medicaid cuts in U.S. Senate bill.

“The human toll that these sweeping reductions will have on one of the poorest and most health challenged states is unfathomable."

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Ogles doubling down on the racism — a hero in his own narcissistic, lying mind

Pesky PFAS present in Louisville water, data show Drinking water utilities are preparing to meet future federal safety regulations on forever chemicals. Here’s how Louisville Water Co. is approaching the challenge.

A sample of untreated water headed for a Louisville Water Company treatment facility showed a 15-fold spike last December in the amount of a forever chemical known as GenX. Here's @morganwatkins.lpm.org of KyCIR on how water utilities are meeting the PFAS challenge:

WATCH: “He was cutting grass.”

Soboroff & Wallace on the sickening beating of the father of 3 Marines, and how @joerogan says he wouldn’t have signed up if he had know it would be like this, “tearing the fabric of the community”. (But he should have known)

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast The Real Reason Randi Weingarten Left The DNC

New episode with @rweingarten.bsky.social

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“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing.

Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle.

Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
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Persons in America should never, under any circumstances, ever be even approached by heavily armed and masked men claiming to represent the government. Period. This is what Fascism looks like. This is what evil looks like.

Ethics complaint heard against Kentucky lawmaker Grossberg in day-long closed hearing • Kentucky Lantern Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission hears witnesses in complaint against Rep. Daniel Grossberg but takes not final action.

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Who’s weaponizing who? Kentucky Republicans, Beshear still wrangling over ethics commission Kentucky’s Republican statewide office holders have teamed up in the partisan struggle over who will choose the Executive Branch Ethics Commission, as both sides accuse the other of trying to…

Kentucky’s Republican statewide office holders have teamed up in the partisan struggle over who will choose the Executive Branch Ethics Commission, as both sides accuse the other of trying to “weaponize” ethics enforcement. via @kentuckylantern.com

Rain on his parade.

Cousin in Iran, she lives in a suburb of Tehran:

“They’re bombing us, apartment buildings & homes. Apparently where high ranking officials live but entire buildings of other people. Dogs and cats freaking out. We couldn’t get in the basement.”

They’re bombing high rises full of civilians.

He stood in front of our troops today and gave a mean spirited, partisan speech.

He stood in front of our troops today and attacked Americans by name.

He stood in front of our troops today and goaded them into booing their fellow Americans.

Never become desensitized to this.

We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social

After living outdoors for weeks, she got a place to sleep, a shower — and a job After a church in Muhlenberg County provided her with shelter, a woman experiencing homelessness landed a job just days later. While some are trying to help homeless people in the rural western…

After a church in Muhlenberg County provided her with shelter, a woman experiencing homelessness landed a job just days later. While some are trying to help homeless people there, the woman says others in the community "try to sweep us under the rug like we don’t exist.” via @kentuckylantern.com

Homeless often means ‘invisible,’ but not to everyone in this small Kentucky town In Muhlenberg County – a rural area with few resources for people without shelter – a loose coalition of people are trying to address a growing need to help those experiencing homelessness.

In Muhlenberg County – a rural area with few resources for people without shelter – a loose coalition of people are trying to address a growing need to help those experiencing homelessness. via @kentuckylantern.com

“You shouldn't be within a thousand miles of the directorship of the IRS.”