Rebecca Shore
@beckster.bsky.social
Writer, editor, cat and dog lover, vegetarian, Mets fan. Moved from the Sunshine State ☀️ to My Old Kentucky Home. 🐎she/her
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I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza.
My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
The Tennessean: Christa Pike still alive after administered drugs, attorneys say
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October 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza.
My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
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The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
October 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.
October 1, 2026 at 2:35 AM
End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.
This is delicious. What a buffoon Schmitt is!
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡
Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong.
Here's the whole sequence:
Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong.
Here's the whole sequence:
September 29, 2026 at 3:36 PM
This is delicious. What a buffoon Schmitt is!
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ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
September 20, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
Question of the day: Do you remember?
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September 21, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Question of the day: Do you remember?
We can’t have anything nice.
'Ride Or Die' Canceled By Prime Video After One Season (Exclusive)
'Ride Or Die' has been canceled By Prime Video after one season. The Octavia Spencer & Hannah Waddingham series is shopped By Paramount TV Studios.
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September 20, 2026 at 3:25 PM
We can’t have anything nice.
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eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
September 19, 2026 at 5:47 PM
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
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NEW POLL: 53% of Americans support expanding the Supreme Court, including majorities of both Democrats and independents.
Two weeks ago, House Dems stood united to keep that option on the table.
Happy Constitution Day! law.marquette.edu/poll/
Two weeks ago, House Dems stood united to keep that option on the table.
Happy Constitution Day! law.marquette.edu/poll/
September 17, 2026 at 5:40 PM
NEW POLL: 53% of Americans support expanding the Supreme Court, including majorities of both Democrats and independents.
Two weeks ago, House Dems stood united to keep that option on the table.
Happy Constitution Day! law.marquette.edu/poll/
Two weeks ago, House Dems stood united to keep that option on the table.
Happy Constitution Day! law.marquette.edu/poll/
Hilarious!
So thoughtful of your parents to put together their very own fall tv preview! Read it here: www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
September 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Hilarious!
Oh come on! Anybody else would still be in jail.
A Kentucky Court of Appeals judge granted Matt Bevin’s emergency request to be released from the Louisville jail, where he was serving a 60-day sentence for contempt of court.
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Appeals court order frees former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin from jail
A Kentucky Court of Appeals judge granted Matt Bevin’s emergency request to be released from the Louisville jail, where he was serving a 60-day sentence for contempt of court.
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September 17, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Oh come on! Anybody else would still be in jail.
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SIX MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT: the sky is blue
BRETT KAVANAUGH: the sky probably isn't blue, but y'all aren't ready to have that conversation
ALITO AND THOMAS: the earth is strapped to the back of a gigantic chicken
BRETT KAVANAUGH: the sky probably isn't blue, but y'all aren't ready to have that conversation
ALITO AND THOMAS: the earth is strapped to the back of a gigantic chicken
BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent.
More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com
More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A305
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL. U.
CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 14, 2026]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is denied. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court's preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U. S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreicqn5lewxb2bkaazujt77bmsjfq4ultwu2alo3emhvgsnpkotnwoy)
September 15, 2026 at 2:23 AM
SIX MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT: the sky is blue
BRETT KAVANAUGH: the sky probably isn't blue, but y'all aren't ready to have that conversation
ALITO AND THOMAS: the earth is strapped to the back of a gigantic chicken
BRETT KAVANAUGH: the sky probably isn't blue, but y'all aren't ready to have that conversation
ALITO AND THOMAS: the earth is strapped to the back of a gigantic chicken
I ordered pretty tumbled rocks and a bracelet from Sunny’s Etsy shop (tarotdruid.etsy.com), not only because there’s some cool stuff, but also because she may need help with vet bills. (Orange Boy, though deemed innocent by @darthbluesky.bsky.social, had an unfortunate appetite for his wormy toy.)
September 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I ordered pretty tumbled rocks and a bracelet from Sunny’s Etsy shop (tarotdruid.etsy.com), not only because there’s some cool stuff, but also because she may need help with vet bills. (Orange Boy, though deemed innocent by @darthbluesky.bsky.social, had an unfortunate appetite for his wormy toy.)
Oh no! I was so afraid of this. I am such a huge fan of the Smithsonian, and I had hoped he could somehow escape the administration’s whims. This is a HUGE loss.
September 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Oh no! I was so afraid of this. I am such a huge fan of the Smithsonian, and I had hoped he could somehow escape the administration’s whims. This is a HUGE loss.
A bit of much-needed good news…
Virginia, which once had the highest number of Confederate monuments of all states, removed its last three Confederate monuments from Capitol Square on Friday and no longer publicly displays any Confederate monuments on state property.
Virginia Removes Last Three Confederate Monuments From Capitol
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September 1, 2026 at 10:34 PM
A bit of much-needed good news…
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A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
August 31, 2026 at 3:27 PM
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Same - Five of 25. I am so old.
five of 25 lol
August 31, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Same - Five of 25. I am so old.
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It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
August 30, 2026 at 3:36 PM
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @ifbookspod.bsky.social I am probably the 100th person to send this to you…
The ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author Is $1.2 Billion in Debt
VF visits Robert Kiyosaki in Arizona to unravel the self-mythology of a longtime bestseller and friend of Trump.
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August 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @ifbookspod.bsky.social I am probably the 100th person to send this to you…
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It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two.
Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles
Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles
August 25, 2026 at 8:28 PM
It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two.
Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles
Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles
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If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.”
BRUH.
BRUH.
August 23, 2026 at 11:31 AM
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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Wild that we're still having a conversation about the radicalism of Democrats
Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday he plans to call for a ban on school districts employing anyone with an H-1B visa, a move that could cost hundreds of Texas teachers their jobs. bit.ly/4wA1bbC
August 19, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Wild that we're still having a conversation about the radicalism of Democrats
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The problem with Woke 1 was its lack of proportionality. That's why everyone who tweeted about how racism is bad should be sent to the Hague.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...
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August 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The problem with Woke 1 was its lack of proportionality. That's why everyone who tweeted about how racism is bad should be sent to the Hague.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...
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I don't get. I mean, I get it. I just don't *get* it.
🚨NEW: Hakeem Jeffries declared his opposition to Medicare For All 72 hours after a Yale study shows it would save 100,000 lives & $1 trillion.
Context: Jeffries raked in $391k from health PACs in 2026 & faced no primary pressure to hold the line on Dem priorities because a primary was blocked.
Context: Jeffries raked in $391k from health PACs in 2026 & faced no primary pressure to hold the line on Dem priorities because a primary was blocked.
Hakeem Jeffries’ Betrayal Shows Why Democratic Voters Are So Enraged
House Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it.
www.levernews.com
August 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I don't get. I mean, I get it. I just don't *get* it.
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Even in the Trump era it somehow seems unreal that this dimwitted crackpot is the top public health official for a nation of 350 million people.
This is a very dangerous lunatic.
RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”
RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”
August 18, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Even in the Trump era it somehow seems unreal that this dimwitted crackpot is the top public health official for a nation of 350 million people.