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carpenter22.bsky.social @carpenter22.bsky.social · 1d

French appeal court increases sentence of Gisèle Pelicot rapist www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

French appeal court increases sentence of Gisèle Pelicot rapist

Husamettin Dogan loses appeal after jury at retrial finds him guilty of raping Pelicot while she was sedated

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23h

Soo everytime America swears that something has never happened before

It has happened and usually to a Black person

History may not fully repeat but it rhymes with

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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wiscotexjess.bsky.social @wiscotexjess.bsky.social · 23h

Read This: "Pastor Pepper-Sprayed by ICE Speaks Out on ‘Disturbing’ Incident" www.thedailybeast.com//pastor-pepp... #abolishice

Pastor Pepper-Sprayed by ICE Speaks Out on ‘Disturbing’ Incident

Reverend David Black accused agents of laughing at him during the attack.

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wiscotexjess.bsky.social @wiscotexjess.bsky.social · 23h

Read This: "I’ve Seen Epstein’s Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author" www.thedailybeast.com//ive-seen-ep...

I’ve Seen Epstein’s Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author

Trump biographer Michael Wolff reveals he was shown the lewd photos by Jeffrey Epstein himself.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 1d

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Only in America:

The convicted felon sits in the White House and criminalize the investigators who follow the law . . . 🫣

Stand with Letitia James !

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Karen Melchior @karmel80.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker also responded on social media, saying: “I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

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Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor and Illinois governor as national guard arrives in city

President accused Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker of failing to protect Ice officers as troops deploy to Chicago

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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 11d

Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in Congress’ newest member in order to delay a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. www.axios.com/2025/09/29/m...

Democrats are turning up the heat on Mike Johnson over a delay in the Epstein files vote

Democratic leaders are accusing Republicans of dragging their feet on Adelita Grijalva's swearing in.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 10d

Hey, who here remembers when Republicans (and some others) insisted that the oath of office was a mere formality, and that election itself was the trigger for the start of one's term of office?

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Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote

Newly elected Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva says her swearing in ceremony has been delayed over her support for a petition to release Epstein files.

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Last Mile @artifex24.bsky.social · 10d

Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote - Rolling Stone

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Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote — Rolling Stone

Adelita Grijalva says she “can’t see another reason” why she hasn’t been allowed to begin serving her constituents in Arizona

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8d

It's worth asking how differently things might look on the ground right now if #SCOTUS hadn't eviscerated Bivens—and made it all-but impossible to bring damages suits against federal officers (like ICE agents) who violate our constitutional rights.

This is from my rebuttal in Hernández v. Mesa:

I do want to go back to putting this case in the broader context because I think it's important to understand how we got here. Historically, the whole way that the tort liability regime worked for government misconduct was that this Court and state courts

looked to existing common law causes of action and focused on immunity defenses as the way of calibrating the harm that citizens and others faced when injured by government officers against the need to protect officers acting in good faith, back to Judge Hand in Gregoire
versus Biddle.

The Court struck this balance by fashioning immunity defenses where the fight would be over whether the officer was entitled to immunity or not. And for law enforcement officers specifically, this Court has long
rejected the argument that there should be any context in which law enforcement officers, because of the frequency with which they
interact with average individuals, because of the nature of their interactions, because of the powers they have to search, to seize, to arrest in this context, to use lethal force, did not justify absolute immunity and instead justified a more narrower, qualified kind of immunity for those most likely to come face-to-face with private citizens.

Distilled to its simplest, the government's position in this case is that

officers in what is self-described as the nation's largest law enforcement agency should have a functional absolute immunity at least where foreign nationals are concerned.

And our submission is that that is not consistent with how this Court has always understood the relationship between causes of action and immunity defenses in this context. It is not required by any of this Court's Bivens decisions. It does not abide by this Court's suggestion in Abbasi that there are strong reasons and powerful reasons to retain Bivens in this context.

And it would eliminate the one deterrence that is meaningfully available to ensure that officers in the nation's largest law enforcement agency are complying with the law.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 10d

Wounded Knee is not just a story about the past. It is a mirror that reflects how this nation continues to treat Native peoples and how easily it excuses violence when it is convenient to its own myths.

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With Wounded Knee Medals, Trump Admin Suggests There’s Valor in Genocide

The call to rescind those medals is not about erasing history, but about refusing to let lies and conquest define it.

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 12d

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Between 150 and 300 men, women and children were massacred at Wounded Knee literally for dancing. If someone in my family tree had been awarded a medal for this I would bury it or melt it down. It is beyond shameful.

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 10d

Trump's crew polishes medals from the 1890 Wounded Knee bloodbath, where U.S. troops slaughtered Lakota at a "ghost dance," rebranding massacre as martial merit in a grotesque valorization of savagery. #GenocideWhitewash

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 10d

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A tweet from John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) reads:

"In one day, Mike Johnson protected the child-rapists of the Epstein Files; while Pete Hegseth honored the child-killers of Wounded Knee. And that’s MAGA Christianity. They simply removed all those woke tiresome Jesus parts."

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 11d

National Congress of American Indians" "Wounded Knee Was Not a Battle.
It Was the Deliberate Mass Killing of 350 Lakota."
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NCAI: "Wounded Knee Was Not a Battle, It Was the Deliberate Mass Killing of 350 Lakota

On Friday, the National Congress of American Indians pushed back on the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to retain the Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre ...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13d

The Battle of Wounded Knee, also known as the Wounded Knee Massacre, took place in South Dakota in 1890.

Native Americans condemn Pentagon move to preserve Wounded Knee medals

The Battle of Wounded Knee, also known as the Wounded Knee Massacre, took place in South Dakota in 1890.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 10d

Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."