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wants to read Secrets of the Killing State by Corinna Barrett Lain

Corinna Barrett Lain: Secrets of the Killing State (2025, New York University Press) No rating

Heard about this via @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social at:

www.texasobserver.org/sordid-story-behind-lethal-injection/

I've heard before about how lethal injection is pseudoscience. Perhaps a full treatment is given in this book. Now that I've decided to go into nursing, having a full understanding of the system could help to motivate healthcare to take a stronger stance against it.

#DeathPenalty #LethalInjection #CriminalJustice #TexasObserver

Y’all, here’s a shocker! has known on staff. For example, James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, a 44-year-old who works as an assistant chief counsel for ICE in the Dallas area. Rodden represents the agency in immigration court hearings where judges decide whether an individual is removed from the country.

Here’s some choice words of ICE attorney Rodden; Quote: It is our holy duty to guard against the foreign hordes. Nobody is proposing feeding migrants into tree shredders,” the account posted in March 2024. “Yet. Give it a few more weeks at this level of invasion, and that will be the moderate position.”

There’s more, and it’s worse. Support free press, consider subbing to the , they do good work. Also, fuck ICE.

https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

OKAY WE GOT A SHOT AT THIS

16 hours ago the - a 69 (nice) year old paper and trailblazer - was going to shut down Friday.

16 hours later the emergency fundraiser to save the paper is _over_ halfway to goal _already_.

If you care about non-corporate-owned now is a damned good time to step up.

If you care about Mastodon mattering, how's the headline "Mastodon Saves Historic Newspaper" sound to you?

LET'S GO NEWSBIANS LET'S GO

https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/110098765781725050

Bad news: We're losing the Texas Observer.

The Observer was one of the first notable media outlets to move to Mastodon when Musk took over Twitter last November. Unlike a lot of media transplants, they jumped into the fediverse enthusiastically and set up their own instance almost immediately:
@TexasObserver

They'll be missed.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/26/texas-observer-shutting-down/