@emptywheel.bsky.social

"Following Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, President Trump handed the U.S. government over to the world’s richest man through the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. DOGE was nothing short of a catastrophe.

It failed to achieve its stated goals and wreaked havoc across the federal government, weakening or terminating programs and services that the American people rely on and endangering privacy and public safety while President Trump and his billionaire friends line their own pockets."

Here: https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/doge_report.pdf

The #UnitedStatesofAmerica has been sold out lock-stock-and-barrel by a cohort of twenty-something #4Chan #Edgelords under the direct direction of #ElonMusk and with the full knowledge and complicity of #DonaldTrump et al

#Treason is too kind a verdict

The only reasonable penalty: public #SummaryExecution by #FiringSquad

cc @nationalsecuritylaw.org

#OPM #DOGE

People watching a #dystopian thriller which echoes their real life in North Korea, are publicly #executed for consuming "woke" content. Coming soon to the #USA, this is a feature of #fascism: consume real facts or appear to agree w/ criticism of our regime, & we will kill you.
A student who smuggled in copies of #SquidGame from #China got the #FiringSquad while his friends who bought copies got hard labor or life in #prison.
#NorthKorea #ignores #international #law
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/kim-jong-un-squid-game-executions-b1269774.html
Kim Jong Un ‘executes schoolchildren for watching Squid Game’

The harshest punishments are typically imposed on poorer citizens, while wealthy individuals can often avoid executions by bribing officials

Evening Standard

Today in Labor History January 17, 1977: The U.S. resumed capital punishment after a ten-year hiatus, by executing Gary Gilmore by firing squad in Utah. Check out the classic punk song, “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes,” by the Adverts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3swspID3Nxk

The U.S. is one of only 27% of the world’s nations that continue to practice capital punishment. Out of the 40 countries designated as “developed,” the U.S. is one of only four that still have capital punishment on the books. Belarus is the only European country that still practices it, as it is banned in the EU. Russia, which still has the death penalty on the books, hasn’t executed anyone since 1999. And the U.S. is one of only 11 countries that has executed children since 1990, in violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the U.S. has refused to ratify. In 1992, Bill Clinton refused to stay the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a cognitively-impaired man, in order to prove to the voters that he was tough on crime (and to deflect attention from his sex scandals). For his last meal, Rector asked to save his desert, pecan pie, for later, not even realizing there would be no “later” for him. In 2002, the U.S. banned execution of people with intellectual disabilities.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #garygilmore #punk #firingsquad #prison #children

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FIRING SQUAD (Regne Unit) presenta nou recopilatori: "Nuclear Holiday" #FiringSquad #Nwobhm #HeavyMetal #HardRock #Agost2025 #RegneUnit #NouRecopilatori #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

@profdc9

"I wouldn't be surprised if they bring back execution by firing squad"

not sure if you know this:

"#SouthCarolina executes second man by #firingSquad in 5 weeks"

https://apnews.com/article/firing-squad-execution-south-carolina-mikal-mahdi-25466963350812080385524ccc3a9298

South Carolina prepares for second firing squad execution

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate. Friday's execution will be the second time in the past five weeks the state will have carried out an execution using that method, which previously has been associated with political terror or military justice. Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months after an unintended 13-year pause on the death penalty in the state. The 42-year-old Mahdi chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

AP News

#SouthCarolina executes second man by #FiringSquad in 5 weeks

https://apnews.com/article/firing-squad-execution-south-carolina-mikal-mahdi-25466963350812080385524ccc3a9298

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

South Carolina prepares for second firing squad execution

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate. Friday's execution will be the second time in the past five weeks the state will have carried out an execution using that method, which previously has been associated with political terror or military justice. Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months after an unintended 13-year pause on the death penalty in the state. The 42-year-old Mahdi chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

AP News

#SouthCarolina prepares for second #FiringSquad execution

https://apnews.com/article/firing-squad-execution-south-carolina-mikal-mahdi-25466963350812080385524ccc3a9298

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate. Friday's execution will be the second time in the past five weeks the state will have carried out an execution using that method, which previously has been associated with political terror or military justice.

South Carolina prepares for second firing squad execution

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate. Friday's execution will be the second time in the past five weeks the state will have carried out an execution using that method, which previously has been associated with political terror or military justice. Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months after an unintended 13-year pause on the death penalty in the state. The 42-year-old Mahdi chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

AP News

Is this true?

Arizona legislation to allow death row executions by firing squad or gas chamber?

I know cruelty is the point, but this is basically crying out for blood. 😳

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdLXPHSS/
#uspol #arizona #deathpenalty #firingsquad #gaschamber

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