Nicholas Cote
@nicholascote.bsky.social
Advocate, organizer, and coalition builder for ending the death penalty.
Expect posts about sports, movies, hiking, and travel.
Home means Nevada, but often elsewhere.
Peace be with you. https://linktr.ee/nicholascote
Expect posts about sports, movies, hiking, and travel.
Home means Nevada, but often elsewhere.
Peace be with you. https://linktr.ee/nicholascote
Happy Nevada Day!
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happy Nevada Day!
Feeling pretty good about drafting Trey Yesavage in my dynasty league.
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Feeling pretty good about drafting Trey Yesavage in my dynasty league.
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There’s a lot going on in this godforsaken country but if you have found yourself wondering “What’s up with Richard Glossip’s case?” here you go. My latest for @theintercept.com:
Her Mentor Sent Richard Glossip to Death Row. Can She Give Him a Fair Trial?
Judge Susan Stallings refuses to recuse herself from the third trial of Richard Glossip, despite her ties to the Oklahoma County DA’s office.
theintercept.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
There’s a lot going on in this godforsaken country but if you have found yourself wondering “What’s up with Richard Glossip’s case?” here you go. My latest for @theintercept.com:
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I’ve written about people who were exonerated after being imprisoned for 20, 30, and 40-plus years. Some were nearly executed. None of them ever saw anything near $320 million.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I’ve written about people who were exonerated after being imprisoned for 20, 30, and 40-plus years. Some were nearly executed. None of them ever saw anything near $320 million.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Spotify should be fined for their Power Pop playlist inexplicably including the boring studio version of Cheap Trick’s I Want You to Want Me.
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Spotify should be fined for their Power Pop playlist inexplicably including the boring studio version of Cheap Trick’s I Want You to Want Me.
@sickoscommittee.org I’m at Vegas airport waiting for my flight to Boise (will be going to the UNLV game tomorrow!) and next gate over the UNM women’s volleyball is here rocking the turquoise.
October 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
@sickoscommittee.org I’m at Vegas airport waiting for my flight to Boise (will be going to the UNLV game tomorrow!) and next gate over the UNM women’s volleyball is here rocking the turquoise.
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Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
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What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher?
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
August 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
It’s not law. It’s not order. It’s just power.
These two things cannot both be true:
1: throwing a sandwich at a federal officer is a violent assault worthy of prosecution.
2: raiding the Capitol grounds, assaulting police offices & vandalizing federal property in an effort to interfere with an election is a harmless protest worthy of pardons.
1: throwing a sandwich at a federal officer is a violent assault worthy of prosecution.
2: raiding the Capitol grounds, assaulting police offices & vandalizing federal property in an effort to interfere with an election is a harmless protest worthy of pardons.
August 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It’s not law. It’s not order. It’s just power.
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I wrote about the 69-year-old man Tennessee plans to kill tomorrow. @theintercept.com
Tennessee Is About to Execute Byron Black — Despite His Intellectual Disability
Decades after sending him to death row, Nashville prosecutors admitted he shouldn’t be executed. Tennessee plans to kill him anyway.
theintercept.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I wrote about the 69-year-old man Tennessee plans to kill tomorrow. @theintercept.com
@sickoscommittee.org look who is at Dbacks game
June 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
@sickoscommittee.org look who is at Dbacks game
@sickoscommittee.org has anyone corrected Jordan yet about Sam Boyd Stadium? It’s as off-campus as you can get. (Also, I miss it.)
May 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
@sickoscommittee.org has anyone corrected Jordan yet about Sam Boyd Stadium? It’s as off-campus as you can get. (Also, I miss it.)
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A firing squad in South Carolina missed the target over Mikal Mahdi's heart during execution last, causing him to suffer a prolonged death: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution
Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi according to protocol, which lawyers say caused prolonged suffering
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A firing squad in South Carolina missed the target over Mikal Mahdi's heart during execution last, causing him to suffer a prolonged death: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A Big East Pope!
Church bells rang for hours at Villanova University when they heard that Robert Francis Prevost, a former student, had just become the new pope. “As soon as we heard ‘Prevost,’ everyone started cheering,” one student said. nyti.ms/43m0VSb
May 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A Big East Pope!
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” My intent with this was just to depict the temporary interstate closure, but there is a lot going on here about our local/state politics and public policy.
April 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” My intent with this was just to depict the temporary interstate closure, but there is a lot going on here about our local/state politics and public policy.
Thinking about this thread I read earlier in the day, after on my drive home I saw that a portion of I-11 NB between Boulder City and Henderson/Vegas was completely shut to traffic. Apparently a fatal accident earlier. The presumption that driving entails safety and freedom is…weird.
1. Yes, the whole POINT is to take ppl off the road. Because traffic is a classic negative externality.
2. Maybe more money from pricing = cleaner subways!
3. The subways are really safe. So sick of being told to ignore my eyes.
4. "Freedom" isn't a thing in the presence of neg externalities.
2. Maybe more money from pricing = cleaner subways!
3. The subways are really safe. So sick of being told to ignore my eyes.
4. "Freedom" isn't a thing in the presence of neg externalities.
Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."
April 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thinking about this thread I read earlier in the day, after on my drive home I saw that a portion of I-11 NB between Boulder City and Henderson/Vegas was completely shut to traffic. Apparently a fatal accident earlier. The presumption that driving entails safety and freedom is…weird.
At a AAA day game in Vegas for Jackie Robinson day. A father has been trying to point out to his child how the Aviators all wearing 42, but without being clear about *why.* Maybe the kid already knows. But it’s worth repeating.
April 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
At a AAA day game in Vegas for Jackie Robinson day. A father has been trying to point out to his child how the Aviators all wearing 42, but without being clear about *why.* Maybe the kid already knows. But it’s worth repeating.
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BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
I see human beings with dignity being used as a backdrop and it’s grotesque
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I see human beings with dignity being used as a backdrop and it’s grotesque
There’s a code talker statue right across from the Arizona Capitol. Is that woke too?
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
www.axios.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
There’s a code talker statue right across from the Arizona Capitol. Is that woke too?
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First dem governor in EIGHT YEARS to oversee an execution. We’re going backwards. boltsmag.org/secrecy-as-a...
Secrecy Clouds Arizona's Lethal Injection Protocol as the State Restarts Executions - Bolts
The decision by Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs to resume capital punishment aligns with a larger trend of death penalty states hiding key details about executions.
boltsmag.org
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
First dem governor in EIGHT YEARS to oversee an execution. We’re going backwards. boltsmag.org/secrecy-as-a...
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“This is the ultimate state power. Even if you believe the death penalty is appropriate in certain situations, the people have the right to know the law is being followed,” said @nicholascote.bsky.social of Conservatives Concerned. Read more in @bolts.bsky.social ...
Secrecy Clouds Arizona's Lethal Injection Protocol as the State Restarts Executions - Bolts
The decision by Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs to resume capital punishment aligns with a larger trend of death penalty states hiding key details about executions.
boltsmag.org
March 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“This is the ultimate state power. Even if you believe the death penalty is appropriate in certain situations, the people have the right to know the law is being followed,” said @nicholascote.bsky.social of Conservatives Concerned. Read more in @bolts.bsky.social ...
This weekend I brainstormed something to write. @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com got there first.
I have a piece up at @thebulwark.bsky.social. The Silicon Valley oligarchs like to think of themselves as heroes out of an Ayn Rand novel, but they perfectly encapsulate the *villains* of Atlas Shrugged. 1/
Elon Musk Thinks He’s an Ayn Rand Hero. Nope: He’s One of Her Villains.
Recent years have revealed the Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs who worship Rand to be racists, fraudsters, and looters.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This weekend I brainstormed something to write. @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com got there first.
At the Old Idaho Penitentiary Site. This sign, sadly, could use an update.
February 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
At the Old Idaho Penitentiary Site. This sign, sadly, could use an update.