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Amanda June Long

@alongmessage.bsky.social
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Most School Spirited, class of 90. Most likely to call into a public radio show, now. Massage therapist, nationally syndicated (like Garfield) freelance writer. Voice-text lover, eating-disorder wrangler, frequent bio updater and excellent eavesdropper.

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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Community center vibes for life.
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Love my community center. #thatswhatshesaid
A bulletin board in a community center comes to life with the words of fearless and strong women
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The administration is doing a good job trying to keep measles cases from being counted, yet we’ve already had more deaths in 2025 than in any of the last 30 yrs. Measles also has a delay (incubation period) between transmission and symptoms, so people can be contagious without knowing they’re sick.
bloomberg.com
US Measles Cases Jump 35% in a Week, Now Found in a Dozen States
US measles cases jumped by a third over the past week, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, a worrying sign in the outbreak that’s already linked to two deaths.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Not to like toot my own horn but *every time* I bring up tariffs on the radio I define them: "tariffs are taxes American businesses pay to import goods from abroad." Given all the lies and the fact that many Americans didn't take international economics 101, I encourage others to do this as well.
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Josh Morgerman @icyclone.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I'm still seeing comments saying, "I don't need the NWS! My weather app is better!" Folks don't understand that that cool app is just a parasite that feeds almost entirely off NWS data. The ignorance is stunning.
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Good morning from my sister’s place in southern Indiana. Upon landing at Muhammad Ali International airport yesterday, the first thing I noticed was a prominent display for Black pioneers in aviation. The second thing was RESIST spray painted on a billboard with Ali’s shadow. #resist #blackhistory
Pink skies over Southern Indiana at 7 am Sunshine on my shoulders.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
newrepublic.com
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
More necessary reporting done by The AP. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/26/t...
texastribune.org
Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading?
The group is part of a larger, loosely affiliated group of churches with varied beliefs and leadership structures — and with sometimes strained relations with authorities.
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Joan Hussey Local Elections Matter @joanhussey1.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We should not even be experiencing this outbreak of measles let alone a child's death. This may go like what RFK Jr. accomplished in Samoa in 2019. We don't digest history & folks like RFK Jr don't get consequences. Kennedy's culpability SHOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THIS HISTORY we know. #DemVoice1
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Nearly 40% of Elon Musk's DOGE cuts not expected to save any money - Newsweek
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Excellent reporting and graphics by NY Times illustrating the immediate effect of Trump’s halting U.S.A.I.D. The entire article by Jeffrey Gettlema lays out how intricate these programs are to America’s global, safety and role as a humane nation.
Impact of USAID drying up.
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#beagles
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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“parents in Kenya whose children are believed to have tuberculosis cannot get them tested. There is no clean drinking water in camps in Nigeria or Bangladesh for people who fled civil conflict. A therapeutic food program cannot treat acutely malnourished children in South Sudan.”
nytimes.com
Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article)
The Trump administration appears to be flouting a judge’s order pausing the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
ROFL just straight up sitting here, dead-eyed.
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hello, God. It’s me, Dog. I don’t mean to hound you, but we got a real situation down here.
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PattiCakes ⚖️🔬♀️♿✊🏾🏳️‍🌈☮️🇺🇸🌎🌊 @warrior-patticakes.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I love Pete!!! 🫶🏼
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Pete 
Buttigieg
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Fighting the Februaries with flowers, greenery and a rainbow 🌈
Trader Joe’s alstroemeria, a plant, a struggling succulent and a glass rainbow
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Go anti-woke, go broke it's gotta be.
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🌊Scott the Process🌊 @scotttheprocess.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Eat the oligarchy.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I wrote about how RFK Jr. is targeting SSRIs in his first 100 days plan, and his history of spreading disinformation about antidepressants. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
RFK Jr. is already taking aim at antidepressants
The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.
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adrieeee.bsky.social @adrieeee.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
LISTEN to Jasmine Crockett. She is spot on. "We have a thug in charge of the United States. And if we don't wake up, we may not have a United States."
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Dangerous www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Damnit, Sandler. I got the emotional bends watching this. #snl50
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
WASH POST: “Musk’s DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial info about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in 🇺🇸 — sparking alarm within the tax agency.” Alarmed yet? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Preach, Lindsay Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGJUFda...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/02/2025
Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.
sfstandard.com
Her job is to remove homeless people from SF's parks. Her methods are extraordinary
Instead of forcing people out of Golden Gate Park, ranger Amanda Barrows helps them find housing.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/02/2025
"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC
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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Alright! All the people who don’t do Valentine’s Day because it’s an overblown commercial holiday designed to part chumps from their cash and you can show your partner how much you appreciate them any other day of the year, it’s your turn … startiiiing…. now!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is fascism.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The community note 🤌😘
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is probably the most accurate take.
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
newyorker.com
Stephen A. Smith for President
If the Democratic Party has a problem drawing young men who believe that the excesses of wokeness have left them behind, could there be a more appealing figure than the guy they’ve been watching argue...
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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 14/02/2025
BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
KY GOV. BESHEAR: “If they eliminated the Department of Education and its funding, that’s half a billion dollars in meals for kids that otherwise might go hungry.”
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Stop sharing their propaganda. Please!
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I got on here so I wouldn’t have to see all the performing — like doing PT with the troops. Can we not just keep reposting crap from X? It’s only giving them the audience they crave. This is not an ostrich move. I know how awful it all is. I don’t need a daily press release of it. Let’s 86 X posts
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
As a massage therapist in Northern Virginia, I concur that I’ve been treating plenty of TMJ issues this year.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
PLEASE SHARE.
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
No. No they didn’t.
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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In honor of that spectacular performance by Kendrick Lamar last night.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Amanda June Long @alongmessage.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
GOOD morning
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