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Amanda Carpenter

@amandacarpenter.bsky.social
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Writer/Editor @protectdemocracy.org. Views are my own.

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 6h
Step 1: Create new money out of thin air (crypto) Step 2: Use dad's influence to attract investment from UAE "spy sheik" and other shady figures. Step 3: Turn it into a family bank founded by dad & sons and approved by dad’s appointees Step 4: $ (Yes, it's all men. Weird!) shorturl.at/SeMmC
thebulwark.com
Welcome to the ‘Neporuption’
The fathers wield the power. The sons cash in.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18h
wow that's a good pun
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18h
sounds about right!
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18h
I mean Guilfoyle grift IS bad but so is shaking down companies for "golden shares," BS "settlements" from media/law firms/academia, aggressive demands for donations to the library and ballroom, and all the crypto/foreign billions for the Trump/Witkoff/Lutnick sons... But who is keeping track.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18h
Okay, you do you, bud!
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 19h
Hey, you don't have to be a *fan* of me to get something out of the piece!
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 21h
Curious what the Venn diagram looks like between the MAGA folks who pushed the Schmitt misfire on Jack Smith and those who jumped on the Talarico MIA rumor. Or is it just a circle?
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Why is this more than regular nepotism? The scale. The brazenness. The way it’s swallowing the system. It’s a volcanic eruption of corruption and nepotism.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 11/10/2026
NEW: Nepotism + corruption: It's NEPORUPTION. An eruption of neporuption. From our pal @amandacarpenter.bsky.social. www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...
thebulwark.com
Welcome to the ‘Neporuption’
The fathers wield the power. The sons cash in.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for willing viewers. Even if you support the death penalty, consider what happens next: Footage of a man being shot to death, pushed into our kids' feeds. It won't be contained. Hope the parents in the Trump Admin are cool with that
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In case you were wondering, they STILL haven't managed to fix the Reflecting Pool, six months after work began
Livestream image taken from the Washington Monument, showing the Reflecting Pool still empty
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
convicted felon Peter Navarro, who now works in the White House again after serving a four-month sentence, goes on TV with the White House behind him to promote a new product that he'll personally profit from -- a book called "Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison"
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gross
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The TV companies that took our tax money should send it back to the Treasury. It's stolen money. They have no credibility opposing gov't propaganda if they keep it. They should eat their mistake. But the end result here is that Trump still got free-to-him, taxpayer-funded ads.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The $5k election bribes, taxpayer-funded campaign ads, and Medicare “rebates” are all forms of election interference, btw. The efforts to abuse the power of federal government to tilt the election in his favor are underway. Refuse the offer.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said [Zhao]. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Zhao has diligently and effectively pursued commercial relations with Trump's sons.
nytimes.com
Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@amandacarpenter.bsky.social with a great article explaining why the ballroom is just sitting there as an Apportionment Black Hole, no-one has any idea of how it is being funded. It has a great link to: openomb.org, which @protectdemocracy.org is using to track apportionments.
openomb.org
OpenOMB | Tracking apportionments just got easier
OpenOMB is the easiest way to find and track apportionments. Apportionments are legally binding plans issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget that set the pace at which federal agenc...
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s wasn’t me
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump's campaign offer: What if I give you $5,000? Americans: Still no. There would be something beautiful about voters deciding that even $5,000, or any amount, can't buy their votes. It's an authoritarian, corrupt offer & we don't like it. Thank goodness.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why is MAGA suddenly enthusiastic about rewriting the history of Watergate? They want to make post-Watergate anti-corruption reform laws go away. If Nixon was never corrupt, those laws were never needed, and Trump and his cronies shouldn't have to abide by them. They are planning ahead.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
0-26! Trump’s attempts to suck up state voter data for an untested, unvetted, unlawful federal database keeps losing losing losing in state after state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ now 0-26 after judge rejects demand for Georgia voter rolls
The judge said the Civil Rights Act does not authorize DOJ's demands for the Peach State’s unredacted voter roll.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With respect, if you want to be a pro-democracy network you shouldn’t take stolen taxpayer money to air authoritarian propaganda. Give the money back and say no.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m reserving time on my calendar to intake this speech in full. Sheewwwwww
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How is this real. How.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 30/09/2026
Gov. Newsom signed the No Kings Act today, giving residents the right to sue federal agents like ICE for violating their constitutional rights. CA is now the 5th state to offer this right, reaching +70 mil Americans. Our own Cameron Kistler, who testified in support, said: protdem.org/4jxgm2p
"In a country where the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land, whether Americans should have a remedy for wrongs committed by governmental officials should turn on whether the Constitution was violated—not what badge the officer has." 

Cameron Kistler, Policy Strategist and Special Counsel
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here, the Trump Admin shows why it can't run AI policy. They use AI to push partisan propaganda on a day-to-day basis and can't handle its chatbot telling the truth about the election. How much will AI policy be tilted in their partisan & personal favor if this continues? x.com/ddale8/statu...
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Daniel Dale (@ddale8) on X
The Trump administration appears to have changed its AI chatbot so that it no longer debunks Trump lies. Yesterday: It said Biden won the 2020 election and there's no indication of widespread fraud. Today: Says it can't answer such questions.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s like they are all running w pre-determined talking points that no one bothered to independently verify. But then again, who would have considered that Smith was watching a women’s team! Protecting women’s sports doesn’t mean attending games, or knowing the names of their teams.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump stole money from Homeland Security to put his propaganda up on TV. The orgs that ran the commercials should give the money back to taxpayers. I want a refund.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well worth the watch if you don’t think you might die from second hand cringe
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What the heck is going on here.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This reads as a threat
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He’s still pushing this
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Love this analysis
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Being a responsible adult means getting to your preventative routine doc appointments 20 mins early, as they ask, and not losing your mind while, they lock you in the patient room waiting a half hour and counting….
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face “legal consequences” after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that his seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots violated state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots
The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TL; DR.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Huzzah! Another spectacular example of Trump's attempted election takeovers faceplanting. Gift link, friends. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
nytimes.com
From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent staff work!
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And of course, it isn't turning out to be up to code. There is nothing about this on the up-and-up. Nothing.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why is this "corruption"? Well, Trump lied about the funding for it, stole money from other approved projects, and says he is taking undisclosed "donations" from who knows what oligarch to fund this project on property that isn't his and isn't authorized.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you watched the Reflecting Pool debacle, you would have known the chance for shoddy work that needs to be torn up and redone ANYWAY was always the likely outcome. And, here we go. Corruption sucks; it always leads to crappy outcomes for taxpayers. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
washingtonpost.com
‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is mania
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did you know spending taxpayer money on propaganda IS illegal and yes, there is a way to define that? Or, maybe just look at Trump TV. You know it when you see it. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/trump-tv-i...
ifyoucankeepit.org
Trump TV is propaganda — and a crime
The “Anti-Publicity & Propaganda Rider,” explained
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Trump Administration is now 0-25 in its meritless attempts to seize voter data from the states. 0-25 is an incredible LOSS record. Their election takeover attempts are losing everywhere. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
newsfromthestates.com
Trump administration’s WA voter roll lawsuit dismissed
SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday tossed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Washington seeking the state’s voter rolls, in line with many rulings across the country.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The top question people have for election experts is: What's the best way to vote in the midterms? It's a valid Q given Trump's attempts to interfere, but those failed! So, let's GO! Rules vary by state, but two words of advice apply to everyone: BE EARLY!
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Shewwwwww
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Things Donald Trump says are for “national security”:

• A $1 billion White House bunker-ballroom & rooftop "drone port"

• A fully weaponized Arc de Trump

• Thousands of National Guard troops occupying D.C.

•Terrorist designations and a 1798 wartime law to justify unjust ICE raids, detentions, and deportations.

• Arresting, smearing, and killing ICE protesters, and other activists, political opponents, including Reflecting Pool observers.

It’s a typical pathetic strongman mash of insanity vanity projects, federal occupation and the criminalization of dissent, all justified with the same two magic words authoritarians love to twist to their own ends: “national security.”
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