Reposted by Amanda IlesRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability. 22942891759
Reposted by Amanda IlesOtomura Kyosuke(音村 香助) @otomura8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Teachings of Khenpo Sonam Samten Dorje #KhenpoSonamSamtenDorje #TibetanBuddhism #BuddhistTeachings #SpiritualPractice #Mindfulness #SelfReflection #SpiritualWisdom 021
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Make a band bigger Four Dog Night or Three Dog Week 010
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 23/05/2026That's 'cause he doesn't see a difference between his pocket and ours. 000
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Put this on your required reading for the day. It won't take long, and it's well worth it. Disillusioned with America? Good. substack.com/@tadstoermer...substack.comDisillusioned with America? Good.Every morning, in my email, in interviews, in conversations with people who stop me in coffee shops and airport terminals, and the little purgatory outside lecture halls, one word keeps showing up: di... 000
Reposted by Amanda IlesSwampF0x @swampf0x.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Her voice doesn't even shake....courage. 23213
Reposted by Amanda IlesRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17/02/2026This is the reason behind the Trump administration’s intense desire to ban Talarico content. If they lose the evangelicals, they lose all their power. 631493589
Reposted by Amanda IlesHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026If Pam Bondi was a waitress. 29256181925
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Made them take it literally. Put the actual DJT onto Mt. Rushmore and make him stay there, posing for photographs, for the rest of his natural life. 000
Reposted by Amanda IlesChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️ 9912550311923
Reposted by Amanda IlesTizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026This powerful scene shows something survivors have been trying to explain for decades. Freeze. Comply. Dissociate. These are not choices — they’re automatic trauma responses. F*ck those who don’t understand. 26510267
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 01/02/2026A master class in eloquence and heart from Mayor Johnson. If only more politicians and others in power could follow suit. 184
Reposted by Amanda IlesMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...youtube.comICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.YouTube video by Seth Moulton 242271472
Reposted by Amanda IlesKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Well worth a watch. Another case of normie radicalization. This guy is the former president of a local HOA, a web developer for real estate companies and a self proclaimed "member of the square community" and he's out in the streets. 312992867
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Today's winner for most spot-on comment: "Is that why she's dressed like the sofa?" Could Usha really be THAT oblivious/ tone deaf?! 010
Reposted by Amanda Ilesaustin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to. 3994722050
Reposted by Amanda IlesRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n... 5749791959
Reposted by Amanda IlesCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16/01/2026What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country. 676161975779
Reposted by Amanda IlesSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13/01/2026Toot toot beep beepnytimes.comOpinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing. Juan Crow. 47131
Reposted by Amanda IlesElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight. 142125854647
Reposted by Amanda IlesThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/12/2025🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.” 37673793176
Reposted by Amanda IlesTexas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 29/11/2025Pete Hegseth's WAR CRIMES and what we do about it. Our troops are in danger! 691154389
Reposted by Amanda IlesSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18/11/2025Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY. 7442711048
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Listen carefully (1:22): "[The president] has tried to do everything he can to make [the shutdown] as unpainless as possible." Wow, talk about inadvertently saying the true part out loud. 041
Reposted by Amanda IlesThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/10/2025In this video, Andrews points out something important. When people think of Christians, they tend to think of the Christian nationalists who cheer on Trump's evil. That makes non-evil Christians like Andrews furious. Others should feel that way too. 22612174
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Seems like this deserves wider attention substack.com/@politicsusa...substack.comTruth Matters (@politicsusa46)Time for a Jamie Raskin takedown masterclass methinks. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdpFFrpC/ 020
Reposted by Amanda IlesSayItToMyFace💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy! 18423241
Reposted by Amanda Ilestastewart 🦋 @tastewart.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Wow! This is worth a listen. This guy is so on point! It’s how many people of color have always felt! I think of Doc Rivers when he said, “it’s amazing why we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back”. 031
Reposted by Amanda Ilestoddhumphreys.bsky.social @toddhumphreys.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Time to change residence to Maine and vote for this guy - and against the SPINELESS Susan Collins. 311724
Reposted by Amanda IlesRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2025The (UK) Telegraph on Trump's visit: "There were the marching bands with their flawless precision and the procession of ceremonial carriages whose windows are designed to allow a view of their esteemed occupants waving to jubilant crowds. But there was no waving because there were no crowds.” 722519562
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I canceled Hulu & Disney+ because Disney/ABC is colluding with Trump to strip away our First Amendment rights to free speech #BoycottDisneyABC 000
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Trump wants to stomp out dissent but I refuse to be silent. I’m canceling Hulu and Disney+ until ABC reinstates Jimmy Kimmel. #BoycottDisneyABC 020
Reposted by Amanda IlesMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files 18855967416695
Reposted by Amanda IlesChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/07/2025NEW ANGLE Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage. But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place… 2205176958337
Reposted by Amanda IlesMarie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Senator Jon Ossoff speaking to his constituents here and describing the corruption in American politics. He is not pulling any punches and says Trump is a crook and a conman and wants to be King and is rigging the system for himself! Take a listen! ⬇️⬇️ #USDemocracy 88050
Reposted by Amanda IlesRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/07/2025JAMIE LEE CURTIS REACTS TO 'LATE SHOW' CANCELLATION: 'THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE PEOPLE' 370174844337