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Amanda Iles

@amandaeye.bsky.social
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Writer. Traveler. Consummate generalist fascinated by details and driven by questions. On the glass half-empty/half-full debate, let's first decide if the glass is real. If we're not having fun, what's the point?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank 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.
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Otomura Kyosuke(音村 香助) @otomura8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Teachings of Khenpo Sonam Samten Dorje #KhenpoSonamSamtenDorje #TibetanBuddhism #BuddhistTeachings #SpiritualPractice #Mindfulness #SelfReflection #SpiritualWisdom
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger Four Dog Night or Three Dog Week
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
That's 'cause he doesn't see a difference between his pocket and ours.
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Put 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...
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Disillusioned 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...
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SwampF0x @swampf0x.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Her voice doesn't even shake....courage.
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Wow
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is the reason behind the Trump administration’s intense desire to ban Talarico content. If they lose the evangelicals, they lose all their power.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If Pam Bondi was a waitress.
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Never been prouder of my Kiwi roots.
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Made 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.
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
He's so good at this, isn't he?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026
Remember 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‼️
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This one seems worthy of a bit of attention, no?
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This 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.
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A master class in eloquence and heart from Mayor Johnson. If only more politicians and others in power could follow suit.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...
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ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.
YouTube video by Seth Moulton
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Well 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.
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Today's winner for most spot-on comment: "Is that why she's dressed like the sofa?" Could Usha really be THAT oblivious/ tone deaf?!
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
You 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.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16/01/2026
What 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.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13/01/2026
Toot toot beep beep
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing. Juan Crow.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
* better angels of our nature.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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The 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.”
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aeternalpessimist.bsky.social @aeternalpessimist.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 29/11/2025
Pete Hegseth's WAR CRIMES and what we do about it. Our troops are in danger!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Terrific
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Elle Cordova is the BEST!
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18/11/2025
Great 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.
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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
jesus christ
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Listen 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.
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"The world is watching"
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
In 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.
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Seems like this deserves wider attention substack.com/@politicsusa...
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Truth Matters (@politicsusa46)
Time for a Jamie Raskin takedown masterclass methinks. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdpFFrpC/
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SayItToMyFace💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Love 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!
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
"Similarily"??
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tastewart 🦋 @tastewart.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Wow! 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”.
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toddhumphreys.bsky.social @toddhumphreys.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Time to change residence to Maine and vote for this guy - and against the SPINELESS Susan Collins.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The (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.”
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Go Jimmy!!!
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I canceled Hulu & Disney+ because Disney/ABC is colluding with Trump to strip away our First Amendment rights to free speech #BoycottDisneyABC
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Trump wants to stomp out dissent but I refuse to be silent. I’m canceling Hulu and Disney+ until ABC reinstates Jimmy Kimmel. #BoycottDisneyABC
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Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
That's how you do it.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I 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
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/07/2025
NEW 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…
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Senator 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
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
JAMIE LEE CURTIS REACTS TO 'LATE SHOW' CANCELLATION: 'THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE PEOPLE'
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