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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew

@amandasmith.bsky.social
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Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong. The least influential Amanda on bluesky per bsky38.com

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 56m
The narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:
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Poll: 70% of Deep South Voters Oppose Abortion Bans
Plus, Deep South voters are the least likely to say that abortion should never be permitted.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 9h
Commercial property manager Douglas Emmett who allegedly caved to pressure from Beverly Hills City officials and rescinded the lease of an abortion clinic? Shocked. I’m shocked. beverlypress.com/2025/04/dupo...
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DuPont Clinic files new lawsuit against city - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News
Health care facility alleges Beverly Hills violated civil rights
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Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 2h
Here's a gift link to my review of MUSK, which opens in theaters today. The movie is four hours long, but the nightmares it gives you will last a lifetime. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
vulture.com
Musk Is Terrifying
Alex Gibney’s sprawling new documentary about Elon Musk is a fascinating character study. And as a warning about our future, it’s frightening.
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 2h
Our ability to parse the difference between “these interlocking systems of oppressive social order means that everyone shares the responsibility of deconstructing and rebuilding these systems” and “you may as well have slit the throat of a Palestinian child yourself” is really troubling
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nerdydodger @nerdydodger.bsky.social · 2h
I cant get over teo saying when people talk about the Dodgers they're not talking about him. meanwhile this is me
protecting teo meme
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h
I like how the GOP's position is that every single form of labor is trivial and pointless. The only "work" with any purpose or dignity is to be an owner, politician, or talking head. Everything else is contemptible and could be done by anyone with no training. Hence accountants just "do math."
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 9h
Commercial property manager Douglas Emmett who allegedly caved to pressure from Beverly Hills City officials and rescinded the lease of an abortion clinic? Shocked. I’m shocked. beverlypress.com/2025/04/dupo...
beverlypress.com
DuPont Clinic files new lawsuit against city - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News
Health care facility alleges Beverly Hills violated civil rights
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danielle weisberg @danielleweisberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
You know how like 20 years ago showrunners gave new writers a shot and hired staff writer level people and like guided them through the levels of writing for tv and stuff? Is anyone doing that now? Because back then I was in middle school but now I’d like to be having that
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 11h
He knows @makfmartin.bsky.social did him wrong by leaving him off the bracket
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 12h
I mean
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nerdydodger @nerdydodger.bsky.social · 14h
vibes IMMACULATE
teo dancing
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 12h
God saw I was sad and sent this to make my night a little better
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14h
Fascinating use of “us” by a woman who is Irish Catholic
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Jaymes @jaymesl.bsky.social · 13h
It’s a shame Bluesky is asleep and missing the Jake Bauers “I only kept playing because I needed health insurance” story because boy does that say a lot about Everything
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 14h
Pitcher hands are freakish
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 14h
“We talked about this” like tell me that’s not a Gentle Parenting voice he’s got, this man has gotten us 3 rings in 6 years through hugs
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 14h
Just left an incoherent voicemail for the WhoWeekly podcast begging them not to cover him
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Mike Bates @mikebatestwibh.bsky.social · 15h
A reminder that Roger Clemens groomed Mindy McCready when she was underage. So, yeah, this tracks.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 14h
One of the greatest subgenres of pitcher photos
Zoomed in photo of Tyler Glasgow celebrating after clenching the division series. The image has been zoomed in on his massive, pitcher hand, which holds a bottle style can of beer between his thumb and index finger, and then a second between his index finger and middle finger. The cans look small in comparison.Photo of Sandy Koufax holding two baseballs in each hand. They look like golf balls in comparison
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 17h
I’m just so proud of my large adult teen wolf son
Tweets from 2/25/2018:
From: some guy - Max Muncy, great baseball name, is having himself a nice Spring #DodgersST

The photo is of a bright eyed max muncy. He has lil pointy canines and an unkempt scraggly beard and his ears stick out. 

Me, quote tweeting: sorry but that’s teen wolf
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h
Tbh even using the term “Zionists” as a pejorative outside of very clearly defined frameworks makes me assume the worst of people, largely, at this point, through long experience.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 17h
When the postseason moon rises, the beast within awakens
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 15h
The Yankees gotta start banning their fans from the games in the postseason
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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 15h
“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Ballpark Where This Regularly Happens
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 15h
Because he did it through gentle parenting and that doesn’t feel Legendary
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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 15h
Absolutely. On top of everything else, AltNOAA is a big "it's not racist to hate Muslims" guy, up to and including defending Brigitte Bardot.
AltNOAA: Bridget Bardot held views I don't agree with. I don't believe she was "racist" however, a lot of these remarks come from how her convictions were framed in France when her views were not connected to race, in a biological sense, but rather her anti-islam commentary related to ritual slaughters.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 16h
Doc, JT, and a confused Belli are so Al, Dan, and Johnny from Deadwood-coded
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 16h
Incredibly important to remember this as we look to the NLCS
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2023
Dave Roberts should grow his goatee back during the All Star Break and come back as Dark Doc.
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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 16h
Dodgers have never lost a postseason series with Josue De Paula on the roster
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 16h
Idk man I just think maybe we need to be talking about Dave Roberts the way everyone talks about Joe Torre.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 17h
Such a rancid ballpark
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 17h
When the postseason moon rises, the beast within awakens
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 17h
I’m just so proud of my large adult teen wolf son
Tweets from 2/25/2018:
From: some guy - Max Muncy, great baseball name, is having himself a nice Spring #DodgersST

The photo is of a bright eyed max muncy. He has lil pointy canines and an unkempt scraggly beard and his ears stick out. 

Me, quote tweeting: sorry but that’s teen wolf
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just really love Max Muncy is the thing
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
gadgetreview.com
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 19h
This could fix me
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 19h
Yes! bsky.app/profile/makf...
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Makenna @makfmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i know we hit our goal but maybe if we donate more the dodgers won’t suck… fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/GoDodgers...
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 22h
the hell they can, three straight yamamoto splitters and khamenei's back in the dugout before he knows what happened
Trending

1. Trump says Iran could hit Los Angeles
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 21h
I don’t think Zohran Mamdani has committed genocide
Four freedoms guy
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 21h
I miss him on socials so much
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you want to know why Jews are suspicious of you when you're just trying to be a well-meaning antizionist gentile, consider that these two things were written by the same man, Guangtian Ha, a (currently suspended) religion professor at Haverford
a passage from an article by guangtian ha that reads:

We make this call amidst growing concern about antisemitism on our campus. Questions have arisen in the context of a number of specific situations, including external influences from Lower Merion, from donors, and from some alumni who are hell-bent on defining the " ways to be Jewish. This, of course, flies in the face of thousands of years of Jewish tradition which is fundamentally based on interrogation, questioning, and truth-seeking. We take these attacks on our anti-Zionist Jewish community members seriously and we understand the real damage the state of Israel causes for the entire Jewish world when it claims to be acting on behalf of all Jews while engaging in horrific atrocities that - truth be told- mirror some of the worst stereotypes of Jews that have been a part of European racism for centuries. We will be clear: antisemitism should be unacceptable at Haverford, but the energy and consideration which some in our administration have granted these bad faith actors suggests otherwise.a passage from a court document about guangtian ha that reads:

In or about January 2026, through in or about February 2026, defendant GUANGTIAN HA, using X account "America IstLM" posted a series of threatening and harassing messages directed at Victim 1, including the following:
a. "Jew, get the fuck out of my country" 
b. "Jew pig, get the fuck out of Lower Merion"
c. "If jews are so special then they should also be placed in special  camps and receive special treatments" 
d. "LM jews are going to have it big time, jew. Remember this. You scums have had it too easy. Goyim are taking America back, blood-guzzling demons."
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 21h
Girl why is this happening I have done literally nothing to warrant this sudden change
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1988 Topps Podcast @1988toppspodcast.bsky.social · 21h
What a double play…Can we also discuss how perfect Miguel’s look is right now? The glasses, hair, everything. #WhiteSox
Miguel Vargas leaves the field after the top of the 2nd inning. He wears a black White Sox uniform with pinstriped white pants.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 22h
no no I think it’s great that my knee is hurting when I walk and clicking randomly I think this is amazing actually because I was worried my recovery would simply be too easy
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 22h
Chaser continues to be a perfect creature
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 23h
You may be wondering, “this is taken from a great distance, how will I know which one is Hesgeth” My friend, you will know.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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