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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠

@amberbrainz.bsky.social
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Just your average pan-demi, AuDHD, blind, disabled, former neuroscientist and glitter loud mouth. Making art and trying to survive. I'm a goth/punk riot grrrl who loves science and sci-fi. You've been warned. She/her 🏳️‍🌈♿ 🏳️‍⚧️ Mamma X 2

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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Notice this targets in home care at the exact same time they want to roll back Olmsted that keeps disabled people in their communities. They want to institutionalize us but it won't come in policy it will be a slow starvation until families have to make tough choices bc of expense.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I've moved to my living to spite them phase.
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How Hopelessness Became a Tool for Control #shorts #mindset #reality
YouTube video by Daniel Baryon | Anark
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I have been on a long break but I couldn't pass up a chance to cheer for NASA and Artemis II. Space should have never been privatized. I wouldn't mind seeing an international funded joint space program and get back to the science. Maybe someday we will have a Star Trek future.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I did see this in one video but I can tell you being a gen xer and living with a boomer what will absolutely sink Trump's support for war with Iran, rising gas prices. It's an engrained trigger from long ago, or maybe bc it's something they can tangibly see. Whatever it is it pisses off the olds.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Polis being a fucking corp Dem again. Good thing he's on his way out this year. Let's see if he does it. I'm guessing trump is threatening some evil shit for Colorado and as a disabled peep I'm sure it's about Medicaid. Gah I'm so pissed.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Read Kat's thread.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I am a blind gal. I have night blindness and I'm not even sure I would have been able to get myself to a safe place in the middle of nowhere, at night, in the cold. Then add that he couldn't speak English. Nurul deserved better long before this but he definitely didn't deserve to be murdered by Ice.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Our fight is to bring awareness. To keep challenging people to rethink and change their hearts for their own damn good. And when all else fails live out of spite. The one thing they were most afraid of with the BPP was not the pew pew it was the mutual aid and health clinics provided for free.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As we've seen with immigration and trump supporters, they either thought he was all just talk and he didn't do it before so it won't happen this time. And/or they thought it would never be them because they are special and protected. Also internalized and historical ableism.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
When fascists take rights away from a group of people, they never stop there. Eventually, they come for everything. Invalidating the drivers licenses of trans people in Kansas is just the start. Who will be next? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Kansas invalidates driver’s licenses, birth certificates of over 1,000 transgender residents
The Kansas state government has invalidated the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed the gender on those documents, in accordance with a law that took effect o...
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Here I am as a disabled gal unable to talk about the trump admin cutting off funding for medical equipment. And I'm here with an appointment to talk to my doctor on Monday about getting an ambulatory wheel chair. I guess I'll continue to be home bound for a while. When I'm not sad I'll say more.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
That is seriously fucked up all the way around.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Damnit Starfleet Academy you had me crying my eyes out again. Also Robert Picardo is still amazing.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Sharing so I can remember later. Also do your calls. Send your emails. Faxzero is also excellent.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Love it! Sorry you had to spend a night in jail. Some people just don't appreciate art these days. Yeah go right ahead and let me know. I'm disabled so I miss out on everything.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Mutual aid is where it's at! It is a good way for people with accessibility, risk, or family concerns. It's a good way for you to use your skills and to get creative. It's an excellent way to help vulnerable populations while being a part of non-violent direct resistance. And you can start today.
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Mutual aid isn't what you've been taught. So what is it? How can we do it right?
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
He's not the only one. Diana Degette has taken money from palantir. Shes got a better voting record than Crow but still the tech broligarchs have their fingers all over the CO Dems. Merlot Kiros is primarying her. We gotta get these corp Dems out of CO politics.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
So nice to find a CO peep who's fighting the good fight. I subbed your substack so hopefully that helps. Maybe one day this brain in a jar will be able to hit the streets with you.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is cruel and unusual punishment. Trump admin is using this as a test case to see how far he can go with eventually banning trans care across the board. This is why we so desperately need Dems that stand up for trans rights by listening to the trans community.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Damnit it happened again. I finally come out of a pain flare long enough to post or reshare something and it breaks containment. Well at least it gives people something to think about. And ffs follow the creators I share. They are some of the best news sources around and worth listening to.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
US sanctions have been used as a punishment for years, mostly against already poor countries, and it does nothing but punish the citizens. It usually makes the regime even worse. I don't know but maybe it's time to have conversations about that and to have some class solidarity.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We are currently starving out Cuba and the Cuban people with a cruel and pointless blockage and for what? A 70 year upset over Communism? Some weird need for Rubio to get back at a place where his grandparents came from? And I haven't heard a peep from the Dems. We are in fact the baddies.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I wonder if they are counting AI data centers as "factories". 🤔
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Mike nails it yet again. Also Waj was brilliant taking down Jeffries. We need new leadership that has a spine to say things that the techno fasc donors don't like. Fuck them. We can have a Dem party centered on human rights and focus on the working class. Be brave to stand on your message.
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AOC Puts on a Master Class on Resisting Trump While Hakeem Jeffries Sh*ts the Bed
YouTube video by The Humanist Report
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Omg so true. Yet when the disability community (myself included) screams for some damn help because they are setting up camps and how health policies are killing us it's always how we are being hyperbolic or crickets.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Honestly I've always wanted to try this. It looks amazing. I'm jelly for sure.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Great thread. I would add the left has also asked for an increase in the minimum wage and removing dark money from politics, which is popular across the board, and have been told "No it's not time" . Or we get lip service without a working policy.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Oof. I'm sorry. They sure do show their ableism in the end, and honestly it tends to track with how they see all marginalized peeps.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Excellent disability rep BTW. See this is a thing writers can learn from. They listened to the actor and not their ableism. When you let us in the room we can share our experiences in ways that enrich narratives.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Back a million years ago I was sitting in a docs waiting room and a Time mag caught my eye. The cover was of a young senator Obama and the article talked about his sudden popularity. I knew something was special about him (ugh). I feel the same thing about AOC. Her time might be now. Prez 2028!
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Lander is already primaring someone in the house. I hope he gets a lot of support out there because he's just amazing.
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Cortney McKee @cortneymckee.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Poll taxes are unconstitutional. Any i.d. that is required to vote has to be provided by the government. This is a way to disenfranchise the poor. Call your senators.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
And what pisses me off is that you know there are Dems who would vote for this bc our "big tent" has no morals other than what the donors say. We need to primary out the Dems who don't have our values and take over the party for working class and human rights.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
And I totally have the same problem plus being disabled and not even being able to get out of bed most days. I'm not going to be able to stand in line to show all my papers every damn time. The gov knows who can vote they just want to chase their toxic lies to fascism because they are losing.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
My mom has been divorced since the 70s and kept her married name bc of me. Like would you keep your abusive ex's marriage certificate!!! No. Not to mention her birth certificate is ancient and falling apart. The gop doesn't want women to vote and they don't care if they lose voters. It's fascism
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I just watched it and you were speaking clearly and his response was so asinine. His entire interview was nothing but puppeted political double speak. He needs to be primaried. Dems don't get rid of these programs because they use them for their own benefit when they get control. Stop the cycle.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Read this thread. This is absolutely horrifying. Any Dem running for office not promising to abolish DHS is in on this torture. Period.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
Did a newsletter today about books I think everyone should read if they are serious about understanding how 2024 happened and why. "Perhaps the most influential text for me in understanding the American political moment was Vaughn Rasberry’s Race and the Totalitarian Century" #BookSky
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Eight Books About Fascism That You Should Know
These books changed the way I understood what is happening to us.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Damn I might need to pick this up.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Why is Chuck still Dem leadership?
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Two of my favs talking techno fascists and their ties to Epstein!?! Hell yeah!! This is a good discussion and well worth the watch.
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The Epstein–MAGA Billionaire Alliance Explained
YouTube video by Wajahat Ali
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Not me crying at the end of Starfleet Academy. How dare you write such a beautiful episode about DS9. I was not expecting that. Thank you Tawny Newsome.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Ken was on Majority Report this morning talking about this. Always one of my favorite MR guests. He also talked about the burnout happening behind the scenes. We are winning. Keep going folx. We got this.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Her story could have very well been mine, or that of the disability community. Her story broke me when it came out. We already know there is a eugenics movement alive in the trump admin. That disabled people are the victims of discrimination, injury and death in detention. When will you believe us.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
CNN fails to mention a few things, yet again. Liam is currently very sick in custody, this is believed to be the poor conditions, lack of food that's not rotting, and frankly bc little bodies cannot deal with all of that. None of the kids there are safe and they all need to be released immediately.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.
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AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠 @amberbrainz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It was excellent. Honestly a very Trek episode. I was not looking forward to Academy because I just can't stand YA but honestly I'm impressed. This show really understands Star Trek. Very much enjoying it so far.
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