Reposted by Amber LoughJasmin Arémi @jasminaremi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz hat die #noAfD als gesichert rechtsextrem eingestuft. Der Inlandsgeheimdienst sieht keinen bloßen Verdacht mehr. Wer Demokratie schützen will, muss handeln. Keine Bühne, kein Mandat, kein Zweifel. Diese Partei gehört verboten. Jetzt.juedische-allgemeine.deVerfassungsschutz stuft AfD als rechtsextremistisch einSeit ihrer Gründung vor zwölf Jahren ist die AfD nach Einschätzung des Verfassungsschutzes kontinuierlich weiter nach rechts gerückt. Inzwischen sei klar: Die Partei ist extremistisch 0388
Reposted by Amber LoughLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 02/05/2025@carolinecarlson.bsky.social recommends ten new universe-expanding children’s books.buff.lyUniverse-Expanding Children’s Books Coming Out in MayAs children’s books have faced recent bans in schools and libraries, and even come up for comment in a case before the Supreme Court, I’ve been thinking about how powerful the books we give to our … 071
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I know I keep going on about the house getting hit by lightning, but to us, it was kind of a big deal. We lost two ceiling lights, a set of fairy lights (they melted), and some Ethernet, but we were lucky. If we hadn’t had the electricity redone in 2023, we might have had a house fire! 260
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 23/04/2025After the lightning, my husband burned stuff on the stove and was airing out the place. Then the cat was acting weird—a mouse had walked inside. We had a nursery rhyme going on—me chasing the dog, dog chasing the cat, cat chasing a mouse. All while E was playing a waltz on violin in the basement. 150
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Our house got struck by lightning tonight, and it was LOUD. Thankfully, only a tiny piece of the roof fell off (we’ve got 70 year old clay tiles, and they’re strong), and the whole street has electrical problems, but no fires! 220
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Well, the dog figured out how to jump the fence and my neighbors now have photos of me chasing him all over their yard with a dandelion because I was out of treats so there goes my chance at a sensible reputation. 150
Reposted by Amber LoughGil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/04/2025Larry David just ended Bill Maher. This is death by satire. My Dinner With Adolf (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)When a private meeting goes unexpectedly. 1028083
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Sorry I’m mostly a lurker. Life at home isn’t fun to share, and I don’t want to add to the world’s weight. Anyway, tomorrow I’m taking my 2nd born to the suicide watch clinic. The one my first-born went to 4 years ago. Why is this happening? Why both kids? What did I do wrong? 1240
Reposted by Amber LoughAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/04/2025The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings. 12045265811497
Reposted by Amber LoughMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 15/04/2025If you're going to watch Murderbot on Apple TV, consider adding it to your watchlist. It's kind of like pre-ordering a book, it tells the streaming service that you're there for our show. Link for US viewers: tv.apple.com/us/show/murd... (You can also search for it on the app.)tv.apple.comWatch Murderbot - Apple TV+In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot (Alexander Skarsgård) secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission prote… 761928527
Reposted by Amber LoughTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/20251/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs. 6863103911490
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 15/04/2025After I took that photo, Plankton wandered over to an area he isn’t allowed in, where the cats go, and came back with a dead mouse, crawling with maggots. Life is so full of ups and downs and horrors. 030
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Now that’s it’s not freezing outside, we’ve got a game: put all the balls in, and take then out. 040
Reposted by Amber LoughNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did. 6572535613139
Reposted by Amber LoughAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear. 1307326009522
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Really not here for dire wolves. Not bc I hate wolves, but because I can’t stand the Alpha Male fetishization (that’s a word) of anything, and also we have dogs; we don’t need to play with their DNA anymore than we already did. 020
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 14/04/2025A teeny tiny four leaf clover from my yard. (We sowed micro clover instead of grass.) 150
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Today, my mom introduced my nephew (he’s autistic) to a woman with a puppy, and explained that “he’s 5 but can’t tell you that.” Then the woman said, “there’s a cure for that, you know. It’s all natural, and will get rid of his toxicities.” 🤬🤬🤬 I wanted to slap her through the phone. 160
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Youngest and I have turned in our applications for German citizenship and answered the loyalty questions. Now, we wait! 280
Reposted by Amber LoughThe Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 07/04/2025🪶Need a pick me up? The hummingbirds are on the way back from their non-breeding grounds in Central America. Ruby-throateds have made as far north as D.C. and St. Louis, Black-chinned are in southern Utah and Rufous are passing through Seattle already! 0385
Reposted by Amber LoughCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 06/04/20253.5% is all we need. 3.5% of the population being engaged and committed is the magic number to overthrow a dictator. And I'd bet that if 2% of us were *out protesting* yesterday, more of us are out there than that. Keep up the pressure. 17671126
Reposted by Amber LoughCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/04/2025This is part of the big manufacturing lie: that people can get jobs with no education or training just wielding screwdrivers. Apple cannot make iPhones in the US without an army of tooling engineers, and we don’t even have the tooling engineers here to educate an army of tooling engineers. 1783973832
Reposted by Amber LoughFight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 05/04/2025THIS. #HandsOff 203317075736
Reposted by Amber LoughMaryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff 502244986554
Reposted by Amber LoughEmma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there 540274115807
Reposted by Amber LoughTom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages 428127262246
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 02/04/2025A friend asked if we can go to the Stasi museum at the exact same time my youngest child sent me this video: (yes that’s me) 020
Reposted by Amber LoughBeren @beren-linkehand.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Mein Staubsauger und ich teilen das Talent zur Selbstsabotage. 6604
Reposted by Amber LoughSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do? 9295393510117
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Cory Booker Cory Booker Cory Booker is 25+ hours strong 020
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Who are all these people who have the time to just sit at cafes and chat with friends? 000
Reposted by Amber LoughPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 31/03/2025I asked a number of people who study democracy and history where they thought the U.S. would be in 5 or 10 years. Gift link: wapo.st/44bN4i6wapo.stOpinion | What America could look like a decade from nowPolitical scientists and historians weigh in on authoritarianism’s impact on the United States. 27377143
Reposted by Amber LoughJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 31/03/2025A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked. I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out. 372853783
Reposted by Amber LoughDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Federal law has named the "Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council." I'm told it's now being referred to as "the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council in Charge of Managing Fisheries in the Gulf of America." Strongly considering making a t-shirt that says that.fisherycouncils.orgMagnuson-Stevens Act — U.S. Regional Fishery Management Councils 89616
Reposted by Amber LoughDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Protect trans kids. Message will repeat. 338895
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 29/03/2025No one was there so I went in and talked to an imaginary old woman from hundreds of years ago sitting there, bewildered at my accent and my green witch tendencies. 040
Reposted by Amber LoughTakuo Matsuzawa @matsuzawa.bsky.social · 29/03/2025In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...nytimes.comIn Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning (Gift Article)For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. 46123
Reposted by Amber LoughRep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 28/03/2025I served three combat tours in Iraq & Afghanistan. In the military, you lead by example. The cornerstone of leadership is accountability. Every American should be concerned that Donald Trump & his administration won’t take any responsibility for their serious mistakes. 2723558
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 28/03/2025How many more signs do you need to finally agree it’s fascism, right here, right now? apple.news/AB9VWK82uTCK...apple.newsTrump targets 'improper ideology' at Smithsonian museums in new executive order — NBC NewsThe order states that Vice President JD Vance will be in charge of efforts to prohibit federal funding for Smithsonian programs that are not in line with the administration's goals. 0112
Reposted by Amber LoughMaya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 27/03/2025People who followed me because of my ramblings on imperialism and aren't Palestinian, please consider a donation to assist Palestinians in Hebron in protecting their homes and lives from settler/soldier attacks. I am not Palestinian and those who are know >> www.hebronfriends.org/eyesonhebronhebronfriends.orgProtect a Family in HebronHelp protect a family in Hebron! We are fundraising to equip families with fire alarms and security cameras to protect them from Israeli settler and soldier violence. 102
Amber Lough @amberlough.bsky.social · 27/03/2025On Sunday, I did a day-long pilgrimage, and we walked over the old East-West german border. We carried rocks from the west to the east, and left them at a chapel that had been used by DDR soldiers as a hangout and then restored in the 90. 140
