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Amber Woods

@amberspeaks.bsky.social
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Investigative journalist. Trauma-informed. Survivor focused. Relentless. Breaking News and Politics Substack: amberspeaksup100 Support: ko-fi.com/amberspeaksup No DMs. Signal tips, leads: amberspeaks.47 Upscrolled: AmberSpeaksUp

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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Catch up on my grief over on Substack, where I’m apparently processing the loss of one of my oldest friends in public because I don’t know how to do it any other way. 💔 🧵
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Reminder: if you’re in South Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Vermont, or Alabama — vote tomorrow. 🗳️ Show up. Bring someone with you. Make your voice count. And a huge thank you to the poll workers who keep democracy moving while the rest of us cast our ballot
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I’ve been quiet here for a few weeks. I lost one of my closest friends and an amazing artist, Ezra Berger, and grief rearranged pretty much everything in my life. But Ezra knew how much this meant to me (he helped design the cover of my upcoming book) and was so excited to hold a copy. 💔
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
517 days since the promise of transparency. The headlines came. The press conferences came. The promises came. The full transparency survivors were told was coming never did. I’m still here. So are the survivors. And we’ll keep counting the days until promises become action.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Some stories change you. Some people do too. I’ve been quieter than usual because I lost one of my oldest and closest friends. He was an extraordinary artist, a muralist, and the painter behind the cover of The Illusion Machine. He was also family to me for more than 20 years. 💔 🧵
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
216 days past the deadline. Epstein survivors are still waiting for the full files while the government decides what the public is allowed to know. Survivors have waited long enough. Release the files.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A friend was an honorable infantry officer who knew Hegseth in combat. He told me the man we see now is not a transformation. “He was always a politician.”
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
You’re dang right I’m still counting every day. Today marks 212 days past the congressional deadline, survivors and the American people still do not have the complete Epstein files. That is not transparency. It is delay, omission and mostly—protection. Keep asking who benefits.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The legal deadline to release the complete Epstein files passed 211 days ago. Survivors are still fighting for transparency. Congress is still trying to force compliance. Do not let this disappear from the headlines. Release the complete, lawfully redacted files.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
210 days since the Epstein Files Transparency Act deadline. Congress passed a law. Survivors were promised transparency. Yet the Justice Department still controlled the timing, the redactions and ultimately the meaning of “compliance.” A deadline means nothing if power can simply outlast it.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Graham 1955-2026
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We count the days because the delay is part of the story. Today is day 206 since DOJ’s legal deadline for the Epstein files. Every missing record may contain an answer a survivor has waited years to receive.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
:::taps microphone::::: Me again. I’ve spent hundreds of hours reading the Epstein files. They are a class indictment: survivors treated as disposable, ordinary people as beneath them, and accountability reserved for everyone else. This should be a universal reckoning. 🔥
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
MAGA’s ideological layer was fed through Steve Bannon directly by Jeffrey Epstein. Just sit with that.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’m going to keep talking about the brave survivors of the Epstein network. They continue to wait for files they were promised by law.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg I wore my Ruth Bader Ginsburg socks to my book photoshoot last night. 🧵
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Don’t let the story fade. Don’t let the survivors be forgotten. Release the complete Epstein files.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hi. Me again. Today is 201 days since the deadline to release the Epstein files. Laws are supposed to mean something. Why are survivors and the public still waiting on millions of files? Transparency delayed is not accountability.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Day 199. Survivors are still waiting. Congress ordered the remaining Epstein files released. The Department of Justice has yet to comply. Millions of records remain hidden from the people they belong to: the survivors and the public.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Wakes up. :::checks White House Media Offenders for my name::: Pours coffee.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I thought I was writing a book about the Epstein files. Instead, I found myself investigating the machinery around them. The survivors who won’t stop talking. The institutions running cover. The archives that don’t know how to lie. 🧵
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
NEW The government says it’s protecting survivors. A federal judge ordered answers. The DOJ responded by seeking more time and preparing an appeal. Millions of pages remain withheld. Read the filings. Ask why.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” -Mary Oliver
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
195 days have passed. Survivors have waited long enough. Congress ordered the remaining Epstein files released. Americans were promised transparency. The Department of Justice has not complied. Millions of files remain withheld.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“Bill is there just for a fairly short period of time… I said you can declassify whatever you want.” Trump says acting DNI Bill Pulte has broad authority to release classified records during his brief tenure. Watch what gets declassified next.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hey remember that one time there was a shooter at the White House Press Correspondents Dinner and then no one ever talked about it again? That was weird.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Two people climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.” A reminder that history is shaped not only by those with power, but by those willing to take extraordinary risks to make a statement.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NEW The House has rejected Rep. Thomas Massie’s amendment to stop the integration of the United States military with Israel’s under Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the NDAA.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The internet remembers
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Seems like a good time to bring this back
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
think one of the biggest misconceptions about caregiving is that it happens to “other people.” It doesn’t. 🧵
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Most headlines about today’s Luigi Mangione hearing focused on one thing: the trial was delayed. But that’s not what matters most.🧵
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
E Jean Carroll beat Trump twice before two juries. Then she beat him again when he tried to undo those verdicts through the courts. 🧵
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Jeffrey Epstein wearing a Mossack Fonseca shirt. The same Mossack Fonseca at the center of the Panama Papers. Interesting detail. Same network?
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW A federal judge found Acting AG Todd Blanche conceded the DOJ is violating the law requiring the release of the Epstein files. The Justice Department now has until July 2 to produce the files unredacted or explain why it has not complied.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW The U.S. government is reportedly pursuing roughly $9 billion in critical minerals deals with 14 companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families. Corruption in plain sight. Americans deserve answers.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.” Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International, Secretary General
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I spent the day reading the UN commission’s report on Gaza. It is one of the most consequential international reports published since the war began. This thread explains what it found, why it matters, and why I think Americans need to read it. 🧵
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
You cannot have an honest conversation about privacy if you don’t know where surveillance exists. They are building it all around Americans. Knowledge comes before consent. That’s why projects like DeFlock matter. 🧵
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
One of the biggest stories in America is hiding in plain sight. I followed a pattern across DOJ, HHS, Medicaid, and the states, and it raises difficult questions about the future of community-based care. My latest investigation is available on Substack—gifted.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“Well-behaved women rarely make history.” 🫡 Release the remainder of the Epstein files.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Good morning to everyone still publicly calling for the full release of the Epstein files. I see you. ✊🏼
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
NEW A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to either release additional unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records or explain why they are hidden, by July 2. The order came in response to journalist Katie Phang’s lawsuit under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A truly intelligent species would not contaminate its own drinking water, erode and contaminate soil, collapse wildlife populations, and create chronic diseases through its own food system.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2026
PETERS: If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list to the federal govt, will Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule? STEINER: No PETERS: So it basically coerces states to hand over their absentee voter rolls or face consequences of not being able to vote by mail
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