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Amanda

@amininger.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, lifelong learner. Colorado native. The sky is blue. Two plus two equals four.

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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Love Anand for this. So good.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Shout out to Deepti! Good stuff.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Reminder to any journalist, anywhere.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
More book bans piling up. Find out what your own state is up to, if they're banning or if they're protecting books. Literature is power.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Please donate if you can.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Invaluable, detailed election explainer here. Always amazing to me how often important, accurate info about how our country works just never makes it to the public, the very people who deserve to know and benefit from it. I'm grateful Elizabeth and David stepped forward to do this. Share widely.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Imagine using $1.7 billion to address hunger, housing, education, and medical care. Imagine using $1.7 billion to address the wage gap and the lack of resources for survivors of violence and abuse. We should never look at these ideas as too radical or impossible again.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One of the most outstanding things I've seen in a while. Well done, gals.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Really interesting places mentioned here, some I didn't even know about and I'm a lifelong Coloradan. Thanks, Colorado Sun, for sharing.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
PS. One of our biggest success stories is Blackwater Rising. Kick them some coin if you have it to spare. They are feeding food insecure people, seniors, and whole communities of vulnerable folks and they’re a model of what great community can do. blackwaterrising.org/our-gardens/
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Our Gardens - Blackwater Rising
Rooted in Resilience
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
As hopeless as it may seem right now, we have to start talking about how to stop him. presswatchers.org/2026/04/ackn...
It’s past time that our top news organizations overcame their aversion to stating blunt truths that might appear partisan to small slivers of their declining audiences.

This president is profoundly unwell and, therefore, must be stopped — somehow, no matter how unlikely it appears at this moment.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We're with you today, Minnesota. ❤️
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thankful for Dan Froomkin's Heads Up News, generated by a real human for other real humans at a time when being a human is both intensely challenging and undeniably inspiring.
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Marissa 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌒🌕🌘 @marissacantrell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Colorado sent an email to all SNAP recipients yesterday urging them to use food pantries. CDHS was informed last week that pantries can't do more without more funds to buy more food. Food pantries are uniting to tell @coloradogovernor.bsky.social Polis to release emergency funds to food pantries.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Stand up and fight for democracy and human rights, damn it. People will respect you for it.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Columbia cancelled my class on race and journalism, but I'm teaching anyway. Only 9 Days left to register for my class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101, and 102! I will not be teaching this again until 2026, so don't miss your spot! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
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Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Happy Good Trouble day (and RIP, John Lewis).
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Heads Up indeed gives me hope. Thank you, @froomkin.bsky.social.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New on Heads Up News: Millions of people in thousands of places said ‘No Kings’ www.headsupnews.org/p/millions-o...
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Millions of people in thousands of places said ‘No Kings’
This is what democracy looks like
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Robin Kirby @robinmk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12/03/2025
A joint piece by former Congresswoman @marienewman.bsky.social and me on a sensitive question too many seem too afraid to ask. Americans are pissed. Do we need a new movement, a new party, or both? We're going live tonight at 6:30 EST on Substack: www.qasimrashid.com/p/america-we...
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America We Need To Talk: New Movement, Third Party—Or Both?
Exploring a sensitive question that too many seem too afraid to ask
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/03/2025
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 26/02/2025
What if we built a new major news and opinion journalism outlet from scratch and used it as a news lab to reform and rethink how we do things, starting first with billionaire-proofing it. And what if we honestly audited our flaws and came together to make the news orgs we want to see?
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Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit (Gift Article)
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social Serious question: Why not become the Dems' spokesperson in a daily press briefing as a counter to the B.S., part of a "people's Cabinet" - per Timothy Snyder's recommendation of forming a "shadow government-type" entity to counter the madness of the GOP?
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@indivisible.org Sen. Bennet office visit today. Met with staffers Max and Chase for a nearly 30-minute conversation. Said everything we wanted to say and more. Demanded a No vote on Vought, 30 hrs of debate, all delay, no business as usual. Thank you, Bennet staff, for your time and solidarity.
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Heading to Sen. Bennet's office today with many others to demand a complete shutdown of Senate business and a block of Vought's nomination. Obstruct and delay at every turn.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Order rescinded. Where's the resistance, you ask? RIGHT HERE, and in the homes of angry constituents across the nation making life hell for staffers on the hill. democracyforward.org/updates/brea...
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BREAKING: Democracy Forward Statement on Rescission of OMB Funding Freeze Memo - Democracy Forward
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Amanda @amininger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you want to fight the absurd federal funding freeze, here's where to start: indivisible.org/omb Different instructions for D vs. R senators. Start somewhere.
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Trump’s Dictatorial Power Grab: Chaos, Cruelty, and Constitutional Collapse
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