Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17/12/2025It all matters, yes, but this matters more than Susie Wiles, matters more, even, than the travel ban; more than all of Trump’s wars actual & looming (Venezuela, Ukraine, Somalia, Gaza) combined. It’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis, only U.S. is aiming it missiles at everyone, starting with itself. 1319980
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Populist governments cause more damage and stick around longer: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... 55528
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/10/2025South Carolina schools recently sent home unvaccinated kids to stem a growing measles outbreak. It turned out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly spread it to their classmates for days. That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.propublica.orgIdaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ... 9221481055
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/10/2025This is insane. “It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comWhite House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroomThe president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. 73842421603
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/10/2025When the Nazis came to power, a writer began collecting people’s dreams and uncovered the effects the regime had on the collective unconscious. www.newyorker.com/books/second-read… 1116763
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 13/10/2025This is great stuff from @jamestalarico.bsky.social, running for Senate in Texas: “The most dangerous form of government is theocracy — because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.” 9456161
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 08/10/2025There’s no B actor too small for revival in season 2 of the greatest sh*tshow on earth 615458
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/10/2025Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. @politico.com had a big piece about it. 283370887
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 02/10/2025It really should not go unremarked that Mike Johnson *just admitted that the President of the United States is unwell.* 451456302
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Just noting that a university that signed this compact would be agreeing to gut clinics and institutes like, say, the Knight Institute, whose mandate is to promote free speech and press freedom. What would it even mean for us to be “neutral”? 513135
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 02/10/2025this trend of detaining people at green card interviews is so particularly cruel 110216
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...abc7chicago.comICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training groundICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment. 7118811009
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇 10153571521
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/09/2025US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it. 972195595365
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2025You have to hand it to the generals. Unlike so many other people in this country, they know how to conduct themselves in public. They know they are supposed to be apolitical. So they greeted Trump's political speech with silence. And you could have heard a medal drop when Pete Hegseth finished. 2283222748
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I just called* and learned from the after-hour outgoing message: Counselors are usually available: M-F 9am to 6pm ET + some evenings and weekends *(I've made it a habit to dial numbers I'm unfamiliar with before sharing them.) 01512
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2025It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.pbump.netHow Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the leftIt is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration. T... 121074381
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/09/2025"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."arcdigital.mediaEzra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us TrumpThe prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA 23613190
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025"Reading the once-vibrant Washington Post opinion section, under its new editor, feels like choking down a spoonful of congealed Cream of Wheat..." www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...cjr.orgLaurels and Darts: The Washington Post's writer flight.On WaPo’s self-inflicted talent exodus. Plus: In Hawai‘i, it pays to get probed; YOLO journalism at the University of Georgia; and Trump’s bigly error-ridden lawsuit. 1162004428
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2025Trump couldn’t understand why “people didn’t understand that Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time.” Wow. Wow. Wow. 42447561388
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...miamiherald.comHundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving siteAs of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. 11943189419318
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2025“.. the stony faces and occasionally audible gasps are those of the assembled world dreading the fate of what diplomats call the ‘international community minus one.’” 🇺🇸 @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 591641420
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2025the Tom Homan bribery scandal is the latest example of how a felon in the White House is making crime legalpublicnotice.coA felon in the White House is making crime legalMeanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding. 357105053578
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025NEW: SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it. A 90-year-old precedent meant nothing to the majority allowing Trump to fire an FTC commissioner during litigation. This is no way to run a court, let alone a country. Tonight, at Law Dork:lawdork.comSCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like itThis is no way to run a court, let alone a country. 341194434
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 20/09/2025This is it, but people are too gullible and mindless to realize it. 13146121725
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 21/09/2025This is what an actual popular front against fascism looks like; not accommodating people who agree that you’re beneath them but fascists are impolite 424129
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025NEW: This is a story I worked really hard on. I spoke to four American trans people about why they're claiming asylum in Canada or the Netherlands. It's an eye-opening window into just how unsafe people now feel here — and what drove them to that point. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukTrump’s war on trans people has left Americans seeking asylum — from AmericaFour trans Americans claiming refuge abroad tell Io Dodds why they no longer feel safe in their home country, from fears of martial law to being arrested in changing rooms 221115474
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann NPR @npr.org · 20/09/2025Rom-coms, heist flicks, a sports/horror mashup, a pair of Broadway musicals, a biopic of The Boss, festival award winners and lots of showbiz sagas — here's what NPR critics are watching this fall.n.pr28 new movies worth checking out this fallRom-coms, heist flicks, a sports/horror mashup, a pair of Broadway musicals, a biopic of The Boss, festival award winners and lots of showbiz sagas — here's what NPR critics are watching this fall. 313221
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Aaaand this is why Bondi has dismantled the public corruption unit at DOJ. It’s now pay to play 572109744
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/09/2025When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy. 443235653
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2025A couple thoughts as a reporter who's been covering RFK Jr and watched today's hearing with fired CDC director Susan Monarez 1) the biggest things I heard today were about the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule. Monarez testified that RFK Jr told her he talks to Trump "every day" about changing it. 11578217
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/09/2025Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ashtheguardian.comAmericans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton AshI never thought I’d see fear spread so far and fast. Next year’s midterm elections are now crucial for the Democratic party – and for democrats everywhere, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash 1316479
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I have something to say about the Charlie Kirk murder. youtu.be/LyPdCw5Hcr0?...youtu.beKIRK 48 hours laterYouTube video by PoliticsGirl 1091431603
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Hilma af Klint, Altarbild, nr 1, grupp X, Altarbilder, 1915 one of first Western abstract artists whose work predates Kandinsky's #womensart 02022326
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. When the GOP let the ban expire in 2004 they increased by 243% - don’t try to say bans don’t work, the data doesn’t lie. 421266556
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025NEW — Internal documents from the National Guard shared with the Washington Post show that Trump's federal takeover of D.C. is "leveraging fear" among D.C. residents, driving a "wedge between citizens and the military," and causing "shame and alarm" among the troops. 321331424
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025This point cannot be over-emphasized enough. When I left the FBI in June, I said that if the destruction stopped that day, it would take a decade to repair. Talking now to friends still there, I think I was being too optimistic. We are witnessing the self-immolation of a great country. 221034324
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/09/2025This isn't a drawing of an adult woman. 33552631050
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Donald Trump is not a political story, it’s a crime story. And understanding him does not depend on political science, but psychology. 702351618
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/08/2025COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation. 740245658015
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025The thesis is that a single election for president - in which Trump didn’t even get a majority of votes - should override forever any other vote, any other arrangement, any other law, past or future, in any other place. This is fascism. 311125
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/07/2025NEW: Hundreds of NASA employees have filed a letter of formal dissent. "We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire." 4937761498
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 18/07/2025One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert 13485723030
Dr. Amy Tiemann @amytiemannphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025“Wired” reporting is awesome! And not all boys. 000
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/07/2025They are destroying science. And that will destroy lives. 33507218
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Yeah, Sam is 100% right: It’s bullshit. Today was a very bad day for the rule of law. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-all... 12651155