Sign in

Dr. Amy Tiemann

@amytiemannphd.bsky.social
728 followers 535 following 77 posts

Child safety expert. Digital nomad, loving life in Aotearoa New Zealand and North Carolina.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It 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.
Russ Vought tweet: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
1319980
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Populist governments cause more damage and stick around longer: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
55528
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/10/2025
South 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.org
Idaho 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 · 20/10/2025
This 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.com
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The 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 · 13/10/2025
When 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 · 13/10/2025
This 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 · 08/10/2025
There’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 · 02/10/2025
Remembering 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 · 02/10/2025
It 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 · 02/10/2025
Just 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 · 02/10/2025
this trend of detaining people at green card interviews is so particularly cruel
110216
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Chicago, 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.com
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE 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 · 30/09/2025
I 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 · 30/09/2025
US 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 · 01/10/2025
You 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 · 01/10/2025
I 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 · 29/09/2025
It 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.net
How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left
It 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.media
Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump
The 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.org
Laurels 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 · 25/09/2025
Trump 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 · 23/09/2025
More 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.com
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As 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 · 23/09/2025
the Tom Homan bribery scandal is the latest example of how a felon in the White House is making crime legal
publicnotice.co
A felon in the White House is making crime legal
Meanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding.
357105053578
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW: 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.com
SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it
This is no way to run a court, let alone a country.
341194434
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
This 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 · 21/09/2025
This 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
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
20540551156
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
NEW: 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.uk
Trump’s war on trans people has left Americans seeking asylum — from America
Four 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 · 20/09/2025
Rom-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.pr
28 new movies worth checking out this fall
Rom-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 · 20/09/2025
Aaaand 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 · 18/09/2025
When 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 · 17/09/2025
A 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 · 16/09/2025
Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash
theguardian.com
Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash
I 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 · 12/09/2025
I have something to say about the Charlie Kirk murder. youtu.be/LyPdCw5Hcr0?...
youtu.be
KIRK 48 hours later
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
1091431603
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Hilma 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 · 11/09/2025
When 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 · 10/09/2025
NEW — 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 · 08/09/2025
This 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 · 08/09/2025
This isn't a drawing of an adult woman.
33552631050
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Donald 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 · 01/08/2025
COLBERT: 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 · 31/07/2025
The 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 · 21/07/2025
NEW: 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."
The Voyager Declaration
Dear Interim Administrator Duffy,

In light of your recent appointment as Interim NASA Administrator, we bring to your attention recent policies that have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission. We, the signatories of this letter, dissent from these policies, and raise these concerns because we believe strongly in the importance of NASA's mission, which we are dedicated to uphold.

Major programmatic shifts at NASA must be implemented strategically so that risks are managed carefully. Instead, the last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce. We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. These cuts are arbitrary and have been enacted in defiance of congressional appropriations law The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire.
Our Shared Commitment to Dissentin� Opinions

We share a commitment to dissenting views in accordance with NASA Policy Directive 1000.0C,

NASA supports full and open discussion of issues of any nature (e.g., programmatic, institutional), including alternative and divergent views. Diverse views are to be fostered and respected in an environment of integrity and trust with no suppression or retribution. (NPD 1000.0C, Section 3.5.5)
Employees across the agency have raised concerns about recent actions to NASA leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures. We choose to write to you directly because: (I) as Interim Administrator, you are the final step in the chain of Technical Authority, and (2) the issues we raise are agency-wide, rather than project-specific.
As defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120 5F, Formal Dissent is "a substantive disagreement with a decision or action that an indiv…•	We dissent to changes to NASA's Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than safety and mission assurance. The culture of organizational silence promoted at NASA over the last six months already represents a dangerous tum away from the lessons learned following the Columbia disaster. Changes to the system of Technical Authority, as suggested would be made in the June 25th NASA Town Hall, should be made only in the interests of improving safety, not in anticipation of future budget cuts.
•	We dissent to the closing out of missions for which Congress has appropriated funding because it represents a permanent loss of capability to the United States both in space and on Eatlh. Once operational spacecraft are decommissioned, they cannot be turned back on. Additionally, cancelling missions in development threatens to end the next generation of crucial
observations.
•	We dissent to implementing indiscriminate cuts to NASA science and aeronautics research because this will leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides. Basic research in space science, aeronautics, and the stewardship of the Earth are inherently governmental functions that cannot and will not be taken up by the private sector. Furthermore, NASA has a nearly threefold return on investment in economic activity, and supports national security by ensuring the United States maintains its lead in science and technology.
•	We dissent to NASA's non-strategic staffing reductions because they will jeopardize NASA's core mission. Thousands of NASA civil servant employees have already been terminated, resigned or retired early, taking with them highly specialized, irreplaceable knowledge crucial to carrying out NASA's mission.
•	We dissent to canceling NASA participation in international missions because in doing so, NASA is abandoning America's allies. To date, 55 nations have signed on to the Artemis Accords, and withdrawing support from missions with our long-s…We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at the NIH and EPA who have released similar statements concerning the administration's actions at their respective agencies.

We dedicate this letter to Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. Their legacies underpin every conversation about our shared commitment to safety and dissenting opinions at NASA.
4937761498
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
One 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 · 15/07/2025
They are destroying science. And that will destroy lives.
33507218
Reposted by Dr. Amy Tiemann
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Yeah, 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