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Amy

@asbutton.bsky.social
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I'm pro science, Pro union, and Pro democracy. Neurospicy, of the chronically curious variety. I also write. My Twitter handle was- randombutton

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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Who owns the fruit of human toil? True to Paine's warning, we continue to furnish the means by which we suffer. @indivisiblemocowi.bsky.social substack.com/@indivisible...
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​1776 Was a Workers' Uprising
250 years later, we still fight. Who owns the fruit of human toil? True to Paine's warning, we continue to furnish the means by which we suffer.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Divest from oligarchy. Protect your communities. And organize on policy. Pressure your reps to represent not rule. Never kick down, punch up.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Credibility, is the currency of diplomacy. War is a failure of diplomacy. Competent command is the bare minimum.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Reality, and seeing the situation as it is, can be disheartening. Lean on each other. Be there to lift each other up. Know we all take different roads to this point in time. But someone has to be reading the map. So if nothing else. Picture solutions. We'll get through this, together.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Do not, fall into despair. Cherish good people when you find them. There's more sadistic people than any of us are comfortable with. The antidote to lawful evil, it's chaotic good. If people can do evil for no reason. We can do good, when we have the opportunity, for no reason.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Even Frodo struggled the longer he carried it. We can only choose who gets to carry. So make sure we're getting the best person we can to that playoff race. If, there's no place in your journey right now to do nothing else. Imagine the world you wish for, what could happen if we fixed things.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We have to imagine better. The answers to the future are in imagining better. In hiring people who run for office who are choosing to serve to represent you. It's a job. Hire competence over charm. And rotate them out in some regular pattern.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
When justice, is unattainable, from above your social caste. It's only applicable down the ladder. Never up. Anger and the system itself is bound to corrode.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Who's only goal is to attain as much power as they can to sadistically gain access to money, and the things money can buy. In this world, there's long been a, ceiling to accountability. At some point there's enough money to buy your freedom to consequences. It's almost a theme in history.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Love. Joy. Companionship I recall Plato's warnings. That democracy crumbles when charisma is valued over competency. That corruption followed in Athens. This makes sense. Charisma, it's a tool often used by those who manipulate. Who lie. And some of them, are malignant narcissist.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the power like the ring from lord of the rings- The ones who have resilience to it, are the little people. they've learned the secret. That happiness comes from community, friends, and a belief that some day we may all gather over a pint in the shire and cherish the true wealth in this life.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I feel like, some may need some words of hope. For my own personal reasons, I've never trusted authority, for authorities sake. Because, the more power one appears to attain, the more it appears to me, that people with the proclivaties to abuse it, seem willing to do anything for more. .
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I keep thinking about the missing kids, runaways, women. There's ties to the jon benet case. This is a huge, criminal organization. And it's going to take a long time to bring them to justice. Maybe we could take that ice funding and start a special court... The people deserve justice.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I keep wondering, how many victims were institutionalized globally because they were given drugs and tortured. How many were institutionalized because of how implausible their experiences were?
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
What does it feel like for a butterfly to emerge from is chrysalis? Is it the best stretch imaginable? Or is it slimy, itchy, and uncomfortable? Or maybe it's both. And as it dries it's new wings? Does it know what's possible? Does it know the threats, innately? Can it imagine flight?
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I know there's so much going on. Please if you can-
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy." (He means Greenland.)
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Please contact your reps. They are trying to sell our resources, destroy our public lands. They are stealing from generations to come. Speak up
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Coalitions are built for a shared objective. The group project has a goal. That goal means working with people you might not have picked. The objective, it's the priority. Stop thinking you're going to find ground on everything. And move towards completing the objective.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Here's the strategy, imho.... Psst. Register for your state primary. Vote for the least corrupt option you have in every race. But vote. Preferably in person. Send a message. Loud and clear.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The man with the nuclear football has a torture fetish. Release the files. Impeach remove and try every single person who abused, or facilitated the abuse of victims. All of them Divest from their companies. Stop propping up the oligarchy that dismantled our democracy for these monsters.
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JCBlueB8 @jcblue88.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
youtu.be/WCDf1KHyxY4?... Trump/Sasha Riley
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January 12, 2026
YouTube video by Christina Talks
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
it's so bad. The dude has a torture kink, and we gave this mfer the nuclear football. open.substack.com/pub/lisevold...
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"Don't worry. Boys are hard to find." Part 1 o2
Trump/Epstein and Associated Criminal Enterprises: Victim Interviews: SR
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026
This is the video.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Pretend this is just us, this cancer of corruption metastasis occurred a long time ago. Upper limits of accountability have been shown global and systemically. When is enough enough? oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This is global corporate oligarchs playing risk. The world knows it, the current us Gov is corrupt and they're using it. What are you going to do about it? You still investing? Giving them leases to your resources? What's the upper limit for corporate accountability? You're not immune
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This is global corporate oligarchs playing risk. The world knows it. What are you going to do about it? You still investing? Giving them leases to your resources? What's the limit for global corporate oligarchs? oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This is global corporate oligarchs playing risk. The world knows it. What are you going to do about it? You still investing? Giving them leases to your resources? What's the limit for global corporate oligarchs? oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
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What to Expect From Chevron’s Massive Guyana Investment | OilPrice.com
Chevron’s $53 billion acquisition of Hess gives it a major stake in Guyana’s booming Stabroek oil block, reshaping its global oil strategy amid production challenges.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Chevron emerges as winner in ExxonMobil dispute over Guyana Oil Field
Chevron will proceed with its $53 billion acquisition of Hess, after it prevailed in a landmark legal battle against larger rival Exxon Mobil to gain access to the largest oil discovery in decades.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This Venezuela offensive is about EXXONMOBIL. It's about a case they lost in July. They own our media. They own our reps. Divest. Push your pensions to divest. Push your employers to divest. Support anti corruption movements and candidates. Punch up, never down. Form uncomfortable coalitions.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Who was giving marching orders? There's people above them. GM and JE. Who??? Are they still trafficking children? Laundering money? why are his accounts still open? Who's profiting? Why would it not be frozen through litigation? Justice for the victims.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Wth these social studies and history high school teachers gonna to with- All this? Can you even imagine teaching this to teenagers? The same parents who don't wanna hear about black history? They gonna allow.... this? WE TEACH HISTORY SO WE DO NOT REPEAT ITS LESSONS.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Underaged women are children. Men who abuse their power are predators. And adults who are attracted to children are pedophiles. And some of y'all carrying water for pedos acting like we're taking about you? Are we?
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
@baldwin.senate.gov Hold the line! We're counting on you! This is lives on the line. Empty promises are not enough! You need tangible gains. This is absurd, why would you lose your leverage this way? No! As a long time supporter, this isn't a compromise worth your seat. And it will cost it.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I honestly can't believe we as a country, are going with prosecuting immigrants and letting pedophiles, child traffickers, corporate labor abusers, and tax cheats go as an actual policy.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is what we want. @baldwin.senate.gov @govevers.wisconsin.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Donald Trump to present minerals deal to Vladimir Putin in Alaska share.google/z4det6vzlg8x...
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Awe, the bigoted old privileged wealthy entitled man is afraid, so I guess due process, and civil liberty has to go..... Nah... He should try therapy. And we should tell these cowards to go home and retire and let someone with stones and heart step in to serve his constituents.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I am not yet regretting those 152 tomatoes I planted this year. May be the first time i was right about doubling the sq ft of my plot. I'm quite sure I'll be regretting it while canning in August...
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
winning election policies imho- -Overturn Citizens United. -Federally Legalize Cannabis - Tax wealth not work. - fair wage for fair work - Limit reality investment by property management companies. - Campaign finance reform - Medicare for all. - Make college education affordable
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Look, I do not know how to reach democratic leadership but if you do? Tell them the story out of NYC? It's authenticity. And from backwoods wisco? You can sell progressive policy here, You can't fake authenticity. And we're all starving for it. Stand for something. Be authentic. Or retire. #dems
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
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Attacks on Muslims flood mainstream after Mamdani win
Openly racist rhetoric has become normalized at the highest levels of American politics.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/06/2025
Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I saw someone say you were but I still can't see you.
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans | Trump administration | The Guardian share.google/Noo1N4QHYZLw...
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Omg the aerial photos are even better 😭
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Local media reporting that the victims appear to be two Democratic state lawmakers and a spouse. No word on injuries. This is really, really dark news to wake up to.
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Live updates: Brooklyn Park shelter-in-place after multiple shootings, suspect may be impersonating police
A shelter-in-place alert was sent out at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning by the Brooklyn Park Police Department after multiple shootings. A suspect in the shooting may be impersonating law enforcement and ...
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
But y'all have left your basic principles behind. You are handing local power to state legislators. And state power to the executive branch. This is why I can not believe conservatives are driven by principles. Because it sure seems like you leave them at the door to be boot licking
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Amy @asbutton.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
To be clear, to the people who used to profess they were the small government conservatives- Medical boards determined ethics and best practices. Sports? Tournaments and leagues determined eligibility of Trans athletes. School boards determined curriculum, your community chose books.
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