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Amanda Main

@drmain.bsky.social
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Liquor lawyer, higher ed advocate, yogi, knitter, weekend farmer, bibliophile.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good idea
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Insane! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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Robert Raymond @robertr369.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump's secret police moves to create an enemies list for the White House. The database would have all US voters, their party affiliations and their political preferences. Now for the question: what does any of this have to do with immigration enforcement? www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Amanda Main @drmain.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Gee, a billion sure is a lot!” Now I need Scrooge McDuck to show me a trillion. youtu.be/8hrvgg3R_Xc?...
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Scrooge McDuck breaks down the difference between $100k and $1 billion
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Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Apropos point 2: we’re well past “the beginning of the end.”
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Rules are for the little people 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
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Yarwanaw @yarwanaw.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Amanda Main @drmain.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Growing up watching Scooby Doo, you’d know that the monster was always some real estate developer. I think we should have listened to lessons of the Scooby Gang more.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Everyone knows "1776" was *the* battle cry of the January 6 insurrectionists, right? I wrote a book on the armed rebellion Trump incited, and if you missed that his Terrorist Slush Fund is $1.776B *explicitly* to signal its aim of making MAGA terrorists rich, that's... a big miss.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2026
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw helped name two contested ideas in U.S. politics — intersectionality and critical race theory. Her memoir chronicles the personal and legal framework for her thinking. n.pr/4ncrJge
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A legal scholar and 'Backtalker' defends critical race theory -- a term she helped coin
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw helped name two contested ideas in U.S. politics — intersectionality and critical race theory. Her memoir chronicles the personal and legal framework for her thinking.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Odd, how a lone gunman failed to even enter a targeted room and no one was harmed—and Republicans go HYSTERICAL over the “tone” of Democrats. And yet heavily armed and masked fascists murdered two people at point-blank range in the streets of Minneapolis—and not a peep about the “tone” of the right.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The DOJ has been taking down Epstein files. Here’s what remains. The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released. www.cbsnews.com/projects/202...
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The DOJ has been taking down Epstein files. Here's what remains.
The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Democracy will not come
Today, this year
  Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.

I have as much right
As the other fellow has
 To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.

I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

     Freedom
     Is a strong seed
     Planted
     In a great need.

     I live here, too.
     I want freedom
     Just as you.

Langston Hughes
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Of course Trump is looting our tax contributions: the Trump family fortune is based on looting our tax $. Trump owes his political career to mass theft of public $: If his father hadn't stolen $413,000,000 by ripping off federal housing funds, plus tax evasion, there'd be no POTUS Trump.
Summary of 2018 New York Times expose on the Trump family fortune being based on $413 million in theft of public money.
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Amanda Main @drmain.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Apparently you can sprain your tail from excessive tail wagging…this is what happens when your brothers come home from college for the weekend. A vet visit and good meds, she’s doing fine.
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Amanda Main @drmain.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Congress, do your job.
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Amanda Main @drmain.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
“Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!” Seems appropriate for today. #Discworld #SirPterry #NacMacFeegle #NoKingsDay
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Who knew what? When did they know it? How close were they to Trump's inner circle? And can anyone within or around the orbit of this regime be trusted to put the interests of the American public above their own pocketbook? It is maddening that we even need to ask these questions.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Well, well, well. Look who’s mail in voting. So, it’s good enough for you, but not millions of others? 🤔
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The Verge @theverge.com · 19/03/2026
Unlike information obtained from cellphone providers, this data can be accessed without a warrant — and used to track anyone.
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The FBI is buying Americans’ location data
“We do purchase commercially available information.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
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Patrick Webb @patrickwbb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My current enemies are not in Iran, they’re in the Epstein Files.
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Amanda Main @drmain.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Holy shit. He just made a joke about summarily murdering people in the Caribbean….
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18/02/2026
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside
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Yarwanaw @yarwanaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Read it all please.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/02/2026
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Amanda Main @drmain.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Well, I made the Melt Ice Hat. I still need to block it. There are definitely things I would do differently. Even though my gauge was right for the pattern and the needle was in line with the yarn, it feels tight. I will use a 5 next time. I would also do another inch on ribbing I think. #KnitSky
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T & Sympathy @tisaane12.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The President suing a federal agency. 😵‍💫 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Donald Trump sues IRS and US Treasury over leaked tax documents
The lawsuit seeks $10bn (£7.25bn) in damages after tax information from Trump and his family was leaked to the media.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/01/2026
Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
NEW: ICE just executed another person in Minneapolis.
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Amanda Main @drmain.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Seeking asylum is a lawful, legal process for being in the US until final disposition of your case.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”
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Amanda Main @drmain.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Sophie scarflet but with variegated wool. Stay toasty. #KnitSky
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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KellyElizabeth @kellyelizabeth13.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Read the Constitution sometime.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 12/01/2026
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/01/2026
This is f*cked up! There isn’t any law in this country that requires you to provide proof of citizenship on the interior, but unfortunately ICE is racially profiling. And they don’t care if you say you’re a US citizen. So where does this leave everyone? If you don’t look white, you’re in danger.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/01/2026
Watch as ICE refuses to let a doctor render aid to Renee Nicole Good.
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