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Four years since the AI Bill of Rights under @alondra.bsky.social , 24 hours since Trump announced the AI companies would do "tremendous self-policing." Me:

Red cap with "ALONRA WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING"

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 13h

Only we can make it. Only we can understand it. Only we can govern it. 🤔

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 30/09/2026

Trust your gut, find your people, know your risk, and bring others along.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/09/2026

You think we’re just going to move on from the secret police rounding up our neighbors?

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/09/2026

If I were in government right now, this is what I would be spending all my time on: Fines, hearings, shame – none of it's changed the behavior of Big Tech. But data centers give you more leverage than you have *ever had* to force Big Tech to renegotiate its social compact with the American public.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 24/09/2026

The next bold and urgent step is for Democrats to place these questions—not just about AI, but about control of tech capital and the decisions made with these powerful technologies—at the center of a political agenda. Otherwise, see you in a couple month for this media circus all over again.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 22/09/2026

Here's a little collage I like to call "THESE LOSERS ARE EMINENTLY BEATABLE"

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 19/08/2026

This is wild: My buddy James Martin is currently winning his primary race by a margin of *334 votes*, with ~95 percent reporting. The winner of this race will take on MAGA Rep. Brian Mast. James, a U.S. Coast Guard vet, has busted his ass in this campaign and I hope he pulls this out!

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 17/08/2026

A word on accountability and justice.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 13/08/2026

Good. Now stop using Jews as a political cudgel to achieve your repressive agenda. Enough

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 13/08/2026

🧵I need to say some things about Jews, Abdul El-Sayed, and the rising anti-Muslim bigotry in public life🧵🧵🧵 Let’s start with a story: One of the fun things about working at the White House for me was getting to attend the annual White House Hanukkah party. The party was always a big, 1/18

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 12/08/2026

The political challenge with data centers

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 12/08/2026

Thinking tonight about this section of ON COURAGE and Nathan Law’s “rubber band theory”

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 10/08/2026

REGISTER: Jewish Lawyers for Democracy – How Lawyers Can Use their Skills to Protect the Midterm Elections urj.tfaforms.net/901?id=701UG...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 10/08/2026

One question I’ve gotten a number of times on book tour this summer: “how can we get young people to feel invested in democracy?” A few thoughts.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 10/08/2026

My Substack newsletter inbox this hour. I think this is what they mean when they talk about the “big tent” 😂 @milestaylor.bsky.social @peterbeinart.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 08/08/2026

The number of “smart people” engaged in gutter racism under the guise of “just telling it like it is” is rising. It’s gross, and let’s be really clear that this kind of dehumanizing language -- normalized in the public sphere -- has a 100 percent rate of leading to violence against the dehumanized.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 07/08/2026

Here’s the full video: open.substack.com/pub/amifield...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 31/07/2026

Hey Portland! On Monday night @juliaangwin.com and I will be at Powell’s talking about our book with the great Eric Ward (@bulldogshadow.bsky.social). Come through! www.powells.com/events/julia...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/07/2026

An incredibly important and timely reflection on the state of the Jewish people from the scholar Shaul Magid. I hope you will read. open.substack.com/pub/shaulmag...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/07/2026

🧵🧵There are a bunch of lessons from India’s Cockroach Janata protest movement, which in a matter of weeks brought an increasingly authoritarian prime minister to heel and achieved real gains from a govt that’s been largely immune to forces of accountability. Here are a few off the top of my head🧵

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 24/07/2026

Democrats are going to let the easiest political pitch in modern history just sail on by.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 22/07/2026

If you aren't following the "Cockroach" student protests in India, it's worth turning your attention to them. Triggered after the govt canceled results of entrance exams for over 2 million aspiring doctors and dentists. Modi has largely ignored, and the gov't say he's dealt with it internally...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 21/07/2026

Tom Homan is a criminal and will face accountability soon.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 17/07/2026

CHICAGO! Join me and @juliaangwin.com in conversation with the great @bencollins.bsky.social at The Onion offices for the Chicago stop of the ON COURAGE book tour. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-courage...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 17/07/2026

The Americans who’ve seen results in resistance Trump — from Minn. to Maine — have all operationalized the same principle: Make it cost them. Just as @andreapitzer.bsky.social has been saying for years on slowing camps. Like @chenoweth.bsky.social and @mariajstephan.bsky.social have long advised.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 16/07/2026

Wow! We made the NYT bestseller list for the second consecutive week. I am so gratified and moved that ON COURAGE is reaching people all over the country. I hope it gives you a little more strength to fight for justice and a heavy dose of inspiration. www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 16/07/2026

A word on Trump’s expected speech tonight. To successfully undermine U.S. elections, Trump is relying on the compliance of institutions. If he does what’s been reported, we can do something about that. Spread the word.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 13/07/2026

ATLANTA: Come hang out with us on Wednesday night at the Carter Center! www.cartercenter.org/events/on-co...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 13/07/2026

"They took him to an alleyway and beat him until he lost consciousness." When I read about the horrifying abuses at the hands of ICE agents, I'm reminded of this quote from our reporting in ON COURAGE, from the human rights statistician Patrick Ball. They will not be anonymous. We will find them.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 11/07/2026

Just because you aren't hearing about it doesn't mean that Stephen Miller's war on immigrant families isn't continuing apace. It is. Vegas, San Antonio, Chicago, and Milwaukee have all seen more detentions and traffic stops. Per NYT, daily arrests doubled in the last week of June and keep going up.

A Wednesday night vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who was shot by ICE officers during a traffic stop in Houston.Credit...Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 11/07/2026

Much of our conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social about ON COURAGE came back to this: after talking to dissidents on five continents, we believe defeating authoritarianism begins by expanding your circle of commitment. Full “American Conversations” interview: www.youtube.com/live/NgpJUas...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 09/07/2026

ON COURAGE debuted at #12 on the New York Times bestseller list. Still can't believe it. Gratitude to everyone who's read the book and shared it + to the courageous people who trusted us with their stories. We will win our democracy back and build a world where all are treated with equal dignity.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 09/07/2026

It is not found in the expediency of abandoning core values. It is found by clutching tightly to those values as a lantern in the depths. That’s how we find each other and find the path. That’s how the light gets in.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 09/07/2026

ON COURAGE is an instant New York Times bestseller. I can’t believe it. Thank you to everyone who has read the book and to all who have shared it. Deep, deep gratitude to you, and to the courageous people around the world who trusted us with their stories.

On Courage debuted at #12 on the NYT bestseller list

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 08/07/2026

It’s pretty simple, actually.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 07/07/2026

To protect our democracy, we need to start by looking to other places where democracy has slipped.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 05/07/2026

“A book for this exact moment in time.” The great @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social did a fantastic segment on our new book, ON COURAGE. Grateful to Jacob and moved that people across the country are finding the book resonant. I hope it empowers those on the brink of taking action for our country.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 02/07/2026

One of many interesting parts of our great conversation yesterday with @djrothkopf.bsky.social: why many who've been traditionally successful in politics aren't equipped for this authoritarian moment. You can get the book, ON COURAGE, here: www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 01/07/2026

If I could offer just one piece of advice to everyone who objects to the corruption, roundups, attacks on the Constitution but isn’t sure where to start fighting back, it would be this: Find a political home. Lesson 5 in our series: How to Save the Free World ON COURAGE: wherever books are sold 🔗

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 30/06/2026

It's launch day for ON COURAGE! Maddow: “INVALUABLE. A CLASSIC OF OUR TIME.” In the dark early days of Trump II, @juliaangwin.com and I were interviewing dissidents on 5 continents, learning what Americans could do to save our republic. Where books are sold: www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 30/06/2026

Most activists you think are superhuman actually trained as carefully as a firefighter – or anyone else doing a risky job. Lesson 4: Resistance takes practice, discipline, and preparation. The latest in our series: “How to Save the Free World” with @juliaangwin.com ON COURAGE is out tomorrow.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 29/06/2026

NEWS: @maddow.bsky.social is the narrator for the audio version of ON COURAGE, my new book with @juliaangwin.com "It will give you concrete ideas of what you can do right now to help your country. It will make you feel more equipped for whatever is coming next. I couldn’t recommend it more highly.”

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/06/2026

Lesson #3: Fear is cheap to produce. In our new video series, "How to Save the Free World," @juliaangwin.com and I are sharing the top lessons we learned reporting on 100+ global dissidents. Follow along here – and pre-order ON COURAGE, which is out Tuesday: www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

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