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Auntie Amy

@gameofcrones.bsky.social
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Crone, Mama Bear, Queer Ally, Weird Auntie, Tender of Gardens and Chickens, Library Advocate, Plastic Hater, Crone of Anarchy. I like dogs, democracy, good people, and resistance. Dogs are still better than people. DMs/Trolls blocked.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11/08/2026
BREAKING: Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and his brother have been sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Former Syrian President Assad sentenced to death in absentia
A Syrian court has sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and his younger brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria’s 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead.
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Auntie Amy @gameofcrones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Today I learned that this could exist as a voting option. What an interesting concept - and most people are already familiar with ranking something from 0 to 5 stars.
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Karishma Manzur, PhD @karishmaforsenate.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Amazing results, 29%! We’re proving that people can beat corporate PACs, Super PACs, AIPAC, dark money, billionaire donors, weapons manufacturers, and Big Tech. We are building a people’s movement. Join us and help reclaim our power!
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.
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Why Farmers Voted For Trump
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"Clergy with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization Monday withdrew $1 million from an account with Citizens Bank as it urged the institution to cut ties with two companies that finance and operate immigrant detention centers..." www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
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Faith coalition protests Citizens Bank’s work with detention centers operators
Dozens of clergy and faith activists rallied in front of a Back Bay Citizens branch to announce a $1 million withdrawal, saying it’s prepared to take out $13 million more.
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Auntie Amy @gameofcrones.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It is nearly impossible to keep up with all the corruption... ifp.nyu.edu/2026/news/th...
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The Chief Justice and his wife took $20 million from firms he rules on. I’m filing for his disbarment today. - information for practice
The evidence is public and the statutes are unambiguous. He is breaking the law. Over sixteen years of federal financial disclosure forms, Chief Justice
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"When you have a president who's running the country like a mob boss instead of a government, who's running the government for himself, of himself, and by himself, & for his cronies, instead of the people, by the people, and for the people, there's only one solution, & that's impeachment & removal."
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Auntie Amy @gameofcrones.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
In today's edition of "the people are fed up and no longer taking your shit"... apnews.com/article/chat...
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Police arrest a suspect in a Molotov attack at OpenAI CEO's San Francisco home
Police and OpenAI officials say a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home has been arrested.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Dan Rather represents an era when journalism wasn't as polarized into political groups. I miss those days. 😭
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/04/2026
Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Accountability brings consequences. And consequences are the only language corruption understands. Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution. They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇
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Heath Howard @heathhowardnh.com · 11/03/2026
If NH House Republicans spent half as much time lowering property taxes as they spend obsessing over where trans people go to the bathroom, maybe our state wouldn’t be in the financial crisis we are in right now. #NHPolitics #NH01 #ProtectTransRights
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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Kristi Noem spent 220 million on her self-promotion ad and Hegseth said, "Hold my fruit basket." newrepublic.com/post/207555/...
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab
The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/03/2026
This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Auntie Amy @gameofcrones.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Shocker. (Actually, the shocker is that DHS admitted it) www.npr.org/2026/02/13/n...
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DHS says immigration agents appear to have lied about shooting in Minnesota
Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg during the incident. Another Venezuelan man was also accused of attacking an immigration officer.
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Because from the beginning, the mission was based on cruelty. www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...
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A Texas man detained by ICE was his disabled son’s sole caregiver. His son will be laid to rest without him | CNN
Wael Tarabishi’s family had hoped his father and primary caretaker could be present as they say their final goodbyes to the 30-year-old at his funeral on Thursday.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Maybe DOJ should focus on the law it’s violating, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, instead of speculating a crime might have been committed (despite multiple ballot recounts) in Fulton County or declining to investigate two homicides in Minneapolis?
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Don’t accept evil in your life #MLKDay
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
ICE agents in Colorado have been leaving ace of spades cards behind when they detain someone, a psychological warfare technique the United States Armed Forces used against its mortal enemies during the Vietnam War. If you do not think Donald Trump is at war with his country, think again.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
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F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Please stop and read this statement from Renee Good's wife.
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“Can we check her pulse?” “No! Back up! Now!” “I’m a physician.” “I don’t care.”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The most enlightening and disappointing thing to come out of this ICE shooting is that the right legitimately does not give a fuck about human life if it harms their political narrative. Watching people malign a 37 year old mother for being murdered by her country is insane.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/12/2025
If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism. That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism
Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🚨 BREAKING: I obtained the letter the DOJ sent to Congress about today's Epstein files release. NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE! The law requires 5 exceptions. They're using 8. Here's what they're hiding and why it matters.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/12/2025
The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history. But that toll is a dramatic undercount. ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 18/12/2025
The Trump administration is punishing the American Academy of Pediatrics. I have enough thoughts about this for an entire feature length documentary but here are two minutes of them. (Spoiler alert: you can’t fight bad politics by staying apolitical.)
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/12/2025
Over fifty years ago, the Justice Department was investigating the Trump family for discriminating against Black people in their real estate business. Now, the president's administration is accusing the city of Boston of housing discrimination against white people.
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Trump's HUD accuses Boston of engaging in "redlining" against white people
Over fifty years ago, the Trump family faced a similar government challenge for refusing to rent to Black people.
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
To all of the straight-news media reporting on the conflict with Venezuela: What is the rationale for repeating any statement by the Trump administration without alerting your audience that the administration has already lied about the fundamental pretext of these operations and may be lying again?
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/12/2025
Dear male White House reporters, The next time Trump insults one of your female colleagues, if one of you doesn’t interject and say “Excuse me, sir, but fuck you.” God is going to lose his mind. Regards, God
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
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funkyartlady.bsky.social @funkyartlady.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Proud.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'll be in DC, 12/11 meeting Congress re: ACA Subsidies, Medicare, SNAP & Social Security. If you want to share your story or concerns, please DM me ASAP: *Your Name *State & Zip Code *A short paragraph of your story/concerns BEFORE 12/9/25 I'll hand deliver them but they MUST include this info.🙏💜
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It's a never ending series of grifts that remains defenseless. (S)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Trump’s USDA is threatening to withhold food stamp funding for 20 Democrat-controlled states if they don’t share recipients’ sensitive personal data. Yes: Trump is weaponizing hunger against millions of Americans, including children, to score cheap political points. The cruelty is endless.
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Auntie Amy @gameofcrones.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It's been six months of daily horrors since her (final) death, but please do not forget the name of Adriana Smith, the young black woman whose corpse the state of Georgia kept on life support against her family's wishes - because she was 9 WEEKS pregnant. That baby has never left the hospital.
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Auntie Amy @gameofcrones.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This is the kind of accurate headline we need. Thank you, AP apnews.com/article/trum...
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Doodling, drowsiness and a conspicuous misspelling highlight Trump's last Cabinet meeting of 2025
President Donald Trump's latest Cabinet meeting lasted over two hours. Trump's eyes fluttered as he struggled to keep them open at times.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 12/06/2025
If you silence free speech and trample the Constitution, you’re the lawless one. “Just obeying orders” is not a defense.
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Auntie Amy @gameofcrones.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Awww... she doesn't like the whistles? MORE WHISTLES, PEOPLE!
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Karishma Manzur, PhD @karishmaforsenate.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Let's strengthen the Democratic Party by standing firmly on principle: (1) Medicare for All is a non-negotiable human right. (2) Demand leaders who can't be bought by foreign lobbyists, like AIPAC. (3) Stand for human rights, whether in the U.S, Palestine, or anywhere else.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.
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