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Amanda

@ln4bbn.bsky.social
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Higher ed/ed policy nerd. Books. Concerts. Sports.

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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Honestly thrilled that my daughter looks up to her.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I love P. Terry’s.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Not me crying through all of Superman. It was perfect. No notes.
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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 09/07/2025
Waking up to Christian Horner getting fired has me like
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TBFighters @tbfighters.org · 08/07/2025
Experts estimate USAID cuts are leading to 88 deaths PER HOUR. A UN office called these “the deepest funding cuts ever to hit the international humanitarian sector.” If funding isn't resumed, they estimate an additional 10 million cases & 2 million preventable deaths by 2030: tb.impactcounter.com
tb.impactcounter.com
Tuberculosis Impact Counter | Tracking TB Funding Impact
Tracking the impact of TB funding via USAID
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I think about this all the time. In the last twenty years we've drowned in "What if Superman was evil?" stories, while real Lex Luthors hosted SNL and ruined the world.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
media.tenor.com
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wooden wall
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wooden wall
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It takes a special kind of awful to be an adoptive parent and choose not to honor an open adoption agreement with your child’s first family.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The stupidest thing wealthy people do is spend all of their money making sure they only ever see other wealthy people. Fucking rots their brains.
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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I honestly think ANDOR is more inspirational and rousing than like, the past 20 years of democratic messaging.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Well, doesn't this really tell you all you really need to know?
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
There was essentially zero coverage of the disabled protest to stop Medicaid cuts. Capitol police dragged protesters out, many in wheelchairs, and arrested 34 people. It was barely a blip on the news because nobody really cares about the disabled.
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More than 30 arrested at Senate building while protesting Medicaid cuts
U.S. Capitol Police officers arrested 34 people Wednesday who were demonstrating against Congress’ proposed cuts to Medicaid inside a Senate office building. Advocates and people who depend on Medicai...
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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
“She messaged me, saying ‘Hi I’m Croix I play for the Spirit’ and I was like I know exactly who you are. You do not need to introduce yourself.” 😂 Georgia Amoore on Croix Bethune reaching out to her and the love between DC’s women’s teams ❤️
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
No I very much am contesting the central claim: “Lifesaving” is a perfectly reasonable way to describe a treatment that reduces depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation in a population with high rates of all three!
Helen Lewis @helenlewis • 9h
The Bluesky reaction is about what you'd expect in terms of the emotional pitch.
But what's telling is that no one is contesting the central claim -- that the suicide claims were overblown. Again, it isn't me that's spent a decade earmongering on this.
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mclaren news 🧡 @mclarenf1news.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
lando norris and oscar piastri champagne spray on the podium
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
And if I’m flying solo, at least I’m flying free.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/06/2025
I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
On a day full of bad news, I needed this impossible level of cuteness.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I hate box jumps.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
living through 2025 and having to wake up, go to work, handle responsibilities etc feels like this
a clip of James Acaster on the Great British Back off saying, "Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite." as he presents a dish to the judges.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
There are too many evil people in the world and they have far too much power over the rest of us
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 22/06/2025
Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think
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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This is heartbreaking. (via someone at the St. Paul rally)
Protest signs held high at a rally today. The central one is hand-letterd, saying "Melissa Hortman Loved Democracy, and So Do I"
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Let's think about how these things are coded before we say them, okay?
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I hope my kid has the future-equivalent experience of rotating who was gonna buy curly fries or a drink so that Arby's wouldn't kick us out and we could keep hanging out and playing Rook and just being dumb, innocent teenagers.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Reading "Where Are Your Boys Tonight?" and getting that stomach-ache-nostalgia-feeling for what it felt like to discover new music with my friends as a teenager with crappy dial-up internet.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Ms. Rachel says she’ll keep advocating for children in Gaza, even if it means risking her career
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Ms. Rachel says she’ll keep advocating for children in Gaza, even if it means risking her career
Ms. Rachel, whose full name is Rachel Accurso, made headlines in recent weeks for speaking out on her social media platforms about children living inside Gaza. Her comments have sparked backlash from ...
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This woman. Good Lord.
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Emily Amick @emilyinyourphone.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
People like Elon Musk want Americans poor and desperate for any job. I want people healthy and fed so they are living productive joyful lives. We are not the same.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
There are truly not words to describe how I feel about my daughter's first mom. I would walk through fire for that woman.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The kids are alright.
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 16/05/2025
When Nashville SC defeated Charlotte FC on Saturday, the supporters section lacked its usual verve and had visible gaps throughout the risers. The reason was explained in a pair of large white banners. No estamos todos aquí. We are not all here. www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Your choices, your actions...that's what makes you who you are."
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It’s really funny that conservatives are like “this pope supports immigrants and doesn’t like gun violence” as opposed to what they think Christianity should be concerned with which is having more white people in Honey Nut Cheerio commercials
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
WTF
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
These are a core childhood memory for me.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
When the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If you’d like to know what a mammogram feels like, just stretch your boob out and close a garage door on it.
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” 
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
People like me will die because of this.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The only reason anyone would cut the Narcan program, a mere $56 million annually, is because they want people to die as punishment.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Considering there are still dupes out there going, "he just wants to prevent chronic disease!" I feel the need to point out that RFK Jr. has been working on these issues for decades and has not bothered to learn the most elementary facts about how vaccines or the government work.
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I worry a lot about whether I am a good person or not. Then I realize that the people who are actually bad don’t worry about that at all.
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Lorena O’Neil @lorenaoneil.com · 26/04/2025
BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
rollingstone.com
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
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Amanda @ln4bbn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This never fails to get me in my feels. And damn. We need Cap now more than ever.
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