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Amanda (she/her)

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Just an anxious millennial liberal trying to survive the South and finish her PhD. Cat mom.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/11/2025
this is just gutter racism
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 27/11/2025
i know house of cards is gauche now, but one of the first real "oh something is very wrong here" moments I had about the press was when the press was doing 'tee hee how naughty' bits about kate mara's character (the journalist at not-buzzfeed)
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The Trump regime granted the suspected shooter asylum earlier this year. Now they are taking his alleged crime out on all Afghan nationals seeking entrance to the US. Another ban. Another excuse for violence and deportation.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I still find it incredibly funny how a former liberal arts professor who writes for the atlantic and does a podcast is considered a (white) working class whisperer because he wears a camo hat on his twitter pfp
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
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J. Marshall Smith @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I've made about $17k all year, INCLUDING my adjunct teaching job. There is this idea that anyone working in the arts has wealthy family help, and sure some do, but a lot of us are simply poor. If you enjoy someone's work please pay them for it. It is not greedy to want to be paid for your labor.
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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 27/11/2025
Thinking "impressions" and "user reviews" are real is a true "dead internet" flag. Before 201X, journos understood the limits of these measures and their place in the web ecology. But then a new generation of rich kid dipshit started getting work in media and twitter impressions = nielsen captures.
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Bert Gambit @complexifire.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I don't think it's even "hit the play button", just "had this post cross their timeline"... last I heard, they weren't reporting the actual video view count separately from the tweet impression count anymore, unless they do inside the owner's analytics. I doubt TAH has an actual view count
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 27/11/2025
The last God’s Not Dead movie made $1.1m at the box office, almost certainly less than it cost to make, certainly less than it cost to make and market. They’re making another one, not because people want it, but because they need you to know they hate you.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 27/11/2025
“Is right-wing slop breaking through to the mainstream?” No. No it is not. Billions of dollars and countless man-hours are spent propping it up and people fucking hate it. It’s soulless trash that doesn’t even convincingly convey honest animus
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 27/11/2025
This is innumerate nonsense. An average of 1.1 million people were watching The Simpsons throughout its entire thirty-minute broadcast according to a third-party data company contracted to measure viewership by Disney. Somebody, no way to know who, hit the play button 1.7 million times on Twitter
On September 28, 1.1 million Americans tuned in for the 37th season premiere of the groundbreaking animated sitcom The Simpsons. A little more than a week later, another groundbreaking animated sitcom had its season premiere: The Will Stancil Show debuted on X, where it accumulated 1.7 million views. Since then, three more
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
journalist thinks actions of other journalists shouldn't indict journalism. many such cases
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This is obviously bad, but post-Kirk, I'm not convinced there is a single occurrence that won't be memory-holed after 2 weeks.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 26/11/2025
You ever think about how if Sean Duffy did this as a Democrat there would be people burning effigies of him in front of airports to protest “nanny state liberalism”?
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
i appreciate this administration's willingness to negatively polarize centrist democrats into resist lib mode
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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I think one of the things that is most frustrating to me about the modern age is how much people playact outrage and how much other people treat it as serious and worthy of concern.
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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Joe Biden should have seized the Times under asset forfeiture
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President Trump has long portrayed his stamina as a political strength. But that image is getting harder for him to sustain.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“Send it back to the states also states aren’t allowed to teach slavery was bad.”
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 25/11/2025
If you're dead you don't pay anything.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I hate that like the internet has nuked people's brains, I saw someone bitching about "why is the President ALWAYS! like 90!" Obama was in his 40s, so was Bill Clinton, W was 54, just in the last 10 years have Presidents been old (and people could have voted for the 59 year old)
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Ken Burns' Reconstruction would be uh, well timed
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Someone needs to set up a camera so we'll know when Pete Hegseth orders this plaque removed from West Point.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Horrible.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
gonna have to do ag reform if you want to fix the water. sorry. they’re the problem.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I have no idea why farmers keep getting a pass for water shortages, to the point where popular culture has now found a scapegoat to blame it on entirely, but it fucking sucks
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
weird header for an article about the very real dangers of modern industrial agriculture
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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Elon Musk is, barring a miraculous conversion, a lifetime of penance, and the will of a singularly merciful God, going directly to Hell.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Okay so we are aware that those allegations exist almost entirely because a spectrum-wide alliance of populist grifters needed a post hoc way to absolve The People of supporting the Iraq War for racist panic reasons and the right realized it was more socially acceptable than the alternative, right
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 25/11/2025
Just apropos of some ongoing discourse, I think the political class is describing way more salient to the “Kamala is for they them” ad then is actually warranted
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 25/11/2025
That these memes seemed to work really underscores what a tremendous own goal it was for leftists to validate their logic. Harris said the word "lethal" in her DNC speech; meanwhile Trump had a tremendously bloody record as *President.* But a lot of online influencers only emphasised the former.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
NVIDIA has had the excellent luck to wind up in a market position where it just fucking prints money, and they're on the verge of squandering it out of FOMO and market mania.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Fucking Secretary of the Army told Ukraine and Europe that it had to accept Russia's terms for surrender by Thanksgiving. Traitorous loon.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 24/11/2025
from "the pro peace ticket" to "we're invading venezuela to steal their oil" in just about 12 month
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Donald Trump and J.D. Vance standing side by side, both wearing suits. Donald Trump has blonde hair and a blue tie, while J.D. Vance has brown hair and a yellow tie. The text "THE PRO-PEACE TICKET" is overlaid in white and red.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 25/11/2025
the definitive feature of our time is that our society is committing collective suicide to own the experts just an entire culture flushing itself down the toilet to avoid admitting that you can learn things in school
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/11/2025
Liberal Socialism is on the rise in the US. I wouldn't call is post-Liberal in the way the MAGA movement is
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Voters elected Trump to make them rich
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/11/2025
Like, im sorry, but the conspiracy theorists have had 60yrs, the opening of the Soviet archives, etc to get a scrap of evidence that there was a conspiracy. They have not done so. The official story accurately described all the facts.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/11/2025
JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
We’re not far from Rubio arguing with himself from the perspective of two different jobs he holds
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I'm all for woke 2 as long as we agree woo-woo is out, I want aggressively pro-science and medicine thanks
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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
It's that time of year
The Distracted Boyfriend meme, but their heads are now:
Guy - a wide-eyed cat
Girlfriend - a cat tree
Red dress woman - a Christmas tree
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/11/2025
Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
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Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats
Your weekly political data roundup for November 13, 2025
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