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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How I think that convo went: T: Dumocrats. It’s brilliant, right? You only have to change one letter! Sycophant: Well, two letters, but yes, brilliant! T: What do you mean, two letters?! You swap the e for a u. Boom! S: And drop the b. T: Drop the what? S: The b. You know, d-u-m-b. T: 🤯

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Huh. Wonder if that means this shit should be regulated.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I like how he said “that’s personal” in response to the circumcision question. He’s so close to getting it.

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centuriespod.bsky.social @centuriespod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

1871 newspaper. So weird to see something like this in print, but it was common back in the day. (TW: 155-year-old accounts of self-deletion.)

Tired of Life.
—Lorenzo Rogers, clerk in the post-office at Galesburg, Ill., shot himself on Saturday, and will probably die from the effects of the wound. Cause—his girl loved some other man better than him.
—John Bolin, of Brownsville, Neb., took a dose of strychnine, because he could not obtain "whom his heart loved most," a waiter in a hotel. John is no more.
(The Eaton Democrat, June 8, 1871, page 4)

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centuriespod.bsky.social @centuriespod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

On this week's episode, Amber talks to ABC's Stephanie Ramos about a devastating case that took decades to unravel. The Murder of Leslie Preer is live on this week's Crimes of the Centuries. #history #truecrime #COTC #crimesofthecenturies

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Reading this now, and it’s excellent. Plus, you’ll get to catch Pam on an upcoming Crimes of the Centuries episode!

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

With bad guys, it’s always about control.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Anyone willing to summarize beyond the headline for those of us who dropped WaPo and won’t be back until Bezos is gone? (Applauding the journos involved. I’m just not willing to give him my money.)

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

As long as there’s been slavery, there have been abolitionists. Plenty of people have always inherently known it was barbaric, beyond those who were enslaved.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fact check: True

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My mom was a movie theater manager and let us go see RHPS every Friday and Saturday night at the theater for years. I saw it more than 100 times in the theater by the time I was in the fourth grade. I know every scene and song by heart. Happy birthday, Rocky!

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In 1859, a wealthy Alabama landowner made a bet that he could do the unthinkable. The next spring, he did just that — trafficking human beings from West Africa to the United States a half-century after it had been made a federal crime punishable by death. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Crimes of the Centuries

True Crime Podcast · Updated Weekly · Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, there are a lot of cases that have earne...

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As a native Quad Citian, I can say: East Moline is just Moline in this context. It’s just Bettendorf, Davenport, Rock Island and Moline.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I liked Disclosure Day. But I also found it … depressingly optimistic, somehow.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

At least he said “I don’t know” instead of making shit up when he didn’t know the answer.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I don’t fully understand all of this but I sense it’s more important than I can grasp at the moment.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2026

NEWS CENTER MAINE: This is the first reelection campaign that you're run since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I was hoping you could talk to me a little bit about your vote to confirm Kavanaugh and whether you regret that? SUSAN COLLINS: I do not regret that vote.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Yes. Because with the iPhone came the need to buy $700 phones, among other things, so everyone is too broke for kids.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/06/2026

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I miss the innocent days of 1997 when “A deranged tycoon intent on destroying the world” was the premise for a far-fetched Bond movie rather than the bio of the richest man on earth in 2026.

“A deranged tycoon intent on destroying the world… 007 to the rescue!” ITV X description of the 1997 Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The idea that this just happened to the Broadview 6 — forcing grand juries to indict by cajoling them in an elevator, vouching to the grand jury, and telling "no" votes to leave if they don't want to indict — is nuts. It's probably happening everywhere. And it means the law as we know it is dead.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Incredible line from a grand juror in the Broadview 6 case, who had just asked the prosecutors why they get "unlimited tries" to indict people they don't want to indict: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."

MS. MECKLENBURG: Okay. I'm feeling the 09:29:526 skepticism already. Are you going to be able to7 listen with an open mind? Tell me the truth.8 GRAND JUROR: I -- no.9 MS. MECKLENBURG: Okay. Then you have to10 go -- 09:30:0411 GRAND JUROR: I heard this case like last12 week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I13 still think it is.14 MS. MECKLENBURG: Okay. Thank you for your15 opinion for everybody.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

hey its actually a gigantic problem that 1 of the 2 major political parties in this country are consistently claiming any election they dont win has been “stolen” or “rigged”

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This week’s Crimes of the Centuries is the second of a two-parter looking at the tragic case of the deaths on the scene of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Wherever you get podcasts. (I worked hard to dig up never-before-reported details, so even if you think you know the story, there’s something new.)

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Dissent in Bloom 🌼 @dissentinbloom0.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Stop calling employer healthcare a benefit. If you can’t quit without losing your doctor, it’s a leash.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I went to the mall recently, and outside of buying new shoes, this was pretty spot on. Plus a fun read.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I worked incredibly hard on my Crimes of the Centuries episodes about the Twilight Zone: The Movie case. Part 1 of 2 is out now.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026

Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/05/2026

NEW: The $1.8B slush fund is NOT A SETTLEMENT. And now, 35 former judges have filed a motion to REOPEN the Trump/IRS case so the judge can commence an inquiry into whether the court was deceived. I've been sayin!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I was a full-ass adult before I realized Ben was a white guy in brown face.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/05/2026

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

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Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s so worth the watch. I clicked, intending to watch the first few minutes, but was so entertained I stayed for the whole show. So fun.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I was really good at this in college. It’s helped me enormously as an adult now that one of my jobs is to sift through thousands of pages of documents to see what police missed in their investigations (for my podcast What If They’re Wrong?, the spiritual successor to Accused).

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Agreed. Haven’t enjoyed watching something with strangers this much in a long time. We laughed and yelped and grimaced together, and when the movie was over, we just started talking like we’d experienced something unique. Because we had. “Wt holy f did we just see?!?”

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

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Amber Hunt @reporteramber.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It’s a legitimately interesting thought experiment. Would the SCOTUS have stood beside the Shelleys if this case went before them today?? Hmmm. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... #crimesofthecenturies

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The Covenant Conspiracy

Podcast Episode · Crimes of the Centuries · April 20 · 51m

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