A.M.
@amblsk.bsky.social
I am a retired high-tech professional as well as a jazz singer. I hope that BlueSky will be a source of news and a civil political discourse. And maybe some art and photography posts. I hope there are disagreements but no trolling.
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2022 vs. 2025. 🤡
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
2022 vs. 2025. 🤡
Anybody needs a comment?
Tucker Carlson: What do you think of Putin?
Witkoff: I liked him. I thought he was straight up with me…I don't regard Putin as a bad guy.
Witkoff: I liked him. I thought he was straight up with me…I don't regard Putin as a bad guy.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Anybody needs a comment?
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This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
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ICE held a 5-year-old girl, with autism, hostage yesterday in Leominster, MA. Used her as leverage to try and get her dad to give himself up.
ICE said that's not what they did. There's a video.
#SheShed
ICE said that's not what they did. There's a video.
#SheShed
September 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
ICE held a 5-year-old girl, with autism, hostage yesterday in Leominster, MA. Used her as leverage to try and get her dad to give himself up.
ICE said that's not what they did. There's a video.
#SheShed
ICE said that's not what they did. There's a video.
#SheShed
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Please join us for a free, virtual National town hall on childhood health and vaccines on Sept 30 6p EDT
Sponsored by the @aft.org and with the great @drdemetre.bsky.social joining us
Please share questions here or register and bring them live! We have your back
sharemylesson.com/webinars/vac...
Sponsored by the @aft.org and with the great @drdemetre.bsky.social joining us
Please share questions here or register and bring them live! We have your back
sharemylesson.com/webinars/vac...
Cutting through the Noise: Vaccines, Childhood Health and Navigating the School Year
Separating Facts from Misinformation with Experts from the CDC and Beyond As the 2025–26 school year unfolds, families and educators are once again caught in the crossfire of misinformation about chil...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Please join us for a free, virtual National town hall on childhood health and vaccines on Sept 30 6p EDT
Sponsored by the @aft.org and with the great @drdemetre.bsky.social joining us
Please share questions here or register and bring them live! We have your back
sharemylesson.com/webinars/vac...
Sponsored by the @aft.org and with the great @drdemetre.bsky.social joining us
Please share questions here or register and bring them live! We have your back
sharemylesson.com/webinars/vac...
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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I take no pleasure in this. Most Black people in the U.S. live in red states. But it’s important to be truthful about the caliber of governance. And so much of this is the bad decisionmaking that results from racism. Like refusing Medicaid expansion. Underfunding public education.
Just take a moment. The whole thing is a scam. They are terrible at governing. Terrible. And all the noise is to distract from their fundamental incompetence in governance.
September 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I take no pleasure in this. Most Black people in the U.S. live in red states. But it’s important to be truthful about the caliber of governance. And so much of this is the bad decisionmaking that results from racism. Like refusing Medicaid expansion. Underfunding public education.
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Difficult September 11th today as the full realization that the fear of radicalization abroad was what we perceived as the threat to the country when it was really the radicalization here at home that threatens to destroy us.
September 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Too much and never enough
new analysis from the new yorker tries to estimate how much trump has made during his time in politics: $3.4 billion
August 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Too much and never enough
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NEW: In a stunning rebuke of Trump’s judicial nominee Emil Bove, more than 900 former DOJ attorneys today condemned Bove’s “assault” on DOJ employees and urged senators to “rigorously examine” his record before considering voting for him. www.huffpost.com/entry/900-do...
More Than 900 Former DOJ Attorneys Offer Stunning Rebuke Of Trump’s Court Pick
“It is intolerable to us that anyone who disgraces the Justice Department would be promoted to one of the highest courts in the land,” they wrote to senators.
www.huffpost.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
NEW: In a stunning rebuke of Trump’s judicial nominee Emil Bove, more than 900 former DOJ attorneys today condemned Bove’s “assault” on DOJ employees and urged senators to “rigorously examine” his record before considering voting for him. www.huffpost.com/entry/900-do...
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NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children
The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
www.wired.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
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Decades of protectionist trade polices are the reason that Coca-Cola does not use real sugar in its US product. Sugar costs twice as much in the USA as in free-trade countries. sweetenerusers.org/wp-content/u...
July 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Decades of protectionist trade polices are the reason that Coca-Cola does not use real sugar in its US product. Sugar costs twice as much in the USA as in free-trade countries. sweetenerusers.org/wp-content/u...
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I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge?
900?!
900?!
July 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge?
900?!
900?!
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The memo from Trump's DOJ and FBI:
"The files relating include a large volume of images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors...This review confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims."
Epstein's crimes are not a hoax.
www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
"The files relating include a large volume of images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors...This review confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims."
Epstein's crimes are not a hoax.
www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
www.justice.gov
July 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The memo from Trump's DOJ and FBI:
"The files relating include a large volume of images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors...This review confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims."
Epstein's crimes are not a hoax.
www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
"The files relating include a large volume of images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors...This review confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims."
Epstein's crimes are not a hoax.
www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
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Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.
July 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.
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My God.
the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My God.
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This is utterly unacceptable.
"The Texas county where nearly 100 people were killed and more than 160 remain missing had the technology to turn every cellphone in the river valley into a blaring alarm but local officials did not do so...as river levels rose to record heights...a Washington Post examination found."
Kerr County did not use its most far-reaching alert system in deadly Texas floods
Local officials used the system more than two days after the recorded height of the floods.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This is utterly unacceptable.
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Only 7 percent of the people they've arrested recently have violent convictions
Kristi Noem: "Remember what our streets were like under the last administration. How dangerous it was. President Trump and these ICE officers are going after murders and rapists."
July 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Only 7 percent of the people they've arrested recently have violent convictions
@gtconway.bsky.social class action as you predicted, right?
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order by certifying a nationwide class of children whose citizenship would be threatened. The move follows SCOTUS’ recent ruling curtailing judges’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions.
Federal Judge Again Blocks Trump Bid to End Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
@gtconway.bsky.social class action as you predicted, right?
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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
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Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
June 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
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My city now forced to cancel park programming on a summer Saturday because of “unannounced federal enforcement activity”
June 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
My city now forced to cancel park programming on a summer Saturday because of “unannounced federal enforcement activity”
