Amy Alton Bautz, clown
@b3nd3r.bsky.social
GenX Bear-in-the-Woods, habitat Eastern Missouri
Teaching, making art, playing cards, social dancing, clowning as the opportunities arise
For a pro-worker work ethic
Art: https://www.behance.net/AmyBautz
Teaching, making art, playing cards, social dancing, clowning as the opportunities arise
For a pro-worker work ethic
Art: https://www.behance.net/AmyBautz
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In 2024, Jesse Jackson noted that he was the first major presidential candidate to talk about Palestinian human rights.
Rest in power.
Rest in power.
February 17, 2026 at 1:22 PM
In 2024, Jesse Jackson noted that he was the first major presidential candidate to talk about Palestinian human rights.
Rest in power.
Rest in power.
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The pilot of a small airplane had to make an emergency landing on a highway in Davis County Sunday evening.
No injuries after small plane makes emergency landing on Legacy Parkway
The pilot of a small airplane had to make an emergency landing on a highway in Davis County Sunday evening.
www.sltrib.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:45 AM
The pilot of a small airplane had to make an emergency landing on a highway in Davis County Sunday evening.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
We marched today from both sides of the Mississippi to pray, witness and sing in favor of immigration and against ICE
St. Louis area faith leaders and activists join together in prayer and protest on the MLK bridge for the Rally to Bridge Faith and Justice hosted by Indivisible STL. 🙏⚖️ #Indivisible #faith #justice #protest #drone
February 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
We marched today from both sides of the Mississippi to pray, witness and sing in favor of immigration and against ICE
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
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A Missouri S&T professor has developed a cheaper way to create “organs on a chip” using off-the-shelf 3D printers.
The technology could make drug and disease testing more accessible while reducing reliance on animal and human trials.
The technology could make drug and disease testing more accessible while reducing reliance on animal and human trials.
Missouri S&T develops a 3D printed ‘organ on a chip’ to aid medical research
An engineering professor has developed a process to use off-the-shelf 3D printers to make devices that can test medicines and treatments on tissues and cells.
www.stlpr.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
A Missouri S&T professor has developed a cheaper way to create “organs on a chip” using off-the-shelf 3D printers.
The technology could make drug and disease testing more accessible while reducing reliance on animal and human trials.
The technology could make drug and disease testing more accessible while reducing reliance on animal and human trials.
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February 14 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) Remembrance Day.
Community members gathered in Minneapolis to honor these relatives and bring attention to the ongoing crisis of violence and unresolved cases affecting Indigenous communities.
2.15.2026
📍 Minneapolis
Community members gathered in Minneapolis to honor these relatives and bring attention to the ongoing crisis of violence and unresolved cases affecting Indigenous communities.
2.15.2026
📍 Minneapolis
February 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM
February 14 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) Remembrance Day.
Community members gathered in Minneapolis to honor these relatives and bring attention to the ongoing crisis of violence and unresolved cases affecting Indigenous communities.
2.15.2026
📍 Minneapolis
Community members gathered in Minneapolis to honor these relatives and bring attention to the ongoing crisis of violence and unresolved cases affecting Indigenous communities.
2.15.2026
📍 Minneapolis
Mississippians flourished on the North American continent from circa 800 to 1600 CE. They built large, earthen platform mounds in a series of urban settlements and satellite villages linked together by loose trading networks. The largest city was Cahokia, located in present-day southern Illinois.
February 15, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Mississippians flourished on the North American continent from circa 800 to 1600 CE. They built large, earthen platform mounds in a series of urban settlements and satellite villages linked together by loose trading networks. The largest city was Cahokia, located in present-day southern Illinois.
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Germany's far-right AfD, who are totally not Nazis, are planning to hold their national party conference exactly 100 years after a major Nazi party congress in 1926, in the exact same location. p.dw.com/p/58oLt
Planned AfD congress shows deliberate Nazi parallels, say historians, lawmakers
p.dw.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Germany's far-right AfD, who are totally not Nazis, are planning to hold their national party conference exactly 100 years after a major Nazi party congress in 1926, in the exact same location. p.dw.com/p/58oLt
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⚫️🟡Maryland!🔴⚪️
Tomorrow is the hearing for HB 630.
This bill limits the conversion of warehouses into detention spaces.
While it doesn't stop ICE outright, it can limit their ability to use contractors & local resources to run these sites!
Your testimony is needed! Instructions below. 👇
Tomorrow is the hearing for HB 630.
This bill limits the conversion of warehouses into detention spaces.
While it doesn't stop ICE outright, it can limit their ability to use contractors & local resources to run these sites!
Your testimony is needed! Instructions below. 👇
February 15, 2026 at 1:33 PM
⚫️🟡Maryland!🔴⚪️
Tomorrow is the hearing for HB 630.
This bill limits the conversion of warehouses into detention spaces.
While it doesn't stop ICE outright, it can limit their ability to use contractors & local resources to run these sites!
Your testimony is needed! Instructions below. 👇
Tomorrow is the hearing for HB 630.
This bill limits the conversion of warehouses into detention spaces.
While it doesn't stop ICE outright, it can limit their ability to use contractors & local resources to run these sites!
Your testimony is needed! Instructions below. 👇
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Homey little songs about how cities are amazing and you feel good when you wander around them and they're where you're from and you couldn't imaging living anywhere else are one of my favorite microgenres.
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Homey little songs about how cities are amazing and you feel good when you wander around them and they're where you're from and you couldn't imaging living anywhere else are one of my favorite microgenres.
It's also Caturday. Please meet Walter Benjamin.
February 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
It's also Caturday. Please meet Walter Benjamin.
Her love is true music
And it radiates around (Radiates around)
happy Valentine's day, friends
And it radiates around (Radiates around)
happy Valentine's day, friends
Love Radiates Around (2006 Remaster)
YouTube video by The Roches - Topic
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Her love is true music
And it radiates around (Radiates around)
happy Valentine's day, friends
And it radiates around (Radiates around)
happy Valentine's day, friends
what we have is
what there is
and who we are
and who we is
is love
what there is
and who we are
and who we is
is love
February 14, 2026 at 2:46 PM
what we have is
what there is
and who we are
and who we is
is love
what there is
and who we are
and who we is
is love
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there are many reasons why it is so important that ALL Epstein's accomplices are taken to court for a proper process, including: (1) The victims need closure. (2) If most of his accomplices escape the law, it is a victory for violent patriarchy, and (3) will solidify the power of the ultrawealthy.
February 13, 2026 at 11:09 PM
there are many reasons why it is so important that ALL Epstein's accomplices are taken to court for a proper process, including: (1) The victims need closure. (2) If most of his accomplices escape the law, it is a victory for violent patriarchy, and (3) will solidify the power of the ultrawealthy.
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this is one of those cases where I think no, even rhetorically, you don’t go there. you draw a bright red line and when someone talks about denaturalization you laugh in their face and say “what are you taking about, we don’t do that in America” instead of dunking on their side’s immigrants
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM
this is one of those cases where I think no, even rhetorically, you don’t go there. you draw a bright red line and when someone talks about denaturalization you laugh in their face and say “what are you taking about, we don’t do that in America” instead of dunking on their side’s immigrants
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Raskin visits ‘overcrowded’ ICE holding area in Baltimore during unannounced tour
Raskin visits ‘overcrowded’ ICE holding area in Baltimore during unannounced tour
Days after a judge ordered ICE to allow unannounced congressional oversight, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin toured an “overcrowded” holding area in downtown Baltimore — and said the conditions he saw were...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Raskin visits ‘overcrowded’ ICE holding area in Baltimore during unannounced tour
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The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
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Amazon driver helps 84-year-old woman escape house fire
Amazon driver helps 84-year-old woman escape house fire
About 35 firefighters responded Wednesday to single-alarm fire at a home in Harford County.
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February 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Amazon driver helps 84-year-old woman escape house fire
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RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
February 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
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My generally perceived to be moderate NYC suburb community just nominated a Democratic socialist who wants to impeach Alito and Thomas, abolish ICE, and plainly calls Gaza a genocide, and she isn’t going to lose in the general.
Things have flipped dramatically, and not just in the NJ-11.
Things have flipped dramatically, and not just in the NJ-11.
February 12, 2026 at 2:08 PM
My generally perceived to be moderate NYC suburb community just nominated a Democratic socialist who wants to impeach Alito and Thomas, abolish ICE, and plainly calls Gaza a genocide, and she isn’t going to lose in the general.
Things have flipped dramatically, and not just in the NJ-11.
Things have flipped dramatically, and not just in the NJ-11.
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Cancel culture was far too underzealous
February 11, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Cancel culture was far too underzealous
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Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.
February 11, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.