Amy Dickenson
@heydickenson.bsky.social
Striving to appreciate the beauty in this timeline. Failing regularly, of course. But still trying. Every day. Moment by moment. To show up.
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
At the Westside Bazaar in Buffalo learning how to support our refugee community.
November 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
At the Westside Bazaar in Buffalo learning how to support our refugee community.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Highlighting the CDC's pertussis surveillance program -
🏆 an example of public health thriving
✅ Detects where in the USA pertussis cases are happening
🎯 To identify outbreaks ➡️ end the outbreak
😵💫 Enhanced surveillance - looks for disease strains resistant to the antibiotics we usually use.
🏆 an example of public health thriving
✅ Detects where in the USA pertussis cases are happening
🎯 To identify outbreaks ➡️ end the outbreak
😵💫 Enhanced surveillance - looks for disease strains resistant to the antibiotics we usually use.
Pertussis Surveillance and Trends
CDC tracks pertussis cases through a national system and enhanced surveillance activities.
www.cdc.gov
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Highlighting the CDC's pertussis surveillance program -
🏆 an example of public health thriving
✅ Detects where in the USA pertussis cases are happening
🎯 To identify outbreaks ➡️ end the outbreak
😵💫 Enhanced surveillance - looks for disease strains resistant to the antibiotics we usually use.
🏆 an example of public health thriving
✅ Detects where in the USA pertussis cases are happening
🎯 To identify outbreaks ➡️ end the outbreak
😵💫 Enhanced surveillance - looks for disease strains resistant to the antibiotics we usually use.
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Jesus I see what you've done for others
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Jesus I see what you've done for others
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History shows that not feeding your troops is a GREAT thing to do and cannot possibly blow back on you in catastrophic ways
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
History shows that not feeding your troops is a GREAT thing to do and cannot possibly blow back on you in catastrophic ways
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A fellow of the @royalsociety.org bragged about feeding USAID into the woodchipper. The RS says: "We draw on our Fellowship for inspiration to make a positive impact."
I guess the @royalsociety.org now considers the deaths of hundreds of thousands to be a positive impact.
I guess the @royalsociety.org now considers the deaths of hundreds of thousands to be a positive impact.
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A fellow of the @royalsociety.org bragged about feeding USAID into the woodchipper. The RS says: "We draw on our Fellowship for inspiration to make a positive impact."
I guess the @royalsociety.org now considers the deaths of hundreds of thousands to be a positive impact.
I guess the @royalsociety.org now considers the deaths of hundreds of thousands to be a positive impact.
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Between anti trans campaign ads failing last night spectacularly and rep Seth Moulton walking back his anti trans rhetoric, it seems like the slide on support for trans people has been stopped for now. It's still precarious but this was the best possible night we could have had.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Between anti trans campaign ads failing last night spectacularly and rep Seth Moulton walking back his anti trans rhetoric, it seems like the slide on support for trans people has been stopped for now. It's still precarious but this was the best possible night we could have had.
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Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
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In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
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Orban did it too. Just buy out the independent press. And if all the media is owned by billionaires, and government policy caters to billionaires, it's no surprise that political coverage skews to favor the team that favors billionaires.
November 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Orban did it too. Just buy out the independent press. And if all the media is owned by billionaires, and government policy caters to billionaires, it's no surprise that political coverage skews to favor the team that favors billionaires.
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Chavez in Venezuela discovered that they didn’t need to shut down the “fake media” but instead buy it and use it as a legitimizing tool. So the rich cronies just bought every media. It’s a playbook, nothing new, just new to you
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Chavez in Venezuela discovered that they didn’t need to shut down the “fake media” but instead buy it and use it as a legitimizing tool. So the rich cronies just bought every media. It’s a playbook, nothing new, just new to you
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This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
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Let's just lay it out. Epstein was a glorified pimp who used and sold the services of children to the wealthy, the elite, and the powerful. His clients will destroy anything and everything to stay hidden. They will even starve poor people. They have no bottom and no conscience.
November 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Let's just lay it out. Epstein was a glorified pimp who used and sold the services of children to the wealthy, the elite, and the powerful. His clients will destroy anything and everything to stay hidden. They will even starve poor people. They have no bottom and no conscience.
This is Pepper. She has the energy of 10,000 suns. Someone science up how to harvest this puppy’s vim and vigor!
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is Pepper. She has the energy of 10,000 suns. Someone science up how to harvest this puppy’s vim and vigor!
Honestly, Finch is keeping me alive these days.
October 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Honestly, Finch is keeping me alive these days.
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A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.
A Cuban man deported by the US to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says
A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger strike after being held at a maximum-security prison for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel.
bit.ly
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.
I had my cards read in 2019 and was promised more “divine feminine” energy in the future. Unless she meant drunk Xena, his level 20 malice is bullshit.
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I had my cards read in 2019 and was promised more “divine feminine” energy in the future. Unless she meant drunk Xena, his level 20 malice is bullshit.
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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If you want to understand why the ICE facility in Portland is such a hotbed of protest, this story is all the context you need...
"They disappeared her." This story from @timdickinson.bsky.social is so upsetting. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway
Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.
www.rollingstone.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If you want to understand why the ICE facility in Portland is such a hotbed of protest, this story is all the context you need...
Feeling like maybe I wanna get off this insane ride called “the present.” And then I find an October Violet just thriving in a crack in my driveway. And I think, “oh, ok. Why not try then?”
October 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Feeling like maybe I wanna get off this insane ride called “the present.” And then I find an October Violet just thriving in a crack in my driveway. And I think, “oh, ok. Why not try then?”
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War-ravaged Portland, 5 minutes ago
September 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
War-ravaged Portland, 5 minutes ago
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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...