AmandaBales
@amandambales.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Union Steward.
Up at dawn and thinking of the Ragland Road lyric— “And I said, "Let grief be a falling leaf/ At the dawning of the day"
October 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Up at dawn and thinking of the Ragland Road lyric— “And I said, "Let grief be a falling leaf/ At the dawning of the day"
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Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.
September 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.
Bat Festival! 🦇💜🦇💜
September 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Bat Festival! 🦇💜🦇💜
Happy Labor Day, Y’all
The fight continues. We are stronger together.
The fight continues. We are stronger together.
September 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy Labor Day, Y’all
The fight continues. We are stronger together.
The fight continues. We are stronger together.
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Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.
September 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.
At a friend’s house. Clatter from another room. Friend tells me husband and 3-year-old kid are rolling dice.
Me: Teaching her craps already?
Friend:….like, DnD dice
Ah yes, we are not from the same place
Me: Teaching her craps already?
Friend:….like, DnD dice
Ah yes, we are not from the same place
August 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
At a friend’s house. Clatter from another room. Friend tells me husband and 3-year-old kid are rolling dice.
Me: Teaching her craps already?
Friend:….like, DnD dice
Ah yes, we are not from the same place
Me: Teaching her craps already?
Friend:….like, DnD dice
Ah yes, we are not from the same place
It is always cute/delightful when I run into the Freshmen who are finding their classrooms a full week early. I also did this. I remember being SO SCARED by how big it all was.
August 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It is always cute/delightful when I run into the Freshmen who are finding their classrooms a full week early. I also did this. I remember being SO SCARED by how big it all was.
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The Illinois Department of Human Services Line by me, where people go for food, mental health, shelter/ housing, financial assistance, more had the longest line I’d ever seen them have. A bit ago? I saw people camping out there waiting for tomorrow.
In case you want to know how bad it is out here.
In case you want to know how bad it is out here.
August 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The Illinois Department of Human Services Line by me, where people go for food, mental health, shelter/ housing, financial assistance, more had the longest line I’d ever seen them have. A bit ago? I saw people camping out there waiting for tomorrow.
In case you want to know how bad it is out here.
In case you want to know how bad it is out here.
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Almost all of the Progressive Era amendments started as popular movements outside of Congress and were imposed via campaign. It is truly impressive what you can get people to coalesce around when you ask them directly instead of making it a partisan project.
August 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Almost all of the Progressive Era amendments started as popular movements outside of Congress and were imposed via campaign. It is truly impressive what you can get people to coalesce around when you ask them directly instead of making it a partisan project.
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ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 22nd! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
July 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 22nd! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
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The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
July 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
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Left: Hugh Jackman in the male gaze
Right: Hugh Jackman in the female gaze
i mean like literally. one's a muscle mag for lads & the other is GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, for god's sake
Right: Hugh Jackman in the female gaze
i mean like literally. one's a muscle mag for lads & the other is GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, for god's sake
July 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Left: Hugh Jackman in the male gaze
Right: Hugh Jackman in the female gaze
i mean like literally. one's a muscle mag for lads & the other is GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, for god's sake
Right: Hugh Jackman in the female gaze
i mean like literally. one's a muscle mag for lads & the other is GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, for god's sake
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If you ever talk to the homeless people on your streets—and I strongly advise that you do, because they’re people—you will find that they are homeless for all kinds of reasons, but mostly because housing is horrifically expensive and if you fall out of it it’s so hard to get back in.
July 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you ever talk to the homeless people on your streets—and I strongly advise that you do, because they’re people—you will find that they are homeless for all kinds of reasons, but mostly because housing is horrifically expensive and if you fall out of it it’s so hard to get back in.
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America, where you get to experience the terrible relief of an elderly parent dying before they run out of money.
July 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
America, where you get to experience the terrible relief of an elderly parent dying before they run out of money.
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This video testimonial of farm workers who witnessed last Friday's Camarillo CA brutal and chaotic raid, is a difficult to watch. However, the horrifying story helps explain why workers of all legal status were so terrorized. #iceraids
July 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This video testimonial of farm workers who witnessed last Friday's Camarillo CA brutal and chaotic raid, is a difficult to watch. However, the horrifying story helps explain why workers of all legal status were so terrorized. #iceraids
ACL recovery is somehow both better than I thought and also frustratingly slow? But as long as I don’t walk too far or too fast, I’m fine. I should probably get flashers installed on my ass so people know to go around me.
July 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
ACL recovery is somehow both better than I thought and also frustratingly slow? But as long as I don’t walk too far or too fast, I’m fine. I should probably get flashers installed on my ass so people know to go around me.
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one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation
July 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation
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The women around terrible men aren’t secretly heroes of the revolution. They are collaborators.
July 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The women around terrible men aren’t secretly heroes of the revolution. They are collaborators.
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They’re using the word “doxxing” here in a way that doesn’t apply. You don’t generally have a right to hide that you’re working for the government.
“They don’t want people knowing they are working for the government agency of shitfuckery and rights-pissing” doesn’t sound as good.
“They don’t want people knowing they are working for the government agency of shitfuckery and rights-pissing” doesn’t sound as good.
July 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
They’re using the word “doxxing” here in a way that doesn’t apply. You don’t generally have a right to hide that you’re working for the government.
“They don’t want people knowing they are working for the government agency of shitfuckery and rights-pissing” doesn’t sound as good.
“They don’t want people knowing they are working for the government agency of shitfuckery and rights-pissing” doesn’t sound as good.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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They gutted NOAA — is that because the agency “failed to tell the story” about how predicting hurricanes is good?
The people destroying these agencies are deranged conspiracists allergic to basic facts and expertise. *This* is the important thing to stress when describing and responding to it.
The people destroying these agencies are deranged conspiracists allergic to basic facts and expertise. *This* is the important thing to stress when describing and responding to it.
June 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
They gutted NOAA — is that because the agency “failed to tell the story” about how predicting hurricanes is good?
The people destroying these agencies are deranged conspiracists allergic to basic facts and expertise. *This* is the important thing to stress when describing and responding to it.
The people destroying these agencies are deranged conspiracists allergic to basic facts and expertise. *This* is the important thing to stress when describing and responding to it.
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Pundits do this bizarre thing where they blithely admit that Trump lies constantly, craves unlimited power and exhibits a caveman political ideology — and then accept his justification for his actions at face value.
No! Assume he is lying about why he bombed Iran until proven otherwise.
No! Assume he is lying about why he bombed Iran until proven otherwise.
June 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Pundits do this bizarre thing where they blithely admit that Trump lies constantly, craves unlimited power and exhibits a caveman political ideology — and then accept his justification for his actions at face value.
No! Assume he is lying about why he bombed Iran until proven otherwise.
No! Assume he is lying about why he bombed Iran until proven otherwise.
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I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
June 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
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meanwhile the issue the Court is saying should be left to the democratic process is 'does this group of people have equal rights yes or no'
the Constitution already told us the answer is yes, right there in the name of the Equal Protection Clause
and yet
the Constitution already told us the answer is yes, right there in the name of the Equal Protection Clause
and yet
June 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
meanwhile the issue the Court is saying should be left to the democratic process is 'does this group of people have equal rights yes or no'
the Constitution already told us the answer is yes, right there in the name of the Equal Protection Clause
and yet
the Constitution already told us the answer is yes, right there in the name of the Equal Protection Clause
and yet
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Funny how most AI “writers” always talk about the money they make but then their rankings are awful, they have no reviews, their covers are trash, the layout is a crime, and every time they’re called out for line-for-line plagiarism, they cry because they can’t afford an editor.
June 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Funny how most AI “writers” always talk about the money they make but then their rankings are awful, they have no reviews, their covers are trash, the layout is a crime, and every time they’re called out for line-for-line plagiarism, they cry because they can’t afford an editor.