Amanda McQuade
@amandamcquade.bsky.social
Lifelong liberal #resistance
Here to learn. Also to end the GOP crime spree.
Interested in science, culture, nature and healing in all realms.
Will find a current photo soon. Here I am feeding a baby hummingbird from a thimble.
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Here to learn. Also to end the GOP crime spree.
Interested in science, culture, nature and healing in all realms.
Will find a current photo soon. Here I am feeding a baby hummingbird from a thimble.
No DM’s
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November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “UNCONSCIONABLE. How is this even on the floor??”
AOC trashes @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s obscene money grab, stealing millions from taxpayers directly into their own pockets for being investigated in relation to Trump’s attempt to end 🇺🇸 democracy.
AOC trashes @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s obscene money grab, stealing millions from taxpayers directly into their own pockets for being investigated in relation to Trump’s attempt to end 🇺🇸 democracy.
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “UNCONSCIONABLE. How is this even on the floor??”
AOC trashes @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s obscene money grab, stealing millions from taxpayers directly into their own pockets for being investigated in relation to Trump’s attempt to end 🇺🇸 democracy.
AOC trashes @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s obscene money grab, stealing millions from taxpayers directly into their own pockets for being investigated in relation to Trump’s attempt to end 🇺🇸 democracy.
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Yup! Ever notice how often the Grok logo appears when you visit Shitter?
Want to tweet something? The Grok logo is there.
Want to retweet what someone else tweeted? The Grok logo is there.
Want to reply to a tweet? The Grok logo is there.
The MechaHitler Grok is all over the Shitter homepage.
Want to tweet something? The Grok logo is there.
Want to retweet what someone else tweeted? The Grok logo is there.
Want to reply to a tweet? The Grok logo is there.
The MechaHitler Grok is all over the Shitter homepage.
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Yup! Ever notice how often the Grok logo appears when you visit Shitter?
Want to tweet something? The Grok logo is there.
Want to retweet what someone else tweeted? The Grok logo is there.
Want to reply to a tweet? The Grok logo is there.
The MechaHitler Grok is all over the Shitter homepage.
Want to tweet something? The Grok logo is there.
Want to retweet what someone else tweeted? The Grok logo is there.
Want to reply to a tweet? The Grok logo is there.
The MechaHitler Grok is all over the Shitter homepage.
“The 9 detained employees all had work permits, Allston Car Wash Manager Jose Barrera told Boston.com.
[He] said around 22 federal agents arrived at the Cambridge Street car wash holding subpoenas, but agents began arresting employees before they could retrieve their documents from the locker room
[He] said around 22 federal agents arrived at the Cambridge Street car wash holding subpoenas, but agents began arresting employees before they could retrieve their documents from the locker room
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
“The 9 detained employees all had work permits, Allston Car Wash Manager Jose Barrera told Boston.com.
[He] said around 22 federal agents arrived at the Cambridge Street car wash holding subpoenas, but agents began arresting employees before they could retrieve their documents from the locker room
[He] said around 22 federal agents arrived at the Cambridge Street car wash holding subpoenas, but agents began arresting employees before they could retrieve their documents from the locker room
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I don't think I will ever get over my feelings. Twice, this country didn't want a woman to be President so badly...they chose a rapist instead. Collectively, as a society, how do we explain this to our daughters?
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I don't think I will ever get over my feelings. Twice, this country didn't want a woman to be President so badly...they chose a rapist instead. Collectively, as a society, how do we explain this to our daughters?
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DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 290
Even though the shutdown is over, for now, our Dems are going to be talking about healthcare now more than ever because it is up to us to make sure the ACA premium tax credits are actually up for a vote in December.
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Even though the shutdown is over, for now, our Dems are going to be talking about healthcare now more than ever because it is up to us to make sure the ACA premium tax credits are actually up for a vote in December.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 290
Even though the shutdown is over, for now, our Dems are going to be talking about healthcare now more than ever because it is up to us to make sure the ACA premium tax credits are actually up for a vote in December.
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Even though the shutdown is over, for now, our Dems are going to be talking about healthcare now more than ever because it is up to us to make sure the ACA premium tax credits are actually up for a vote in December.
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Here’s @RepTedLieu responding to @RepTimBurchett’s shenanigans
(In fairness Burchett probably doesn’t even know how anything works)
(In fairness Burchett probably doesn’t even know how anything works)
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Here’s @RepTedLieu responding to @RepTimBurchett’s shenanigans
(In fairness Burchett probably doesn’t even know how anything works)
(In fairness Burchett probably doesn’t even know how anything works)
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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Of course, many (including me) question whether "conservativism" on the American right was ever truly fully distinct from authoritarian, and even neo-fascist, tendencies. But that is a longer discussion.
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Of course, many (including me) question whether "conservativism" on the American right was ever truly fully distinct from authoritarian, and even neo-fascist, tendencies. But that is a longer discussion.
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5/ “Three Heritage…directors, @LarryArnn of @Hillsdale, Michael Gleba of the Sarah Scaife Foundation, &…@KevinRobertsTX, are trustees of ISI & attended the Friday meeting. None…questioned the judgment of platforming Yarvin” despite “being confronted w/ a long list of damning quotes from Yarvin.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
5/ “Three Heritage…directors, @LarryArnn of @Hillsdale, Michael Gleba of the Sarah Scaife Foundation, &…@KevinRobertsTX, are trustees of ISI & attended the Friday meeting. None…questioned the judgment of platforming Yarvin” despite “being confronted w/ a long list of damning quotes from Yarvin.”
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4/ “This fundamental shift in ISI’s focus was done behind the board’s back. Its new signal program, the podcast Project Cosmos, was dropped on X…on Aug 19, featuring postliberal icon @PatrickDeneen & neo-reactionary @curtis_yarvin… [T]he board was never informed of the existence of Project Cosmos.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
4/ “This fundamental shift in ISI’s focus was done behind the board’s back. Its new signal program, the podcast Project Cosmos, was dropped on X…on Aug 19, featuring postliberal icon @PatrickDeneen & neo-reactionary @curtis_yarvin… [T]he board was never informed of the existence of Project Cosmos.”
Not a fan of Wm F Buckley or conservatives but this seems like an important denunciation of MAGA and the trump cult. Thank you always, Jenny Cohn 💙🩵💙🩵💙
2/ “[W]e have fought to preserve ISI’s longstanding mission from falling victim to a post-liberal hijacking. That battle was lost at a board meeting held last Friday, at the conclusion of which we tendered our resignations.”
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Not a fan of Wm F Buckley or conservatives but this seems like an important denunciation of MAGA and the trump cult. Thank you always, Jenny Cohn 💙🩵💙🩵💙
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Republicans are now demanding TOUGHER abortion laws in order to pass ACA subsidies.
THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T COMPROMISE WITH CHRISTIAN FASCISTS
Republicans are now demanding TOUGHER abortion laws in order to pass ACA subsidies.
THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T COMPROMISE WITH CHRISTIAN FASCISTS
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
other98
Republicans are now demanding TOUGHER abortion laws in order to pass ACA subsidies.
THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T COMPROMISE WITH CHRISTIAN FASCISTS
Republicans are now demanding TOUGHER abortion laws in order to pass ACA subsidies.
THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T COMPROMISE WITH CHRISTIAN FASCISTS
It’s been a week now. What news?
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
It’s been a week now. What news?
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📽️ NEW VIDEO: @janainelson.bsky.social President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, joins @marcelias.bsky.social to expose how democracy is shaped by race and power.
She explains how SCOTUS is rolling back hard-won rights — and what it will take to build a truly multiracial democracy👇
She explains how SCOTUS is rolling back hard-won rights — and what it will take to build a truly multiracial democracy👇
Why Courts Have Failed the Voting Rights Movement
Janai Nelson, Civil Rights Attorney & President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, joins Marc Elias to expose how America’s democracy is still shaped by race and power. From the gutting of the Voting Rights Act to the fight over representation in states l...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
📽️ NEW VIDEO: @janainelson.bsky.social President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, joins @marcelias.bsky.social to expose how democracy is shaped by race and power.
She explains how SCOTUS is rolling back hard-won rights — and what it will take to build a truly multiracial democracy👇
She explains how SCOTUS is rolling back hard-won rights — and what it will take to build a truly multiracial democracy👇
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Thank you for spreading the truth! 💕
Trump's own longest serving chief of staff, retired four-star U.S. Marine Corps general John F. Kelly, *literally* pulled out the dictionary to read the definition of "fascist" and explicitly state how Trump checks every box.
youtube.com/shorts/s6TLi...
Trump's own longest serving chief of staff, retired four-star U.S. Marine Corps general John F. Kelly, *literally* pulled out the dictionary to read the definition of "fascist" and explicitly state how Trump checks every box.
youtube.com/shorts/s6TLi...
John Kelly Defines Trump as “Fascist”
YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts
youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Remember how a few weeks ago someone shorted the market out of 100M+ in 24 hrs, clearly having insider information, even rumours that it was Barron Trump, and no one in the media discussed it one time?!?! Except for some independent media on YouTube?!
We can’t keep up, which is their strategy.
We can’t keep up, which is their strategy.
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Remember how a few weeks ago someone shorted the market out of 100M+ in 24 hrs, clearly having insider information, even rumours that it was Barron Trump, and no one in the media discussed it one time?!?! Except for some independent media on YouTube?!
We can’t keep up, which is their strategy.
We can’t keep up, which is their strategy.
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"Federal law says they have every legal right to be in the United States, and that ICE should never have put them in a detention center. "
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thre...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thre...
Three young immigrants ordered freed as Virginia lawsuit tests ICE detention policy
In a decisive rebuke of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an immigration judge on Wednesday ordered the agency to release a young immigrant held at a Virginia detention center — one day after the s...
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"Federal law says they have every legal right to be in the United States, and that ICE should never have put them in a detention center. "
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thre...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thre...
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ICE wants you to believe that he tied his own and hands and feet, then hung himself.
When ICE reported Chaofeng Ge’s death on Aug. 6, it "said he was found the day before, hanging in a shower stall with a cloth tied around his neck. It made no mention of additional bindings that were on hands and feet."
His family is suing to access records that may explain what really happened.
His family is suing to access records that may explain what really happened.
Queens Family Demands Answers After Chinese Immigrant Found Bound in ICE Jail
Chaofeng Ge, a Chinese immigrant, was found dead in an ICE custody facility in Pennsylvania with his hands and feet bound. While the county coroner ruled his death as a suicide, his family is suing to...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
ICE wants you to believe that he tied his own and hands and feet, then hung himself.
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Johnson shifts strategy on Epstein files vote – as GOP leaders brace for mass defections
www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
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Johnson shifts strategy on Epstein files vote – as GOP leaders brace for mass defections | CNN Politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to quickly schedule a House vote on an effort to force the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files once the calculation was made that it couldn’t be stopped...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Johnson shifts strategy on Epstein files vote – as GOP leaders brace for mass defections
www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
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