Amanda
@amandapb.bsky.social
All things Theatre Ed at ECU. Already obsessed with your dog.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Starbucks employees have long fought against consistently unpredictable schedules, short staffing, low pay, and unfair labor practices.
Today, @sbworkersunited.org is striking to demand progress in stalled negotiations.
Solidarity✊🏽
Today, @sbworkersunited.org is striking to demand progress in stalled negotiations.
Solidarity✊🏽
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Starbucks employees have long fought against consistently unpredictable schedules, short staffing, low pay, and unfair labor practices.
Today, @sbworkersunited.org is striking to demand progress in stalled negotiations.
Solidarity✊🏽
Today, @sbworkersunited.org is striking to demand progress in stalled negotiations.
Solidarity✊🏽
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i feel confident saying that zohran mamdani has likely never said or done anything as remotely antisemitic in his life as the horrifyingly islamophobic things being said and done right now by people in positions of power and authority in the jewish community in reaction to him
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
i feel confident saying that zohran mamdani has likely never said or done anything as remotely antisemitic in his life as the horrifyingly islamophobic things being said and done right now by people in positions of power and authority in the jewish community in reaction to him
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Democrat Larry Krasner, a national figurehead for reform prosecutors, has won reelection as Philadelphia’s district attorney.
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Democrat Larry Krasner, a national figurehead for reform prosecutors, has won reelection as Philadelphia’s district attorney.
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Preach!
You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Preach!
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ICE arrested a Chicago father whose 16-year-old daughter has Stage 4 cancer. It’s spread to her bones, and she’s undergoing aggressive treatment to try to save her life. They don’t know if she’s going to make it—and all she wants is her dad back. This is cruel, and it’s not making anyone safer.
October 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
ICE arrested a Chicago father whose 16-year-old daughter has Stage 4 cancer. It’s spread to her bones, and she’s undergoing aggressive treatment to try to save her life. They don’t know if she’s going to make it—and all she wants is her dad back. This is cruel, and it’s not making anyone safer.
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the world sucks so bad right now that it’s hard to know where to begin - but here’s one thing you can do, if there’s room in your heart and home 👇
The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations.
By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕
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By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕
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July 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
the world sucks so bad right now that it’s hard to know where to begin - but here’s one thing you can do, if there’s room in your heart and home 👇
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Growing up I learned that Nazi salutes and calling people shylocks were bad and had never heard of the phrase "globalize the intifada" until a few months ago
I’m starting to think that some of the people saying “stop antisemitism” mean it with the same inflection as: “Stop…Hammer Time!” Like, take a little break from what you’re doing and enjoy some antisemitism.
Trump tonight in Des Moines, talking about the estate tax:
"if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."
"if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."
July 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Growing up I learned that Nazi salutes and calling people shylocks were bad and had never heard of the phrase "globalize the intifada" until a few months ago
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Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell says of Zohran Mamdani: "I don't associate myself with what he has said about the Jewish people."
June 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
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If you’re tired of hearing all the Jews on here relentlessly scream about the weaponization of our existence and how it’s being used to fuel Islamophobia *and* antisemitism THINK ABOUT HOW TIRED WE FEEL having to say it.
June 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If you’re tired of hearing all the Jews on here relentlessly scream about the weaponization of our existence and how it’s being used to fuel Islamophobia *and* antisemitism THINK ABOUT HOW TIRED WE FEEL having to say it.
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Hey everyone, just a reminder:
A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature
A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature
June 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hey everyone, just a reminder:
A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature
A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature
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It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...
June 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
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what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
Wow. New CBS poll finds majority (55%) supports the *general goal* of deportations, but a bigger majority (56%) dislikes how Trump is carrying them out. And 63% want due process.
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
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Essential listening — an eloquent, exhaustive, and often exasperated, exposure of the sloppy thinking and lack of evidence at the heart of so much of the breathless ‘Covid Was Leaked From a Lab in Wuhan’ messaging.
We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website
www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...
www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...
June 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Essential listening — an eloquent, exhaustive, and often exasperated, exposure of the sloppy thinking and lack of evidence at the heart of so much of the breathless ‘Covid Was Leaked From a Lab in Wuhan’ messaging.
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The vote was 215-214 with the 3 notable missing votes because Dems died in office.
If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.
If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.
House Republicans just passed a bill that will kick 14 million people off their health care, take away free school meals for 18 million kids, and raise our deficit.
Now it goes to the Senate but we need to keep fighting.
Now it goes to the Senate but we need to keep fighting.
May 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The vote was 215-214 with the 3 notable missing votes because Dems died in office.
If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.
If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.
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I'm fuming about this, tbh
The Republican-passed “big beautiful bill” takes away health insurance coverage from ALL transgender people, regardless of age.
HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
www.advocate.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I'm fuming about this, tbh
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law
April 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law
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As Trump pushes for massive tax-cuts for billionaires + corporations, $1 trillion for the military + $45 billion for ICE to expand immigrant detention prisons, programs like Social Security are in chaos + food bank programs are slashed.
This is class war. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
This is class war. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America
The phone rang over the whine of Trey Yates' butter churn. The person calling was polite, but the message was devastating: Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates' butter contract, due to the federal government's funding cuts.
www.reuters.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
As Trump pushes for massive tax-cuts for billionaires + corporations, $1 trillion for the military + $45 billion for ICE to expand immigrant detention prisons, programs like Social Security are in chaos + food bank programs are slashed.
This is class war. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
This is class war. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
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We’re literally watching overpaid techbros who have spent their sad little lives making online shopping software marginally worse openly, viciously lash out against people who have literally devoted their lives to helping others via humanitarian aid and government.
The implications are obvious.
The implications are obvious.
Another dynamic I see with noxious techbro eugenicists and rationalists: they tend to have such pissant little jobs making such boring and trivial products - shopping buttons! banking software!
and I do think they’re aware of this on some level, which fuels their batshit lofty rhetoric.
and I do think they’re aware of this on some level, which fuels their batshit lofty rhetoric.
The first tech bros who appeared in public to muse about how we need to end humanitarian aid because the poor are less *human* than soft-handed Palo Alto-ites who program online shopping buttons for a living should have been driven from society with pitchforks and torches.
It’s not too late.
It’s not too late.
April 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We’re literally watching overpaid techbros who have spent their sad little lives making online shopping software marginally worse openly, viciously lash out against people who have literally devoted their lives to helping others via humanitarian aid and government.
The implications are obvious.
The implications are obvious.
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Hyperfixed is great—always surprising and illuminating and fun and satisfying. A good podcast if you like figuring stuff out. Give it a listen!
Hey, if you could please let your friends know that @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social exists -- we have a new episode out tomorrow, and if we can get to 200k listeners an episode, that would be enough for us to live off of (and we're about halfway there!) Thank you so much.
March 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Hyperfixed is great—always surprising and illuminating and fun and satisfying. A good podcast if you like figuring stuff out. Give it a listen!
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Maybe the big story isn’t “Texas midwife charged with alleged illegal abortions” but “Texas attacks and closes three clinics providing prenatal care for low income Spanish speakers.”
March 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Maybe the big story isn’t “Texas midwife charged with alleged illegal abortions” but “Texas attacks and closes three clinics providing prenatal care for low income Spanish speakers.”
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This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
www.axios.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.