Amanda Pedia
@amandapedia.bsky.social
Midwestern book lover. Adores concerts, festivals, and communal experiences. Hates being too close to a lot of people. Still chasing that Intonation ‘05 high.
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
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Whether people would leave Twitter after it became a Nazi bar was really a test and most people failed.
A classic coordination failure: everyone makes excuses for why they go along with authoritarianism rather than resisting. And democracy and the rule of law crumble. We thought our institutions and culture were stronger, but we are following Hungary's path.
Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
July 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Whether people would leave Twitter after it became a Nazi bar was really a test and most people failed.
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This is *exactly* how the Musk Coup would have been covered by our news outlets if it was happening in another country.
Instead, all the American press can muster at the moment are euphemisms and sane-washing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Instead, all the American press can muster at the moment are euphemisms and sane-washing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is *exactly* how the Musk Coup would have been covered by our news outlets if it was happening in another country.
Instead, all the American press can muster at the moment are euphemisms and sane-washing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Instead, all the American press can muster at the moment are euphemisms and sane-washing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
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These look like fake headlines in a dystopian themed oppo ad.
February 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
These look like fake headlines in a dystopian themed oppo ad.
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The New Republic has kindly published what the LA Times and its RFK Jr-supporting billionaire owner Pat Soon-Shiong tried to suppress: newrepublic.com/article/1910...
February 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The New Republic has kindly published what the LA Times and its RFK Jr-supporting billionaire owner Pat Soon-Shiong tried to suppress: newrepublic.com/article/1910...
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This is so dangerous.
Get ready for all gov communication to be routed through X, so that you get exposed to the wild world of Musk and MAGA when trying to do your reporting or information finding.
This is anti-media.
Get ready for all gov communication to be routed through X, so that you get exposed to the wild world of Musk and MAGA when trying to do your reporting or information finding.
This is anti-media.
There it is. NTSB only sending info out via X now. Expect the same from CDC FDA etc. soon.
February 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is so dangerous.
Get ready for all gov communication to be routed through X, so that you get exposed to the wild world of Musk and MAGA when trying to do your reporting or information finding.
This is anti-media.
Get ready for all gov communication to be routed through X, so that you get exposed to the wild world of Musk and MAGA when trying to do your reporting or information finding.
This is anti-media.
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Maybe I'm crazy, but when the new authoritarian leader is executing a blitzkrieg to consolidate power and demolish the pillars of our democracy, maybe the opposing party shouldn't vote for his bootlicking nominees who were selected for their blind fealty. I'm crazy, right?
16 Democratic senators recently voted to confirm the Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary who just gave Musk’s team access to a Treasury payment system that disburses trillions and holds mass quantities of personal information. Food for thought. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Maybe I'm crazy, but when the new authoritarian leader is executing a blitzkrieg to consolidate power and demolish the pillars of our democracy, maybe the opposing party shouldn't vote for his bootlicking nominees who were selected for their blind fealty. I'm crazy, right?
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The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”
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This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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that quote is from the president’s executive order btw.
if you’re cis and you give a shit, the one in the article header below is probably also one you should be familiar with, as it’s the desired endpoint of both the cass review & this executive order.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
if you’re cis and you give a shit, the one in the article header below is probably also one you should be familiar with, as it’s the desired endpoint of both the cass review & this executive order.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
January 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
that quote is from the president’s executive order btw.
if you’re cis and you give a shit, the one in the article header below is probably also one you should be familiar with, as it’s the desired endpoint of both the cass review & this executive order.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
if you’re cis and you give a shit, the one in the article header below is probably also one you should be familiar with, as it’s the desired endpoint of both the cass review & this executive order.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign
An email is set to go out to federal workers beginning Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.
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Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
January 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
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In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.
January 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.
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Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts. I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders. This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.
January 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts. I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders. This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.
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Typos and formatting errors get repeated across EOs, revealing extensive use of copy-paste. The rhetoric sounds like a ChatGPT imitation of the 5th Circuit’s laziest rulings. And the legal arguments are frequently fringe in the extreme, in a way that will likely piss off Roberts and Barrett.
January 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Typos and formatting errors get repeated across EOs, revealing extensive use of copy-paste. The rhetoric sounds like a ChatGPT imitation of the 5th Circuit’s laziest rulings. And the legal arguments are frequently fringe in the extreme, in a way that will likely piss off Roberts and Barrett.
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Remember, don't spend too much time doomscrolling today. Just enough to get the gist of what happened yesterday, maybe some news or opinions from people you respect. But don't go too far down that rabbit hole. Look at something beautiful. Keep your mind right.
January 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Remember, don't spend too much time doomscrolling today. Just enough to get the gist of what happened yesterday, maybe some news or opinions from people you respect. But don't go too far down that rabbit hole. Look at something beautiful. Keep your mind right.
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When I asked @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social about the possibility of Trump firing immigration judges who are too finicky about due process, he said it was possible, but it would be unusual. Looks like they’re just steamrolling straight ahead.
January 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When I asked @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social about the possibility of Trump firing immigration judges who are too finicky about due process, he said it was possible, but it would be unusual. Looks like they’re just steamrolling straight ahead.
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An efficient facism does not require much direct state violence. It merely requires the assurance that private violence aligned with the desires of the regime will go unpunished.
January 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
An efficient facism does not require much direct state violence. It merely requires the assurance that private violence aligned with the desires of the regime will go unpunished.
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When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
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If you Google "inauguration day," you're greeted with an animation of fireworks forming the shape of the American flag. Google has never done something like this for the inauguration, sources told me, out of fear of appearing partisan. But that's changed now, with Sergey and Sundar attending.
January 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
If you Google "inauguration day," you're greeted with an animation of fireworks forming the shape of the American flag. Google has never done something like this for the inauguration, sources told me, out of fear of appearing partisan. But that's changed now, with Sergey and Sundar attending.
So fun. Go see it!
The Rotten Tomatoes score for ‘ONE OF THEM DAYS’ starring Keke Palmer and SZA has increased to 97%.
One of the best reviewed comedies in recent years.
One of the best reviewed comedies in recent years.
January 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
So fun. Go see it!
I cannot believe people read these and think, “Yep, that happened.” And then, “What an honor. Take my money.”
January 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I cannot believe people read these and think, “Yep, that happened.” And then, “What an honor. Take my money.”
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Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.
January 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.