amandashmanda.bsky.social
@amandashmanda.bsky.social
Finally PhDid it!
Dr. of Conservation Science, focused on sustainable agriculture and curriculum development to support collective action. Higher Ed has got to do better!
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the funny thing is, all of our allegedly Strong Mayors are actually Weak Mayors when it comes to controlling their cops
WATCH St. Paul police, aiding ICE, restrain a man and spray him full in the face. They are not and have never been on our side.

Credit: @reportermark.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Gas
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Despite the "family-friendly" designation of this event, it's taking place over dinner/bedtime for elementary and younger kids, and doesn't provide childcare.

So what exactly makes it family friendly?
The DFL Listening Tour is the hottest event in town, and is moved to a larger venue to meet the demand.

Happy to welcome the @dfl.org to SD62 at Sabathani, on Nov. 13 at 6:30 PM. Show up to share the issues important to you with the state party.

www.mobilize.us/dfl/event/83...
DFL Listening Tour - Minneapolis · Minnesota DFL
Join us on the DFL Listening Tour with DFL Chair, Richard Carlbom. The listening tour is a family-friendly event. Building a lasting majority that can win and deliver for Minnesotans requires us to e...
www.mobilize.us
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Last Tuesday night in Minneapolis was a real mixed bag but this Tuesday night is pure beauty and awe. Northern lights from the backyard!
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.
October 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵
September 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I can’t quite put it into words yet, but something is happening, a kind of global singularity—a fusion of tech/media/news/government/employment which allows the global elite to push single agendas: “You WILL care about Charlie Kirk. You will NOT care about Palestine. You WILL fear cancel culture.”
Think we are up to 8 bbc news alerts about charlie kirk.
September 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

"The whole village is worried about this project because it will take our land and leave us jobless," said 50-year-old Huong, who was told to leave her 200-square-metre plot in Hung Yen province near Hanoi for less than the average pay for one year in Vietnam.”
Exclusive: Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf club
Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just $3,200 and rice provisions in return.
www.reuters.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”
April 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
March 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second
February 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Don’t repeat ANYTHING uncritically only sourced as “police sources.” Remember the NYPD has 86 full time propagandists… read, write and think accordingly! nysfocus.com/2024/05/14/n...
Meet the Cops Running the NYPD’s 86-Member PR Team
DCPI has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.
nysfocus.com
December 8, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?

I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.

"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
November 22, 2024 at 4:06 PM
People who review graduate thesis and dissertation submissions to enforce strict adherence with page number margin formatting guidelines: What unholy master do you serve? Why have you chosen a life of such darkness???
August 7, 2023 at 7:55 PM