Amanda Y
@amandayagi.bsky.social
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NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.
I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.
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We have never needed fearlessly pro-democracy media more than we do right now. That is why I started Democracy Docket in 2020 and it is why its 20 person team works around the clock to keep you informed today.
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September 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We have never needed fearlessly pro-democracy media more than we do right now. That is why I started Democracy Docket in 2020 and it is why its 20 person team works around the clock to keep you informed today.
Support its mission by signing up now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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Trump's latest power grab is trying to rig election maps in his favor. Stop his assault on democracy.
CALIFORNIA, Vote Yes on Prop 50 on November 4th.
#YesOn50
CALIFORNIA, Vote Yes on Prop 50 on November 4th.
#YesOn50
September 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Trump's latest power grab is trying to rig election maps in his favor. Stop his assault on democracy.
CALIFORNIA, Vote Yes on Prop 50 on November 4th.
#YesOn50
CALIFORNIA, Vote Yes on Prop 50 on November 4th.
#YesOn50
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No one is covering the threats to our democracy like the 20-person team at Democracy Docket. No venture capital, no corporate overloads, no compromises. Just pro-democracy news, information and analysis.
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September 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
No one is covering the threats to our democracy like the 20-person team at Democracy Docket. No venture capital, no corporate overloads, no compromises. Just pro-democracy news, information and analysis.
Help support their efforts to hold power to account and keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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If they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.
May 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.
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This is the kind of data that intelligence agencies drool over, and they’re putting it all in one place.
There’s obvious potential for abuse domestically by both parties, but this also severely raises the risk of a foreign compromise — that database will be an instant target.
There’s obvious potential for abuse domestically by both parties, but this also severely raises the risk of a foreign compromise — that database will be an instant target.
May 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the kind of data that intelligence agencies drool over, and they’re putting it all in one place.
There’s obvious potential for abuse domestically by both parties, but this also severely raises the risk of a foreign compromise — that database will be an instant target.
There’s obvious potential for abuse domestically by both parties, but this also severely raises the risk of a foreign compromise — that database will be an instant target.
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I don't see how this is any different than Russia forcing workers to clean out Chernobyl. The ruling class using and abusing the bodies of the working class to line their pockets. It's why the wealthy refer to us as "human capital stock." www.cbsnews.com/news/west-vi...
West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH
The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.
www.cbsnews.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I don't see how this is any different than Russia forcing workers to clean out Chernobyl. The ruling class using and abusing the bodies of the working class to line their pockets. It's why the wealthy refer to us as "human capital stock." www.cbsnews.com/news/west-vi...
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Anti-ethnic cleansing protests happening in Worcester, Massachusetts. The people demand justice and for Trump's ICE regime troops to leave their neighbourhoods. #3E #StopICE #USprotests (@worcester_bumps)
“GET ICE OUT OF WORCESTER” “WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS”
“GET ICE OUT OF WORCESTER” “WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS”
May 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Anti-ethnic cleansing protests happening in Worcester, Massachusetts. The people demand justice and for Trump's ICE regime troops to leave their neighbourhoods. #3E #StopICE #USprotests (@worcester_bumps)
“GET ICE OUT OF WORCESTER” “WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS”
“GET ICE OUT OF WORCESTER” “WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS”
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How about some basic rules?
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
May 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
How about some basic rules?
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
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Do y'all remember that body called Congress? They are supposed to pass laws....
Maybe they could pass one requiring Federal law enforcement to show their faces and clearly identify themselves absent some very specific exceptions.
Maybe they could pass one requiring Federal law enforcement to show their faces and clearly identify themselves absent some very specific exceptions.
May 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Do y'all remember that body called Congress? They are supposed to pass laws....
Maybe they could pass one requiring Federal law enforcement to show their faces and clearly identify themselves absent some very specific exceptions.
Maybe they could pass one requiring Federal law enforcement to show their faces and clearly identify themselves absent some very specific exceptions.
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I'm never uneasy about undocumented people or migrant families passing me on the street, never concerned about a transgender human being next to me in a bathroom stall, never fearful of my daughter encountering a group of woke liberal kids at school.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/immigrants...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/immigrants...
Immigrants and Trans Kids Aren't a Threat to America. Those Vilifying Them Are.
Last night our family went to our town’s monthly festival.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm never uneasy about undocumented people or migrant families passing me on the street, never concerned about a transgender human being next to me in a bathroom stall, never fearful of my daughter encountering a group of woke liberal kids at school.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/immigrants...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/immigrants...
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If you have to repeatedly break the law to arrest those you claim have broken the law, you’re not enforcing the law.
ICE has morphed into a terrorizing Gestapo-like goon squad.
They must be held accountable.
ICE has morphed into a terrorizing Gestapo-like goon squad.
They must be held accountable.
May 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
If you have to repeatedly break the law to arrest those you claim have broken the law, you’re not enforcing the law.
ICE has morphed into a terrorizing Gestapo-like goon squad.
They must be held accountable.
ICE has morphed into a terrorizing Gestapo-like goon squad.
They must be held accountable.
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This is what an ICE deportation operation looks like currently in Trump’s America www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is what an ICE deportation operation looks like currently in Trump’s America www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?
🧵
NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.
Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.
NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.
Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.
May 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?
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Well there’s 195k of you here now so let me introduce myself again.
I’m Santiago Mayer, I’m 23 years old and the Executive Director of @votersoftomorrow.org. I have spent the last 6 years working to turn out Gen Z and stop MAGA, and I’m not stopping now.
Can you RT and follow to help reach others?
I’m Santiago Mayer, I’m 23 years old and the Executive Director of @votersoftomorrow.org. I have spent the last 6 years working to turn out Gen Z and stop MAGA, and I’m not stopping now.
Can you RT and follow to help reach others?
May 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Well there’s 195k of you here now so let me introduce myself again.
I’m Santiago Mayer, I’m 23 years old and the Executive Director of @votersoftomorrow.org. I have spent the last 6 years working to turn out Gen Z and stop MAGA, and I’m not stopping now.
Can you RT and follow to help reach others?
I’m Santiago Mayer, I’m 23 years old and the Executive Director of @votersoftomorrow.org. I have spent the last 6 years working to turn out Gen Z and stop MAGA, and I’m not stopping now.
Can you RT and follow to help reach others?
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Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump declared an end to Indigenous People's Day to restore Columbus's supposed reputation. Parents, please teach your children ACTUAL history. What is learned and remembered cannot be erased.
Columbus landed in the Caribbean where he enslaved native inhabitants...
www.history.com/articles/col...
Columbus landed in the Caribbean where he enslaved native inhabitants...
www.history.com/articles/col...
Why Columbus Day Courts Controversy | HISTORY
Christopher Columbus undoubtably changed the world. But was it for the better?
www.history.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Trump declared an end to Indigenous People's Day to restore Columbus's supposed reputation. Parents, please teach your children ACTUAL history. What is learned and remembered cannot be erased.
Columbus landed in the Caribbean where he enslaved native inhabitants...
www.history.com/articles/col...
Columbus landed in the Caribbean where he enslaved native inhabitants...
www.history.com/articles/col...
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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In case you missed it... WIRED talked to *actual* federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
www.wired.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In case you missed it... WIRED talked to *actual* federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
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Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.
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Update: police have a suspect in custody for the attack on Governor Shapiro’s residence. He will be charged with terrorism and attempted murder.
nbcphiladelphia.app.link/Fqfdz4IKxSb
nbcphiladelphia.app.link/Fqfdz4IKxSb
April 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Update: police have a suspect in custody for the attack on Governor Shapiro’s residence. He will be charged with terrorism and attempted murder.
nbcphiladelphia.app.link/Fqfdz4IKxSb
nbcphiladelphia.app.link/Fqfdz4IKxSb
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Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
April 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
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Don't miss the second part of our interview with Asif Kapadia on his new movie 2073, a vision of the future that today looks like a prophecy
dispatch.the-citizens.com/when-the-few...
dispatch.the-citizens.com/when-the-few...
When the few control what the many see
Director Asif Kapadia on the challenges of getting 2073 made and released.
dispatch.the-citizens.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Don't miss the second part of our interview with Asif Kapadia on his new movie 2073, a vision of the future that today looks like a prophecy
dispatch.the-citizens.com/when-the-few...
dispatch.the-citizens.com/when-the-few...
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I’m watching a Canadian movie called 2073 what about a dystopian future. It takes place in 2073, but when they look back, it shows everything that’s going on right now. It’s chilling
I can’t recommend this enough.
I can’t recommend this enough.
April 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I’m watching a Canadian movie called 2073 what about a dystopian future. It takes place in 2073, but when they look back, it shows everything that’s going on right now. It’s chilling
I can’t recommend this enough.
I can’t recommend this enough.