AmberWavesofFlame
@amberwavesofflame.bsky.social
She/her, ADHD, nerd, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect.
You write something insightful, and now I’m reading old nested threads like a Wikipedia binge and ❤️ing everywhere. Promise I’m not a stalker, just appreciative.
You write something insightful, and now I’m reading old nested threads like a Wikipedia binge and ❤️ing everywhere. Promise I’m not a stalker, just appreciative.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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In the name of scientific inquiry I flipped the image and changed the background and face, then asked for an honest evaluation
grok popped the fuck off
grok popped the fuck off
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
In the name of scientific inquiry I flipped the image and changed the background and face, then asked for an honest evaluation
grok popped the fuck off
grok popped the fuck off
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Scientology has been trying to start a moral panic over ADHD meds for ages. they even made a website called "ritalindeath"
not being dismissive I just mean a lot of money has been poured into this for at least a couple decades
not being dismissive I just mean a lot of money has been poured into this for at least a couple decades
trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Scientology has been trying to start a moral panic over ADHD meds for ages. they even made a website called "ritalindeath"
not being dismissive I just mean a lot of money has been poured into this for at least a couple decades
not being dismissive I just mean a lot of money has been poured into this for at least a couple decades
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I am genuinely convinced that one of the reasons it used to be thought that most people grew out of ADHD as adults was how common smoking was.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I am genuinely convinced that one of the reasons it used to be thought that most people grew out of ADHD as adults was how common smoking was.
The Charlie Kirk firings were such enraging hypocrisy. Not one person walked back “HANG FAUCI” after the CDC shootings, not one person ever stopped calling teachers groomers or refugees invaders, but pointing out things Kirk actually said was encouraging violence. This guy wanted to hang his own VP.
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Charlie Kirk firings were such enraging hypocrisy. Not one person walked back “HANG FAUCI” after the CDC shootings, not one person ever stopped calling teachers groomers or refugees invaders, but pointing out things Kirk actually said was encouraging violence. This guy wanted to hang his own VP.
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Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer
This is opinion is so breathtakingly unprofessional it reads like parody.
WOW. Pulled it up. This is the most unhinged thing I've ever seen from a court. In fact, unhinged is not strong enough of a description. This is lunacy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order – #1439 in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott (W.D. Tex., 3:21-cv-00259) – CourtListener.com
DISSENT from 1437 Memorandum Opinion and Order Granting Motion for Preliminary Injunction, signed and issued by Judge Jerry E. Smith. (kc) (Entered: 11/19/2025)
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November 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is opinion is so breathtakingly unprofessional it reads like parody.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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I just want to remind everyone that PAM BONDI has submitted to the court she has personally reviewed the grand jury record and "ratified the actions of United States Attorney Lindsey Halligan before the grand jury".
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Exhibit Ratification by Attorney General Pamela Bondi – #187, Att. #2 in United States v. Comey (E.D. Va., 1:25-cr-00272) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE CLARIFYING THE RECORD by USA as to James B. Comey, Jr re 186 Motion Hearing,, (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Declaration of U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, # 2 Exhibit Ratification by Attorney Gener...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I just want to remind everyone that PAM BONDI has submitted to the court she has personally reviewed the grand jury record and "ratified the actions of United States Attorney Lindsey Halligan before the grand jury".
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Nothing is more empowering than shopping ERs for the lowest price as you're hooked to a cardiac defibrillator in the back of an ambulance.
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Nothing is more empowering than shopping ERs for the lowest price as you're hooked to a cardiac defibrillator in the back of an ambulance.
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Buddy, I feel like you just DID disclose it
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Buddy, I feel like you just DID disclose it
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Oh for fucks sake
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Oh for fucks sake
If your last hope of treatment was an experimental trial and the treatment just gets cut off, how would you ever be able to access it again?
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If your last hope of treatment was an experimental trial and the treatment just gets cut off, how would you ever be able to access it again?
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Remember that study where kids and teachers both felt like calling on girls 30% of the time was gender parity and ~48% was only girls ever getting to talk?
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Remember that study where kids and teachers both felt like calling on girls 30% of the time was gender parity and ~48% was only girls ever getting to talk?
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
His argument upthread will get a rise out of everyone primed to see it as downplaying, but it’s really about the difference between threat and too late, and this is the conclusion he’s building to. Keep fighting, because they haven’t won yet, nor is their consolidation inevitable.
Trump's people want a lot of bad things that will make America an authoritarian regime. But they haven't succeeded and it would take a while for them even to end democracy, much less build fascism.
So act as if you live in a democracy - because you do.
The End.
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So act as if you live in a democracy - because you do.
The End.
/20x
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
His argument upthread will get a rise out of everyone primed to see it as downplaying, but it’s really about the difference between threat and too late, and this is the conclusion he’s building to. Keep fighting, because they haven’t won yet, nor is their consolidation inevitable.
Whatever your opinion of Larry Summers is, it’s not low enough.
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Whatever your opinion of Larry Summers is, it’s not low enough.
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“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
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Bob Menendez:
SEE! I did nothing wrong.
SEE! I did nothing wrong.
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Bob Menendez:
SEE! I did nothing wrong.
SEE! I did nothing wrong.
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This is not an exaggeration by the way - note the university's response to Myron Gaines's Nazi salute on the left (condemn but allow) and their policy restricting land acknowledgements on the right (prohibited from event programs, meeting agendas, etc)
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is not an exaggeration by the way - note the university's response to Myron Gaines's Nazi salute on the left (condemn but allow) and their policy restricting land acknowledgements on the right (prohibited from event programs, meeting agendas, etc)
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"Is that what you meant by Big Beautiful Bill, Mr. President?"
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"Is that what you meant by Big Beautiful Bill, Mr. President?"
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Michael Flynn pleaded guilty - on multiple occasions - to lying to Trump’s FBI to cover up his dealings with Russia and other foreign agents, who already paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Michael Flynn pleaded guilty - on multiple occasions - to lying to Trump’s FBI to cover up his dealings with Russia and other foreign agents, who already paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes
Something about the obsession in certain circles w Democrats bagging a particular kind of male voter almost feels like a disgust with the makeup of us who already are. Like “no, no, not you all! I mean, you know, a default American. Ones that make me feel cool.” As if us peeling off would be a plus.
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Something about the obsession in certain circles w Democrats bagging a particular kind of male voter almost feels like a disgust with the makeup of us who already are. Like “no, no, not you all! I mean, you know, a default American. Ones that make me feel cool.” As if us peeling off would be a plus.
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Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
A lot of child abusers will never see themselves in child sexual abusers. Framing it as an overwhelming or selective attraction makes it clearly a Not Me! problem. Then you draw a slope from those sexual weirdos and deviants… not from bullies and control-addicts with all that implies close to home.
This is your regular reminder that most men who sexually abuse children do not meet the clinical definition of a pedophile.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A lot of child abusers will never see themselves in child sexual abusers. Framing it as an overwhelming or selective attraction makes it clearly a Not Me! problem. Then you draw a slope from those sexual weirdos and deviants… not from bullies and control-addicts with all that implies close to home.