auntie ames
@amesie.bsky.social
do no harm, take no shit. chaotic good, mostly. queer. unapologetically pro-abortion. invested in the village *and* not your fucking mom. she/her
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auntie ames
@amesie.bsky.social
· Dec 17
a woman wearing a hoodie and sunglasses is sitting in a crowd of people and making a peace sign .
Alt: amy poehler wearing a hoodie and sunglasses is sitting in a crowd of people and making a peace sign .
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misspelling a name in haste and leaving it, the social media proxy for pissin’ on a grave
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I'm just going to keep saying this until I die:
In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy.
Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't.
Rinse, repeat.
In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy.
Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't.
Rinse, repeat.
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 AM
I'm just going to keep saying this until I die:
In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy.
Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't.
Rinse, repeat.
In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy.
Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't.
Rinse, repeat.
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Exactly right.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Exactly right.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
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I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
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Every time pple think of saying, “why aren’t more publications covering [topic xyz],“ please don’t. This is why. been in media for 35 years & rich assholes destroyed it. media of past no longer exists. We are trying. Subscribe. But let go of the idea of “media” from 10-20-30 years ago. That’s gone.
A billionaire bought a legacy institution and immediately took it to hell… because that’s what they do
From Paul Farhi at the other site. Former media reporter there.
January 26, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Every time pple think of saying, “why aren’t more publications covering [topic xyz],“ please don’t. This is why. been in media for 35 years & rich assholes destroyed it. media of past no longer exists. We are trying. Subscribe. But let go of the idea of “media” from 10-20-30 years ago. That’s gone.
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This Pirkei Avot quote helps me feel a little less like I have to solve everything (it’s literally been thousands of years of people feeling overwhelmed!) and it cracked me up when someone stuck it on the pics of the tiny backhoe trying to dig out the EverGiven ship when it got stuck.
January 26, 2026 at 5:40 AM
This Pirkei Avot quote helps me feel a little less like I have to solve everything (it’s literally been thousands of years of people feeling overwhelmed!) and it cracked me up when someone stuck it on the pics of the tiny backhoe trying to dig out the EverGiven ship when it got stuck.
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Democrats, retired or in office, who act like only the 7 who voted for the ICE funding bill are to blame need to shut the fuck up. House Dems *didn't whip the vote.* That is a profoundly clear statement of support for ICE. People are being executed in the street and you didn't whip the fucking vote.
January 24, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Democrats, retired or in office, who act like only the 7 who voted for the ICE funding bill are to blame need to shut the fuck up. House Dems *didn't whip the vote.* That is a profoundly clear statement of support for ICE. People are being executed in the street and you didn't whip the fucking vote.
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I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists.
January 24, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists.
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in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
January 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
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The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
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It’s so telling when people think Black and Brown people saying “this is what has been happening to us” is meant to make them care *less* about the victim and not a wakeup call that they should have cared *more* when it was happening to other people
January 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
It’s so telling when people think Black and Brown people saying “this is what has been happening to us” is meant to make them care *less* about the victim and not a wakeup call that they should have cared *more* when it was happening to other people
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"he's no angel" is how you build a police state. It was never going to remain limited to black and brown folks.
January 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM
"he's no angel" is how you build a police state. It was never going to remain limited to black and brown folks.
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Just a reminder that Border Patrol was created in 1924 when the Klan was at the height of its political influence.
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Just a reminder that Border Patrol was created in 1924 when the Klan was at the height of its political influence.
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Authoritarianism doesn’t announce itself. It arrives wrapped in “security,” “order,” and “law enforcement.” Minneapolis is being used as a proving ground. If we don’t stop this now, we may not get another chance.
January 24, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Authoritarianism doesn’t announce itself. It arrives wrapped in “security,” “order,” and “law enforcement.” Minneapolis is being used as a proving ground. If we don’t stop this now, we may not get another chance.
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I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
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I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
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Very much related.
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...
A thing that might not be clear from the outside is that while everyone here is engaged in this fight, ICE’s use of dystopian technology means that you essentially have to pick a lane between observing ICE and doing mutual aid. They are tracking observers’ cars, and taking pictures of their faces.
January 23, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Very much related.
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...
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going into people's houses without a warrant. applying for a warrant to investigate a person they already killed. just wild fucking frontiers in 4th amendment law
"...from a civil rights probe to an investigation into a suspected assault on an officer, the people said. A federal magistrate judge rejected that warrant, noting that Good was already dead and could not be considered a suspect for a warrant."
January 24, 2026 at 2:39 AM
going into people's houses without a warrant. applying for a warrant to investigate a person they already killed. just wild fucking frontiers in 4th amendment law
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On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
January 23, 2026 at 10:29 PM
On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
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If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
January 23, 2026 at 5:57 PM
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
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kelty comic this week about to make the onion store a zillion dollars
January 20, 2026 at 7:21 PM
kelty comic this week about to make the onion store a zillion dollars
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My sense about Republicans pulling museum exhibits and censoring books and classrooms is, they're too late.
The last ten years has seen mass breakthrough of marginalized narratives in popular culture. They're closing the barn doors after the horses went out, and now everyone sees them doing it.
The last ten years has seen mass breakthrough of marginalized narratives in popular culture. They're closing the barn doors after the horses went out, and now everyone sees them doing it.
January 23, 2026 at 3:12 PM
My sense about Republicans pulling museum exhibits and censoring books and classrooms is, they're too late.
The last ten years has seen mass breakthrough of marginalized narratives in popular culture. They're closing the barn doors after the horses went out, and now everyone sees them doing it.
The last ten years has seen mass breakthrough of marginalized narratives in popular culture. They're closing the barn doors after the horses went out, and now everyone sees them doing it.
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“I absolutely think that the reason there was a raid [in Whittier, Alaska] and why we’re pursuing these prosecutions is because it gives some ammunition to the folks who want to say our election system is not safe,” says an Alaska state representative.
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public officials—and has made them a new target for policing voter fraud.
boltsmag.org
January 22, 2026 at 11:03 PM
“I absolutely think that the reason there was a raid [in Whittier, Alaska] and why we’re pursuing these prosecutions is because it gives some ammunition to the folks who want to say our election system is not safe,” says an Alaska state representative.