AmyLeeP
@amylpatterson.com
Ohioan/occasional New Mexican. Former local newspaper reporter. Also write on Jane Austen & do some bookselling.
These are gorgeous
Stitches of Identity: Traditional Patchwork Quilting in Kazakhstan
Rising demand for hand-crafted textiles has brought about a reinvention of the kurak craft in Kazakhstan, where the cultural symbolism behind each motif goes deeper.
www.aramcoworld.com/articles/202...
Rising demand for hand-crafted textiles has brought about a reinvention of the kurak craft in Kazakhstan, where the cultural symbolism behind each motif goes deeper.
www.aramcoworld.com/articles/202...
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
These are gorgeous
Ngl I kind of wish I could do this when I have an itch in my throat
If that's owling, this is definitely full pelican 🪶
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Ngl I kind of wish I could do this when I have an itch in my throat
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Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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I know it's just me being annoying, but watch and see who gives credit to the journalists *actually* covering a story and who just writes something — with no sourcing or credit — for engagement. And remember that! Journalism costs money and the people who actually cover things need your support.
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I know it's just me being annoying, but watch and see who gives credit to the journalists *actually* covering a story and who just writes something — with no sourcing or credit — for engagement. And remember that! Journalism costs money and the people who actually cover things need your support.
Meanwhile, Ohio's congressional GOP caucus is off enjoying their paid vacation.
Without action from Congress before Saturday, millions nationwide will be cut off from access to government food assistance, including those who are pregnant or have babies and young children. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/31/r...
Losing SNAP could mean more pregnancy complications as food insecurity grows • Ohio Capital Journal
Without action from Congress before Saturday, millions nationwide will be cut off from access to government food assistance, including those who are pregnant or have babies and young children. That…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Meanwhile, Ohio's congressional GOP caucus is off enjoying their paid vacation.
🤔 Erik Prince? You don't say.
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🤔 Erik Prince? You don't say.
TOS only aired because of a woman. It was saved by a woman. Women wrote many of the scripts. Its original pilot had a woman as executive officer.
Did... did he come from the mirror universe? Has anybody checked his facial hair?
Did... did he come from the mirror universe? Has anybody checked his facial hair?
my god he is serious oh joshua, joshua, joshua .... sweetie.
No. Just ... no. I mean, no.
Joshua, I need you to sit down and listen to your Elders. I am here to tell you, with my full chest, that you are ignorant and wrong, you should be embarrassed that you said this crap out loud.
No. Just ... no. I mean, no.
Joshua, I need you to sit down and listen to your Elders. I am here to tell you, with my full chest, that you are ignorant and wrong, you should be embarrassed that you said this crap out loud.
okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
October 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
TOS only aired because of a woman. It was saved by a woman. Women wrote many of the scripts. Its original pilot had a woman as executive officer.
Did... did he come from the mirror universe? Has anybody checked his facial hair?
Did... did he come from the mirror universe? Has anybody checked his facial hair?
Overwhelm the *existing* White House.
I'm sure there are palatial plans for its destruction and resurrection, too.
Just yikes.
I'm sure there are palatial plans for its destruction and resurrection, too.
Just yikes.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC
October 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Overwhelm the *existing* White House.
I'm sure there are palatial plans for its destruction and resurrection, too.
Just yikes.
I'm sure there are palatial plans for its destruction and resurrection, too.
Just yikes.
Lol, just yesterday someone blocked me for correctly pointing out the Bernie mythology is full of holes.
🤷♀️ When people show you who they are, believe them.
🤷♀️ When people show you who they are, believe them.
Bernie about Platner,
“In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?"
When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not."
Bernie: "Ok"
“In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?"
When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not."
Bernie: "Ok"
October 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Lol, just yesterday someone blocked me for correctly pointing out the Bernie mythology is full of holes.
🤷♀️ When people show you who they are, believe them.
🤷♀️ When people show you who they are, believe them.
This photo makes me sick to my stomach.
This is it. It's really over. This is really the end of America.
Maybe something better will come after. I hope so.
This is it. It's really over. This is really the end of America.
Maybe something better will come after. I hope so.
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This photo makes me sick to my stomach.
This is it. It's really over. This is really the end of America.
Maybe something better will come after. I hope so.
This is it. It's really over. This is really the end of America.
Maybe something better will come after. I hope so.
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Is the Kool Aid man a cryptid?
October 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Is the Kool Aid man a cryptid?
Maybe they need some local news reporters. We're re used to small, petty, insolent, childish assholes. The ones who make it to the federal level have media training. It's probably been a long time since anyone in the WHCA has had to deal with the kind of crap we've been catching down here for years.
The dumbest administration in any country anywhere in the world in the history of mankind.
October 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Maybe they need some local news reporters. We're re used to small, petty, insolent, childish assholes. The ones who make it to the federal level have media training. It's probably been a long time since anyone in the WHCA has had to deal with the kind of crap we've been catching down here for years.
Gosh this is big Sir Walter Energy
Lmao
Lmao
October 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Gosh this is big Sir Walter Energy
Lmao
Lmao
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Also I invite everyone to check out the Housing and Urban Development home page www.hud.gov#openModal
HUD Home | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
www.hud.gov
September 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Also I invite everyone to check out the Housing and Urban Development home page www.hud.gov#openModal
And they're a dime a dozen
Ezra Klein is so emblematic of a certain kind of man in media.
Incurious while thinking he's open-minded, condescending while ignorant of his of ignorance.
It's an intellectual exercise for him, as if that's a marker of his journalistic professionalism rather than an expression of his privilege.
Incurious while thinking he's open-minded, condescending while ignorant of his of ignorance.
It's an intellectual exercise for him, as if that's a marker of his journalistic professionalism rather than an expression of his privilege.
September 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And they're a dime a dozen
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People don't understand that civil conflict looks like your neighbors dragging you out of bed in the middle of the night and executing you in your living room simply because they're suspicious you might be a political enemy, and it really shows sometimes.
September 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
People don't understand that civil conflict looks like your neighbors dragging you out of bed in the middle of the night and executing you in your living room simply because they're suspicious you might be a political enemy, and it really shows sometimes.
It may get lost in the noise of posting on the news of Kirk's death, but I can't help sparing a thought for the young people forced to witness it. We move on so quickly from these events, but they leave behind a bunch of scarred people, who are also victims.
September 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It may get lost in the noise of posting on the news of Kirk's death, but I can't help sparing a thought for the young people forced to witness it. We move on so quickly from these events, but they leave behind a bunch of scarred people, who are also victims.
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"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures...
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
September 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures...
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
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The simplest explanation for why the right does not appear to care that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser and a pedophile is that they do not, in fact, care if he is a sexual abuser and a pedophile.
September 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The simplest explanation for why the right does not appear to care that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser and a pedophile is that they do not, in fact, care if he is a sexual abuser and a pedophile.
I don't know how it could be worse than I'd imagined, but those aren't even *remotely* adult breasts. Like, you can't even pretend they are.
I feel like I shouldn't even be sharing this. Good lord.
I feel like I shouldn't even be sharing this. Good lord.
For a decade and a half, the President of the United States was close friends with the world's most notorious pedophile
September 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't know how it could be worse than I'd imagined, but those aren't even *remotely* adult breasts. Like, you can't even pretend they are.
I feel like I shouldn't even be sharing this. Good lord.
I feel like I shouldn't even be sharing this. Good lord.
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if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
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I made a little short list of what I think are entirely reasonable complaints and demands:
September 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I made a little short list of what I think are entirely reasonable complaints and demands:
Shocked. 🙄
The Federal Emergency Management Agency cut $14 million from funding it previously promised to New Mexico to deal with the fallout of the South Fork and Salt fires near Ruidoso, according to documents the state’s emergency management department gave Source New Mexico on Wednesday.
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Documents show FEMA cut New Mexico’s post-fire flooding funding by $14 million • Source New Mexico
The Federal Emergency Management Agency in December told the state that it would receive about $30 million in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding.
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September 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Shocked. 🙄
How do we even come back from this
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
September 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
How do we even come back from this
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Somehow, somewhere, this is an emergency. Do we do our Potemkin emergency in Chicago, or do we manufacture it somewhere more pliant?
Trump: "We're making a determination now -- do we go to Chicago, or do we go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great governor who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that's become quite tough, quite bad?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Somehow, somewhere, this is an emergency. Do we do our Potemkin emergency in Chicago, or do we manufacture it somewhere more pliant?