Amy Rutt
@amyrutt.bsky.social
Pacific Northwest native living in the DMV.
👇This is America. This is who we are.
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
👇This is America. This is who we are.
Yes, you do my friend.
Because sometimes you just need garlicky, buttery, cheesy, biscuits!
October 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Yes, you do my friend.
👇 @sallyjenx.bsky.social offered a play by play on our gross behaviors yesterday and I am super appreciative of Mr. Watson speaking up too. It was sickening to watch and hear this ugliness.
September 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
👇 @sallyjenx.bsky.social offered a play by play on our gross behaviors yesterday and I am super appreciative of Mr. Watson speaking up too. It was sickening to watch and hear this ugliness.
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Update from Portland: supplies running low. Please send fig jam and artisanal cheeses. For the jam, prefer GF, vegan, small batch, processed by a guy named River, who only stirs it during Mercury retrograde.
September 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Update from Portland: supplies running low. Please send fig jam and artisanal cheeses. For the jam, prefer GF, vegan, small batch, processed by a guy named River, who only stirs it during Mercury retrograde.
👇what a dolt!
JFC
Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people."
September 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
👇what a dolt!
👇Bye Bye.
the common ground stuff is consultant speak. good grief.
Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people."
September 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
👇Bye Bye.
Ending summer with a float.
September 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Ending summer with a float.
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Good. Damn good.
BREAKING:
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has just sued Trump over his attempt to fire her from office.
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has just sued Trump over his attempt to fire her from office.
August 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Good. Damn good.
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This administration's immigration policy is fundamentally sick.
Trump has wrongly detained lawful green card holders and even CITIZENS. No one should assume this was necessary.
These firefighters put their lives on the line for us ALL and Trump is detaining them.
Trump has wrongly detained lawful green card holders and even CITIZENS. No one should assume this was necessary.
These firefighters put their lives on the line for us ALL and Trump is detaining them.
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This administration's immigration policy is fundamentally sick.
Trump has wrongly detained lawful green card holders and even CITIZENS. No one should assume this was necessary.
These firefighters put their lives on the line for us ALL and Trump is detaining them.
Trump has wrongly detained lawful green card holders and even CITIZENS. No one should assume this was necessary.
These firefighters put their lives on the line for us ALL and Trump is detaining them.
Way more than we know.
In March, Trump’s OMB quietly took down its apportionment website—hiding how taxpayer dollars are being spent.
A court order forcing them to restore that data is a huge transparency win, but it raises a bigger question: what else is the administration hiding?
A court order forcing them to restore that data is a huge transparency win, but it raises a bigger question: what else is the administration hiding?
August 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Way more than we know.
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August 27, 2025
August 27, 2025
The image of National Guard troops, some of them from as far away as Louisiana and Mississippi, in Washington, D.C., spreading mulch around the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin and picking up trash, il...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
August 27, 2025
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Imagine thinking your "personal freedoms" are worth more than a child's life.
Imagine fighting for emotionally unstable 20 something male civilians to have easy access to weapons designed to kill lots of ppl, really fast.
Imagine enabling the next mass shooter, while calling yourself "Christian"
Imagine fighting for emotionally unstable 20 something male civilians to have easy access to weapons designed to kill lots of ppl, really fast.
Imagine enabling the next mass shooter, while calling yourself "Christian"
August 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Imagine thinking your "personal freedoms" are worth more than a child's life.
Imagine fighting for emotionally unstable 20 something male civilians to have easy access to weapons designed to kill lots of ppl, really fast.
Imagine enabling the next mass shooter, while calling yourself "Christian"
Imagine fighting for emotionally unstable 20 something male civilians to have easy access to weapons designed to kill lots of ppl, really fast.
Imagine enabling the next mass shooter, while calling yourself "Christian"
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We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
August 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
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Newsom - serious flaws but would make life 100x better for migrant families, soldiers on Ukraine front line and a world facing rapid climate change. The mass of more-left folks saying they would refuse to vote for him show again sadly that many Americans just refuse to make sacrifices to help others
August 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Newsom - serious flaws but would make life 100x better for migrant families, soldiers on Ukraine front line and a world facing rapid climate change. The mass of more-left folks saying they would refuse to vote for him show again sadly that many Americans just refuse to make sacrifices to help others
👇 This what private equity wanted.
For the first time since 2006, it's now twice as expensive to buy an entry-level home than it is to rent 🚨🚨
August 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
👇 This what private equity wanted.
👇Great parenting
Showed the 7yo and 11yo Monty Python and the Holy Grail last night and all morning they’ve been saying Ni loudly and proudly.
The 11yo now wants to watch Spinal Tap and Airplane. The next couple of family movie nights are gonna be fun.
The 11yo now wants to watch Spinal Tap and Airplane. The next couple of family movie nights are gonna be fun.
August 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
👇Great parenting
Voters are picking up the vibe here — scared leaders don’t lead, get elected and win races. It’s time for change.
If, at this moment in time, they can't produce more than two barely convincing messages, they have a real problem.
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
August 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Voters are picking up the vibe here — scared leaders don’t lead, get elected and win races. It’s time for change.
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“When the chips were down, Bolton exhibited courage. He told the public what he saw. Not on the timetable I might have preferred. Nor with humility. [But] everyone on the side of liberalism and the rule of law ought to take Bolton’s side today.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
About Courage
Respect it.
open.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“When the chips were down, Bolton exhibited courage. He told the public what he saw. Not on the timetable I might have preferred. Nor with humility. [But] everyone on the side of liberalism and the rule of law ought to take Bolton’s side today.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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It’s all about sending a message. The raid is the message. It’s all about retribution. He is the retribution president. As with troops on our streets, it’s all about normalizing fascism. This is fascism. Fascism is here. Too many Americans are too “busy” to care. But it’s here.
August 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s all about sending a message. The raid is the message. It’s all about retribution. He is the retribution president. As with troops on our streets, it’s all about normalizing fascism. This is fascism. Fascism is here. Too many Americans are too “busy” to care. But it’s here.
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“Best of My Love” by The Emotions hits #1 today in 1977 — a song written by Maurice White and Al McKay of Earth, Wind & Fire.
“When Wanda hit the first note of the first take, I quickly stopped the tape,” said White. “I was like, ‘Whoa .. Wanda,” I said, “you’ve got to sing it an octave higher.”
“When Wanda hit the first note of the first take, I quickly stopped the tape,” said White. “I was like, ‘Whoa .. Wanda,” I said, “you’ve got to sing it an octave higher.”
August 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Best of My Love” by The Emotions hits #1 today in 1977 — a song written by Maurice White and Al McKay of Earth, Wind & Fire.
“When Wanda hit the first note of the first take, I quickly stopped the tape,” said White. “I was like, ‘Whoa .. Wanda,” I said, “you’ve got to sing it an octave higher.”
“When Wanda hit the first note of the first take, I quickly stopped the tape,” said White. “I was like, ‘Whoa .. Wanda,” I said, “you’ve got to sing it an octave higher.”
Like him or not, he’s on target to what most of America wants to hear.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Wake the fuck up to what's going on in this country... We're going to put everything on the damn line... People haven't given up yet. We're going to do this. We can win this November. We can win next November, and then we can get this country back on track."
August 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Like him or not, he’s on target to what most of America wants to hear.
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There's a lot of 'where are the democrats?' on here. Great question re: leadership but look no further than Chicago to find MoC, Texas Dems, etc. It was hotter than hell here on Saturday and the crowds still turned out.
August 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
There's a lot of 'where are the democrats?' on here. Great question re: leadership but look no further than Chicago to find MoC, Texas Dems, etc. It was hotter than hell here on Saturday and the crowds still turned out.
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Today: Anti-Trump protesters marched in Washington, all the way to the White House—peaceful, defiant, rejecting his occupation of D.C.
August 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Today: Anti-Trump protesters marched in Washington, all the way to the White House—peaceful, defiant, rejecting his occupation of D.C.
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It’s really wild that Fox is calling Newsom’s tweets immature and unbecoming of a leader when he’s literally just mocking the way Trump tweets. 🤣🤣🤣
August 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It’s really wild that Fox is calling Newsom’s tweets immature and unbecoming of a leader when he’s literally just mocking the way Trump tweets. 🤣🤣🤣