Amy Thesing
@amythesing.bsky.social
artist, activist, ally, graphic designer, yogi, nuyorkina. animal & nature lover. trying to pay attention, call out injustice & inequality. practice radical ahimsa. she/her/ella
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Thank you FUNners and federal worker allies who came out today - from coast to coast - to stand against a would-be dictator. Federal workers take our oath to the American people seriously, and we will not be divided from the public we serve. #NoKings #NotPawns #WeTookAnOath ❌👑 ❌♟️
October 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Thank you FUNners and federal worker allies who came out today - from coast to coast - to stand against a would-be dictator. Federal workers take our oath to the American people seriously, and we will not be divided from the public we serve. #NoKings #NotPawns #WeTookAnOath ❌👑 ❌♟️
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The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago.
Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...
www.propublica.org
October 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago.
Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
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18,500 children have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.
Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war.
Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.
Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war.
Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.
August 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
18,500 children have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.
Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war.
Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.
Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war.
Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.
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“You might not be a Jedi but you actually are part of this movement that is gonna make a difference.”
@leahgreenberg.bsky.social spoke with @contrariannews.org about why Andor is inspiring so many people right now: contrarian.substack.com/p/how-andor-...
@leahgreenberg.bsky.social spoke with @contrariannews.org about why Andor is inspiring so many people right now: contrarian.substack.com/p/how-andor-...
August 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“You might not be a Jedi but you actually are part of this movement that is gonna make a difference.”
@leahgreenberg.bsky.social spoke with @contrariannews.org about why Andor is inspiring so many people right now: contrarian.substack.com/p/how-andor-...
@leahgreenberg.bsky.social spoke with @contrariannews.org about why Andor is inspiring so many people right now: contrarian.substack.com/p/how-andor-...
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Over several days in May, the Tennessee Highway Patrol sent a surge of cruisers along the streets of south Nashville, pulling over drivers as ICE agents in unmarked vehicles with flashing lights waited next to them.
With @azluminaria.org
With @azluminaria.org
Local Police Join ICE Deportation Force in Record Numbers Despite Warnings Program Lacks Oversight
ICE officials tout an unprecedented expansion of its 287(g) Program, driven by agreements that allow local officers to function as deportation agents during routine policing. But advocates warn such…
www.propublica.org
July 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Over several days in May, the Tennessee Highway Patrol sent a surge of cruisers along the streets of south Nashville, pulling over drivers as ICE agents in unmarked vehicles with flashing lights waited next to them.
With @azluminaria.org
With @azluminaria.org
Deportations to a 3rd, war-torn, country with SCOTUS' blessing, the Constitution no longer applies when this administration deems migrants criminals. Humane treatment no longer applies. Shame on you: potus, scotus & the GOP for enabling this. Happy birthday Amerikkka. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/u...
Court Rejects Effort to Keep Migrants From Being Sent to South Sudan
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July 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Deportations to a 3rd, war-torn, country with SCOTUS' blessing, the Constitution no longer applies when this administration deems migrants criminals. Humane treatment no longer applies. Shame on you: potus, scotus & the GOP for enabling this. Happy birthday Amerikkka. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/u...
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"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester,...
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July 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
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Make the wrong choices and this is what follows 💔
➡️ Russia just launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine with 550 drones and missiles overnight 💥🇺🇦
#Ukraine #WarCrimes
🔗 www.kyivpost.com/post/55632
➡️ Russia just launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine with 550 drones and missiles overnight 💥🇺🇦
#Ukraine #WarCrimes
🔗 www.kyivpost.com/post/55632
A President Ignores the Law. Ukraine Pays the Price
The White House’s decision to suspend congressionally approved aide to Ukraine is unlawful and must be challenged. Every time Trump appeases Moscow, Putin responds by killing more innocents.
www.kyivpost.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Make the wrong choices and this is what follows 💔
➡️ Russia just launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine with 550 drones and missiles overnight 💥🇺🇦
#Ukraine #WarCrimes
🔗 www.kyivpost.com/post/55632
➡️ Russia just launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine with 550 drones and missiles overnight 💥🇺🇦
#Ukraine #WarCrimes
🔗 www.kyivpost.com/post/55632
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Fighting back with joy and community is a strategic reaction to the fascists who are trying to make us feel alone and powerless: “Their job is so much easier if we are convinced to give up our power.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @chrislhayes.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Fighting back with joy and community is a strategic reaction to the fascists who are trying to make us feel alone and powerless: “Their job is so much easier if we are convinced to give up our power.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Sometimes it’s permissible to hate.
July 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Sometimes it’s permissible to hate.
Happy 4th to the world
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
This Fourth of July, the world declares its independence from America | Stephen Marche
America is turning away from itself, and the rest of the world must follow
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Happy 4th to the world
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A concentration camp, but with alligators. Don't look away.
The Big Ugly Bill is hideous & we must use it to defeat the MAGA GOP next year.
But what he's doing to asylum-seekers & immigrants is where we are becoming an authoritarian regime.
the.ink/p/floridas-t...
The Big Ugly Bill is hideous & we must use it to defeat the MAGA GOP next year.
But what he's doing to asylum-seekers & immigrants is where we are becoming an authoritarian regime.
the.ink/p/floridas-t...
A concentration camp, but with alligators
The rollout of Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” isn't just about implementing a sadistic immigration policy. It's about showing it off
the.ink
July 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A concentration camp, but with alligators. Don't look away.
The Big Ugly Bill is hideous & we must use it to defeat the MAGA GOP next year.
But what he's doing to asylum-seekers & immigrants is where we are becoming an authoritarian regime.
the.ink/p/floridas-t...
The Big Ugly Bill is hideous & we must use it to defeat the MAGA GOP next year.
But what he's doing to asylum-seekers & immigrants is where we are becoming an authoritarian regime.
the.ink/p/floridas-t...
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What we need right now in this urgent moment for our democracy is to stand up for our immigrant neighbors. To stand up for the love and unity represented by that statue in the harbor. 🗽
That’s what it means to be a New Yorker this 4th of July.
That’s what it means to be a New Yorker this 4th of July.
July 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
What we need right now in this urgent moment for our democracy is to stand up for our immigrant neighbors. To stand up for the love and unity represented by that statue in the harbor. 🗽
That’s what it means to be a New Yorker this 4th of July.
That’s what it means to be a New Yorker this 4th of July.
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What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
July 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
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This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
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In 2021, ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes,…
www.propublica.org
June 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
In 2021, ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
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Zohran's characterization of this election as a national stage for the struggle between big-money politics and actual-people politics is key. This fight is not just for NYC, nor––amid ongoing genocide––ultimately even just for the USA. Could it be that he's globalizing something?
June 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Zohran's characterization of this election as a national stage for the struggle between big-money politics and actual-people politics is key. This fight is not just for NYC, nor––amid ongoing genocide––ultimately even just for the USA. Could it be that he's globalizing something?
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Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.