Amanda B. Cronkhite
@abcronkhite.bsky.social
Former diplomat & professor. Quantitative social scientist focused on information manipulation. Blackhawks fan. If I can't bring my dog(s), I'm not coming.
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One of my favorite quotes from a TV show: "If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you."
The world is on fire. So here's a 14.5 yr old rescue dog enjoying the snow #adoptdontshop
January 21, 2026 at 9:48 PM
The world is on fire. So here's a 14.5 yr old rescue dog enjoying the snow #adoptdontshop
An idea I've only recently realized needed to be EXPLICITLY stated in talks about the dangers of information manipulation in politics: never get high on your own supply #disinformation #misinformation #propaganda
One of the most important things to keep in mind if you want to understand the American right today, especially the people leading the federal government and its allied media outlets, is they believe their own BS.
They really are in a bubble, and genuinely surprised when reality does not comport.
They really are in a bubble, and genuinely surprised when reality does not comport.
To those saying “nuh-uh, ICE picked Minneapolis because they WANTED the city to rise up as one against them” -
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
January 19, 2026 at 12:31 PM
An idea I've only recently realized needed to be EXPLICITLY stated in talks about the dangers of information manipulation in politics: never get high on your own supply #disinformation #misinformation #propaganda
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Add CJ Cregg to the list of smart women who tried to warn everyone
thecartographicinstitute.com/the-gall-pet...
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Trump is really going to try to invade Greenland and destroy NATO in the process all because he's too stupid to understand the Mercator projection, huh?
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Add CJ Cregg to the list of smart women who tried to warn everyone
thecartographicinstitute.com/the-gall-pet...
thecartographicinstitute.com/the-gall-pet...
January 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Honest to goodness, watched #Andor because Diego Luna is the top of my free five. Didn't expect the tyranny speech and the Senate speech to be playing over in my head basically daily at this point #WelcomeToTheRebellion
a man in a green suit is looking at himself in a mirror with the word kepler in the corner
ALT: a man in a green suit is looking at himself in a mirror with the word kepler in the corner
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Honest to goodness, watched #Andor because Diego Luna is the top of my free five. Didn't expect the tyranny speech and the Senate speech to be playing over in my head basically daily at this point #WelcomeToTheRebellion
@cnn.com if you're going to have a so-called expert on -- talking about Iran -- make sure they know what actual soft power and actual hard power are. Whoever was just talking (dude 737 am) understands kinetic but completely mischaracterized soft power
January 12, 2026 at 12:38 PM
@cnn.com if you're going to have a so-called expert on -- talking about Iran -- make sure they know what actual soft power and actual hard power are. Whoever was just talking (dude 737 am) understands kinetic but completely mischaracterized soft power
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once again we are all tapping the sign
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
once again we are all tapping the sign
Let's hope the Streisand Effect's track record remains undefeated
So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...
Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
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January 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Let's hope the Streisand Effect's track record remains undefeated
🦇💩 foreign policy
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 PM
🦇💩 foreign policy
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
Re-upping this for no particular reason 🤦🏻♀️
Well I USED TO teach Latin American politics to military officers at war colleges as the place where (1) we were the big bad and (2) MIL options were never on the table. Absent the latter, the former becomes even more true 😨
Republicans are taking us into another completely avoidable war. More blood for oil, this time in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Re-upping this for no particular reason 🤦🏻♀️
So I'm infatuated... Or drunk? Um... Okay then ... www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
January 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
So I'm infatuated... Or drunk? Um... Okay then ... www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
This is amazing reporting. A grim reminder of why the free press is essential.
A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is amazing reporting. A grim reminder of why the free press is essential.
How was this good boy not the #1 dog of the week @weratedogs.com ?
Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/
December 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
How was this good boy not the #1 dog of the week @weratedogs.com ?
How is this not an official @theonion.com marketing ploy @bencollins.bsky.social ????
merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
December 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
How is this not an official @theonion.com marketing ploy @bencollins.bsky.social ????
So is @60minutes.bsky.social just totally not aware of the Streisand effect? #cecot #selfcensorship #obeyinginadvance
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
So is @60minutes.bsky.social just totally not aware of the Streisand effect? #cecot #selfcensorship #obeyinginadvance
I was the immigrant visa officer when hundreds of international adoptions were halted by a country (rightfully) concerned about how one orphanage was procuring children. Didn't matter to the American adoptive parents whose worlds came crashing down. Didn't help the babies already in the orphanage 😟
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I was the immigrant visa officer when hundreds of international adoptions were halted by a country (rightfully) concerned about how one orphanage was procuring children. Didn't matter to the American adoptive parents whose worlds came crashing down. Didn't help the babies already in the orphanage 😟
So um... His makeup is so bad this term. SO bad. So very VERY bad. Like... That has to be his own staff punking him, right? Because like... friends don't let friends... minimally not blend like that. Like... I'm legit confused by the makeup. If not his staff, is Putin punking him? BC... WTF? 🤡
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
So um... His makeup is so bad this term. SO bad. So very VERY bad. Like... That has to be his own staff punking him, right? Because like... friends don't let friends... minimally not blend like that. Like... I'm legit confused by the makeup. If not his staff, is Putin punking him? BC... WTF? 🤡
I have already seen enough excerpts of the new National Security Strategy to know that, since I don't have to teach it, I don't want to read it 😨
I mean ... I never wanted to read it when I had to teach it. But from what I've seen so far, this seems next level bad #nss
I mean ... I never wanted to read it when I had to teach it. But from what I've seen so far, this seems next level bad #nss
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I have already seen enough excerpts of the new National Security Strategy to know that, since I don't have to teach it, I don't want to read it 😨
I mean ... I never wanted to read it when I had to teach it. But from what I've seen so far, this seems next level bad #nss
I mean ... I never wanted to read it when I had to teach it. But from what I've seen so far, this seems next level bad #nss
Reposted by Amanda B. Cronkhite
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Reposted by Amanda B. Cronkhite
99K!!! Thank you!
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My goal is to get to 100K by Christmas! If you appreciate my hard-driving investigative journalism, please share and help me get there! 🙏🙏🙏
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
99K!!! Thank you!
My goal is to get to 100K by Christmas! If you appreciate my hard-driving investigative journalism, please share and help me get there! 🙏🙏🙏
My goal is to get to 100K by Christmas! If you appreciate my hard-driving investigative journalism, please share and help me get there! 🙏🙏🙏
1. The Ambassador is absolutely correct.
2. Kudos to the editor who chose that picture to accompany the story.
#madman #warcrimes
2. Kudos to the editor who chose that picture to accompany the story.
#madman #warcrimes
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
1. The Ambassador is absolutely correct.
2. Kudos to the editor who chose that picture to accompany the story.
#madman #warcrimes
2. Kudos to the editor who chose that picture to accompany the story.
#madman #warcrimes
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
For #seniorpupsaturday please enjoy this video of my 14-year-old rescue soul dog in his buggy since his arthritis has gotten too bad for long walks. But he still wants to go with the family on weekend mornings for coffee @weratedogs.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For #seniorpupsaturday please enjoy this video of my 14-year-old rescue soul dog in his buggy since his arthritis has gotten too bad for long walks. But he still wants to go with the family on weekend mornings for coffee @weratedogs.com