Amanda Becker
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Author YOU MUST STAND UP https://a.co/d/9HS7ife on abortion rights post Dobbs
Nieman Nation. Ohioan. WV Mtn Mama (to cats). D&E College Instructor. Pro-democracy in life & work.
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Author YOU MUST STAND UP https://a.co/d/9HS7ife on abortion rights post Dobbs
Nieman Nation. Ohioan. WV Mtn Mama (to cats). D&E College Instructor. Pro-democracy in life & work.
OH-IN-NY-CA-DC-MA-DC-WV/OH
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TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began.
The conspiracy theories have triggered chaos in the Ohio city, where Haitian immigrant families and the groups working with them are already on edge.
19thnews.org
“The destructive force they have brought is nearly immeasurable.”
TikTokers showed up in Springfield looking for ICE; instead, they launched conspiracies attacking the groups helping Haitians.
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt... via @19thnews.org
TikTokers showed up in Springfield looking for ICE; instead, they launched conspiracies attacking the groups helping Haitians.
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt... via @19thnews.org
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
interc.pt
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
Just had to google who this is. I've covered national politics for close to 20 years. I know I'm maybe not the average American voter but that can't be a good sign.
Stephen A. Smith tells CBS News’s Robert Costa that he is moving closer to a 2028 Presidential campaign, in an interview to air Sunday.
February 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Just had to google who this is. I've covered national politics for close to 20 years. I know I'm maybe not the average American voter but that can't be a good sign.
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I finally read this whole piece and the sheer scope of chaos and infighting inside DHS it depicts is breathtaking.
It's 20 stories' worth of scoops crammed into one omnibus account of an agency riven by incompetence and turf wars.
It's 20 stories' worth of scoops crammed into one omnibus account of an agency riven by incompetence and turf wars.
Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
on.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I finally read this whole piece and the sheer scope of chaos and infighting inside DHS it depicts is breathtaking.
It's 20 stories' worth of scoops crammed into one omnibus account of an agency riven by incompetence and turf wars.
It's 20 stories' worth of scoops crammed into one omnibus account of an agency riven by incompetence and turf wars.
I hung up a bird feeder last night and for 3 hours now I have worked at the window looking out at it with my cat — appropriately: Birdie — and we've seen nary a bird. So I googled and it can take 2-3 months for birds to start visiting a new feeder?! This was supposed to be our winter diversion.
February 13, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I hung up a bird feeder last night and for 3 hours now I have worked at the window looking out at it with my cat — appropriately: Birdie — and we've seen nary a bird. So I googled and it can take 2-3 months for birds to start visiting a new feeder?! This was supposed to be our winter diversion.
Meta is one of the most untrustworthy companies in existence. The fact that so many continue to post their entire lives on Instagram, and speak freely in family chats on WhatsApp, is mind boggling to me. Yall are giving it all away for free and you aren’t gonna like the world they create …
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Meta is one of the most untrustworthy companies in existence. The fact that so many continue to post their entire lives on Instagram, and speak freely in family chats on WhatsApp, is mind boggling to me. Yall are giving it all away for free and you aren’t gonna like the world they create …
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If society doesn't normalize instantly knocking stalker glasses off people's faces, then I guess the alternative is to simply mask up all the time
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
If society doesn't normalize instantly knocking stalker glasses off people's faces, then I guess the alternative is to simply mask up all the time
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Notice that Bondi doesn’t turn around.
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Notice that Bondi doesn’t turn around.
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…who was also his what now?
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece
The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson had been living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had overstayed her visa and is now in the U.S. illegally.
cbsn.ws
February 13, 2026 at 3:24 PM
…who was also his what now?
TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/13/t...
TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began. • Ohio Capital Journal
TikTok creators converged on Springfield, Ohio last week. Finding none of the ICE mayhem they expected to see, they began concocting and spreading conspiracy theories about the city and the charities ...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/13/t...
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🚨 Leftie Nick Shirley tries to Pizzagate Springfield, OH 🚨
“They sent people to a church who demanded to see evidence of the help they were giving.”
“TikTok creators, who presented themselves as pro-immigrant and anti-deportation, said that the groups helping Haitians were refusing them aid.”
“They sent people to a church who demanded to see evidence of the help they were giving.”
“TikTok creators, who presented themselves as pro-immigrant and anti-deportation, said that the groups helping Haitians were refusing them aid.”
Last week, TikTok creators, finding none of the mayhem they expected to see in Springfield, started suggesting faith-based groups working with Haitian immigrants were misdirecting resources. Within 48 hrs, they concocted a child-trafficking conspiracy. 19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt... via @19thnews.org
TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began.
The conspiracy theories have triggered chaos in the Ohio city, where Haitian immigrant families and the groups working with them are already on edge.
19thnews.org
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🚨 Leftie Nick Shirley tries to Pizzagate Springfield, OH 🚨
“They sent people to a church who demanded to see evidence of the help they were giving.”
“TikTok creators, who presented themselves as pro-immigrant and anti-deportation, said that the groups helping Haitians were refusing them aid.”
“They sent people to a church who demanded to see evidence of the help they were giving.”
“TikTok creators, who presented themselves as pro-immigrant and anti-deportation, said that the groups helping Haitians were refusing them aid.”
“The destructive force they have brought is nearly immeasurable.”
TikTokers showed up in Springfield looking for ICE; instead, they launched conspiracies attacking the groups helping Haitians.
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt... via @19thnews.org
TikTokers showed up in Springfield looking for ICE; instead, they launched conspiracies attacking the groups helping Haitians.
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt... via @19thnews.org
TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began.
The conspiracy theories have triggered chaos in the Ohio city, where Haitian immigrant families and the groups working with them are already on edge.
19thnews.org
February 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
“The destructive force they have brought is nearly immeasurable.”
TikTokers showed up in Springfield looking for ICE; instead, they launched conspiracies attacking the groups helping Haitians.
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt... via @19thnews.org
TikTokers showed up in Springfield looking for ICE; instead, they launched conspiracies attacking the groups helping Haitians.
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt... via @19thnews.org
And yet so many pontificators in Washington still looking for the resistance.
Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
February 12, 2026 at 9:47 PM
And yet so many pontificators in Washington still looking for the resistance.
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I'm not into prediction markets... but this has all of the makings of a SCOTUS retirement. His book goes on sale on October 6, 2026--the day after OT2026 starts . . . and now a new hagiographic biography? Hmmmmmm.
February 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I'm not into prediction markets... but this has all of the makings of a SCOTUS retirement. His book goes on sale on October 6, 2026--the day after OT2026 starts . . . and now a new hagiographic biography? Hmmmmmm.
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Early Banner supporter; could care less about DC sports.
LOVE.
Early Banner supporter; could care less about DC sports.
LOVE.
February 12, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Early Banner supporter; could care less about DC sports.
LOVE.
Early Banner supporter; could care less about DC sports.
LOVE.
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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under questioning from Peters, ICE officials confirm that Kristi Noem's claim about Pretti being a "domestic terrorist" was not based on information from them
February 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
under questioning from Peters, ICE officials confirm that Kristi Noem's claim about Pretti being a "domestic terrorist" was not based on information from them
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Characteristically, I am going to push back on this both sides argument. Yes, there are extreme elements that rose in both parties due to districts, becoming redder and bluer. But the GOP has actual Nazis in it,. The Democrats, as far as I know, don’t actually have any Stalinists.
I blame both the Republicans and the Democrats. Both parties let the extremists take over and now we get whipsawed between the extremes every election cycle. Both put party ahead of all else. To hell will both of them.
February 12, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Characteristically, I am going to push back on this both sides argument. Yes, there are extreme elements that rose in both parties due to districts, becoming redder and bluer. But the GOP has actual Nazis in it,. The Democrats, as far as I know, don’t actually have any Stalinists.
Talk to your 'creator' friends. Convince them they don't want to be at the center of the next 'pizzagate.' 19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt... via @19thnews.org
TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began.
The conspiracy theories have triggered chaos in the Ohio city, where Haitian immigrant families and the groups working with them are already on edge.
19thnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Talk to your 'creator' friends. Convince them they don't want to be at the center of the next 'pizzagate.' 19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt... via @19thnews.org
And who is going to be doing all the work to make this "hack" happen — potentially by leaving the workforce? Oh that's right, moms. Hacks, I thought, were something that made life easier...
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
The Homeschooling Hack
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
nymag.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM
And who is going to be doing all the work to make this "hack" happen — potentially by leaving the workforce? Oh that's right, moms. Hacks, I thought, were something that made life easier...
Netanyahu, whom the International Criminal Court has charged with using starvation as a method of warfare and deliberately targeted civilians, has joined Trump's "Board of Peace" amid a 2.5-year assault on Gaza that has been described by many experts as a genocide.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel has joined Trump's 'Board of Peace,' Netanyahu says
Israel has joined U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" initiative, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday during his visit to Washington where he met Trump and Secretary of Stat...
www.reuters.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Netanyahu, whom the International Criminal Court has charged with using starvation as a method of warfare and deliberately targeted civilians, has joined Trump's "Board of Peace" amid a 2.5-year assault on Gaza that has been described by many experts as a genocide.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Pregnant immigrants in Minnesota have been postponing their abortions, skipping aftercare, and delaying birth control visits and urgent cancer screening follow-ups to avoid coming in contact with federal immigration agents.
19thnews.org/2026/02/abor... via @19thnews.org
19thnews.org/2026/02/abor... via @19thnews.org
Pregnant patients in Minnesota have postponed abortion appointments to avoid ICE
Planned Parenthood’s no-show rate has gone up almost 10 percent since the federal government’s Minnesota operation began.
19thnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Pregnant immigrants in Minnesota have been postponing their abortions, skipping aftercare, and delaying birth control visits and urgent cancer screening follow-ups to avoid coming in contact with federal immigration agents.
19thnews.org/2026/02/abor... via @19thnews.org
19thnews.org/2026/02/abor... via @19thnews.org
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Watching these conspiracy theories start and spread in real time made me feel like I was about to have an aneurysm.
Learning that the church helping immigrants recieved threats and the schools received bomb threats broke my heart.
It's like 2024 all over again. Please be wary of content creators.
Learning that the church helping immigrants recieved threats and the schools received bomb threats broke my heart.
It's like 2024 all over again. Please be wary of content creators.
“The fear is turned up as high as it can go.”
Residents of Springfield, Ohio, are ramping up efforts to try to protect their community from the type of chaotic, violent assault by federal immigration agents that claimed two lives in Minneapolis in recent weeks.
19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-...
Residents of Springfield, Ohio, are ramping up efforts to try to protect their community from the type of chaotic, violent assault by federal immigration agents that claimed two lives in Minneapolis in recent weeks.
19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-...
Fear, faith and preparation as ICE closes in on an Ohio community
In Springfield, faith-based coalitions are creating emergency hubs to care for children — and churches are preparing for their sanctuaries to be breached.
19thnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Watching these conspiracy theories start and spread in real time made me feel like I was about to have an aneurysm.
Learning that the church helping immigrants recieved threats and the schools received bomb threats broke my heart.
It's like 2024 all over again. Please be wary of content creators.
Learning that the church helping immigrants recieved threats and the schools received bomb threats broke my heart.
It's like 2024 all over again. Please be wary of content creators.
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What happens when a measles outbreak hits your state? For @drannieandrews.com, a pediatrician running for the U.S. Senate, it becomes a key issue on the campaign trail. My latest looks at a doctor who’s highlighting health care issues ahead of the midterms. 19thnews.org/2026/02/anni...
Measles is spreading in South Carolina. Could it make people vote for a pediatrician?
Dr. Annie Andrews is running for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. She's one of several doctors seeking office during an election midterm year where health care issues are front and center.
19thnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:16 PM
What happens when a measles outbreak hits your state? For @drannieandrews.com, a pediatrician running for the U.S. Senate, it becomes a key issue on the campaign trail. My latest looks at a doctor who’s highlighting health care issues ahead of the midterms. 19thnews.org/2026/02/anni...
How ‘pro-immigrant’ Tiktok ‘creators’ descended on Springfield and targeted the groups helping Haitians facing deportation 19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt...
TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began.
The conspiracy theories have triggered chaos in the Ohio city, where Haitian immigrant families and the groups working with them are already on edge.
19thnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM
How ‘pro-immigrant’ Tiktok ‘creators’ descended on Springfield and targeted the groups helping Haitians facing deportation 19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt...
"They’re causing a lot of hassle, but they’re not really getting under my skin" — a Springfield, OH pastor says he is even more committed to his Haitian congregants after purportedly pro-immigrant TikTokers came to town and spread conspiracy theories about his ministry
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt...
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt...
TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began.
The conspiracy theories have triggered chaos in the Ohio city, where Haitian immigrant families and the groups working with them are already on edge.
19thnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
"They’re causing a lot of hassle, but they’re not really getting under my skin" — a Springfield, OH pastor says he is even more committed to his Haitian congregants after purportedly pro-immigrant TikTokers came to town and spread conspiracy theories about his ministry
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt...
19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt...