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Amanda Becker
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Journalist, The 19th. Author, YOU MUST STAND UP https://a.co/d/9HS7ife Nieman Nation. West Virginia evangelist. Committed cat lady. OH-IN-NY-CA-DC-WV/OH w/ a year in MA. abecker @ 19thnews.org https://signal.me/#eu/TDWZNUaLcAcViX9p9xtLbZ6HaLscAgQ1si8
‘This piggy won’t be quiet’: The women who spent two nights on a 'turn-and-burn' bus from Ohio to DC and back to protest the president 19thnews.org/2025/11/ohio... via @19thnews.org
‘This piggy won’t be quiet’: The women who spent two nights on a bus to protest the president
Days after President Trump called a reporter “piggy,” dozens of fellow women boarded a bus in Ohio for a 36-hour “turn and burn” trip to Washington to fight for regime change.
19thnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
On a food motivation scale of 1-10 I'd put my cat Georgie at about 13.6.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Apparently this might be a fake tweet - thank god?
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
Ohio lawmakers have brought back up a bill to add party labels to candidates in local school board elections with a new amendment that would also eliminate all elected seats on the State Board of Education, making the entire body governor-appointed ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/24/o...
Ohio bill would add political parties to school board races, reduce State Board of Education seats • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio legislature brought back up a bill that would add party names to local school board elections, and added an amendment that would eliminate elected seats on the State Board of Education,…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
GOP Sen. Susan Collins, up for reelection next year, backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
Collins' office said she signed onto the petition because she agrees with President Donald Trump’s interpretation of Title IX.
www.bangordailynews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
While #ThisTown consumed by journalist-journalist-politician-politician sex scandal w/ journalists trying to capitalize on the sordid details, everyday Americans pulling out all the stops in what they see as an existential fight for democracy — & nearly no coverage 19thnews.org/2025/11/ohio...
‘This piggy won’t be quiet’: The women who spent two nights on a bus to protest the president
Days after President Trump called a reporter “piggy,” dozens of fellow women boarded a bus in Ohio for a 36-hour “turn and burn” trip to Washington to fight for regime change.
19thnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
It’s hard to decide which is more disturbing—that the president of the United States thinks that being disliked is a mitigating factor in the murder of a journalist; or that he considers reporters who ask questions he doesn’t like to be “insubordinate.”
Push Back Against Trump’s Press Abuse
It’s long past time for the Fourth Estate to challenge the president’s unhinged hostility and unbridled misogyny.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"This piggy won't be quiet:" 36 hours. 2 overnight bus trips from OH to DC. Inside the effort to "Remove the Regime": 19thnews.org/2025/11/ohio... via @19thnews.org
‘This piggy won’t be quiet’: The women who spent two nights on a bus to protest the president
Days after President Trump called a reporter “piggy,” dozens of fellow women boarded a bus in Ohio for a 36-hour “turn and burn” trip to Washington to fight for regime change.
19thnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"This piggy won’t be quiet"
I spent some time with a group of Ohioans who took two overnight bus trips to DC and back this weekend for the #RemovetheRegime protest:
19thnews.org/2025/11/ohio... via @19thnews.org
‘This piggy won’t be quiet’: The women who spent two nights on a bus to protest the president
Days after President Trump called a reporter “piggy,” dozens of fellow women boarded a bus in Ohio for a 36-hour “turn and burn” trip to Washington to fight for regime change.
19thnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
‘This piggy won’t be quiet’: The women who spent two nights on a bus to protest the president 19thnews.org/2025/11/ohio... via @19thnews.org
‘This piggy won’t be quiet’: The women who spent two nights on a bus to protest the president
Days after President Trump called a reporter “piggy,” dozens of fellow women boarded a bus in Ohio for a 36-hour “turn and burn” trip to Washington to fight for regime change.
19thnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A disabled child’s mom reported him missing. He was in federal custody for 48 days. 19thnews.org/2025/11/disa... via @19thnews.org
A disabled child’s mom reported him missing. He was in federal custody for 48 days.
When Emmanuel Gonzalez walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October, Houston Police called ICE instead of reuniting them.
19thnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Misogyny has jumped the shark.
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
When Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old from Texas, asked doctors about terminating her high-risk pregnancy to save her life, they assured her she had nothing to worry about.

Then she died of preeclampsia.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
If you read Tatiana Schlossberg’s essay in the New Yorker yesterday and want to learn more about her work, here’s an interview she sat down for when she was promoting her book “Inconspicuous Consumption.”
Tatiana Schlossberg On The Power Of Our ‘Inconspicuous Consumption’
A new report finds global efforts to combat climate change over the past several years have been "gravely insufficient,” and according to the Global Commission on Adaptation, it's not so much money, but rather a lack of political leadership that's the source of the problem. A new book from former New York Times science reporter Tatiana Schlossberg details ways in which our everyday choices in clothing, technology, food and fuel contribute to the problem — and how consumers can make a difference by demanding more of the companies and governments behind the systems at play. Jim Braude was joined by Tatiana Schlossberg.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
Big, yearlong investigation from @NBCNews.com landed today:

"Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors."

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Why do house flippers near universally seem to think you just slap on 4-6 different shades of gray, no matter if they match or not, and that's now the 2025 'style'
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
Slotkin: "He's trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, the Epstein files and economy. He's tweeting 'the economy is the best it's ever been' -- amazing considering the public isn't stupid. It reminded me of Joe Biden. Biden tried to tell us for a year that the economy was great."
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Whereabouts are the pheromones of this elite ... Their loyalty, it appears, is less downward to people and communities than horizontal to fellow members of their borderless network."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"What [Epstein's] correspondents tended to share was membership in a distinctly modern elite: a ruling class in which 40,000-foot nomadism, world citizenship and having just landed back from Dubai lend the glow that deep roots once provided."
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Amanda Becker
Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats
Your weekly political data roundup for November 13, 2025
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM