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Amanda Changuris

@amandachanguris.bsky.social

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Greek-by-marriage content strategy & social media professional. Avid DC sports fan. Opinions are mine.

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Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Feb 4

If you could use an emotional support kitten, Pip is here for you.

Pip, a medium-haired tabby kitten, stares into the camera with her big, gold eyes. She has fluffy tufts of hair in her ears and whiskers long enough to frame her face and upper body.

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Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · 4d

This is Washington football in a nutshell. Wild swings from awful to amazing. Fans may be eligible for a class action whiplash claim.

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Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · 4d

Holy crap what a pitch and catch!!

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 30

Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall?

It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...

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Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Aug 30

THIS is an appropriate use of a speaker in public.

RachelRoyalKC @rachelroyalkc.bsky.social · Aug 30

There’s a guy following members of the National Guard in DC and is playing the Imperial March on a speaker while walking behind them. It’s glorious.

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Roan Everly @roanrampant.bsky.social · Aug 30

Who’s up ghoulscrolling

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · Aug 30

My daughter informs me “everyone on Tik Tok” is gouling out too. So great time for the White House to start posting there.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Aug 5

Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work?
The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize.
And they've saved literally millions of lives already.

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses

The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.

www.pbs.org

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Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Aug 6

Are hashbrowns everywhere here, too? 👀

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 30

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

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Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jul 19

I bought my first pair of readers today. That is all.

Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jul 13

Whenever I hear “do you have the time to listen to me whine?” I say no and change the channel.

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Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jul 6

Before and after I made little smoochy noises at her

Pip, a young medium-haired tabby cat, sits in front of a pile of packing paper. She’s turned her sweet face and big golden eyes to look at the camera

Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 29

If you pray, please send a little something up for my husband. I’m on a clear liquid diet to prep for a test tomorrow and I’m not an awesome person when I’m HUNGRY.

Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 22

Watching the “making of” episode of The Americas and realizing how many shots I’d ruin with involuntary joyful noises. The animals are just too much fun.

Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 15

Making me (more) proud to be from Maryland. 🦀

Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · Jun 14

Annapolis, you sure showed up for #NoKings this morning! I’m glad the anti-fascist crab could bring everyone so much joy, even if I sweated out a gallon of water in the process. 😆 🦀 #NoKingsAnnapolis #Maryland

A photo of me in a red crab mascot costume, holding a sign that says “Fascism makes me crabby.”

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · Jun 14

Philly, you keep doing things of late that make me hate you less, and it is getting uncomfortable.

Alex G @alexiterick.bsky.social · Jun 14

A homemade sign reading "only one orange king in Philly", with a picture of Gritty wearing a crown over his helmet and saying "it me"

A homemade sign with "Liberté, Égalité, Gritté" written in copperplate script

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ACLU @aclu.org · Jun 11

First know your rights, then share your rights.

Download our Know Your Rights graphic and use it as your phone screen when going to protests.

Know Your Rights, Share Your Rights

www.aclu.org

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 12

“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch

Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then ...

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Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 13

*hockey noises*

Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 12

I feel this in my heart as a fellow person fortunate to marry a “just let me do it” cook/baker. 11/10 way to live life.

Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 11

The lovely taxi driver who took us to the airport in the Bahamas was lamenting this news. She says vaccine nonsense in the US will hurt them, too.

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Jun 9

An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee.

RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism.

This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.

Kennedy guts CDC's vaccine panel of independent experts

The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices helps the agency make recommendations on who should get certain vaccines.

www.nbcnews.com

Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 10

I know the world is *gestures broadly* but also… swimming pigs exist.

Amanda feeds a pig a carrot while standing in the water off an island in the Exumas

A pig takes a carrot from someone’s hand

A piglet munches on a carrot on the beach

Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 9

Love you, Osh. ❤️

RMNB @rmnb.bsky.social · Jun 9

TJ Oshie announces retirement from NHL after 16 seasons: "This moment is bittersweet but I’m filled with gratitude" russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2025/06/09/t...

TJ Oshie announces retirement from NHL after 16 seasons: ‘This moment is bittersweet but I’m filled with gratitude’

WASHINGTON, DC -- TJ Oshie is officially retiring from professional hockey, hanging up his skates after more than 1,000 games in the…

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Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 8

Watching the news out of LA… I couldn’t help but think Tom Morello and his mom would be proud of the protesters.

Amanda Changuris @amandachanguris.bsky.social · Jun 7

If you need me, no you don’t. 😎

The view of a balcony with two large chairs overlooking the stunning blue-green water off the shore of Exuma, Bahamas.