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Amanda Rykoff

@amandarykoff.bsky.social

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Pro-democracy, anti-fascist rescue dog mom, baseball fan, pizza lover, and baker. Los Angeles. IG: same handle. She/her.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · Nov 14

If only we could have seen any of this coming! (SARCASM ALERT).

These insulting and deeply unserious nominations overshadow the intent to destroy the government.

And the media is absolutely failing once again to sound the alarm.

They’re too busy gaslighting us over why Kamala lost.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 6h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 6h

Yesterday I canvassed in Los Angeles for YES ON PROP 50! Got a lot of yes votes and had the pleasure of meeting @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who helped get us fired up to save democracy.

CALIFORNIA - VOTE YES ON 50!

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 17h

Gotta admit the Dodgers are absolutely the bad guys in this MLB final four. The Duke of baseball.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 19h

The Brewers are a really really good team. Most complete and no real flaws. Should be an excellent series against the Dodgers.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

My friend texted from the ballpark that Humpy won and that’s when I knew the Mariners had it. Obviously.

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

Truly. Also congrats!

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

Truly! When my friend texted that Humpy won I knew that was it.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

The Mariners won both games started by Tarik Skubal. BASEBALL!!!!!

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

In the crappy AI’s defense, this was winner-take-all.

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

MARINERS!!! OH MY GOD! BASEBALL!!!

Hugs to my Tigers fan friends.

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

Googling longest postseason games and Google AI says that the Tigers have won this game!

This was the longest winner-take-all game in postseason history by innings, with the Tigers ultimately winning.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

IT IS TIME FOR THE 14TH INNING STRETCH!!!!

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

I was already on it!!!

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint: the Mariners may actually be cursed.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

@jacquelinepurdy.bsky.social

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

BIG DUMPER TIME LFG!!!!!!

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Jason!!!

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

Phillies fans on that play at the plate: “TOO SOON!!!!”

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

WALTER JOHNSON

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Jason Lukehart @jasonlukehart.bsky.social · 1d

Not counting Wild Card games, this is the first winner-take-all postseason game to go 12 innings since Game 7 of the 1924 World Series.

Walter Johnson, after throwing four scoreless innings out of the bullpen, was the winning pitcher in that one.

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 1d

www.mlb.com/news/mariner...

Why Mariners fans were putting shoes on their heads

Good-luck charms in baseball come in many forms: We've seen a Rally Monkey and Rally Squirrel, a Rally Cat and rally hats. Just this season, the Padres found a spark with a black panther statue (60 pe...

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Justin Russo @flybyknite.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's Game 5 of Tigers-Mariners is the longest (12 innings) winner-take-all game in a non-Wild Card series since 1924.

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