AmberWavesofFlame
@amberwavesofflame.bsky.social
She/her, ADHD, nerd, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect.
You write something insightful, and now I’m reading old nested threads like a Wikipedia binge and ❤️ing everywhere. Promise I’m not a stalker, just appreciative.
You write something insightful, and now I’m reading old nested threads like a Wikipedia binge and ❤️ing everywhere. Promise I’m not a stalker, just appreciative.
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Oh for fucks sake
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Oh for fucks sake
If your last hope of treatment was an experimental trial and the treatment just gets cut off, how would you ever be able to access it again?
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If your last hope of treatment was an experimental trial and the treatment just gets cut off, how would you ever be able to access it again?
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Remember that study where kids and teachers both felt like calling on girls 30% of the time was gender parity and ~48% was only girls ever getting to talk?
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Remember that study where kids and teachers both felt like calling on girls 30% of the time was gender parity and ~48% was only girls ever getting to talk?
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
His argument upthread will get a rise out of everyone primed to see it as downplaying, but it’s really about the difference between threat and too late, and this is the conclusion he’s building to. Keep fighting, because they haven’t won yet, nor is their consolidation inevitable.
Trump's people want a lot of bad things that will make America an authoritarian regime. But they haven't succeeded and it would take a while for them even to end democracy, much less build fascism.
So act as if you live in a democracy - because you do.
The End.
/20x
So act as if you live in a democracy - because you do.
The End.
/20x
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
His argument upthread will get a rise out of everyone primed to see it as downplaying, but it’s really about the difference between threat and too late, and this is the conclusion he’s building to. Keep fighting, because they haven’t won yet, nor is their consolidation inevitable.
Whatever your opinion of Larry Summers is, it’s not low enough.
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Whatever your opinion of Larry Summers is, it’s not low enough.
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“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
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Bob Menendez:
SEE! I did nothing wrong.
SEE! I did nothing wrong.
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Bob Menendez:
SEE! I did nothing wrong.
SEE! I did nothing wrong.
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This is not an exaggeration by the way - note the university's response to Myron Gaines's Nazi salute on the left (condemn but allow) and their policy restricting land acknowledgements on the right (prohibited from event programs, meeting agendas, etc)
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is not an exaggeration by the way - note the university's response to Myron Gaines's Nazi salute on the left (condemn but allow) and their policy restricting land acknowledgements on the right (prohibited from event programs, meeting agendas, etc)
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"Is that what you meant by Big Beautiful Bill, Mr. President?"
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"Is that what you meant by Big Beautiful Bill, Mr. President?"
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Michael Flynn pleaded guilty - on multiple occasions - to lying to Trump’s FBI to cover up his dealings with Russia and other foreign agents, who already paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Michael Flynn pleaded guilty - on multiple occasions - to lying to Trump’s FBI to cover up his dealings with Russia and other foreign agents, who already paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes
Something about the obsession in certain circles w Democrats bagging a particular kind of male voter almost feels like a disgust with the makeup of us who already are. Like “no, no, not you all! I mean, you know, a default American. Ones that make me feel cool.” As if us peeling off would be a plus.
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Something about the obsession in certain circles w Democrats bagging a particular kind of male voter almost feels like a disgust with the makeup of us who already are. Like “no, no, not you all! I mean, you know, a default American. Ones that make me feel cool.” As if us peeling off would be a plus.
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Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
A lot of child abusers will never see themselves in child sexual abusers. Framing it as an overwhelming or selective attraction makes it clearly a Not Me! problem. Then you draw a slope from those sexual weirdos and deviants… not from bullies and control-addicts with all that implies close to home.
This is your regular reminder that most men who sexually abuse children do not meet the clinical definition of a pedophile.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A lot of child abusers will never see themselves in child sexual abusers. Framing it as an overwhelming or selective attraction makes it clearly a Not Me! problem. Then you draw a slope from those sexual weirdos and deviants… not from bullies and control-addicts with all that implies close to home.
NYT’s concern about email security hitting different now
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NYT’s concern about email security hitting different now
Each story is worst than the last
There are no words for how evil this is
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Each story is worst than the last
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The DOGE cuts seemed to focus on tax teams that pursued enforcement of high income earners. The IRS had been building up enforcement on this area because most of the tax gap is driven by higher earners. Lax enforcement could cost hundreds of billions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The DOGE cuts seemed to focus on tax teams that pursued enforcement of high income earners. The IRS had been building up enforcement on this area because most of the tax gap is driven by higher earners. Lax enforcement could cost hundreds of billions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
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The Bannon speech recently about having to win or they'll all go to prison seems....... IMPORTANT
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The Bannon speech recently about having to win or they'll all go to prison seems....... IMPORTANT
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People who think ordering "cheeze pizza" at Comet Ping Pong is code for "child pornography" are currently explaining to themselves that this is an innocent discussion vacation snapshots at Disney World.
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
People who think ordering "cheeze pizza" at Comet Ping Pong is code for "child pornography" are currently explaining to themselves that this is an innocent discussion vacation snapshots at Disney World.
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putting the michael jordan meme in his signature file
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
putting the michael jordan meme in his signature file
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"It's not clear at this time who, exactly, Epstein was referring to when he said 'trump'. While some have noted a similarity to the name of the sitting President, others have suggested he could have meant some kind of a trump card."
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"It's not clear at this time who, exactly, Epstein was referring to when he said 'trump'. While some have noted a similarity to the name of the sitting President, others have suggested he could have meant some kind of a trump card."
Thoughtful 🧵on education theories in practice
I have some second-hand knowledge about education policy (a relative of mine was on a school board in a mid-sized Canadian city); one insight that has stuck with me, and been valuable elsewhere, is the problem of scaling up pilot programs.
The problem isn't scale per-se, but it's related. (1/x)
The problem isn't scale per-se, but it's related. (1/x)
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thoughtful 🧵on education theories in practice
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Growing up on military bases is why my fantasy of a better world involves things like community centers, and tool libraries, and municipal kitchens, and dense housing, and walkable neighborhoods, and free mass transit -
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
June 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Growing up on military bases is why my fantasy of a better world involves things like community centers, and tool libraries, and municipal kitchens, and dense housing, and walkable neighborhoods, and free mass transit -
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
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Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Tfw you get Arizona Ice Teabagged by Canada
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Tfw you get Arizona Ice Teabagged by Canada