ames
@amsrbb.bsky.social
Hunkered down in Vermont (US). Woods walker. Gardener. Birder. Doomer. Lefty/ist. Masked. Covid cautious. Free Palestine. she/her
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
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can’t wait for my phone in a couple of months to create one of those photo slideshows no one asks for featuring “Fall in Chicago 2025” and it’s just a series of masked goons and constitutional violations.
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
can’t wait for my phone in a couple of months to create one of those photo slideshows no one asks for featuring “Fall in Chicago 2025” and it’s just a series of masked goons and constitutional violations.
I was lucky to have a piece of one of those 10% non-meh apple pies yesterday. Delightful 🍏🍎🍏
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I was lucky to have a piece of one of those 10% non-meh apple pies yesterday. Delightful 🍏🍎🍏
A loving tribute to Chris Whitley. One of the greatest. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | 20 years after Chris Whitley died, I can’t shake his earthy, gutting songs
After a brief flirtation with the mainstream, Houston’s Chris Whitley carved one of rock’s more fascinating paths. It’s time to rediscover him.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A loving tribute to Chris Whitley. One of the greatest. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
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Trump has murdered at least 83 people with extrajudicial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats.
He needs to face consequences for this.
His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.
He needs to face consequences for this.
His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Trump has murdered at least 83 people with extrajudicial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats.
He needs to face consequences for this.
His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.
He needs to face consequences for this.
His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.
Earning $7.25 an hour while billionaires exist?
Problematic wage gap
Problematic wage gap
Been angry so long you can't remember why anymore?
Problematic rage gap.
Problematic rage gap.
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Earning $7.25 an hour while billionaires exist?
Problematic wage gap
Problematic wage gap
Welch the enabler. Again.
He sucks and i hope someone is yelling at him during the virtual town hall tonight.
He sucks and i hope someone is yelling at him during the virtual town hall tonight.
This is Coons' 20th yea vote for a Trump nominee, Duckworth's 7th, Fetterman's 41st, Gallego's 26th, Heinrich's 17th, Kelly's 30th, King's 37th, Klobuchar's 27th, Ossoff's 8th, Padilla's 5th, Reed's 20th, Warner's 31st, Warnock's 20th, Welch's 14th, and Whitehouse's 12th.
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Welch the enabler. Again.
He sucks and i hope someone is yelling at him during the virtual town hall tonight.
He sucks and i hope someone is yelling at him during the virtual town hall tonight.
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An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
Jenn Budd/Bordeland
Miss me with your concern over Epstein’s victims.
This country does not care about the sexual abuse of women or girls.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Jenn Budd/Bordeland
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do we just have to plainly state the horrifying fucking thing so men understand the incredibly obvious why
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
do we just have to plainly state the horrifying fucking thing so men understand the incredibly obvious why
Most of these jerkoffs (D&R alike) are so out of touch - do they have any sense of the huge, life-altering decisions those of us getting pushed off the ACA cliff have to make? Decisions that can’t be made in one day or easily reversed once made. Their Dec31 deadline is too late. Our deadline is now.
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Most of these jerkoffs (D&R alike) are so out of touch - do they have any sense of the huge, life-altering decisions those of us getting pushed off the ACA cliff have to make? Decisions that can’t be made in one day or easily reversed once made. Their Dec31 deadline is too late. Our deadline is now.
Despite the fact that most of us have dreams every night, and there are excellent portrayals of all kinds of weird things in tv & film, I have never seen a representation of a dream that is anything like my actual dreams. I think it’s fascinating that it’s nearly impossible to imitate dreams.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Despite the fact that most of us have dreams every night, and there are excellent portrayals of all kinds of weird things in tv & film, I have never seen a representation of a dream that is anything like my actual dreams. I think it’s fascinating that it’s nearly impossible to imitate dreams.
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The thing to watch out for here is that appropriations and spending bills have been the most surefire way to get fascist laws passed with bipartisan support. The general idea is that spending for certain things is too important, so part of the compromise has to be other people's rights.
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The thing to watch out for here is that appropriations and spending bills have been the most surefire way to get fascist laws passed with bipartisan support. The general idea is that spending for certain things is too important, so part of the compromise has to be other people's rights.
Collaborating on a document with someone you can’t trust with version control really sucks.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Collaborating on a document with someone you can’t trust with version control really sucks.
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Imagine coming off an incredible Election Day mandate from coast to coast and going 'you know what voters want? to be completely sold out by a bunch of craven cowards too pathetic to hold the line against a bunch of fucking weirdos'
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Imagine coming off an incredible Election Day mandate from coast to coast and going 'you know what voters want? to be completely sold out by a bunch of craven cowards too pathetic to hold the line against a bunch of fucking weirdos'
In banner on this USDA webpage it says, “Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.”
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In banner on this USDA webpage it says, “Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.”
This is horrid, unacceptable treatment regardless of someone’s citizenship status. It’s getting under my skin to see distinctions being made in these kidnap and detention situations between US citizens and non-citizens.
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is horrid, unacceptable treatment regardless of someone’s citizenship status. It’s getting under my skin to see distinctions being made in these kidnap and detention situations between US citizens and non-citizens.
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"Build A Ballroom"
October 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Build A Ballroom"
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In total, we estimate the Administration’s plan will result in only about $3 billion in total #SNAP benefits issued, about 2/3rds of the $4.65 billion they say is available for benefits after state administrative costs & nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico. Let’s look at the #s.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Mamdani had pretty much every major media org and all the big money people in American politics trying everything to beat him and they all ate shit tonight. One of the biggest fuck you's ever to the powers that be.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Mamdani had pretty much every major media org and all the big money people in American politics trying everything to beat him and they all ate shit tonight. One of the biggest fuck you's ever to the powers that be.
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Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.
very quietly: i love the fall time change
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
very quietly: i love the fall time change
@charlesgaba.com
Vermont ACA marketplace example. Premium increasing more than 400%
Vermont ACA marketplace example. Premium increasing more than 400%
Bronze plan, 2 people with a $10k deductible per person.
Premium now: $450/month. Premium 2026: $1900/month.
So we’d pay $23k for the annual covered basics, then another $20k before coverage kicks in. This is the second least expensive option available. Just completely untenable. Not happening.
Premium now: $450/month. Premium 2026: $1900/month.
So we’d pay $23k for the annual covered basics, then another $20k before coverage kicks in. This is the second least expensive option available. Just completely untenable. Not happening.
November 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
@charlesgaba.com
Vermont ACA marketplace example. Premium increasing more than 400%
Vermont ACA marketplace example. Premium increasing more than 400%