Amanda Mattos
@akmattos.bsky.social
DMV cat lady. Into human rights. Lots of other stuff too, but that’s a big one.
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Sex Workers. No one has been listening to sex workers for the past decade.
The Nobody Listened to the Women vortex is swirling.
I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Sex Workers. No one has been listening to sex workers for the past decade.
The Nobody Listened to the Women vortex is swirling.
I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...
Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky
December 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The Nobody Listened to the Women vortex is swirling.
The problem with being chatty is that sometimes you accidentally charm a bartender when you don’t plan on it and end up drunk on a Saturday afternoon.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The problem with being chatty is that sometimes you accidentally charm a bartender when you don’t plan on it and end up drunk on a Saturday afternoon.
Fun fact: nobody has to care what Elon Musk likes.
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Fun fact: nobody has to care what Elon Musk likes.
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It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
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Everyone talks about high prices.
Almost no one talks about the real issue: paychecks that haven’t kept up with the rest of the economy.
As @hshierholz.bsky.social lays out, wage suppression — not inflation — is the core of the affordability crisis. Want affordability? Raise wages.
buff.ly/4uYPvmg
Almost no one talks about the real issue: paychecks that haven’t kept up with the rest of the economy.
As @hshierholz.bsky.social lays out, wage suppression — not inflation — is the core of the affordability crisis. Want affordability? Raise wages.
buff.ly/4uYPvmg
Opinion | Everyone is talking about affordability – and making the same mistake
"As lawmakers grapple with the cost of living, they need to remind Americans – again and again – that pay is a policy choice," Heidi Shierholz writes.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Everyone talks about high prices.
Almost no one talks about the real issue: paychecks that haven’t kept up with the rest of the economy.
As @hshierholz.bsky.social lays out, wage suppression — not inflation — is the core of the affordability crisis. Want affordability? Raise wages.
buff.ly/4uYPvmg
Almost no one talks about the real issue: paychecks that haven’t kept up with the rest of the economy.
As @hshierholz.bsky.social lays out, wage suppression — not inflation — is the core of the affordability crisis. Want affordability? Raise wages.
buff.ly/4uYPvmg
Anybody wanna go stare in the middle distance?
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
December 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Anybody wanna go stare in the middle distance?
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One more thought about this which is that if the Court attempts to nullify the entirety of the Fourteenth Amendment then I think the liberal justices should also resign and publicly acknowledge that the Court is now wholly illegitimate.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One more thought about this which is that if the Court attempts to nullify the entirety of the Fourteenth Amendment then I think the liberal justices should also resign and publicly acknowledge that the Court is now wholly illegitimate.
This feels like the kind of thing we would have given someone assylum over in the past.
A 27 year old man in end stage kidney failure was told if he wanted his dialysis he has to sign self deportation papers.
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
Family says critically ill man was pressured into deportation order after 'Charlotte's Web' sweep
Relatives of a 27-year-old Honduran man say he was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during "Operation Charlotte's Web." ICE denies the alle...
www.wfae.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This feels like the kind of thing we would have given someone assylum over in the past.
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The Golden Age.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Golden Age.
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This is why, every time I hear weak-knee Dems or Dem pundits/consultants talking about how they can appeal to Trump voters, I get irrationally angry. The goal isn’t to embrace racists and fascists. The goal is to provide the alternative that lets voters kick racists and fascists into the wilderness.
It has long been clear that unalloyed racism lies at the core of Trumpism, and he is becoming increasingly explicit about this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is why, every time I hear weak-knee Dems or Dem pundits/consultants talking about how they can appeal to Trump voters, I get irrationally angry. The goal isn’t to embrace racists and fascists. The goal is to provide the alternative that lets voters kick racists and fascists into the wilderness.
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Participation trophy ass empire
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Participation trophy ass empire
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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this is literally what the nazis did. the nazis claimed that that 98 percent of prostitution worldwide was controlled by Jews.
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
this is literally what the nazis did. the nazis claimed that that 98 percent of prostitution worldwide was controlled by Jews.
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This is too much.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is too much.
Times a billion!
People think the Democratic sucks not because it's too woke or nerdy or girly or whatever. They think it sucks because Dems mainly veto the very worst bits of rightwing policies and otherwise just soften the brutality of neoliberalism. That's not gonna inspire passion in the masses!
I'm sick to death of the status quo because the Dem Party's only power seems to be occasionally softening the effects of the right's crusade to turn this country into a toxic waste dump ruled by billionaire psychopaths.
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Times a billion!
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Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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started:
Sudan has become a 'case study' for the impact of USAID cuts, aid worker says
Going:
*SUDAN OFFERS RUSSIA FIRST NAVAL BASE IN AFRICA: WSJ
Sudan has become a 'case study' for the impact of USAID cuts, aid worker says
Going:
*SUDAN OFFERS RUSSIA FIRST NAVAL BASE IN AFRICA: WSJ
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Sudan has become a 'case study' for the impact of USAID cuts, aid worker says
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*SUDAN OFFERS RUSSIA FIRST NAVAL BASE IN AFRICA: WSJ
Sudan has become a 'case study' for the impact of USAID cuts, aid worker says
Going:
*SUDAN OFFERS RUSSIA FIRST NAVAL BASE IN AFRICA: WSJ
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TREYLON BURKS ARE YOU SERIOUS
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
TREYLON BURKS ARE YOU SERIOUS
Did you guys know there’s a new show on hbo called HEATED RIVALRY, which is basically a fanfic romance sports rivalry show about, What if Ovi and Sidney Crosby were actually in love?
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Did you guys know there’s a new show on hbo called HEATED RIVALRY, which is basically a fanfic romance sports rivalry show about, What if Ovi and Sidney Crosby were actually in love?
I can’t get past the notion that a Democratic MAGA-style change movement could come from Hakeem Jeffries or a venture capitalist. No ceiling on that absurdity.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I can’t get past the notion that a Democratic MAGA-style change movement could come from Hakeem Jeffries or a venture capitalist. No ceiling on that absurdity.
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
- In nearly all examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the DHS narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras ..
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
- In nearly all examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the DHS narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras ..
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...
abc7chicago.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
- In nearly all examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the DHS narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras ..
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
- In nearly all examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the DHS narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras ..
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...