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Amber Speaks Up

@amberspeaks.bsky.social

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Independent investigative journalist. 📰 Trauma-informed. Survivor focused. Relentless. ✔️ Independent/unowned. ✊🏼 Diddy, Epstein, Mangione. Cases that haunt headlines. Me? I’m here to parse the chaos, bring the light in.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 12m

a man is sitting on a bed with the words that 's a real quick no

ALT: a man is sitting on a bed with the words that 's a real quick no

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 5h

Literally none of this is true.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Trump: Everything we're doing is very lawful and what they're doing is not lawful.

And what the governor and mayor, as an example, you can say of Portland and certainly of Chicago, it's not lawful what they're doing. They have to be very careful.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 48m

Night hon 🖤

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Project Push @project-push.tk.gg · 55m

Breaking
Israel and Hamas have signed off on the first phase of the US-proposed Gaza peace deal, Donald Trump has announced
via ABC News Australia

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 58m

Revisit these threads and share them with people that need reminding.

It can’t happen to us…right?

Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 18d

Press “coordination” (Gleichschaltung) meant every outlet had to align with state policy. By 1933, the Reich Press Law outright banned Jews and dissidents from journalism. That’s how fast a free press can vanish.

Original thread 👇🏻

Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 18d

In 1933 Germany, the first thing the regime did was muzzle the press and silence dissent.

Newspapers were shut down, journalists jailed, opposition voices branded as enemies of the state.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 16d

In Nazi Germany, the Nuremberg Rallies were staged annually from 1923–1938.
They used light, sound, and mass choreography as part art of the psychological manipulation of the masses.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 18d

In 1933 Germany, the first thing the regime did was muzzle the press and silence dissent.

Newspapers were shut down, journalists jailed, opposition voices branded as enemies of the state.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 18d

Journalism and your right to free speech and free press are all on the chopping block.

Your constitutional rights.

I will keep encouraging you to identify and follow your independent journalists now.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

NEW

The Epstein flight network just got a lot bigger.

A new analysis by Zalingo Data Refinery uncovered 2,348 additional connections to Epstein’s island across 5,253 flight records (1995–2007) — bringing the total to nearly 5,000 flights linked to that island.

🧵 ⬇️

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 13h

Some women mistake proximity to power for power itself.

A thread about the ones who weaponize that proximity — Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, and others who trade integrity for access. 🧵 ⬇️

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1h

That’s where we are: people whispering about whether democracy will even be allowed to happen again. He said his friend’s daughter left the country because she was arrested for protesting on her college campus.

America: where are you?

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1h

Ominous moment in D.C. today.
My Uber driver (soft-spoken, older, kind) said surely:
“Trump’s going to make sure the next election never happens.”

He wasn’t boasting. He was afraid.

👇🏼

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1h

Oh look. Applicants must take a polygraph and pass a background check.

www.ice.gov/careers/crim...

Criminal Investigator

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

I’ll be tracking this hiring pattern, DHS expansion, and its overlap with AI surveillance. Subscribe for real-time analysis and news, not sanitized headlines and propaganda.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

Ugh 😑

Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

These jobs likely require some level of security clearance which means they will “investigate” to be sure you’re a loyalist before you’re hired and they’ll rid of anyone who isn’t.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine these same new hires investigating journalists, protesters, the admin’s political opponents…and all under the banner of “Homeland Security.” That’s not dystopian fiction. 🚩

What are your reps doing about it?

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

“No degree required” sounds like accessibility. Don’t fall for it. It also sounds like “no critical thinking required.”

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

You don’t build a freer country by hiring more investigators and adding more surveillance.
You build it by releasing the Epstein files, unsealing court records, and holding real power accountable.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

This isn’t “workforce development.” It’s normalization of militarized federal policing…and the public is supposed to cheer because it doesn’t “require a degree.” Eyes open.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

If you think this sounds dramatic, go read your Constitution again.

Please read it.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

The fewer educational or critical-thinking filters in federal policing, the easier it becomes to enforce political loyalty instead of law.

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