Amy
@pheamy.bsky.social
Retired educator, hiker, kayaker, swimmer, iPhone photographer and Cubs fan living in the PNW…
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This is legendary journalism.
December 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is legendary journalism.
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NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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This is extortion.
This is the president of the United States admitting he is extorting another country.
This is the president of the United States admitting he is extorting another country.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is extortion.
This is the president of the United States admitting he is extorting another country.
This is the president of the United States admitting he is extorting another country.
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Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
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Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.
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It’s programming 101 to schedule content that’s compatible with your lead in. A giant sports audience is NEVER going to stick around for a Barri Weiss townhall. Never. The pros at CBS know that. Ellison & Weiss are so in over their heads- stunning ego & incompetence. From
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social:
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social:
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
It’s programming 101 to schedule content that’s compatible with your lead in. A giant sports audience is NEVER going to stick around for a Barri Weiss townhall. Never. The pros at CBS know that. Ellison & Weiss are so in over their heads- stunning ego & incompetence. From
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social:
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social:
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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“…the Trump administration has moved 45% of FBI agents in the country’s 25 largest field offices to support the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration crackdown. Across all of the FBI’s offices, 23% of the roughly 13,000 total agents at the bureau are now working on immigration”
No wonder the FBI hasn't found the Brown University shooter yet when so many agents have been shifted to the campaign to make America whiter.
Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement
Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“…the Trump administration has moved 45% of FBI agents in the country’s 25 largest field offices to support the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration crackdown. Across all of the FBI’s offices, 23% of the roughly 13,000 total agents at the bureau are now working on immigration”
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"Tariffs are 'national security!'"
"The ballroom is 'national security!'"
"Suing the BBC is 'national security!'"
"Slaughtering Venezuelan fishermen is 'national security!'"
"Torturing day laborers is 'national security!'"
NONE of this is "national security" but it is Naziism 101.
"The ballroom is 'national security!'"
"Suing the BBC is 'national security!'"
"Slaughtering Venezuelan fishermen is 'national security!'"
"Torturing day laborers is 'national security!'"
NONE of this is "national security" but it is Naziism 101.
Bessent claims that if SCOTUS rules against Trump on tariffs "they will be ruling against national security"
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Tariffs are 'national security!'"
"The ballroom is 'national security!'"
"Suing the BBC is 'national security!'"
"Slaughtering Venezuelan fishermen is 'national security!'"
"Torturing day laborers is 'national security!'"
NONE of this is "national security" but it is Naziism 101.
"The ballroom is 'national security!'"
"Suing the BBC is 'national security!'"
"Slaughtering Venezuelan fishermen is 'national security!'"
"Torturing day laborers is 'national security!'"
NONE of this is "national security" but it is Naziism 101.
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"Trump's post is deranged, pathologically narcissistic, crude, stupid, and cruel. No human adult outside a psych ward expresses such thoughts. To have them at all is evidence of a twisted soul."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The Psych-Ward Presidency
The president has no moral core. And, according to his own chief of staff, he’s surrounded by amateurs, opportunists, and drug users.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Trump's post is deranged, pathologically narcissistic, crude, stupid, and cruel. No human adult outside a psych ward expresses such thoughts. To have them at all is evidence of a twisted soul."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Step 1: Fire the experts funding American science.
Step 2: Change review process. (You are here)
Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues.
Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.
Step 2: Change review process. (You are here)
Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues.
Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.
NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Step 1: Fire the experts funding American science.
Step 2: Change review process. (You are here)
Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues.
Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.
Step 2: Change review process. (You are here)
Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues.
Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.
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Amnesty International described a punishment "box" at the Florida immigrant detention camp.
@attackerman.bsky.social noted how it echoed a CIA black site torture tool.
I tracked down two former inmates who said they saw it with their own eyes.
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
@attackerman.bsky.social noted how it echoed a CIA black site torture tool.
I tracked down two former inmates who said they saw it with their own eyes.
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
Two Former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Inmates Allege Migrant Detainees Were Confined in a Tiny ‘Box’ at Times
Their accounts match recent reports from Amnesty International describing the conditions at the detention facility as “torture.”
www.notus.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Amnesty International described a punishment "box" at the Florida immigrant detention camp.
@attackerman.bsky.social noted how it echoed a CIA black site torture tool.
I tracked down two former inmates who said they saw it with their own eyes.
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
@attackerman.bsky.social noted how it echoed a CIA black site torture tool.
I tracked down two former inmates who said they saw it with their own eyes.
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
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🤔💰GUARDIAN: “They’re Trying to Get Rich Off It — Trump insiders and well-connected Republican businesses jostling to dominate humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in shattered Gaza” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🤔💰GUARDIAN: “They’re Trying to Get Rich Off It — Trump insiders and well-connected Republican businesses jostling to dominate humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in shattered Gaza” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Kushner and Witkoff putting themselves on an equal plane with heads of state and governments.
I'm amazed that Zelenskyy could walk up the staircase with that knife in his back.
I thought you had to be a world leader to participate in such things... turns out..nah.
December 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Kushner and Witkoff putting themselves on an equal plane with heads of state and governments.
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we just went through a months-long cultural project where people lost their jobs for speaking ill of a dead man's politics
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
we just went through a months-long cultural project where people lost their jobs for speaking ill of a dead man's politics
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Important post: my colleague documents an “official, nationwide policy of intimidating and threatening people who attempt to observe and record DHS operations,” or who peacefully and without interference follow and protest them, even though the First Amendment broadly protects doing those things. /1
On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
December 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Important post: my colleague documents an “official, nationwide policy of intimidating and threatening people who attempt to observe and record DHS operations,” or who peacefully and without interference follow and protest them, even though the First Amendment broadly protects doing those things. /1
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One reason why Republicans won't extend expiring ACA subsidies?
Koch-backed lobby groups have spent over $1.1M pressuring GOP lawmakers to let 20M Americans' health insurance costs go up.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Koch-backed lobby groups have spent over $1.1M pressuring GOP lawmakers to let 20M Americans' health insurance costs go up.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
December 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
One reason why Republicans won't extend expiring ACA subsidies?
Koch-backed lobby groups have spent over $1.1M pressuring GOP lawmakers to let 20M Americans' health insurance costs go up.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Koch-backed lobby groups have spent over $1.1M pressuring GOP lawmakers to let 20M Americans' health insurance costs go up.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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From me: Trump's FTC dismissed a Lina Khan case against Pepsi and Walmart scheming to raise prices on competitors, then claimed it was "purely political" with no evidence. But advocates got the now-defunct case unsealed, & it reveals how pricing really works in America.
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
Pepsi and Walmart’s Monopolization Machine Revealed - The American Prospect
An unsealed lawsuit that Trump’s FTC tried to bury puts the pricing schemes of business on full display.
prospect.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
From me: Trump's FTC dismissed a Lina Khan case against Pepsi and Walmart scheming to raise prices on competitors, then claimed it was "purely political" with no evidence. But advocates got the now-defunct case unsealed, & it reveals how pricing really works in America.
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
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You go, AP 💪. "unsubstantiated claim...shocking post...even for Trump...drastic departure from the role presidents typically play...after the death of a public figure...laid bare Trump’s unwillingness to rise above political grievance in moments of crisis."
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump levels political attack on Rob Reiner in inflammatory post after his killing
President Donald Trump is blaming Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a post that seemed intent on decrying his...
apnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You go, AP 💪. "unsubstantiated claim...shocking post...even for Trump...drastic departure from the role presidents typically play...after the death of a public figure...laid bare Trump’s unwillingness to rise above political grievance in moments of crisis."
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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The Trump administration has awarded Palantir a no-bid contract to build an AI system intended to prevent "SNAP fraud," among other things.
The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.
The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Trump administration has awarded Palantir a no-bid contract to build an AI system intended to prevent "SNAP fraud," among other things.
The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.
The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.
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@jamespwest.bsky.social was home in Sydney on vacation when the horror happened. As good journalists are apt to do, he put his life on hold to file this story. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Unfathomable.” Hanukkah massacre shatters Australia’s long-held pride in guns and safety
Anguish, outrage, and a national reckoning over antisemitism and gun control.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
@jamespwest.bsky.social was home in Sydney on vacation when the horror happened. As good journalists are apt to do, he put his life on hold to file this story. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...