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Amanda Smith@amandasmith.bsky.social |
4042 followers 376 following 7748 posts
Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong.
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Amanda Smith
@amandasmith.bsky.social
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Congratulations to me and only me for buying an irresponsible amount of needlepointing supplies, surely I will use them and they won’t just sit in a corner staring at me as I’m overwhelmed by ND brain freeze.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this case against biden's resignation makes sense. i do think that if biden decides to step away from reelection, he should explicitly say that he is doing this because House Republicans are too corrupt to confirm a replacement for Harris.
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Amanda Smith
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Yeah like multiple times, and he’d nuke his account go quiet and then return with more “ethical CEO” nonsense
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Kaitlin Ruiz
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why should we have to listen to this author of children's books rant about trans people... this is an insane precedent. it's like saying we should let the guy who wrote Winnie the Pooh solve immigration.
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Gabe Ortíz
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“The same megadonors who have created this blueprint are the same people who have been purchasing lavish gifts for Alito and Thomas, seeking to influence the court. And they want more justices like them seated.”
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Andrea Grimes
@andreagrimes.bsky.social
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Planned Parenthood: Don't worry everybody, we're gonna spend $100m on restoring abortion rights! Just bear with us for 10 short years Also Planned Parenthood:
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Radley Balko
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Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people.
reason.com/2024/07/01/s...
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@0xdaeda1a.bsky.social
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Tourists & people who don’t live there, don’t vote there.
lifehacker.com/stop-calling...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
This doesn’t talk about that directly, but helps explain the system www.wired.com/story/opengo...
This helps find the right reps: www.house.gov/representati...
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Greg Pak
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I recommend taking five to ten minutes to put your US rep, US senators, and state and local elected officials into your phone contacts so you can instantly call them whenever you get mad, which will be every day from now until we die.
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Shepherd
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For all the shit people talk about the south, let's just note that Mississippi (one of the poorest states in the nation) met their goal before New York. You can still beat Georgia, though, NY.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social
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Oh wow, I should have anticipated where this thread was going but I didn't 🧪
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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IDK kind of feels like we should be paying more attention to a prominent conservative think tank saying we're in the midst of a second american revolution that will remain bloodless as long as long as the left lets it be, then whether or not Biden should step down.
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Amanda Smith
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Shohei Ohtani is 100% Paul Bunyan proportioned
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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Following up that I mentioned 3 big political projects for the next 3 cycles (including this year)
2024: the ERA
2026: End the Electoral College
2028: Expand the House
I’m ok with compressing them, if we can do it. But we need to pitch it, or it won’t work. www.patreon.com/posts/104795...
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Faine Greenwood
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.
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Amanda Smith
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She had not forgiven me.
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Amanda Smith
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She was so annoyed to be lifted out by the crane arm because she was chewing on all the things she should not chew on.
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Amanda Smith
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Thank you, I have a Lot Of Thoughts about the Raisin Cajun.
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Amanda Smith
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She’s never been happier.
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Amanda Smith
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NYT in a dead heat with The Onion for the title of Most Irrelevant Biden Takes
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Reno Wallabout
@renowallabout.bsky.social
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MLB GMs 🤝 Democrats Staring at a shitty reliever market in July
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Amanda Smith
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Every baseball fan is convinced that the one player not currently on the team is the key to winning the World Series, because magical thinking is not limited to politics
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Amanda Smith
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Baseball fans 🤝 Democrats
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Amanda Smith
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It’s true, George Washington crossed the Delaware to paint dicks on King George’s Cybertruck
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Big Fat Bartolo's Colon
@graweman.bsky.social
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going out in a way to make my forefathers proud (spray painting a dick on a cybertruck)
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Jessica Zellers
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Hi everyone! One *extremely meaningful* thing you can do to fight back is to join library boards. Usually this is an appointed position, not elected. The time commitment for most public library board members is 1-2 hours monthly. I'm a former library director. Ask me anything.
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Amanda Smith
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Yeah that’s the thing, where exactly do we go to if overt fascism conquers America? Because that’s the final domino in the far right global power grab, not the first.
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Amanda Smith
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Tbh I actually think that if we hit a point where “I need to leave the country” becomes feasible I’ll probably just go out in style and run up some epic credit debt because if I’m not safe in America as a Jewish woman then the rest of the world probably won’t be a lot more welcoming.
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Amanda Smith
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Oh yall are talking about where you’ll flee to? Cowards. I plan on hollowing out a large gourd and taking to the seas.
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Amanda Smith
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We are like 8 months out from some McKinsey dork advising restaurants to save $10 million a year by eliminating the stray curly fry in a serving of regular fries
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Amanda Smith
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Well she remains a hypothetical woman til she actually is given the nod, and polls love a hypothetical woman almost as much as they love “any woman but that woman”
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Amanda Smith
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Every time I left the house I said “be good, I love you, I’ll be back soon” to my dog despite the fact that he didnt speak English but it was for me, not him.
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Amanda Smith
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If you live in CA, both Butler and Padilla are on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Make time to call today. Then set a reminder in your phone to call again later this week. Then tell three friends to do the same.
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Paul Crider
@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
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I will be calling my representative to demand she support AOC's articles of impeachment. Y'all should do the same.
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United Farm Workers
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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero
www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Amanda Smith
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Where’s that AI app that condenses books because this Onion joke needs it
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Amanda Smith
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oh god
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Amanda Smith
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I posted a while ago, probably on Twitter, about how I hate the weird passive tone of these fundraising emails because this has been the general format for the last 4+ years and I hate it, and someone basically said “they do it because it works” & I just increasingly don’t understand who likes this
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Amanda Smith
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Basically yeah
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Amanda Smith
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It’s true. I also think Budgie is so early it gets eclipsed by the bolder episodes but man, that one destroyed me.
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Amanda Smith
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The I don’t think a “how to live with coyotes” webpage would be particularly helpful
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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Amanda Smith
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I don’t think Biden should step down and spent this afternoon arguing with two panicked Boomer-aged friends but I also definitely think that the Biden campaign should not send out emails that lead the reader to ask “does Joe know he’s president”
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Amanda Smith
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The Budgie episode destroyed me, too. Sleepytime is gorgeous and moving but man. The Budgie episode.
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Tom Scocca
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All these people say they're trying to beat Donald Trump and none of them seem to be able to take five seconds to imagine what Donald Trump would say about their candidate picked by a brokered convention at the behest of the New York Times editorial board
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Andrea Grimes
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Crickets who where? Just because nobody organized a pussy hat march in front of your house on Saturday morning when you didn't have anything better going on doesn't mean people aren't and haven't been holding sustained protests in the streets, at city councils, and at fascists' houses for years
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Amanda Smith
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The last thing you see before I ask you to yet again provide unpaid legal advice
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Amanda Smith
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I live my life by one simple rule: If James Carville thinks it’s a good choice, I don’t do it.
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Amanda Smith
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It’s helpful because it makes the ask feel personal, like how whenever I text a friend for help I send a press photo of myself.
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