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Amanda Rykoff

@amandarykoff.bsky.social

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Pro-democracy, anti-fascist rescue dog mom, baseball fan, pizza lover, and baker. Los Angeles. IG: same handle. She/her.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · Nov 14

If only we could have seen any of this coming! (SARCASM ALERT).

These insulting and deeply unserious nominations overshadow the intent to destroy the government.

And the media is absolutely failing once again to sound the alarm.

They’re too busy gaslighting us over why Kamala lost.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 6h

Well this is super fun! Loved the whole vibe at the park. Rooting for the M’s in the AL. Good luck tonight!

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 8h

Love the shirt so much!!!

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Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 22h

Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto just threw the first complete game in the postseason in eight years. The last one: Justin Verlander on this very day in 2017 in Game 2 of the ALCS. After a leadoff home run, Yamamoto was near-perfect, and the Dodgers now lead the NLCS, 2-0.

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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 22h

RT if your favorite baseball team is up 2-0 in the LCS

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 22h

Pitchers used tonight:
Brewers 6
Dodgers 1

Score tonight:
Dodgers 5
Brewers 1

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 23h

NOBODY

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 23h

Max Muncy goes from cut by the A’s and sitting on his couch in Texas to becoming the Dodgers’ all-time leader with 14 postseason homers. BASEBALL!

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 23h

Max Muncy said last night he needed to hit it harder to make sure Frelick couldn’t catch it next time and that’s exactly what he did!

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 23h

I would like to have a word with the monster who created the plastic surgery/ lips on chest Verizon ad.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

Two of the men who reportedly had lots to say about women and POC in the chat:

A smug-looking overweight man crammed into a poorly-tailored suit with a terrible combover is sitting with his hands in his lap and looking extremely pleased with himself,

A white guy who looks like a Campbell's soup kid stands at a podium with a New Yok State Young Republicans sign.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

Really good to see YES ON 50 ads during the NLCS broadcast here in the Los Angeles market.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

The experts on TBS confirmed “this is a super important game for the Brewers.” I’m glad we had those experts to share this insight.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

I know this isn’t the point but “Manny Ramírez has the most, with three intentional walks for the Boston Red Sox in 2007, all of them in the American League Championship Series.” WHAT???

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Girls at the Ballpark @girlsattheballpark.bsky.social · 1d

How do they keep letting this man be behind the plate in playoff games?

Umpire Auditor @umpireauditor.bsky.social · 1d

Umpire Doug Eddings missed 24 calls in ALCS game 2.

This was the worst called playoff game since October 7, 2022 -- a game also called by Eddings

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

This was once the kind of shit we cited to differentiate ourselves from authoritarian countries. It’s just who we are now.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

Dodgers and Blake Snell: not bad for a bunch of guys who don’t know any of the players or have a cheat sheet which shows exactly which pitch to throw and where to put the defenders.

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

My phone is blowing up with texts saying “Oh no.”

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

A Mookie walk after a Shohei IBB to load the bases has accounted for two of the Dodgers last four runs.

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

This is the second time that Brian Anderson has referred to game five against the Phillies, which did not happen.

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 1d

Dodgers pitchers with at least 9 strikeouts in 3 starts in the same postseason:

Sandy Koufax (1965 World Series)
Blake Snell (2025 WC, NLDS, NLCS)

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1d

Blake Snell. That’s it. That’s the post.

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! Fair enough