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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 10h

This is what they mean when they say “remigration.”
This was on my thread about remigration.

What they really mean is this: erosion of the constitution. Repeal of the 14th Amendment, which would erase birthright citizenship — the foundation of equal protection under U.S. law.

Forester
@RadicalForestry
X.com
We're going to repeal the 14th.
An America of 100 million is the future.
Generations of invaders are going home.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 25d

In the 1930s, Germany didn’t start with mass violence.
It started with calling journalists “corrupt,” shutting down independent outlets, and leaving only state-approved voices.

Silence the press → silence the people.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 9h

Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 25d

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.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 25d

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 · 9h

I know I’m a broken record sometimes but stick with me 🧵 ⬇️

Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 25d

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 · 4d

The Constitution isn’t self-executing or self protecting. It needs defenders: be one.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 22h

I’m tired but I’m relentless. 🖤✊🏼

If you’d like to support my reader-funded work, please like, share, repost, subscribe (long form on Substack coming soon), leave a kind message or leave a tip.

It all keeps this going.

As always, thanks for being here. 🖤🖤 ⬇️

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 8h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 6h

Trump may be underestimating the tolerance of his base.

Targeting San Francisco is not about law and order. It’s about political retaliation and narrative control

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 6h

The message is clear:
Trump is testing how far he can push federal power while the government itself is paralyzed.

He is using “crime” and “security” as cover.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 BREAKING:
Trump just named San Francisco as his next target for a federal “crime surge” operation — during a White House press conference alongside FBI Director Kash Patel.

@governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social what’s your next move?

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

Part 4: The Network

Epstein’s crimes didn’t exist in isolation.
They were sustained and protected by a large network.

Power wasn’t just the weapon. It was the audience, Giuffre explains.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

This is what control looks like in trafficking.
Not chains — leverage/blackmail.
Not cages — power/wealth/enabling circle

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

He had money, influence, and law enforcement in his pocket.
She had fear, silence, and the will to survive.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

That was the moment the illusion dropped.
She understood the truth: she wasn’t safe, and no one was coming to save her.

From that point on, her life wasn’t hers anymore.
She was on call day and night.
She did whatever he demanded — or risked what he’d do next.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

Then came the threat.

“We know where your brother goes to school,” Epstein said.
“I own the Palm Beach police department.”

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

He was the only money she had. He got her an apartment. A “full-time job.”
He called it generosity. But it was ownership. She was a child.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

Part 3: The Control

By the time Virginia realized what was happening, it was already too late.

Epstein wasn’t just abusing her, he and Maxwell had locked her in place.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

That’s when something inside her cracked.

“My body couldn’t escape that room, but my mind couldn’t bear to stay.”

This is how trafficking actually looks.
Not dark alleys. Powerful adults who open doors.

And every moment, the system around them looked away.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

When Virginia flinched, Maxwell’s calm stare told her to keep going.
Every boundary was systematically erased.

“Tell me about your first time,” Epstein said to Virginia.
“I like naughty girls.”

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

Part 2: The Lesson

Epstein lay naked on the table.
Maxwell guided Virginia’s hands across his body, correcting her like a teacher.

“Continuity and flow are key,” she said.
“You don’t ignore any part of the body.”

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

Maxwell walked her straight into Jeffrey Epstein’s house on El Brillo Way.
The pink mansion, the gold tubs, the walls of nude portraits — a warning hiding in plain sight.

It started like a “massage lesson.”
It became the beginning of years of abuse.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

Giuffre is telling the story from her grave. She reportedly died earlier this year, shortly after finishing her memoir.

When she met Ghislaine Maxwell, Virginia thought she’d been offered an opportunity — a path out.

Instead, she was being hunted.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

She was sixteen, from a fractured home life.
Working at Trump’s resort Mar-a-Lago. Riding to work with her dad, proud just to have a job.

That’s where she met Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Stop, John, stop,” Maxwell told her driver when she saw me.
“An apex predator was closing in,” she says.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

This series honors Virginia’s voice.
It’s a record of what was done, who watched, and who still hasn’t been held to account.

These are her words. Her truth. Her fight.

Part 1: The Recruitment

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3h

She was the voice that broke through an empire built on money, violence, and silence — and made the world look. She was fearless.

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