Amanda Becker
@amandabecker.bsky.social
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Politics & People @19thnews.bsky.social. She/her. Author of YOU MUST STAND UP on first year post Dobbs. https://a.co/d/9HS7ife Forever Nieman Nation. OH-IN-NY-CA-DC-WV/OH abecker @ 19thnews.org OR https://signal.me/#eu/TDWZNUaLcAcViX9p9xtLbZ6HaLscAgQ1si8
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"What did you say? You didn’t like Chuck Schumer’s resistance?"
My dispatch from a Punks for Progress show in Chicago supporting the trans-inclusive, immigrant-centric, mutual aid-based House candidacy of 26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh. 19thnews.org/2025/09/kat-...
Kat Abughazaleh’s punk-rock House bid
The 26-year-old Chicagoan is betting that empathy and righteous anger can remake Democratic politics.
19thnews.org
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
amandabecker.bsky.social
Non-journalist DC friends who work overseas a lot group chat this morning:

“Reminds me of Mubarak in Egypt”

”Definitely clinging to power strongman vibes”
Department of Labor building with massive American flag hanging on the front alongside massive portrait of president trump.
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dfriedman.bsky.social
"Giunta claimed the release of the chat is part of “a highly-coordinated year-long character assassination led by Gavin Wax and the New York City Young Republican Club” — an allusion to a once obscured internecine war that has now spilled into the open." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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freedom.press
Great to see news outlets almost uniformly reject Hegseth’s ridiculous Pentagon prior restraint policy.

Hopefully they’ll show the same unity next time the administration targets one of them as they’re showing now that it’s targeting all of them.
Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business
The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...
www.cnn.com
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.
amandabecker.bsky.social
I'm a great-grandaughter of the same (Kentucky, McCreary County area)
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josesepulveda.bsky.social
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.
amandabecker.bsky.social
Literally in active planning for this (land procured) and cannot wait.
anamariecox.bsky.social
There's always been a non-zero part of me that would happily live off grid and grow my hair out long, bathing in streams and not talking to anyone but the woodland creatures. The current troubles have seen some growth in that non-zero percentage.
amandabecker.bsky.social
West Virginia’s senators, Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice, both Republicans, declined to comment on the rule and the Trump administration’s delays in implementation.
amandabecker.bsky.social
“After decades of improvements, the disease has made a disturbing resurgence, particularly among younger workers because of their exposure to a different material: silica dust … It is considered about 20 times more toxic to the lungs than coal dust.”
amandabecker.bsky.social
I’ve talked to a lot of formerly conservative old white ladies in middle America at No Kings protests and can assure you they are not being paid. I know it’s Fox, but disappointing to see networks continually giving public officials who should know better unbridled platform to amplify lies.
atrupar.com
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
amandabecker.bsky.social
I was with an Afghan friend last night. We were talking about ICE tactics and they noted how similar it is to their experiences with the Taliban.
anotherjonah.bsky.social
This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".
amandabecker.bsky.social
Confirmed. Jem & The Holograms > K-pop Demon Hunters
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bbkogan.bsky.social
Not the point, but earlier in the video Vance lies about WIC being shut down (it isn’t). I know we just sort of shrug, but it’s honestly breathtaking how frequently the vice president of these United States lies.
atrupar.com
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
amandabecker.bsky.social
Spotted at a farm in central Ohio:
Tariffs are taxes
Emoluments are bribes
Protect habeas corpus
Save the Constitution
Tariffs are taxes sign in front of corn field. Emoluments are bribes sign in front of corn field. Protect habeas corpus sign in front of corn field Save the Constitution sign at farm in central Ohio
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washingtonpost.com
As President Trump tries to send the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, conservative influencers are working to support his claim that the city is burning with viral clips from one block. https://wapo.st/4q5HM0n
amandabecker.bsky.social
“Interviews”
philinvestigates.com
The JD Vance interviews show how broken the Sunday morning political show format has become. Such interviews are a purely performative exercise.
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amandabecker.bsky.social
Did this need to be published? With this framing? With 80 percent of it about the false statements of irresponsible elected officials who are encouraging violence against Americans with their words? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering
Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.
www.politico.com