Amy Emke
@amyjo4democracy.bsky.social
Library and democracy advocate living in the Hudson Valley. Catfishing in my DMs will get you blocked blocked blockety blocked.
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in terms of the 'voters trust Rs to handle immigration over Ds' line, 2 points:
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
February 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
in terms of the 'voters trust Rs to handle immigration over Ds' line, 2 points:
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024.
2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt,
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
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my prediction of what happened: some NatCon in State promised the separatists a line of credit and diplomatic recognition upon a successful referendum
Bessent hates Carney and wanted to troll Canada so talks up separatists
Bessent finds out about the APP meeting and realizes that he fucked up
Bessent hates Carney and wanted to troll Canada so talks up separatists
Bessent finds out about the APP meeting and realizes that he fucked up
i like how the americans are pretending like they didn't meet the separatists in a SCIF
February 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
my prediction of what happened: some NatCon in State promised the separatists a line of credit and diplomatic recognition upon a successful referendum
Bessent hates Carney and wanted to troll Canada so talks up separatists
Bessent finds out about the APP meeting and realizes that he fucked up
Bessent hates Carney and wanted to troll Canada so talks up separatists
Bessent finds out about the APP meeting and realizes that he fucked up
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Everywhere he goes he causes problems.
February 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Everywhere he goes he causes problems.
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Fallout from the #EpsteinFiles has been more consequential overseas:
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure"🎯
Over here, we the ppl need to keep the spotlight on. Don't let them get away w a few sacrifices & 🧹 the rest under the rug.
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure"🎯
Over here, we the ppl need to keep the spotlight on. Don't let them get away w a few sacrifices & 🧹 the rest under the rug.
Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted
The Jeffrey Epstein files have rocked Europe's elite, revealing ties to a prince, an ambassador, and top politicians. The U.S.
apnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Fallout from the #EpsteinFiles has been more consequential overseas:
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure"🎯
Over here, we the ppl need to keep the spotlight on. Don't let them get away w a few sacrifices & 🧹 the rest under the rug.
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure"🎯
Over here, we the ppl need to keep the spotlight on. Don't let them get away w a few sacrifices & 🧹 the rest under the rug.
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If you live in Minneapolis, and have spare time, check with local restaurants to see if you can fill in for workers who can’t come to work… then let them collect the paycheck.
MN small business owner: My co-founder and I filled to-go orders for a local restaurant because 50% of the staff is gone, afraid to come to work for fear of being taken by ICE, even with the right paperwork. If these go dark, it is a devastating blow to the future of Minnesota
February 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
If you live in Minneapolis, and have spare time, check with local restaurants to see if you can fill in for workers who can’t come to work… then let them collect the paycheck.
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Damage done by this latest petulant outburst by Trump and Hegseth:
—1% to Harvard, from loss of students and ongoing links to career military.
—99% to career military officers, losing educational, social, and lifetime-connections benefits of stint at Harvard.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
—1% to Harvard, from loss of students and ongoing links to career military.
—99% to career military officers, losing educational, social, and lifetime-connections benefits of stint at Harvard.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Defense Department Severs Academic Ties with Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson
The United States Department of Defense announced Friday evening it would sever all academic ties with Harvard, saying the University’s partnerships with Chinese institutions and antisemitism on campu...
www.thecrimson.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Damage done by this latest petulant outburst by Trump and Hegseth:
—1% to Harvard, from loss of students and ongoing links to career military.
—99% to career military officers, losing educational, social, and lifetime-connections benefits of stint at Harvard.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
—1% to Harvard, from loss of students and ongoing links to career military.
—99% to career military officers, losing educational, social, and lifetime-connections benefits of stint at Harvard.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Concentration camps lead to disease and death.
February 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Concentration camps lead to disease and death.
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I couldn’t even imagine my commanding officer pressuring me to go see a movie about the president’s wife while serving in the Marines. But this is Pete Hegseth’s DOD, where partisan politics continues to be pushed on troops who just want to do their jobs while serving America.
February 7, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I couldn’t even imagine my commanding officer pressuring me to go see a movie about the president’s wife while serving in the Marines. But this is Pete Hegseth’s DOD, where partisan politics continues to be pushed on troops who just want to do their jobs while serving America.
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this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
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The United States and Israeli regimes were booed by the rest of the world at the Winter Olympics this week.
The lesson is, you can buy up all the media platforms to push your propaganda and favored narratives…
…but the world will still see you for who you truly are.
The lesson is, you can buy up all the media platforms to push your propaganda and favored narratives…
…but the world will still see you for who you truly are.
February 7, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The United States and Israeli regimes were booed by the rest of the world at the Winter Olympics this week.
The lesson is, you can buy up all the media platforms to push your propaganda and favored narratives…
…but the world will still see you for who you truly are.
The lesson is, you can buy up all the media platforms to push your propaganda and favored narratives…
…but the world will still see you for who you truly are.
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They definitely muted the boos, while talking merrily about the wonderful US group "led" by Vance.
Yes, it's fascism: trying to silence dissent, & so obviously. It was widely reported ANYWAY. They would have done better to just let it air & say NOTHING.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Yes, it's fascism: trying to silence dissent, & so obviously. It was widely reported ANYWAY. They would have done better to just let it air & say NOTHING.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
JD Vance was greeted by a chorus of boos when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday, although American viewers watching NBC’s coverage would have been unaware of the reception.
JD Vance was greeted by a chorus of boos when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday, although American viewers watching NBC’s coverage would have been unaware of the reception.
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
They definitely muted the boos, while talking merrily about the wonderful US group "led" by Vance.
Yes, it's fascism: trying to silence dissent, & so obviously. It was widely reported ANYWAY. They would have done better to just let it air & say NOTHING.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Yes, it's fascism: trying to silence dissent, & so obviously. It was widely reported ANYWAY. They would have done better to just let it air & say NOTHING.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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"Messing with other countries sovereignty and internal politics" is supposed to be beyond the pale yet it was in a bunch of the national security strategy documents and everyone seems to think this is bluster rather than policy
February 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
"Messing with other countries sovereignty and internal politics" is supposed to be beyond the pale yet it was in a bunch of the national security strategy documents and everyone seems to think this is bluster rather than policy
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There's something very ominous about how the stubborn adherence to "norms" is resulting in looking the other way at highly abnormal behavior
it's kind of depressing that no one on the Democratic side of Congress has written to the state department to ask about the meeting with AB seperatists
February 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
There's something very ominous about how the stubborn adherence to "norms" is resulting in looking the other way at highly abnormal behavior
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They've adopted a strategy of claiming they're dialing it down while changing nothing on the ground. Minnesota is still under a violent, lawless reign of ICE terror. Children and families are still being abducted. Do not look away.
there's no such thing as "a softer touch" when you're trying to institute the largest mass deportation campaign in American history.
February 6, 2026 at 12:33 PM
They've adopted a strategy of claiming they're dialing it down while changing nothing on the ground. Minnesota is still under a violent, lawless reign of ICE terror. Children and families are still being abducted. Do not look away.
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Democracy dies in tax cuts
February 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Democracy dies in tax cuts
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This is the type of letter you write and make public when you’ve discovered that the CIA is up to no good and can’t be trusted—and you have no confidence the people in charge care.
February 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
This is the type of letter you write and make public when you’ve discovered that the CIA is up to no good and can’t be trusted—and you have no confidence the people in charge care.
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I hope every Democratic member of the House and Senate reads this and factors it into whatever funding bill gets agreed to. We have seen what ICE can do to U.S. Citizens in the streets, imagine what they will do at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I hope every Democratic member of the House and Senate reads this and factors it into whatever funding bill gets agreed to. We have seen what ICE can do to U.S. Citizens in the streets, imagine what they will do at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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NEWS
Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.
Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."
Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.
Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."
Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
February 4, 2026 at 10:18 PM
NEWS
Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.
Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."
Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.
Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."
Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
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I got a lot of shit for this.
Please stop pretending unfavorability means anything if we don’t have free and fair elections.
Trump has been calling for election “observer” intimidation for years.
Midterm polling places will be policed by armed men in masks. You know it and I know it.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/06...
Trump has been calling for election “observer” intimidation for years.
Midterm polling places will be policed by armed men in masks. You know it and I know it.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/06...
Donald Trump’s bad news could lead to big beautiful election night for Dems
The president has had a couple of rough weeks as far as the data goes.
www.pennlive.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I got a lot of shit for this.
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I told everyone from the beginning: ICE in Minnesota, LA, and other places was just a practice run.
This is why, now more than ever, we need to turn out the vote.
From school board members on up—turn out in groups. 🗳️
Don't let them intimidate anyone, we are stronger together.
👥👥👥👥 🗳️
This is why, now more than ever, we need to turn out the vote.
From school board members on up—turn out in groups. 🗳️
Don't let them intimidate anyone, we are stronger together.
👥👥👥👥 🗳️
So an overfunded and undertrained private military force that has harassed and killed American citizens without any repercussions or oversight will be used to "protect" our polls? This administration treads on our rights every chance they get.
February 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I told everyone from the beginning: ICE in Minnesota, LA, and other places was just a practice run.
This is why, now more than ever, we need to turn out the vote.
From school board members on up—turn out in groups. 🗳️
Don't let them intimidate anyone, we are stronger together.
👥👥👥👥 🗳️
This is why, now more than ever, we need to turn out the vote.
From school board members on up—turn out in groups. 🗳️
Don't let them intimidate anyone, we are stronger together.
👥👥👥👥 🗳️
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In no functioning country is this allowed.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 4:16 AM
In no functioning country is this allowed.
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NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
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We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
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Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest
One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...
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February 4, 2026 at 9:24 PM
NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
Read more:
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
Read more:
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Unfinished by @piaguerra.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Unfinished by @piaguerra.bsky.social
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Destruction by Trump!
Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.
February 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Destruction by Trump!