amanda is tired

In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How's the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And who wants to go in together on at least $5 million worth of $TRUMP coin so that we can have dinner with him at the White House?

There is an entire political movement that believes the statement “if you work full-time in America, you should be able to pay your bills and have a savings account with your paycheck” is radical.

We must come to an agreement that it’s not radical to demand that.

When you look at your checking account and wonder where the money is going to come from to pay your bills, that money isn't going to come from deportations. Direct your attention to the ultra wealthy and corporations that continue to loot your wallet every. single. day.

Reminder for Americans that we don't actually have free speech (if you think this is about immigrants, I have a bridge to sell you).

We also don't have healthcare. Or living wages or affordable housing. And we're facing exploding costs in virtually all of our other goods thanks to tariffs.

Department of Homeland Security announces plan to screen foreign U.S. residents' social media for antisemitism.

"USCIS will consider social media content that indicates an alien endorsing, espousing, promoting, or supporting antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic terrorist organizations"

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Maybe not ideal for a president and shadow president who are both compromised by foreign adversaries to appoint a Director of National Intelligence who’s compromised by foreign adversaries while purging the FBI and asking every CIA and NSA employee to resign

this is exactly what i’m getting at when i see these people have no understanding of civil society. they do not seem to conceptualize other people as having agency whatsoever.

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said the F.B.I. was in a “battle of our own.”

Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law

“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy."

James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office

Donkey Kong Country is older than every single incel currently taking control of the US economy through Elon Musk

All of us watching The Phantom Menace back in 1999: "Why does any of this matter? Who gives a shit about the taxation of trade routes?!" George Lucas in February 2025:

German scientists in 1945 filling out their job application for Operation Paperclip

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

Musk pushes out top Treasury official over effort to access US government payment system: report Musk reportedly sought to access the system responsible for paying Social Security benefits and federal contracts

Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth, is rooting around in Social Security and Medicare payment systems.

He’s reaching his hands into our pockets and firing anyone who tries to stop him.

This reeks of corruption — it must stop. www.salon.com/2025/01/31/m...

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

You are doing excellent work. 🙏 Deeply appreciate Teen Vogue in this dark time.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Wow

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️

I'm utterly shocked. How could this have happened?

To be fair, they do look like they could belong to the famously insular european aristocracy of yore.

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.

The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.

The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

I’m a gun owner, and I respect the rights of responsible gun owners. That said, the second amendment will continue to be watered with the blood of children until the laws change.

What if we got billionaires to pay for stuff like this *without* having their names and personal preferences all over it? We could call it...taxes

From Axios Detroit: Our friends at Axios Columbus let us know that after Michigan's win over Ohio State this year, the Ohio House is now hard at work on important legislation, like ... making it a felony to plant a flag on the Ohio Stadium field. (Awful Announcing)

@axios.com reporting (on the obvious fact) that *The* Ohio State University football program is the biggest crybaby loser in the Big 10.

Ballooning child care costs force women out of the workforce - Marketplace The cost of preschool and daycare has risen by about 26% since 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Unable to afford daycare ($25K/year for 4 days), Amber Lord left a job she loved, "I'm just sitting here crying, pregnant, and just feeling like: ‘There’s no village. There is no village. I live in a country where they don’t care.'”
www.marketplace.org/2024/12/11/e...

Fascinating paper. "In eight of the twelve cases under study, inequality was trending downward in the years before the elections that brought to power leaders who moved against democracy."