Amy Patricia Meade

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

Yes, It’s Fascism Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

This is the last call for the "Ah, but…" people. Applications will be closing soon
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

British, French and Canadian soldiers returning home from Afghanistan…

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen's note to Starmer after visiting Chequers yesterday.

This u?

I do not like living during the Idiocracy.

Amy Patricia Meade is a native of Long Island, NY, where she cut her teeth on classic films & books featuring Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown.

After serving as a technical writer for a management coaching firm & composing catalog copy for the Vermont Country Store, Amy relocated to England.

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

Yesterday, I did a thing... I spoke with the lovely Michigan Ave. Media Podcast & Book Promo with Marsha Casper Cook. it was a fabulous off-the-cuff conversation.
Thank you Marsha!

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

"no more superficial individual expression"

Hi Paddy. Is there an email address I can share for those authors who wish to participate but who aren't on Bluesky? Thanks! x

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

What I’m wearing to the Rapture.

I'm the VP of our Sisters in Crime Chapter. Let me put it out to them and see what I can do.

*stepping out of a time machine in 2007*

I come from the future - the most consequential men in society are the hosts of the Man Show, Fear Factor, and the Apprentice

An illustration of Agatha Christie in front of a birthday cake with a one, three, and a five candle in it to celebrate her 135th birthday.

Happy 135th birthday to the Queen of Crime. 🎨 Illustration by Helen Green, @helengreeen

Whoa.

Charlie Kirk was not a “free speech activist” and any outlet that tells you he was is lying to you. He wanted unlimited freedom for himself and as little as possible for the people he hated, ie anyone who wasn’t a white male conservative. His values were trash

The Speaker of the House of Representative telling elected civil politicians to "yield" to military force.

A significant moment.

we gave people a magic device in their pockets with access to all the knowledge in the world and they used it to cook their brains with racist memes.

Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.

Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere.

You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.

Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

Karl Marx, Malcolm X, Hannah Arendt, Frederick Douglass, and Emilio Zapata all got married, and obviously I'm not comparing the Double-T brand to them, but I am saying anyone who thinks marriage turns all people into conservatives should also ask what tank rolled over their cranium recently.

As some of you know, I am an absolute, unapologetic Janeite. She is the master.

The worst Austen would do to any adversary would put them in an excruciating 10-page conversation, with a spirited but clumsy younger sister playing on a musical instrument, before a final cutting, devastating silence.