Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) — Bluesky Profile

1 day ago

Intel shareholder claims board gave US an equity stake to avoid Trump’s social media attacks Lawsuit also criticised law firm Skadden for advising both Intel and the government

Lawsuit: The 10 percent/$11 billion stake in Intel given to the U.S. government is an "unlawful contract" granted "for no meaningful consideration in response to extortionary threats by the government."
www.ft.com/content/5506...

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2 days ago

Way to stand firm @davidjbier.bsky.social.
You gave a fantastic answer on illegal orders as well.
www.mediaite.com/politics/you...

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2 days ago

He’s been told by his own allies that SAVE system isn’t reliable, the legislation will hurt his own voters, and he doesn’t have the votes.

He wants a show. And that’s why he’s loading it up w totally unrelated transgender riders.

He wants the Senate to put on all-night round-the-clock talk show.

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2 days ago

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4bAFCQZ

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3 days ago

The case has also rippled through the industry in other ways. On Monday, more than three dozen engineers, scientists and researchers working at rival AI companies Google and OpenAI issued a legal briefing in support of Anthropic.

The employees, who are building Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT software and who signed the briefing in their personal capacities, argued that the Pentagon’s decision created unpredictability across the industry, undermined American competitiveness and stifled legitimate and important debates about AI’s deployment. The signatories included Dean, Google’s chief scientist and a longtime leader of the company’s work on AI. (The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)

“By silencing one lab, the government reduces the industry’s potential to innovate solutions,” the briefing said.

The employees noted that they represent the spectrum of political viewpoints but that they were united in the belief that there must be guardrails around the use of AI to create autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

Some AI competitors are coming together to oppose Trump's strong-arm tactics against Anthropic.

This is a very important development and critical to how a pro-democracy coalition defeats authoritarian threats.

Gift link wapo.st/4dhLr74

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1 week ago

The Universal Constitutional Remedies Act, explained The Universal Constitutional Remedies Act is a state law that allows individuals to sue any official — federal, state, or local — who violates the Constitution in court.

2) Model Universal Constitutional Remedies Act legislation to make federal officers accountable to citizens, just like state and local police officers are.

Press your state to pass one of these bills!!

protectdemocracy.org/work/univers...

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1 week ago

Defending Maine communities from federal surveillance and intimidation Protect Democracy is suing the Trump administration for violating the consitutional rights of Portland residents.

As promised, here are a couple of links to important democracy work I discussed in the pod.

1) The lawsuit against DHS to defend Maine communities from federal surveillance. protectdemocracy.org/work/defendi...

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1 week ago

Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die Trump’s head is stuck in the 80s so he may not have noticed that cable is dying.

It's always a treat to be on @thebulwark.com pod with @timmiller.bsky.social to talk about *everything.*

This was a wide-ranging pod, about the psychology of complicity, to DHS/ICE, media mergers, AI, and....looksmaxxing and MAGA face? Yes, really.

www.thebulwark.com/p/amanda-car...

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1 week ago

Happy Friday! I'm back home after a terrific three-day swing co-hosting The View. Today, I'll be chatting with @timmiller.bsky.social for the main @thebulwark.com pod.

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2 weeks ago

Hungary's leader orders extra security at energy sites, claiming Ukraine plots disruptions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ordered extra security at critical energy infrastructure sites after claiming Ukraine was attempting to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
apnews.com/article/hung...

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2 weeks ago

here we go again. www.nj.com/mosaic/2026/...

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2 weeks ago

DHS accused of using surveillance tech to track legal observers in Maine Maine residents allege that DHS agents threatened to place them on a domestic terrorist watchlist after scanning their faces and license plates.

“I hope you know that if you keep coming to things like this, you are going to be on a domestic terrorist watchlist,” an officer told Hilton, according to the complaint. “Then we’re going to come to your house later tonight.”

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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2 weeks ago

Graphic Header: Maine Residents Sue Government for Violation of First Amendment Rights
Subheader: The case challenges the Trump administration’s intimidation of Maine residents who bear witness to its abuses

NEW: We’re suing DHS for attempting to silence and intimidate Maine residents. From surveillance technology to "domestic terrorist" watchlists, the federal government is unlawfully retaliating against those who dare to document its abuses.
protdem.org/4srJQQP

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2 weeks ago

So Trump illegally confiscated the money, normal consumers paid extra, and corporations get to pocket any refunds.

Lose-lose-lose.

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2 weeks ago

ABC welcomes Amanda Carpenter as a guest co-host on The View from Feb. 23-25

I’m in NYC ahead of the storm, settling in to enjoy The View Monday-Weds this week! ❤️

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2 weeks ago

fair I saw some news stories that described a jump

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2 weeks ago

Thanks to the SCOTUS decision, we can assign a clear cost to Trump's authoritarianism.

Because of him, the gov't confiscated money that wasn't theirs.
His policies need undoing. We need the money back.

Bring on the Great Authoritarian Undoing

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3 weeks ago

*Alan Dershowitz* had the audacity in 2019 to demand @jkbjournalist.bsky.social be denied a Pulitzer for her Epstein work. www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14003/pulitz...

Julie was right. The victims were right

Julie's relentless, heroic journalism should be recognized. Give her the damn Pulitzer.

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3 weeks ago

Yes.

Give Julie her Pulitzer.

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3 weeks ago

thx for watching and the note

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3 weeks ago

Perfect visual of a president who openly, flagrantly believes he is above the law.

I can’t wait to tell our kids about how we stopped the autocrats.

This just gave me a huge boost of new energy.

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3 weeks ago

Incredible ty this made my day

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3 weeks ago

One of Trump’s biggest tricks is making the supposed free speech absolutists gag themselves.

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3 weeks ago

Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Amid FCC Scrutiny, Posts Interview on YouTube Instead Stephen Colbert explained on Monday night’s Late Show that CBS lawyers told him “in no uncertain terms” that he could not have James Talarico, a Democratic Texas state representative currently running...

Gutsy of Colbert to tell viewers that CBS is complying in advance.

“at this point, [Carr has only] released a letter that says he’s thinking about doing away with the exception—but my network is unilaterally enforcing it as if he had."

latenighter.com/news/late-sh...

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3 weeks ago

Free speech for everyone!*

*Except Democratic senators, candidates, Don Lemon, ICE protesters, college students, colleges, law firms, TV hosts, judges, and anyone else Trump’s DoJ/FCC/DoE/DHS feels like targeting.

Do I have that right?

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3 weeks ago

GINA CHRIST: “My name is Gina Christ. And I live in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

I was on my way to work.

There’s people all around my car. I have both hands up on either side of my face — you cannot hear me.

An ICE agent breaks my driver’s side window, glass, reaches in, opens my door, pulls me out of the door, tells me to get on the ground, zip-ties me — and now gas, flashbangs, pepper spray.

There was no need. They detoured to grab me. They could have continued to drive. Their cars were past my car. They passed my car, jumped out of their cars, apprehended me, and kept going.

Once I was detained, it was very like, ‘Do you have water? Are you comfortable? How’s the heat?’ It was a very schizophrenic experience.

I mean, this is insane. This isn’t anything that could minutely be referred to as a couple of bad apples.”

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ALIYA RAHMAN: “My name is Aliya Rahman. I was born in Northern Wisconsin, grew up in Bangladesh. I now live in Minneapolis.

I came upon a traffic jam that I pretty quickly realized was ICE.

I was told: ‘Move. I will break your effing window.’ And I couldn’t get a clear answer to where they wanted me to move to.

Very quickly, I was pulled out of that car. I fell twice — once right outside the car, and once behind the car face down.

I am disabled. I am autistic. I have a brain injury. And when I hit that ground face first, I just experienced shooting pain through my neck, through my head. My vision became blurry.

What happened to me in detention was far worse than what happened to me on camera. What happened to me in detention was a complete stripping of my rights.

Nobody knew I was there. I wasn’t told where I was going. I wasn’t given a phone call. And I’m going unconscious and I’m wondering — is this it? They call us bodies. Is this it for me? Am I going to die?

I want to live in a country where people who are enforcing the law treat people humanely.”

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3 weeks ago

GEORGE RETES: “My name is George Retes. I was born and raised here in Ventura, California. I’m 26 years old and I am an Iraq combat veteran.

I was going to work like normal. I show up. ICE is there. There’s kind of like a roadblock. I get out. I identify myself — that I’m a U.S. citizen, that I’m just trying to get to work.

I’m trying to leave. I’m getting ready to leave and they surround my car, start banging on it, start shouting these contradictory orders.

Even though I was giving them no reason, they still felt the need to — one agent knelt on my back and another agent knelt on my neck. And during that time, I’m just pleading with them that I couldn’t breathe.

I was in isolation. I was in basically this concrete cell. I was stripped naked in like a hospital gown. And they leave the lights on 24/7.

They just came out and they said that I was violent and that I assaulted agents. Why lie when it’s on video of everything that happened? Why lie?”

PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.

Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...

I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3

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3 weeks ago

This dude is what our community is all about.

Worth the click. New Jersey man explains why he came out to protest for the first time in his life. www.reddit.com/r/thebulwark...

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