Amanda Smith

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Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong.

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I would be more willing to hear this criticism if there was not a typo in literally the worst spot.

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i’ll tell you what, man, if biden manages to survive and win another term, i hope he and his aides remember that it was mostly the ancient centrists — not the progressives and not the younger dems — who came behind up him with the knives, and that he responds in kind.

notably, “trying to assemble” and “has assembled” are two extremely different things and if he were able to do the latter, his ratshit ass wouldn’t be leaking the former.

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

OPINION: I dropped my toast butter-side down this morning. Why that’s a problem for Biden:

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

Seems cruel that being real fuckin sad has given me a weeklong case of needs-coffee-brain but also had made my stomach too queasy to drink coffee 🫠

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I called Anna Eshoo on Wednesday. I should call Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler again. bsky.app/profile/paul...

Just called Anna Eshoo. My script was just a bit too long to fit in a skeet, so attaching it as an image.

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If you haven’t called your senators and congressperson, take five minutes to ask them to support Liz Warren & AOC’s calls for impeachment of justices and expansion of the court.

#ElizabethWarren

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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.

RIP Benjamin Franklin you would have loved Frasier

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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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MTV, I am Werner Herzog and this is my crib. It is but temporary refuge from nature's fury. The walls were once trees. I made them traitors.

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Are you a registered Democrat? Are you represented by any Dems in the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate? How about your governor? Today is an excellent day to reach out and leave a voicemail about any pressing concerns you may have....

If you're a member of a political party (i.e. a registered voter), and you want to communicate something important to your party's leadership, reaching out to any federal electeds who are also members of your party (congress, senate) or any statewide official (governor) is a way to communicate

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

Did my patriotic duty by pointing, laughing, and yelling “you look like a jackass” as the CT drove by 🫡

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It's pretty interesting what the media decides is front page news and what they don't decide is front page news! Trump being a child sex abuser with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein somehow doesn't merit the same coverage as "unnamed Dem insider has concerns about Biden's age"

I saw this was trending and had to google it "The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts."

Donald Trump, Katie Johnson allegations: Everything we knowwww.newsweek.com Allegations from a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2016 are circulating on social media.

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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.

It's worth googling the Great Smog of London to see how far we've come. Images like this from the 1950s. It was caused in part from burning coal

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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why the fuck not, bernie? whats stopping you

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Trump later appointed this federal prosecutor as his first U.S. Secretary of Labor. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Florida prosecutors knew Epstein raped teenage girls 2 years before cutting deal, transcript showswww.kare11.com Florida prosecutors heard graphic testimony about how Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal, according to transcripts.

The romance of inspiration never changes as a writer - being struck by an idea on an evening walk. Rushing home, brain spinning threads faster than you can remember them. Opening the computer with relish for once, not dread, only to be met with a mandatory software update. Just like Fitzgerald.

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Every so often I miss doing Disaster Girls because cinema like this must be celebrated

Watched this recently. Rated less than 5 on IMDb but didn’t think it was that bad. Kind of an artsy film but was filmed on location in a town not too far from me and we’ve been to the place they holed up in. That was cool. #Oneonta #SecretCaverns www.imdb.com/title/tt1283...

Asteroid (2021)www.imdb.com Cuyle Carvin, Mattie Jo Cowsert, and Miley Rose in Asteroid (2021)

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What you get offered in the men’s room at the LSU game

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Do you remember folks were picketing Supreme Court Justices' homes a couple of years ago? They're back! At Justice Roberts' home today. Short thread with video on Twitter: x.com/LiteraryMous...

Did you know “you have no thumbs/cuz you’re a kitten” fits perfectly the melody of Espresso because my cat now does

If you haven’t called your senators and congressperson, take five minutes to ask them to support Liz Warren & AOC’s calls for impeachment of justices and expansion of the court.

#ElizabethWarren

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the number of consistent investigations of police all over the country that all find misconduct is why we need to abolish them everywhere

Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.wapo.st How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath