Amanda W

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

🧵It's time to honor heroes of Consitution. Taking an oath is a commitment to many values, to rights of differences, to human rights, to balancing justice. I love truth tellers. I love integrity. Love over hate. The Christian would not keep his vote to The Constitution. Democracy gives us freedom.

Today is #AdaLovelaceDay #ald26 to highlight and celebrate #womenInSTEM today and throughout history. While they have faced discrimination and been too often forgotten, if you look for them, they were there! Here’s my most recent #sciart portrait and a thread of my scientist portraits. #histsci 🧪

This year’s herb harvest is my biggest yet! I’m so excited to cook with these dried herbs this winter! #TinyJoys #garden #GrowYourFood

I went on a guided bird walk, and learned several things. 1) it’s good to be in the company of other weirdos 2) there is a steep learning curve for binoculars 3) there are lots of birds migrating through my area, and most have yellow feathers and bands on their wings #birds #nature #TinyJoys

#OTD 6 Oct 1917 civil rights and women's rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Mississippi. She defied arrests, white supremacists, and police to vote, then organised to register thousands of other Black people to vote across the South stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

Shocking: Trump officials are offering $2,500 or more to detained teens as young as 14 if they agree to leave the US. Kids also get a memo threatening long detention, and prosecution of noncitizen parents, if they press their legal case: “You will be detained for a prolonged period of time.”

Do you consider yourself a Democrat, a Republican or somewhere in between? Many Americans identify as independents who “lean” toward one of the two major parties, motivated more by opposition to the other party’s policies than support for their preferred party’s policies. #USPolitics

Georgia O'Keeffe, Purple Leaves, 1922 #AutumnWeek

"The benefits of economic stability are invaluable, and guaranteed income is one of the few ways in which that can help to ensure equitable outcomes for marginalized folx who often lack the safety nets of generational wealth largely from stolen Indigenous land and enslaved Black labour." 👀

Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

texans: you still have three days to register to vote

#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

Painting number 6 in the Feline Flows and Poses Collection, "Excuse Me"! This void kitty just demanded to be painted! #blackcat #cat #art #painting #catart

Every person you know who supports Trump openly supports the rape of women & children. You should treat them like a person who supports rape & who are more likely to be rapists themselves.

Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.

It’s LGBTQ+ history month and this is a reminder that the Trump administration has systematically erased trans history from NPS and government websites as part of its coordinated attack on trans rights. 🏳️‍🌈 www.historians.org/perspectives...

Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!

A rare nor’easter storm system that ripped through the East Coast of the United States this weekend was made up to 50 times more likely to happen by the effects of the climate crisis.

With horrific residential school denialism, incl yesterday when white nationalists came to Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc, let us all show up in a good way to honour Survivors on TRC Day Compilation of TRC gatherings in the lower mainland and resources for all ages www.weavingourworlds.ca/truth-and-re...

Today I delivered another 18 bags (225 lbs!) of groceries from White Center Food Bank to 9 neighbors in White Center and Seattle for @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use volunteers with bikes and trailers to bring fresh food every week to folks with mobility and accessibility challenges 🚲 😍

That's just fraud, my dude. Even if you use an AI agent. It's just fucking fraud.

You know who can afford not to know their own address or phone number? Tiny little babies and fucking billionaires. These tech freaks are not normal people and their ideas undermine the lives of normal people. Reject them and their predatory ideology and technology at every opportunity.

Trump removed the Rock under which all the worst of America was concealed, he let the most vile, disgusting, and dangerous elements into the light of day. The bad news is they’re all out, crawling, slithering, defacing, and shitting all over the Constitution. The good news is the rock is gone.🥾 🪳 ⚖️

ICYMI: Illinois is now ranked fourth in the nation for teachers and for workers. We’re moving up in our state, and we’re making sure every Illinoisan is along for the ride.

As our privacy rights continue to crumble, Meta & Kyle make it worse with MetaX glasses. These aren't a fun creator accessory. They're another tool for privatized surveillance. We rejected google glasses a decade ago. We must reject Meta glasses now. My latest: www.qasimrashid.com/p/meta-x-kyl...

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

After a 92-day absence, Sen. Mitch McConnell returned to Capitol Hill on Monday, despite lingering questions about his health and fitness to serve.

A Senegalese college basketball player, Amina Seck, is currently in ICE detention. Seck was travelling with her team to a tournament in New York when she was detained by ICE at Louisville Airport. She has been moved four times since her detention. #wnba eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

Yes, he should. But for the MAGA Republican Party of Trump, he would be.

🚨BREAKING: Democrats are calling on the DHS internal watchdog to open a probe into new whistleblower claims that the agency unlawfully accessed state voting records as part of the Trump administration’s escalating attempts to access state voter data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

Have you lost your SNAP benefits in the last year? We want to hear from you for an upcoming story: https://bit.ly/4h193P1

Mike Rogers couldn't be bothered to show up to the debate, but here's what I would have asked him if he wasn't such a coward:

ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.

I was in naval intelligence in the late 80s/early 90s. I have so many (classified) stories of Soviet stupidity - some harmless, others less so. The US is definitely now the laughing stock. They're an embarassment. Hmm. Maybe that's a sign of where we're headed as a country.

#OtD 15 Sep 1983 Michael Stewart, a 25-year-old Black student, was beaten to death by 10 NYPD officers after being caught painting graffiti. The medical examiner then helped them cover up the murder. No officers were convicted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8745...

New #cat just dropped! 😻 A first in over 100 years, a genomic study in CB by Eduardo Eizirik and team reveals a new species of 'tiger cat'. 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol... Meet the Tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo)! (photo: Fernando Faciole/National Geographic) #cats

49 years ago, on the 18th of September 1977, space probe Voyager I took the first long distance photograph of earth and the moon together from 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometres) away. #otd #history #space 🗃️

This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1