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Amanda Mecke

@readtosurvive

A Literary Agent/Book Coach with 45 years experience in both U Press and trade publishing, UCLA English PhD, Pitzer College BA, dog parent, teacher, married LGBTQ advocate. Democrat as long as this GOP exists. Independents, please pick a side.

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These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

07.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 288 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 2362 πŸ” 1738 πŸ’¬ 171 πŸ“Œ 494

They nonetheless resent kids who think they should have affordable schools, and housing, and parents who can work only one job, feed them well, and afford to have doctors for the whole family.

07.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜My scientific career is essentially over.’ A brain drain imperils Massachusetts’ biomedical future. In a first-of-its-kind survey, the Globe asked hundreds of scientists about the impact of federal funding cuts.

www.boston.com/news/the-bos...

Empty labs, empty classrooms, will set American medical discoveries back for a decade. Once laid off, no longer in research in the US is no way to heal the sick with new discoveries that take 5-8 years to get commercial investment.

07.03.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bloody hell. Italy beat England in the Six Nations!

07.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5

Further Right is proud Nazi.

07.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œLike I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”

That’s what the President of the United States is saying to the American people.

He won’t be hurt by a retaliatory attack or high gas prices. But you will β€” and that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make.

06.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 5840 πŸ” 1790 πŸ’¬ 292 πŸ“Œ 96
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NASHVILLE BANNER on Estefany RodrΓ­guez: β€œA reporter who faced death threats in her home country could now be sent back by ICE.”

Her attorneys allege its retaliation for her NASHVILLE NOTICIAS reporting on ICE.

www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ma...

07.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 804 πŸ” 380 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 8

β€œWe” didn’t blow it up, radical conservatives did, the Heritage Foundation did, Project 2025 did, Elon Musk and DOGE did. It’s important to identify the perpetrators that gutted the State Department by name.

07.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

While hungry children without SNAP or free lunch at school are punished as frauds?

07.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate β€” and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

06.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 16116 πŸ” 7250 πŸ’¬ 520 πŸ“Œ 369

I remember Michelle’s very clear warning about how angry the frightened enemies of our β€œWoke” joy get.

07.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhen will we ever learn?”

07.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Makes me miss San Miguel where my friends are visiting again after a long time.

07.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when we had a functional Democracy!

07.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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According to a federal court, Trump's IRS illegally shared confidential taxpayer information with ICE 42,695 times.

07.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 1375 πŸ” 687 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 30

You can’t move voters who believe it would be embarrassing to them to admit they were lied to.

06.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

06.03.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 24210 πŸ” 6962 πŸ’¬ 523 πŸ“Œ 418
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Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike US military, AP sources say Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region.

apnews.com/article/trum...

Russia wants Iran Oil too, and they won’t care about US or Arab casualties.

06.03.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's the Law Dork filing you can't access on PACER. All of this refugee case's filings should be online. A magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for online access to the docket in a significant refugee rights case in Minnesota. Law Dork's lawyers filed their objection on Tuesday.

www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-o...

Without National remote access to Minnesota cases, Immigration lawyers cannot file protests in other States onnthe same grounds.

Expense is no excuse.

β€œThis court should join the courts across the country that have recognized the need to increase public access.”

06.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Starfleet Academy Director Jonathan Frakes Says Fan Hate Is β€˜Dimensionally More Painful’ Today Than in the Next Generation Years - IGN The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s first season was a big one for many reasons, including that it was directed by Captain William Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes. Ahead of next w...

www.ign.com/articles/sta....

Kirk was a WW II War Baby, a Vietnam Vet, Spock was a mixed-race American Buddhist. Voyager was the Boomer exile of Reagan-Bush Deep Space Nine, Obama-and Trump the Discovery Burn.
Starfleet Academy is what we could have had with Harris.

Caleb is Uhura’s grandchild.

06.03.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I couldn’t agree more. And I was guilty about my German great grandparents even though my Dad and Two Uncles fought on WW II.

05.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s been the goal that got him his biggest donors.

05.03.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"

04.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 5271 πŸ” 592 πŸ’¬ 235 πŸ“Œ 57
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This is how you write a goddamn headline.

05.03.2026 06:53 πŸ‘ 16186 πŸ” 2934 πŸ’¬ 437 πŸ“Œ 138

It was Fox after all, a drone of propaganda that will make me leave any shop or gym that has it on.

05.03.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

05.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 20110 πŸ” 5695 πŸ’¬ 513 πŸ“Œ 220

Gotta watch out for tax forgiveness to keep real estate high in London!

05.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

05.03.2026 11:54 πŸ‘ 23639 πŸ” 9052 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 193

So far

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