Amanda Mattos
DMV cat lady. Into human rights. Lots of other stuff too, but that’s a big one.
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- We can’t have someone enforcing the law who isn’t even following the law himself. The American people deserve to know if Tom Homan took $50k from an FBI undercover agent and what he did with the money.
- Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley states people should be able to sue #ICE for violating their civil rights and killing their loved ones.
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- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
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- loser shit
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- WARREN: Last week, Trump said 'we have the groceries going down.' Did grocery prices drop in 2025? BESSENT: Numerous prices have WARREN: Did grocery prices drop in 2025? BESSENT: Numerous grocery prices have gone down WARREN: I'm sorry. I don't know if you can't hear me?
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- Name them shame them
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- Jeff Bezos Changes Washington Post’s Slogan To ‘Love You, Babe’ After Getting Into Fight With Lauren Sánchez theonion.com/jeff-bezos-changes-…
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- My mind runs on this tweet often
- well here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
- Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"
- shot a man in reno just to increase the murder rate for the reno metro area as part of a longterm plan to humiliate the newly elected sheriff who was my boyhood companion until our paths were crossed by a flamehaired girl who laughed like the dawn and how we sparred for her favor until the ague came
- It would be truly incredible if two people could be found who said nice things about Dershowitz behind his back.
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- THIS JUST IN: Trump’s cuts to SNAP have left an estimated 1 million children without benefits Helping children with food insecurities should be one of our nations biggest priorities. His budget bill— Cut $120 Bil from SNAP Gave a “hand out” to DHS of $170 Bil, $75 Bil of it goes to ICE
- I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.
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View full threadAnyway... there might be a reason why one speech reverberated through history. Now, I'm not making this claim myself, and it's difficult to verify. So I'll just quote the man directly: "This is the first instance in the history of the United States that a Black man addressed a white audience."
- I'm not saying ONE SPEECH is SOLELY responsible for 3 HBCUs, an anti-racist town, defeating a federal detention policy or creating one of our greatest poets All I'm saying is: If all this happened literally the FIRST TIME white people listened to Black people... Maybe we should try it again
- It was probably for the best. James & his boss both had some crazy ideas Mary's grandson told his parents he was studying engineering, but James was actually trying to make a living writing poems using his middle name
- James' boss had an even crazier idea He thought the ENTIRE COUNTRY should dedicate an entire week to learning stories like Oberlin Rescue & James Bradley's speech. Carter G. Woodson started Black History Month just after losing his personal assistant, Mary & Charles's grandson... Langston Hughes
- Charles Langston died in 1892. Caroline got married to a guy who was pretty radical and became a school teacher. WHen she got divorced, she sent her son James to live with his grandmother Mary. And he LOVED hearing all these stories about his grandparents' bad-ass crew.
- When Mary's grandson went to Columbia, he wanted to find a crew like his grandma's. But his white classmates weren't as friendly so he dropped out and began writing and working odd jobs. In 1925, he got a job as a personal assistant for a really demanding magazine editor, so James quit his job.
- No one really knows what happned to James Bradley, the man who helped radicalized Oberlin. The Lane Seminary president who lost that debate and the school never got over it. But the Lane debate inspired his daughter to write a series that became a relatively successful book: "Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Lewis Leary was killed during John Brown's raid Mary and Charles Langston eventually got married. They named their oldest son Nat Turner Langston & their daughter Caroline They moved to Kansas, educated escaped slaves at a contrabandcamp & eventually opened the first HBCU west of the Mississippi
