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amandamull.bsky.social
Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
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My mom helped run a Social Security field office for most of my childhood. The population that these locations serve is overwhelmingly disabled, elderly, poor or some combination thereof. That’s who they’re looking to deny services and resources.

submitted 21 hours ago • 43 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 197 comments

For the latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the booming business of American med spas, which are in some ways the vape shops of the healthcare world: 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Oh, you don’t wanna be in trouble with that woman with that accent

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Mom, come pick me up, they're coming up with the silliest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

also even a lot of high-info people are under the impression that the mechanism is primarily that we’re giving bags of money to Foreign rather than buying a bunch of American Stuff and shipping it to Foreign

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 857 comments

Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

Nothing against vaping (it’s great harm reduction and I’ll fight for it), but “vape shops of the healthcare world” does accurately convey how med spas might have some legit offerings but often flirt a little too much with unscrupulous (& unsafe) practices in order to make a quick buck off people

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Most of the people quoted here *are Republicans* afraid of death threats *from their own party leader.* www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 298 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1005 comments

I know we’re in unprecedented times but I truly have never seen anything like this ratio

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: Nearly half of likely U.S. voters — as well as two-thirds of Democrats and half of independents — say that Elon Musk has made them less likely to get a Tesla. That’s a big rise from similar polls in 2023, which had found Elon made adults *more* likely to go Tesla. heatmap.news/politics/mus...

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

that feel when you can literally get botox & lip fillers at a med spa with your campus cash card & go to class within the same hour but can’t get health insurance through the same college

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!

submitted 3 days ago • 179 comments

For the latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the booming business of American med spas, which are in some ways the vape shops of the healthcare world: 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 237 comments

Every pod scene in this season of Love Is Blind so far

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

I've been covering billionaires for 6+ years. Now I'm covering DOGE and more. A thread of 🎁stories I worked on this week. Signal is in my bio. First off: DOGE has been dismantling the Education Department for a week+ : www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

A FOIA Files SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE Targets #FOIA Requests at Agency Under its Purview DOGE also wants to be notified when there’s any attempt at oversight from Congress, inspectors general, even the Government Accountability Office. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

If you wanna blow up the bomb that was implanted in lots of millennial women’s brains 15 years ago…do “How to Save a Life” at karaoke

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

This is a wild story (and this is a gift link to it). www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

submitted 9 days ago • 212 comments

They promised grocery prices would fall. I told you they were lying. Now they're either not talking about grocery prices, or “softening” their tone. Lemme translate: Grocery prices aren't coming down. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

this is the best diagnosis of the behavior I've been encountering on here lately. these people think I'm a facebook page! I'm not a page, I'm a guy!

submitted 11 days ago • 149 comments

From @theathletic.bsky.social: The legalization of sports gambling has led to players being harassed online like never before. Knicks star Jalen Brunson said his family, including his months-old daughter, have been threatened. They call him racial slurs. They demand money. nyti.ms/3WXB53u

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

This data is only useful if you can compare it to a control group you polled before Trump was president. I bet they didn't feel this way 6 months ago.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Really smart column by @chaykak.bsky.social: Musk is "smuggling into our federal bureaucracy the seeds of a new authoritarian regime—techno-fascism by chatbot." www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 11 days ago • 334 comments

NEW: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing dozens of employees right now. @makenakelly.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social with the scoop www.wired.com/story/dozens...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments