Profile avatar
amyjpetty.bsky.social
886 posts 159 followers 44 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 24 Comments 26

Where does "I thought Donald Trump had shrewd business acumen" fit into this?

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

submitted 5 hours ago • 29 comments

That's kind of the point with a grievance philosophy like Nazism. Your enemy has to be a real group you can scapegoat, but it *cannot* be a group that has any *actual* power, and preferably it has to be small enough that the general public won't recognize them as their neighbors in the community.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I'll believe the trending KGB allegations after I've bothered to see if they're credible. Gotta say though. This is starting to read likely a preteen's badly written first fanfic after watching too much James Bond and Indiana Jones.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Far as I can tell, One Piece is mostly a series of connected stories of horrifying childhood trauma masquerading as a fun pirate adventure story - and I'm definitely hooked. Who knew that such an absurd premise and fucking ridiculous character designs would turn out to have such phenomenal writing?

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

I really want to add with this: USPS is a lifeline for small businesses and many who need it for medication, etc. across this country. This is going to be a terrible move. Let me figure out a specific call for action, but until then: KEEP. CALLING.

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

What concerns me most about the impending news is that I don't think nearly enough people understand that being a nonprofit, Constitutionally guaranteed service is what makes USPS critically valuable. No private carrier will replace that. This will be a huge loss.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Can someone ELI5 how this does not contradict "Medicare, Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched"?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I'm looking at their website: "A person is 100 times more likely to die by lightening[sic] strike than to die by measles." I feel like this is an important question: are they basing this on measles statistics before or after 1963?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 844 comments

"I disagree with McConnell on most policy issues and don’t respect many of his decisions," Perry Bacon Jr. writes. "But no one can deny that Mitch McConnell fundamentally changed American politics — mostly for the worse."

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

submitted 1 day ago • 180 comments

Oh, HEY, this is both really good news (A stronger causative pathway and something we can potentially vaccinate against) and potentially very scary. Alzheimers as a potential Long HCMV. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 572 comments

If it’s a social media post, it might be trolling. If it’s a social media post that becomes an executive order which is the enjoined by a court but continues to be carried out regardless, it is not trolling.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

We can live in a democracy or we can live in a society where billionaires exist. We can't have both.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I find it very hard to believe someone who "always considered herself a Democrat" would suddenly pivot to Trump. That claim warrants interrogation - especially if we're supposed to interpret "considering yourself a Democrat" to mean a specific ideological alignment.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I have a video that does a MUCH better job of showing how bad our roof is leaking right now but Bluesky is being ass about uploading it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It occurs to me that we need to acknowledge that there is a difference between "peaceful" and "nonviolent." Civil disobedience doesn't need to be peaceful at all. It needs to loud, angry, and disruptive as hell.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Still waiting for the deluge of articles admonishing the current administration for not being more conciliatory to the losing side.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 1 day ago • 176 comments

"A kind of dividend." Sure, if you don't actually know what a dividend is, and if you don't understand that passing out a single $5000 check isn't gonna do shit to mitigate the systems-wide collapse we're about to endure. www.fox4news.com/news/5000-do...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The Mississippi Legislature is not a public body and not subject to the state’s Open Meetings Act, a Hinds County Chancery Court judge ruled Tuesday, affirming a 2023 Mississippi Ethics Commission finding.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Wife found a UVA rocking chair on marketplace for $80. Only trouble was the spindles were broken. A few surplus dowels from the bin and an hour later I’ve got a really, really nice rocking chair!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments