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Amanda Carpenter

@amandacarpenter.bsky.social

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Writer/Editor @protectdemocracy.org. Views are my own.

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@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:13 AM

wow that's a good pun

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:59 AM

sounds about right!

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:59 AM

I mean Guilfoyle grift IS bad but so is shaking down companies for "golden shares," BS "settlements" from media/law firms/academia, aggressive demands for donations to the library and ballroom, and all the crypto/foreign billions for the Trump/Witkoff/Lutnick sons... But who is keeping track.

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:53 AM

Okay, you do you, bud!

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:43 PM

Hey, you don't have to be a *fan* of me to get something out of the piece!

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:48 PM

Curious what the Venn diagram looks like between the MAGA folks who pushed the Schmitt misfire on Jack Smith and those who jumped on the Talarico MIA rumor. Or is it just a circle?

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 5:41 PM

Why is this more than regular nepotism? The scale. The brazenness. The way it’s swallowing the system. It’s a volcanic eruption of corruption and nepotism.

@adamkeiper.comOct 11, 2026, 3:32 PMReposted by @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

NEW: Nepotism + corruption: It's NEPORUPTION. An eruption of neporuption.

From our pal @amandacarpenter.bsky.social.

www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 12:59 AMReposted by @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

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@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:05 PM

Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for willing viewers. Even if you support the death penalty, consider what happens next: Footage of a man being shot to death, pushed into our kids' feeds. It won't be contained. Hope the parents in the Trump Admin are cool with that

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:29 PMReposted by @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

In case you were wondering, they STILL haven't managed to fix the Reflecting Pool, six months after work began

Livestream image taken from the Washington Monument, showing the Reflecting Pool still empty
@atrupar.comOct 7, 2026, 1:51 PMReposted by @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

convicted felon Peter Navarro, who now works in the White House again after serving a four-month sentence, goes on TV with the White House behind him to promote a new product that he'll personally profit from -- a book called "Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison"

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@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:58 PM

Gross

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:40 PM

The TV companies that took our tax money should send it back to the Treasury. It's stolen money. They have no credibility opposing gov't propaganda if they keep it. They should eat their mistake. But the end result here is that Trump still got free-to-him, taxpayer-funded ads.

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:27 PM

The $5k election bribes, taxpayer-funded campaign ads, and Medicare “rebates” are all forms of election interference, btw. The efforts to abuse the power of federal government to tilt the election in his favor are underway. Refuse the offer.

@robertscotthorton.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:17 PMReposted by @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

"Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said [Zhao]. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Zhao has diligently and effectively pursued commercial relations with Trump's sons.

@kalimurray.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 4:31 AMReposted by @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

@amandacarpenter.bsky.social with a great article explaining why the ballroom is just sitting there as an Apportionment Black Hole, no-one has any idea of how it is being funded. It has a great link to: openomb.org, which @protectdemocracy.org is using to track apportionments.

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 7:07 PM

It’s wasn’t me

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 3:55 PM

Trump's campaign offer: What if I give you $5,000? Americans: Still no. There would be something beautiful about voters deciding that even $5,000, or any amount, can't buy their votes. It's an authoritarian, corrupt offer & we don't like it. Thank goodness.

@amandacarpenter.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 12:29 PM

Why is MAGA suddenly enthusiastic about rewriting the history of Watergate? They want to make post-Watergate anti-corruption reform laws go away. If Nixon was never corrupt, those laws were never needed, and Trump and his cronies shouldn't have to abide by them. They are planning ahead.

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