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snr news editor @Independent • amberjamieson at gmail dot com • fmr internet culture editor @BuzzFeedNews
Sep 28, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
After Andrew Tate got deplatformed, we asked readers how they'd seen the loved ones in their lives change by listening to these toxic male influencers. Their answers were sad and disturbing: buzzfeednews.com/article/adeoni… One person's brother, who is a huge fan of Kevin Samuels, the godfather influencer of misogynoir, suddenly started being OK with violence against women and hatred against queer people:
Feb 3, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
stumbled across a local sculptor creating a snow t-rex chasing a snowman away! he created this in an hour and a half! instagram.com/thomasbrownaff…
Dec 18, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
i’m literally sitting at the hospital awaiting my second shot as part of a covid-19 vaccine trial and just admitted to the nurses that i wrote about the experience 🥴 read it here! buzzfeednews.com/article/amberj… just got that sweet sweet second shot as part of the astrazeneca covid-19 trial! 🥳🥳🥳

fingers crossed it’s the real deal, fingers crossed we have vaccines available for everyone asap
Dec 17, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
I'm part of a COVID-19 vaccine trial and I wrote about what it's like to be part of, all my conflicted feelings about it and also how I sung "“vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccciiiiiinnnneeeee" after getting the shot: buzzfeednews.com/article/amberj… it felt like a great mix of being selfless — putting my body on the line for science! — and self-serving, cause I could possibly get a vaccine months early. but there were also moments that made me realize how difficult it is to put your trust into the hands of Big Pharma
Nov 6, 2020 43 tweets 13 min read
Back at the Philly convention center, where it’s celebration vibes this morning. “it’s time for this administration to surrender for democracy” declared a speaker at the count every votes protest. “if you come for Philadelphia, we’ll come for YOU” also people are SO quick, this gritty game of thrones meme is like HOURS old
Nov 5, 2020 25 tweets 9 min read
i’m at the Philly convention center today where there are two competing rallies: a few dozen people at a Count Every Vote rally and a handful of MAGA types this man is holding a “sorry polls are closed” sign but declined to speak. his sign is referring to the PA supreme court decision that allows mail in ballots received up to three days after election day to be counted, which SCOTUS declined to hear.
Nov 5, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
i’m in Philly at a rally of hundreds who’ve come out to support counting every vote and also to protest after the release of bodycam footage in the death of Walter Wallace Jr.

“long live Walter Wallace,” they’re chanting. the BLM protest marched to Mayor Jim Kenney’s Old City apartment.

“i’m going to tell jim kenney again: i need you to wake up, shake off, or get the hell out of office,” Gabe Bryant from Black Philly Radical Collective told the crowd.
May 30, 2018 34 tweets 6 min read
I’m at Michael Cohen’s hearing today to get an update on the material seized from him, how the special master is going seeing which docs are covered by attorney-client privilege AND to see if Michael Avenatti, aka Stormy Daniels lawyer, can be involved in the case. Stay tuned! OK so the fight between Michael Avenatti and Michael Cohen’s lawyer and President Trump’s lawyer was VICIOUS. Cohen’s lawyer Steve Ryan called Avenatti’s release of Cohen’s financial info as “a premeditated drive-by shooting of my client’s rights”
Apr 16, 2018 41 tweets 8 min read
I’m at Manhattan federal court for this today! Michael Cohen will be there! And Stormy Daniels! And Trump lawyers! I’m about to lose my phone but will tweet when out, stay tuned! OK finally free to tweet the juicy bits from the Michael Cohen hearing and OMG that was dramatic, it was like an episode of... I have no idea of court room drama since Ally McBeal, but it was juicy. First here’s story w @chrisgeidner on what happened buzzfeed.com/amberjamieson/…
Apr 13, 2018 38 tweets 6 min read
This morning we had Trump’s lawyers, Michael Cohen’s lawyers, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer and the US Attorneys Office all in one courtroom! Exciting! Read about it here: buzzfeed.com/amberjamieson/… Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti sat directly behind Cohen’s lawyer and right in front of all the reporters, and had the whole courtroom whispering at his arrival.