Amy Keller

#ConsumerProtection and #Privacy attorney with @DiCelloLevitt. Board member of @Public_Justice. Fan of dogs and democracy. My tweets. Go Blue! Nazis are bad.

[Amy Keller @amyekeller]

@RepNancyMace This is literally not a thing.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Amy Keller @amyekeller]

I’m not a religious person, but he’s got a point.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Amy Keller @amyekeller]

@GeraldoRivera @lawindsor “Commit crimes for me. I’ll pardon you and reimburse you your legal expenses.”

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@NewsHour

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@chiky_handlr “I know nothing about it,” yet it was created in lieu of the settlement of his lawsuit. So….?

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@EricLDaugh

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@WhiteHouse

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

8:06 AM. The man whose name is on a book I wrote posted: "A whole civilization will die tonight."

I am a ghostwriter. In 1987, I wrote the most famous business book in American history.

Half the advance. Half the royalties. Eighteen months in his office, listening to his phone calls. He would flatter, threaten, hang up, and call the next person the greatest. I wrote it all down. I made it sound like strategy.

Chapter 1 was about thinking big. I wrote that about condominiums.

This morning, at 8:06 AM, the man whose name is on the cover posted seven sentences to a social media platform. The first: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

That is Chapter 1.

I wrote that about condominiums.

Chapter 3 was about leverage. "The best thing you can do is deal from strength." The example was a zoning board. The technique was implying you had options you didn't have.

He is using Chapter 3 on a strait that carries 20% of the world's oil. The zoning board is a shipping lane. The leverage is a navy.

I invented a phrase for him. "Truthful hyperbole." An innocent form of exaggeration, I wrote. A very effective form of promotion.

I was describing how he inflated square footage.

Thirteen thousand targets struck. Two thousand and fifty-six dead. Twenty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven wounded.

I wrote "truthful hyperbole" about square footage.

Chapter 4 was about timing. When to make the call. When to let them wait. When to close. I was describing a contractor negotiation.

He paused the bombing for Easter. Resumed it Monday. His Defense Secretary compared the rescue of a downed pilot to the resurrection of Christ. Shot down on Good Friday. Hidden in a cave on Saturday. Rescued as the sun rose on Easter Sunday.

I wrote about timing. I was describing when to return a phone call.

At the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, while children hunted eggs, he told the cameras: "We are obliterating their country. And I hate to do it, but we are obliterating."

Chapter 2 was about promotion. I wrote that about how to sell a building.

A reporter asked if destroying every bridge in a nation of 88 million constituted war crimes.

Three words: "Not worried about it."

A journalist reported a downed pilot missing behind enemy lines. He threatened to jail the reporter. I looked through the manuscript. There is no chapter on press freedom. There is no chapter on international law. There is no chapter on what happens when the contractor you're threatening is a civilization.

I didn't write those chapters. I was writing about real estate. He didn't notice they were missing. He doesn't read.

Someone asked if God supported the war. "God is good."

There is no chapter on theology either.

Chapter 7 was about knowing when to walk away. I described a stalled deal. The lesson was patience.

He walked away from every alliance his country had built in eighty years. Forty countries formed a coalition to guard the strait because nobody answered the phone.

In my journal, in 1986, I wrote: "All he is is 'stomp, stomp, stomp' — recognition from outside, bigger, more, a whole series of things that go nowhere in particular."

Forty years. Nothing has changed except the size of the things being stomped.

I know he never read the book. Eighteen months together, I never saw one on his desk. Not mine. Not anyone's. The man whose name is on the most famous business book in American history has never read a book.

He didn't need to. It was never a manual. It was a mirror. He looked at the cover — his name, in gold, larger than the title, as he'd requested — and saw everything he needed.

"A whole civilization will die tonight."

Seven sentences. 8:06 AM. A Tuesday.

I called it truthful hyperbole.

He is calling it foreign policy.

I built the mythology. He added a military.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo XIV appeals for peace in the Middle East and recalls that attacks against civilian infrastructure are against international law.

https://t.co/UwvAtGgcOw

[camillao 🕊️💙 @Mar90490]

“A whole civilization will die tonight,” said Donald Trump.

Here is Pope Leo’s full response from Castel Gandolfo tonight. Once again, a moral compass.

[Amy Keller @amyekeller]

@RepNateMoran @SageHillfarms I would urge you to do something more than tweet your disapproval.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

If anyone looked right beneath the surface, they’d be able to see that Red Lobster’s real downfall was not offering endless shrimp — it was private equity’s endless greed.

[Amy Keller @amyekeller]

@SenWarren Time to end mandatory, binding arbitration in customer agreements ONCE AND FOR ALL. Allow private, civil lawsuits to do what the government refuses to do.

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