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Anne Libby

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I do not want to be saved by a good billionaire. Stupid white hippie. Newsletter: annelibby.email; it’s about managing people and the workplace.

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Anne Libby @annelibby.bsky.social · Jul 8

tl;dr give to your local foodbank

Early today. I stopped at a church food pantry in an affluent Chicago suburb. 2 hours before the pantry opens, probably 50 people were lined up. I got an earful from the pastor (no she didn't vote for him) on expected shortages, because funding has been cut off.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 12h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Anne Libby @annelibby.bsky.social · 10h

thank you

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Andrew Badr @ab.bsky.social · 12h

I expected iOS 26 to look worse, but not this bad

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Anne Libby @annelibby.bsky.social · 11h

I was going to update tonight...maybe I'll wait?

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 12h

Eclectic Laundry
Eclectic, AL

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 13h

Reminder that this is also happening across many, if not all, of Chicago’s hundreds of suburbs, many of which, like mine, have significant Latino and immigrant populations.

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 17h

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 21h

Marathon in war-ravaged Chicago where participants run for their lives due to the extreme gang violence 😂

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 21h

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 23h

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

nobody-wants-this.ghost.io

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Anne Libby @annelibby.bsky.social · 1d

PSA to DST fans: it's 6:26am CT and still quite freaking pitch dark out there.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

Protect this man

Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 1d

"In a time of darkness, New York must be the light." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social makes a 2-minute ad about transgender rights, while sitting at the Christopher Street Pier in NYC. And yes, I'm crying, too.
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You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

The University of Illinois, which established the world's first wheelchair racing program in 1948, has nine of its 15 team members competing in Sunday's Chicago Marathon, including six-time Paralympic medalist Susannah Scaroni.

University of Illinois wheelchair track produces perennial Chicago Marathon racers

Nine of the team’s 15 athletes are competing in the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, some of whom are Paralympic medalists and racers in numerous marathons worldwide.

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Marc Edwards @marcedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine rivers with the same rights as corporations?

“When it all comes down to it, the river is my grandfather," said CRIT Councilman Tommy Drennan. "I am made of this river."

#AZWater #coloradoriver

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Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river

The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon give their eponymous river personhood status, following moves by other tribes and Indigenous peoples.

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Anne Libby @annelibby.bsky.social · 2d

@upenn.edu?

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Anne Libby @annelibby.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 2d

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

Important content.

Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 17d

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 2d

You get to read the book, *other* people get to read the book, and every interaction like this that you have with your local library sends a message that it is valued and supported by the community.

Apart from everything else, now is a great time to support civic institutions!

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 26d

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but