Ana Marie Cox
@anamariecox.bsky.social
Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
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My Health Care Horror Story
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Wrote about my weekend with the anti-vaxxers. newrepublic.com/article/2029...
My Weekend With the Anti-Vaxxers
At the Children’s Health Defense conference, conspiracy meets community—and a vaccine-rejection movement gains ground without ever winning majority support.
newrepublic.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Wrote about my weekend with the anti-vaxxers. newrepublic.com/article/2029...
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at the end of the day I just feel like, if I was *going* to have learned what felching was from the Secretary of Health and Human Services, that the context around that lesson should have been entirely different
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
at the end of the day I just feel like, if I was *going* to have learned what felching was from the Secretary of Health and Human Services, that the context around that lesson should have been entirely different
Reposted by Ana Marie Cox
Ahead of Thanksgiving and amid frustration among American consumers over affordability, President Trump has recently insisted, often wrongly, that prices and costs were coming down. Here is a fact-check of some of his recent claims.
Fact-Checking Trump’s Latest Claims on Affordability
The president has made misleading statements about the cost of a Thanksgiving meal, breakfast and gasoline and about prices in general.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ahead of Thanksgiving and amid frustration among American consumers over affordability, President Trump has recently insisted, often wrongly, that prices and costs were coming down. Here is a fact-check of some of his recent claims.
Reposted by Ana Marie Cox
An argument that didn’t work for Calley at My Lai, that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
An argument that didn’t work for Calley at My Lai, that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg
HUCKLEBERRY
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November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
HUCKLEBERRY
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Minneapolis: I had to leave this perfect croissant at home, so please come and enjoy my show tonight!!! Tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Minneapolis: I had to leave this perfect croissant at home, so please come and enjoy my show tonight!!! Tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
This kind of investigation (and a few wonderful columnists) is why I won't let go of my Times subscription and why I don't believe newsletters can replace legacy media—and I'm not sure they're even alternative. They're a supplement. Nothing can replace a well-funded newsroom.
I’m very glad The New York Times commissioned this research by Harvard. It’s the first look at how the Medicaid will hammer urban community hospitals. The Harvard research itself says 109 hospitals are most at risk, but I don’t see a link to the list? hsph.harvard.edu/health-quali...
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This kind of investigation (and a few wonderful columnists) is why I won't let go of my Times subscription and why I don't believe newsletters can replace legacy media—and I'm not sure they're even alternative. They're a supplement. Nothing can replace a well-funded newsroom.
Reposted by Ana Marie Cox
Sir Newton(nu-nu) 🐕🦺
Young male Pekingese
Adoptable from Dallas Animal Welfare Group (Dallas, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/sir-newtonnu-nu-79601003/tx/dallas/dallas-animal-welfare-group-tx2385/
Young male Pekingese
Adoptable from Dallas Animal Welfare Group (Dallas, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/sir-newtonnu-nu-79601003/tx/dallas/dallas-animal-welfare-group-tx2385/
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sir Newton(nu-nu) 🐕🦺
Young male Pekingese
Adoptable from Dallas Animal Welfare Group (Dallas, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/sir-newtonnu-nu-79601003/tx/dallas/dallas-animal-welfare-group-tx2385/
Young male Pekingese
Adoptable from Dallas Animal Welfare Group (Dallas, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/sir-newtonnu-nu-79601003/tx/dallas/dallas-animal-welfare-group-tx2385/
Austin friends! A reminder that I'm hosting a "paperwork party" today in South Austin. Body-doubling is a key hack for us spicy-brained folks. Come join if you can!
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PAPERWORK PARTY, Sun, Nov 23, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
Join us for our monthly support group meeting for people that have trouble getting stuff done because of guilt or dread or accumulated inertia. Bring your computer or whate
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November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Austin friends! A reminder that I'm hosting a "paperwork party" today in South Austin. Body-doubling is a key hack for us spicy-brained folks. Come join if you can!
www.meetup.com/austin-midli...
www.meetup.com/austin-midli...
Why are they eating in front of dumpster?
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Why are they eating in front of dumpster?
Telling working-class people that dressing well is the the key to improving physical well-being isn't a funny by-product of fascism, it's part of the process.
"Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves." — Walter Benjamin
"Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves." — Walter Benjamin
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Telling working-class people that dressing well is the the key to improving physical well-being isn't a funny by-product of fascism, it's part of the process.
"Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves." — Walter Benjamin
"Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves." — Walter Benjamin
Elvis was a hero to most/but he never meant shit to me..
I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sitting on the dash board of my car
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sitting on the dash board of my car
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Elvis was a hero to most/but he never meant shit to me..
Loving Death by Lightning but when Bradley Whitford starts giving savvy media analysis in an old timey beard it ALMOST tips into an SNL West Wing parody. (Let Garfield be Garfield!)
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Loving Death by Lightning but when Bradley Whitford starts giving savvy media analysis in an old timey beard it ALMOST tips into an SNL West Wing parody. (Let Garfield be Garfield!)
Litmus test for the next person person I match with will be how they respond to “I really like that new Garfield show.”
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Litmus test for the next person person I match with will be how they respond to “I really like that new Garfield show.”
I was out on a walk during the first half and was pleased to see the score when I got back but then I read the play by play….
@sickoscommittee.org Outside of typical Sickos interest, but may I present the TCU Houston second quarter for your viewing pleasure
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I was out on a walk during the first half and was pleased to see the score when I got back but then I read the play by play….
I gotta get the Substack mention corrected.
Heh. “The political commentator Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox.bsky.social) wrote a withering Substack post offering detailed edits of ‘American Canto.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
In This Scandal, the Journalists Are the Story
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I gotta get the Substack mention corrected.
Is someone going to take the bullet (lol) and post the screenshots?
okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Is someone going to take the bullet (lol) and post the screenshots?
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Woke 2 shows up at Game Day. #starbucksboycott
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Woke 2 shows up at Game Day. #starbucksboycott
I think this piece is a good companion to my alt-universe editor’s note.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I think this piece is a good companion to my alt-universe editor’s note.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Love this parallel.
"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Love this parallel.
This made me think of this study on “pathological infinity sets.”
www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This made me think of this study on “pathological infinity sets.”
www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
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This is just to say
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldn’t not
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldn’t not
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This is just to say
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldn’t not
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldn’t not
I can tell I'm in a bad mood because I'm irritated at the outrage over Trump's "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR" tantrum. Yeah, my morning brain snarks, *we got him now.*
I have to remember that at any point, my doomerism is a reflection of my internal state. Including not enough coffee.
I have to remember that at any point, my doomerism is a reflection of my internal state. Including not enough coffee.
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I can tell I'm in a bad mood because I'm irritated at the outrage over Trump's "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR" tantrum. Yeah, my morning brain snarks, *we got him now.*
I have to remember that at any point, my doomerism is a reflection of my internal state. Including not enough coffee.
I have to remember that at any point, my doomerism is a reflection of my internal state. Including not enough coffee.