Anna Meier
@annameier.bsky.social
Union organizer | full-time thorn in your side | your loud queer aunt 🏳️🌈 she/her | itinerant Midwesterner | annameier.substack.com
Solidarity to hundreds of my former comrades at Nottingham out today protesting the destruction of languages and music programs. 🌹
Council is hiding behind locked doors with security guards blocking corridors but they can't escape from the anger of over 200 staff and students condemning management's incompetence and protesting course closures and redundancies.
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Solidarity to hundreds of my former comrades at Nottingham out today protesting the destruction of languages and music programs. 🌹
Abedini has been released!
Horrid news out of Oklahoma about Dr. Vahid Abedini, a professor of Iranian Studies.
The university has refused to make a public comment on Abedini's detention. Folks with OU connections, you know what to do: call OU and demand they take a stand & support Abedini.
The university has refused to make a public comment on Abedini's detention. Folks with OU connections, you know what to do: call OU and demand they take a stand & support Abedini.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Abedini has been released!
Horrid news out of Oklahoma about Dr. Vahid Abedini, a professor of Iranian Studies.
The university has refused to make a public comment on Abedini's detention. Folks with OU connections, you know what to do: call OU and demand they take a stand & support Abedini.
The university has refused to make a public comment on Abedini's detention. Folks with OU connections, you know what to do: call OU and demand they take a stand & support Abedini.
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Horrid news out of Oklahoma about Dr. Vahid Abedini, a professor of Iranian Studies.
The university has refused to make a public comment on Abedini's detention. Folks with OU connections, you know what to do: call OU and demand they take a stand & support Abedini.
The university has refused to make a public comment on Abedini's detention. Folks with OU connections, you know what to do: call OU and demand they take a stand & support Abedini.
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I’ll be traveling this week and my family will be forgoing our usual airport Starbucks.
Please join us in solidarity with the striking workers.
Please join us in solidarity with the striking workers.
Friendly reminder that striking workers are asking you not to patronize ANY Starbucks store.
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I’ll be traveling this week and my family will be forgoing our usual airport Starbucks.
Please join us in solidarity with the striking workers.
Please join us in solidarity with the striking workers.
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Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germ...
Germany is offering asylum to donkeys from Gaza. Gaza’s children? Not allowed.
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than…
mondoweiss.net
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germ...
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gen z is—WHILE SEEKING WORK AMID LAYOFFS/AI FALLOUT—currently: rallying at detention centers and tracking ICE sweeps; organizing mutual aid coordination of funds, food; building code to help people find affordable housing; *still* pushing their universities to divest from weapons manufacturers; +++
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
gen z is—WHILE SEEKING WORK AMID LAYOFFS/AI FALLOUT—currently: rallying at detention centers and tracking ICE sweeps; organizing mutual aid coordination of funds, food; building code to help people find affordable housing; *still* pushing their universities to divest from weapons manufacturers; +++
Friendly reminder that striking workers are asking you not to patronize ANY Starbucks store.
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Friendly reminder that striking workers are asking you not to patronize ANY Starbucks store.
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
Gen Z is organizing and learning and building mutual aid networks and showing up to meetings and getting bodyslammed outside ICE facilities and doing serious work to actually affect the material conditions in their communities (and oh, also, going to No Kings rallies).
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Gen Z is organizing and learning and building mutual aid networks and showing up to meetings and getting bodyslammed outside ICE facilities and doing serious work to actually affect the material conditions in their communities (and oh, also, going to No Kings rallies).
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
Never not thinking about the time an administrator told an international faculty member concerned about encountering ICE that "you don't need to worry because Rümeysa was released so it was all fine in the end."
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Never not thinking about the time an administrator told an international faculty member concerned about encountering ICE that "you don't need to worry because Rümeysa was released so it was all fine in the end."
Mask fully off.
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Mask fully off.
Driving in a part of Boston I haven’t been to before, and Google Maps tells me to turn left on Derby Road, pronouncing it “Durby.”
Me, out loud, involuntarily: Darby.
Living in England ruined me.
Me, out loud, involuntarily: Darby.
Living in England ruined me.
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Driving in a part of Boston I haven’t been to before, and Google Maps tells me to turn left on Derby Road, pronouncing it “Durby.”
Me, out loud, involuntarily: Darby.
Living in England ruined me.
Me, out loud, involuntarily: Darby.
Living in England ruined me.
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"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
Solidarity to student workers at Syracuse, who just ratified their first union contract. They've won guaranteed wage increases, mandatory job training, and a full grievance process. 🌹
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Solidarity to student workers at Syracuse, who just ratified their first union contract. They've won guaranteed wage increases, mandatory job training, and a full grievance process. 🌹
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If you haven’t worked for a university, you might not know that one of the primary ways universities manage sexually violent faculty is promoting them away from students and into power.
It isn’t a coincidence. It’s the system working as designed.
It isn’t a coincidence. It’s the system working as designed.
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If you haven’t worked for a university, you might not know that one of the primary ways universities manage sexually violent faculty is promoting them away from students and into power.
It isn’t a coincidence. It’s the system working as designed.
It isn’t a coincidence. It’s the system working as designed.
I've never understood complaints about "students" as a blob because they are incredible. Just look at what the Student Government Association wrote in support of art profs at Tufts, entirely of students' own volition.
"The SMFA cannot survive without its faculty. Do the work. Honor their labor."
"The SMFA cannot survive without its faculty. Do the work. Honor their labor."
PoPs Letter of Support
Dear Tufts Administration and Tufts Community, The Student Government Association of the School of the Museum of Arts, fellow students, and community members write today in solidarity with the 29 Pro...
docs.google.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I've never understood complaints about "students" as a blob because they are incredible. Just look at what the Student Government Association wrote in support of art profs at Tufts, entirely of students' own volition.
"The SMFA cannot survive without its faculty. Do the work. Honor their labor."
"The SMFA cannot survive without its faculty. Do the work. Honor their labor."
Harvard custodial workers are on strike today! Allies are welcome on the picket line between 10 am and 10 pm in Harvard Yard and 10 am and 5 pm at Harvard Medical School (Longwood Medical Area). 🌹✊
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Harvard custodial workers are on strike today! Allies are welcome on the picket line between 10 am and 10 pm in Harvard Yard and 10 am and 5 pm at Harvard Medical School (Longwood Medical Area). 🌹✊
thinking today for absolutely no reason about the (now retired) economics prof in undergrad who was kind to me as a first-year student and then, upon my return to campus the next year, greeted me with "guess who's now a sexy sophomore"
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
thinking today for absolutely no reason about the (now retired) economics prof in undergrad who was kind to me as a first-year student and then, upon my return to campus the next year, greeted me with "guess who's now a sexy sophomore"
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Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
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"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
West African Woman Attempts Suicide After U.S. Deportation to Non-Native Country
Attorneys say African migrants, deported under controversial U.S. policy, are facing life-threatening danger.
capitalbnews.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
We could call it the white entitlement of being new to an area and claiming you have the right to decide who does and doesn't get to live there, or we could call it racism. The answer is all of the above.
Allston Leaders Demand Response from BU After Student Says He Called for ICE Arrests | News | The Harvard Crimson
Allston residents and Boston University alumni slammed the student president of the Boston University College Republicans after he claimed he had spent months asking Immigration and Customs Enforcemen...
www.thecrimson.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We could call it the white entitlement of being new to an area and claiming you have the right to decide who does and doesn't get to live there, or we could call it racism. The answer is all of the above.
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I don’t know about the sciences but in the humanities these people can’t be separated from their work. There is no way their contempt of other humans doesn’t somehow influence their work and contaminate it from the ground up.
remember the time a prominent political scientist in his 50s had breakfast with a bunch of women grad students in their 20s and told them he understood why profs in small towns dated their students because there "weren't other options" because I do!!!
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I don’t know about the sciences but in the humanities these people can’t be separated from their work. There is no way their contempt of other humans doesn’t somehow influence their work and contaminate it from the ground up.
remember the time a prominent political scientist in his 50s had breakfast with a bunch of women grad students in their 20s and told them he understood why profs in small towns dated their students because there "weren't other options" because I do!!!
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
remember the time a prominent political scientist in his 50s had breakfast with a bunch of women grad students in their 20s and told them he understood why profs in small towns dated their students because there "weren't other options" because I do!!!
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Flabbergasted time and time again at how many men in academia seem to be incapable of following the "do not proposition your students and Junior colleagues to engage in extramarital affairs" rule. It's really not that difficult to follow!
November 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Flabbergasted time and time again at how many men in academia seem to be incapable of following the "do not proposition your students and Junior colleagues to engage in extramarital affairs" rule. It's really not that difficult to follow!