Anne Libby
@annelibby.bsky.social
I do not want to be saved by a good billionaire. Stupid white hippie. No, the tent should not be that big. 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.
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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If you only read one thing about the Pantone Color of the Year, it *must* be this!
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
If you only read one thing about the Pantone Color of the Year, it *must* be this!
A day on this website without Olivia Nuzzi is apparently a day without
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December 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A day on this website without Olivia Nuzzi is apparently a day without
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As a DOJ attorney said in court yesterday, the feds aren't done with their deportation campaign in the Chicago area.
At least 2 Chicagoland rapid response teams confirmed immigration agent activity today. Videos emerging online corroborate Border Patrol presence in Cicero, IL this morning.
At least 2 Chicagoland rapid response teams confirmed immigration agent activity today. Videos emerging online corroborate Border Patrol presence in Cicero, IL this morning.
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
As a DOJ attorney said in court yesterday, the feds aren't done with their deportation campaign in the Chicago area.
At least 2 Chicagoland rapid response teams confirmed immigration agent activity today. Videos emerging online corroborate Border Patrol presence in Cicero, IL this morning.
At least 2 Chicagoland rapid response teams confirmed immigration agent activity today. Videos emerging online corroborate Border Patrol presence in Cicero, IL this morning.
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I love a little “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” conversational snow.
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I love a little “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” conversational snow.
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A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"
As many of my peers/friends go through this -- parents who could have made decisions about their care/living situations when they were in good shape (lolsob) -- I can't help but see the same dynamics playing out in our government-by-gerontocracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
As many of my peers/friends go through this -- parents who could have made decisions about their care/living situations when they were in good shape (lolsob) -- I can't help but see the same dynamics playing out in our government-by-gerontocracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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On CyberMonday I bought a head of celery from Amazon for 85 cents. I figure there's no way he made money on that one. Finding Amazon loss leaders could be a new hobby.
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
On CyberMonday I bought a head of celery from Amazon for 85 cents. I figure there's no way he made money on that one. Finding Amazon loss leaders could be a new hobby.
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
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They can pull masks over their face all they want, eventually we will have their employment records.
Dems in Congress should start demanding the list of names of all ICE “agents”. These people seem to walk more carefully when they know consequences may be around the corner.
December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
They can pull masks over their face all they want, eventually we will have their employment records.
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Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
Pretty sure we were hearing AI holiday songs in a Shake Shack today. Danny, please say it ain't so.
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Pretty sure we were hearing AI holiday songs in a Shake Shack today. Danny, please say it ain't so.
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I love this warning system: report icy conditions to your traffic app to warn people ICE is around.
People of New Orleans! Do you see ICE agents in action. Report it on Waze as "Icy Conditions." Keep people in the loop.
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I love this warning system: report icy conditions to your traffic app to warn people ICE is around.
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If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor: 9780525554882 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
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"We're sorry for your loss. Are there any services you'd like to add?" This is an increasingly normal experience for people canceling the accounts of loved ones who've died. It shouldn't be. My story www.nextavenue.org/were-sorry-f... for @nextavenue.bsky.social w/ @markhurst.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"We're sorry for your loss. Are there any services you'd like to add?" This is an increasingly normal experience for people canceling the accounts of loved ones who've died. It shouldn't be. My story www.nextavenue.org/were-sorry-f... for @nextavenue.bsky.social w/ @markhurst.bsky.social
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Hard disagree. The official BLS jobs numbers are still the most reliable data we have, and it's not close. And there's no way the Administration has (yet) fiddled with its data. I promise to let you know at the first whiff of interference.
The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hard disagree. The official BLS jobs numbers are still the most reliable data we have, and it's not close. And there's no way the Administration has (yet) fiddled with its data. I promise to let you know at the first whiff of interference.
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BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars.
gothamist.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
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Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now.
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now.
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
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This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
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Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
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Y’all, I finally read @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s book “There is No Place for Us” and it was one of the most important, devastating books I’ve read in a long time. It reminds me so much of Barbara Ehrenreich’s work. Everyone in America needs to read this book.
#booksky #skybrarian
#booksky #skybrarian
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Y’all, I finally read @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s book “There is No Place for Us” and it was one of the most important, devastating books I’ve read in a long time. It reminds me so much of Barbara Ehrenreich’s work. Everyone in America needs to read this book.
#booksky #skybrarian
#booksky #skybrarian
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Great Lakes found all the missing rainfall.
SYSTEM SNOW TOTALS: Here is a look at the widespread snow totals for the *system* snow that impacted the area much of Saturday. This does NOT include the lake effect that is coming down now (and will intensify later today).
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Great Lakes found all the missing rainfall.
oof this thread
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
oof this thread
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White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby
WASHINGTON—Describing the practice as a “fun little side project” rather than an occupation, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Monday that nursing would be reclassified as a hobby under new ...
theonion.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby
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It looks to me as though the #NoKings protests maybe had an effect? Just maybe? Or else a pretty remarkable confluence of forces and events. @indivisible.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It looks to me as though the #NoKings protests maybe had an effect? Just maybe? Or else a pretty remarkable confluence of forces and events. @indivisible.org