Anna K
@aalk.bsky.social
An east coast elite living in the midwest
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"And if my parents had made a different choice, I wouldn't be here today leading Congress into helpless irrelevancy, providing cover for a brutal American dictator, setting the stage for World War III, and ... hang on, hang on, let me start again."
Mike Johnson: "I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy exactly one year before Roe. A lot of people tried to convince my very young parents that they should just take care of that problem. But I am eternally grateful that they allowed me the chance at life."
January 23, 2026 at 6:41 PM
"And if my parents had made a different choice, I wouldn't be here today leading Congress into helpless irrelevancy, providing cover for a brutal American dictator, setting the stage for World War III, and ... hang on, hang on, let me start again."
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Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
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TIL: There’s an MTV videos-only site: wantmymtv.vercel.app
MTV REWIND - 25,762 Music Videos
Free 24/7 music video streaming. 7 channels spanning 1970s-2025. Zero ads. Zero algorithm. Just press play.
wantmymtv.vercel.app
January 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
TIL: There’s an MTV videos-only site: wantmymtv.vercel.app
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I hope another nation takes over funding. I also hope CBS and Bari are unable to kill 60 Minutes.
White America voted to install the Christian White Nationalist policy overhaul, Project 2025; the 900-pg doc is proudly anti-science and anti-research.
The funding for a potential ✨breast cancer cure✨ has been eliminated b/c White America wouldn’t support the sitting Vice President—b/c she’s Black.
The funding for a potential ✨breast cancer cure✨ has been eliminated b/c White America wouldn’t support the sitting Vice President—b/c she’s Black.
January 1, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I hope another nation takes over funding. I also hope CBS and Bari are unable to kill 60 Minutes.
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My friend Mary was laid off AND diagnosed with breast cancer in the last few months; treatment is going to make it extremely hard to start a new job. She set up a GFM and I am signal-boosting.
gofund.me/1b54a89c7
gofund.me/1b54a89c7
Donate to Support Mary’s Breast Cancer Treatment, organized by Mary Andrews Hanson
I never imagined I would be writing this, but life has taken an unexpected … Mary Andrews Hanson needs your support for Support Mary’s Breast Cancer Treatment
gofund.me
December 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
My friend Mary was laid off AND diagnosed with breast cancer in the last few months; treatment is going to make it extremely hard to start a new job. She set up a GFM and I am signal-boosting.
gofund.me/1b54a89c7
gofund.me/1b54a89c7
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The annual National Art Academy graduation exhibition in Hangzhou is usually much anticipated. This year, some particular entries by a master student called Nie Shichang, stole the show. Inspired by both new tech and the mechanical arts of the Mo Clan. 1/
#arts #culture #mechanics
#arts #culture #mechanics
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The annual National Art Academy graduation exhibition in Hangzhou is usually much anticipated. This year, some particular entries by a master student called Nie Shichang, stole the show. Inspired by both new tech and the mechanical arts of the Mo Clan. 1/
#arts #culture #mechanics
#arts #culture #mechanics
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
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if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom.
going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.
going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom.
going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.
going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.
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“Do you really expect Mamdani to get everything he’s promising done?”
No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment
No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment
October 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“Do you really expect Mamdani to get everything he’s promising done?”
No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment
No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment
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i think editors should occasionally entertain the idea that bannon is just full of shit www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...
Steve Bannon Reveals ‘There’s a Plan’ for Third Trump Term
Bannon divulged that there are “many different alternatives” for securing a third term for Trump.
www.thedailybeast.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
i think editors should occasionally entertain the idea that bannon is just full of shit www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...
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"As of December 10, 2020, 1 in 800 Black Americans had died of COVID-19"
Trump claims that "more than" 1 out of 1,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses over the past five years
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"As of December 10, 2020, 1 in 800 Black Americans had died of COVID-19"
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the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost
Trump raises the price of the ballroom to $350 million
(It changed from $200 million, then $300 million, now $350 million within the course of a few days)
(It changed from $200 million, then $300 million, now $350 million within the course of a few days)
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost
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At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.
OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs
OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.
www.rollingstone.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.
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"Trump is going to invade American cities and bulldoze the White House" would have been seen as an alarmist liberal fever dream thing to say a year ago
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"Trump is going to invade American cities and bulldoze the White House" would have been seen as an alarmist liberal fever dream thing to say a year ago
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Starting to think that bulldozing the White House east wing is the country’s equivalent of giving itself bangs.
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Starting to think that bulldozing the White House east wing is the country’s equivalent of giving itself bangs.
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There's a great Rick Perlstein piece from 2012 basically talking about the connection between the right in general and grift that I highly recommend to anyone interested.
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-l...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-l...
The Long Con | Rick Perlstein
Mitt Romney lies to be loved.
thebaffler.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
There's a great Rick Perlstein piece from 2012 basically talking about the connection between the right in general and grift that I highly recommend to anyone interested.
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-l...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-l...
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Just a reminder that — in the middle of a shutdown — House Republicans are on a paid vacation solely to avoid releasing the Epstein files and lowering your health care costs.
October 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Just a reminder that — in the middle of a shutdown — House Republicans are on a paid vacation solely to avoid releasing the Epstein files and lowering your health care costs.
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we can't get back the men we've 'lost' to these horrific ideologies because we never had them in the first place. it's been 84 years but dorothy thompson still says it best at the end of 'who goes nazi," which you should read if you haven't. the link: harpers.org/archive/1941... . the quote:
October 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
we can't get back the men we've 'lost' to these horrific ideologies because we never had them in the first place. it's been 84 years but dorothy thompson still says it best at the end of 'who goes nazi," which you should read if you haven't. the link: harpers.org/archive/1941... . the quote:
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Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.
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Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
www.stereogum.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes