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Ana Marie Cox

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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. anamariecox.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 16

This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris

Small Kindnesses
by Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 46m

Wish Johnson cared enough about pregnant people to worry about the hospitals that will turn them away for fear they’ll be prosecuted for performing basic medical procedures.

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 19h

She's watched a bunch of Aaron Sorkin shows.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 19h

AND while it's darkly funny that mentions windmills alongside trans people, that just speaks to the degree he dehumanizes them (uh, trans people).

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Still here 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🫀🫁❤️‍🩹 @canam1954.bsky.social · 1d

Aaaand now I have to repost the umbrella video
Holy fak!! Still great

youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

Sure; but I can't image CBS (even as run by a reactionary) is going to stomach Weiss as a loss-leader! And she doesn't have the tabloid sensibility to keep the news division (whatever that means) afloat as a Fox alternative.

There's not enough caliper-types to make this work, that's main problem.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

And CBS doesn't need Weiss, they can kowtow to Trump in the same ways CNN does here.

But the biggest thing is that if MAGA folks (or just reactionary types) want Free Press-style coverage, they can find it elsewhere. And I don't believe normies WANT FP-esquw coverage.

bsky.app/profile/cnn....

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

1) Her editorial vision will not pease Trump (she's not conserv enough!)
2) The Trump admin will weaken anyway (I do believe he'll be thwarted eventually, or the whole thing will crumble under its own weight)
3) There are not enough rabid reactionary news consumers to sustain a mainstream news org

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

I have a strong sense that Bari's tenure in her current role will be short. She may get moved up or she may exist but I don't think it's sustainable.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

Today in therapy, I realized 1) I am enough, 2) what I do on social media is a kind of influencing, except not through videos and brand deals, just text reminders to eat high protein meals, to charge your phone away from your bedroom as well as cute photos of my dog.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

FYI: There's a Nemik super-edit that's…weirdly powerful? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf60...

Andor: Karis Nemik

YouTube video by SWFT

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

They're going to come for her. She will live to it.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

I regret to inform you that Nemik's manifesto is the new Tom Holland “Umbrella.” You have to repost every time. It’s just where we are. #ihavefriendseverywhere

youtu.be/-asb8zTiuZ4?...

Andor | Karis Nemik’s Manifesto | Disney+

YouTube video by Star Wars

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

NYT’s Ezra Klein: How Democrats Can Reach People Undecided About Taylor Swift

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 1d

NYT's Ezra Klein: Here’s What Democrats Need To Do To Fix Taylor Swift's Album

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Francine McKenna @fmckenna.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I got my first full time newsroom job at MarketWatch at age 53 and a masters degree from University of Chicago at 54.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

I'll allow it.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if "earthly happiness" counts as a life achievement, but at age 50 I met the love of my life, married her, and started a family... all of which was close to a resurrection as happens in real life.

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Jen A. Miller @byjenamiller.bsky.social · 1d

Sister Marion Irvine, who just passed away, started running at 48 years old, when she was a self-described sedentary smoker. When she was 54, she ran in the Olympic Marathon Trials, the oldest athlete to qualify for and compete in them www.runnersworld.com/news/a659959...

Sister Marion Irvine, Elite Masters Runner Known as ‘The Flying Nun,’ Dies at 95

At 54, she was the oldest athlete ever to qualify for and compete in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.

www.runnersworld.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

NYT's Ezra Klein: Taylor Swift's Album Is Good, Actually

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

AMAZING.

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Rick Ellis @allyourscreens.bsky.social · 1d

At age 66, I won the 2024 David Robb Award for Best Investigative Civil Justice Story at the LA Press Club's National A&E Journalism Awards and appeared in the Max documentary "Dark Side Of Kids TV"

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ctznpain.bsky.social @ctznpain.bsky.social · 1d

Age 50: Earned a black belt in Krav Maga

Age 57: Started a successful business with my friends after being laid off.

Age 61: Remarried after nearly 10 years of widowhood

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Russ Bengtson @russbengtson.bsky.social · 1d

think I'd done all of one bike ride over 50 miles before I turned 50 and have now done at least 30 100-milers (a couple under six hours) since

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Mark Sumner 🇺🇦 @devilstower.bsky.social · 1d

Just setting out on my first thru hike next week. 240 miles on the Ozark Trail. At 66.

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