Anna Mason
@annadotmason.bsky.social
Library associate and radio producer
anti-Zionist Jew
Annamasonmedia.com
anti-Zionist Jew
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RIP to the lady who did one of the funniest things in history.
Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname "Monkey Christ".
www.bbc.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
RIP to the lady who did one of the funniest things in history.
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If I were a billionaire I simply wouldn’t be fighting with strangers on the internet on Christmas Eve
December 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
If I were a billionaire I simply wouldn’t be fighting with strangers on the internet on Christmas Eve
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download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
December 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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The thing about censorship — I say this as someone with experience living under authoritarianism — is that it’s rarely overt. The state cracks down when people flirt with the line & then folks maintain it. This 60 minutes cancellation of the episode on CECOT sent chills down my spine.
December 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The thing about censorship — I say this as someone with experience living under authoritarianism — is that it’s rarely overt. The state cracks down when people flirt with the line & then folks maintain it. This 60 minutes cancellation of the episode on CECOT sent chills down my spine.
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Today: Will the Supreme Court accept for review Little v. Llano County, the case on whether the First Amendment applies to public library book challenges? SCOTUS posts orders at 9:30am - Court could grant/deny cert or decide later.
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today: Will the Supreme Court accept for review Little v. Llano County, the case on whether the First Amendment applies to public library book challenges? SCOTUS posts orders at 9:30am - Court could grant/deny cert or decide later.
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
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New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS"
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS"
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
At least twice a week a child comes up to me and asks what K-Pop Demon Hunters books the library has.... the masses demand and it cannot come soon enough
"The Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters" artbook (physical) is coming in 2026.
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
At least twice a week a child comes up to me and asks what K-Pop Demon Hunters books the library has.... the masses demand and it cannot come soon enough
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I’m thankful for wikipedia dot org
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’m thankful for wikipedia dot org
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guys who have no belief in or respect for human rights are becoming oddly invested in whether robots have rights
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
guys who have no belief in or respect for human rights are becoming oddly invested in whether robots have rights
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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic”...
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic”...
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oh is it men's day? i didn't notice because i'm too busy listening to women
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
oh is it men's day? i didn't notice because i'm too busy listening to women
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Whoa what are the odds www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Whoa what are the odds www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
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Elon Musk returned to the White House on Tuesday evening, at a black tie dinner hosted by Donald Trump for the Saudi crown prince, and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS.
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Elon Musk returned to the White House on Tuesday evening, at a black tie dinner hosted by Donald Trump for the Saudi crown prince, and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS.
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NEW — A point of contention in today’s finance committee meeting was Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed corporate head tax.
“These individuals are more interested in protecting… the largest corporations in our city, than protecting working people,” Johnson said.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/mayo...
“These individuals are more interested in protecting… the largest corporations in our city, than protecting working people,” Johnson said.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/mayo...
Mayor Johnson’s message to residents after finance committee rejects budget proposal: ‘Call their alders’ • The TRiiBE
Ald. Pat Dowell’s Finance Committee voted no on revenue options in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2026 budget proposal, which includes a head tax on large businesses.
thetriibe.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
NEW — A point of contention in today’s finance committee meeting was Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed corporate head tax.
“These individuals are more interested in protecting… the largest corporations in our city, than protecting working people,” Johnson said.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/mayo...
“These individuals are more interested in protecting… the largest corporations in our city, than protecting working people,” Johnson said.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/mayo...
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A “dangerous recasting” of McCarthyism as patriotism: PEN America statement on Florida’s new social studies standards that establish a unit on “The History of Communism” for grades 6-12 https://pen.org/press-release/new-florida-curriculum-is-dangerous-recasting-of-mccarthyism/
New Florida Curriculum on Communism is a “Dangerous Recasting” of McCarthyism
(MIAMI)-- PEN America today criticized Florida's new social studies standards that established a unit on “The History of Communism” for grades 6-12, calling it a “dangerous recasting” of McCarthyism as patriotism. PEN America Florida Director William Jo...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A “dangerous recasting” of McCarthyism as patriotism: PEN America statement on Florida’s new social studies standards that establish a unit on “The History of Communism” for grades 6-12 https://pen.org/press-release/new-florida-curriculum-is-dangerous-recasting-of-mccarthyism/
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@jbpritzker.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov
You told a Chicago alderman that local police & ISP were there to protect protesters. Perhaps you need to convey that message to law enforcement at Broadview.
You told a Chicago alderman that local police & ISP were there to protect protesters. Perhaps you need to convey that message to law enforcement at Broadview.
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@jbpritzker.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov
You told a Chicago alderman that local police & ISP were there to protect protesters. Perhaps you need to convey that message to law enforcement at Broadview.
You told a Chicago alderman that local police & ISP were there to protect protesters. Perhaps you need to convey that message to law enforcement at Broadview.
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"What drives people to Chicago public libraries are the materials they want to check out. Circulation rates since 2022 have increased by 17.5%.
Among the nine largest library systems serving populations of over 2M residents, CPL ranks second lowest in terms of spending per resident."
Among the nine largest library systems serving populations of over 2M residents, CPL ranks second lowest in terms of spending per resident."
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
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The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"What drives people to Chicago public libraries are the materials they want to check out. Circulation rates since 2022 have increased by 17.5%.
Among the nine largest library systems serving populations of over 2M residents, CPL ranks second lowest in terms of spending per resident."
Among the nine largest library systems serving populations of over 2M residents, CPL ranks second lowest in terms of spending per resident."