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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 6d

I edited some of her college newspaper “columns” when we were 18 and it was literally just this inane shit the whole time. Relatable when you’re 18! Kind of shocking when 22 years pass and your brain doesn’t develop

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 7d

::dramatic sigh:: no, it's more complicated than that. (And honestly--more hopeful for authors)
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The publishing industry has something more complicated than "a gambling problem"

On chaos theory, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, and the peril of neat explanations

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 12d

So is anyone organizing a “line the highways to Quantico with signs that say REMEMBER YOUR OATH” get together next week or

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 12d

Having grown up in and around it, I never thought I’d feel sorrow or nostalgia for the “Mark Leibovich’s THIS TOWN” DC that just took its last agonal breath with Bob Barnett’s death, but here we are

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 12d

This is one of those "incoming frenzy" moments of transition in the literary agent profession. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Robert Barnett, a consummate Washington dealmaker, dies at 79

The Williams & Connolly lawyer, a Democrat who worked both sides of the aisle, became a go-to fixer for Washington book deals.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 13d

Can i cram this in between the halves of a Bodo’s salt bagel?

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 13d

Please protect us, thank you

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 13d

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13d

It’s so depressing watching the dumbest people in America drive this country into a ditch …. Again

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 15d

Yes!!! It’s like death!

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 15d

Carrie Coon following *me* on Twitter was like the only reason I stayed as long as I did 😭

Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 16d

I have been to Saskatchewan once in my life, and I all but started screaming in dread the second I got off the plane. Was I murdered on a large plain in a past life or something? It is the weirdest thing.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 16d

Tell me why my brain registers no fear at the prospect of climbing 1000+ feet, but the flatness of the surrounding landscape scares the shit out of me. I am not kidding!! IT’S TOO FLAT AAAAH

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16d

elite decadence (disney) vs popular anti-authoritarian vitality (disney adults)

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 21d

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16d

every corporate decision comes down to money and clearly the economics for abc/disney outweighed the threats from the fascist government

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20d

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23d

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23d

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23d

Way overdue. So sad.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23d

At this point, my view of Washington Post leadership could not be lower. What a bunch of utterly corrupt, racist assholes.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23d

This was way overdue. I am so sad. Everything the Grahams and so many brilliant journalists stood for, just smeared in irredeemable shit

Screenshot of canceled Washington Post subscription

Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23d

On trying to work in this miserable time when you have a heart and a brain

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How to do your job while dissociating

On working, parenting, and writing when the world -- and your heart -- won’t stop breaking

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 28d

I have a fairly high tolerance for witnessing bad things beyond my control but Amber that is a lifelong post-traumatic nightmares video

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