Ann Bartow
@annbartow.bsky.social
Big fan of free speech and academic freedom. Strongly recommend avoiding UNH Franklin Pierce Law until change to less toxic leadership and more positive student treatment. She/her or gender neutral pronouns.
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Local talent on showcase!
Cowlitz comedian Joey Clift has a new animated short–Pow! follows a young Native kid at a bustling intertribal powwow. The short includes lessons in Native activism and even uses actual audio from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Watch it here:
Pow!
Pow! is an animated short film about Jake, a young Native American kid scrambling to charge his dying video game console at a bustling Coastal Salish intertribal powwow, where he learns that loving…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Local talent on showcase!
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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Among my favorites:
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Among my favorites:
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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Democracy dies in dampness
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Democracy dies in dampness
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If the admin was confident these boat strikes were legal, they wouldn’t be sidelining all their lawyers.
Instead, they’re demanding unlawful U.S. military strikes and pushing the U.S. into a reckless and open-ended conflict.
Instead, they’re demanding unlawful U.S. military strikes and pushing the U.S. into a reckless and open-ended conflict.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If the admin was confident these boat strikes were legal, they wouldn’t be sidelining all their lawyers.
Instead, they’re demanding unlawful U.S. military strikes and pushing the U.S. into a reckless and open-ended conflict.
Instead, they’re demanding unlawful U.S. military strikes and pushing the U.S. into a reckless and open-ended conflict.
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Gonna be sitting with this one comment alone for a long, long time
“To be honest,” Etoria added, “it helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains—that loneliness, that disconnect, that sense of loss.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Gonna be sitting with this one comment alone for a long, long time
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All the Neo-Confederate and Confederate revisionist history accounts turned out be Serbs. lol. lmao even.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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My latest for @nytopinion “We live in a new world, where words like “women,” “gender” and “trauma” are banned or limited in research studies… The fringe went mainstream, and then became the U.S. government.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
Opinion | We Underestimate the Manosphere at Our Peril (Gift Article)
We underestimate the manosphere at our peril.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My latest for @nytopinion “We live in a new world, where words like “women,” “gender” and “trauma” are banned or limited in research studies… The fringe went mainstream, and then became the U.S. government.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
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NEW: DOGE is trying to gift itself a building worth $500 million, court filings show. It's the culmination of a dramatic battle between DOGE and the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded think tank. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
NEW: DOGE is trying to gift itself a building worth $500 million, court filings show. It's the culmination of a dramatic battle between DOGE and the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded think tank. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
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The Epstein/Summers emails made last week especially tough week for some of us - a reminder that serial offenders only survive within an enabling culture. @rlswrites.bsky.social gets it. Plse read & share her powerful piece @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Epstein/Summers emails made last week especially tough week for some of us - a reminder that serial offenders only survive within an enabling culture. @rlswrites.bsky.social gets it. Plse read & share her powerful piece @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
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I'm trying to imagine the levels of sociopathy--both individually, and as a society--necessary to voluntarily do this to someone.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm trying to imagine the levels of sociopathy--both individually, and as a society--necessary to voluntarily do this to someone.
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“X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts” electionlawblog.org?p=153204
"X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts" #ELB
NYT: X launched a feature over the weekend that displays users’ locations, renewing scrutiny of the provenance of many accounts, including those that post frequently about American politics. The new f...
electionlawblog.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts” electionlawblog.org?p=153204
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Fantastic op-ed from the @jhucgvs.bsky.social's co-director @joshhorwitz.bsky.social calling on the Virginia General Assembly to take advantage of the #GVP majority and enact more life-saving laws. www.pilotonline.com/2025/11/22/c...
Column: Seize this moment to tackle gun violence with real solutions
With a new governor and gun violence prevention champions in the General Assembly, now is the time for action, Johns Hopkins researcher Josh Horwitz writes in a guest column.
www.pilotonline.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Fantastic op-ed from the @jhucgvs.bsky.social's co-director @joshhorwitz.bsky.social calling on the Virginia General Assembly to take advantage of the #GVP majority and enact more life-saving laws. www.pilotonline.com/2025/11/22/c...
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“Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries” electionlawblog.org?p=153200
"Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries" #ELB
Axios: Democratic politicians and activists are quietly lobbying to upend the way the party picks its presidential nominee by urging the use of ranked-choice voting. Driving the news: Democratic Natio...
electionlawblog.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries” electionlawblog.org?p=153200
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In more AI bubble news, major insurers are declining to insure risks from AI chatbots & agents, saying AI models are too unpredictable & error-prone with no one clearly liable when things go wrong. Firms & universities better consider this in their rush to adopt AI.
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
In more AI bubble news, major insurers are declining to insure risks from AI chatbots & agents, saying AI models are too unpredictable & error-prone with no one clearly liable when things go wrong. Firms & universities better consider this in their rush to adopt AI.
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
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The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org
The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof
More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are high...
www.gavi.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org
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Watch me count in Roman numbers:
I, II, III, IV, V, VI…
Watch me count in Arabic numbers:
Wait for it…
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Arabic is better.
(I can also count in Mayan but that takes dots and bars which are difficult to replicate here.)
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I, II, III, IV, V, VI…
Watch me count in Arabic numbers:
Wait for it…
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Arabic is better.
(I can also count in Mayan but that takes dots and bars which are difficult to replicate here.)
🔢
"Second, the Mayor-elect hasn’t made any statements, written or verbalized, public or private, regarding Arabic numerals. Because it would be silly. You know why? We already use Arabic numerals every day. All of us."
Sigh... We Already Teach Arabic Numerals
Why are they like this?
charlotteclymer.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Watch me count in Roman numbers:
I, II, III, IV, V, VI…
Watch me count in Arabic numbers:
Wait for it…
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Arabic is better.
(I can also count in Mayan but that takes dots and bars which are difficult to replicate here.)
🔢
I, II, III, IV, V, VI…
Watch me count in Arabic numbers:
Wait for it…
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Arabic is better.
(I can also count in Mayan but that takes dots and bars which are difficult to replicate here.)
🔢
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I have been rereading the 2009 NRC report on forensics tonight, which notes that handwriting analysis is generally pretty much bunk.
But that "pretty much" matters. Because this seems like a pretty easy case to make here.
But that "pretty much" matters. Because this seems like a pretty easy case to make here.
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I have been rereading the 2009 NRC report on forensics tonight, which notes that handwriting analysis is generally pretty much bunk.
But that "pretty much" matters. Because this seems like a pretty easy case to make here.
But that "pretty much" matters. Because this seems like a pretty easy case to make here.
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Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
www.sltrib.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
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bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry