Ann
@annecdotally.bsky.social
Former newspaper journalist. Current secular homeschooling parent. Common sense gun law activist. Big fan of logic, travel and Gamecock football.
I didn’t know Coco Jones (I’m middle aged and checked out of culture) but DAMN! I sure do now. P.S. Lift Every Voice and Sing should be the national anthem.
February 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
I didn’t know Coco Jones (I’m middle aged and checked out of culture) but DAMN! I sure do now. P.S. Lift Every Voice and Sing should be the national anthem.
What if we all just start laughing at Bezos for being too poor to afford to own The Washington Post? Would that do anything? #WaPo #DemocracyDies
February 5, 2026 at 9:38 PM
What if we all just start laughing at Bezos for being too poor to afford to own The Washington Post? Would that do anything? #WaPo #DemocracyDies
This is a great thread (is that what they’re called here?) about the losses in my beloved Fourth Estate.
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
February 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
This is a great thread (is that what they’re called here?) about the losses in my beloved Fourth Estate.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.
January 24, 2026 at 5:09 PM
If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.
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Among other things, the first person account from the reporter shows that despite Everything, WaPo reporters and editors are still avidly doing the work.
Confirming the NYT's reporting: FBI agents arrived at Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home this morning and conducted a search. Natanson penned this outstanding first-person piece last month about being "the federal government whisperer." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Among other things, the first person account from the reporter shows that despite Everything, WaPo reporters and editors are still avidly doing the work.
Attempting to survive a fascist takeover of the country while in perimenopause makes it really damned difficult to decide what to make the family for dinner. I can’t keep doing the everyday bs under these conditions.
January 11, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Attempting to survive a fascist takeover of the country while in perimenopause makes it really damned difficult to decide what to make the family for dinner. I can’t keep doing the everyday bs under these conditions.
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It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
January 10, 2026 at 12:33 AM
It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
So, what are we doing?
January 8, 2026 at 2:20 AM
So, what are we doing?
Thanksgiving Eve feels like a perfect time to share my favorite headline thus far:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Michael Dukakis doesn't want any more turkey carcasses this year
Former Gov. Michael Dukakis sits at his kitchen table with a bowl of turkey soup at his home in Brookline. Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe, File PSA: Keep your turkey carcasses this year. Michael D...
www.boston.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thanksgiving Eve feels like a perfect time to share my favorite headline thus far:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
As if all of this [gestures wildly] isn’t enough, now I’m expected to survive through “We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to time. Reliving in our eloquence. Another auld lang syne,” season?
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
As if all of this [gestures wildly] isn’t enough, now I’m expected to survive through “We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to time. Reliving in our eloquence. Another auld lang syne,” season?
I can’t be the only one wondering if @kenjennings.bsky.social and Ken Burns have get togethers where they just play “I’m Just Ken” and talk about Kenergy and stuff.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I can’t be the only one wondering if @kenjennings.bsky.social and Ken Burns have get togethers where they just play “I’m Just Ken” and talk about Kenergy and stuff.
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I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
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I don't know if the Epstein vote is a one-off or not, but I've been thinkin of that very thin, translucent sticker film that comes when you order, say, a new monitor. It's devilishly hard to get the first little bit of the corner to separate but once you do, the entire thing pulls off very easily.
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I don't know if the Epstein vote is a one-off or not, but I've been thinkin of that very thin, translucent sticker film that comes when you order, say, a new monitor. It's devilishly hard to get the first little bit of the corner to separate but once you do, the entire thing pulls off very easily.
One thing we are NOT going to do is mention Monica Lewinsky in connection with these vile situations.
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
One thing we are NOT going to do is mention Monica Lewinsky in connection with these vile situations.
The man is living in government-subsidized housing. And we, his landlords, are just standing here, watching him tear it down.
What is wrong with us?
What is wrong with us?
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The man is living in government-subsidized housing. And we, his landlords, are just standing here, watching him tear it down.
What is wrong with us?
What is wrong with us?
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
President Kennedy once hosted a White House dinner for 49 Nobel and Pulitzer winners, distinguished writers, scientists, etc. It was a tribute to intellectual achievement, a chance for the leader of the world to surround himself with the brightest minds in the arts and sciences. I’m just saying.
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
President Kennedy once hosted a White House dinner for 49 Nobel and Pulitzer winners, distinguished writers, scientists, etc. It was a tribute to intellectual achievement, a chance for the leader of the world to surround himself with the brightest minds in the arts and sciences. I’m just saying.
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever.
Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.”
See where this is going?
Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.”
See where this is going?
August 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever.
Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.”
See where this is going?
Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.”
See where this is going?
I’m old enough to remember when newspapers of record broke stories about government corruption.
Now, apparently, they’re covering the ways in which women are able to easily adapt to the patriarchy (which won’t let us have any damn pockets.)
Now, apparently, they’re covering the ways in which women are able to easily adapt to the patriarchy (which won’t let us have any damn pockets.)
Purses? Pockets? Not necessary when you can palm a dozen items.
The phenomenon, in which women are gripping their necessities without the aid of pockets or bags, is called the claw grip, and on social media, it has been crowned as a secret superpower.
The phenomenon, in which women are gripping their necessities without the aid of pockets or bags, is called the claw grip, and on social media, it has been crowned as a secret superpower.
Their Superpower? Holding Things.
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I’m old enough to remember when newspapers of record broke stories about government corruption.
Now, apparently, they’re covering the ways in which women are able to easily adapt to the patriarchy (which won’t let us have any damn pockets.)
Now, apparently, they’re covering the ways in which women are able to easily adapt to the patriarchy (which won’t let us have any damn pockets.)
On the way to the bookstore at the mall, which is a mile from our house. Couple of cops go through the intersection. Then a couple more. I say “I bet it’s a mall shooting.”
Sure enough.
America is not okay.
Sure enough.
America is not okay.
July 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
On the way to the bookstore at the mall, which is a mile from our house. Couple of cops go through the intersection. Then a couple more. I say “I bet it’s a mall shooting.”
Sure enough.
America is not okay.
Sure enough.
America is not okay.
Everything is depressing, to be sure, but this sentence is hitting hard.
CBS News capitulates to Trump’s extortion, agreeing to pay him $16 million to settle his bogus lawsuit.
The New York Times story has this very sad, very true sentence.
The New York Times story has this very sad, very true sentence.
July 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Everything is depressing, to be sure, but this sentence is hitting hard.
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Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.
June 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.
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