Anne Leader
@anneleaderphd.bsky.social
Art historian. Author of The Badia of Florence. Non-Resident Visiting Fellow, IATH @UVA. Italian art and architecture. Editor/creator of digitalSepoltuario sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu. GenX. Dachshund enthusiast. https://anneleader.substack.com
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Writing this post brought me some solace on this dark day in our country. I hope reading it brings some to you. #Minneapolis #ImpeachNoem
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Not a lesson we should be willing to learn #NoKings
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 11, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Not a lesson we should be willing to learn #NoKings
“It’s a new year. People should be celebrating but people are already dying.” Thank you to everyone who showed up Saturday to protest the #TrumpRegime
Great photos.
Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...
Great photos.
Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...
Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide
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January 11, 2026 at 8:04 AM
“It’s a new year. People should be celebrating but people are already dying.” Thank you to everyone who showed up Saturday to protest the #TrumpRegime
Great photos.
Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...
Great photos.
Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...
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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
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Tonight Minnesotans stood together to honor the life of Renee Nicole Good.
January 10, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Tonight Minnesotans stood together to honor the life of Renee Nicole Good.
From @thebulwark.com: New Footage in Minneapolis Killing open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The shooter does not sound scared. He sounds angry. How folks on the right can see this body-cam footage as anything but damning is beyond my comprehension. Thank you @timmiller.bsky.social for your analysis
The shooter does not sound scared. He sounds angry. How folks on the right can see this body-cam footage as anything but damning is beyond my comprehension. Thank you @timmiller.bsky.social for your analysis
BREAKING: New Footage in Minneapolis Killing
Tim Miller breaks down newly released footage appearing to be from the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good.
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January 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM
From @thebulwark.com: New Footage in Minneapolis Killing open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The shooter does not sound scared. He sounds angry. How folks on the right can see this body-cam footage as anything but damning is beyond my comprehension. Thank you @timmiller.bsky.social for your analysis
The shooter does not sound scared. He sounds angry. How folks on the right can see this body-cam footage as anything but damning is beyond my comprehension. Thank you @timmiller.bsky.social for your analysis
So glad I and most of my nieces and nephews have gotten all their shots. I only hope the Leader baby on the way will get them too. Our country is being run by lunatics.
The childhood vaccines that the CDC is dropping from the recommended scheduled have successfully beat back illness and death in children from rotavirus, hepatitis and other pathogens. n.pr/4pBUXET
The CDC just sidelined these childhood vaccines. Here's what they prevent
The childhood vaccines that the CDC is dropping from the recommended scheduled have successfully beat back illness and death in children from rotavirus, hepatitis and other pathogens.
n.pr
January 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
So glad I and most of my nieces and nephews have gotten all their shots. I only hope the Leader baby on the way will get them too. Our country is being run by lunatics.
Apologies if you tried to open this and it told you it was for paid subscribers only. All can read the lengthy opener. :-)
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January 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Apologies if you tried to open this and it told you it was for paid subscribers only. All can read the lengthy opener. :-)
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So happy for my friend Saundra Weddle whose amazing new book is finally out with @psupress.bsky.social
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The Brothel and Beyond: An Urban History of the Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice By Saundra Weddle
The Brothel and Beyond deepens our understanding of women’s engagement in urban life through a close study of Venice’s sex trade. Centering questions of gender, agency, and mobility, it reveals how se...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
So happy for my friend Saundra Weddle whose amazing new book is finally out with @psupress.bsky.social
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A reader's questions about my recent post on #FraAngelico has inspired a multipart answer. Hoping you will check it out and become a free or paid subscriber!
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#medievalsky #skyhistorians #arthistory
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#medievalsky #skyhistorians #arthistory
January 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
A reader's questions about my recent post on #FraAngelico has inspired a multipart answer. Hoping you will check it out and become a free or paid subscriber!
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#medievalsky #skyhistorians #arthistory
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#medievalsky #skyhistorians #arthistory
So glad I deleted Facebook and Instagram. So wish I could get rid of WhatsApp and only use Signal, but too many European friends and colleagues are on WhatsApp.
"I asked one former FWD employee the question I asked everyone I spoke to for this story: Did they feel Zuckerberg had lost his nerve, or did he never stand for anything in the first place? 'He definitely cared, and now he does not care.'"
The Cowardice of Mark Zuckerberg
He used to care about immigrants and Dreamers. Now he remains quiet when his voice would send a powerful message.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:32 PM
So glad I deleted Facebook and Instagram. So wish I could get rid of WhatsApp and only use Signal, but too many European friends and colleagues are on WhatsApp.
How did I not know that Erling Skaug's fundamental work on punchmarks is now a website??? So excited to explore it some more.
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E. SKAUG, Punch marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico
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January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
How did I not know that Erling Skaug's fundamental work on punchmarks is now a website??? So excited to explore it some more.
corpuspitturafiorentina.bmlonline.it/s/punch/page...
corpuspitturafiorentina.bmlonline.it/s/punch/page...
Wow. That was the doomiest morning scroll I’ve had in a while. I think I need to read my own post again for some balm.
Writing this post brought me some solace on this dark day in our country. I hope reading it brings some to you. #Minneapolis #ImpeachNoem
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January 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Wow. That was the doomiest morning scroll I’ve had in a while. I think I need to read my own post again for some balm.
If you still have an X account, delete it immediately.
Grok producing vile sexualized deepfakes of women and children isn’t an accident
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January 9, 2026 at 3:38 AM
If you still have an X account, delete it immediately.
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Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
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A woman is dead in Minneapolis after ICE agents opened fire.
I don’t need to be a use-of-force expert to say this plainly: she did not need to be shot.
And no fair investigation is coming from the same system that wanted this confrontation in the first place.
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I don’t need to be a use-of-force expert to say this plainly: she did not need to be shot.
And no fair investigation is coming from the same system that wanted this confrontation in the first place.
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They Didn’t Come to Protect Minneapolis. They Came to Provoke It.
A woman is dead after an encounter with ICE agents in Minneapolis, and the rush to justify it tells us everything about where this country is headed — toward provocation, federalized force, and invest
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January 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
A woman is dead in Minneapolis after ICE agents opened fire.
I don’t need to be a use-of-force expert to say this plainly: she did not need to be shot.
And no fair investigation is coming from the same system that wanted this confrontation in the first place.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
I don’t need to be a use-of-force expert to say this plainly: she did not need to be shot.
And no fair investigation is coming from the same system that wanted this confrontation in the first place.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
MAGA wants us all to be stupid, ignorant, and incapable of empathy
An associate dean told English faculty “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classes…faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.”🙃
Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
www.insidehighered.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
MAGA wants us all to be stupid, ignorant, and incapable of empathy
Masked armed men on the streets of St. Paul. #notokay #impeachNoem
January 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Masked armed men on the streets of St. Paul. #notokay #impeachNoem
Where was the riot? I saw a federal agent shoot a woman in the face.
Jim Jordan: "This ICE officer was defending himself & his colleagues & instead of elected officials on the other side criticizing him, maybe they should stop promoting rioters and others interfering with federal law enforcement officials doing their job, doxxing them, harassing them."
January 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Where was the riot? I saw a federal agent shoot a woman in the face.
Again and again they show us that no, they have no decency. Every man’s death diminishes me…for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Again and again they show us that no, they have no decency. Every man’s death diminishes me…for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
Good God. Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato
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January 8, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Good God. Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Writing this post brought me some solace on this dark day in our country. I hope reading it brings some to you. #Minneapolis #ImpeachNoem
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January 7, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Writing this post brought me some solace on this dark day in our country. I hope reading it brings some to you. #Minneapolis #ImpeachNoem
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The ease with which Trump and his associates lie is absolutely breathtaking #Minneapolis
January 7, 2026 at 8:36 PM
The ease with which Trump and his associates lie is absolutely breathtaking #Minneapolis
Live Updates: Minnesota Officials Dispute Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting
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January 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM