Annie Is
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Annie Is
@annieis.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Cat Lady.
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.
Donald Trump Jr-backed start-up scores $600mn US federal government deal
President’s son’s fund 1789 Capital poised to capitalise from father’s administration
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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It would have been a wat crime if we were at war, if not, its just murder. As congress gets ready to hear closed door testimony later this week, here’s what you need to know. joycevance.substack.com/p/bulletproo...
Bulletproof No More
Pete Hegseth: “I watched that first strike live.
joycevance.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Let's start calling it the "Trump Murder Memo."

#TrumpMurderMemo
It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!

It gets even darker than that. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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So Schumer never did endorse, huh. Nor Gillibrand. Just irredeemable pieces of shit, the entire NY senate delegation
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The Washington Post thinks the White House Ballroom is a splendid idea and anyone who thinks otherwise is a NIMBY. In other news Post owner Jeff Bezos is helping to pay for the Ballroom
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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American Psychiatrist Association Statement on White House Announcement on Autism
September 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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September 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
September 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
August 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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New in PN: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime

"The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."
Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime
They're wrong on the policy and wrong on the politics.
www.publicnotice.co
August 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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I'm so fucking tired of unserious people who will complain about Democrats no matter what they do. We just can't win
August 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Trump's own DOJ website still has a press release up from January pointing out that violent crime in D.C. is at its lowest in more than 30 years.
Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low
Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) a...
www.justice.gov
August 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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The weirdest thing about Trump deploying the National Guard to the Nation's Capital is that he still hasn't released the Epstein files despite campaigning on that pledge, probably because he's directly complicit in a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.
August 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I realize legacy media isn't going to make this clear, so the task unfortunately falls to me: nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize are largely meaningless.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is literally a qualified nominator. I explain more here.
Nobel Peace Prize Nominations Are Meaningless
Trump is a massive narcissist.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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"Are you seriously claiming that Trump is deploying the National Guard to D.C. as a distraction from his relationship with Epstein?"

Yes. I am. Next question.
August 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Shut up
Stop going after Cuomo. He’s not the problem.

Was he accused of inappropriate sh*t with women? Yes, so don’t vote for him. But stop making him the enemy.

The real enemies are in charge right now.

Stay focused.
August 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Really frustrating seeing journalists continue using “peace deal.” This is such an insult to Ukrainians. What “peace deal” implies is rewarding a terrorist state committing genocide and an illegal invasion by an aggressor.
August 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Wolff: I mean, Epstein would often recount his experiences with women—pursuing women—with Trump. At one point in their relationship, they even shared a girlfriend for, I think, the better part of a year.

In fact, Epstein regarded Trump’s behavior with women as, somehow, even worse than his own.
July 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Oh remember Vance Boelter, the extremist Trump supporter who had a hit list of 70 people and killed 2 people?

Glad people haven't forgotten.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...
Vance Boelter’s Life Before the Minnesota Shootings
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Hello Mueller, She Wrote, I’m Zach, a high school journalist. I just published an exclusive investigation into how 193 Trump donors funneled $2M through Guam, raising quid pro quo and campaign finance concerns. Would be grateful if you gave it a look or shared it:

open.substack.com/pub/zachkahn...
Trump's Second Favorite Island
Republican donors funnel millions through Guam, spotlighting the need for campaign finance reform
open.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.

We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
July 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ
June 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM