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Ann Porter

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Cultivating mindfulness. SQL writer, former political junkie, empty nester. Burbs of New Orleans. Ohio native. "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do." - Terry Pratchett "Mind how you go." - Esmerelda Weatherwax

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 14h

The Louisiana legislature is a disgrace. Supreme Court is also.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

1,000+ people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020.

Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases.

With @veritenews.org

An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.

Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured t...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Nov 15

Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded To Tums https://theonion.com/nobel-prize-in-medicine-awarded-to-tums/

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 2d

That whole book is really intense.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

I agree with Josh but with one caveat: Words can demoralize people. I have political science-y disagreements with people who say "America is now fascist," but more to the point, I don't want people to internalize the idea that it's all done and dusted. Trump is far weaker than may people realize.

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 3d

Fighting with each other whether the Trump administration is/is not fascist/totalitarian seems kind of pointless. Labels aside, it is not a fully consolidated dictatorshp, whatever we want to call it and we need to work together to get them out.

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 3d

Aww. Thanks, Tom.

Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 3d

We learned the lyrics to the first verse of "O Canada" in 2016, and we are putting it to good use now :)

Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 3d

My husband is watching the Blue Jays/Yankees game in the other room. He is a card-carrying Yankee Hater (he even has a book about how to hate the Yankees correctly). They are currently being demolished, and he is so happy.

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 3d

Also, I used to stress out so much about stuff like the thee/thou = formal dogma and now I'm just like, "whatever. People are allowed to be wrong, bless their heart." But yeah, it's different with writing, where I insist on at LEAST accuracy, or barring that, extreme beauty.

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 3d

This is so funny to me because in the same context you grew up in, "Thee" and "Thou" are per dogma terms of respect and formal - i.e., exactly the opposite of what they actually are. If you are reading stuff that is mixed right and wrong no wonder your head is spinning.

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Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 3d

More and more evidence emerging for this powerful new theory.

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so sorry.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

Liberals say that recent Supreme Court ruling have given the executive branch too much power. But they’re wrong, because the rulings only apply to Trump and will all be reversed when there’s a Democratic president.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d

idk man, if you’re getting to the point where you’re accusing prosecutors, judges, and metro police of being the enemy, i am skeptical you have achieved the kind of consolidation you need for this kind of a project

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 4d

Of course.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d

The interesting thing about this piece is that just two days from publication it's predictions are mostly or all belied by what has already happened. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This Shutdown Won’t Be Like the Others

The political theater might look similar. The dynamics underneath are different.

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 4d

Your dad is a special guy...

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 5d

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale.

If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 5d

That lip color looks great on you.

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 5d

She quoted me! Paraphrased, but this is my protest sign:

A protest sign with the text "Armed Secret Police are Kidnapping us off the streets and putting us in Concentration camps." There are photographs of masked ICE employees, another of ICE and other law enforcement (also masked) grabbing a Hispanic-looking man in a green shirt and pinning his arms behind his back, and another photo of people looking at a caged section of a detention facility.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 5d

honestly I think this is another minor piece of evidence for “he’s dying”

Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 5d

lol

Screenshot of Bluesky screen. Two skeets, the top is
Anthony Michael Kreis

How does @politico.com publish an entire story about images on currency and not even bother to ask about the law?

The next is

Adam Weinstein
"Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

Commenting on a Politico article about
“Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

there's been too much fighting on here - let's rerun Trump Is Secretly Dead this weekend, that was fun last time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 5d

I LOVE seeing the normal things that bring people joy, even if they are not my thing.

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RevMelanieNOLA @revmelanienola.bsky.social · 5d

chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

'Deeply wounded' by Cardinal Dolan’s adulation of Charlie Kirk

Kirk’s death was, without question, a tragic loss of a young father and husband. But compassion does not require canonization. To elevate Kirk to sainthood is to rewrite the moral ledger of his public...

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 5d

I'm in the paper today discussing why deploying the national guard to New Orleans is an unnecessary step that will hurt local businesses. I don't mention in the piece, but it will also be expensive and polling shows it's already very unpopular.

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