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Elisabeth R. Anker

@libankerdc.bsky.social

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Professor: Political Theory & US Culture. Author: UGLY FREEDOMS & Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Promise of Freedom (both Duke). Coeditor: Theory&Event Next Book: “Every Man a Sovereign” Libby to my peeps Web: https://tinyurl.com/Elisabeth-Anker

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · Feb 6

Just dropping this piece I wrote here. This entire administration is the ugliest of ugly freedoms: www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/o...

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

What a day for the Third Amendment!

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

The third amendment is about to get very relevant.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6d

Back on the Harvard-v-Trump front, w reminder that @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social is always most reliable source.

NYT has alarming claim that Stephen Schwarzman (!!)--famed Yale buddy/backer of GWBush—is "emissary" of Harvard in these talks.

Find me one person at Harvard who feels good about that.

Newspaper story saying that Stephen Schwarzman is representing Harvard in its talks with Trump.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 8d

(2) (continued) So, to be clear, to review the names of students & professors who 3rd party vigilante organizations Canary Mission & Betar had identified as critics of Israel, the DHS took intelligence analysts away from analyzing threats of terrorism and cyber crime.

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 7d

As I was saying…I mean it’s true (and yes also absolutely dangerous)

never had a podcast @hairy-son.bsky.social · 8d

gotta say, spending probably $50 million to fly every general to your warrior speech just to call them fat gay babies is objectively funny

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks! 🙏

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 7d

I've been obsessed with this, the awful sanewashing (legal-washing) is killing me

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 7d

what a sad sack punk

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Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 7d

We must never get used to this. Never.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 7d

don't worry they will definitely be held to account for breaking the law 😭

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 7d

where is this from? would love to see it

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 7d

Another sanewashed headline about yesterday! Leading not with the rambling insanity, weird obsession with visual masculinity, or the most dangerous of all: the command to attack fellow Americans, the NYT leads with "familiar partisan complaints":

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 8d

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment

The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

www.aaup.org

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 8d

Such a pleasure talking with Nerd From The Future on what a university education should be, in a moment of unprecedented attacks on higher ed.
Listen here! open.spotify.com/episode/5yyt...

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Steph Herold @stephherold.bsky.social · 8d

“Antisemitic conspiracy theories and hate that were once fringe have been wholly normalized – amplified by X’s failure to live up to its own policies."

Thank you @amyspitalnick.bsky.social, @thejcpa.bsky.social & @counterhate.com for this important research. www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/b...

Musk’s X is ‘go-to platform’ for antisemitism, study finds | CNN Business

The new year-long study found that X’s content restrictions are not having much effect on antisemitic content.

www.cnn.com

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 8d

Bulwark consistently getting the headlines right IMO

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8d

"Donald Trump is a vulgar bigot and a reprehensible human being. He is unworthy to serve in any high office in this country, let alone its highest. Just because he’s acted this way before doesn’t mean we should let it go unremarked upon."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-ai-...

Trump’s AI Brain Rot

Plus: Trump’s increasingly dumb, and undoubtedly painful, global tariff loop.

www.thebulwark.com

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 8d

"lectured the brass on standards"?? you mean THIS?: bsky.app/profile/ddia...

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 8d

prominent link on the White House website this morning

The WHITE HOUSE
HEGSETH DECLARES WAR
ON 'FAT' GENERALS, TROOPS

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 8d

insanity

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 8d

prominent link on the White House website this morning

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 8d

getting VERY tired of these headlines that do not address how absolutely insane and bonkers Trump is. "Partisan" is the very least of what he just performed. they are safewashing this shit

Military leaders absorb highly partisan presentation from Trump, Hegseth

The unusual, hastily organized event became a forum for the president to tout his political agenda while his defense secretary lectured the brass on standards.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 8d

taking all the schadenfreude I can get rn

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 8d

never forget amidst the daily shock and awe from Trump Co that they are mass murderers: wapo.st/46GSwcv

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 8d

Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.

New study finds more than 400 pregnancy-related prosecutions after Roe's fall

Most of the cases involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy, a nonprofit legal group found.

www.nbcnews.com

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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 8d

Hesgeth's assertion that all military combat troops will have to meet the "highest male standard only" articulates a masculinist supremacism that follows the logic of white supremacism at the core of MAGA fascism.

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 8d

no fatties or chicks when we march toward our greatest enemy, our fellow americans

the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 8d

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

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