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Anna Merlan

@annamerlan.bsky.social
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Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20h
“Foreigners who voluntarily visit contemporary Russia and participate in state-sponsored events de facto condone Russian foreign policy. Apparently, there are plenty of young people who do not care about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the war crimes committed by Russians.”
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The delirious, dance-heavy propaganda of Russia’s International Festival of Youth
Thousands of young people attended a lavish event portraying the country as it wants to be seen.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 21h
That could work
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 22h
We won’t be able to pull Steven Seagal though
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 22h
I think I find youth propaganda efforts so interesting because soon the U.S. will also be a pariah state and resorting to stuff like this www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The delirious, dance-heavy propaganda of Russia’s International Festival of Youth
Thousands of young people attended a lavish event portraying the country as it wants to be seen.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 22h
There should literally be a law
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10/10/2026
"Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad" www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/h...
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Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad
There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon have announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer who shot up Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. There is plenty of debate about the moral atrocity that is a firing...
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 23h
Why are you HUFFING in my FACE do parks not exist!!!! Tracks, even!
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 23h
If I’m ever murdered by a run club speeding down the sidewalk like the actual embodiment of human entitlement I will devise a method of haunting so spiteful
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Other than that, though,
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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ahhh Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff fled Russia/USSR, and though he missed it, he refused to go back. He lived in the US, became a US citizen, and is buried in Westchester, NY.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: I wrote about Russia's International Festival of Youth, a strange and elaborate propaganda effort featuring dancing robots, AI-generated holograms of the composer Rachmaninoff, and of course, Steven Seagal lecturing attendees on Russian geopolitics www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Delirious, Dance-Heavy Propaganda of Russia’s International Festival of Youth
Thousands of young people attended a lavish event portraying the country as it wants to be seen.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A dream in every way tbh
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Incredible follow imo
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m clutching my chest
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fuck lol
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh my god it IS
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/10/2026
The delirious, dance-heavy propaganda of Russia’s International Festival of Youth
motherjones.com
The delirious, dance-heavy propaganda of Russia’s International Festival of Youth
Thousands of young people attended a lavish event portraying the country as it wants to be seen.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: I wrote about Russia's International Festival of Youth, a strange and elaborate propaganda effort featuring dancing robots, AI-generated holograms of the composer Rachmaninoff, and of course, Steven Seagal lecturing attendees on Russian geopolitics www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
The Delirious, Dance-Heavy Propaganda of Russia’s International Festival of Youth
Thousands of young people attended a lavish event portraying the country as it wants to be seen.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The far-right's favorite "intellectual" says the quiet part out loud.
A tweet from Curtis Yarvin that says "what if Open AI solves the Jewish problem"
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh that’s absolutely true, yes. Everything is, and I can’t stress this enough, so much worse
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh my GOD
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He is the most likely source of me getting the plague tbh
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm so sorry. It is really frightening, all jokes aside
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh my god yes
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Are we going to be gifted a SECOND generation of "Brazilian autocrat who's constantly in the hospital and getting injured in looney tunes ways" though? Does this man have the "attacked by an emu" energy of his dad? Only time will tell! www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...
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Right-wing surge could give Flávio Bolsonaro power his father never had
The favorite to win Brazil’s election has promised to free his imprisoned father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, grant amnesty to supporters and impeach Supreme Court justices.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's powerful vigilante squad potential here and I personally feel history would vindicate us
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Obviously this is a legal exception
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Love to see a classic @hellgatenyc.com @todseelie.bsky.social collab hellgatenyc.com/nycs-press-c...
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NYC's Press Corps Turned It to 11 at Hell Gate’s In Battle, Bands
Plus more news for your Wednesday.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hero! Humanitarian!!
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maybe YOU aren't getting the plague. Personally I am built different (plague)
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I cannot even IMAGINE, thank you for your service and your bravery
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Spread 🗣️ the 🗣️ word 🗣️
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Of COURSE you do! Because we live in a society and you are an upstanding member thereof!!!
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
loooool
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I will run for president on a platform of getting everyone headphones or ear buds paired with their devices
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People are in here telling me their particular phone does not work when they hold it to to their ear. I assure you it does. I'm so sorry to be a stickler on this point but yes it does
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning Prometheans
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was at the farmers market in STL!
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes absolutely
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not so much!
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bring back the rotary phone imo
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
She’s reading her address aloud in a crowded bus. Madam please
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Like why exactly am I also on your customer service call. Why is that
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I DO consider the moon to be a friend
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I got a lot of commentary during this time about my "dark energy" (I have dark hair and a limited color palette in my wardrobe)
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm digging through my emails looking for something and again, boy, that was a time
When reading the excerpt I had no idea who you were in regards to faces at the event but then I did a search and found your photo on some professional bio that also included a pyramid and the ‘all seeing eye’ at the bottom. As soon as I saw your photo I remembered exactly who you are. I’m remember you well because I’m very proficient in reading energies and I’ll never forget the dark energy readings I was sensing with you.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That's right
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
these were different times okay
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I forgot that when I started covering Pizzagate my Twitter banner photo was Winnie the Pooh hailing Baphomet in a mirror. That was a problem. That did not endear me to anyone over there
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