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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

just finished #20: The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukinaoff + Rikki Schlott I found it very thought-provoking, it definitely challenged my existing beliefs + assumptions. Would highly recommend.

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

#18: The Right to Privacy by Ellen Alderman + Caroline Kennedy #19: The Crime of Punishment by Karl A. Menninger

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

#14: The Prison Industry: How It Works + Who Profits by @biancatylek.bsky.social #15: Hanging Johnny by Myrtle Johnston #16: The Human Stain by Philip Roth #17: The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Since my last update I've finished 9 more: #11: High Conflict: How We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley #12: Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners + the Struggle Over Black Lung Disease by Barbara Ellen Smith #13: New York Madness by Maxwell Bodenheim

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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I hope this pope is cool and lets us do some sins

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/05/2025

Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man theonion.com/reagano...

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

great crowd here in Bethlehem, PA for a fight oligarchy rally w/ @sanders.senate.gov + the Menzingers !!

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Sad that I'm almost at the end of my @jortsthecat.bsky.social May Day to May Day calendar 💔

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

You also don’t need to assume your personal identity needs to be part of your work. For example maybe you’re scared shitless about your mom’s immigration status, but you’re a labor organizer. It’s ok to focus on labor, and you don’t have to be the immigration poster child while you’re doing that

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

There are a lot of bad things happening all at once, and it’s overwhelming to think about how to meet moments like this. Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I really would like to subscribe to @theatlantic.com + would have already, but it's frustrating that they only allow you to pay upfront for the entire year rather than monthly, because I can't really afford to front $80 😕 I feel like they're probably losing out on subscribers doing it that way?

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I lost my best buddy yesterday. Jackson was a senior diabetic long-term foster + we got to spend five and a half years together. I love him so much + am heartbroken. But he lived a long life, he was likely 15+

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Once I turned to my priest and said: "Truly, no-one has ever suffered like I suffer." And she stopped and looked me straight in the eye and went: "Jay, it is quite literally Good Friday today." And I said "ah, but Jesus didn't suffer LIKE I suffer. He never had to reply to a single email!"

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Sweatpants Cher @housefeminist.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

That’s a completely valid point but i don’t mean to make that comparison so much as to muse about balancing gratitude for their dedication and influence with the dread of knowing they’ll leave a huge void. The stakes aren’t the same but Bernie is pretty singular as a voice of reason with integrity

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

i needed help at the self checkout + the woman helping me had very pretty but very long acrylics....so they were interfering w the touch screen so she had to tap everything like 20+ times to try to get it to recognize it before finally giving up + sending me to a regular register...

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Had a really nice time yesterday at @easternstate.bsky.social for the launch of The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits by @biancatylek.bsky.social + @worthrises.bsky.social, moderated by @piperk.bsky.social, + featuring @saleemholbrook.bsky.social and Philly-based artist Jesse Krimes

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 03/04/2025

Bodega cats don't push raw milk and beef tallow. They don't give children vitamin A poisoning or measles. Leave the bodega homies alone.

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

i am not often in nyc but i am waiting @ a subway stop + there are so so many rigs thrown on the tracks like do they not have sharps containers around like i feel like they should do that ??

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

i love a good lapel pin, so this week i wore this lovely UMWA end black lung pin that i off ebay. solidarity forever.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“Several Defense Department officials expressed shock that Hegseth had put American war plans into a commercial chat group. They said that having this type of conversation in a Signal chat group itself could be a violation of the Espionage Act, a law covering the handling of sensitive information.”

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The job of Democrats is so clear right now: It's to do everything possible in the next 48 hours to keep the Atlantic story front-burner and make people understand the issues and the stakes. It couldn't be a simpler test of who gets it and who doesn't.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If Pete Hegseth had any honor, he’d resign @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social opines www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Same thing he said when all the stories broke about his affairs, and his drinking on the job, and the sex assault case, and his behavior at strip clubs, and the financial mismanagement of his charities. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Let’s not forget that DNI Tulsi Gabbard was also a member of the war plan signal group chat. What a sentence to type out. Absolute incompetence meets absolute impunity.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In Texas, we actually pay MORE for some products the prison uses SO THAT they can use prisoners as slave labor. It'd be cheaper to just buy the products. Of products produced by TDCJ, 46% would have cost less if purchased on the open market. gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2021/03/for-...

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For cruelty's sake: Texas prisons lose money every year to keep prisoners picking cotton, other field crops

Texas ended "convict leasing" - essentially hiring out prisoners as slave labor - just more than a century ago, but the prison system's Agri...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

That JB Pritzker sounds relevatory reflects how far a whole generation of Democratic politicians strayed from the absolute basics of electoral politics: say what you mean, act like you sincerely like your constituents, and don't constantly bring up how much you like and agree with your opponents.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 24/03/2025

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 24/03/2025

Also let’s be clear about why they’re talking over Signal — they are attempting to skirt their obligations under the federal record preservation laws and ensure no records exists for public review. It’s incredibly illegal, but what do they do that isn’t?

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is one of the most horrific things I have ever read and yet it requires absolutely no suspension of belief. Kat Dahl deserves everything good the world has to offer.

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🎃👻 peppermint.jack-o'-lantern 🎃👻 @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

it's just "we can never demand democrats do the job we elected them to do because they told us that if we did that to them then the republicans might win" over and over my entire life

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Not that anyone cares, but I realized I'm behind on sharing reading updates: #9: The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence by Meg Stone (2025) #10: What Kind of Woman: Poems by Kate Baer (2020)

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"Harm reduction isn’t about nudging people toward abstinence—it’s about rejecting the idea that drug use makes someone disposable in the first place. If we really care about people who use drugs, then our support can’t come with conditions cause it doesn’t account for the spectrum of use"

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Stephen Murray on LinkedIn: Recovery isn’t a moral upgrade. Being sober doesn’t make you a better… | 58 comments

Recovery isn’t a moral upgrade. Being sober doesn’t make you a better person, just like using drugs doesn’t make you a worse one. But that’s not how society… | 58 comments on LinkedIn

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

i gotta give it to paypal, i got through to a real live person within 1:33 today

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Highest Bitter @highestbitter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Jamie Raskin is asking the public to send FOIA req to DOGE requesting all personal info DOGE has on you, & whether they've released to a 3rd party. Links to form/template letter & mailing address here: DOGE has 20 days to comply, or you can sue, prob class action. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

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DOGE Privacy Act Requests

U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/03/2025

again, it's worse than just recession They've eviscerated all public safety standards, consumer protection, labor protection, corporate oversight, and the social safety net going to be a parade of concussive failures to systems Americans took for granted ON TOP of unnecessary economic hardship

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This is exactly what I have been saying for a while now. At this point, it’s not left vs right that matters, but fighters vs non-fighters. The Dems, and the American people, need fighters.

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations at the Barnes Foundation in Philly yesterday #CecilyBrown These first ones are from the section titled Painting Flesh "This section presents some of Brown's earliest works.

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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Anna Shields @annapshields.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Strands #372 “You're pushing my buttons” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵

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