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Ann Neumann (otherspoon)

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The Good Death (Beacon). Clips: Harper's, The Guardian, The Baffler, VQR, the NYT and elsewhere. Economic Hardship Reporting Project supported. Pulitzer Center grantee. Student pilot.

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D. A. Denison @daveadenison.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here I propose that you can't understand history with less than twelve metaphors. davedenison.substack.com/p/how-deep-i...
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How Deep is the Muck?
And how do we get ourselves out of this mess?
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looking to speak to people who were fired or had their lives overturned in other ways for making comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death. Jessw39.01 or email Jessica.Washington@theintercept.com
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Baffler United @bafflerunited.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Baffler United @bafflerunited.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Later this month, we’ll mark one year since we first sat down at the bargaining table with management. We’d like to share an update on how things are going (1/4):
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Again, looking to talk to VA employees about what they've been hearing from local and national leadership after Alex Pretti was killed. Hearing a lot so far from people and want to talk to more VA staffers for an article. Please reach out to me on signal at nslayton.12
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/01/2026
The Trump administration has stepped up its effort to comb public housing rolls for undocumented immigrants, telling public housing authorities across the country on Friday that they would face sanctions if they did not adequately verify whether tenants met eligibility requirements.
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HUD Demands Public Housing Officials Check for Undocumented Immigrants
The Department of Housing and Urban Development said it would punish public housing authorities that did not adequately verify tenants’ immigration status within 30 days.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The killings will continue until you give us the state voter rolls
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Peter Montgomery @petemontdc.com · 22/01/2026
Heinous. Obscene. Shameful. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; school leader says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos as “bait” to try and draw family m...
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Ann Neumann (otherspoon) @annneumann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
High vaccine rates are a sign of a healthy community. You don't just immunize (or mask) for yourself, you do it for the people around you.
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Ann Neumann (otherspoon) @annneumann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This article got me just what I was looking for: This week a man in Minnesota read it and got in touch because he knew my father when they served together at Kagnew Station, a premier listening post in the Horn of Africa, in the 1960s.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 12/01/2026
Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000—but it’s back with a vengeance. From the Archives: @annneumann.bsky.social writes on epidemics in the age of the broken social contract.
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Herd Immunity | Ann Neumann
The current measles epidemic provides us with a master class on the catastrophic breakdown in our understanding of what we might call the social contract.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Seventh essay: Thinking with @annneumann.bsky.social & @audiosand.bsky.social on Erika Kirk and the weaponization of mourning: slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-mourni...
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The Mourning Suit
Reading public grief and politics with Ann Neumann and Sandhya Dirks
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Ann Neumann (otherspoon) @annneumann.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
ICYMI I wrote about an aspect of the opioid epidemic too often misunderstood... or completely missed: the flood of babies who are born with opioid exposure. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both
A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come. CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
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CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
It's not enough to say, "here's an approach that can solve a problem." You have to show it fully in real people's lives. That's what @annneumann.bsky.social does in this rich exploration of programs that keep addicted moms & babies together while moms get sober. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both
A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery
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Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"Just because someone was an addict doesn’t mean they can’t be a good mother. And it doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to have their children.” Fantastic new piece by @annneumann.bsky.social on an innovative family preservation effort.
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Ann Neumann (otherspoon) @annneumann.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
For decades NAS babies have been sent into the troubled foster care system while their mothers were sent back to the street. These centers, in cities decimated by the opioid epidemic, keep mothers and babies together. Photos: Rebecca Kiger; edits: Jessica Reed. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both
A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Powerful reporting by @annneumann.bsky.social and another example of the Guardian keeping on top of the addiction crisis (and ways to tackle it) in America www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both
A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery
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Ann Neumann (otherspoon) @annneumann.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I’ve been writing about the incredible Philip Benight since the day I met him. Today marks one year since his death. Obit at @lancasteronline.bsky.social
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
GOP states are restricting youth voting by -requiring strict in-person ID for registering + voting, explicitly excluding college-issued IDs -locating poll sites far from campuses + targeting on-campus locations -limiting + sanctioning third-party voter reg orgs talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
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Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Yes; and I want to make a different point. Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
$220 million for a fascist ad campaign is bad enough. But it's all to line the pockets of Noem's friends and their families. The details in here are nuts. www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew. “It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet." For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Stunning report.
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Meet Yaa’kub Ira Vijandre. He’s the US’ latest political prisoner. His detention is designed to send the message that anything noncitizens post in support of disfavored causes can be labeled a deportable threat to national security.
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ICE Caged This Man For His Instagram Posts And Likes
New details about Yaa'kub Ira Vijandre's detention show his posts supporting Palestine and the wrongfully convicted representing, in Homeland Security's eyes, support for terrorism
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com! Sarah is unfailingly supportive of other authors, a deeply kind and generous person in an industry with far too few of them. She's also a stone-cold genius. Buy WITHOUT CONSENT!
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She Was a Victim. She Became a Headline. Here, She’s a Person.
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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com and her deeply important book Without Consent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
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She Was a Victim. She Became a Headline. Here, She’s a Person.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"Trump on Monday asked #SCOTUS to review the $5 million civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll." www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn verdict that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to review the $5 million case that found he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 07/11/2025
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air traffic controllers who are not being paid to "show up because it's their job." How about Congressional Republicans show up and do their job by ensuring all federal workers are paid, travelers are safe, and our healthcare is protected? seiu.co/482c2SH
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What to know about the nationwide FAA-mandated flight reductions
The FAA has ordered a 4% reduction in operations at 40 major airports starting Friday, which will ramp up to 10% by Nov. 14.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Trump is killing education for kids with disabilities. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Slow Death of Special Education
The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children—if it ever had one.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets. If you like the work we do, come join us! Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e... Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
When ProPublica emailed questions to Newby’s daughter, the North Carolina Republican Party’s communications director, Matt Mercer, responded, writing that ProPublica was waging a “jihad” against “NC Republicans,” which would “not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever.” 

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,” Mercer said in his email. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Tell me a scenario in which Trump accepts that his completed ballroom is being used by a Democrat or a Republican he hates. This is, literally, a monument to permanence. It’s not the action of someone planning to leave.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/10/2025
NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on Standing with Immigrants
Oct. 21, 2025
My dear brothers and sisters, today I speak to you as your shepherd, but also as a fellow pilgrim who shares the pain of many of our immigrant communities. Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, and communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants.
We stand with a mother who crosses borders to feed her children. We stand with the father who labors in silence to build a better future. We stand with the young person who dreams of safety and a better future. Our parishes and schools will not turn away those who seek comfort, and we will not be silent when dignity is denied in the enforcement of the law, it is essential that we respect the dignity of every human being.
Now I want to say something directly to those immigrants without documents. Most of you have been here for years. You have worked hard. You have raised families. You have contributed to this nation. You have earned our respect. As the Archbishop of Chicago, I will insist that you be treated with dignity. Americans should not forget that we all come from immigrant families.
You are our brothers and sisters. We stand with you.
God bless you all.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Once again, trigger discipline of a guy playing a video game in an arcade. These rejects are playing Call of Duty on our streets.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Great work from my friends at Disability Rights North Carolina on this case. Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com
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Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement
The ADA is the basis of an agreement that keeps North Carolina nursing centers from excluding all people with addiction histories.
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