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Meredith Kahn

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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 1h
If you lost your water bottle, it’s in the CCCB (Central Campus Classroom Building) along with everyone else’s lost water bottles. cc @juliewbee.bsky.social
Nearly two dozen water bottles of varying sizes, shapes, colors, and brands sitting on a desk.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 21/09/2026
The thing is, you would never catch me thinking about Tony, wondering where he could be, who he is with, what is he thinking, is he thinking of me, and whether he'll ever return someday.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
is it just me or are a lot of excuses not really cutting it anymore
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great reminder that the ongoing and intensifying American affordability crisis cannot be solved without major land-use changes (ending sprawl, accelerating infill development at scale) that enable people to ditch their cars and access cheaper/more sustainable mobility modes
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
thicc virginia
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excited to see a short piece I wrote about the history of unions for library workers in the latest @lawcha.bsky.social newsletter! lawcha.org/lawcha-newsl...
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LAWCHA Newsletter | LAWCHA
The LAWCHA newsletter is a print/digital publication of recent activism, conference participation, historical trends, and publications of LAWCHA members.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026
i am always forgetting to PLUG but today is a good day to tell everyone to listen to TEMPORAL CULTURE WAR, where me and clayton examine america’s deeply fucking sick post-9/11 cultural output while watching a both fairly and unfairly maligned trek patreon.com/temporalculturewar
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Get more from Temporal Culture War on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $1/month. Mattie Lubchansky and Clayton Ashley figure out what…
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you lost your Tim Horton’s coffee, it’s on the roof of the house you’ve been demolishing at 928 Red Oak. cc @juliewbee.bsky.social
Photo of a house mid-demolition with a red takeout cup of coffee sitting on the edge of the roof.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
391-16 🔥🔥 denverite.com/2026/09/01/d...
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Denver library workers unionize with overwhelming vote
It's the city's first big union move in decades.
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I think part of the reason the right is so het up about Abdul El-Sayed is that he sounds so much like your average college-educated dude from Michigan (cadence, accent, mannerism). Compensatory freakouts about his name and religion are because he comes across as blessedly normal and they know it
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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
i don't need AI to be productive. i do it the old fashioned way, by neglecting my relationships and physical health
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🗣 Everyone should read LowerEd, which was about the political economy of all higher ed institutions and not just for-profits
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's 2017, and I'm telling everyone to read 'Lower Ed.' It's 2020, and I'm telling everyone to read 'Lower Ed.' It's 2026, and I'm telling everyone to read 'Lower Ed.'
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That’s me wearing the lion head, staring directly into your soul.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
One time @meganlcook.bsky.social and me and all our housemates went to some dirtbag house party that had a band playing, and the dirtbags in the band literally played a cover of The Band's "The Weight."
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Back on my bullshit.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Why is this kind of a banger?
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I wonder how many of these Morgan Wallen fans thronging the tourist trap Jewish deli (I say with love in my townie heart, btw) are Christian zionists.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Yousef Rabhi, candidate for #a2council mayor, alleges that the current mayor is only fixing the roads downtown because it's an election year. What in the actual fuck are you talking about, man? www.wemu.org/wemu-news/20...
Yousef Rabhi: I'd say it's deferred maintenance. You have a situation here where my understanding is that Taylor basically instructed his team at the city that this was the year that they were going to put a lot of shovels in the ground, put a lot of cones out. And unfortunately, it's an election. I mean, the timing is that it's an election year. He wanted to show that there's a lot investment happening, but why wasn't this investment happening before this time? Why wasn't investment happening in our community to fix our roads leading up to this moment? And the reality is, is I voted for the countywide roads millage, which supercharged the ability of our local communities. Ann Arbor gets a direct allocation from Washtenaw County to fix the roads. And so, we should be seeing a lot of these projects. We should have been seeing a lots of these projects in the pipeline already to repair the roads. But the other thing I want to say too is there is a problem that we have at the city, where a lot city dollars that should be going to City Hall to actually fix the roads and provide other services are being captured by other entities.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Because apparently socialism in Ann Arbor means hanging out with library haters, NIMBYs, and rich people who live in the townships? #A2Council
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damnarbor.bsky.social @damnarbor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It's tempting think "we should democratize decisions about the city & give neighbors a voice in decisions." But I really think it's a bad idea to allow adjacent neighbors to have veto power over safety features (bike lanes, sidewalks, crosswalks) that benefit the larger community. #a2Council
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"The ship in which I am able to think about anything else has sailed."
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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 14/07/2026
new #a2council banger just dropped
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Opinion: Ideology vs Progress - Why I'm voting for Taylor, not Rabhi
Note: This piece by Adam Goodman reflects his own views, not those of any group or organization A recent Guardian article chronicling the r...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
in this skeet and do not like it
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Most music of the last 20 years is just trying to chase the high of the Katamari Damacy soundtrack
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Sometimes I worry that I’m not legible, and then a random nonbinary lesbian on the street checks me out so hard their eyes pop out of their skull. Happy pride?
JFK doll dressed in a white shift dress with a shawl, pearl necklace, and earrings. Art by John Waters.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Did I remember business cards? No. But I do have union stickers to give away.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Want to hang out with union activists and authors of the first book about labor published by ALA in decades? Come see us in the Connect Lounge “huddles” on Saturday and Sunday. #alaac26
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Woke up thinking about how when asked a question about a time when he brought a coalition together, one candidate told a story about finding consensus through compromise. And the other candidate shouted out a story about being a swing vote. 🫤
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I was going to Post About It™️, but instead I think I'll just get revenge.
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More Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 22/06/2026
🙋🗳️ Where do Ann Arbor's mayoral candidates stand on housing (and transportation, zoning, neighborhood businesses, tenant protections, and downtown development)? Read Christopher Taylor and Yousef Rabhi's full, unedited responses here: www.moreneighborsa2.org/2026-electio... #a2council
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Michael: "I realize not everyone is going to take in a two hour episode..." Me, in the voice of Trixie & Katya: "Am I a Nicki fan?"
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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Before you get warm feelings about this story, keep in mind it was **labour and contract protections** that got these people back. Not some grand realization that Librarianship is necessary. Get unionized people. 1 / 2
chronicle.com
A Regional College Laid Off All Its Librarians in 2024. Now It Has to Hire Them Back.
Western Illinois University claimed the library was not an academic program when it essentially was, an arbitrator has ruled, and therefore failed to follow the correct process for eliminating the job...
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Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Wake up #A2Council, a new @annarboraf.bsky.social episode has dropped annarboraf.com/episode-84-p...
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Episode 84: Primary Election 2026 #1: Show Your Work - Ann Arbor AF
Today is the first of two conversations preparing for the August 2026 primary election in the City of Ann Arbor; we help you do your homework for the ballot proposals and city races. We let you know h...
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I answered two open access questions today. What's going on? Did we all time travel back to 2013? cc @aj-boston.bsky.social
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Me, discovering that our washing machine is maybe dying: “this is some bullshit! this washer is practically brand new!” Also me, doing the math and realizing said washing machine is 14 years old: 🤔😳😑🫩🫠
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Today’s #CarryShitOlympics: fully loaded for the city’s e-waste disposal event. #A2Council
Front rack with bag on it. You can see a dead computer monitor in the bag. Rear rack with a milk crate. The crate holds a cardboard box full of cables.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s homophobic to send me emails in June.
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Donnell Wyche @donnell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
At a housing training this spring, a presenter walked us through the math behind building a small affordable project–it reframed how I think about the whole debate. I wrote up a little reflection on what I learned, including the question I can't stop asking: who is going to close the gap? #a2council
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Affordable Housing Is Harder to Build Than We Want to Admit
Affordable housing isn't built by demanding it, it's built when the math works. A look at the financing gap behind every project, and who closes it.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm glad I come from a yelling people, because it really comes in handy when you have to scream at a driver to stop them from murdering you while making an illegal right on red.
Google streetview of the intersection of E Liberty and S Division in Ann Arbor looking westbound on Liberty. The "no turn on red" sign is magnified and circled.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
me: hey mind if I open some more tabs? also me: girl we have tabs at home
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I don’t work at a ranch college, but there’s one an hour away. Years ago we bought a surplus Dodge truck from them for peanuts. All their trucks on offer were Michigan State green, and every one had a driver’s seat destroyed by a dude with too many keys in his back pocket.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ope me and @kellymce.bsky.social are quoted in this! www.chronicle.com/article/unio...
chronicle.com
Unions Push for Guardrails on AI, With Mixed Success
As colleges across the country make bold pronouncements about forging into the AI future, employees want answers to fundamental questions about how it will change their work.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Just finished reading a history of LA metro rail. This and three of the gay hockey smut books are the only books I have read in their entirety on an ereader. www.ucpress.edu/books/railto...
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Railtown by Ethan Elkind - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Sometimes you find a spelling of Hanukkah that makes you fall out of your chair.
Above the fold cover of the Jewish Exponent, December 7, 1928. On the right side of the page is a headline that reads "Christmas tree or menorah? Some salient thoughts for Hanucca."
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Surely Ryan understands that AAPS and #A2Council are two separate entities. It's disappointing to see a candidate use support for teachers (who deserve a fair contract!) as part of an unscrupulous attempt to woo low-information city council voters. As a union member, I don't love this shit.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Two @404media.co articles directly relevant to your daily life in one week is two too many!
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I finished this!!!!!!!!!! I want to die, but also I have the best job in the world.
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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I spent most of today tearing my own hair out trying to get a few hundred words on the page. It sucks! But also why the fuck would I ever ask the robot to do this for me?????????
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