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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante

@nanaama.bsky.social
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First of my name. Chief Witch. Journalist (sometimes). Aspiring researcher (religion & politics). 🇬🇭

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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Since details of the smear campaign broke, initially in a big feature in The New York Times, then subsequently in dozens of articles on major news sites, not one outlet has used the word misogyny. www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...
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Why won’t the media use the word misogyny?
Misogyny is at the core of these smear campaigns targeting women, yet news coverage consistently avoids naming it.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Google Photos just reminded me that six years ago today, I was in Rwanda (because I’m nosey). I wanted to see what the hype was all about. When I was leaving, one of my uncles said, “When you get back, write about it.” Maybe I will.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“Crushed” is doing a lot here.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We’ve no choice but to vote these people out. justnanaama.com/2024/11/dont...
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Don’t be Fooled: A Vote for Bawumia is a Vote for Akufo-Addo
A vote for him in this context is akin to saying, “We loved Akufo-Addo’s reign! Encore!”  For me, whether or not Dr. Bawumia could steer Ghana in a different direction besides the point. The mere pros...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/11/2024
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état
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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état
Police accuse 37 people of crimes including conspiracy and trying to tear down one of world’s largest democracies The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies are among dozens of people formally accused by federal police…
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Ah, the perks of being a bumbling president: a statue in a country you don’t even like, a top honor from your real homeland, and all the luxuries that come with tanking the economy you’re supposed to lead. Now that's living the high life.
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Wumpa @wumpasr.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Taylor Lorenz with a rather important article on how liberals have fallen for election fraud conspiracies that are every bit as unhinged as conservatives ones from 2020: www.usermag.co/p/metas-thre...
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Meta's Threads is 'overrun' with liberal election fraud conspiracies
Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism
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David *Objection* Ngong @profngong.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
There is a long history of giving bogus interpretations of events in the US. Think of how gun violence is interpreted as a mental health crisis. The civil rights mov't was interpreted as communist uprising, not uprising against racial segregation. Now we're being told the election was about jobs.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Me: Can’t bear global politics right now, so let me face politics at home. Politicians at home:
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Sitting on Minority seats in Parliament will spiritually bind us ahead of Election 2024 - Afenyo-Markin
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has stated firmly that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) caucus in parliament remains the majority side in the house and as such under no circums...
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
If there is plantain on the menu, I’m getting some.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
The very real violence of fascists should vastly outweigh the hypothetical concerns about limiting Nazi speech. I wrote about it, and about why the founders of Substack are so very wrong. www.jphilll.com/p/substack-b...
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Substack Boys: I hope you're Proud
This isn't about theory, it's about very real violence
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David *Objection* Ngong @profngong.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
This is unconscionable.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
The road traveled…
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
When I saw that Elon Musk’s brother, Grover Norquist, and the lawyer who successfully defend Nestle in a child slavery case before the Supreme Court were all at Burning Man I came to one conclusion: You can’t be cool and be a capitalist.
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You Can't Be a Cool Capitalist
Burning Man, wealth, and counter-culture under capitalism
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 05/08/2023
Honest reviews
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jerome @readjerome.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
My goodness these people have totally wrecked the economy. How???
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 27/07/2023
i said goodbye to Shuhada’ Sadaqat / Sinéad O’Connor, and wrote about her impact and her convictions. In America’s rush to simplify and commodify her, by throwing it back in their faces, O’Connor could stay chaotic; deeply funny; unabashedly serious; mercurial; uncompromising to her values.
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Sinéad O’Connor Redefined Pop Stardom. It Came At a Cost
As she said herself in her memoirs: “Everyone wants a pop star, see? But I am a protest singer.”
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Rebecca Rubenstein @rrrubenstein.bsky.social · 24/07/2023
For a lot of us, losing Twitter isn’t really about losing ties to the company itself. It’s losing 10+ years of real, asynchronous communities, professional development, the ability to get gigs and clients, the ability to promo/share your art on an extremely broad scale. The loss of that has impact.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
“A new cohort of politicians, bred by the same venal class they're impatient to replace, is waiting for hammer-in-hand for their turn to drive the last nail through the coffin that is Ghana.”
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
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Semafor @semafor.com · 13/07/2023
JUST IN: Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of the bankrupt Celsius crypto lending company, has been arrested. The company has also agreed to a $4.7 billion settlement with government regulators.
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Former Celsius crypto CEO arrested for fraud
The SEC has accused Alex Mashinsky, the founder of the bankrupt crypto lender, of allegedly manipulating crypto currencies shortly before the company’s collapse.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
The billionaire secret ingredient to success: stealing from workers Link: www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/…
Forbes: Twitter And Elon Musk Face $500 Million Lawsuit For Allegedly Refusing Severance For Fired Employees
William Skipworth
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jerome @readjerome.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
The Ghana Earnings and Savings Survey (GESS 1) revealed that 55% of respondents earned less than GHS5,000 (~$430) each month. The full report is worth reading www.ceditalk.com/2023/06/half-of-re…
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
Headaches are terrible events.
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Amir Shevat 🦋 @amir.blue · 06/07/2023
I can finally share I am an investor in Bluesky 🚀 Super excited to be joining this journey of a true public conversation, and it's open developer platform. techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-a…
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Bluesky announces its $8M seed round and first paid service, custom domains
Hours before Meta launches its anticipated Instagram competitor, Threads, another Twitter rival -- Bluesky -- is announcing additional funding and its first paid service.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
I...
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LGBTQ: Report men who coerce you into anal sex to Police - Ursula tells women
The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has called on women who are coerced by their husbands into engaging in oral and anal sex
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
Still thinking about the details of the sexual misconduct story involving Tanzania and UK’s David Adjaye. Too many layers to unpack, from rape to intimidation to abuse of power. Hard to believe someone in his position would do something so vile in era.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
“Radiology equipment across the hospitals broke down frequently and downtimes were very high. Radiographers/radiologists across the hospitals were provided with poor/inadequate post-installation training, and maintenance contracts/agreements were unavailable. “
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Equipment downtime in the radiology departments of three teaching hospitals in Ghana
Radiology equipment requires routine maintenance to prevent equipment breakdown. Equipment breakdown can lead to adverse patient outcomes and lost rev…
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
Climate change is disproportionately harming the child laborers. Maybe we should just tear this all down and start over
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
It’s all so hilarious.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
For six months Elon’s just been like workers? Engineers? Twitter doesn’t need that! Shockingly it turns out workers were making the thing work all along
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Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 29/06/2023
A prof and two students were stabbed during a philosophy of gender class. A guy came into the class, asked what it was about, and attacked them. I'm trying to come up with words for how terrifying and absolutely unsurprising this violence is
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Three Stabbed in Philosophy Course at Waterloo
Three people were hospitalized following a knife attack that took place this afternoon in a University of Waterloo philosophy course. The suspect was arrested. No fatalities have been reported. The in...
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 28/06/2023
I keep forgetting about this sane, no drama app.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 15/06/2023
Out this week
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Kwabena @kwabena.bsky.social · 13/06/2023
It shouldn’t always be about productivity and efficiency. For some, work is a way of life. I can see a future where office workers install malware to destroy the AI brought in to replace them.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 12/06/2023
🥲
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Over 50 commercial sex workers arrested in Koforidua
The Member of Parliament for the New Juaben South Constituency, Michael Kofi Okyere Baafi has vowed to make commercial sex work operations an unprofitable
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 06/06/2023
The wildfire smoke in NYC has gotten really intense today. You smell it every breath you take
Smokey view down 5th Avenue road n New York City. Skyscrapers grow increasing hazy in the distance
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 04/06/2023
A view.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/05/2023
Twitter is still suppressing Substack links but I’d love for you all to check out my newsletter, it’s free to subscribe and comes out weekly!
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RIP Tina Turner, "too much Black history" in Alabama, and a dental office dragging
Friday, May 26, 2023.
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joy boy @fctamakloe.bsky.social · 26/05/2023
Many of my daydreams involve thinking up solutions to our problems as a country. It's as if one of the running themes in my dreams are "What would I do differently if I was president." I'm always content with letting my mind wander as far as possible.
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Nana Ama Agyemang Asante @nanaama.bsky.social · 26/05/2023
“Many Ghanaians believed that in voting out Mahama after one term in 2016, they were turning the page on the corruption and mismanagement that they associated with his presidency. Instead, what they got from Akufo-Addo was more corruption and mismanagement, worsened by impunity and aloofness.”
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Ghana’s Economic Crisis Has Akufo-Addo’s Fingerprints All Over It
Ghana is facing its worst economic crisis in decades, driven by the mismanagement and corruption of Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/05/2023
I've been working on this story for several months, and it's finally here The self-destructive gospel of the Passport Bros phillewis.substack.com/p/passport-b…
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 24/05/2023
The fact that “fascists shouldn’t feel safe” is considered a ‘radical’ position is an alarming indictment of liberalism. People whose politics is the harm and death and genocide of non-white straight Christian men should not be welcome in our society. That should not be controversial.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/05/2023
if papers wrote about daniel penny the way they have written about jordan neely this headline would read “unemployed college dropout says he would kill on subway again” t.co/ukbB2b16jW
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Daniel Penny Gives First Interview Addressing Subway Killing
Mr. Penny, who has been charged in the killing of Jordan Neely on May 1, gave few details about the confrontation in an interview with The New York Post.
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