Reposted by Anne ZanoniBlue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 10hJon Ossoff: We're going to repeal the disastrous Medicaid cuts that Mike Collins voted to pass. A hospital in his own district had to shut down its labor and delivery unit, citing those Medicaid cuts. 14116
Reposted by Anne ZanoniVoteHub @votehub.com · 12hOn Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh." 433686515
Reposted by Anne ZanoniAltUSCustoms @altuscustoms.altgov.info · 10hDEMOCRATS TAKE NOTE: Ossoff and El-Sayed are kicking ass and taking names. THIS IS WHAT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY NEEDS FROM ALL OF YOU!!! And it’s what your base ACTUALLY wants from you!! 29017
Reposted by Anne ZanoniAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12hSome free advice to Republicans: Stop nominating corrupt candidates. Especially in Georgia. And particularly against Ossoff Because he’ll break them “It’s not just that you’re a crook, senator. It’s that you’re attacking the health of the people that you represent.” youtube.com/watch?v=O6sz...youtube.comJon Ossoff destroys David Perdue "it's not just that you're a crook,Senator"YouTube video by Plato Nic 717060
Reposted by Anne ZanoniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hOssoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump." 20266051602
Reposted by Anne ZanoniSam @samd.bsky.social · 12hyeah I’m sold, this is the energy we need from our next president 830921
Reposted by Anne ZanoniEd @notdred.bsky.social · 13hI have been around a long-ass time and have never seen any politician absolutely torching his debate opponent the way Ossoff is doing to Collins right now. This is “Fuck Republicans as a staff, record label, and as a motherfucking crew” territory 1025542
Reposted by Anne ZanoniFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 12hTroy Jackson: When Donald Trump wants something, Susan Collins does not stop him. And that hurts Mainers. 424076
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 5hYup! I want him to send that FL carpetbagger back down to the beach. I don't care that Mike Rogers feels entitled to a Senate seat. He can go stuff himself. Into an oubliette, ideally. He didn't get Debbie's seat, Gary's isn't for him either! @abdulelsayed.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Anne ZanoniRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11hWatched lots of footage of civil rights protests in GA, AL and MS in the 1960s. Maybe some of you were there. Mike Collins acts, talks and behaves like a small town sheriff with a club in 1963 after the fire hoses got done. bsky.app/profile/atru... 391807429
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 5hI hear the odds are excellent for us taking the House, and likely getting control of the Senate. If you don't read him, I recommend @gelliottmorris.com for his work w/ stats. He's marvelous. I like that. Popular and revolutionary indeed. 8) 010
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 5hI know! I feel so bad for her. Folks were unstinting in telling the concom wth and wtf. A lovely historic hotel, great; for those what cannot walk? Terrible! 010
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 6hAwww, thank you! Same. I always say that The Gift of Fear ought to have come out earlier. It'd've helped my 1998 not be a crummy year for SOs. 000
Reposted by Anne ZanoniAlethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.com · 08/10/2026Happy #WorldOctopusDay 🐙! Did you know that in Thieftess, selkies bleed teal, trolls bleed violet & siren hair turns red when they drink blood because the follicles are hollow like a polar bear? Did you know I majored in Chemistry? #chemsky #Booksky #MarineScience aletheakontis.com/2026/06/thie... 0105
Reposted by Anne ZanoniWay of Cats @wayofcats.bsky.social · 23hThe litter devices on legs are new. Rhiannon took the 3rd box, a manual sifter she used since arriving. I translated as, "Let Bud ride it, first." That's authentic Victorian wallpaper, I told her. She was not amused. #TheDivineQueen #ThursdayThoughts #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue 011
Reposted by Anne ZanoniStephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 13hstatic.klipy.comFriday Meme: DAAAAAAAMN ReactionALT: Friday Meme: DAAAAAAAMN Reaction 127102381941
Reposted by Anne ZanoniElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 11h“bless his heart” sounds extra cutting coming from a southern Jew 31881244
Reposted by Anne ZanoniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13hOssoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters." 11140211201
Reposted by Anne ZanoniThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13hOssoff: You just heard Mike Collins say the tariffs are working. Go buy groceries. No one in this state seriously believes these tariffs are working, Congressman. It's been a disaster. And so has this war. 241534397
Reposted by Anne ZanoniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12hOssoff: "Bless his heart, Mike doesn't have too much of a mind of his own. He's been doing the president's bidding thoughtlessly for a year and a half and it's my constituents and folks across the country who are suffering." 371921413
Reposted by Anne ZanoniDavid Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 12hOssoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists. 483444589
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 11hTrue. It is not his. It feels that way. And I agree, we must fight against despondency. 100
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 11hYeah, we went to the DC Worldcon, and had fun. Terribly inaccessible hotel that was beautiful. Also historic... Poor Seanan McGuire had to crawl up stairs to stage for Hugo Award ceremony! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_Sh...en.wikipedia.orgOmni Shoreham Hotel - Wikipedia 100
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 11h=nods= You know what works for you. That's excellent! SDCC was my biggest one-time con. I didn't know its size til after. Good thing, I was stressed enough. Thought it was maybe 20k, not 100k! Went there to find editing work. I did. Had fun talking to folks there too. 010
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 11hAlso, I admire your husband for his sanity. Parts, sure; that makes total sense. Pallets of computers => madness. His car got repo'd summer of '99 b/c he was merrily buying stuff. If I'd known better/been in a better headspace, I'd've never dated him. Oh, well. =grimace= 010
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 11hHe did have a server room in our flat, but also /so many/ other machines. I stood on a drive once, thinking it was a Sparc. It was cool on my bare feet. Then I found out what it was. Oops. \_o_/ He's my evil ex who kept my stuff hostage when I left. 010
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 11hHe was a hoarder. I mean, he'd buy 386s and 486s to run servers on, but he'd try selling them too. Pentiums were out, no one wanted the older machines. Instead of getting a hard drive for the Mac Classic he found thrifting-- he bought a /pallet/ of Macs. 110
Reposted by Anne ZanoniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want." 303669122730
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026:( Yeah... be nice if it was still our DOJ and not his. 100
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oooh. That's a marvelous name. I'd never heard of either of them before. 110
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That was back in '98-00. I think we mostly did Goodwill. I know I went to several. My then-SO loved to thrift. He also loved collecting computers. Went from 30 to 100 [!] not counting Mac Classics. He bought a pallet of those instead of a hard drive-- 110
Reposted by Anne ZanoniChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 525101852230
Reposted by Anne ZanoniWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 443857920
Reposted by Anne ZanoniChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This a perfect little clause summing up our very very strange times. "to learn how Anthropic — which could be valued at $2 trillion — might apply centuries of human moral wisdom to its models, as rapidly as possible" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...nytimes.comReligious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious. 74545130
Reposted by Anne ZanoniRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 44159133755
Reposted by Anne ZanoniRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.ms.now/news/reflect...ms.nowAttorneys for David Hearn call for probe into Reflecting Pool vandalism caseIn a letter to the inspectors general of the Justice and Interior departments, Hearns’ lawyers demand answers as to who is responsible for the “gross incompetence, negligence, and misconduct.” 271037257
Reposted by Anne ZanoniRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...ms.nowPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades. 21751842282
Reposted by Anne ZanoniRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"In my 65 years of living, I've never seen the city in such an uproar..." deceleration.news/san-antonio-...deceleration.news'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE FacilityCommunity organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback. 301486474
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It makes you understand why tarring and feathering was popular, I must say. 010
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026=sympathy= Yeah, this living through the chaos constantly is crazy exhausting! I hope they throw the book at him so hard in the UK that he never gets back up. I'd prefer him locked in an oubliette. One that gets paved over. 110
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I know romance cons exist. I'm not hooked into them tho'. I've heard that Wiscon has lots of probs, so I don't rec them. I just found this: www.queerscifi.com/knowledge-ba...queerscifi.comLGBT Friendly ConsHere's a list of cons that Angel Martinez put together. If you know of an LGBT or LGBT friendly con that's not listed, email the info to her at ravenesperanza@yahoo.com. You'll also find a downloadabl... 100
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ahhh. I cannot speak for Emerald, but cons like CVG are a melding of several: Worldcon-level panels, CC stuff like cosplay, and lots more. My SO says CVG began when sff lit-oriented Minicon made other fen feel unwelcome. CVG welcomed everyone. 000
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oooh! I bet that was fun too. I really miss the bookstores and thrift stores around the Bay Area. They were grand. We may attend the Nebulas some day. A colleague said it was better'n World Fantasy Con. 100
Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Femme!! You should have looked at the headline and run away. Possibly while screaming. I didn't read them b/c he is evil. A predator who is monstrous. I am sorry you read those. :( 100
Reposted by Anne ZanoniThe A.V. Club @avclub.com · 06/10/2026Following the final approval of the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger, CEO David Ellison promises "difficult decisions that affect our workforce." tinyurl.com/5n7jnxe4 That's all, folks—Skydance immediately hints at massive layoffs 28391150
Reposted by Anne ZanoniNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind. 37990325