Adrienne Kirschner
@adriennekirschner.bsky.social
Lover of books, plants, puzzles, pets, and democracy. Really just wanting to have interesting convos about all the things. In my crone era. 📚❤️✨️🍃♏️
So excited about our new limited podcast series! It's called "OK, But Why" and it covers all the topics you've been googling lately!
The first episode just came out this week and it's about voting rights. It's only 10 minutes and packs in a lot of great info!
youtu.be/fa3sw46p75Q
The first episode just came out this week and it's about voting rights. It's only 10 minutes and packs in a lot of great info!
youtu.be/fa3sw46p75Q
Okay, But Why Are There So Many New Voting Laws?
YouTube video by Red Wine and Blue
youtu.be
March 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So excited about our new limited podcast series! It's called "OK, But Why" and it covers all the topics you've been googling lately!
The first episode just came out this week and it's about voting rights. It's only 10 minutes and packs in a lot of great info!
youtu.be/fa3sw46p75Q
The first episode just came out this week and it's about voting rights. It's only 10 minutes and packs in a lot of great info!
youtu.be/fa3sw46p75Q
I've said it a million times, y'all. Ignore what he says. Pay attention to what he does. That goes for all of them.
When I was first starting out in my career, working on a project in Chicago, I went out for drinks with some colleagues after work.
When I was first starting out in my career, working on a project in Chicago, I went out for drinks with some colleagues after work.
February 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I've said it a million times, y'all. Ignore what he says. Pay attention to what he does. That goes for all of them.
When I was first starting out in my career, working on a project in Chicago, I went out for drinks with some colleagues after work.
When I was first starting out in my career, working on a project in Chicago, I went out for drinks with some colleagues after work.
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Kimbal Musk, "When they did fund us, they realised that we were illegal immigrants"
Elon Musk, "Well"
Kimbal Musk, "Yes we were"
Elon Musk, "It's a grey area"
Kimbal Musk, "Yes.. Yes we were.. I was.. We were.. illegal immigrants"
Elon Musk, "Well"
Kimbal Musk, "Yes we were"
Elon Musk, "It's a grey area"
Kimbal Musk, "Yes.. Yes we were.. I was.. We were.. illegal immigrants"
January 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Kimbal Musk, "When they did fund us, they realised that we were illegal immigrants"
Elon Musk, "Well"
Kimbal Musk, "Yes we were"
Elon Musk, "It's a grey area"
Kimbal Musk, "Yes.. Yes we were.. I was.. We were.. illegal immigrants"
Elon Musk, "Well"
Kimbal Musk, "Yes we were"
Elon Musk, "It's a grey area"
Kimbal Musk, "Yes.. Yes we were.. I was.. We were.. illegal immigrants"
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"Defenders of democracy will have to stay united, focusing on ensuring that checks and balances remain intact and that crucial democratic watchdog institutions elude capture.
Otherwise, America will find itself sleepwalking into autocracy."
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
Otherwise, America will find itself sleepwalking into autocracy."
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
Opinion | Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy? (Gift Article)
What we can learn from countries that have pushed back on threats to democracy.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Defenders of democracy will have to stay united, focusing on ensuring that checks and balances remain intact and that crucial democratic watchdog institutions elude capture.
Otherwise, America will find itself sleepwalking into autocracy."
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
Otherwise, America will find itself sleepwalking into autocracy."
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
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Let’s be more accurate about what Target is really doing because the headlines aren’t telling it right.
Target is bending the knee and sending a message to its customers that equity doesn’t matter and that the old systems—built to favor a few while excluding the rest—are just fine.
Target is bending the knee and sending a message to its customers that equity doesn’t matter and that the old systems—built to favor a few while excluding the rest—are just fine.
January 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Let’s be more accurate about what Target is really doing because the headlines aren’t telling it right.
Target is bending the knee and sending a message to its customers that equity doesn’t matter and that the old systems—built to favor a few while excluding the rest—are just fine.
Target is bending the knee and sending a message to its customers that equity doesn’t matter and that the old systems—built to favor a few while excluding the rest—are just fine.
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Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025:
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions
Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat
www.theframelab.org
January 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025:
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
Please consider this my blanket apology for not following everyone back. Every time I look at the list, I get overwhelmed. 😵💫
January 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Please consider this my blanket apology for not following everyone back. Every time I look at the list, I get overwhelmed. 😵💫
Serious question: what is the difference between the evangelical desire for the "end times" and the beliefs of doomsday cults?
January 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Serious question: what is the difference between the evangelical desire for the "end times" and the beliefs of doomsday cults?
Happy Day After Xmas and Do Absolutely F**cking Nothing Day.
I will be in my comfy with a stack of books beside me and my cat on my lap if anyone needs me.
I will be in my comfy with a stack of books beside me and my cat on my lap if anyone needs me.
December 26, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Happy Day After Xmas and Do Absolutely F**cking Nothing Day.
I will be in my comfy with a stack of books beside me and my cat on my lap if anyone needs me.
I will be in my comfy with a stack of books beside me and my cat on my lap if anyone needs me.
So let's force women to be pregnant. Great idea.
Banning abortion will get more women killed. Kind of wild how Orwellian it is to called oneself "prolife." The GOP is the pro-murder party.
Banning abortion will get more women killed. Kind of wild how Orwellian it is to called oneself "prolife." The GOP is the pro-murder party.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
When American women under 25 get pregnant, their odds of death by homicide more than double.
This is just one of their stories.
When American women under 25 get pregnant, their odds of death by homicide more than double.
This is just one of their stories.
Opinion | The Tragic Link Between Pregnancy and Homicide
For women under 25, getting pregnant more than doubles their risk of homicide.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:52 PM
So let's force women to be pregnant. Great idea.
Banning abortion will get more women killed. Kind of wild how Orwellian it is to called oneself "prolife." The GOP is the pro-murder party.
Banning abortion will get more women killed. Kind of wild how Orwellian it is to called oneself "prolife." The GOP is the pro-murder party.
With all the conversation about the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO, there's one thing I can't stop thinking about.
Kyle Rittenhouse.
Too many people seem fine with shooting people in cold blood just as long as it's in the interests of maintaining white supremacy.
Kyle Rittenhouse.
Too many people seem fine with shooting people in cold blood just as long as it's in the interests of maintaining white supremacy.
December 8, 2024 at 4:38 PM
With all the conversation about the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO, there's one thing I can't stop thinking about.
Kyle Rittenhouse.
Too many people seem fine with shooting people in cold blood just as long as it's in the interests of maintaining white supremacy.
Kyle Rittenhouse.
Too many people seem fine with shooting people in cold blood just as long as it's in the interests of maintaining white supremacy.
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NEW: School vouchers were passed in Mississippi in the 1960s with the support of the White Citizens’ Council and a goal of continuing segregation. Money still goes to segregation academies today. Shocking story.
Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s
ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2024 at 12:09 PM
NEW: School vouchers were passed in Mississippi in the 1960s with the support of the White Citizens’ Council and a goal of continuing segregation. Money still goes to segregation academies today. Shocking story.
The whole conservative women posting about liberal women coming to get them is giving major "Yankees...at Tara!" vibes.
a close up of a woman wearing a necklace and a green dress
ALT: a close up of a woman wearing a necklace and a green dress
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:33 PM
The whole conservative women posting about liberal women coming to get them is giving major "Yankees...at Tara!" vibes.
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"Each of Trump's proposed appointments is a surprise. It is comforting to think that he is simply a vengeful old man, lashing out. This is unlikely. He and Musk and Putin have been talking for years. The whole idea of his campaign was that this time he had a plan"
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
Decapitation Strike
Preserving America from Trump's Appointments
snyder.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM
"Each of Trump's proposed appointments is a surprise. It is comforting to think that he is simply a vengeful old man, lashing out. This is unlikely. He and Musk and Putin have been talking for years. The whole idea of his campaign was that this time he had a plan"
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
Wow, so many new people coming over -- Welcome!
a woman is holding a red umbrella and waving her hand in the air .
ALT: a woman is holding a red umbrella and waving her hand in the air .
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Wow, so many new people coming over -- Welcome!
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Again, it has utterly fallen down the Memory Hole that the FIRST TIME Trump secretly partnered with Russia in 2016 to undermine Obama's foreign policy was to help Bibi defeat a resolution against illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Hamas hoped Oct. 7 would spark a regional war. But in a dark irony of history, it may lead to the most anti-Palestinian, pro-occupation POTUS ever.
I doubt an alternative US approach would’ve resulted in greater US domestic approval for Biden. Just different Americans disapproving, possibly more.
I doubt an alternative US approach would’ve resulted in greater US domestic approval for Biden. Just different Americans disapproving, possibly more.
December 19, 2023 at 1:26 PM
Again, it has utterly fallen down the Memory Hole that the FIRST TIME Trump secretly partnered with Russia in 2016 to undermine Obama's foreign policy was to help Bibi defeat a resolution against illegal settlements in the West Bank.
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When Musk talks about “the elites,” he can’t even pretend he’s talking about people like himself- out of touch rich white billionares, he’s clearly invoking the idea of a Jewish cabal controlling the world. He has invoked Soros multiple times, directly called him worse than Magneto
December 10, 2023 at 8:10 PM
When Musk talks about “the elites,” he can’t even pretend he’s talking about people like himself- out of touch rich white billionares, he’s clearly invoking the idea of a Jewish cabal controlling the world. He has invoked Soros multiple times, directly called him worse than Magneto
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No one should delegitimate any Jew's experience in this area, especially now. As someone who reports on antisemitism, I tend to be pretty even-keel b/c it's already priced in. But many Jews are feeling more fearful, and it's not b/c anyone told them to be, but b/c of their evaluation of real events.
Various self-appointed Popes of the Jews telling us we're supposed to be afraid. And if we're not afraid, we're tokens at best, self-hating at worst. Incredibly dark place we're in.
December 8, 2023 at 2:01 AM
No one should delegitimate any Jew's experience in this area, especially now. As someone who reports on antisemitism, I tend to be pretty even-keel b/c it's already priced in. But many Jews are feeling more fearful, and it's not b/c anyone told them to be, but b/c of their evaluation of real events.
I am upset about this because I am not prepared for tights to make a comeback.
December 8, 2023 at 11:04 PM
I am upset about this because I am not prepared for tights to make a comeback.
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Today the Supreme Court hears US v Rahimi, a case about the gun rights of domestic violence offenders
Originalism says disarming abusers is unconstitutional bc the country didn't historically do so
And as I said in The Atlantic, it's going to get women killed
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Originalism says disarming abusers is unconstitutional bc the country didn't historically do so
And as I said in The Atlantic, it's going to get women killed
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Originalism Is Going to Get Women Killed
A federal court has ruled that a law barring domestic-violence offenders from owning firearms is unconstitutional.
www.theatlantic.com
November 7, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Today the Supreme Court hears US v Rahimi, a case about the gun rights of domestic violence offenders
Originalism says disarming abusers is unconstitutional bc the country didn't historically do so
And as I said in The Atlantic, it's going to get women killed
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Originalism says disarming abusers is unconstitutional bc the country didn't historically do so
And as I said in The Atlantic, it's going to get women killed
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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oh they broke broke lmaooo
Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000
Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
www.forbes.com
November 4, 2023 at 11:24 AM
oh they broke broke lmaooo
Anyone else so busy with work you forgot to buy Halloween candy and are now sitting in the dark pretending not to be home to avoid the disappointment of tiny trick or treaters?
November 1, 2023 at 12:29 AM
Anyone else so busy with work you forgot to buy Halloween candy and are now sitting in the dark pretending not to be home to avoid the disappointment of tiny trick or treaters?
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I'm a historian. I know change happens. And it's still just plain breathtaking to live through the intentional dismantling of public higher ed in the USA.
October 27, 2023 at 12:53 PM
I'm a historian. I know change happens. And it's still just plain breathtaking to live through the intentional dismantling of public higher ed in the USA.