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Ana Marie Cox

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Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. anamariecox.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 16

This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris

Small Kindnesses
by Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7h

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 5h

I hope for their sake no trick or treaters show up at Andy Ngo's house.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 8h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 6h

look at this absolute robber baron

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 10h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

Legendary interview moment with the director of Morbius about Jared Leto’s behavior on the set of Morbius

uproxx.com/movies/morbi...

I heard a story about filming and I want to see if this is true. Someone told me that Jared Leto was so committed to playing Michael Morbius that even when he had to go to the bathroom, he would use his crutches and slowly limp to get to the bathroom. But it was taking so long between for pee breaks, that a deal was made with him to get him a wheelchair so someone could wheel him there quicker and he agreed to that. Is this true?

Yes.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

incidentally if you are interested in this and the prior post, @anamariecox.bsky.social and Open Mike Eagle have a really good podcast on those topics! youtu.be/bF3GMRWw9js?...

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 1d

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

TCU fumbling in Manhattan like they’re Andrew Cuomo.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

I don't get the RIFs. None make more sense in the shut down than they would at any other time. They're cost-cutting but not in away that preserves funds that could be spent elsewhere. It's not "we're using these savings to keep air traffic contollers working," it's "we want to fire people."

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

And it's not even, "You made us fire all these federal workers." What they're saying is, You forced the shutdown and we're really excited to fire all these federal workers."

I repeat: huh?

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

I am really trying to process how "it's your fault we have a shutdown, you've made us fire all these federal workers" could possibly equate to the general public taking it out on the Dem. I mean MAGA types will swallow whatever and I am BlueSky pilled but... Huh?

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

::playfully swats with paw::

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

Need to see @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's response to this proposal.

www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Along with fighting crime, Sliwa’s campaign promises include a novel concept for tackling the city’s ballooning rat problem. A longtime cat lover—he lives with his wife and a half-dozen cats in a one-bedroom Manhattan apartment—Sliwa wants to weaponize the city’s feral felines.

“Consider them like Batman and Robin—Gotham caped crusaders at night,” he said at an August press conference detailing his plan to bring cat colonies into Central Park to let nature take its course against the rats. During Sliwa’s first mayoral campaign, he made headlines for keeping 17 cats in his then-320-square-foot studio apartment.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is already responsible for overloading shelters bc detained/fleeing families have to leave beloved pets behind. ICE will also kill a lot more dogs.

I know @weratedogs.com is already bold in taking political stances, but any amplification of this carelessness could further grind down ICE's rep.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder that the Constitution gives Congress the power to set tariffs. It could end this madness any day they chose to discover their power.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

Doooooo ittttttttt

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 2d

You can wear this one and hold a sign that says we're all trying to find antifa

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

Two years ago I picked up Nacua on a waiver wire (then a Cooper Kupp understudy) at the last minute and I think people hated me even more then.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

@eff.org confirms a Tx LEO used license plate surveillance to look for a woman whose "romantic partner" (later charged w/DV against her) reported self-managed abortion.

The concerned sheriff is currently indicted on (unrelated, technically) sexual harassment charges.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Johnson County Sheriff Adam King repeatedly denied the automated license plate reader (ALPR) search was related to enforcing Texas's abortion ban, and Flock Safety called media accounts "false," "misleading" and "clickbait." However, according to a sworn affidavit by the lead detective, the case was in fact a death investigation in response to a report of an abortion, and deputies collected documentation of the abortion from the "reporting person," her alleged romantic partner. The death investigation remained open for weeks, with detectives interviewing the woman and reviewing her text messages about the abortion.

That sheriff has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury. EFF filed public records requests with Johnson County to obtain a more definitive account of events.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

I got him in auto-draft (I had Covid) and was mildly disappointed, kept him mainly for his name. This is pretty thrilling.

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RummyOG @rummyog.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo, does sound like a pair of cold case detectives who accidentally run into each other at an AA meeting in a church basement.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

I love BlueSky

A list of trending topics: Qatari airbase, portland, cam skattebo, gaza ceasefire, letitia james

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