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Anna Kornbluh

@annakornbluh.bsky.social

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nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast http://www.annakornbluh.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Dec 5

elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy.
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Power 100

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 5h

It’s kind of crazy that the first hour of this movie is just the detailed account of a messy open marriage between two hot but terrible poets from Portland, OR! And then suddenly the Russian revolution breaks out and all hell breaks loose. But that’s what history is like, I guess

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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 7h

Growing up here, I have always thought of the lake as a space of resistance to growth, development, sprawl. In theory and to a large extent in practice, the public lakefront marks the lake and access to it as an open and free.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8h

don’t sleep on Knight and Day, in which he parodies himself

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8h

free chicago

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

Just got back from Normal, IL for a lecture at Illinois State University. Established in 1857 after this small town lawyer named Abe secured the funding. Was reminded once again that US public universities are the triumph of civilization

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 2d

LIBRARY BOARDS
Pursue a seat on your local public library board. Your board may be elected, or it may be appointed. Need help finding details about your local board? For the People: A Leftist Library Project has you covered: data.librariesforthepeople.org

For The People

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11h

this is quite good, the two different rhetorical modes of a polarized, degraded symbolic.

we need a @thelouvreof.bsky.social for shitposts.

best examples on bsky this year so far?

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 13h

There. Are. No. Exceptions. To. Human. Rights. If one of us isn't free, none of us are free. I want to live in a country where a politician who stands on this principle isn't the exception. But until then, Mamdani is an example of what's possible, and what we should demand from our leaders.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12h

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13h

got a one word poem at smol.

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smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/chic...

smols

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 15h

i am feeling, i am seeing, i am hearing, i am getting the vibes, that students this sem are better than they've been in years because learning offers a rare haven from authoritarianism, a place to convene, commune, think together, refuel for the fight

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15h

amazing kris!!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17h

More and more people are saying it:
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 18h

The data centres being built now will be derelict by 2030.

Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 19h

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 17h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19h

ordered mine yesterday

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19h

ok but now we need to compose a little critical essay about these 9 tomes of YOU

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19h

it’s a law of physics, like typos only become legible after hitting send

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 20h

9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools.

Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20h

can’t find a book in your house and have to order a new copy years old

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

the heart in this heartland, the fighting love

“Block them. Don’t let them leave with your neighbors. Make their lives a living hell.”
www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

www.chicagomag.com

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