Elisabeth R. Anker

Misogyny and racism put people's safety at risk and don't lower the cost of living for anyone.

Every Trump rally is a Klan rally.

Ruh roh

Friendly neighborhood remind that you don’t have to buy or use a Ring. It’s actually neat that we can collectively decide to make this specific nightmare useless.

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

Got a new piece out today analyzing the Trump 2025 NSS from the perspectives of white nationalism and conservative ideas about sovereignty.

Check it out!

Twitter post from Lloyd Turnbacher III @lloyd_turn "Get this satanic shit out of my Dixie." Followed by a photo of the poster flipping off a big Chabad style electronic menorah, on the streets. With Christmas decorations visible in the background. Posted at 3:21 PM 07 Dec 25 • 375K Views 870 Reposts 64 Quotes 18.4K Likes

This is unadulterated antisemitism, for the sake of hating Jews for existing and publicly celebrating our holidays.

Under the MAGA hat (literally in this case), with over 18k likes.

Monsanto scientists ghostwrote this paper claiming the company’s proprietary glyphosate & roundup herbicides had no risk to human health.

25 years & 1300 citations later, it has finally been retracted — 8 years after the collusion was exposed.

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everyone wants socialism until theyre told its “socialism”

the Netflix merger is horrible, and would only be worse if Paramount took it over. I spoke about its awfulness on Al Jazeera:

The university bought Claude AI for students to use.

Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.

Great stuff, academia.

“According to one of the Alligator Alcatraz survivors in the Amnesty report, people were put into the box simply for alerting the guards to someone's need for medication. "They were taken to 'the box' and punished for trying to help me," the person told Amnesty.”

The degree of damage to a functional, non-state media system they might do in just a few years is remarkable. Honestly not sure if/how it gets rebuilt.

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don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.

Shouldn’t this news about Trump Jr. spend at least a few hours atop the newscycle?

I'll never get used to sheer, unadulterated meanness of this administration. They're completely unconcerned about lifting people up and solely focused on tearing people down. It is a movement that is absolutely devoid of a moral center. We need to present a clear moral vision in opposition.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Watch here: mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/DLbmFD...

I was back on Al Jazeera last night discussing the Netflix merger, and why it is bad for workers in Hollywood, for those of us who watch movies, and for film as a majestic art form. Link ⬇️🎥🥸

Donald Trump Jr-backed start-up scores $600mn US federal government deal President’s son’s fund 1789 Capital poised to capitalise from father’s administration

In Nov. 2024, Trump Jr. joined Unusual Machines, a drone maker, as an "advisor.” In October, they won a big contract from the Army.

On Dec. 3rd, Vulcan Elements, a start-up, got a $620 million loan from the DOD. You won't guess who invested back in August!

When your “leopards ate my face” causes harm to babies

How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations “The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data management company’s chief executive.

I think the answer is basically greed and ketamine?

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.

Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

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Read this stunning essay by @blacklikewho.bsky.social to counter the ceaseless horrors in your feed:

penguin classics cover of Kim by Rudyard Kipling but the cover image is a blue-tinted close-up photo of Kim Jong-Un

I mean why are we willingly ceding power to these drug addled losers who can’t articulate a single coherent thought unrelated to the mechanics of technology

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"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."