Anusia Cohen

Like guns are fun, I've shot them before. But goats are fun too. I don't want either in my house and I don't think everyone should own them.

One reason to get a cat or dog is to have a ready audience for this stuff without needing to fly folks halfway around the world.

Dear journalists: please do not make it sound like he was coherent.

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

Huge DOGE oral history from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @davidgilbert.bsky.social, @mollytaft.com, @aarianmarshall.bsky.social, @peard33.bsky.social, + @jakelahut.writes.news

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Burying the Bruises The White House insists Donald Trump’s visible bruises are nothing, but medical experts say the explanation doesn’t hold up. Why are the country’s biggest newsrooms silent?

"The visible health problems of the oldest president in American history barely registered in mainstream coverage," writes @passantino.bsky.social for Status_.

But @nytimes.com 🐔, @wsj.com 🐔🐔 & other major outlets published dozens of stories about Biden's physical fitness while he was in office.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

media should not interview minors who have just survived a mass shooting

Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board

The Supreme Court’s conservatives bear SO much blame for this disaster. They really thought they could let Trump fire every agency leader EXCEPT members of the Fed, and Trump would abide by their stern admonition to leave the Fed alone. Embarrassing stupidity. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

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I hope that there is accountability for these DOGE bros. They have wrecked so many lives.

Yesterday we posted about the Trump administration shutting down the LGBTQ+ youth crisis line, the “press 3” option on 988 is officially gone. The Trevor Project is stepping up to help fill the gap, and they could really use some support right now. If you’re able, please consider donating! 🏳️‍🌈 💛

I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.

Nancy Drew and the case of the $350,000 vanishing grant After spending almost a century wielding a magnifying glass and outwitting villains, Nancy Drew faced a different kind of mystery this summer — the case of ...

More trickle down effects of grant terminations — defunding Nancy Drew. 🎬

“When the NEH pulled the grant in April, Ms. O’Connell and her nonprofit partner, the Center for Independent Documentary, had already completed interviews but hadn’t begun postproduction.”

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It is baffling to me why no one points out that all these healthy, able-bodied people on Medicare--to the extent they exist--aren't using a lot of health care and thus aren't costing the government much $$.

A screenshot from the DC unemployment registration.

It's been just over a month since over 100 National Endowment for the Humanities staff were laid off. After waiting 2 weeks for the paperwork we needed to file for unemployment, the DC unemployment website crashes repeatedly every day some of us try to file. 🤨 #NEH #HowManyPhDs

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.

Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Imagine the outrage if Biden's FEMA chief was AWOL as a devastating natural disaster played out, claiming the lives of 100 people and counting.

Now imagine it's Trump's FEMA chief and it's happening right now amid Texas' deadly floods. Except you don't have to imagine.

It is going to be a slowly unfolding disaster, too, and most Americans won't be able to connect the dots between gutting of basic research/data collection and a deadly event.

@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

That last line hits hard

Again, LLMs are not intelligent in any way. All they can do is generate text. They don’t think. They don’t understand. It’s just software.

Isn’t that a Hatch Act vio.. ah fuck it. Never mind.

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

Beth Moore tweet

We rightly blame pastors when they don’t speak out, but we also need accountability for the denominations and congregations that punish the ones who do.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene.

While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.

End this oligarchy.

Ex: Three F-18 Hornets at the bottom on the Red Sea = 1 NEH unit.

"Express your answer in NEH units"

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below