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Anne Martens

@glossolaliac.bsky.social

A likely story. Social justice, nonprofit & government communications. Mom. Mixed race. Cat person. Reads for fun. Loves live music.

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Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

15.02.2026 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3182    πŸ” 756    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 33

Started season 2 and it looks like the same plot

16.02.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Even Seattle gets sunshine sometimes

16.02.2026 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Justice Department Poised to Preserve Ticketmaster Monopoly - The American Prospect Settlement talks on a monopolization case against Live Nation are under way, with Kellyanne Conway and other MAGA lobbyists seeking a sweetheart deal.

In the @prospect.org, David Dayen reports on Trump’s DOJ throwing in the towel against Ticketmaster. So much for ye olde right-wing populism.

13.02.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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When Posting Becomes Its Own Style of Politics Social media has long been flooded with populist rage and discontent. What happens when the posts become policy?

"Slopulism," a type of viral content that @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social has called "participatory propaganda," has been a dynamic that's been "building for years," Starbird recently told @nytimes.com in an interview. [1/2]

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

13.02.2026 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizingβ€”and Infighting Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests.

1. Over the last six months, I’ve been studying MAGA, and trying to understand why it has been so successful – and what the Democrats ought to learn from that success. The results were published in the New Yorker magazine this week. Here’s what I learned: (a 🧡)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

29.01.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

Identity politics and litmus/purity tests have been shrinking the Democratic coalition for decades. Paired with the loss of meaningful social connection, all we have left is 12 text messages every day asking for $5 and no real party.

15.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well. My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms

if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

08.01.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1571    πŸ” 361    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 83

Loved this. I wish more people understood what government is for.

It’s not supposed to be run like a business, it’s supposed to be run like a public good.

13.02.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht? Advice for Jeff Bezos

Your yacht will never find out anything damning about your business.

06.02.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 279    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6

Can Kendrick do a version of They Not Like Us for the Epstein files?

05.02.2026 03:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t repeat the opposition’s message. You’re only reinforcing it.

03.02.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DraftKings and FanDuel spending millions on 2026 midterms, new filings reveal The two largest online sports gambling companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, have already spent millions of dollars on the 2026 midterm elections, according to FEC disclosures filed on Friday.

The two largest online sports gambling companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, have already spent millions of dollars on the 2026 midterm elections, according to FEC disclosures filed Friday.

This is a sea change for the industry, which has traditionally focused its political spending on state politics.

02.02.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter The vice president knows what ICE means to MAGA.

"ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator.

from David Frum:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

13.01.2026 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2976    πŸ” 1041    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 69

You know in The Matrix how the humans are just batteries for the machines?

That’s what we are for AI.

05.01.2026 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

04.01.2026 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 37063    πŸ” 5988    πŸ’¬ 927    πŸ“Œ 291
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Just Six Corporations Remain NEW YORKβ€”MCI-WorldCom and Bank One-Chase Manhattan merged in a blockbuster $112 billion deal Monday, forming the world’s largest telecommunications/banking company and reducing the number of existing ...

Getting truer every day (originally from 1998). @theonion.com

theonion.com/just-six-cor...

29.12.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please tell me you’re posting this on X too

26.12.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They never move. They’re just used to getting their way.

26.12.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why I Left the Network Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made thei...

Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance.

Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.

(Published Aug. 2024)

26.12.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 363    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 17

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

23.12.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4190    πŸ” 1819    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 59

These psychos care immensely about online chatter about them, even though they pretend they don’t care. Musk sued Media Matters, Thiel sued Gawker. They care desperately and we on the left don’t invest enough time, energy and money in pushing out good, accurate, embarrassing intel.

26.12.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 381    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

I would happily pay the @democrats.org and @actblueorg.bsky.social to STOP TEXTING ME

26.12.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Updates on the Arc of the Moral Universe β€œThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” β€” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - - -The arc of the moral universe is feeling ...

The arc of the moral universe is rocking back and forth in the bathtub.

The arc of the moral universe is out of ideas.

The arc of the moral universe wants you to please wait. Your call is important to it.

29.11.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 21

Billionaires ruin everything

01.12.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

29.11.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1969    πŸ” 628    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 7
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I’ll play. What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Btw 1991 was iconic and yes I know Nirvana Nevermind was that year too, but also:

17.11.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA adminβ€”they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appeaseβ€”but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

15.11.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3922    πŸ” 1078    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 21
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

12.11.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7124    πŸ” 3131    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 464

Too few people are talking about the fact that for eight years (2011-2019), while Jeffrey Epstein was raping young girls and trafficking them to hundreds of other rapists from his home base in Palm Beach, Florida, the Florida district attorney was Pam Bondi. Connect the dots.

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