@soniaansari.bsky.social
wife, mother, Pakistani-American Texas girl, democratic socialist, immigration attorney/librarian, I love reading books, watching movies, listening to music, walking, and hanging out with my dog. #insulin4all
Pursuing peace. What a justification for making war.
01.03.2026 20:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Austin: 3 dead and 14 injured in mass shooting
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When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
28.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 3103 🔁 947 💬 21 📌 28
We watched Rental Family tonight. We both liked it but felt it would have been more compelling as a documentary. Like Mistress Dispeller, which I highly recommend and is available on Criterion now. I saw it at AFS Doc Days last year.
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Aimee Mann put on a terrific show at the Paramount tonight. I guess Lost in Space really is 22 1/2 years old. We’re all getting old. Great album, though I’ve always been partial to Bachelor No. 2.
27.02.2026 05:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bigots. Fools!
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57TH NAACP IMAGE AWARDS® DEATH OF THE AUTHOR A NOVEL Nnedi Okorafor NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR WINNER OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK - FICTION
Photo taken by Nollywood director Tchidi Chikere, 😏
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR has won the 2026 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction!!
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Sigh…wow. 🥹
Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:
Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:
25.02.2026 02:15 — 👍 23524 🔁 5009 💬 619 📌 305He is the most unpopular president in U.S. history. Parker reminds me of this almost daily to comfort me. But it’s little comfort as the lawlessness and corruption gets worse and worse. Anyway, I’ll be watching tonight just because it’s historic. It’ll be torture.
25.02.2026 00:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We watched Blue Moon last night, and we both loved it.
24.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)
23.02.2026 23:55 — 👍 24020 🔁 3818 💬 398 📌 300
I'm sorry Ms Jackson
I am surreal
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I'm a fish with one gigantic eye
The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.
23.02.2026 00:10 — 👍 22912 🔁 8820 💬 5581 📌 3323I get my hopes up every election cycle and think Texas is gonna flip (we have such good candidates). But I really think it’s gonna flip this time!
20.02.2026 03:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wow. A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland is narrative journalism at its best. Thank you to my friend, Corrie, for recommending it and to her father-in-law for recommending it to her.
19.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Robert Duvall was never in a bad movie. We rewatched Network (1976), one of the best movies of all time. I believe Faye Dunaway won the Oscar for best actress.
18.02.2026 03:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This innocent babe. Perhaps if his name was John, there would be more outrage.
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The freedom to read is so important. Librarians are not criminals for doing their job. They are guardians of intellectual freedom. Hoping this measure fails.
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Colbert’s interview with James Talarico that CBS refused to air last night
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my husband wrote a short film, and it won best sci fi short at the 2012 Burbank International Film Festival! He’s listening to Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, which he convinced me to put a hold on. I’ve read his other books and loved them. But kind of terrifying.
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Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
Chan Marshall got a standing ovation in Austin tonight. We got veggie burgers from P. Terry’s on the way home.
14.02.2026 04:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re going to see Cat Power tonight!
Don’t be in love with the autograph
Just be in love when you scream that song all night long
The American Heritage Dictionary defines the term concentration camp as: "A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group which the government has identified as dangerous or undesirable."
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There has never been a better argument for destroying capitalism than "if we can't make money off vaccines, then you don't get vaccines."
Hear me out: Publicly-funded vaccine research and everyone gets the vaccines for free.
