@soniaansari.bsky.social
wife and 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
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
09.03.2026 13:23 — 👍 2517 🔁 688 💬 75 📌 63
Read this to see how women are surviving in the concentration camps.
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I looked it up on the Austin Public Library’s website. It’s still a popular book. “Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence.” Hold placed.
08.03.2026 04:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A woman asked the director of Sirat if he had any literary influences because she kept thinking of The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. He said he didn’t know it but would read it.
08.03.2026 04:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We also The Bride! at the Alamo Drafthouse this afternoon with Roma. It was somewhat of a mess but we all still liked it. The scenes with Frankenstein and the bride were the best.
08.03.2026 03:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Saw Sirât this evening in a full theater at the AFS Cinema tonight after failing to get into it twice at Fantastic Fest. Glad we finally got to see it. One of the most intense films I’ve ever seen.
08.03.2026 03:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A poem by Hafiz for Ramadan:
“Let’s Eat”
Why
Just show you God’s menu
Hell we are all
Starving—
Let’s
Eat!
Less than one week into a war with Iran, Trump spent more than 90 minutes at an event (with Marco Rubio by his side) talking at a roundtable about what ails college sports and how to fix it.
06.03.2026 23:20 — 👍 789 🔁 249 💬 61 📌 14
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Wow. My husband shared this with me and our daughter. You have to check out the original by The Magnetic Fields if you don’t already know it.
A federal judge in Florida just stopped DeSantis from doing the same thing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
05.03.2026 02:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.
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[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]
Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
Both Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico make me proud to be Texan.
04.03.2026 00:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pursuing 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 — 👍 3130 🔁 953 💬 21 📌 29
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 — 👍 23514 🔁 5007 💬 617 📌 304He 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 — 👍 24061 🔁 3825 💬 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 — 👍 22908 🔁 8815 💬 5579 📌 3313I 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
