Annie LaCourt

Annie LaCourt

@annielaco.bsky.social

Municipal government and finance geek, treasurer for non-profits, reader of Talmud, Gardener, Mom, spousal unit of an AI genius. Pulls no punches and tells no lies. Everything I need to know in life I learned at the Yale School of Drama. Data is love.

1,444 Followers 2,913 Following 999 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Which why you cannot get elected.

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Justice for Data and data

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Still waiting on all those "principled soldiers" I keep hearing about to refuse unlawful orders...

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the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

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a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his eyes closed . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his eyes closed .

There seems to be a lot of men who don’t get why women are upset that the men’s team laughed at Trump’s “joke”.

Let me make his “joke” clear: He said the ONLY reason he would invite the women’s team was bc if he didn’t he’d be impeached. The message was he wouldn’t have otherwise.

And they ALL 😂

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In systems where men hold all the power women and children are always at risk. the end of the patriarchy is the beginning of safety

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I hope people realize this is a declaration of increased taxation on every American. Without the approval of Congress. He’s not figuring this out on his own. This is Russel Vought.

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It's a five-slicer of a storm The Boston French Toast Alert was just hoisted to 5 Slices / Severe, as high as it gets. Read more.

Bombogenesis is back! Boston’s already had 40in of snow in 2026 & looks like possibly another foot with Sunday-Monday Nor’easter. Stay tuned for more on snow prep…

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“He’s my first born,” Susan Pretti said. “He’s the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day.”

“No,” her husband said.

I urge you to read this today.

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1 month ago

Me too. Best show I saw there was Warren Zevon. I also miss Sally’s :)

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Oh! I also once gave Bonnie Rait a cold because she came into the light booth before her encore and shook everyone’s hand. Saw her at Toads Place a week or so later and she had my laryngitis.

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Not sure it counts as mundane. I once asked James Earle Jones if he could please leave the stage so we could set for the second act of a tech rehearsal.

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New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So

With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

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UNICEF: 37 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the ceasefire.

Imagine if this was Israeli children - would we call it a ceasefire?

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What do you have against the Celtics?

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"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."

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We are all immigrants. Unless you came over on the Mayflower. I am an immigrant to Canada having grown up in the US. America was built by immigrants. Some people have forgotten that.

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Instagram picture by @larrydn7 of Nance in a hat, chain, and with a black t-shirt saying "all my homies hate ICE" with three angry cartoon ducks in between these large words. below that on the shirt in smaller type: "no one is illegal on stolen land immigrants make america great"

Larry Nance Jr., forward for Cleveland Cavs

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They always get around to us.

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Until about 100 years ago people had to become adults at a much earlier age. And we are still here as a species.

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Amen!

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All 10 shots were fired AFTER they removed the gun from Pretti’s waist. Every single shot was fired after he was disarmed.

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Stormy seas as seen from the Outer Beach. (Photo taken by Nan Turner Waldron while staying at Henry Beston’s Outermost House, likely 1970s)

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By some definitions they are in hell already. Small comfort that that is.

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1 month ago

what ways can you grind the gears of empire today, tomorrow, the next day?

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A photograph of a page in a book. It's a poem called "LITERARY LUNCHEON: IOWA CITY". The lines are mostly quite short except for the one about the river, which is part of the poem's punch. Text as follows:

According to the windows that face the slow-spilling brown river we are sipping not our coffee but blizzard winds that surprise us rolling from the north.

Still-bare trees are slowly colored white and the earth implies this is the source of the cold I feel.

Not so.

The great ones gather

at the university buffet

like cattle around

alfalfa and barley.

I maintain without willing it an Indian invisibility.

Feeling seen, maybe a little bit gently condemned 🫤

(From "Bone Dance" by Wendy Rose)

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Two bison in the snow. Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colorado

Bison in the snow.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Cold #EastCoastKin #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #phototographer #dhephotos #more #adventure #someday #bison #snow #Colorado #RMANWR

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Who tells the story? *Slaves* don't get their stories preserved. A Sumerian proverb states "the life of a poor man does not survive his death." This makes the Exodus special. There is a duty to preserve the stories of the oppressed. There is a duty to tell the names of those who suffer

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"say their names"
"do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"

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