Anne Kosseff-Jones

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Line and copy editor at Radical Care Editing. Abolition and social criticism. Free Palestine. Minneapolis. She/her.

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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Before it was Jamelle, it was Tressie, before it was Tressie, it was all those black folks y’all chased away before this app was even fully open to the public. I can’t PAY a lot of my friends to try BlueSky because of what they’ve heard about y’all. It’s not a person; it’s a proven pattern.

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The No More Police audiobook is currently discounted - www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

60% OFF No More Police: A Case for Abolitionwww.audiobooks.com A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail...

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Oh by the way, this a great time to read writers with roots in Appalachia who aren't J. D. Vance. I grew in North Carolina, my novel concerns New Orleans, Alabama, & Atlanta, but it's a way better read for y'all than HILLBILLY ELLEGY. Get it from my neighborhood bookstore here. Y'all welcome.

None But the Righteous a book by Chantal Jamesbookshop.org Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction "[A] profound de...

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it's my absolute favorite holiday of the year when the entire U.S. news industry turns itself into a giant blogspam affiliate for a single massive billionaire-owned retailer with absolutely nobody in any position of editorial authority thinking that's in any way unethical or gross

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Haha yeah

As soon as we learned that Crooks was a registered Republican it was clear that the assassination attempt was going to be a two-day story.

I think we've talked before about how Newsies actually has way better politics than it has any right to have, but I'm rewatching it with my kids and am struck by how perfect this line is: "When you've got a hundred voices singing, who can hear a lousy whistle blow?"

Newsies:The World Will Knowwww.youtube.com The song "The World Will Know" from the 1992 Disney movie "Newsies"

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which was part of the point all along (the other point is school segregation)

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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IDK who the first person to express this sentiment was, but: "When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small."

What are people doing w/neighbors & friends to create & nurture networks of collective care & mutual aid? What small but significant (or super size me and spectacular, and everything in between) actions & practices are people talking about, preparing for, or taking?

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So many people have social anxiety or anxiety in general and I think it got worse during the pandemic If you’re an organizer, how are you addressing this in your spaces and how are you bringing people into the work who have a hard time going to things in person, etc?

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Israel has bombed five schools in eight days. Genocide doesn’t stop just because the headlines are taken over by a homegrown Nazi getting clipped in the ear.

Israel strikes five schools in week of ‘massacres’www.aljazeera.com The latest attack on a UN-run school in Nuseirat camp kills 17, wounds about 80.

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This is SOOOO fucking real

gotta love how contemporary publishing is 30000000 beautiful, deeply felt, finely crafted books with 7.5 readers each whose authors are just barely making a living, and like 4 books that financially support the whole apparatus, each of which has comprehensively and unforgivably destroyed society

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JD Vance going from 'Trump is America's Hitler and that's why I oppose him' to 'Trump is America's Hitler and that's why I'm running to be his Vice President' -- truly, what an arc

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Okay, so. We philosophers call this epistemic injustice and epistemic violence. Epistemic injustice is an injustice that centers on attacking a person’s status as a knower. Epistemic violence is wielding one’s status as a knower to do harm to someone else as a knower.

I don't talk about what I know about certain shit on here because your knowledge and understanding is never good or pure enough for white people. They think they set the standards for respect and objectivity, and dictate the means of analyzing things. Like they invented science or thinking. Miss me.

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I work at Rockin' Stickers! We're a small business in the PNW and our stickers and our little crew are amazing (I print my own stickers in-house, too)! I love us so much, please consider ordering your stickers from Rockin' Stickers! 💛

Sticker Mule is Tr*mp trash. Use StickerApp or Sticker Robot or Zug Monster or literally anything else

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LEFTISTS in the US. How are we organizing for the election? Things will be happening and people will be active. I'm not asking about participating in DNC GOTV (tho I'm not arguing against). I'm asking how we can use this time effectively? What are some goals?

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psprint is cheaper anyway. if you want to do black and white stickers with quick turnaround you can also get a label maker

Reminder to not use Sticker Mule 💅

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In a deleted tweet, someone in attendance at a meeting regarding the NHS plan to review transgender medical care for adults quoted an official for the NHS implying the Cass review was designed to shut down access to gender affirming care for youth. We managed to get a screenshot showing the OP.

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It’s almost like the pundit class wants the wrong things out of this campaign season

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Also I think we can dispense with the “he’s on vacation” because he’s posting pretty consistently on Threads now. Good work white posters, driving off two progressive Black columnists with national reach. You did it!

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In the immortal words of James Baldwin, "It's not on us to cool it."

Decade after decade of stochastic terror, gun rights fervor, & the foment of conspiratorial thinking by, from, on, & within the right, & yet it's somehow DEMOCRATS & the LEFT who need to "calm things down" or "lower the temperature?" Nah son. We *been* calm, and quite fucking cool and collected. …

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That “misunderstood white boy” grift just doesn’t quit. Like, this headline is a master class in the power of whiteness.

The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN. Here's what we know so far.

What we know about the Trump rally gunman so far | CNNwww.cnn.com The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN on Sunday.

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absolutely brilliant. the cataloging of violent imagery from the right is incredible. i mean, we all know this, but it’s striking to see it in one paragraph.

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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Doomerism is unhelpful. My sense is that this doesn't just win him a bunch of sympathy votes; most voters will stay where they've been. My concern is that former Trump supporters who had lost some enthusiasm and might have stayed home will now be more likely to vote so that's what I'll organize on.

I genuinely do not get how people are taking this incident as Evidence That Democrats Are Doomed. This kind of thing does not tend to have clear, linear “always good for the person it allegedly happened to” outcomes, historically

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The way forward is mutual aid. Feel lost, lonely, scared? There is a free fridge project or pantry near you. Make some sandwiches. I am absolutely not kidding about this. “Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake” is not terrible advice if you give it away.

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Does nobody in the world remember that a Gabby Giffords, a sitting American member of congress, was shot in the head just over a decade ago? And that Steve Scalise was shot in 2017? I get that we're all scared but calling this unprecedented is just irresponsible and wrong.

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the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me

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New York Times Editorial Board: "Mr. Trump’s political agenda cannot and must not be opposed by violence. It cannot and must not be pursued through violence." Ok but to be clear Trump's political agenda *is* violence. We get that right? I dont want us to miss that www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...

Opinion | The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to Americawww.nytimes.com Political violence is antithetical to our democracy.

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Back to what matters ! #Gaza

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Lots of people who say they hate fascists on this website fighting everyone but the actual fascists because they think they live in a nicer apartment than them