Anna Merlan
@annamerlan.bsky.social
Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
ya it is, much agreed... this is a favorite, for me flaminghydra.com/be-our-guest/
Be Our Guest
As with many successful con artists, it can sometimes be difficult to remember how he entered our lives. The first time he appeared, as far as I can recall, he was trying out the neighboring apartment...
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The cat, who does not live here, just came in, sniffed the overnight oats I’m eating and recoiled in exaggerated horror. I didn’t ASK you. Get a JOB
Great piece about what Jared and Ivanka are doing in Albania, and the mass of scammy claims and breakneck construction they’re joining: “In other words, it’s not so much that the dream of the United States has disappeared in Albania; it’s more that it has mutated.” newrepublic.com/article/2137...
Greetings From Javanka-bania
The Trump clan finds a new place to ruin.
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Inflammatory disorders can be brutal. I’d know personally (thanks vasculitis et al). But the misinformation, including on vaccines, is dangerous. A deep dive from me into how MAHA sped up the inflammation panic. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Great Inflammation panic
The wellness world's favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn't just annoying—it's harmful.
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Why does everyone who wears makeup on the internet suddenly think they can only wear “cool-toned” products, can someone who isn’t me write 1,000 words please
“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now
The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.
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Max Miller said on X Live that "Journalism is supposed to ask difficult questions... and tell the whole story." Miller *repeatedly* declined to answer detailed questions from Mother Jones before we published our story.
Rep. Max Miller today: "Just want to be clear: no court, no agency has ever substantiated any allegation of abuse against me. No criminal charge has ever been filed against me." But here's a screenshot of his past criminal offenses.
I remain just totally amazed that these guys were physically able to reproduce. "Some children fly kites, some children feed ducks, some children court genital trauma." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief
What moves the star of “Jackass” to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation.
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And this is why we should cite Abby’s reporting and not other news outlets aggregating it 🙂
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d agoI first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.
Andrea Shaw is charged with suffocating her toddlers. Children’s Health Defense says it was the vaccines.
She’s charged with killing her twins. The anti-vaccine movement made her a martyr.
Andrea Shaw is charged with suffocating her toddlers. Children’s Health Defense says it was the vaccines.
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Does anybody have any questions about my reporting on Congressman Max Miller and the allegations he faces?
a clinical critique would destroy all the raw material the reporters collected via the access Doyle provided. it's counterintuitive to dedicate any investigative resources to reporting pre-selected for a let-the-readers-decide story, which is the paper's default posture for most gender subjects.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 4d agoHow does one write this story without asking a licensed marriage and family therapist how this advice could impact women in abuse marriages? Or indeed, asking anyone with any actual credentials what they make of the Laura Doyle approach and its legacy? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
How does one write this story without asking a licensed marriage and family therapist how this advice could impact women in abuse marriages? Or indeed, asking anyone with any actual credentials what they make of the Laura Doyle approach and its legacy? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Women Are Too Controlling, She Wrote. Her Message Still Resonates. (Gift Article)
The message in “The Surrendered Wife,” the best-selling book by Laura Doyle, was provocative. Many women credit it with saving their marriages.
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So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.
I spend a lot of time saying “there’s already food IN your BOWL” for someone who doesn’t have a cat
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.
"There is Q, there are anons, there is no QAnon."
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 5d agoNara Smith is now claiming she’s “not a tradwife” in a recent podcast appearance. This is a linguistic game that all kinds of people play! Sovereign citizens for instance began claiming there’a “no such thing” as a sovereign citizen as soon as the general public became more familiar with the idea.
There’s no distinction between me and Nara Smith. You’re hearing it more and more 🙂
@therealpapab.bsky.social · 5d agoNowadays what the hell is the distinction? The 70’s are over.
They are welcome to mock my choices and many tradwives do in fact mock “childless career women” from far larger platforms than mine 🙂
@therealpapab.bsky.social · 5d agoWhy is it any more appropriate for you to mock their choices than it is for them to mock yours?
“We are not terrorists, we are being terrorized."
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Nara Smith is now claiming she’s “not a tradwife” in a recent podcast appearance. This is a linguistic game that all kinds of people play! Sovereign citizens for instance began claiming there’a “no such thing” as a sovereign citizen as soon as the general public became more familiar with the idea.
Sorry for this hyperspecific ask but is NetGalley suddenly very broken for anyone else? I can’t log in OR reset my password and if I don’t read an advance copy of End Times Fascism I will cry
I cannot stop saying “that’s the RULE. That’s the GOAL now” and it’s becoming a plague upon my house m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZRy...
Weekend Update: Tucker Carlson on Liberal Politics and the 2026 Met Gala - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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NEW: I dug into the court documents in the case of Andrea Shaw, the Idaho mother charged with killing her toddlers. Shaw insists they died following a set of vaccinations. I looked at how the anti-vaccine movement insinuated itself into this case and her life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
She's charged with killing her twins. The anti-vaccine movement made her a martyr.
Andrea Shaw is charged with suffocating her toddlers. Children's Health Defense says it was the vaccines.
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Note the role of anti-vax nurse Angela Wulbrecht, who is associated with supercrank Steve Kirsch's "Vaccine Safety Research Foundation". Wulbrecht said that she is a subject in the "Giving Wakefield" Yale study, which was a product of Akiko Iwasaki & Harlan Krumholz's partnership with anti-vaxxers.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: I dug into the court documents in the case of Andrea Shaw, the Idaho mother charged with killing her toddlers. Shaw insists they died following a set of vaccinations. I looked at how the anti-vaccine movement insinuated itself into this case and her life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
they’re calling it the least sympathetic complaint in human history
Futurism@futurism.com · 7d ago"I have no idea how to get around this."
I wrote about the inevitable conspiracy theories being spun up around Fauci's diary. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Covid truthers are claiming Fauci’s diary was “scrubbed”
Because of course they are.
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