Here I propose that you can't understand history with less than twelve metaphors. davedenison.substack.com/p/how-deep-i...
How Deep is the Muck?
And how do we get ourselves out of this mess?
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Ann Neumann (otherspoon)
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The Good Death (Beacon). Clips: Harper's, The Guardian, The Baffler, VQR, the NYT and elsewhere. Economic Hardship Reporting Project supported. Pulitzer Center grantee. Student pilot.
Looking to speak to people who were fired or had their lives overturned in other ways for making comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death. Jessw39.01 or email Jessica.Washington@theintercept.com
Later this month, we’ll mark one year since we first sat down at the bargaining table with management. We’d like to share an update on how things are going (1/4):
Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]
Again, looking to talk to VA employees about what they've been hearing from local and national leadership after Alex Pretti was killed. Hearing a lot so far from people and want to talk to more VA staffers for an article. Please reach out to me on signal at nslayton.12
The Trump administration has stepped up its effort to comb public housing rolls for undocumented immigrants, telling public housing authorities across the country on Friday that they would face sanctions if they did not adequately verify whether tenants met eligibility requirements.
HUD Demands Public Housing Officials Check for Undocumented Immigrants
The Department of Housing and Urban Development said it would punish public housing authorities that did not adequately verify tenants’ immigration status within 30 days.
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The killings will continue until you give us the state voter rolls
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo agoFox News: "I've gotten my hands that AG Bondi said she sent to Gov. Tim Walz. It is strongly worded. The AG calls for the governor to support the men and women of ICE, to repeal the state's sanctuary policies, and to allow the DOJ to access state voter rolls."
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
Heinous. Obscene. Shameful. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; school leader says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos as “bait” to try and draw family m...
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High vaccine rates are a sign of a healthy community. You don't just immunize (or mask) for yourself, you do it for the people around you.
The Baffler@thebaffler.com · 9mo agoA measles outbreak is raging in South Carolina because not enough people are vaccinated. From the Archives: @annneumann.bsky.social writes on the long history of vaccine skepticism.
This article got me just what I was looking for: This week a man in Minnesota read it and got in touch because he knew my father when they served together at Kagnew Station, a premier listening post in the Horn of Africa, in the 1960s.
Bunk@bunkhistory.bsky.social · 9mo agowww.bunkhistory.org/resources/li... h/t @annneumann.bsky.social
Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000—but it’s back with a vengeance. From the Archives: @annneumann.bsky.social writes on epidemics in the age of the broken social contract.
Herd Immunity | Ann Neumann
The current measles epidemic provides us with a master class on the catastrophic breakdown in our understanding of what we might call the social contract.
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Seventh essay: Thinking with @annneumann.bsky.social & @audiosand.bsky.social on Erika Kirk and the weaponization of mourning: slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-mourni...
The Mourning Suit
Reading public grief and politics with Ann Neumann and Sandhya Dirks
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NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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ICYMI I wrote about an aspect of the opioid epidemic too often misunderstood... or completely missed: the flood of babies who are born with opioid exposure. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both
A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery
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This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come. CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
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It's not enough to say, "here's an approach that can solve a problem." You have to show it fully in real people's lives. That's what @annneumann.bsky.social does in this rich exploration of programs that keep addicted moms & babies together while moms get sober. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both
A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery
theguardian.com
"Just because someone was an addict doesn’t mean they can’t be a good mother. And it doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to have their children.” Fantastic new piece by @annneumann.bsky.social on an innovative family preservation effort.
Ann Neumann (otherspoon)@annneumann.bsky.social · 10mo agoFor decades NAS babies have been sent into the troubled foster care system while their mothers were sent back to the street. These centers, in cities decimated by the opioid epidemic, keep mothers and babies together. Photos: Rebecca Kiger; edits: Jessica Reed. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
For decades NAS babies have been sent into the troubled foster care system while their mothers were sent back to the street. These centers, in cities decimated by the opioid epidemic, keep mothers and babies together. Photos: Rebecca Kiger; edits: Jessica Reed. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both
A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery
theguardian.com
Powerful reporting by @annneumann.bsky.social and another example of the Guardian keeping on top of the addiction crisis (and ways to tackle it) in America www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both
A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery
theguardian.com
I’ve been writing about the incredible Philip Benight since the day I met him. Today marks one year since his death. Obit at @lancasteronline.bsky.social
GOP states are restricting youth voting by -requiring strict in-person ID for registering + voting, explicitly excluding college-issued IDs -locating poll sites far from campuses + targeting on-campus locations -limiting + sanctioning third-party voter reg orgs talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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Yes; and I want to make a different point. Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 11mo agoEditors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 11mo ago"They tried to shut me up by deporting me." www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
$220 million for a fascist ad campaign is bad enough. But it's all to line the pockets of Noem's friends and their families. The details in here are nuts. www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
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