Anne Norton

@annenortonnow.bsky.social

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Political theory, the wild, the anarchic, also cats, corgis (the wild, the anarchic).

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Anne Norton is an American political scientist and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Political science 64%

Sociology 21%

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4h

@sanders.senate.gov: "We have already had 15 Republicans in the Senate defy Trump and say, 'Release the SNAP funds.' So I think that if we had held firm, it would be the Republicans who would yield. That was not the position of these 8 Democrats."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

Christian Nationalists:

QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?

ANSWER: Zero times.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Anne Norton

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

“.. demonstrates how Mr. Trump’s handling of pardons and commutations has allowed some convicts to return to criminality.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...

Reposted by Alan Richardson, W. Andy Knight, Anne Norton

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.

Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.

Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.

Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h

The only silver lining to last night’s cave.

Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone keeping a list of things that will need to be fixed? Also, maybe a direct action replacement?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

After rounds of golf & parties in Palm Beach, Trump will fly to attend a football game while his economic advisers hit the Sunday shows trying to convince people that the terrible economy they said would be booming is the fault of Dems, while promising it will be great next year.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.

Reposted by Elizabeth Sharrow, Catherine Baker, Anne Norton

Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 1d

“What was once a reliable, repeatable pillar of her life was ripped away from her, first because she felt like an outlier among her peers, and then..the powers that be took away her right to be on the team.” The government has “targeted the fundamental social pillars upholding trans lives”. so cruel

Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 2d

For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...

Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.

"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."

www.teenvogue.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

“ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids.”

"The scouts “are unable to help their neighbors because of these masked men in the community.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

When a group of Oak Park Girl Scouts and their parents set out for the group’s annual food drive Saturday morning, they imagined it would be a day of helping in their community.

Instead, the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons and vehicles with dark-tinted windows as the sounds of whistles pierced the air.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Reposted by Göran Bolin, Devon Greyson, Anne Norton , and 2 more Göran Bolin, Devon Greyson, Anne Norton, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Elisa Freschi

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.

And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.

What does OpenAI offer the world?

Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

futurism.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶

$Yesterday we had a meeting on the block. We had to. The state of the government and its affect on the community was the topic. We discussed the best way to proceed in all of the uncertainty. The other day there was no SNAP in November. Then it was half. Then it was none again. Then it was half again. Then 65%. Then 35% in the exact same day. So you can see what I mean when I say, uncertainty. The hokey pokey of this administration had us wondering should we keep doing dinner everyday and lean in, or stop because people are getting a percentage (I think? ) of their SNAP benefits? Now, preparing meals outside on a street corner in the summer is hard. But, outdoors in a Chicago fall/ winter is brutal. We've done pop ups before in the winter but never everyday... BUT, knowing how difficult it could be and will be, every single volunteer who cooks and shows up to serve everyday STILL voted that we can't stop. The kids need us. Even with a fraction of the benefits. Even with the indecisiveness of the government. Even in the cold, wet, ick, that is sure to come. Even without funding. They all voted to still show up. And then people in the neighborhood started dropping whatever they had in their pockets on the table. Because we're all in this together. 🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶$

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Scott @disorderlyswine.bsky.social · 2d

It was like two days ago where Bovino and other agents were found to have lied in a deposition about him being assaulted. Video showed the situation was entirely the opposite.

Clip from a Chicago Tribune article, highlighting Bovino lying under oath. Link in following post.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jamie Morgan, Anne Norton

Linny @linnybobinny.bsky.social · 2d

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 2d

This will all have to be stripped off. Trump should pay for it, the vandal.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 2d

My outrage over Johnson's refusal to seat Grijalva grows daily and I think of dire ways Democrats can pay Republicans back for this when they are next in power.

Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 2d

Must we have Loomer? I think not

Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 2d

I support jury nullification but agree: not necessary in this case

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 2d

"Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s decision to prosecute a man for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent wasn’t just silly, but irresponsible. And in this case, pursuing an assault case against that man was downright lawless."

Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 2d

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 2d

A group like that did the same and the only place that responded without conditions was a mosque

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 2d

Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 2d

Opinion | The sandwich thrower was wrong. But Jeanine Pirro was, too.

To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.

www.msnbc.com

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 2d

An international solidarity activist was injured in the head after being assaulted by Israelis while helping farmers harvest in Beita.

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Anne Norton

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2d

US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Reposted by Anne Norton, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

We have long possessed the ability to have everyone fed, clothed and housed and have chosen not to do so. Now, this regime demands the power to commit more aggravated impoverishment.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce, R. M. Wilson , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce, R. M. Wilson, Anne Norton, Mark Rice

Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 3d

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 3d

Release the Epstein files

Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 3d

No respect for that court.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 3d

Ummm. What?

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 3d

This just into the newsroom

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.

Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 3d

The distinguishing characteristic of the American right is fear: fear of immigrants, fear of the poor, fear of the queer, fear of those who might know more, fear of exposure. We can be fearless.

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