Deluded Wine Mom
@amandaannklein.bsky.social
media studies professor writing historical fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E!
Views expressed are my own
Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
Views expressed are my own
Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
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There's a lot of fanfare over the fact that MTV has shuttered the last of its 24/7 music video channels, but this has been coming for a long time.
In fact, MTV began to move away from pure music video content as 1984!
Join me for a little walk through the slow demise of the music video!
In fact, MTV began to move away from pure music video content as 1984!
Join me for a little walk through the slow demise of the music video!
I can’t explain why exactly, but this anecdote feels exactly like the inside of my brain in 2026.
AirTag in the lecture hall lost & found yesterday. Unusual.
January 27, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I can’t explain why exactly, but this anecdote feels exactly like the inside of my brain in 2026.
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I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
January 27, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
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we’re right about ai too
January 27, 2026 at 2:23 PM
we’re right about ai too
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I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
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Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
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coz often people invoke me and my book in online scraps about "where were you when..." and to chastize those newly organizing:
I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.
I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.
January 26, 2026 at 3:37 PM
coz often people invoke me and my book in online scraps about "where were you when..." and to chastize those newly organizing:
I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.
I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.
we have barely survived 3 months. we won't last 3 more years of this.
January 26, 2026 at 5:19 PM
we have barely survived 3 months. we won't last 3 more years of this.
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The easiest way to understand Minnesota v. Noem, the Tenth Amendment challenge to Operation Metro Surge, now being heard in fed court:
Imagine how the Supreme Court would rule, and the law it would create, if Barack Obama decided to send 3,000 FBI agents to Texas to help register DACA recipients.
Imagine how the Supreme Court would rule, and the law it would create, if Barack Obama decided to send 3,000 FBI agents to Texas to help register DACA recipients.
January 26, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The easiest way to understand Minnesota v. Noem, the Tenth Amendment challenge to Operation Metro Surge, now being heard in fed court:
Imagine how the Supreme Court would rule, and the law it would create, if Barack Obama decided to send 3,000 FBI agents to Texas to help register DACA recipients.
Imagine how the Supreme Court would rule, and the law it would create, if Barack Obama decided to send 3,000 FBI agents to Texas to help register DACA recipients.
“Faith based” always means Christianity just like “working class” always means white 🥸
Just read a Rolling Stone article about American Idol focusing more on "faith-based" music
This is crazy to me. "Faith-based" would involve multiple "faiths." There is no Islamic, Jewish, Hindi, Atheist, etc. Music. It is just Christian
This is crazy to me. "Faith-based" would involve multiple "faiths." There is no Islamic, Jewish, Hindi, Atheist, etc. Music. It is just Christian
January 26, 2026 at 3:57 PM
“Faith based” always means Christianity just like “working class” always means white 🥸
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imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
January 26, 2026 at 3:36 AM
imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
This is actually what it means to die for your country. May his memory be a blessing ❤️
January 26, 2026 at 1:28 PM
This is actually what it means to die for your country. May his memory be a blessing ❤️
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
January 26, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
January 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
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It's obviously good that citizens with smartphones can create multiple records of these shootings and undercut propaganda and government lies about them. But I find it a little deranging that being an informed news consumer in 2026 requires watching what are essentially snuff videos in slow-mo.
January 25, 2026 at 6:29 PM
It's obviously good that citizens with smartphones can create multiple records of these shootings and undercut propaganda and government lies about them. But I find it a little deranging that being an informed news consumer in 2026 requires watching what are essentially snuff videos in slow-mo.
Me, while cleaning one of the dog’s anal glands “Get a dog they said, it’ll be fun they said…”
Husband: “you do realize that you are ‘they,’ right?”
Me:
Husband: “you do realize that you are ‘they,’ right?”
Me:
a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
Alt: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
media.tenor.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Me, while cleaning one of the dog’s anal glands “Get a dog they said, it’ll be fun they said…”
Husband: “you do realize that you are ‘they,’ right?”
Me:
Husband: “you do realize that you are ‘they,’ right?”
Me:
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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These monsters have worked for decades to create an America in which it's perfectly okay for civilians to walk around with a loaded weapon, and now they're saying if you have a gun at a protest, the state can murder you.
BARTIROMO: There is outrage across the country that there is another killing. Someone is dead at the hands of Border Patrol. What can you tell us?
KASH PATEL: You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions. We not messing around.
KASH PATEL: You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions. We not messing around.
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM
These monsters have worked for decades to create an America in which it's perfectly okay for civilians to walk around with a loaded weapon, and now they're saying if you have a gun at a protest, the state can murder you.
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The whole interview is worth it
January 24, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The whole interview is worth it
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Alex Jeffrey Pretti, licensed nurse
January 24, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, licensed nurse
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The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.
January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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If the cops can kill you for legally carrying a gun, it is not legal to carry the gun.
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 7:17 PM
If the cops can kill you for legally carrying a gun, it is not legal to carry the gun.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"
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If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.