Anne Libby
@annelibby.bsky.social
I do not want to be saved by a good billionaire. Stupid white hippie. No, the tent should not be that big. Newsletter: annelibby.email; it’s about managing people and the workplace.
Pinned
Anne Libby
@annelibby.bsky.social
· Jul 8
tl;dr give to your local foodbank
Early today. I stopped at a church food pantry in an affluent Chicago suburb. 2 hours before the pantry opens, probably 50 people were lined up. I got an earful from the pastor (no she didn't vote for him) on expected shortages, because funding has been cut off.
Early today. I stopped at a church food pantry in an affluent Chicago suburb. 2 hours before the pantry opens, probably 50 people were lined up. I got an earful from the pastor (no she didn't vote for him) on expected shortages, because funding has been cut off.
Reposted by Anne Libby
The enormous tank, called a biodigester, has transformed a previously contaminated South Side lot.
trib.al/vgp89Dy
trib.al/vgp89Dy
Green Era's food waste processor creates compost and renewable energy in Auburn Gresham
The enormous tank, called a biodigester, has transformed a previously contaminated South Side lot.
trib.al
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The enormous tank, called a biodigester, has transformed a previously contaminated South Side lot.
trib.al/vgp89Dy
trib.al/vgp89Dy
Gone are the days that you could keep a bag of onions on hand? Half the onions I've purchased in the last maybe 3-4 months have gone to compost, because they're moldy.
(I bought 2 early last week, used one. The other day, I thought something was dead in the pantry. Nope, just a suppurating onion.)
(I bought 2 early last week, used one. The other day, I thought something was dead in the pantry. Nope, just a suppurating onion.)
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Gone are the days that you could keep a bag of onions on hand? Half the onions I've purchased in the last maybe 3-4 months have gone to compost, because they're moldy.
(I bought 2 early last week, used one. The other day, I thought something was dead in the pantry. Nope, just a suppurating onion.)
(I bought 2 early last week, used one. The other day, I thought something was dead in the pantry. Nope, just a suppurating onion.)
Reposted by Anne Libby
I love this interview and the parallels between what he discovered as a historian making a thing and realizing all the little decisions a weaver makes in the process, and all the many things DH staff know about doing projects that just don't get written into the record of scholarship. #DHmakes
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I love this interview and the parallels between what he discovered as a historian making a thing and realizing all the little decisions a weaver makes in the process, and all the many things DH staff know about doing projects that just don't get written into the record of scholarship. #DHmakes
Reposted by Anne Libby
I’m having that thing where you log on to social and everyone is reacting to the new thing but the reactions are vague, aghast, angry enough that you’re struggling to figure out exactly what the new thing is. German must have a word for this.
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’m having that thing where you log on to social and everyone is reacting to the new thing but the reactions are vague, aghast, angry enough that you’re struggling to figure out exactly what the new thing is. German must have a word for this.
Reposted by Anne Libby
yeah the universe is really breaking today ngl
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
yeah the universe is really breaking today ngl
Reposted by Anne Libby
Heads up on a new sneaky phishing attempt I just received where it claims to be FedEx saying you owe them a tariff payment. I got a text and email with the spoofed sender but I checked the FedEx app to confirm it was fake.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Heads up on a new sneaky phishing attempt I just received where it claims to be FedEx saying you owe them a tariff payment. I got a text and email with the spoofed sender but I checked the FedEx app to confirm it was fake.
Reposted by Anne Libby
I don’t want to brag but the stupid we’ve seen this week feels next level
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I don’t want to brag but the stupid we’ve seen this week feels next level
Reposted by Anne Libby
Literally braver than the troops.
Also, teach your peers and your community about jury nullification.
Also, teach your peers and your community about jury nullification.
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Literally braver than the troops.
Also, teach your peers and your community about jury nullification.
Also, teach your peers and your community about jury nullification.
Reposted by Anne Libby
It's okay to grieve the lives we could've lived and lives others lost but man I just refuse to accept that these horrible people dominating us all is inevitable and we should just give up, sorry! Hope is a knife!
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It's okay to grieve the lives we could've lived and lives others lost but man I just refuse to accept that these horrible people dominating us all is inevitable and we should just give up, sorry! Hope is a knife!
Reposted by Anne Libby
I accidentally shared a news article to my recipe organizer instead of to messages and the result is kind of hilarious.
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I accidentally shared a news article to my recipe organizer instead of to messages and the result is kind of hilarious.
Amazing! I had no idea this was on the agenda.
NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income • The TRiiBE
On Thursday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 budget, which includes $7.5 million to fund the county’s guaranteed basic income program.
thetriibe.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Amazing! I had no idea this was on the agenda.
Reposted by Anne Libby
Check out this thread. It’s certainly helpful for my own sanity to hear that DHS BWC shows what we all saw with our own eyes. It’s really something to be gaslit by the government after each of their attacks.
DHS claimed that on September 26, a DHS officer claimed that they were forced to deploy riot munitions because protestors were "becoming increasingly hostile."
In fact, "the [Body Worn Camera] video shows that the protesters were simply standing there when agents first deployed any force."
In fact, "the [Body Worn Camera] video shows that the protesters were simply standing there when agents first deployed any force."
![On September 26, 2025, video from an agent’s BWC shows a line of agents standing at least thirty feet away from protesters outside the Broadview facility on Harvard Street. Axon Body 4 Video 2025-09-26 1137 D01A3411W at 2:00; see also Doc. 172-11 at 8 (“[T]he crowd [ ] was approximately 30-40 feet away.”). Despite this distance, the agents start yelling “move back, move back” to the protesters and then shoot pepper balls and tear gas at them without any apparent justification. Axon Body 4 Video 2025-09-26 1137 D01A3411W at 2:21–4:19. While the agent wrote in his use of force report that protesters were “becoming increasingly hostile,” Doc. 172-11 at 7, the BWC video shows that the protesters were simply standing there when agents first deployed any force. Axon Body 4 Video 2025-09-26 1137 D01A3411W at 2:21–4:19.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreih4fjfnaqkwsaqnsxvistdx2gw6ysfvxi2nfacnppy3hedxnsy4aq@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Check out this thread. It’s certainly helpful for my own sanity to hear that DHS BWC shows what we all saw with our own eyes. It’s really something to be gaslit by the government after each of their attacks.
Reposted by Anne Libby
from the former BLS commissioner whom Trump fired this summer:
So great to see BLS back to work measuring and informing us about our large and dynamic economy.
It’s a great institution full of dedicated civil servants deeply committed their mission. They have had a tough year, and everyone is covering for someone who left. I thank them all for their service.
It’s a great institution full of dedicated civil servants deeply committed their mission. They have had a tough year, and everyone is covering for someone who left. I thank them all for their service.
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
from the former BLS commissioner whom Trump fired this summer:
Reposted by Anne Libby
listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
cult
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
cult
Reposted by Anne Libby
Reposted by Anne Libby
This has to be one of of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century from March 1907. Sixteen years old suffragette Dora Thewlis. A poor mill worker from Honley in Huddersfield she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union At a demonstration in London she is
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This has to be one of of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century from March 1907. Sixteen years old suffragette Dora Thewlis. A poor mill worker from Honley in Huddersfield she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union At a demonstration in London she is
Liberal arts studies ftw
Student journalists getting the job done!
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Liberal arts studies ftw
Reposted by Anne Libby
Siskel and Ebert about to drop the sickest acoustic indie rock album
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Siskel and Ebert about to drop the sickest acoustic indie rock album
Reposted by Anne Libby
I can't believe I didn't think to repost this earlier!
my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I can't believe I didn't think to repost this earlier!
Reposted by Anne Libby
It’s not inevitable but it is how These Things Go Lately for structural reasons and I want to remind myself
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It’s not inevitable but it is how These Things Go Lately for structural reasons and I want to remind myself
He’ll have his Redemption Arc™️
At some point not too long from now someone will appoint summers to some powerful role where his bad ideas can hurt people. It will seem like he was punished now, that in some way he sought atonement, forgiveness. Ppl won’t remember that removal from Harvard was hardly punishment & he didn’t repent.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
He’ll have his Redemption Arc™️
Reposted by Anne Libby
At some point not too long from now someone will appoint summers to some powerful role where his bad ideas can hurt people. It will seem like he was punished now, that in some way he sought atonement, forgiveness. Ppl won’t remember that removal from Harvard was hardly punishment & he didn’t repent.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
At some point not too long from now someone will appoint summers to some powerful role where his bad ideas can hurt people. It will seem like he was punished now, that in some way he sought atonement, forgiveness. Ppl won’t remember that removal from Harvard was hardly punishment & he didn’t repent.
Reposted by Anne Libby
Sundog over my house. Westport, NY.
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Sundog over my house. Westport, NY.
Reposted by Anne Libby
Well done elder white women in Nebraska using their social status for good: “We love the immigrants“ www.klkntv.com/we-love-the-...
#PissedOffGrandmas
#NoICEDetentionCenters
#PissedOffGrandmas
#NoICEDetentionCenters
'We love the immigrants': Nebraska grandparents protest McCook ICE facility
A group called "Pissed Off Grandmas" gathered outside of the governor's mansion to sing in protest on Monday.
www.klkntv.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Well done elder white women in Nebraska using their social status for good: “We love the immigrants“ www.klkntv.com/we-love-the-...
#PissedOffGrandmas
#NoICEDetentionCenters
#PissedOffGrandmas
#NoICEDetentionCenters