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Anne Nelson Mancl
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Professionally curious university lecturer; loves adventure, history, interesting cars, reptiles & rocks; can be irreverent. Anti-fascist. Raised in Chicago area, now in Madison, WI
#tallpoppysyndrome #crossculturalcommunication #publicspeaking
#GenX
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BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious
dudes rock
September 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“Listening to the album is like getting a crash course in people’s history” #woodyguthrie
inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
New Music from Anti-Fascist Folk Singer Woody Guthrie Released
With this reveal of 22 previously unheard songs, the Guthrie family hopes the radical messages in “Woody At Home” will inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.
inthesetimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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You could write a book about this photo. Everything about it is so fucking vulgar.
August 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The word fills an important gap in our language, but it was once stigmatized. The story of "y'all" also includes powerful cultural forces, from hip-hop to ideas of welcoming inclusivity.
Y'all, we need to talk about 'y'all'
The word fills an important gap in our language, but it was once stigmatized. The story of "y'all" also includes powerful cultural forces, from hip-hop to ideas of welcoming inclusivity.
n.pr
July 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Meet the ‘weird’ sea spider that’s mapping the evolution of eight-legged creatures
Meet the ‘weird’ sea spider that’s mapping the evolution of eight-legged creatures
UW–Madison researchers and their international colleagues have published the first high-quality genome of a sea spider species, providing a key reference point for the evolutionary traits of many rela
news.wisc.edu
July 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures www.openculture.com/2025/06/a-fr...
A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures
 In 22 lectures, Yale historian Paul Freedman takes you on a 700-year tour of medieval history.
www.openculture.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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That’s not what the military is supposed to do. That’s called a military coup.
June 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/sTQjiSiG
Join me on June 14
app.sosha.ai
June 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Here’s How Much Damage A Police ‘Hood Slide’ Really Does To A Car - with @JasonTorchinsky in action, TJ Hooker style 🚨 www.theautopian.com/heres-how-mu...
Here's How Much Damage A Police 'Hood Slide' Really Does To A Car - The Autopian
You’ve probably seen police “hood slides” on TV in The Dukes of Hazzard, Rush Hour, Starksy & Hutch, and who knows — if you lived in 1980s New York City, maybe even in real life. It is universally con...
www.theautopian.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I'm trying something new. This is an AI assisted Explainer video where I just lean in all the way into the software to do the voice and drawings in the interest of time.

First one is on the legal reasoning behind the court's thinking in striking down Trump's tariffs. youtube.com/shorts/xamHY...
Why the court said NO to Trump's tariffs
YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly
youtube.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Chestnuts and the Roman Empire! Super interesting
bbc.com/future/artic...
May 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Our investigation with @propublica.org found that Arizona’s response to a massive Medicaid fraud scheme left patients without access to the drug and alcohol treatment they needed. This week, the director of the state’s Medicaid agency resigned.
Director of Arizona Medicaid agency resigns following fraud scheme response
Under Carmen Heredia’s leadership, the agency withheld payment to more than 300 businesses as it investigated fraud allegations. The state’s swift response left patients homeless, AZCIR and ProPublica...
azcir.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
‘Absolutely insane.’ Dragonfly’s extreme loop-the-loops are unparalleled in nature | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Absolutely insane.’ Dragonfly’s extreme loop-the-loops are unparalleled in nature
Insects use “crazy turning” to dry off after a cooling dip in water
www.science.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The charging document in the case of Judge Dugan www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read the F.B.I.’s Charging Document (Gift Article)
The F.B.I. filed this document on Thursday in the case of Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested on Friday.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Happy one year anniversary to the Man Who Killed Google Search
Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
The Man Who Killed Google Search
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, ...
www.wheresyoured.at
April 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Pete Buttigieg calls out the GOP’s plan to slash Medicaid and gut the VA: “They don’t have an answer. Their answer is: burn it all down.”

Yes, there are problems. But cutting care for poor people and Veterans isn’t a fix—it’s a failure.

“We can do better than that.”
April 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM