Ann Shanks Etter
@annshanks.bsky.social
Sapphic narrator, avid reader, lover of animals, partner, parent, grandparent.
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The Defense Department opened an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly (a former Navy captain and astronaut) after he appeared in a video urging service members to reject unlawful commands.
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Defense Department opened an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly (a former Navy captain and astronaut) after he appeared in a video urging service members to reject unlawful commands.
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Good news! Judge James E. Boasberg just issued a serious warning to the Justice Department, signaling that he may open a formal contempt investigation into whether the Trump administration violated his order to stop deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador back in March.
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Good news! Judge James E. Boasberg just issued a serious warning to the Justice Department, signaling that he may open a formal contempt investigation into whether the Trump administration violated his order to stop deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador back in March.
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An interesting observation from @ausconservation.bsky.social’s CEO on whether a regulator OR a politician should be the ultimate environmental approval decision maker - “it’s much harder to make a donation to a regulator than it is to make a donation to a politician”. #environment #auspol
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
An interesting observation from @ausconservation.bsky.social’s CEO on whether a regulator OR a politician should be the ultimate environmental approval decision maker - “it’s much harder to make a donation to a regulator than it is to make a donation to a politician”. #environment #auspol
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We cannot be silent. Grateful to our brothers Bishops for this strong statement in support of human dignity and against the indiscriminate mass deportation of our immigrant kin.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We cannot be silent. Grateful to our brothers Bishops for this strong statement in support of human dignity and against the indiscriminate mass deportation of our immigrant kin.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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This is odd, it looks like the DOJ skipped suing Texas entirely. The Justice Department is now suing California over the new congressional district boundaries that voters approved just last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday in a post on X. Who are they going to sue, the voters?
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This is odd, it looks like the DOJ skipped suing Texas entirely. The Justice Department is now suing California over the new congressional district boundaries that voters approved just last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday in a post on X. Who are they going to sue, the voters?
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Several states (including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin) have announced that they’ve begun processing full food stamp payments. Thank you to those states for stepping up to support families in need!
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Several states (including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin) have announced that they’ve begun processing full food stamp payments. Thank you to those states for stepping up to support families in need!
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You can't make this up.
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
You can't make this up.
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It's been 38 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's been 38 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
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It’s been really disheartening to see the things people say about those who use SNAP. Many seem to have little understanding of why the program exists in the first place.
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It’s been really disheartening to see the things people say about those who use SNAP. Many seem to have little understanding of why the program exists in the first place.
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Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!
October 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!
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As part of Trump’s planned Reduction in Force (RIF) during the government shutdown, the Interior Department said it plans to lay off about 2,050 employees, including 272 from the National Park Service (NPS), 335 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
As part of Trump’s planned Reduction in Force (RIF) during the government shutdown, the Interior Department said it plans to lay off about 2,050 employees, including 272 from the National Park Service (NPS), 335 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
October 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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For this Bi Visibility Day, pick up a sapphic historical romance by a bi author, with a bi heroine! Lady’s Guide is science vs art bi awakening, Waspish Widows is small town bees and bi/pan, and Hellion’s Waltz is bi4bi enemies to lovers with a heist element!
#Romancelandia
#Romancelandia
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, l...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
For this Bi Visibility Day, pick up a sapphic historical romance by a bi author, with a bi heroine! Lady’s Guide is science vs art bi awakening, Waspish Widows is small town bees and bi/pan, and Hellion’s Waltz is bi4bi enemies to lovers with a heist element!
#Romancelandia
#Romancelandia
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Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving
It's a world worth saving
September 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving
It's a world worth saving
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Trump had a tantrum tonight over ABC bringing Jimmy Kimmel back, even threatening to sue the network.
September 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Trump had a tantrum tonight over ABC bringing Jimmy Kimmel back, even threatening to sue the network.
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Just a reminder that #NBC and #MSNBC fired numerous Black women to placate the far right, including @joyannreid.bsky.social @joy.msnbc.com, and before that @tiffanydcross.bsky.social and Melissa Harris Perry for, effectively, speaking truths that offended their white overlords.
September 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just a reminder that #NBC and #MSNBC fired numerous Black women to placate the far right, including @joyannreid.bsky.social @joy.msnbc.com, and before that @tiffanydcross.bsky.social and Melissa Harris Perry for, effectively, speaking truths that offended their white overlords.
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I hate it when my autistic child has to hear ‘news’ stories and rumors about how autism is some sort of plague or how it ought to be cured. He has a hard enough time with his self image. There’s so much he wants to do that he either can’t (yet) or does with massive effort. This bs just hurts.
a woman is holding a piece of pizza in her hand and the word shut is behind her .
ALT: a woman is holding a piece of pizza in her hand and the word shut is behind her .
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I hate it when my autistic child has to hear ‘news’ stories and rumors about how autism is some sort of plague or how it ought to be cured. He has a hard enough time with his self image. There’s so much he wants to do that he either can’t (yet) or does with massive effort. This bs just hurts.
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Idk who needs to hear this but autism isn't evil and people with autism are delightful little gems and beloved children of God. Anyone telling u otherwise is selling something!
September 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Idk who needs to hear this but autism isn't evil and people with autism are delightful little gems and beloved children of God. Anyone telling u otherwise is selling something!