Ann Whelan
@annwhelan.bsky.social
Psychotherapist and recovering Facebook user.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
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Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
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January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
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This statement from an eyewitness to the Minnesota murder of Mr. Pretti is gut wrenching, from beginning to end. Please disseminate it as you see fit.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
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January 25, 2026 at 11:15 AM
This statement from an eyewitness to the Minnesota murder of Mr. Pretti is gut wrenching, from beginning to end. Please disseminate it as you see fit.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
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Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.
January 8, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.
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Here is my countdown of the Top 40 protest signs from No Kings 10/18. These are good, but stay tuned because the Top 20 are pretty epic. Here is 31-40. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Top 40 No Kings Signs, #31-40
Countdown of the best protest signs from Oct. 18
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October 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Here is my countdown of the Top 40 protest signs from No Kings 10/18. These are good, but stay tuned because the Top 20 are pretty epic. Here is 31-40. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Tim Snyder on “the Stephen Miller terror memo about this giant Antifa conspiracy, and therefore we have to have, effectively, a state of emergency. The whole government has to be turned against liberals & Democrats & everybody who tries to organize themselves in the U.S.”
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Timothy Snyder on lying and authoritarian politics
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
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October 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Tim Snyder on “the Stephen Miller terror memo about this giant Antifa conspiracy, and therefore we have to have, effectively, a state of emergency. The whole government has to be turned against liberals & Democrats & everybody who tries to organize themselves in the U.S.”
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Completely agree
We have no common experiences
We have no common experiences
We no longer know one another.
The longest consecutive stretch in American history without mandatory service should end.
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The longest consecutive stretch in American history without mandatory service should end.
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https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article312151128.html?taid=68cfd605ccfd1a00015ccb11&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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September 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Completely agree
We have no common experiences
We have no common experiences
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
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September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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In 1900, nearly 1 in 5 children in America died before age five. Vaccines changed that.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies are fueling a public health catastrophe.
People will get sick. People will die. Science saves lives—misinformation kills.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies are fueling a public health catastrophe.
People will get sick. People will die. Science saves lives—misinformation kills.
September 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
In 1900, nearly 1 in 5 children in America died before age five. Vaccines changed that.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies are fueling a public health catastrophe.
People will get sick. People will die. Science saves lives—misinformation kills.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies are fueling a public health catastrophe.
People will get sick. People will die. Science saves lives—misinformation kills.
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I remember the worst day for crime in Washington D.C.'s history and whose fault it was.
August 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I remember the worst day for crime in Washington D.C.'s history and whose fault it was.
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In my lifetime, i cannot recall any other American President who openly hated the other party or urged his devotees to hate their neighbors who voted differently
Trump on Democrats: "They hate Trump. But I hate them too. I really do. I hate them."
July 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In my lifetime, i cannot recall any other American President who openly hated the other party or urged his devotees to hate their neighbors who voted differently
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This is not normal. A sitting president refusing to call the governor of a state after two elected officials were shot, one fatally, is beyond words. A typical president, regardless of politics, would pick up the phone. Offer condolences.
June 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is not normal. A sitting president refusing to call the governor of a state after two elected officials were shot, one fatally, is beyond words. A typical president, regardless of politics, would pick up the phone. Offer condolences.
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The assault on LA County by gangs of masked thugs - terrorizing people at their places of work - examplifies the Trump Regime, which is institutionalizing illegality, as I discussed here.
June 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The assault on LA County by gangs of masked thugs - terrorizing people at their places of work - examplifies the Trump Regime, which is institutionalizing illegality, as I discussed here.
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Being a “crybaby” is Jason Reynold’s favorite thing about himself. On this week’s “Wild Card with Rachel Martin,” he talks about his restless approach to life and the advice he got from LeVar Burton.
Watch the full interview: https://n.pr/45l8ZnV
Watch the full interview: https://n.pr/45l8ZnV
June 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Being a “crybaby” is Jason Reynold’s favorite thing about himself. On this week’s “Wild Card with Rachel Martin,” he talks about his restless approach to life and the advice he got from LeVar Burton.
Watch the full interview: https://n.pr/45l8ZnV
Watch the full interview: https://n.pr/45l8ZnV
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#ClipOfTheDay: “Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity / we once were?” Marie Howe, who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, reads her poem “Singularity” in this short film directed by Matthew Thompson and produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. at.pw.org/Singularity
May 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#ClipOfTheDay: “Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity / we once were?” Marie Howe, who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, reads her poem “Singularity” in this short film directed by Matthew Thompson and produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. at.pw.org/Singularity
Thanks for the first 100 days @maddow.msnbc.com ❤️🙏🏻
May 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Thanks for the first 100 days @maddow.msnbc.com ❤️🙏🏻
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"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management."
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The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After
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April 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management."
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AOC: I heard that someone was flying a plane with a banner that said this is Trump country… It sure don’t look like it today.
I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.
I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.
April 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
AOC: I heard that someone was flying a plane with a banner that said this is Trump country… It sure don’t look like it today.
I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.
I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC.
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March 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC.
time.com/7269604/el-s...
www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...
time.com/7269604/el-s...
www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...
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Today is Mister Rogers' birthday.
Today is Big Bird's birthday.
And spring has officially sprung.
A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed.
Today is Big Bird's birthday.
And spring has officially sprung.
A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed.
March 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today is Mister Rogers' birthday.
Today is Big Bird's birthday.
And spring has officially sprung.
A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed.
Today is Big Bird's birthday.
And spring has officially sprung.
A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed.
Things are not right in our country. The signs of this are all around us.
March 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Things are not right in our country. The signs of this are all around us.
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Don’t fuck with Boston.
EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!
March 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Don’t fuck with Boston.