Mary Addison Hackett
maryaddisonhackett.bsky.social
Mary Addison Hackett
@maryaddisonhackett.bsky.social
artist, feminist, advocate, occasional writer based in the american south
*Hackett, Mary Addison
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The Trump administration has moved forward with its plan to gut funding for NPR and PBS, calling the outlets "radical, woke propaganda disguised as news."

Our colleagues at @revealnews.org sat down with NPR's @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social to talk about the administration's attacks on journalism.
Trump's "pincer attack" on journalism is working. But there's hope.
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik on the challenges journalists face in covering the White House and his own employer being in Trump’s crosshairs.
www.motherjones.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Aerial view of CECOT.
April 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
April 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
March 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Tonight's bounty. Also, keep making calls.
March 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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February 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long.

They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
February 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Watch the full interview with @jenpsaki.msnbc.com and subscribe to support independent media:
Major WARNING SIGNS for Trump SURGE into spotlight
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
February 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
February 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
February 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
342 words in under the wire and I finished my accounting.
Tripping the micro-post fantastic
Essays on art and life. Notes on process. Deep cuts, keen observations, quotidian details.
maryaddisonhackett.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I miss my desert.

1. Untitled (Zabriskie Point, Death Valley 11.10.19)
2019/2024
2. Untitled (Cap Rock, JTNP 12.01.19)
2019/2024
3. Untitled (Mesquite Dunes, DVNP 11.9.19)
2019/2024
#analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography
#mediumformat
#joshuatree #deathvalley
February 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Excellent by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."
February 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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“There’s no hard and fast rule for what I won’t cover, but I don’t think ‘Billionaires Are Good’ is a headline you’ll ever see on The Handbasket.”

www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/an-i...
February 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It's Sunday again and Nothing is Too Banal just dropped.
maryaddisonhackett.substack.com/p/an-incompl...
February 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
From the way back machine:

“Hello, I’m_______”
One hundred hand-painted name tags
2016-2017
Acrylic on canvas
3 x 5 inches each
February 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Putting this thing together's a labor of love!

youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#SongsofResistance - YouTube
youtube.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,
February 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites.

This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.

www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
CDC purges STD and vaccine recommendations after Trump gender order
Health experts say the website purge could result in deaths.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Bedside reading
February 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Bizarrely, the artist’s own estate is erasing the story behind it and suggesting it’s open to interpretation, which makes no sense unless they think disconnecting the work from the AIDS crisis and the artist’s queerness makes it more salable & they DNGAF about artist’s intent. In which case, F them
January 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I went from 7 footnotes to none, cut 3 paras, removed a poem, and made it choppy like a bad haircut. Enjoy the reading list. #NothingIsTooBanal #quickreads #photography #politics #contemporaryart #autotheory
January 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM