anne kirkner
@anabeldm9.bsky.social
assistant professor of criminal justice | pre-school parent trying to thrive in the end times | she/her | all views my own
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You're telling me the legislature mostly composed of car-dealership owners and former McKinsey partners doesn't like the idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat?
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
You're telling me the legislature mostly composed of car-dealership owners and former McKinsey partners doesn't like the idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat?
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Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.
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Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
🧊 helicopters have been circling my neighborhood in NW Chicago for two hours now. It is unnerving and I'm again reminded that we're all just expected to live like this for how long? Indefinitely?
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🧊 helicopters have been circling my neighborhood in NW Chicago for two hours now. It is unnerving and I'm again reminded that we're all just expected to live like this for how long? Indefinitely?
This is infuriating. My loved one is a male breast cancer survivor and I can only imagine the horror of having to worry about getting care on top of feeling isolated.
The Trump administration is rolling back benefits that required “reproductive cancer of any type” be covered for veterans, arguing that it doesn't apply to men diagnosed with breast cancer because male breasts are not reproductive organs.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is infuriating. My loved one is a male breast cancer survivor and I can only imagine the horror of having to worry about getting care on top of feeling isolated.
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I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.
When bad things get worse
Border Patrol, ICE, and the repetition of grim history.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.
One of my students did their CJ ethics midterm on the film Miracle on 34th Street and it’s so good 😆😆 Never have I considered the implications of this trial! This is truly why I teach.
October 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
One of my students did their CJ ethics midterm on the film Miracle on 34th Street and it’s so good 😆😆 Never have I considered the implications of this trial! This is truly why I teach.
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
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It is absolutely vital that people of good will examine the role of institutions like the media, universities, and the Democratic Party in our authoritarian moment. I guarantee you the stuff in the book will change how you think--it changed me learning so much while writing it.
October 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It is absolutely vital that people of good will examine the role of institutions like the media, universities, and the Democratic Party in our authoritarian moment. I guarantee you the stuff in the book will change how you think--it changed me learning so much while writing it.
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Disney adults threatening to shut shit down and getting immediate results like the flight attendants union during the 2019 government shutdown
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Disney adults threatening to shut shit down and getting immediate results like the flight attendants union during the 2019 government shutdown
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neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that
Current favorite thing about teaching is being able to teach about the Satanic Panic.
September 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Current favorite thing about teaching is being able to teach about the Satanic Panic.
A great read. Crystal clear about what is happening here- and it's the same old fight, in many ways.
wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A great read. Crystal clear about what is happening here- and it's the same old fight, in many ways.
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did you know gmail now has a subscriptions page where it lists all your subscriptions and you can unsubscribe from them????
September 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
did you know gmail now has a subscriptions page where it lists all your subscriptions and you can unsubscribe from them????
Been really moved by all the stories from Katrina survivors on TikTok. Now watching the Netflix doc. Struck by how this is the first major climate disaster (right?) but I didn’t realize at the time.
September 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Been really moved by all the stories from Katrina survivors on TikTok. Now watching the Netflix doc. Struck by how this is the first major climate disaster (right?) but I didn’t realize at the time.
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Yes, Eugenics to be sure, but also Necropolitics. That's what their policies boil down to:
www.damemagazine.com/2025/07/22/t...
www.damemagazine.com/2025/07/22/t...
I believe the GOP is of a mindset that there are too many people here and worldwide and that the overall population needs to be reduced to a more sustainable level.
While RJK Jr. tesifies, re-upping @sarahsloat.bsky.social's feature for us.
“These threats to defund mRNA research are putting a substantial portion of the U.S. population at risk,”... “It’s derailing research that is trying to provide cures for what are currently incurable diseases.”
“These threats to defund mRNA research are putting a substantial portion of the U.S. population at risk,”... “It’s derailing research that is trying to provide cures for what are currently incurable diseases.”
September 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Yes, Eugenics to be sure, but also Necropolitics. That's what their policies boil down to:
www.damemagazine.com/2025/07/22/t...
www.damemagazine.com/2025/07/22/t...
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Fiona Apple > that other lady who's in the news for getting engaged to that one guy.
For context, PG County is a Black ass county. Fiona Apple was working with an activist group in PG County which inspired her first song in 5 years. Can you imagine that other lady doing anything of the kind.
For context, PG County is a Black ass county. Fiona Apple was working with an activist group in PG County which inspired her first song in 5 years. Can you imagine that other lady doing anything of the kind.
Fiona Apple Wrote a Song About This Maryland Court-Watching Effort
A closer look at the groups she’s supporting
www.washingtonian.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Fiona Apple > that other lady who's in the news for getting engaged to that one guy.
For context, PG County is a Black ass county. Fiona Apple was working with an activist group in PG County which inspired her first song in 5 years. Can you imagine that other lady doing anything of the kind.
For context, PG County is a Black ass county. Fiona Apple was working with an activist group in PG County which inspired her first song in 5 years. Can you imagine that other lady doing anything of the kind.
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I went on Ezra Klein's podcast to discuss how Trump is building his own paramilitary force.
Grim as this discussion is, we recorded it *before* Trump's executive order directing Hegseth to set up rapid deployment units within the National Guard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Grim as this discussion is, we recorded it *before* Trump's executive order directing Hegseth to set up rapid deployment units within the National Guard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I went on Ezra Klein's podcast to discuss how Trump is building his own paramilitary force.
Grim as this discussion is, we recorded it *before* Trump's executive order directing Hegseth to set up rapid deployment units within the National Guard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Grim as this discussion is, we recorded it *before* Trump's executive order directing Hegseth to set up rapid deployment units within the National Guard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Once again having some old plumbing repaired and hearing “this isn’t even to code”. Saluting the previous owners for their creativity, ingenuity, innovation, etc.
August 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Once again having some old plumbing repaired and hearing “this isn’t even to code”. Saluting the previous owners for their creativity, ingenuity, innovation, etc.
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Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
August 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
Nothing revelatory here but it strikes me about once a week that a big part of the millennial experience is watching ppl with more power than you never face a single consequence. Landlords, bosses, politicians...yet we grew up being told to follow all kinds of rules.
August 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Nothing revelatory here but it strikes me about once a week that a big part of the millennial experience is watching ppl with more power than you never face a single consequence. Landlords, bosses, politicians...yet we grew up being told to follow all kinds of rules.
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They are being very mean to my Brazilian friend, who loves doing coups and getting Covid, and so all Americans must now pay much more for coffee
July 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
They are being very mean to my Brazilian friend, who loves doing coups and getting Covid, and so all Americans must now pay much more for coffee