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Ana Marie Cox
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Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
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Not bad?
Use the for ce, Luke, in the zohran style
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Amazing swag at the Children’s Health Defense conference.
A pen shaped like a syringe with a plunger activated nib.
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Found Stephen Miller's iphone wallpaper
"deport grift murder" in script on a gold background
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Hasan Piker appears to be being interviewed at the bottom of the screen?
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Did it!
A proud redhead with an “I voted” sticker on a “wild feminist” sweatshirt
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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He probably would have appreciated the lizard more than the American flag here. As for the rest, I just hope he knew how much we all loved him. I think he did.
Memorial image for David Riley Wright. It features a smiling older man with a bald head and red jacket inside a circular photo frame. The background has soft cream tones with a stylized American flag brushstroke behind the text. The text reads: “In loving Memory — David Riley Wright, July 29, 1940 – November 2, 2025. Legendary helicopter pilot, extraordinary puzzle-solver, charismatic conversationalist, adventurer, and most of all: Joyful and supportive husband, attentive father and grandfather, beloved uncle.” A small pink and purple gecko graphic decorates the lower left corner.
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A reminder that I'm hosting writing sessions at 8am CT/7am CT weekdays all November long! The National Novel-Writing Month organization is dead, long live the NaNoWriMo process!

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November 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Timeline cleanse! Please post something that gives you joy or peace!

(Molly Murderkitten gives me a bit of joy and no peace but she’s kind of a delight in her own way!)
A dilute calico muderkitten mid-sneeze A dilute calico Murderkitten proudly standing athwart the top edge of a door.
November 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Is this a real quote? “As unpainless as possible” is… painful.

“The American people are already suffering, and the suffering is going to get a lot worse,” Vice President JD Vance, insisting that Mr. Trump had “tried to do everything” in his power to make the shutdown as “unpainless as possible.”
“The American people are already suffering, and the suffering is going to get a lot worse,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday, insisting that Mr. Trump had “tried to do everything” in his power to make the shutdown as “unpainless as possible.”
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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More on Flock: "Nova promises to knit law enforcement records with all manner of public information—property and occupancy data, Social Security numbers and personal credit bureau histories—and make it all granularly searchable with AI."

This is all fine!

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
The company is chugging along with new products in the pipeline. It’s adding car crash detection to its gunshot flagging system, Raven, and enhancements to its license plate camera feeds. Further out, there’s Nova, Flock’s crown jewel to be, born of the company’s February 2025 acquisition of Lucidus, a Nashville, Tennessee–based startup. Flock has rebuilt the Lucidus tool, though the basic premise is the same: Nova promises to knit law enforcement records with all manner of public information—property and occupancy data, Social Security numbers and personal credit bureau histories—and make it all granularly searchable with AI.
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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With alt text.
Elon Musk X @elonmusk Subscribe G... When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don't realize the horrors that take place far away. They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor. What happened to the nice man who was brutally murdered while walking his dog will happen to all of England if the tide of illegal immigration is not turned. It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die. x.com/trobinsonnewer...
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The Flock CEO is "convinced that America can and should be a place where everyone feels safe. And once it’s draped in a vast net of U.S.-made Flock surveillance tech, it will be."

"Everyone" doing a very small amount work there.
Langley offers a prediction: In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S. (He acknowledges that programs to boost youth employment and cut recidivism will help.) It sounds like a pipe dream from another AI-can-solve- everything tech bro, but Langley, in the face of a wave of opposition from privacy advocates and Flock’s archrival, the $2.1 billion (2024 revenue) police tech giant Axon Enterprise, is a true believer. He’s convinced that America can and should be a place where everyone feels safe. And once it’s draped in a vast net of U.S.-made Flock surveillance tech, it will be.
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I'm doing a morning writing room for anyone that wants to celebrate National Novel-Writing Month (though feel free to write anything you want).

8am ET/7am CT.

It's free! (Donations accepted.)

You can register via my website. anamariecox.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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LOL here's a funny and also wrong version (tho trending in the right direction wrong). Featuring "Europeans"!
October 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Old viral misinformation making the rounds again. Anyone want to weigh in what's wrong with it? There are multiple right answers!

(A fundamental one: SNAP doesn't gather this kind of demographic information from recipients. Also, even if true, the first three are people from places we've bombed!)
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Timeline poetry.
October 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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I mean. Just speaking of this WH.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Not actually helping. #caturday
A dilute calico reclines against a mountain of laundry.
October 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Timeline cleanse! Post a beautiful or adorable thing, please.
A black cat lounging against a black and tab terrier (it's hard to tell where one begins and the other ends, but not in a creepy way).
October 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs"
Screenshot of fox news website August 2011, with the headline "Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs"
October 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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So that's what happened here.
Dilute calico with belleh.
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Molly is a chaos gremlin who cuddles only when she deigns to be touched. Good thing she's gorgeous.
A gray, cinnamon and white cat lying on her side across an open notebook on a white desk, looking directly at the camera. Behind her, a laptop sits on a stand by a window, surrounded by pens, a clock, and other desk items. Soft daylight filters through the window.
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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There's just no room for interpretation about any of it though I do find attempts to find wiggle room amusing. From a conservative Christian website:

www.gotquestions.org/illegal-immi...
Note: We wholeheartedly believe that God’s people are called to be compassionate and merciful toward immigrants (Exodus 22:21; Leviticus 19:33–34; Matthew 25:35). We also believe that the United States should have a compassionate and merciful immigration policy. However, the question at hand concerns illegal immigration—and whether it is wrong to violate a nation’s borders and transgress its immigration laws.
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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"No king but Jesus" is the EXACT sign I saw numerous people carrying at the #nokings rally in New Braunfels. They're serious about that belief; it's MAGA Christians that aren't.
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, and Charlie Kirk was willing to say it and he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I wrote about the Red America protesters who bragged about being "anti-fascist" but rejected being "antifa" and how that makes their unicorn costumes part of a larger normie response to Trump: What the fuck are you talking about? newrepublic.com/article/2019...
I can almost hear folks who do identify as “Antifa” grinding their teeth at the naive rejection of the label; Antifa is shorthand for a point of view, not an organization, that’s the point. Yet these Red Americans’ naive distancing from an imagined terrorist group, the proud embrace of patriotic signifiers, the bouncing mythical woodland creatures are all of a piece. They are all evidence of a growing response from normies to creeping authoritarianism: What the fuck are you talking about? Others have pointed out the long tradition of silly costumes and street theater in radical movements; there is a direct line between the Dada stunts of the Situationists, pranks by the Yes Men and “zaps” by the Lavender Menace, culture hacking in the No Logo movement, and that original punk frog in Portland. There are forests of Ph.D. papers about how surrealism undermines the very structures of capitalism itself. But around the country, we’re seeing a parallel evolution: Whimsy as the logical response to MAGA’s nonsense. What “trans ideology”? Eating the dogs, eating the cats? You’re talking about vicious immigrants, but you curb-stomped the ice cream man. “I don’t even know what Antifa is.”
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM