Anna Roberts
@annacroberts.bsky.social
IU Social Work alumna. MSW student @ UMich.
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“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
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Republicans understand that the best way to kill social programs is to paint their beneficiaries as Black, as support for these programs declines — even amongst white people who need them — when they think large numbers of Black people will benefit.
news.stanford.edu/stories/2018...
news.stanford.edu/stories/2018...
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Republicans understand that the best way to kill social programs is to paint their beneficiaries as Black, as support for these programs declines — even amongst white people who need them — when they think large numbers of Black people will benefit.
news.stanford.edu/stories/2018...
news.stanford.edu/stories/2018...
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Love doesn’t die,
People do.
So, when all that’s left of me
Is love,
Give me away.
www.debbieaugenthaler.com/epitaph-by-m...
People do.
So, when all that’s left of me
Is love,
Give me away.
www.debbieaugenthaler.com/epitaph-by-m...
Epitaph by Merrit Malloy
Epitaph by Merrit Malloy. A beautiful poem about grief and loss.
www.debbieaugenthaler.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Love doesn’t die,
People do.
So, when all that’s left of me
Is love,
Give me away.
www.debbieaugenthaler.com/epitaph-by-m...
People do.
So, when all that’s left of me
Is love,
Give me away.
www.debbieaugenthaler.com/epitaph-by-m...
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Medicare will start requiring prior approval for certain procedures — and will hire private AI companies to determine if patients are covered.
The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Medicare will start requiring prior approval for certain procedures — and will hire private AI companies to determine if patients are covered.
The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
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I think the most key point Stephen makes here is the preventive reality of UBI. The biggest impacts of cash appears to be when it comes to preventing or alleviating certain life circumstances. The reality of targeted programs and non-cash benefits is to miss those in need or only come after
August 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think the most key point Stephen makes here is the preventive reality of UBI. The biggest impacts of cash appears to be when it comes to preventing or alleviating certain life circumstances. The reality of targeted programs and non-cash benefits is to miss those in need or only come after
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"Our lives are layered, contradictory, and often overwhelming. Our language should reflect that."
open.substack.com/pub/softboun...
open.substack.com/pub/softboun...
Good, Fine, and Okay Are Not Feelings
The case for expanding your emotional vocabulary.
open.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"Our lives are layered, contradictory, and often overwhelming. Our language should reflect that."
open.substack.com/pub/softboun...
open.substack.com/pub/softboun...
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"The safest communities are those with the most housing and resources, not those that make it a crime to be poor or sick."
Learn more: Read the @homeless-law.bsky.social's statement and join their #HousingNotHandcuffs campaign: housingnothandcuffs.org/join/
Learn more: Read the @homeless-law.bsky.social's statement and join their #HousingNotHandcuffs campaign: housingnothandcuffs.org/join/
July 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"The safest communities are those with the most housing and resources, not those that make it a crime to be poor or sick."
Learn more: Read the @homeless-law.bsky.social's statement and join their #HousingNotHandcuffs campaign: housingnothandcuffs.org/join/
Learn more: Read the @homeless-law.bsky.social's statement and join their #HousingNotHandcuffs campaign: housingnothandcuffs.org/join/
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Absolutely. Structural violence and interpersonal violence and suffering are deeply interrelated.
I see a direct link between americans' atomized, individual suffering, the level of violence we have normalized, and the harm we inflict on ourselves and each other
and what's happening in Gaza, Sudan, DRC. All aided and abetted by US empire.
and what's happening in Gaza, Sudan, DRC. All aided and abetted by US empire.
It's really insane-making and explains a lot about how middle class americans can just casually sit through news anchors calling the genocide of Palestine "a war" and Israel's intentional starvation of Gazans "a hunger crisis." americans are so desensitized to violence, and even to their own pain.
July 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Absolutely. Structural violence and interpersonal violence and suffering are deeply interrelated.
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I know it’s not popular on social media but I believe in redemption as a possibility and I’m glad to see there are other folks who do too
July 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I know it’s not popular on social media but I believe in redemption as a possibility and I’m glad to see there are other folks who do too
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We've been too deferential to some forms of expertise and to be honest it's not helped us.
July 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We've been too deferential to some forms of expertise and to be honest it's not helped us.
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again and again and again.
criminalization is the mechanism by which the state/cops/people in power can harm and disappear Black, brown, trans and queer, poor, etc. people—and the reality is that who and what is is considered “criminal” is constructed, and can always shift.
criminalization is the mechanism by which the state/cops/people in power can harm and disappear Black, brown, trans and queer, poor, etc. people—and the reality is that who and what is is considered “criminal” is constructed, and can always shift.
we need to be saying again and again and again that even if 100% of these people had a criminal record none of this would be okay. people who are criminalized are humans and deserve human rights. people are systematically criminalized based solely on the color of their skin, poverty, language etc
90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
April 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
again and again and again.
criminalization is the mechanism by which the state/cops/people in power can harm and disappear Black, brown, trans and queer, poor, etc. people—and the reality is that who and what is is considered “criminal” is constructed, and can always shift.
criminalization is the mechanism by which the state/cops/people in power can harm and disappear Black, brown, trans and queer, poor, etc. people—and the reality is that who and what is is considered “criminal” is constructed, and can always shift.
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Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 1/4
February 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 1/4
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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"Vulnerable people don’t need a sea of reactivity right now. They need caring groups of people who are working together to create as much safety as they can. We need to create a rebellious culture of care."
Important piece by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social!
organizingmythoughts.org/a-brutal-beg...
Important piece by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social!
organizingmythoughts.org/a-brutal-beg...
A Brutal Beginning: Orienting Ourselves Amid the Shock and Awe
We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.
organizingmythoughts.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Vulnerable people don’t need a sea of reactivity right now. They need caring groups of people who are working together to create as much safety as they can. We need to create a rebellious culture of care."
Important piece by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social!
organizingmythoughts.org/a-brutal-beg...
Important piece by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social!
organizingmythoughts.org/a-brutal-beg...
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A lot of people are explaining what Trump can and cannot do, based on the law and Constitution. The reality of the situation is that we're about to find out what legal walls and safeguards will hold and which will crumble. Right now, we don't fucking know.
January 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A lot of people are explaining what Trump can and cannot do, based on the law and Constitution. The reality of the situation is that we're about to find out what legal walls and safeguards will hold and which will crumble. Right now, we don't fucking know.
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Your annual reminder that Dr. King believed in guaranteed universal basic income that gave all people a dignified life, guaranteed housing for all, guaranteed access to a high quality education, and said that “no one should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury.”
January 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Your annual reminder that Dr. King believed in guaranteed universal basic income that gave all people a dignified life, guaranteed housing for all, guaranteed access to a high quality education, and said that “no one should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury.”
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Best part of a very good essay to me:
"Identity is a great start for making connections and becoming part of larger communities. But you can’t have a politics of identity that is only about identity. If you do that, you draw sectarian lines, and you abandoned our interdependent ties."
"Identity is a great start for making connections and becoming part of larger communities. But you can’t have a politics of identity that is only about identity. If you do that, you draw sectarian lines, and you abandoned our interdependent ties."
A lot of good stuff from Butler here. The questions are embarrassing.
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Best part of a very good essay to me:
"Identity is a great start for making connections and becoming part of larger communities. But you can’t have a politics of identity that is only about identity. If you do that, you draw sectarian lines, and you abandoned our interdependent ties."
"Identity is a great start for making connections and becoming part of larger communities. But you can’t have a politics of identity that is only about identity. If you do that, you draw sectarian lines, and you abandoned our interdependent ties."
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"Our work is to value life. Or rather it is not to just value life, but to enforce the value of life. Just as our health and lives have been rendered increasingly unimportant by the for-profit health system and the larger capitalist apparatus..."
What's a life worth?
On the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
www.jphilll.com
December 6, 2024 at 12:04 PM
"Our work is to value life. Or rather it is not to just value life, but to enforce the value of life. Just as our health and lives have been rendered increasingly unimportant by the for-profit health system and the larger capitalist apparatus..."
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"[E]very single [U.S.] state incarcerates more people per capita than most nations. ... Even 'progressive' states like New York, with incarceration rates below the national average, continue to lock people up at more than double the rates of some of our closest international allies."
States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2024
Criminal justice policy in every region of the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.
www.prisonpolicy.org
September 8, 2024 at 1:46 AM
"[E]very single [U.S.] state incarcerates more people per capita than most nations. ... Even 'progressive' states like New York, with incarceration rates below the national average, continue to lock people up at more than double the rates of some of our closest international allies."
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2024 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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Save this. Share this. Make sure everyone you know has access to this, especially if they're fighting with insurance right now.
Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
November 20, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Save this. Share this. Make sure everyone you know has access to this, especially if they're fighting with insurance right now.
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Hi friends!! A Philadelphia man was wrongfully incarcerated and spent the last 8 months in jail, causing him to lose his home and job. Please consider donating as he rebuilds his life. Even $5 (or sharing the link) means the world! ❤️ gofund.me/5338ced1
Donate to Help Herb Rebuild After Wrongful Incarceration, organized by Madeline Carter
Background:
Herb is a 55-year-old black man from Philadelphia who wa… Madeline Carter needs your support for Help Herb Rebuild After Wrongful Incarceration
gofund.me
November 20, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Hi friends!! A Philadelphia man was wrongfully incarcerated and spent the last 8 months in jail, causing him to lose his home and job. Please consider donating as he rebuilds his life. Even $5 (or sharing the link) means the world! ❤️ gofund.me/5338ced1