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Anne Kosseff-Jones
@annekosseffjones.bsky.social
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Line and copy editor at Radical Care Editing. Abolition and social criticism. Free Palestine. Passionate about making AI/LLM use socially unacceptable. Minneapolis. She/her.
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Hi Sen. Smith's comms team. I'm a constituent who appreciates the underlying message here, but calling Trump "Dear Leader" is very much an example of this phenomenon and I hope you rethink it!
Screenshot of an @hermit_hwarang tweet from June 15, 2021. The text reads, "american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???"
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I wasn’t going to!
Sign inside bathroom stall that says “Caution Do not put hands in toilet!” Then in smaller letters, “it contains a sharp device that can cause injury.” There is a depiction of someone doing this with a red cross-out circle.
October 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I know that "legacy media should bring back copyediting and ethics, which are intertwined" is not a winnable fight, but in case anyone out there is interested in doing journalism, this could easily be recast so it doesn't reinforce disinformation, and you don't even have to add "without evidence"!
CNN.com red "Happening Now" banner. It reads "President Trump expected to link autism and Tylenol use during pregnancy. Watch live." But I have edited it by hand to read "President Trump expected to claim link between autism and Tylenol use during pregnancy. Watch life."
September 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Explaining to my kids that community action sometimes means sacrificing access to the middle school musical cartoon Weird Al vehicle Milo Murphy's Law🤣.
Screenshot of Disney+ cancellation confirmation.
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A nice thing: I was always between "meh" and 👎 on sunflowers until moving to South Minneapolis. But it's impossible not to love them here—they're such a wild, beautiful, integrated part of the urban landscape, and, while I can't 100% explain it, I feel like they have good politics.
Picture of a South Minneapolis street corner, but you can't really see houses, just three big trees in the background, including one maple in the midst of turning rusty red, and about 25 sunflowers in the lower foreground, growing wildly and cheerfully. A sidewalk in South Minneapolis—there's a house visible in the background, but closer tot he photographer is a fence covered in abundant, wild-growing yellow flowers that aren't in fact sunflowers but capture the vibe I'm talking about anyway:).
September 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Lake Superior not beating the Greatest of lakes rap.
Image of brilliant blue Lake Superior water in the foreground. In the background is a 70ish-foot sheer rock cliff with an extremely picturesque pink and cream lighthouse perched on the edge and green trees cascading down the cliff behind it. Image of a rocky Lake Superior beech with a piece of driftwood and many smooth round stones on it. A small, wildly wooded Island is visible in the blue water about 60 feet from shore.
September 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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I really believe that the remarkable prominence of this story on the NYT. com front page in a time of fascist collapse is part of the story of how we got here. All criticism/fury directed at the editorial decision-making, not the writer, who I'm sure is trying to make ends meet in a dying profession
Screen grab from a big feature on the NYT front page. Headline reads "Why the Gen stare has every generation talking." Then the deck: "A deadpan look from teens and young adults is drawing comparisons to the boomer "lead paint" stare and the millenial pause." By Samantha Chery
July 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Happy to oblige, though it's kind of hard to capture without a drone (!). I should note that it did not actually topple the soccer goal itself.
Best possible overhead view I could get of the monster Hmong pumpkin plant. Two raised wooden garden beds are visible in front of a vine-covered fence. At the end of one, and taking up all the space in between and beginning to encroach on the other, is a thriving squash plant with big green leaves and yellow flowers. It is vining over a toppled soccer goal in the foreground. A view of part of the monster Hmong pumpkin polant with tall caged tomato plants in the background. Several large weeds embarrass me by growing tall between the fence and the garden beds. A 10-foot leafy green tendril grows out of a thriving Hmong pumpkin plant, venturing out into a weedy lawn, over a toppled soccer goal.
July 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Hey, this is super racist!!
Screenshot of tweet from @hermit_hwarang, Twitter handle "📖 '5 Characteristics of Neoimperialism'. The tweet reads: american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???
June 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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@prisonculture.bsky.social is at it again, inspiring action with advice about how not to be crushed under the weight of the Terrible Things. I don't think I know anyone who doesn't need this essay right now. Find it here: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
A screenshot of a paragraph of @prisonculture's essay. It reads: "Uncertainty can provoke fear and fear is an ingrained survival mechanism that takes priority over our brain’s other functions. When humans feel as though we cannot control a scary or painful situation, we often just give up and want to hide. Being afraid can have you turn inwards seeking protection - this is normal but we have to push ourselves, especially now, to turn outwards in defiance of fear. This is not, I believe, a time for retreating and for staying in a defensive crouch. This is a time when I think we should be trying lots of different things to see what makes a difference."
June 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Also "perceived by the public to be violent" is doing some real heavy lifting. Resistance to colonial/white supremacy is almost always considered violent, no matter how it is conducted. From "Let This Radicalize You" by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social:
Screenshot of an excerpt from Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba's Book Let This Radicalize You: "If you chose to disrupt these systems, passively, destructively, or by way of extending mutual aid, the concept of violence may be stretched and manipulated by the powerful to encompass your work. That is why we must not allow the frameworks of the powerful to define the bounds of morality in our politics and our action. The elastic concepts of criminality and violence, as controlled by the powerful, will always be bent against us."
June 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Two tiny pieces of fun to bolster me for the fight in a dark world. 1. Got to be the first person to tell my kids about Puritan naming practices, and 2. Burned a baking project so badly it accidentally made kind of a beautiful stained-glass window.
Glass pie plate on a black stove containing two-inch sticks of rhubarb still reddish but burnt and arranged randomly in a shallow pool of boiled burnt black sugar. Glass pie plate on a white and gray counter filled with burnt but still reddish rhubarb pieces and arranged randomly in a shallow pool of burnt sugar that ranges in color from black to red. The same glass pie plate of rhubarb and burnt sugar held up to a window. The sun shines through the burnt sugar but not the rhubarb,making a pattern of opaque reddish on a brilliant translucent yellow and orange background. The same glass pie plate of rhubarb and burnt sugar held up to a window. The sun shines through the burnt sugar but not the rhubarb,making a pattern of opaque reddish on a brilliant translucent yellow and orange background. At this angle it has bright red highlights.
June 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Some galaxy brain weight stigma on the CNN home page today
Screen grab of a headline on CNN.com that reads "Weight stigma isn't just cruel — it makes losing weight harder"
June 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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My timeline is a pointed call to action.
Screenshot of two posts that showed up one after the other on my timeline. The first, from Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast), reads "Hey Minneapolis just a heads up ice is flying helicopters over north and circling the area." It shows a map with helicopter routes highlighted. The second post is from "Ted Cruz called the FBI on me" and reads "San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat." it links to a news story.
June 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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OMG, I was checking my facts on this to make sure I remembered correctly, and I found this amazing(ly horrible) AI slop:
Screenshot of a generic-looking news website called "BREAKING NEWS NOW" with the following, ridiculous text: "The Heartwarming Tale of a Kitten that Saved a Life: A Minneapolis Miracle / In a story that seems almost too incredible to believe, a tiny kitten in Minneapolis has become a local hero after playing a cruial role in saving a woman's life during an overdose. The smitten kitten's quick thinking and bravery have captured the hearts of the community and serve as a reminder of the unexpected ways animals can impact our lives. / "How it Happened: A Kitten's Heroic Moment"
May 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I offer this picture of a Whole Foods sign for free to any sociologists teaching a 101 course about the cooptation of protest imagery.
A sign above a display table at a Whole Foods. It has a lavender background and features a white banner with flowers surrounding it that reads “wellness for women.”
May 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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"Impossible to ignore" is such a wild and telling framing for the primary headline on the CNN homepage.
Screenshot of a large headline from CNN.com reading "Potential constitutional collision is becoming impossible to ignore"
April 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Some more hard-hitting journalism from the digital front page of the paper of record today.
Screenshot of part of the front page of NYT.com. Two large stories vertically stacked, both taking up the whole width of the page. The first is labeled "The Masters" and shows a picture of Tiger Woods and two other golfers in front of some fashion-design sketches. The headline reads, "At Augusta, golfers face a fashion choice: What goes with green?" A smaller substory in the same package is headlined "Rory McIlroy again eyes a career Grand Slam as Masters tees off." Below this, and separate by a vertical line, is a picture of drafting-style drawings of toilet paper. The headline on this one is "The quest to make better toilet paper."
April 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Kennedy: oversees catastrophes outlined below

NYT:
Screengrab of a section of the NYT.com front page. A photo of RFK Jr. is next to the following headline: "As His Chronic Disease Tour Wraps, Kennedy Hits His Stride." It is listed as a "4 min read."
April 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I did eventually figure this out via the capitalization and the accompanying photo, but my initial understanding was more delightful.
Screen grab from CNN.com of a headline that reads: "Busy Baby CEO says tariffs pause was the 'final nail in the coffin'
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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It will never not be shocking that legacy news media is still featuring stories like this stuff on the right *in incredibly prominent positions* while the federal government burns through the list of fascism red flags, the global economy collapses, and US-sponsored genocide regains momentum.
Screenshot of the front page of the NYT.com website as of 10:50pm CDT on April 8, 2025. On the left, taking up two columns, is a large package of stories and analyses about tariffs, titled "U.S. to Implement Punishing Tariffs on Trade Partners." On the right, taking up one column and separated from the tariff news by a vertical line, are three "human interest"/"culture"-type stories with no immediate bearing on the interlocking crises that face the US. At the top is one titled "Ideology May Not Be What You Think But How You're Wired," and below that are a pair: one titled "Do Healthy Breakfast Cereals Exist?" with an image of bowls of artificially-colored cereal, and the other titled "How to Get a Great Rate on a Hotel Room." This story is accompanied by a cartoon-like illustration that clearly evokes expensive international travel by displaying a giant window that opens onto a landscape of green mountains and palm trees.
April 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Reposting with alt text.
Screenshot of what appears to be an official University of Wisconsin-Madison web page. Headline reads "Update on federal immigration enforcement," dated April 7. 2025. The text of the article is as follows: "UW-Madison has learned that the sStudent and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) records of a number of current and former international students have been terminated by the U.S. government. As of Monday morning, April 7, the terminations affect six current students and seven alumni on employment extensions. A status termination generally means that an affected individual should depart the United States immediately. UW-Madison played no role in these terminations."
April 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I know it’s a terrible day in a stream of them, but I encountered this magnificently huge wild turkey on the school walk through S. Minneapolis this morning.
Very, very large turkey with variegated brown feathers, a red head, and long (19-inch?) legs standing in the middle of an urban street, with a sidewalk and front lawn visible in the background.
April 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Debrief on the Kids’ Zone: “making signs on sparkly card stock” was a very popular activity. Pirates’ Booty and juice boxes were also well-received by all age groups. Next time, I will bring a picnic blanket and remember batteries for the bubble shooter things😅.
A black wagon with a sign clearly made by a kid labeled “kids’ autonomous zone” in rainbow colors. Also visible is a big Trader Joe’s box of Pirate’s Booty snack bags and a sign that reads “hands off my neighbors.” A coloring page handmade by a 7-year-old. “Solidarity” in big bubble letters with a vine and hearts around it, and “hands off our neighbors” written in tiny, non-colorable letters😅. Some of the sparkly signs kids made during the event. All three are on pink or purple sparkly card stock and say “dump Trump.” Two are decorated with flowers and shooting stars, clearly by kids aged 7 or older, and one has adorable toddler scrawls all over it.
April 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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My incarcerated colleague Angel Ayala sent me this message from where he’s being held in solitary confinement. I’m sharing with his blessing—for me it connects deeply to @prisonculture.bsky.social ‘s wisdom that incarcerated people are the original victims of the fascism that’s engulfing us all.
Image of a prison messaging app. The first two worlds are blacked out to avoid confusion and then the text reads, “I always hear about ‘the soul of the nation,” but I think the soul is HERE, trapped and suffering. Each person is like a unit in the delicate infrastructure of society, and each strike against each unit is a strike against our own wellbeing, against the pillars of a healthy society,, infrastructure decaying and society collapsing here before your eyes.”
March 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM