Anne Summers
@annesummers.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, researcher, troublemaker. Current research focus: how to end domestic violence.
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The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
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It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
April 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
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You can download the report at:
Annesummersresearch.com
Annesummersresearch.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
You can download the report at:
Annesummersresearch.com
Annesummersresearch.com
My new report on the impact of domestic violence on women’s employment and education. Grim figures. Published this Friday - the link will be on this page then.
February 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
My new report on the impact of domestic violence on women’s employment and education. Grim figures. Published this Friday - the link will be on this page then.
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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:
www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:
www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
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The suggestion from Qld Police Union President Shane Prior is to make DV a standalone crime. At present, police have to wait for the victim to make a complaint whereas they could lay charges where DV suspected. The Crisafulli government has not officially agreed to it as yet. #qldpol
February 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The suggestion from Qld Police Union President Shane Prior is to make DV a standalone crime. At present, police have to wait for the victim to make a complaint whereas they could lay charges where DV suspected. The Crisafulli government has not officially agreed to it as yet. #qldpol
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Being serious, one thing I have just remembered - Kobo is a CANADIAN ebook company. I might do my ereading with them instead of Amazon.
February 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Being serious, one thing I have just remembered - Kobo is a CANADIAN ebook company. I might do my ereading with them instead of Amazon.
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President Donald Trump’s new trade levies against China, Canada and Mexico include a broadside against e-commerce, with apparent plans to extinguish a long-held tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800.
Trump Tariffs Target Loophole Used by Chinese Online Retailers
President Donald Trump’s new trade levies against China, Canada and Mexico include a broadside against e-commerce, with apparent plans to extinguish a long-held tariff exemption for packages worth les...
www.bloomberg.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
President Donald Trump’s new trade levies against China, Canada and Mexico include a broadside against e-commerce, with apparent plans to extinguish a long-held tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800.
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At home, Trump has enabled Musk to stage a coup against the government with his army of unvetted stooges taking over the Treasury.
Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk.
Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. 😠
Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk.
Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. 😠
February 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
At home, Trump has enabled Musk to stage a coup against the government with his army of unvetted stooges taking over the Treasury.
Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk.
Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. 😠
Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk.
Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. 😠
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A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
February 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
Trump is dismantling government as we know it. This goes way beyond efficiency reforms.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The website of the U.S. Agency for International Development went offline without explanation Saturday as thousands of furloughs, layoffs and program shutdowns continued in President Donald Trump’s freeze on U.S.-funded foreign aid and development worldwide.
USAID website goes offline in Trump administration's 2-week-old freeze on foreign aid worldwide
WASHINGTON (AP) — The website of the U.S. Agency for International Development went offline without explanation Saturday as thousands of furloughs, layoffs and program shutdowns continued in President Donald Trump’s freeze on U.S.-funded foreign aid and development worldwide.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Trump is dismantling government as we know it. This goes way beyond efficiency reforms.
First you change the language …. Wholescale policy changes towards minorities and orher disadvantaged people signaller by removal of ‘gender’, ‘diversity’ and other key terms from all fed govt websites. Plus scrubbing of 30 years of invaluable CDC health data. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How federal agencies have already changed their websites under Trump
“Diversity” has been deleted. “Climate resilience” is now a popular substitute for “climate change.” And “pregnant people” has been replaced by “pregnant women.”
www.washingtonpost.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
First you change the language …. Wholescale policy changes towards minorities and orher disadvantaged people signaller by removal of ‘gender’, ‘diversity’ and other key terms from all fed govt websites. Plus scrubbing of 30 years of invaluable CDC health data. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Jan 20, 1961. A blizzard the day before. Temperatures well below freezing. Without a coat or hat, JFK gave a speech we still quote today. Robert Frost, 86, recited a poem. Steinbeck and Hemingway and Rothko were among the VIPs. A million people gathered in the cold to hear it.
This is the precedent.
This is the precedent.
January 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Jan 20, 1961. A blizzard the day before. Temperatures well below freezing. Without a coat or hat, JFK gave a speech we still quote today. Robert Frost, 86, recited a poem. Steinbeck and Hemingway and Rothko were among the VIPs. A million people gathered in the cold to hear it.
This is the precedent.
This is the precedent.
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She married him for richer or for richer but not for winters in Moscow.
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
Bashar al-Assad's wife files for divorce, seeks to move to UK - report
Asma al-Assad moved to Syria in 2000 and married Assad in the same year at the age of 25.
www.jpost.com
December 23, 2024 at 2:19 AM
She married him for richer or for richer but not for winters in Moscow.
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
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This pic on the front of yesterday’s paper isn’t Gout Gout, it’s Peter Bol.
This shit isn’t hard, and The Age/Nine should issue a public apology to both men.
Christ on a bike, our media are fucking racist.
#StatusBRO
#LifeInTheColony
This shit isn’t hard, and The Age/Nine should issue a public apology to both men.
Christ on a bike, our media are fucking racist.
#StatusBRO
#LifeInTheColony
December 23, 2024 at 1:26 AM
This pic on the front of yesterday’s paper isn’t Gout Gout, it’s Peter Bol.
This shit isn’t hard, and The Age/Nine should issue a public apology to both men.
Christ on a bike, our media are fucking racist.
#StatusBRO
#LifeInTheColony
This shit isn’t hard, and The Age/Nine should issue a public apology to both men.
Christ on a bike, our media are fucking racist.
#StatusBRO
#LifeInTheColony
Just received a letter from @allegraspender.bsky.social informing me I am now in her electorate of #Wentworth. Looking forward to being in an independent electorate but will miss @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social whose Labor electorate I’ve been in ever since she was elected in 1998. Thank you Tanya.
December 2, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Just received a letter from @allegraspender.bsky.social informing me I am now in her electorate of #Wentworth. Looking forward to being in an independent electorate but will miss @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social whose Labor electorate I’ve been in ever since she was elected in 1998. Thank you Tanya.
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In Canada this would cost $6.5 trillion and take 47 years to complete
France routinely completes unique, complex infrastructure projects, in sites of extreme historical sensitivity, and opens then right on time.
www.npr.org/2024/11/29/n...
www.npr.org/2024/11/29/n...
A restored Notre Dame cathedral is unveiled days before its official reopening
Notre Dame Cathedral has been closed to the public since a fire damaged the landmark in April 2019.
www.npr.org
December 1, 2024 at 5:36 AM
In Canada this would cost $6.5 trillion and take 47 years to complete
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Absolutely drop the Scott Morrison imposed fees for Arts degrees. The #LNP hate educated people, especially those who study the Arts (because these people don’t usually vote for them).
Get rid of all the nasty #LNP university fees #RadioSydney
Get rid of all the nasty #LNP university fees #RadioSydney
November 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Absolutely drop the Scott Morrison imposed fees for Arts degrees. The #LNP hate educated people, especially those who study the Arts (because these people don’t usually vote for them).
Get rid of all the nasty #LNP university fees #RadioSydney
Get rid of all the nasty #LNP university fees #RadioSydney
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Freddy Mercury died of AIDS 33 years ago today. With modern medical technology, he likely would have lived. Never forget how much progress against major infectious disease has been made in a short time. We are at risk now of rolling back much of that progress.
November 23, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Freddy Mercury died of AIDS 33 years ago today. With modern medical technology, he likely would have lived. Never forget how much progress against major infectious disease has been made in a short time. We are at risk now of rolling back much of that progress.
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A bill that could see up to 80,000 people deported from Australia if it becomes law next week. A law that would create a global offshore detention network where refugees could be sent anywhere and then back to danger. Help us stop it: action.asrc.org.au/deportation_...
November 22, 2024 at 6:52 AM
A bill that could see up to 80,000 people deported from Australia if it becomes law next week. A law that would create a global offshore detention network where refugees could be sent anywhere and then back to danger. Help us stop it: action.asrc.org.au/deportation_...