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Annia Ciezadlo 🧟‍♀️
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War, politics, climate change & food systems, in the Middle East & elsewhere. Investigations @ThePublicSource. Author, Day of Honey. Writing (tor)mentor. Interested in everything.

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Whenever I hear the word gratitude I think of Oscar Wilde
"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it. As for being discontented, a man who would not be discontented with such surroundings and such a low mode of life would be a perfect brute. Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practise thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or go on the rates, which is considered by many to be a form of stealing. As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented, and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him. He is at any rate a healthy protest. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid."
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Also Musa, reading King Lear
Black cat sitting on top of a book (King Lear) and looking up at the camera
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Musa today
giant black cat sitting inside a pot on top of a stove and looking at the camera like "what?"
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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This is how I ended up with Musa the Magnificent, the best decision I've ever made in my entire life
tiny black kitten sucking kitten formula off a person's finger, that person being me
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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If you think the title is pompous, try reading the promo copy
"Nuzzi walked through hell and she took notes. The result is a brilliant and bracing reckoning with recent history from one of our sharpest political observers. Beginning in the present in California, and then turning her gaze back east and back in time, she crafts a dazzling mosaic of the Trump era: her many behind-the-scenes encounters with Trump himself, from their first meeting in Trump Tower to a wealth of revelatory conversations about his Hollywood aspirations, his dreams, his fears about being assassinated, and more; the life she led uneasily that skidded to a halt; the rise of digital surveillance and the decline of privacy; the normalization of political violence; and the collision of polarization with the democratization of information to sow doubt about every aspect of our reality. American Canto is also a powerful personal history. Nuzzi’s account of growing up in working-class New Jersey as the child of alcoholics in the shadow of New York City and 9/11 is raw and moving. Her mother was angry, beautiful, and unpredictable. Her father, a loving man who supported his family as a sanitation worker, removed debris from Ground Zero. They both died young. A version of Nuzzi did, too. She approached this “kind of death” with the critical distance of a reporter. When interrogating her own mistakes, Nuzzi confesses, “I had trained my whole life in the battlefield of crisis.”"
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Cuomo is running the laziest, most top-down campaign I've seen in my entire life
Plane in a blue sky with banner that reads STOP THE SOCIALISTS! VOTE CUOMO AND SAVE NYC
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Sounds like Cuomo's "Muslims Against Mamdani" brain trust of middle-aged uncles told him prostitution is legal for Shiites. This campaign is so committed to the purest form of incompetence
October 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Does this remind you. of anything.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
October 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The hell I didn’t
New York city street corner with digital advertisement for a food delivery service that says: “You didn’t move to New York to chop onions”
October 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Always flattering when the @nytimes.com rips off your story three months later lol
October 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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This one never fails to crack me up
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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sorry but am I supposed to know who this guy is?
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Lotta random people suddenly popping up at the top of my feed. They all have one thing in common: they desperately want to explain to me why Zohran Mamdani is bad
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Incredible things are happening on the Other Site
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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lmao no

PSA: There's a flurry of Terms of Service updates and a lot of them are for this. Go to your privacy settings and click hell no
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September 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
—Hannah Arendt

In case you're wondering why they go after comedians
cats laughing
September 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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literally this
"For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Illinois and Wisconsin." —Chuck Schumer, to National Review in 2016
September 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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This is the "truth" as imposed by Elon
September 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Palate cleanser!
September 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Really good reporting here. Especially like the context here, most reports haven't mentioned this
September 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Everyone go follow @ahouse4all.bsky.social, who first brought this to light (on Twitter iirc)
September 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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What’s with people spelling words phonetically? Is everyone just sounding out words now like toddlers? It’s “psych” ffs
September 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I find this mentality fascinating. A lot of pro-Israel accounts can't see Palestinians as human; therefore they can't understand that normal people do; therefore the majority who object to this genocide *must be* motivated by psychosis, antisemitism, fascism, &c—instead of simply opposing genocide
September 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Fact
Coastline of Chicago with shadows of tall buildings reaching far out into the water of Lake Michigan
September 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Great question, Karen! How *did* Fanon's ancestors end up in Martinique, where he's actually from?
"The Colonial Period Several colonial archaeology programs that combine archaeological, ethnoarchaeological, and archival research have been initiated in Martinique over the last two decades. Martinique was settled in 1635 by the French. Pierre Belain d’Esnambuc took possession of the island in the name of the Compagnie des Isles d’Amérique, although the island was still inhabited by the Island-Carib. This first French settlement in the town of Saint-Pierre began with the construction of the Saint-Pierre fort. Soon the first tobacco plantations were set up; they relied primarily on the labor of white indentured servants. A major change in the island occurred in 1654 with the arrival of between 300 and 400 Dutch Jews from Brazil. These immigrants introduced new techniques that significantly improved sugar production on Martinique. Because the Dutch Jews used slave labor, there was also an increase in the number of enslaved Africans on Martinique during this period. The first African enslaved arrived in the mid-1600s, and by..." from https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-01063169v1/file/Martinique.pdf
August 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM