Ann Larson
@annlarson.bsky.social
Writer and organizer.
CLEANUP ON AISLE FIVE is coming in June.
https://tinyurl.com/ybef5y52
Free Palestine
CLEANUP ON AISLE FIVE is coming in June.
https://tinyurl.com/ybef5y52
Free Palestine
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This essay is a wonderful read both for its specific claims about close reading and also for its broader claims on the critical importance of the humanities in a world turning increasingly inhumane.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This essay is a wonderful read both for its specific claims about close reading and also for its broader claims on the critical importance of the humanities in a world turning increasingly inhumane.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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🚨NEW: A new poll Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
A Massive Shift In Health Care Politics
As both parties are legislating criticism of socialism, Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🚨NEW: A new poll Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Post the best visual metaphor for the Democratic Party that you’ve seen.
I’ll start.
I’ll start.
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Post the best visual metaphor for the Democratic Party that you’ve seen.
I’ll start.
I’ll start.
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Torturing myself by watching Vance's Ole Miss q&a. Everyone got riled up about the hug, but look at this kid flashing a white power symbol and Vance guffawing.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Torturing myself by watching Vance's Ole Miss q&a. Everyone got riled up about the hug, but look at this kid flashing a white power symbol and Vance guffawing.
@debbieberkowitz.bsky.social Can we talk about the ergonomic standard?
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@debbieberkowitz.bsky.social Can we talk about the ergonomic standard?
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I keep thinking about @michaelhobbes.bsky.social's reporting from Utah in 2019. Even then, the state was retreating from Housing First—after being hailed as a success story—and embracing criminalization.
In hindsight, Utah's involuntary "treatment center" is not a rupture but the next logical step.
In hindsight, Utah's involuntary "treatment center" is not a rupture but the next logical step.
Why America Can’t Solve Homelessness
As the face of homelessness changes, politicians cling to limited policy ideas and quick fixes.
www.huffpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I keep thinking about @michaelhobbes.bsky.social's reporting from Utah in 2019. Even then, the state was retreating from Housing First—after being hailed as a success story—and embracing criminalization.
In hindsight, Utah's involuntary "treatment center" is not a rupture but the next logical step.
In hindsight, Utah's involuntary "treatment center" is not a rupture but the next logical step.
Surfing in the desert. Sounds about right for the times we are living in.
Southern Utah's first luxury surfing community strives to balance fun and conservation.
Surf’s up — in the desert? Inside southern Utah’s $25M human-made paradise.
Southern Utah's first luxury surfing community strives to balance fun and conservation.
www.sltrib.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Surfing in the desert. Sounds about right for the times we are living in.
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In the past 10 yrs, teachers' wages DECREASED by $46/week after adjusting for inflation. Wages increased by $220 for other college grads
Why are we penalizing teachers for working one of the hardest & most important jobs in our communities?
We need to pay teachers more! www.epi.org/publication/...
Why are we penalizing teachers for working one of the hardest & most important jobs in our communities?
We need to pay teachers more! www.epi.org/publication/...
The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024: Three decades of leaving public school teachers behind
Over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of public school teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an ever increasing ...
www.epi.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In the past 10 yrs, teachers' wages DECREASED by $46/week after adjusting for inflation. Wages increased by $220 for other college grads
Why are we penalizing teachers for working one of the hardest & most important jobs in our communities?
We need to pay teachers more! www.epi.org/publication/...
Why are we penalizing teachers for working one of the hardest & most important jobs in our communities?
We need to pay teachers more! www.epi.org/publication/...
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Hakeem Jeffries says of Cuomo's attacks on Mamdani for living in a rent controlled apartment: "It's a legitimate issue that has been raised, and the [Mamdani] campaign is going to have to address it."
August 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Hakeem Jeffries says of Cuomo's attacks on Mamdani for living in a rent controlled apartment: "It's a legitimate issue that has been raised, and the [Mamdani] campaign is going to have to address it."
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"The worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery."
This is a good answer in a great interview that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social gave the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This is a good answer in a great interview that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social gave the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
August 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"The worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery."
This is a good answer in a great interview that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social gave the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This is a good answer in a great interview that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social gave the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Open bribery of political officials, open flouting of statutory and constitutional law to set up personalist control over a vast administrative apparatus, establishment of concentration camps, sending weapons to genocidaires, arresting dissenters
August 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Open bribery of political officials, open flouting of statutory and constitutional law to set up personalist control over a vast administrative apparatus, establishment of concentration camps, sending weapons to genocidaires, arresting dissenters
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There have now been five separate formal determinations that the Trump administration has illegally impounded funds appropriated by Congress. @brycecovert.bsky.social looks at the real-world impact of these delays on the thousands of organizations who rely on that money.
prospect.org/health/2025-...
prospect.org/health/2025-...
When Federal Funding Doesn’t Show Up
The Trump administration has denied legally obligated funds to thousands of organizations dependent on federal grants, causing layoffs, service cuts, and mass anxiety.
prospect.org
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
There have now been five separate formal determinations that the Trump administration has illegally impounded funds appropriated by Congress. @brycecovert.bsky.social looks at the real-world impact of these delays on the thousands of organizations who rely on that money.
prospect.org/health/2025-...
prospect.org/health/2025-...
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We had a relatively unnoticed coup at the Justice Department last week. An antitrust division that was following the law has now been reduced to a puppet in a pay-to-play scheme involving MAGA influencers and corporate treasuries. On Organized Money we talk to the writer who broke open this story.
The Coup at the Antitrust Division
Podcast Episode · Organized Money · 08/05/2025 · 46m
podcasts.apple.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We had a relatively unnoticed coup at the Justice Department last week. An antitrust division that was following the law has now been reduced to a puppet in a pay-to-play scheme involving MAGA influencers and corporate treasuries. On Organized Money we talk to the writer who broke open this story.
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The University of Utah will discontinue 81 academic programs in response to the Legislature’s mandated budget cuts for higher education.
The University of Utah is slashing these 81 academic programs under state-mandated budget cut
The University of Utah will discontinue 81 academic programs in response to the Legislature’s mandated budget cuts for higher education.
www.sltrib.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The University of Utah will discontinue 81 academic programs in response to the Legislature’s mandated budget cuts for higher education.
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I wrote back in April that the best way to think about Trump's tariffs were as sanctions to shake down other countries. The final result reinforces this: Trump is using trade as a bargaining chip to win other policies, or even just the illusion of wins.
Here's my post-Liberation Day update:
Here's my post-Liberation Day update:
Trump’s Tariffs Are Kleptocracy in Action
Very little of what you’ve heard about presidential ‘deals’ is true. It’s really a shakedown on behalf of Trump’s desires and corporate whims.
prospect.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I wrote back in April that the best way to think about Trump's tariffs were as sanctions to shake down other countries. The final result reinforces this: Trump is using trade as a bargaining chip to win other policies, or even just the illusion of wins.
Here's my post-Liberation Day update:
Here's my post-Liberation Day update:
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Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.
OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.
But they can’t make us use their trashware.
Boycott. Luddify. Open source.
Don’t let them have your work or your students.
OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.
But they can’t make us use their trashware.
Boycott. Luddify. Open source.
Don’t let them have your work or your students.
July 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.
OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.
But they can’t make us use their trashware.
Boycott. Luddify. Open source.
Don’t let them have your work or your students.
OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.
But they can’t make us use their trashware.
Boycott. Luddify. Open source.
Don’t let them have your work or your students.
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From Dickens to Dean Koontz, Ed Simon explores prolific authors, their habits, and the persistent need to produce.
Hypergraphia: On Prolific Writers and the Persistent Need to Produce
≠≠Up every morning promptly at 7, briefly enjoying breakfast around 8, consistently at his desk no later than 9, and then doggedly writing for five hours until no less than two-thousand words were …
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July 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
From Dickens to Dean Koontz, Ed Simon explores prolific authors, their habits, and the persistent need to produce.
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"It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison, ignoring the judges who demand due process." hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
White Supremacy Is Apocalyptic for Everyone
Across the world, the right wing is blowing up everything and incinerating the planet.
hammerandhope.org
May 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison, ignoring the judges who demand due process." hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
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At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
July 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
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Steering the country toward another potential financial crisis, the Trump administration has moved to completely gut the federal regulatory agency tasked with reining in financial institutions: jacobin.com/2025/04/trum...
April 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Steering the country toward another potential financial crisis, the Trump administration has moved to completely gut the federal regulatory agency tasked with reining in financial institutions: jacobin.com/2025/04/trum...
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The only meaningful institutions in the civic life of the United States that working class people control are labor unions.
The only meaningful path to any democratic transformation requires the leadership of institutions that working class people control.
The only meaningful path to any democratic transformation requires the leadership of institutions that working class people control.
"The agreement includes meaningful raises, smaller class sizes, and more classroom resources, but it also codifies some of the most comprehensive LGBTQ+ protections ever included in a public school labor deal."
Check out "bargaining for the common good"
www.advocate.com/news/chicago...
Check out "bargaining for the common good"
www.advocate.com/news/chicago...
Chicago Teachers Union ratifies groundbreaking contract cementing LGBTQ+ protections
Discrimination in education isn't welcome in the Windy City.
www.advocate.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The only meaningful institutions in the civic life of the United States that working class people control are labor unions.
The only meaningful path to any democratic transformation requires the leadership of institutions that working class people control.
The only meaningful path to any democratic transformation requires the leadership of institutions that working class people control.
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"Students told WNCN, Raleigh CBS affiliate, that they’ve been dealing with a lot — from mold in the dorms and broken air conditioners to brown tap water and mice. They say they’re simply asking for better, safer living conditions."
context: this is a public HBCU
www.wfmynews2.com/article/news...
context: this is a public HBCU
www.wfmynews2.com/article/news...
Protest over housing conditions at NCCU leads to five arrests
NCCU students protest poor housing conditions, leading to five arrests due to unauthorized campus use.
www.wfmynews2.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"Students told WNCN, Raleigh CBS affiliate, that they’ve been dealing with a lot — from mold in the dorms and broken air conditioners to brown tap water and mice. They say they’re simply asking for better, safer living conditions."
context: this is a public HBCU
www.wfmynews2.com/article/news...
context: this is a public HBCU
www.wfmynews2.com/article/news...
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Reminder that millionaires and billionaires evade an estimated $150 billion in taxes every year, according to the IRS.
Happy Tax Day.
Happy Tax Day.
April 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reminder that millionaires and billionaires evade an estimated $150 billion in taxes every year, according to the IRS.
Happy Tax Day.
Happy Tax Day.
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Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States?
We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!
We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!
April 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States?
We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!
We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!
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En route vers Washington, Netanyahou aurait survolé l'espace aérien français.
Sous le coup d'un mandat d'arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale pour crime contre l'Humanité, il aurait dû être intercepté et arrêté.
Sous le coup d'un mandat d'arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale pour crime contre l'Humanité, il aurait dû être intercepté et arrêté.
April 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
En route vers Washington, Netanyahou aurait survolé l'espace aérien français.
Sous le coup d'un mandat d'arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale pour crime contre l'Humanité, il aurait dû être intercepté et arrêté.
Sous le coup d'un mandat d'arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale pour crime contre l'Humanité, il aurait dû être intercepté et arrêté.