Ann Marie Awad
Audio journalist, podcast person, editorial director at @indiejournalists.bsky.social. One of the people behind @coloradioclub.bsky.social. I used to host a podcast about legal weed. Just a little guy.
- one can achieve greatness if one possesses the accordion file
- i wonder if he’ll be asked about it in his next quarterly interview with NPR 🤔
- can we talk about trivial things that have improved your life in trivial ways? i recently bought a bunch of these glasses cleaning cloths that come in funny shapes. when im at my desk during the day, i clean my glasses with a sandwich. it pleases me.
- Reposted by Ann Marie AwadThe basic questions repeat over and over in history.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Ann Marie Awadquick, someone help, we've got a vegetable situation
- Heathcliff, it’s me I’m Cathy, I’ve come home now, wyd
- Reposted by Ann Marie Awad6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup
- WaPo layoffs must be taken alongside massive layoffs across Amazon; of course this is about currying favor with the administration, but it’s also about an absurdly rich robber baron rebalancing his portfolio according to his whim and the passing moment, wrecking lives along the way
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- Reposted by Ann Marie AwadThis is a hard day for journalists at the Washington Post, as they reduce their sports/books and international teams. It also impacts us all as journalists. The ecosystem is being whittled down, paying jobs with benefits are disappearing, we're all scrambling or holding on for life to our jobs
- you see, people don’t read or watch sports
- someone smarter than me should write something about how WaPo is headed down the same road as many local newspapers that were also gutted into irrelevance by dumb rich guys
- well would you look at the woke leftist cato institute
- The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- should be illegal for car repairs to cost more than $10
- my give a fucks are not on vacation, they are working overtime, they are burnt out, it’s a toxic work environment
- everyone and everything is stressing me out today so I’m eating a giant baked potato about it
- problem with baking a very good batch of bread is the desire to just eat bread all the time. to have a little bread meal. followed by a bread snack. etc.
- Phil what does that even mean It’s been in the 50s, Phil Phil what the fuck are you talking about Phil how am I going to know when the seasons actually change Phil
- my boy that’s a mountain dew vein, where’s your straw
- Hmmmm seems totally fine and nothing to worry about but let me know when these kids start calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and we’ll send the cops in to round them up post haste
- University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
- for real, this is what separates journalists from influencers. accountability.
- Reposted by Ann Marie AwadIdk if trans kids these days know this but back in my day you could just walk into a RadioShack and walk out with one of these puppies
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- Reposted by Ann Marie AwadBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- finally went to casa bonita today and now i have a strongly held opinion that america desperately needs more
- Reposted by Ann Marie AwadThis is the thing. I’m so glad Liam is home but I can’t stop thinking about the other 3800.
- Liam is back home. He is only one of the approximately 3,800 children in ICE custody. (Source: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...)
- Reposted by Ann Marie AwadSorry, y’all, it’s DEI Settlement now
- does anyone else ever think about how coneheads nailed U.S. immigration enforcement in the year 1993 or are you mentally well-adjusted youtu.be/fSdp_c9M5T0?...
- “march for billionaires” is a great bit, if a little on the nose
- “less than lethal” rounds
- went and got a tattoo about it
- eavesdropping on queer gossip, why is it always someone named fern
