Elisabeth R. Anker
Professor: Political Theory & American Culture
Author: UGLY FREEDOMS (Duke) & Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Promise of Freedom (Duke)
Next Books: “Every Man a Sovereign” and “Going Low”
Libby to my pals
Web: tinyurl.com/Elisabeth-Anker
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerOur founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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- THEY CUT ALL THE REPORTERS COVERING RACE IN AMERICA
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. Anker"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. Anker"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- THE ENTIRE TEAM OF REPORTERS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST.
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerA Ron Wyden specialty: sending a letter in public that reveals he's seen some really bad classified shit that he wants an explanation for.
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerI expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerNEW: 70 organizations—Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Unitarian, civil rights, academic, legal, peace, and human rights groups —submitted a formal request to DOJ’s National Security Division seeking a FARA investigation into Canary Mission, citing our Drop Site story.
- "In reactionary centrism... only the left and liberals really have agency. As a result, it takes a while to wake up to the reality that, for instance, Stephen Miller’s ethnic cleansing project is self-generated, and not only a response to “legitimate grievances” about border security."
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- Billionaire with his own penis rocket defunds a storied and iconic newspaper
- this breaks my heart 💔. Bezos is amazoning The Post into the grave. we DCers NEED it. it's a great source for local news, for domestic and international politics, for culture, for holding power to account. A billionaire with his own penis rocket is gutting a storied paper for nothing.
- My kick ass plan: transfer ICE's funding to public libraries around the country. THAT would make America awesome
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerThis is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerICE detained multiple kids (all under the age of 10!) in the last week alone. Still kidnapping people based solely on the way they look. Still arresting parents at school pick up. Nothing has changed in Minnesota. Nice words from the Admin won’t change that. ICE leaving will.
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerFucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerPhilidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted in state or federal court and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.
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- just like Melania buying up all the tickets for Melania
- Alito's claims to "originalism" are the ugliest of ugly freedoms. He just makes shit up, ignores actual history, cherry picks patriarchs to cite, opines from hatred, and calls it the law. Freedom!
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. Ankerhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Gotta be honest, this is one of the biggest mysteries of Epstein to me. Not just how this gross pedo rando acquired so much capital from nothing, but so much *political power* that he was doing things like negotiating international affairs at the highest levels with India, the US, and Israel??
- can't wait to read To Catch A Fascist at this awful moment in American politics:
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerTear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerColumbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerWhat Bezos really, really cares about. Blue Origin, his rocket company that he has invested billions in, needs and wants billions of dollars in DOD contracts to help pay its bills. Here Bezos greets Defense Sec. Hegseth today at Blue Origin offices in Florida WashPost budget is a rounding error
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. Ankermaking tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerThis is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
- Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. Ankerit’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerI keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
- dying at how much I agree with Bill Kristol
- Every picture of Minneapolis's mayor Jacob Frey in the news is a glamour shot. Each one is a modeling head shot for an NC-17 movie. Even for an audio podcast! It's like he's advertising himself as Magic Mayor
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerThey aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerI just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerA 2016 civil lawsuit found in the Epstein files alleges that Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein in NY. Epstein raped her too. For anyone wondering why the victim dropped the case… 1/2
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerThousands of union members staged a nonviolent march today. iCE gassed the crowd of nurses and teaches. The neighborhood is in a cloud. Flash bangs are being fired.
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerJust experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. Anker34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
- Will forever be amazed that anyone in the year of our Lord 2026 believes that the Republican Party fights antisemitism
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- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerA Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerArresting journalists. Fatally shooting protestors. Turning the military on citizens. Attempting to rig elections. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
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- What I’m gathering from the latest Epstein dump is that rich people just spend their days emailing uncreative dreary porny emails to eachother?
- Reposted by Elisabeth R. AnkerIn 2025, departures of govt scientists outnumbered new hires by a ratio of 11 to 1. This reduction in STEM PhDs translates to 106k yrs of federal work experience across 10,000 employees. These talents will take their expertise elsewhere. Experience is indispensable. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
