Anna Merlan

@annamerlan

Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan· 19h

Hell yeah @kait.bsky.social you cannot imagine how instantly and shamelessly I begged for a copy of this from your publisher

Me holding a beautiful orange copy of Kaitlyn Tiffany's new book The Houseewives Underground: The untold story of the women who made the JFK assassination our most enduring mystery

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· 2d

Got a cocktail dress at the thrift store for $10 and a tiny faux Labubu for $1 out of a gashapon machine at the diner. I am living my very specific dream.

An acid green tiny fake Labubu with a deranged smile on its face leans against a mug at Chef’s Coffee Shop in Arcadia, CA.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· 6d

I told him he’s famous online and he just lay on my floor like a beached whale waiting for someone to pet him

A huge black and white cat who does not live here sprawls across my kitchen floor on his back with his front paws up like a weirdo

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· 7d

Sort of medium janky

A large black and white alley cat sits atop my goddamn table like a hooligan. His nose is a little scratched because he won’t stop beefing with an orange cat

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· 10d

We are feral, live in the backyard, are perma-grimy, and want to be shown the food like it’s a fine dining establishment

Cat tax: a large black and white with a big healing scratch on his nose sits in the backyard with a toy mouse next to him that he won’t stop taking outside

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· 29d

Does the window in the hotel room open so I can see myself out

email subject description reading: "Coming Soon: Andrew Callaghan, Hunter Biden, & Nick Fuentes Talking in Motel Room"

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Jul 4

This is him glaring at me for sitting in my own reading chair because he’d like to sit there instead

A huge and ominous black and white cat glares at me from across the floor, partially hidden by a colorful rug hanging over the arm of the sofa

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Jul 4

Today he feels that the side desk in the office should be a Petting Platform

A large black and white cat lies smugly across a desk being petted by a man who can’t get anything fucking done because this feral outdoor cat insists on hanging out all the time

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Jul 2

Sorry I’m just seeing her perfect nails??????

A photo of Angelina Nikolau’s hand from her Instagram with her engagement ring and a perfect pearlescent set of almond shaped nails

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Jun 23

Someone just sent me an unsolicited “demo” of their business, which is facile and incorrect AI slop written in “my voice.” While I have never been more grossed out, I love that the robot couldn’t even put a computer in this photo of “me” surrounded by, I guess, my hoarding problem?

An AI-generated photo of a white woman at a desk surrounded by piles of paper meant to be “me,” followed by a bunch of AI slop sentences I would never write

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Jun 12

Chief MAGA propagandist Benny Johnson is clearly a huge fan of this lady whose name he can't spell (or the intern whose job it is to write these emails didn't bother to look it up)

Barry Weiss is now poised to gain major editorial power if the Paramount–Warner deal is approved.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Jun 6

Everyone shut up: pickle rye bread

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· May 24

I would take this as an act of overt aggression actually

E-mail screenshot reading: Hey Anna, if I could book you on 50 podcasts over the next 6 months, would you be interested in more info?

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· May 15

I love to email people for my job

Screenshot of an email reading "I really this is very, very stupid -- really, I know how stupid this is -- but can you clarify, as an expert"

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· May 9

The bakery across from Green-Wood Cemetery is also a pigeon nightclub, and this club has EVERYTHING

Pigeons eating a mass of weird spongy bread and tortillas out of refuse bins

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· May 9

You have to have someone in-house read over the press release before you just drop it into the story! Related: how did you even get an apostrophe on top of a semicolon like that

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· May 5

Tonight @jerrysaltz got a huge round of applause at the end of his talk by urging men not to ask a question since it always turns into a monologue. “You can say two sentences max and it has to end in a question mark!” No man, bless them, asked a question

Jerry saltz gesturing to a crowd at the SVA theatre. He’s quite small because I was far away

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· May 2

I know everyone says this about everything but I think you’ll agree: nightmare blunt rotation

A panel called “should we stop making podcasts?” With guests Bret Weinstein, Michael Tracey, Lauren Southern and Brianha Joy Gray

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· May 1

If you go to Infowars dot com this morning, this is all you'll see:

small type on a blank white screen reading "Off Air"

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Apr 29

I can't remember if it was me who asked Nick Cave this question to the Red Hand Files but it does... sound like me, to be honest

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Apr 26

If he ever escapes the curtain maybe

A large and unemployed black and white cat peers out from beneath a striped curtains while a toy mouse lays defeatedly next to him

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Apr 22

Since you asked!

Behold my bagels. They have sesame seeds on them and are set out on a baking sheet to cool. One is very tiny and cute and small

Anna Merlan @annamerlan· Apr 21

Alex Jones is alternating between being Not Mad Online about The Onion thing and accusing someone I’m not even clear is connected to The Onion of fraud for “stealing peoples identities”