Ana Marie Cox

@anamariecox

Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter. anamariecox.com

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Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· 19d

I don't want to make fun of Vance for reading The Chronicles of Narnia in a combat zone, or for his longing for an Aslan-like relationship with Christ, but I will point out that Vance's version of Christianity has turned out to pretty far afield from anything Lewis would recognize.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· 19d

He uses living wage laws as an example of things that are just an unknowable mystery, akin to angles dancing on the head of a pin! Some say they would help! Others say not! Who can say? Also, global pandemics! Unprovable and complex topics, just like the existence and nature of God. ::shrug emotji::

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· 19d

JD Vance's book about his faith busts out the "well, how do we really know ANYTHING" (aka "science is a religion, too!") argument but it's really clumsy. He specifically carves out Holocaust deniers bc "few have done any original research"[!] Also, some facts are too "well accepted" to contest?

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· 23d

Yup.

A screen shot of three posts in a row.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social • 2m
I feel like there is a lot of unprocessed traumatic grief in play these days.

And below that, a post and a reply:

Ana Marie CoxO@anamariecox.com • 1h

Depression makes life so small: Isolation, fatigue, brain fog, the yawning
self-pity that makes it difficult to stretch out to others. I can spend weeks
feeling like I'm living underground.
It's so strange how getting out of it is to realize the smallness is not your
fault. You do what you can do.

Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com • 2m
Just. So. Tired. Always.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jul 7

These are people whose cause was literally to NOT be a part of the United States of America.

Political trade-offs are evident when Vance recounts his history lessons on America's own civilizational greatness, particularly those surrounding the Civil War. While Confederate generals fought for the "wrong cause" and Union generals for the "right cause," he notes, the Confederates were "strategically brilliant" and "tragic in their heroism." And, really, both sides helped build the nation: "Whether our great-great-great-grandfathers fought for Grant's or Lee's army, we learned that their actions that day had made it possible for us to be part of a United States of America."

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jul 6

Also, love that Holland's co-star is keeping the bit alive on the current press tour for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. www.instagram.com/p/DZJZ_TaSwAl/

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jun 30

This week's Lithium Diaries is about what it's like to have brain fog, which I have been assured is temporary but still sucks ass--and is one of the most-cited reasons people go off lithium. (I do not plan on going off it.) www.patreon.com/anamariecox2...

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jun 29

Not marking this as spam out of respect for “whom.”

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jun 26

Making me feel really good about never listening to “The Daily.”

According to media watchdog Status, Weiss is eager to launch a media counter-offensive. She's been in talks with the New York Times' Michael Barbaro about appearing on "The Daily" podcast— a choice that reveals her strategy: find a friendly interviewer willing to let her explain away the wreckage.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jun 22

Week three is a bit of a personal update but mostly a trip down a short byway in lithium history: The story of lithium pioneer John Cade and his unfortunate guinea pigs. Cade's research entirely misguided, and he found a cure for bipolar disorder anyway. www.patreon.com/anamariecox2...

At some point, he divined that the urine of manic patients was
especially lethal. Modern scientists have not replicated this result-
injecting enough of anyone's urine into a guinea pig will end badly. But
this mistaken finding was exactly the confirmation Cade needed to
proceed down the road he'd chosen. He took on a vigorous if not
rigorous regimen to narrow down what combination of urine
metabolites caused mania and an agent to act on them. His methods
were unorthodox and remain difficult to recreate. As Konstantinos
Fountoulakis, author of "The Rise of a Legend: Lithium and the
Extraordinary Story of Its Discovery" notes: "Cade embarked on a
series of experiments without following an entirely logical or readily
understood sequence."

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jun 21

Solidarity.

Angry goose meme: "Who poisoned the reflecting pool? WHO POISONED IT?"

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jun 16

The Lithium Diaries, week two. I've given up on performing okay-ness, of doing the looking backwards of "how I climbed out and you can, too" but I have gotten really interested in documenting the climb out as it happens. Not a newsletter, but you can follow along. www.patreon.com/anamariecox2...

The phlebotomist taped down the cotton swab with neon pink gauze, a high contrast to well-used grays of the small booth we were in. She’d filled three vials with my dark red blood and was writing my name on a label.

“That was relatively painless,” I told her. “Most people have trouble finding my veins.”

“I have a lot of practice,” she said, placing the vials in a tray and clinking it into a cart. She smiled. “I’m Regina.”

“I’ll be back a lot. I’m on lithium.” She nodded. I finished, “It needs to be monitored closely.”

“Well,” she said, “You are ingesting a toxic metal every day.”

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jun 5

Had a little mishap last night.

Large splatter of ink on office floor (a whole spilled bottle)

A bit to the side of the ink… could those be… paw prints?

A delicate white paw, flicked with…. Ink!?!???

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· Jun 4

I think we could use a timeline cleanse. Here are my two cats sitting with their tails intertwined. (Bram, black and slinky; Molly Murderkitten, dilute calico chonk.) What do y'all got?

A black cat looking toward a window, his tail intertwined with his sister's, who is sitting looking looking the opposite way. She is a dilute calico.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 28

Are they really, tho?

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 26

Very gratifying but FYI according to polling this guy is an *extreme* outlier: May 19 poll found 90% of Cornyn voters would vote for Paxton if he's the nominee, 91% of Paxton voters would vote for Cornyn if he's the GOP nominee. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/p...

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 21

Exley also likes Marfa.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 21

This mirror one is better

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 21

More Marfa, just in the abstract.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 21

Greetings from West Texas

Alpine 40
Marfa 66

Sweeping gray sky with a sliver of pink light in the corner over a desert highway

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 17

Ken Paxton is historically corrupt, John Cornyn is a MAGA traffic cone, and Talarico might be a SECRET VEGETARIAN WITH MID TACO ORDERS. Which one has the best case to be elected to the Senate? WHO CAN SAY?

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 17

The Trump Justice Department slush fund for 1/6 criminals would be modeled on the Obama administration’s compensation program for indigenous farmers. They’re literally doing reparations for the QAnon Shaman.

The Justice Department is modeling the program, in part, on a landmark $760 million settlement fund the Obama administration created to compensate Native American farmers and ranchers who were deprived access to federal subsidies for decades, one of those people said. Payments in that settlement came from the Judgment Fund, an uncapped pot of money that does not require congressional approval to make payments and is maintained by the Treasury Department.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 16

CHONKS ON THE NAP. I REPEAT: CHONKS ON THE NAP. It will lower your blood pressure. It will keep you sane.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 16

Did I say they are tired? NO NOT TIRED. These chonks are pushing through nap time. CHONKS ON THE RUN.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 16

I believe they are starting to get tie-tie but still some great puppy action happening here.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 16

MOM IS THERE RIGHT NOW! (This is capture, not live.) www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 16

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Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 16

This is legitimately one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen in all of the LLM bullshit that's out there. (That "joyful" is misspelled seems especially meaningful.)

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 15

This is maybe a quarter mile from my house, just a little pocket of prairie hill country someone forgot to develop. It’s what my neighborhood looked like before it was my neighborhood.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox· May 15

They are sleeping right now.