Annemarie Garrett

Wife. Mom. Indian cinema enthusiast. 2020 law grad now lawyer-ing away.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I attended a county fair and watched a child sell a pig.

The pig is worth, I am told, somewhere near four hundred dollars. I looked this up afterward because I did not believe what happened.

The girl is twelve. She walked the animal into a ring wearing a white shirt and a numbered card. She had raised it herself, from a piglet, for nine months, which I confirmed, and she had a binder of records because the program requires one.

The bidding began. Local men. A man from a bank. A man who sells tires. A woman who owns a restaurant I had eaten at the previous evening.

It did not stop at four hundred.

It stopped at three thousand two hundred.

I turned to the man beside me and asked whether the pig was of exceptional quality.

He said, "It's a fine pig."

I asked whether it was worth three thousand two hundred dollars.

He said, "No."

I asked why the price was three thousand two hundred dollars.

He said, "She's a good kid."

I stood up. I could not remain seated. I said, out loud, in a metal building that smelled of animals, that a market which knowingly and deliberately misprices a good in order to put a child through a university, and does so every year, in the open, with an auctioneer and a microphone, is not a market at all but a rite, and that I have never seen a province conduct one so cheerfully.

He said, "You want a lemonade?"

I said that I did.

Here is the part I had entirely misread. The men bidding against each other were not rivals. They were raising it together. The tire man bid, then the bank man bid, and the tire man nodded at him, and they were pushing the number upward on purpose, in public, in front of the girl. She knew. Everyone knew. The auctioneer knew. The rite requires that nobody says it.

Afterward the girl shook every buyer's hand. She writes them letters later. That is also part of it. She writes letters.

I asked the restaurant owner why she bids every year.

She said, "Somebody bought mine."

She is fifty-eight.

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

@jaredgarrett Oh dang 😍

[Anna Lee - CRE Leasing Lawyer @CRELeasingLawTX]

I mean this sincerely - if you believe this about lawyers, don’t hire us. Please never call me! But if you devalue the work of transactional lawyers to this level, you’ll eventually have to pay for the work of litigators whether you value it or not

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

They’re trying to eliminate human teachers at a time when less than a third of students can read on a basic level. Students don’t need fancy tech, which has already made learning nearly impossible. We’re spending billions to produce a nation of illiterates.

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

@jaredgarrett Sure, but starting in 1979 seems selective. The "roots" of what happened in 1979 include CIA action in the 1950s.

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

@jaredgarrett Yes 😍

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Documentary filmmakers can explain why a Netflix-HBO combo is a lot more of a problem than just who owns Game of Thrones. https://t.co/GBaouClQNa

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

I like @Timodc's work, but I think he's wrong here. Media consolidation is a very significant political problem, and the Netflix-Warner deal will precipitate a radical narrowing of media channels for Americans.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The same argument 'we don't need movie theaters' is also 'we don't need a domestic cattle industry' and also 'we don't need to make things here' and 'newspapers should die.'

Is the goal to make America a place that makes software and finance and AI slop and that's it?

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

This not ok.

Green card holder who has been in US for 50 years detained by ICE—Niece https://t.co/995haZ1Yuu

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

I hope people understand that forcing TikTok to divest is communications regulation, whereas disappearing Mahmoud Khalil for political speech is actually unconstitutional.

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

@TerminalMontage My youngest dressed up as a M.A.G.E. intern this year.

[Robert Greenwald @robertgreenwald]

"Never Seen Anything Like It:" The Biggest Month in Antitrust in 50 Years, by @matthewstoller https://t.co/6FfhLrVzKb

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

@bethlovesbolly I get to see it tomorrow! Only have to drive 34 miles, tho 🙂

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

@jaredgarrett 😥

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

@seipora_ ily2

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

Word has decided that, when I copy something from one document and paste it into another, I definitely want it to be in a different font from both the source and the destination. 🙄

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

Word has decided that, when I copy something from one document and paste it into another, I definitely want it to be in a different font from both the source and the destination. 🙄

[Annemarie Garrett @ajhgarrett]

@jaredgarrett Ha 😄❤️