Alex Park
@alexcpark.com
Look at fast food and all you see is burgers. Look through fast food and you see the world.
Sometimes I publish things, lately in Jacobin, the Conversationalist, elsewhere.
More: www.alexcpark.com
Sometimes I publish things, lately in Jacobin, the Conversationalist, elsewhere.
More: www.alexcpark.com
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So I guess we’ll be changing the refugee quotas now? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump threatens to deploy the military 'guns-a-blazing' to Nigeria
It comes a day after the president declared the African nation a "country of particular concern” for religious freedom.
www.politico.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
So I guess we’ll be changing the refugee quotas now? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Road to Wigan Pier is a rant of a book. But it goes so hard on why it’s evil to begrudge the poorest simple pleasures.
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Road to Wigan Pier is a rant of a book. But it goes so hard on why it’s evil to begrudge the poorest simple pleasures.
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The fact that this article on soy causing deforestation doesn't cover how all that soy is being used is a wild media failure. The vast majority (70-80%) is being fed to animals.
It's not the "world's taste for soya" it's the world's taste for meat.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
It's not the "world's taste for soya" it's the world's taste for meat.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon
Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The fact that this article on soy causing deforestation doesn't cover how all that soy is being used is a wild media failure. The vast majority (70-80%) is being fed to animals.
It's not the "world's taste for soya" it's the world's taste for meat.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
It's not the "world's taste for soya" it's the world's taste for meat.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
The guy who called Trump America’s Hitler is looking a lot more Hitler-like today
September 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The guy who called Trump America’s Hitler is looking a lot more Hitler-like today
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social have you seen this? Forgiato’s new song is literally an anthem about lynching. Oh and he drops a hard-r n-word youtu.be/Kk1lhvEHU9s?...
Good vs Evil - Forgiato Blow x JJ Lawhorn
YouTube video by Mayor Of Magaville
youtu.be
September 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social have you seen this? Forgiato’s new song is literally an anthem about lynching. Oh and he drops a hard-r n-word youtu.be/Kk1lhvEHU9s?...
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1/2. Charlie Kirk frequently called for other people to be killed.
Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do.
He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.
Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do.
He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.
September 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
1/2. Charlie Kirk frequently called for other people to be killed.
Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do.
He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.
Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do.
He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.
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The number of Americans who have discovered names like Jack Posobiec and Nick Fuentes this past week without knowing what they actually stand for is pretty alarming
September 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The number of Americans who have discovered names like Jack Posobiec and Nick Fuentes this past week without knowing what they actually stand for is pretty alarming
It's as good a day as any to call out the mainstream media for saying a person is trans as though its evidence of an assassin's motivation
September 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
It's as good a day as any to call out the mainstream media for saying a person is trans as though its evidence of an assassin's motivation
I hate to post this trash but pro-Trump rapper Forgiato Blow’s new song is an anthem about lynching where he uses the n-word youtu.be/Kk1lhvEHU9s?...
Good vs Evil - Forgiato Blow x JJ Lawhorn
YouTube video by Mayor Of Magaville
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I hate to post this trash but pro-Trump rapper Forgiato Blow’s new song is an anthem about lynching where he uses the n-word youtu.be/Kk1lhvEHU9s?...
McDonald's has quit the National Restaurant Association because they oppose a tipped minimum wage ... www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
McDonald's has quit the National Restaurant Association because they oppose a tipped minimum wage ... www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
Obama literally campaigned on clean coal and this is what we get in return
September 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Obama literally campaigned on clean coal and this is what we get in return
Clearly Jerry Nadler, who represents the upper west side and is one of the most prominent Jews in America, is harboring some deep-seated anti-Semitic views. We should have known. bsky.app/profile/dday...
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party’s Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Clearly Jerry Nadler, who represents the upper west side and is one of the most prominent Jews in America, is harboring some deep-seated anti-Semitic views. We should have known. bsky.app/profile/dday...
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Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?"
And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement
WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
August 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?"
And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
Kind of big considering this is the exclusive franchisee in some countries www.ft.com/content/7b4e...
Middle East KFC operator Americana to move away from US brands after Gaza boycott
Sales at fast-food franchise operator tumbled when consumers turned on western outlets over American support for Israel
www.ft.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Kind of big considering this is the exclusive franchisee in some countries www.ft.com/content/7b4e...
Thinking back to the election (who doesn’t from time to time???), maybe even if Gaza wasn’t a priority for most voters, Harris’ position on it was nonetheless a signal that she would cave to the establishment. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo.
We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets.
We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets.
We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
August 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Thinking back to the election (who doesn’t from time to time???), maybe even if Gaza wasn’t a priority for most voters, Harris’ position on it was nonetheless a signal that she would cave to the establishment. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
I’m depressed just reading this. On the upside, I guess that means I qualify. bsky.app/profile/jben...
Hang onto this image of CDC's full list of underlying conditions tied to severe risk of COVID.
If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.
If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.
August 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I’m depressed just reading this. On the upside, I guess that means I qualify. bsky.app/profile/jben...
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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Love @conversationalist.org for always having intriguing stories from around the world; I never know what I'll see on the front page, and this is a really illuminating story about supermarkets in the Global South.
The Troubling Rise of Supermarkets in the Global South
How Kenya’s grocery stores might actually be hurting local farmers.
conversationalist.org
August 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Love @conversationalist.org for always having intriguing stories from around the world; I never know what I'll see on the front page, and this is a really illuminating story about supermarkets in the Global South.
Before de jure dictatorship m, there is de facto dictatorship, when the people that have the power willfully surrender their power and a body with teeth tells us it is just a ceremonial body ahead of actually not having power
August 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Before de jure dictatorship m, there is de facto dictatorship, when the people that have the power willfully surrender their power and a body with teeth tells us it is just a ceremonial body ahead of actually not having power
Smart people doing really smart suff
July 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Smart people doing really smart suff
First step in a monumental Supreme Court ruling that says the President can’t be defamed in the press because he’s actually King of America bsky.app/profile/lega...
BREAKING: Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show reut.rs/3TNpulG
July 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
First step in a monumental Supreme Court ruling that says the President can’t be defamed in the press because he’s actually King of America bsky.app/profile/lega...
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BREAKING: Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show reut.rs/3TNpulG
July 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
BREAKING: Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show reut.rs/3TNpulG