Alexis Gunderson
@alexiskg.bsky.social
Freelance TV critic and organizer with the National Writers Union / Freelance Solidarity Project | Comms at PGCMLS 📚 | she/her
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Why is it that every single person involved in this thievery technology has a smug face
Exclusive: Suno, an AI music platform in which users can generate songs based on text prompts, has raised $250 million at a valuation of $2.45 billion.
AI Music Platform Suno Valued at $2.45 Billion
The startup has raised $250 million and says annual revenue has reached $200 million.
on.wsj.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Why is it that every single person involved in this thievery technology has a smug face
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Media closures are happening much too often these days, but there is POWER in a UNION! ✊🏼
AND: this contraction is being felt across the cultural criticism landscape, and is unsustainable not just for criticism as a viable career (lol I work at a library now!!!), but also for humanity.
My culture critic comrades @fspnwu.bsky.social are organizing to fight this contraction. Join us!
My culture critic comrades @fspnwu.bsky.social are organizing to fight this contraction. Join us!
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Media closures are happening much too often these days, but there is POWER in a UNION! ✊🏼
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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
This sucks SO HARD, and I am so sad to lose my criticism-writing home of nearly a decade. Solidarity to all my fellow Paste TV alumni!
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sucks SO HARD, and I am so sad to lose my criticism-writing home of nearly a decade. Solidarity to all my fellow Paste TV alumni!
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The social-interpersonal ethics of American businesses is such that executives are treated like mini kings, which very much has an “elites kicked in the head by a mule”/“dictator’s dilemma” effect on their sense-making and constructed knowledge, and how people just carry out their insane decisions.
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The social-interpersonal ethics of American businesses is such that executives are treated like mini kings, which very much has an “elites kicked in the head by a mule”/“dictator’s dilemma” effect on their sense-making and constructed knowledge, and how people just carry out their insane decisions.
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Union Starbucks baristas have overwhelmingly authorized an unfair labor practice strike starting TOMORROW (Thursday, November 13th), grinding Starbucks to a halt during the company’s busiest sales day of the year.
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Union Starbucks baristas have overwhelmingly authorized an unfair labor practice strike starting TOMORROW (Thursday, November 13th), grinding Starbucks to a halt during the company’s busiest sales day of the year.
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
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Just for laughs...
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just for laughs...
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
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AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO
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Among other things, young people are students who are often having to do “critical triaging” around basic needs, parents trying to feed their kids, & human beings who need food for themselves. When you don’t have access to critical resources like SNAP, “it can have ripple effects even beyond food.”
It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”
More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP
“We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Among other things, young people are students who are often having to do “critical triaging” around basic needs, parents trying to feed their kids, & human beings who need food for themselves. When you don’t have access to critical resources like SNAP, “it can have ripple effects even beyond food.”
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After the hopescrolling, what comes next? One of our members has some ideas.
Mazel tov to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the movement! Now, the hard part. I wrote in @thenation.com that today's social movement must go on the offensive, striking out independently to give us a fighting chance against big biz, Trump, & the political duopoly.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
For the Movement That Elected Zohran Mamdani, Now Comes the Hard Part
Holding political office is not the same as wielding political power—especially for the left. To win bold demands, social movements must go on the offensive.
www.thenation.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
After the hopescrolling, what comes next? One of our members has some ideas.
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Working as a freelancer should be an affirmative choice, but the reality is that many of us take up freelancing after a lay-off while applying for a vanishing number of media staff jobs. We hope this guide for navigating freelance work offers support & solidarity: sites.google.com/view/fsp-res...
Home
Welcome!
sites.google.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Working as a freelancer should be an affirmative choice, but the reality is that many of us take up freelancing after a lay-off while applying for a vanishing number of media staff jobs. We hope this guide for navigating freelance work offers support & solidarity: sites.google.com/view/fsp-res...
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It is our position that the media landscape is bleak, but not hopeless. Every day, our members are organizing to build a more just media industry, one that values workers and their labor.
Join our union, and join the fight: nwu.org/join-now
Join our union, and join the fight: nwu.org/join-now
Join Now | NWU
Who Can Join?
nwu.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It is our position that the media landscape is bleak, but not hopeless. Every day, our members are organizing to build a more just media industry, one that values workers and their labor.
Join our union, and join the fight: nwu.org/join-now
Join our union, and join the fight: nwu.org/join-now
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We also condemn Condé Nast’s illegal decision to fire four Condé Union officers for demanding answers about the termination of their colleagues. We stand in solidarity with @nyguild.bsky.social as they address management's blatant union-busting.
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We also condemn Condé Nast’s illegal decision to fire four Condé Union officers for demanding answers about the termination of their colleagues. We stand in solidarity with @nyguild.bsky.social as they address management's blatant union-busting.
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The diversity at Teen Vogue directly influenced its vibrant and impactful reporting. Their loss is a blow to a media landscape that shrinks from making space for joy alongside rage when confronting the material realities of young people. Support our fellow workers: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The diversity at Teen Vogue directly influenced its vibrant and impactful reporting. Their loss is a blow to a media landscape that shrinks from making space for joy alongside rage when confronting the material realities of young people. Support our fellow workers: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
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We stand in solidarity with our @condeunion.bsky.social siblings at @teenvogue.com who were unceremoniously laid off last week.
Layoffs are not a solution to unbalanced budgets, especially when those laid off come from marginalized backgrounds typically not represented at major media orgs.
Layoffs are not a solution to unbalanced budgets, especially when those laid off come from marginalized backgrounds typically not represented at major media orgs.
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We stand in solidarity with our @condeunion.bsky.social siblings at @teenvogue.com who were unceremoniously laid off last week.
Layoffs are not a solution to unbalanced budgets, especially when those laid off come from marginalized backgrounds typically not represented at major media orgs.
Layoffs are not a solution to unbalanced budgets, especially when those laid off come from marginalized backgrounds typically not represented at major media orgs.
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More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.
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conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions
More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Zohran Mamdani overcoming a nationwide smear campaign from both sides of the establishment once again proves that there is no substitute for simply being the person you say you are.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Zohran Mamdani overcoming a nationwide smear campaign from both sides of the establishment once again proves that there is no substitute for simply being the person you say you are.
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Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible
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Tremendous shoutout to @hellgatenyc.com for their great liveblog today and livestream tonight m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKA4...
2025 Mayoral Election — LIVE with Hell Gate
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November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Tremendous shoutout to @hellgatenyc.com for their great liveblog today and livestream tonight m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKA4...
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Capitalism is now illegal
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Capitalism is now illegal