Alex Jenkins
@alexjamesjenkins.bsky.social
Boston-based software person. Aging weekend warrior skier / mountain biker.
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So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers?
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers?
Truly the worst to ever do it. No understanding of power levers, completely out of touch with public sentiment and political winds, no principles, and a godawful communicator to boot.
JFC. Does @schumer.senate.gov not get that by caving, Democrats make it *harder,* not easier, to make the ACA subsidies expiring stick politically to Trump/GOP? This effort to shame Republicans in this context risks signaling to low-info voters that Rs are standing on conviction and Dems aren't.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Truly the worst to ever do it. No understanding of power levers, completely out of touch with public sentiment and political winds, no principles, and a godawful communicator to boot.
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Federal prosectors acted to enforce the law with proper procedure and got fired, because the White House opposes that.
The new standard: Criminals the president likes should be allowed to do crimes, and people he doesn't like should be prosecuted for things they didn't do.
I preferred rule of law.
The new standard: Criminals the president likes should be allowed to do crimes, and people he doesn't like should be prosecuted for things they didn't do.
I preferred rule of law.
Breaking on MSNBC:
Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.
Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Federal prosectors acted to enforce the law with proper procedure and got fired, because the White House opposes that.
The new standard: Criminals the president likes should be allowed to do crimes, and people he doesn't like should be prosecuted for things they didn't do.
I preferred rule of law.
The new standard: Criminals the president likes should be allowed to do crimes, and people he doesn't like should be prosecuted for things they didn't do.
I preferred rule of law.
The Nazis are not sending their best and brightest.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The Nazis are not sending their best and brightest.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Incredible optics demolishing the White House facade to build a giant ballroom for one special boy on the tail of the No Kings protests. And to do it while the gov't is shut down, food, medical, and housing prices are higher than ever, and we just funneled $40B to bail out his toady in Argentina.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Incredible optics demolishing the White House facade to build a giant ballroom for one special boy on the tail of the No Kings protests. And to do it while the gov't is shut down, food, medical, and housing prices are higher than ever, and we just funneled $40B to bail out his toady in Argentina.
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They don't think they're public servants.
They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms
They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms
October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
They don't think they're public servants.
They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms
They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms
Your daily reminder to never give any billionaire the benefit of the doubt. Benioff sucks shit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Your daily reminder to never give any billionaire the benefit of the doubt. Benioff sucks shit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
A venture capitalist with principles? Well now I've seen it all.
“San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don’t like paying for extra security for Dreamforce.” Good on you, Ron Conway www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Venture Capitalist Resigns From Salesforce Foundation Over Benioff Comments
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A venture capitalist with principles? Well now I've seen it all.
ICE is the most dangerous domestic terrorist organization in the US and nothing anybody can say will convince me otherwise. This cannot become normalized. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
ICE is the most dangerous domestic terrorist organization in the US and nothing anybody can say will convince me otherwise. This cannot become normalized. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
There's a real poetic symmetry to a week that started with the president gloating about the taxpayer-funded 24K gold he's slathering in the Oval Office then two days later canceling healthcare for millions.
October 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
There's a real poetic symmetry to a week that started with the president gloating about the taxpayer-funded 24K gold he's slathering in the Oval Office then two days later canceling healthcare for millions.
Never let yourself become numb to the horrific daily evils that this catastrophic administration inflicts on good people.
Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Never let yourself become numb to the horrific daily evils that this catastrophic administration inflicts on good people.
Armed, masked thugs held an autistic 5-yr old girl hostage to get her father to turn himself in. If they want us to stop calling them Nazis, they should stop doing Nazi shit.
September 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Armed, masked thugs held an autistic 5-yr old girl hostage to get her father to turn himself in. If they want us to stop calling them Nazis, they should stop doing Nazi shit.
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Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr
September 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr
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The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.
August 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.
As a taxpayer, I find this particular flavor of corruption absolutely blood-boiling.
The Air Force and Navy are poised to cancel two nearly complete projects worth about $800 million because they want Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects. The result could be a costly do-over.
www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
August 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
As a taxpayer, I find this particular flavor of corruption absolutely blood-boiling.
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The world’s richest man starving the world’s poorest children while creating an AI robot that praises Hitler, trying to take over the country, and using women as broodmares is some hackneyed shit.
Where’s the depth? Where’s the humanizing nuance?
We need better villains.
Where’s the depth? Where’s the humanizing nuance?
We need better villains.
July 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The world’s richest man starving the world’s poorest children while creating an AI robot that praises Hitler, trying to take over the country, and using women as broodmares is some hackneyed shit.
Where’s the depth? Where’s the humanizing nuance?
We need better villains.
Where’s the depth? Where’s the humanizing nuance?
We need better villains.
Seems criminally negligent that Texas regulators greenlit this.
good morning, here's a gnarly mistake from yesterday's Tesla "robotaxi" launch day: the vehicle is in a turn lane, signaling for the left, and about halfway through it bails out and decides to drive directly into an oncoming lane
seems extremely chill!
youtu.be/_s-h0YXtF0c?...
seems extremely chill!
youtu.be/_s-h0YXtF0c?...
First Tesla Robotaxi Ride [Full Drive]
YouTube video by Tesla Daily
youtu.be
June 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Seems criminally negligent that Texas regulators greenlit this.
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if you are old enough to remember, at all, what was going on during the run-up to iraq, and fall for it again now, you are either vile beyond repair or such an enormous mark that you should be locked in a mcdonald's playplace for your own personal safety
June 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
if you are old enough to remember, at all, what was going on during the run-up to iraq, and fall for it again now, you are either vile beyond repair or such an enormous mark that you should be locked in a mcdonald's playplace for your own personal safety
Tesla fake robotaxi rollout going about as expected. Love that not only did it ignore the school bus lights and hit the “child,” it then took off in a hurry afterwards.
“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.”
@cbsaustin @velez_tx
@cbsaustin @velez_tx
June 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Tesla fake robotaxi rollout going about as expected. Love that not only did it ignore the school bus lights and hit the “child,” it then took off in a hurry afterwards.
Batshit insane that Twitter accepts ads like this.
Musk's Twitter is now running paid advertising calling for the extrajudicial execution of protesters in Los Angeles. In most countries around the world, this is a criminal act.
June 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Batshit insane that Twitter accepts ads like this.
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In case you're wondering what *actual* academic indoctrination looks like (instead of the completely made up "anti-woke" crusade currently mobilizing the extremist right).
May 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In case you're wondering what *actual* academic indoctrination looks like (instead of the completely made up "anti-woke" crusade currently mobilizing the extremist right).
Good anthology of 20 years of outrageous lying that, for some reason, has never caught up with him.
Great story on the simples reason Elon Musk shouldn't be in business or politics: he's a shameless liar, and nobody should believe a single thing he says.
Someone with this record of blatant lying to investors shouldn't be able to get a credit card.
www.wired.com/story/theres...
Someone with this record of blatant lying to investors shouldn't be able to get a credit card.
www.wired.com/story/theres...
There’s a Very Simple Pattern to Elon Musk’s Broken Promises
The entrepreneur’s habit of overpromising on deadlines may be frustrating for investors—but for those looking to see whether a Musk pledge will come good, there’s a key phrase to watch out for.
www.wired.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Good anthology of 20 years of outrageous lying that, for some reason, has never caught up with him.
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Democrats in 2024: Trump will push 10s of millions off of Medicaid if he wins
Corporate Media: Democrats are liars, Trump promises not to cut anyone from Medicaid if he wins
<Trump wins and cuts 13.7 million off of Medicaid>
Corporate Media: real barn burner last night in House, so much fun!
Corporate Media: Democrats are liars, Trump promises not to cut anyone from Medicaid if he wins
<Trump wins and cuts 13.7 million off of Medicaid>
Corporate Media: real barn burner last night in House, so much fun!
May 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Democrats in 2024: Trump will push 10s of millions off of Medicaid if he wins
Corporate Media: Democrats are liars, Trump promises not to cut anyone from Medicaid if he wins
<Trump wins and cuts 13.7 million off of Medicaid>
Corporate Media: real barn burner last night in House, so much fun!
Corporate Media: Democrats are liars, Trump promises not to cut anyone from Medicaid if he wins
<Trump wins and cuts 13.7 million off of Medicaid>
Corporate Media: real barn burner last night in House, so much fun!