Alexander Means
@alienmeans.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, Educational Foundations
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The American political right is a cesspit of bigotry, white grievance, conspiracism, religious zealotry, violent ideation and action, and plutocrat money fueling it all.
Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.
Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.
At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org
Southern University, other HBCUs close due to ‘potential threat’
Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge will be closed through the weekend after officials called a lockdown Thursday morning due to a “potential threat.”
www.wwno.org
September 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The American political right is a cesspit of bigotry, white grievance, conspiracism, religious zealotry, violent ideation and action, and plutocrat money fueling it all.
Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.
Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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A young white Christian male who was raised by Republicans and taught to use guns from a young age shot Charlie Kirk.
Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door.
#ThisIsAmerica
Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door.
#ThisIsAmerica
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A young white Christian male who was raised by Republicans and taught to use guns from a young age shot Charlie Kirk.
Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door.
#ThisIsAmerica
Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door.
#ThisIsAmerica
Many have commented that the war on science and medicine is irrational from the standpoint of capitalism. The destruction of the CDC makes sense though if you realize the war is actually on us, our communities, our very lives. It’s a class war against life itself.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say
"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.
www.statnews.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Many have commented that the war on science and medicine is irrational from the standpoint of capitalism. The destruction of the CDC makes sense though if you realize the war is actually on us, our communities, our very lives. It’s a class war against life itself.
Adorno referred to this typology as “manipulative man”.
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism
Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lo...
www.psypost.org
August 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Adorno referred to this typology as “manipulative man”.
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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This is what it looks like when permanent war comes home.
It was tense in Maywood and Bell as ICE/CBP and multiple local police agencies confronted protesters and local residents vocalizing their anger at ICE/CBP violently arresting individuals and a protester.
June 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This is what it looks like when permanent war comes home.
These regime change wars, beginning with Iraq, are about instituting chaos and never letting any successful democratic or marginally independent state from ever arising in the Middle East. American Israeli hegemony are the ends, failed states are the means.
“The rationale for war was rotten. Despite advocates’ stated aims, the war was ultimately motivated by a desire for regime change. Neoconservatives in the Bush administration thought they could transform Iraq and the wider region into a pro-U.S. democratic stronghold.”
The Iraq War’s Catastrophic Consequences - Boston Review
Twenty years later, the U.S.-led invasion continues to shape geopolitics for the worse.
www.bostonreview.net
June 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
These regime change wars, beginning with Iraq, are about instituting chaos and never letting any successful democratic or marginally independent state from ever arising in the Middle East. American Israeli hegemony are the ends, failed states are the means.
Time will tell what the consequences are of the US entering Israel’s war against Iran. But it gives me a sickening feeling. We need an anti-war movement to arrest this drift toward oblivion.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...
U.S. attacks three Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says: Live updates
Follow live updates on the conflict between Israel and Iran as it enters its 9th day of attacks.
www.nbcnews.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Time will tell what the consequences are of the US entering Israel’s war against Iran. But it gives me a sickening feeling. We need an anti-war movement to arrest this drift toward oblivion.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...
One piece of good news.
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
June 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
One piece of good news.
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
Standing up to fascism with my boy today.
June 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Standing up to fascism with my boy today.
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Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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Keep an eye out this weekend for outside agitators like the Proud Boys showing up at the No Kings Protests! They will try to incite violence and blame it on the left as they did during the George Floyd protests.
June 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Keep an eye out this weekend for outside agitators like the Proud Boys showing up at the No Kings Protests! They will try to incite violence and blame it on the left as they did during the George Floyd protests.
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Hey for tomorrow's protests, make sure your vehicle registration is up to date and your tag is current. Double check your headlights and tail lights.
Any protective gear or even your kids' sports equipment, put it in the trunk or cover it with a blanket (see "plain view" exception).
Any protective gear or even your kids' sports equipment, put it in the trunk or cover it with a blanket (see "plain view" exception).
June 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Hey for tomorrow's protests, make sure your vehicle registration is up to date and your tag is current. Double check your headlights and tail lights.
Any protective gear or even your kids' sports equipment, put it in the trunk or cover it with a blanket (see "plain view" exception).
Any protective gear or even your kids' sports equipment, put it in the trunk or cover it with a blanket (see "plain view" exception).
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From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video.
Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!
Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!
June 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video.
Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!
Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!
Almost as depressing as the UCLA AI humanities course, but at least these folks are getting paid.
Review: The Shadow Scholars gives us a peek into the world of Kenyan college grads who are commissioned and paid by students in the most prestigious institutions in the western hemisphere to produce essays, papers, scholarly articles and graduate theses on their behalf.
Review: Outsourcing academia
Meet the Kenyan intellectuals quietly ghostwriting academic works for lazy students in the Global North.
continent.substack.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Almost as depressing as the UCLA AI humanities course, but at least these folks are getting paid.
Trolling the Bedbug honor of the year
December 14, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Trolling the Bedbug honor of the year
Have it and looking forward to reading it. Richard Seymour is such a smart and sensitive analyst. This book looks like it has a lot to say about this moment.
I'm reading it. I'm teaching it. Let's read it together
December 14, 2024 at 5:30 AM
Have it and looking forward to reading it. Richard Seymour is such a smart and sensitive analyst. This book looks like it has a lot to say about this moment.
Brett Stephens is incapable of understanding the dialectic.
Opinion | Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero
He’s a model for how a talented, determined man from humble roots can rise to the top of corporate life.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Brett Stephens is incapable of understanding the dialectic.
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In their 1955 sci-fi novel Preferred Risk, Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey depict a dystopian insurance era ruled by “The Company,” a massive insurance firm that achieves total global domination, displacing state governments.
Our Insurance Dystopia - Boston Review
Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.
www.bostonreview.net
December 8, 2024 at 3:03 PM
In their 1955 sci-fi novel Preferred Risk, Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey depict a dystopian insurance era ruled by “The Company,” a massive insurance firm that achieves total global domination, displacing state governments.
I thought the point of this platform was to escape this dummy’s face in my feed.
December 8, 2024 at 8:56 AM
I thought the point of this platform was to escape this dummy’s face in my feed.