Alison Roberts
@alisonr129.bsky.social
Legal services attorney | NYC at the moment | Philly fan | Cat mom
HLS '22, HSPH '22, W&M '15
failingwiththestate.substack.com
HLS '22, HSPH '22, W&M '15
failingwiththestate.substack.com
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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OVER 1 MILLION VOTES.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
OVER 1 MILLION VOTES.
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Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
This is awful for many reasons, but I would like to add that if we only allow straight Christian runners whose BMI is under 25 to work at the CDC we’ll have shit outreach and therefore shit public health.
Rand Paul says gay CDC official had ‘no business being in government’ due to his ‘lifestyle’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/03/rand-paul-cdc/?utm_content=1757042400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/03/rand-paul-cdc/?utm_content=1757042400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Rand Paul says gay official shouldn't have been in government due to 'lifestyle'
Republican Rand Paul has said a gay former CDC official had "no business being in government" due to his "lifestyle."
www.thepinknews.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is awful for many reasons, but I would like to add that if we only allow straight Christian runners whose BMI is under 25 to work at the CDC we’ll have shit outreach and therefore shit public health.
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You are not qualified to be a media critic if you misunderstand the source material this badly.
May the ghost of Mary Shelley haunt this reviewer for time and all eternity.
May the ghost of Mary Shelley haunt this reviewer for time and all eternity.
September 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
You are not qualified to be a media critic if you misunderstand the source material this badly.
May the ghost of Mary Shelley haunt this reviewer for time and all eternity.
May the ghost of Mary Shelley haunt this reviewer for time and all eternity.
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The Patriot Act wasn't patriotic. The No Child Left Behind Act did in fact leave many children behind. And the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill is anything but beautiful.
Could someone ask Precision Strategies why they insist on calling a bill that murders 140 Americans a day, "Beautiful"?
July 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Patriot Act wasn't patriotic. The No Child Left Behind Act did in fact leave many children behind. And the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill is anything but beautiful.
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ICE now has more funding than the military in Israel, Italy, Brazil and elsewhere.
July 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
ICE now has more funding than the military in Israel, Italy, Brazil and elsewhere.
Trump and his idiots will spend a lot of time saying voters wanted him to get able-bodied people of Medicaid and increase border enforcement.
I am a voter and I did not, and never will, want that.
I am a voter and I did not, and never will, want that.
July 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Trump and his idiots will spend a lot of time saying voters wanted him to get able-bodied people of Medicaid and increase border enforcement.
I am a voter and I did not, and never will, want that.
I am a voter and I did not, and never will, want that.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now
July 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now
I know that there are many ways for us to resist - and leverage - the birthright citizenship decision. But first I want to take a minute to grieve for the children who will fall through the cracks. I want to sit with the fact that American children will lose their rights because of this.
June 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I know that there are many ways for us to resist - and leverage - the birthright citizenship decision. But first I want to take a minute to grieve for the children who will fall through the cracks. I want to sit with the fact that American children will lose their rights because of this.
It's really wild to just go practice law every day when every legal principal I was taught 3 years ago is getting chopped down by SCOTUS like a Redwood on top of an oil reserve.
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's really wild to just go practice law every day when every legal principal I was taught 3 years ago is getting chopped down by SCOTUS like a Redwood on top of an oil reserve.
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This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
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this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
June 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
June 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American.
A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!
A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!
June 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American.
A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!
A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!
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I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate
June 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate