Alexis
@offalcute.bsky.social
Currently reading:
🎧 The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism
📕 Critical hope: how to grapple with complexity, lead with purpose, and cultivate transformative social change
🎧 The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism
📕 Critical hope: how to grapple with complexity, lead with purpose, and cultivate transformative social change
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A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025
Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.
thetransfemininereview.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
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This Trans Day of Remembrance, my heart hurts thinking of all the people we couldn't carry through to the other side of this moment in history.
Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.
Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This Trans Day of Remembrance, my heart hurts thinking of all the people we couldn't carry through to the other side of this moment in history.
Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.
Amidst all the fighting we've done for our community, amidst the unshakeable belief that we will win in the end, grief still takes hold.
Imagine being a survivor in this classroom 🤢
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Imagine being a survivor in this classroom 🤢
Oh hell yes, I’m so glad there’s a local initiative for this! Throw em some coins if you’ve got em
Venmo @mspwhistles to help cover the costs to support our communities MSP
Our next bath of 3D printed whistles are in process, and we have requests to supply multiple large trainings over the next 2 weeks.
We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.
We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Oh hell yes, I’m so glad there’s a local initiative for this! Throw em some coins if you’ve got em
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My mind has been spinning the last few days as multiple crises of journalism converged—the Nuzzi book, Epstein’s emails revealing journalists hid information, Trump berating a reporter with no consequence—and it occurred to me they all stemmed from the same source: elite impunity.
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My mind has been spinning the last few days as multiple crises of journalism converged—the Nuzzi book, Epstein’s emails revealing journalists hid information, Trump berating a reporter with no consequence—and it occurred to me they all stemmed from the same source: elite impunity.
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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there's a common dynamic where victims are framed as vicious, vindictive people who only seek to ruin lives while people think abusers are just little guys who don't know they're abusing.
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
there's a common dynamic where victims are framed as vicious, vindictive people who only seek to ruin lives while people think abusers are just little guys who don't know they're abusing.
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Tear gas being used at the raid in St. Paul as observers try to stop the van from leaving
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Tear gas being used at the raid in St. Paul as observers try to stop the van from leaving
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Officers now arresting folks who attempted to block the vans.
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Officers now arresting folks who attempted to block the vans.
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Vehicles slowly making their way through the crowd.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Vehicles slowly making their way through the crowd.
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Couple dozen people total (FBI, HSI, DEA) on site surrounding Bro-Tex at Hamden and Territorial.
“Just executing a search warrant” was the answer given on site.
“Just executing a search warrant” was the answer given on site.
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Couple dozen people total (FBI, HSI, DEA) on site surrounding Bro-Tex at Hamden and Territorial.
“Just executing a search warrant” was the answer given on site.
“Just executing a search warrant” was the answer given on site.
Frankenstein (2025): 👍👍
a long list of oscar noms (and a slightly shorter list of Oscar (Isaac) nom nom noms) surely incoming
a long list of oscar noms (and a slightly shorter list of Oscar (Isaac) nom nom noms) surely incoming
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Frankenstein (2025): 👍👍
a long list of oscar noms (and a slightly shorter list of Oscar (Isaac) nom nom noms) surely incoming
a long list of oscar noms (and a slightly shorter list of Oscar (Isaac) nom nom noms) surely incoming
charli xcx + john cale is bespoke content for my ears
incredible
incredible
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
charli xcx + john cale is bespoke content for my ears
incredible
incredible
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I regret to tell you that this just looks like guys telling homophobic jokes to me. None of them are funny, so it's admittedly hard to tell.
Mark Epstein asked his brother Jeffrey Epstein whether Steve Bannon could confirm if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba. Jeffrey Epstein: "I thought I had tsuris,” using the Yiddish term for troubles. #OpDeathEaters
![From:
Mark L. Epstein
Sent:
3/21/2018 2:54:13 PM
To:
'jeffrey E.' [jeevacation@gmail.com]
RE: hey
Subject:
High
I'd rather be in Donni Dee's shoes.
Importance:
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:43 AM
To: Mark L. Epstein
Subject: Re: hey
you mean DONNI TEE
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Mark L. Epstein
wrote:
You and your boy Donnie can make a remake of the movie Get Hard.
Sent via tin can and string.
On Mar 21, 2018, at 09:37, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
wrote:
and i thought- I had tsuris
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Mark L. Epstein
Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?
wrote:
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 2:15 PM
To:
Subject: Re: hey
All good. Bannon with me
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:49 PM Mark L. Epstein
wrote:
How are you doing?
A while back you mentioned that you were prediabetic. Has anything changed with that?
What is your boy Donald up to now?
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November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I regret to tell you that this just looks like guys telling homophobic jokes to me. None of them are funny, so it's admittedly hard to tell.
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
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Know any twin cities small-business owners?
I'm hosting a gathering of businesses against fascism on Wed. Nov. 19 @6pm.
Working w/ ISAIAH to connect business owners with a broader anti-authoritarian movement with shared demands. Please send anyone you know who might be interested my way!
The plan:
I'm hosting a gathering of businesses against fascism on Wed. Nov. 19 @6pm.
Working w/ ISAIAH to connect business owners with a broader anti-authoritarian movement with shared demands. Please send anyone you know who might be interested my way!
The plan:
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Know any twin cities small-business owners?
I'm hosting a gathering of businesses against fascism on Wed. Nov. 19 @6pm.
Working w/ ISAIAH to connect business owners with a broader anti-authoritarian movement with shared demands. Please send anyone you know who might be interested my way!
The plan:
I'm hosting a gathering of businesses against fascism on Wed. Nov. 19 @6pm.
Working w/ ISAIAH to connect business owners with a broader anti-authoritarian movement with shared demands. Please send anyone you know who might be interested my way!
The plan:
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BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.
This puts the four months I spent applying for jobs and getting very few interviews in perspective. And firms up my hunch that, if you’re in a field where freelancing is a thing, this is a time where informal referrals for temp-to-hire roles might be more fruitful than mass applying.
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This puts the four months I spent applying for jobs and getting very few interviews in perspective. And firms up my hunch that, if you’re in a field where freelancing is a thing, this is a time where informal referrals for temp-to-hire roles might be more fruitful than mass applying.
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So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
This reminded me that there was a prof in my grad program who published constantly, had tons of advisees, and still found a way to entertain students at her house.
Someone asked her husband, ”when does she sleep?“ He didn’t miss a beat: “She doesn’t.“
Someone asked her husband, ”when does she sleep?“ He didn’t miss a beat: “She doesn’t.“
Two hours a night: Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concerns about work-life balance
Two hours a night: Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concerns about work-life balance
Takaichi caused a stir last week after she summoned aides to her office for a 3am meeting to prepare for a budget committee hearing
Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has said she gets by on just two to four hours sleep a night – prompting concern over her commitment to a better work-life balance among the country’s fatigued employees.
Pointing to the bags beneath her eyes, Takaichi told MPs that she survives on minimal sleep – a habit she shares with her political hero Margaret Thatcher – after being asked how she would tackle Japan’s notoriously long working hours. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
This reminded me that there was a prof in my grad program who published constantly, had tons of advisees, and still found a way to entertain students at her house.
Someone asked her husband, ”when does she sleep?“ He didn’t miss a beat: “She doesn’t.“
Someone asked her husband, ”when does she sleep?“ He didn’t miss a beat: “She doesn’t.“
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You do not have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. In the same meeting, they banned gender affirming care at all Catholic hospitals nationwide.
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
You do not have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. In the same meeting, they banned gender affirming care at all Catholic hospitals nationwide.
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
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welcome back Sarah Kendzior!
While @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was gone for a while, here's the Substack post on Trump and Epstein along with the excerpt from Hiding in Plain Sight
![I know there are a lot of people who trust me: I show my work, I footnote evervthing, I give examples, Im very concrete. But if you were just to repeat, to somebody who doesn't know anvthing about the situation. what's in this book, [they would] be like, That's completely wild! If that were true someone would have done something about it! And that's when vou get to the fundamental horror of the book: It's not that no one knows, it's that they all know. Most people in official power, they know. I'm not breaking news. The reason they don't want to talk about it is that they have failed to combat it.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
welcome back Sarah Kendzior!
In reverse chronological: Bluets; How to Do Nothing; In the Dream House; the Ferrante quartet; Stone Butch Blues; The Trick is to Keep Breathing; How Late it Was, How Late; Midnight’s Children; Invisible Man; Bone People; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Sula; If Beale Street Could Talk; The Bell Jar
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In reverse chronological: Bluets; How to Do Nothing; In the Dream House; the Ferrante quartet; Stone Butch Blues; The Trick is to Keep Breathing; How Late it Was, How Late; Midnight’s Children; Invisible Man; Bone People; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Sula; If Beale Street Could Talk; The Bell Jar