Alex
@alesplin.bsky.social
I'm a reformed (reforming?) redneck turned into a Ballet and Theater Dad™. I'm a hobby guitar, bass, and ukulele player. I'm a software engineer I make things, and try to figure out how things work. I'm a Liberal, because I'm a Christian.
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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
June 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
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ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
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Don't forget it
June 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Don't forget it
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Silence
Is
Complicity
Straighten your spine
Speak & live your truth
Is
Complicity
Straighten your spine
Speak & live your truth
June 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Silence
Is
Complicity
Straighten your spine
Speak & live your truth
Is
Complicity
Straighten your spine
Speak & live your truth
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Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha.
Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children.
Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.
Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children.
Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.
June 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha.
Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children.
Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.
Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children.
Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.
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If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.
June 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.
So he’s smart enough to invent electric cars and rockets (yeah I know he didn’t actually invent them), but he’s not smart enough to know he was giving a nazi salute?
Which is it, exactly?
Which is it, exactly?
January 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM
So he’s smart enough to invent electric cars and rockets (yeah I know he didn’t actually invent them), but he’s not smart enough to know he was giving a nazi salute?
Which is it, exactly?
Which is it, exactly?
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In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.
January 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.
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Hillary’s email server would like a word
January 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Hillary’s email server would like a word
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The platforms are tools of power integral to political propaganda machines. Every politician and activist knows this.
And Congress couldn’t get it together to pass legislation ensuring the most basic transparency or data access over the last 3 years so we could at least understand how they’re used.
And Congress couldn’t get it together to pass legislation ensuring the most basic transparency or data access over the last 3 years so we could at least understand how they’re used.
January 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The platforms are tools of power integral to political propaganda machines. Every politician and activist knows this.
And Congress couldn’t get it together to pass legislation ensuring the most basic transparency or data access over the last 3 years so we could at least understand how they’re used.
And Congress couldn’t get it together to pass legislation ensuring the most basic transparency or data access over the last 3 years so we could at least understand how they’re used.
We live in a post-sanity world.
January 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We live in a post-sanity world.
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January 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Speaker Mike Johnson said he thinks it’s totally ok to ask for concessions from Democrats in return for providing and/or expediting aid to the wildfires in California.
A large number of maga voters will
Be totally ok with this inhumanity because that’s how much they hate liberals.
A large number of maga voters will
Be totally ok with this inhumanity because that’s how much they hate liberals.
January 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Speaker Mike Johnson said he thinks it’s totally ok to ask for concessions from Democrats in return for providing and/or expediting aid to the wildfires in California.
A large number of maga voters will
Be totally ok with this inhumanity because that’s how much they hate liberals.
A large number of maga voters will
Be totally ok with this inhumanity because that’s how much they hate liberals.
1000%
January 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
1000%
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Why is the media like this?
January 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Why is the media like this?
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mark zuckerberg’s entire adult life has been a revenge tour against women
January 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
mark zuckerberg’s entire adult life has been a revenge tour against women
Jim Jordan is a blight on the idea of a civil society.
“Because the Democrats tend to be inept and incompetent in explaining reality to people, Rep. Jerry Nadler released the report on New Year’s Eve where it basically got zero attention.”
JFC. I follow this issue obsessively and I didn’t even see this until now.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/10/c...
JFC. I follow this issue obsessively and I didn’t even see this until now.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/10/c...
Congressional Report Accuses Jordan, Musk Of Weaponizing Gov’t To Silence Critics
For quite some time now, we’ve pointed out how Jim Jordan has weaponized the government to suppress speech. Quite frequently, he seems to be doing this in coordination with Elon Musk. And yet, some…
www.techdirt.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Jim Jordan is a blight on the idea of a civil society.
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January 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
January 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
Checks out.
"why did tech billionaires become fascists" basically it happened because they realised that they could collect all the money that ever existed and ppl would still laugh at them like they did in HS so they went full misanthrope, it's literally just little boys angry nobody likes them
January 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Checks out.
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A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
January 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
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I felt kinda bad for James Woods for a minute. But man what an idiotic dipshit talking about filling water reservoirs when there’s no water to fill them with because of, oh wait what is that thing again… oh right: climate change.
I used to think that when global warming truly began to bite, deniers would face reality & we could act. Now I think it's more likely it will lead to a kind of fascism that will respond to global warming by, like, executing everyone who says global warming is real.
January 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I felt kinda bad for James Woods for a minute. But man what an idiotic dipshit talking about filling water reservoirs when there’s no water to fill them with because of, oh wait what is that thing again… oh right: climate change.
I really do not understand this either.
I don't know if this is an autistic-brain thing, but one of the thing that really freaks me out about the current reality is that I really deeply and fundamentally don't understand why anyone would ever choose cruelty over problem-solving.
January 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I really do not understand this either.