Alexandra Spencer Lowell
@aslbskysocial.bsky.social
Fine artist, retired media relations officer for Fortune 500 firm, living in Virginia’s Albemarle County.
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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Contempt proceedings resume in the case involving Trump’s deportation of migrants (after claiming we were under invasion from the Tren de Aragua gang) and the government’s apparent willingness to ignore a key court order. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Week Ahead
November 23, 2025
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November 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Contempt proceedings resume in the case involving Trump’s deportation of migrants (after claiming we were under invasion from the Tren de Aragua gang) and the government’s apparent willingness to ignore a key court order. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Most average working Americans abide by laws and norms. Most are kind and decent. But there is growing rot at the top of our system. And its stench can no longer be ignored. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-732
Sunday thought
The rot at the top
robertreich.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Most average working Americans abide by laws and norms. Most are kind and decent. But there is growing rot at the top of our system. And its stench can no longer be ignored. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-732
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New research suggests that older adults who regularly use smartphones, computers, and the internet have a 58% lower risk of cognitive decline.
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New research suggests that older adults who regularly use smartphones, computers, and the internet have a 58% lower risk of cognitive decline.
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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In addition to the elements necessary for a just and lasting peace and Ukraine’s sovereignty:
any agreement must include the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
We will not rest until every single one of them is reunited with their families, in their homes.
any agreement must include the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
We will not rest until every single one of them is reunited with their families, in their homes.
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
In addition to the elements necessary for a just and lasting peace and Ukraine’s sovereignty:
any agreement must include the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
We will not rest until every single one of them is reunited with their families, in their homes.
any agreement must include the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
We will not rest until every single one of them is reunited with their families, in their homes.
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Good night
Photo by Gemini Observatory, Chile
Photo by Gemini Observatory, Chile
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Good night
Photo by Gemini Observatory, Chile
Photo by Gemini Observatory, Chile
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When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?
October 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?
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On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.
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Undermining faith in the dollar. Eliminating US foreign aid. Gutting US influence worldwide. A laughing stock at the UN. Trying to undermine the multilateral system. Redirecting the US military to domestic vendettas against his enemies and immigrants. I could go on. You get the point. Just nutso.
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Undermining faith in the dollar. Eliminating US foreign aid. Gutting US influence worldwide. A laughing stock at the UN. Trying to undermine the multilateral system. Redirecting the US military to domestic vendettas against his enemies and immigrants. I could go on. You get the point. Just nutso.
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Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.
Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears
Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.
trib.al
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.
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Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
October 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
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"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks."
October 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks."
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Self-inflicted wound
October 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Self-inflicted wound
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79. American citizen.
September 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
79. American citizen.
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From @hcrichardson.bsky.social: "the U.S. Dept of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security." An expert who explains that this is troubling because inflation is up & the job market is unstable, both of which increase food insecurity. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
September 21, 2025
On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of the annual report on consumer expenditures—a key report for understanding inflation—without explanation.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
From @hcrichardson.bsky.social: "the U.S. Dept of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security." An expert who explains that this is troubling because inflation is up & the job market is unstable, both of which increase food insecurity. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
September 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
Cuts to the Food Safety System Threaten Americans’ Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...
Cuts to the Food Safety System Threaten Americans’ Health
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September 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Cuts to the Food Safety System Threaten Americans’ Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...
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When bad things happen, presidents traditionally use the highest office in the land to calm the public. The best of our presidents appeal to the better angels of our nature. Trump consistently appeals to the worst of our demons. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-cyn...
Trump’s cynical use of the Kirk assassination
Rather than appeal to the better angels of our nature, he appeals to the worst of our demons
robertreich.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When bad things happen, presidents traditionally use the highest office in the land to calm the public. The best of our presidents appeal to the better angels of our nature. Trump consistently appeals to the worst of our demons. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-cyn...
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
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"Yet, somehow, this all pales in comparison to the shellacking Kennedy has taken from his own family over the past several days."
The Kennedy Family Wants RFK, Jr. Out
When common sense is thicker than blood.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"Yet, somehow, this all pales in comparison to the shellacking Kennedy has taken from his own family over the past several days."
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The job market is drying up. Prices continue to rise. Millions are living paycheck to paycheck. 70% of U.S. adults say the American Dream is dead.
What has Trump been up to lately?
Hobnobbing with billionaire Big Tech CEOs and profiting off the presidency with crypto schemes.
What has Trump been up to lately?
Hobnobbing with billionaire Big Tech CEOs and profiting off the presidency with crypto schemes.
September 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The job market is drying up. Prices continue to rise. Millions are living paycheck to paycheck. 70% of U.S. adults say the American Dream is dead.
What has Trump been up to lately?
Hobnobbing with billionaire Big Tech CEOs and profiting off the presidency with crypto schemes.
What has Trump been up to lately?
Hobnobbing with billionaire Big Tech CEOs and profiting off the presidency with crypto schemes.
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From wacky Laura Loomer to incompetent and ignorant RFK, this clown car of an administration can’t stop embarrassing itself.
September 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
From wacky Laura Loomer to incompetent and ignorant RFK, this clown car of an administration can’t stop embarrassing itself.
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Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.”
Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
September 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.”
Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
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The RFK playbook for sowing dangerous nonsense: take a half truth built on poor data from years ago and cherry pick it in a faux-crusade at “transparency.”
He’s doing it with covid vaccines, fluoride, and now with Tylenol in the pre-natal period
Don’t be fooled. Tylenol is fine, use it as directed
He’s doing it with covid vaccines, fluoride, and now with Tylenol in the pre-natal period
Don’t be fooled. Tylenol is fine, use it as directed
September 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The RFK playbook for sowing dangerous nonsense: take a half truth built on poor data from years ago and cherry pick it in a faux-crusade at “transparency.”
He’s doing it with covid vaccines, fluoride, and now with Tylenol in the pre-natal period
Don’t be fooled. Tylenol is fine, use it as directed
He’s doing it with covid vaccines, fluoride, and now with Tylenol in the pre-natal period
Don’t be fooled. Tylenol is fine, use it as directed