AlexaR
@bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social
Chicken lover, vegetarian, environmentalist, taiko player, architect, organization development professional, Unitarian Universalist, and aspiring backyard farmer. Probably neurodivergent: acquired, inherited, possibly both.
We hit 3.5%, and that's great, but other key criteria are that protests have to be sustained. It's not just one Saturday afternoon to fix all this. We have to keep doing it.
June 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
We hit 3.5%, and that's great, but other key criteria are that protests have to be sustained. It's not just one Saturday afternoon to fix all this. We have to keep doing it.
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They buried the lede
May 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
They buried the lede
Oh no, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in the neighborhood! He might... make pupusas? Oh, the horror! 🙄
May 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Oh no, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in the neighborhood! He might... make pupusas? Oh, the horror! 🙄
Add Stephen King's Running Man to this reading list. (Written under the Bachman pseudonym). And dont watch the movie version. It softens the ending.
The Democrats account has game. Hunger game, if you will.
May 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Add Stephen King's Running Man to this reading list. (Written under the Bachman pseudonym). And dont watch the movie version. It softens the ending.
This is the race/question about everything right now.
"The future of biomedical research [amounts to] a race to see whether the biomedical research community can mobilize politically, access that vast but latent political power, before the White House can do enough sustained damage to make the whole question moot." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is the race/question about everything right now.
Seeing generational criticism on substack. Not having it. I've worked w people from multiple gens & the idea that gen Z has a special deficit in critical thinking... lacks same. Also, bullying is a timeless tradition in the US. It's not new. STOP 👏 MAKING 👏 IT 👏 ABOUT 👏 A 👏 DEMOGRAPHIC 👏 OF 👏 PEOPLE
May 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Seeing generational criticism on substack. Not having it. I've worked w people from multiple gens & the idea that gen Z has a special deficit in critical thinking... lacks same. Also, bullying is a timeless tradition in the US. It's not new. STOP 👏 MAKING 👏 IT 👏 ABOUT 👏 A 👏 DEMOGRAPHIC 👏 OF 👏 PEOPLE
Oh look, an actual leadership expert on how this new guy ain't. 🤔
New FEMA head says he has: "...never read a book on leadership." I have read many and written several. This is not a good way to start leading an organization. Intimidation is not a good strategy to build long-term capability and accomplishment. www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-ac...
New FEMA head tells staff: "Don't get in my way… I will run right over you"
Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson warns FEMA personnel in first all-hands meeting, saying "I and I alone speak for FEMA."
www.cbsnews.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Oh look, an actual leadership expert on how this new guy ain't. 🤔
"Quiet quitting" by DHS attorney due to hostile work environment? 🤔 (PSA "qq" in quotes because it is a disgusting anti-worker term blaming the worker for having an a-hole boss.)
Remember that the ICE agents claimed they were looking for a totally different person before they smashed this guy’s car windows? And how he had asylum already?
Well, looks like that might not have even been a ruse. ICE didn’t even file a notice to appear in court, they clearly had nothing on him.
Well, looks like that might not have even been a ruse. ICE didn’t even file a notice to appear in court, they clearly had nothing on him.
May 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Quiet quitting" by DHS attorney due to hostile work environment? 🤔 (PSA "qq" in quotes because it is a disgusting anti-worker term blaming the worker for having an a-hole boss.)
The acting FEMA head is misusing Organization Development theory to assert dominance. The conventional wisdom is that ~20% of people are early adopters, ~20% are set in their ways. The middle ~60% will go along with one or the other 20% based on the vibe of the change. The vibe here is effed.
Whoa‼️ Acting FEMA chief David Richardson just told his staff, “Don’t get in my way… I will run right over you.”—at his intro meeting.
Threatening career FEMA workers who might resist Trump’s agenda. What matters is loyalty. Obey or get steamrolled.
Authoritarianism — one agency at a time.
Threatening career FEMA workers who might resist Trump’s agenda. What matters is loyalty. Obey or get steamrolled.
Authoritarianism — one agency at a time.
May 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The acting FEMA head is misusing Organization Development theory to assert dominance. The conventional wisdom is that ~20% of people are early adopters, ~20% are set in their ways. The middle ~60% will go along with one or the other 20% based on the vibe of the change. The vibe here is effed.
Yay, debt bondage! We'll all get to sing 🎶I owe my soul to the company store🎶 (Sixteen Tons - look it up if you don't know.) American feudalism. Yay... <sob>
More moves towards "network cities," where democracy is replaced by corporate governance. This is what @gilduran.com warns about.
www.texasstandard.org/stories/elon...
www.texasstandard.org/stories/elon...
Elon Musk wanted to turn his SpaceX launch site into a city. Voters in Texas just said yes.
A small group of mostly SpaceX employees voted to incorporate the area around the SpaceX rocket testing and launch site near Brownsville as the City of Starbase.
www.texasstandard.org
May 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Yay, debt bondage! We'll all get to sing 🎶I owe my soul to the company store🎶 (Sixteen Tons - look it up if you don't know.) American feudalism. Yay... <sob>
Yes, we would. That's how it's supposed to work. People in power are always irritated at the idea that they have to follow the rules. But they do. That's a major way we prevent dictatorship. #nokings
The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment says “no person” shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”
TRUMP: "I don’t know. It seems — it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials..."
TRUMP: "I don’t know. It seems — it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials..."
Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know'
Trump said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he’s following lawyers’ advice as he tries to execute rapid deportations, arguing that giving immigrants due process is time-consuming.
www.nbcnews.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yes, we would. That's how it's supposed to work. People in power are always irritated at the idea that they have to follow the rules. But they do. That's a major way we prevent dictatorship. #nokings
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ICYMI: “Charles lies, people die!”
@climatedefiance.bsky.social crashed a Charles Koch award ceremony to shame him for being at the root of climate crisis denialism.
@climatedefiance.bsky.social crashed a Charles Koch award ceremony to shame him for being at the root of climate crisis denialism.
May 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
ICYMI: “Charles lies, people die!”
@climatedefiance.bsky.social crashed a Charles Koch award ceremony to shame him for being at the root of climate crisis denialism.
@climatedefiance.bsky.social crashed a Charles Koch award ceremony to shame him for being at the root of climate crisis denialism.
Accurate. ICE is shameful.
New ICE Agent Establishes Dominance By Beating Up Biggest Child Prisoner On First Day
theonion.com/new-ice...
theonion.com/new-ice...
May 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Accurate. ICE is shameful.
As a legal observer also trained in workplace practices for dealing with ICE, when I read the memo, I already knew all of it. Why? Because it's just a summary of existing law. There is nothing in there that isn't just the rules and procedures ICE is SUPPOSED TO BE FOLLOWING.
Joining 20 coalition partners, we wrote a letter denouncing threats to arrest Gov. Evers over state guidance he issued regarding ICE.
Once again, the Trump administration is undermining democracy by appearing to target a public official they disagree with.
www.aclu-wi.org/en/press-rel...
Once again, the Trump administration is undermining democracy by appearing to target a public official they disagree with.
www.aclu-wi.org/en/press-rel...
Wisconsin Advocacy Groups: Threats Against Gov. Evers Undercut Rule of Law
In response to recent calls for Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’ arrest over state guidance issued regarding ICE in State of Wisconsin buildings, 21 advocacy groups issued the following statement:
www.aclu-wi.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
As a legal observer also trained in workplace practices for dealing with ICE, when I read the memo, I already knew all of it. Why? Because it's just a summary of existing law. There is nothing in there that isn't just the rules and procedures ICE is SUPPOSED TO BE FOLLOWING.
As an American who is ethnically German, I fully support Germany's clapback.
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
As an American who is ethnically German, I fully support Germany's clapback.
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![When Trump tried to bully Governor Mills over [trans athletes in sports] at a White House meeting in February, she told him, “See you in court.” Today she commented: “It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yo5gmehw2was7eotluvmz742/bafkreifjvyqmtaifzi5vfwyuv7onzu3emtm3mgfiuy3ustpca3v2mwugcy@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @mikethompson.house.gov @booker.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social
I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be:
We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.
We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.
May 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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WATCH: @abbyphillip.bsky.social patiently tries to get batya & scott jennings to understand their views about deporting people to foreign prisons without due process are un-American and anti-constitutional. (And they both know it) 🇺🇸
May 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
WATCH: @abbyphillip.bsky.social patiently tries to get batya & scott jennings to understand their views about deporting people to foreign prisons without due process are un-American and anti-constitutional. (And they both know it) 🇺🇸
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Death by a thousand cuts
This is important acasignups.net/25/05/01/and...
And So It Begins: Aetna/CVS pulling out of ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire
via Bruce Japsen at Forbes, the first shoe has dropped: CVS Plans To Exit Obamacare In 2026, Affecting 1 Million Aetna Members CVS Health plans to exit the individual health insurance business also kn...
acasignups.net
May 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Death by a thousand cuts
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A majority of white people in America are willing to burn everything down rather than allow equal rights or a multicultural society to exist, basically most white Americans don't believe in America.
(not a shock they're that way, but it's surprising how far they're willing to go w/self-immolation)
(not a shock they're that way, but it's surprising how far they're willing to go w/self-immolation)
Some perspective:
POLL: Only 45% of white people polled think Trump’s a dangerous dictator who should be stopped before he wrecks democracy.
NOVEMBER: Only 42% of white voters voted Harris.
Basically the same number—no shift. There’s still a lot of work to do and it’s unclear how we get there.
POLL: Only 45% of white people polled think Trump’s a dangerous dictator who should be stopped before he wrecks democracy.
NOVEMBER: Only 42% of white voters voted Harris.
Basically the same number—no shift. There’s still a lot of work to do and it’s unclear how we get there.
May 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A majority of white people in America are willing to burn everything down rather than allow equal rights or a multicultural society to exist, basically most white Americans don't believe in America.
(not a shock they're that way, but it's surprising how far they're willing to go w/self-immolation)
(not a shock they're that way, but it's surprising how far they're willing to go w/self-immolation)
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Trump's post is a federal crime. 26 USC § 7217.
May 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Trump's post is a federal crime. 26 USC § 7217.
This is called human trafficking.
a small Texas county found a way to make money off migrants: arrest them for trespassing, make them post bail to get out of jail, turn them over to ICE, collect forfeited bail money. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
May 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is called human trafficking.
BuT wE nEeD hIgHeR biRtH raTeS, hErE'S $5k
This program has been remarkably successful, reducing the incidence of SIDS by 70% since 1990.
Anyway, the US is not a democracy. Nor will it be a functioning first world nation in the next couple of years as the effects of things like this are felt.
www.cdc.gov/sudden-infan...
Anyway, the US is not a democracy. Nor will it be a functioning first world nation in the next couple of years as the effects of things like this are felt.
www.cdc.gov/sudden-infan...
May 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
BuT wE nEeD hIgHeR biRtH raTeS, hErE'S $5k
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🗺️ 80% of the world’s intact forests are in debt-ridden tropical countries.
Amazon: $978B debt
Congo Basin: $43B
SE Asia: $933B
Debt relief is a climate and biodiversity solution.
#DebtForNature #ClimateFinance
Amazon: $978B debt
Congo Basin: $43B
SE Asia: $933B
Debt relief is a climate and biodiversity solution.
#DebtForNature #ClimateFinance
April 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🗺️ 80% of the world’s intact forests are in debt-ridden tropical countries.
Amazon: $978B debt
Congo Basin: $43B
SE Asia: $933B
Debt relief is a climate and biodiversity solution.
#DebtForNature #ClimateFinance
Amazon: $978B debt
Congo Basin: $43B
SE Asia: $933B
Debt relief is a climate and biodiversity solution.
#DebtForNature #ClimateFinance