Brian “Enemy Within” Alexander
@brianralexander.bsky.social
Books: Glass House, The Hospital, TK The Mayor. http://BrianRAlexander.com. Past: Atlantic/Wired/Outside/Washington Monthly/MIT Tech Review/Janitor/Gas Station Attendant/Lifeguard. Social media failure. Speaking: BrightSight. Surf. Cocktails. Old movies.
Happy too see pal @bethmacy.bsky.social keeping good company in my neighborhood indie.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Happy too see pal @bethmacy.bsky.social keeping good company in my neighborhood indie.
Dear Chillicothe, Ohio:
Your paper plant was shut down due to private equity pillage, just as Lancaster's glass plant was pillaged by PE, and so many others.
Trump is helping those PE guys get even richer.
Your paper plant was shut down due to private equity pillage, just as Lancaster's glass plant was pillaged by PE, and so many others.
Trump is helping those PE guys get even richer.
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dear Chillicothe, Ohio:
Your paper plant was shut down due to private equity pillage, just as Lancaster's glass plant was pillaged by PE, and so many others.
Trump is helping those PE guys get even richer.
Your paper plant was shut down due to private equity pillage, just as Lancaster's glass plant was pillaged by PE, and so many others.
Trump is helping those PE guys get even richer.
Beating this drum. Again. The U.S. government should open its own drug manufacturing plants to make generic drugs and sell those drugs at cost.
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Beating this drum. Again. The U.S. government should open its own drug manufacturing plants to make generic drugs and sell those drugs at cost.
I know lawyers who have defended Border Patrol officers, and prosecuted Border Patrol officers, and I've known a couple of Border Patrol officers. Under any other president, this guy would be gone, right now, not least because he is now an unreliable witness.
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I know lawyers who have defended Border Patrol officers, and prosecuted Border Patrol officers, and I've known a couple of Border Patrol officers. Under any other president, this guy would be gone, right now, not least because he is now an unreliable witness.
Oh, FFS.
Literally nobody I have interacted with for the last decade - warehouse workers, glass workers, hospital employees, cops, paper mill workers, unemployed, municipal officials, chicken delivery drivers - thinks about this. At all.
Literally nobody I have interacted with for the last decade - warehouse workers, glass workers, hospital employees, cops, paper mill workers, unemployed, municipal officials, chicken delivery drivers - thinks about this. At all.
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Oh, FFS.
Literally nobody I have interacted with for the last decade - warehouse workers, glass workers, hospital employees, cops, paper mill workers, unemployed, municipal officials, chicken delivery drivers - thinks about this. At all.
Literally nobody I have interacted with for the last decade - warehouse workers, glass workers, hospital employees, cops, paper mill workers, unemployed, municipal officials, chicken delivery drivers - thinks about this. At all.
Crimeny. Umm...I live here. Literally not one person I spoke to mentioned Newsom's future. It was all about fighting for democracy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Crimeny. Umm...I live here. Literally not one person I spoke to mentioned Newsom's future. It was all about fighting for democracy.
So, more about healthcare: Small governments are also getting crushed. Here’s news today from the village of Montpelier, OH, a village featured in The Hospital.
October 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
So, more about healthcare: Small governments are also getting crushed. Here’s news today from the village of Montpelier, OH, a village featured in The Hospital.
I dunno, man. I've never used A.I., do not want to use A.I. and am perfectly happy.
It's not inevitable.
It's not inevitable.
October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I dunno, man. I've never used A.I., do not want to use A.I. and am perfectly happy.
It's not inevitable.
It's not inevitable.
Ohio Senate passes "Success Sequence" bill promoted by the Heritage Foundation (the Project 2025 people). Ohio's minimum wage is $10.70 per hour.
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ohio Senate passes "Success Sequence" bill promoted by the Heritage Foundation (the Project 2025 people). Ohio's minimum wage is $10.70 per hour.
Bingo!
October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Bingo!
His silence now is deafening.
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
His silence now is deafening.
Still think this is funny.
October 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Still think this is funny.
Heh. Good times.
October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Heh. Good times.
From Bloomberg:
October 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
From Bloomberg:
The only photographic evidence I could find of pearl clutching:
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The only photographic evidence I could find of pearl clutching:
Buckeyes worth rooting for.
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Buckeyes worth rooting for.
Geez. We used to be such no fun sticklers! Party on, Don!
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Geez. We used to be such no fun sticklers! Party on, Don!
Still throwing out old office odds and ends and ran across my collection of Hillsdale College gems from their newsletter.
This made me laugh out loud. From August 2022. Dhillon is now is the chief of the DOJ’s civil rights division and a Trump troll.
This made me laugh out loud. From August 2022. Dhillon is now is the chief of the DOJ’s civil rights division and a Trump troll.
October 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Still throwing out old office odds and ends and ran across my collection of Hillsdale College gems from their newsletter.
This made me laugh out loud. From August 2022. Dhillon is now is the chief of the DOJ’s civil rights division and a Trump troll.
This made me laugh out loud. From August 2022. Dhillon is now is the chief of the DOJ’s civil rights division and a Trump troll.
This gif from Adam Kuehl for the @nytimes.com, is pretty dramatic. Whatever the arguments, pro or con, about robotics and AI, there is a very real psychological effect on workers. Politicians need to wrestle with that.
October 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This gif from Adam Kuehl for the @nytimes.com, is pretty dramatic. Whatever the arguments, pro or con, about robotics and AI, there is a very real psychological effect on workers. Politicians need to wrestle with that.
I’m a bargain.
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’m a bargain.
Guess there’s not much point in saving these any more.
October 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Guess there’s not much point in saving these any more.
