Alex Russell
@flugendorf.bsky.social
A freelance copyeditor, usually interested in absolutely everything.
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January 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Not a movie. Not fiction. Kyiv.
After a missile attack, parts of the city are in darkness.
No heating. No light. Children warming themselves by fires.
This is what Russia calls “peace.”
After a missile attack, parts of the city are in darkness.
No heating. No light. Children warming themselves by fires.
This is what Russia calls “peace.”
December 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Not a movie. Not fiction. Kyiv.
After a missile attack, parts of the city are in darkness.
No heating. No light. Children warming themselves by fires.
This is what Russia calls “peace.”
After a missile attack, parts of the city are in darkness.
No heating. No light. Children warming themselves by fires.
This is what Russia calls “peace.”
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Merry Christmas.
Peace is a privilege not everyone has today.
Don’t forget Ukraine.
Stand with Ukraine.
Peace is a privilege not everyone has today.
Don’t forget Ukraine.
Stand with Ukraine.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Merry Christmas.
Peace is a privilege not everyone has today.
Don’t forget Ukraine.
Stand with Ukraine.
Peace is a privilege not everyone has today.
Don’t forget Ukraine.
Stand with Ukraine.
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
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well, congrats to Bari Weiss in getting me to watch a 60 minutes segment for the first time in a long time -- no shade meant, I just don't watch much network tv. also suggest you watch this before it gets pulled!
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
well, congrats to Bari Weiss in getting me to watch a 60 minutes segment for the first time in a long time -- no shade meant, I just don't watch much network tv. also suggest you watch this before it gets pulled!
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Friends, please read this
Friends, please read this
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Friends, please read this
Friends, please read this
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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Okay this is going to be long so mute it if you don't want a granular explanation but first: SHAME on @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social for misrepresenting what Chair Powell said in order to pat himself on the back. Shame on you.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
@peark.es seems real bad that the fed chair doesn't trust the job numbers
L - Last week.
R - This week.
R - This week.
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Okay this is going to be long so mute it if you don't want a granular explanation but first: SHAME on @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social for misrepresenting what Chair Powell said in order to pat himself on the back. Shame on you.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
Let's talk about measuring the 171mm people of the US labor force.
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had a very nice time guest teaching on Chinese organizational culture and how it affects foreign policy tonight. a couple more slides since people enjoyed the last one.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
had a very nice time guest teaching on Chinese organizational culture and how it affects foreign policy tonight. a couple more slides since people enjoyed the last one.
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Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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This is bad. Sarah Kendzior is one of the scholars that most understands authoritarianism and our current moment in the US.
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is bad. Sarah Kendzior is one of the scholars that most understands authoritarianism and our current moment in the US.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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All of the Dems who vote for a deal where they get nothing show that they fully own the shutdown. Embarrassing
If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
First, I will say this: never believe an Axios backed story with only a Thune test vote schedule.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
All of the Dems who vote for a deal where they get nothing show that they fully own the shutdown. Embarrassing
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Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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This seems huge, and deserves more attention.
SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights.
Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court.
Feds fail us, states step up.
SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights.
Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court.
Feds fail us, states step up.
The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature.
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This seems huge, and deserves more attention.
SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights.
Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court.
Feds fail us, states step up.
SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights.
Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court.
Feds fail us, states step up.
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🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
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The speed and consistency with which law enforcement will lie about incidents of police violence should be taught in every journalism school on day one
Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.
As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?
newrepublic.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The speed and consistency with which law enforcement will lie about incidents of police violence should be taught in every journalism school on day one
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Okay, gang, it’s 1940 and Edward G Robinson is spending his Brother Orchid money on art and is meeting the seller at his favorite restaurant, Good Fellows Grotto (also a favorite of Clark Gable) I bribed the valet to give us a heads up and we’re going in. What are we having? #TCMParty
October 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Okay, gang, it’s 1940 and Edward G Robinson is spending his Brother Orchid money on art and is meeting the seller at his favorite restaurant, Good Fellows Grotto (also a favorite of Clark Gable) I bribed the valet to give us a heads up and we’re going in. What are we having? #TCMParty
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BE SINCERE
CARE ABOUT THINGS
CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
BE A FUCKING GODDAMNED PERSON
CARE ABOUT THINGS
CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
BE A FUCKING GODDAMNED PERSON
September 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
BE SINCERE
CARE ABOUT THINGS
CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
BE A FUCKING GODDAMNED PERSON
CARE ABOUT THINGS
CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
BE A FUCKING GODDAMNED PERSON
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“These innocuously named groups, which are referred to collectively as the Tanton Network, hid their white nationalist ideology as they produced reports, gave interviews to the mainstream media, and testified before Congress about the need for strict immigration laws.“
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September 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“These innocuously named groups, which are referred to collectively as the Tanton Network, hid their white nationalist ideology as they produced reports, gave interviews to the mainstream media, and testified before Congress about the need for strict immigration laws.“
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How do you govern when one side just lies about the most consequential things all the time and we have a press that will never ever call them out as lies because it seems partisan? How?
This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.
Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”
September 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
How do you govern when one side just lies about the most consequential things all the time and we have a press that will never ever call them out as lies because it seems partisan? How?
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Cosign. This is just wrong.
I also dread the aftermath.
I also dread the aftermath.
Charlie Kirk helped bus in shock troops for the J6 insurrection. He was a traitor, not a patriot. He helped create the climate of political violence. Still didn’t deserve to be murdered.
September 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Cosign. This is just wrong.
I also dread the aftermath.
I also dread the aftermath.