alyssa mercante

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer — who herself is under investigation for an affair she had with a subordinate, and also instituted a monthly prayer service at the department — has been banned from HQ after two female employees reported he sexually assaulted them.

I am embracing my grays until I bleach this entire thing it is very hard for me!!

Alyssa smiling on the subway platform

Unbothered moisturized in my lane waiting for the A

Abusive people will call accountability harassment

Now let’s hope the men lose muhahaha

HOLY SHIT KELLER WITH THE TOE DRAG

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.

On average, courts are ruling more than 32 times a day that the Trump administration has broken the law to detain people.

Congress must rein in these violent, lawless agencies — no more blank checks to ICE and Border Patrol.

OMG KNIGHT SCORES TO TIE IT

One of my first artsy pieces of games writing was about Bluepoint's Shadow of the Colossus remake, a game that felt in conversation with its origin. This is a senseless loss.

caneandrinse.com/shadow-of-th...

pretty wild, as a Rangers fan, to watch the Team USA women play — I'm simply unaccustomed to seeing a hockey team that's so strong on the forecheck and maintains puck possession and pressure in the offensive zone this well

LMFAO THAT

Streamers, podcast hosts, content creators in the games/internet culture space: if you'd be interested in covering my book whenever it's out (tentatively titled Rage to Fuel the Machine), DM me or reply here! Chatting with a potential publisher and bringing them some promo options!

To Catch A Redditor

Jack Posobiec on twitter sharing a video of Baelor Targaryen from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with the caption "This is white culture"

oh you think white people don't have culture? what about this sickly family of incestuous warlords from a book i didn't read?

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Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties

Right wing people are so culturally inept. Someone is saying the new Game of Thrones is white culture and it’s like…do we watch things with our big boy eyes and listen with our big boy ears or are we just blurting shit out like kindergarteners with doodoo pants?

Three down (I’m nearly done with another yes I sometimes read two at once I’m sorry)

disrespectfully, what the fuck are you talking about. you don't need an ID at the library. you need a library card, which anyone can get.

don't make me cry

Also, fun personal fact: I’ve referenced from time to time the day I lit fire to my Twitter account. That happened in response to Ms Mercante saying hey, where are all the men who said they would never let another GamerGate happen again? I said hey, I’m “men” and I don’t even have a job to lose.

All is well

Olympics!

Thank god

TIE

Oh no Canada GET IT TOGETHER

The Epstein-Johnny Depp-Justin Baldoni connection These men shared some of the same crisis publicists and PR strategies.

Publicists who represented Johnny Depp during his 2022 trial against Amber Heard charged Jeffrey Epstein five figures a month for representation during 2017, according to invoices in the Epstein Files. Their PR strategies for Epstein reflect the later MeToo backlash. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...

me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

I think Tarzia made the mistake all these dumb grifters make: He assumed his brothers-in-grift would have his back but instead they're just standing back and watching him get his balls kicked in because he never mattered to them, or anyone, and they're happy to watch him fail away from them.

people pretend to not be nazis and couch that in dog whistles but i think a reality we have to contend with is that there are so many, many, many incredible ignorant people out there

A variegated philodendron, Shane potting rainbow moss, a rhapsalis hanging, and a blue star fern next to our older plants (including a congo)