Alex Park

The Troubling Rise of Supermarkets in the Global South How Kenya’s grocery stores might actually be hurting local farmers.

Love @conversationalist.org for always having intriguing stories from around the world; I never know what I'll see on the front page, and this is a really illuminating story about supermarkets in the Global South.

Before de jure dictatorship m, there is de facto dictatorship, when the people that have the power willfully surrender their power and a body with teeth tells us it is just a ceremonial body ahead of actually not having power

Smart people doing really smart suff

I’m looking for a source to this but all I can find is the screenshot

First step in a monumental Supreme Court ruling that says the President can’t be defamed in the press because he’s actually King of America bsky.app/profile/lega...

BREAKING: Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show reut.rs/3TNpulG

The Troubling Rise of Supermarkets in the Global South How Kenya’s grocery stores might actually be hurting local farmers.

"Supermarkets are rapidly displacing other retailers to become the place of choice to buy food." How grocery chains have done more harm than good for the small farmers in Kenya and beyond. Story by @alexcpark.com.

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

The male loneliness epidemic-MAGA overlay in one frame: a guy in joker face paint waving a flag rapping about how his guns are his friends

I think about this passage sometimes …

Fetterman really needs to go

To my point bsky.app/profile/bria...

Seriously why does that make it worse? How is that not just denigrating a woman for sex work? Aren’t we on the side that doesn’t do that?

It bothers me how the left keeps highlighting the fact that stormy daniels is a porn star.

Trump cheated on his wife while she was pregnant and used campaign funds to buy the woman’s silence …

And the woman was (gasp) a porn star….

Just saw an analyst on CNN call the global oil business an “ecosystem.” We don’t deserve this planet.

I guess I’m still a little surprised when I see how nu twitter being just as dumb as twitter original

Trump administration weighs adding 36 countries to travel ban, memo says U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is considering significantly expanding its travel ban by potentially banning citizens of 36 additional countries from entering the United States, according to an internal State Department cable seen by Reuters.

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Bhutan is apparently a hotbed of terrorism and/or antisemitism. Good to know.

Opponents criticize Andrew Cuomo after $1M DoorDash donation It’s the single biggest contribution in the mayoral race, but some candidates say the food delivery company is a bad actor.

Andrew Cuomo’s single largest donation—$1 million—comes from a company that claims to facilitate people’s experience of their own neighborhoods, but in fact makes nothing but software. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

But if you’re going to call out white South Africans categorically, at least get the ethnic particulars right first

Trump’s policy is bigoted and idiotic and it seems designed to draw in only white South Africans willing to play to his worldview of worldwide white oppression, but it is wrong to write off all white South Africans as racist bigots themselves and to restate those prejudices as if they’re fact

And there are liberal and progressive white South Africans of all stripes, include Afrikaners. Many of them think it’s strange that they’re people exists at all, but many have also stayed while their relatives and friends left to do what they could to make a plural South Africa.

Trump’s refugee policy applies to all white South Africans, not just Afrikaners. It might be Afrikaners taking advantage but it’s not an “Afrikaner resettlement policy”

The difference between English and Afrikaans South African matters given that the two groups were at war in the 19th century and to win, the English put the Afrikaners in the some of the world’s first concentration camps

Elon Musk is not an Afrikaner, neither is David Sachs

Afrikaners are an ethnic group with their own language and history. They constitute the majority of white South Africans, but not all white South Africans are Afrikaners. There are Jewish and English-descended white South Africans, and others who are descended from entirely different groups

Public discourse is really getting some basic things wrong about the new people deemed refugees …

If 3G plays it like they did with Burger King, they’ll start selling it aggressively in developing countries and maybe find a way to work chicken into the business plan

I feel so privileged to live in a time when the guys who own Burger King also own the shoe company of my middle school years