@alexislloyd.bsky.social
Ethical design, weird machines, native Brooklynite. Designing at Google, alum of NY Times, Axios, Medium. She/her
Friends, some advice if you plan on spending time outside in an animal costume, sharing for no particular reason:
-You will sweat a lot more than you think. Have water/snacks
-You cannot move well (the Left Shark guy is a trained experienced professional dancer). Don’t run or you’ll trip and fall.
They rig maps & silence voters.
They rip away freedoms we fought and bled for.
They try to silence voices on national TV.
This is dictatorship in action.
On October 18, we rise to remind the world: America has #NoKings
app.sosha.ai/s/DCjwTUW3
From Harvard & UConn researchers on the June 14th No Kings Day protests. (report came out in August)
THIS is why MAGA is so spooked by the upcoming (Oct 18th) peaceful protests.
New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...
Portland is doing well making clear the ridiculousness of the military takeover.
10.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 2457 🔁 496 💬 33 📌 15"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.
10.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 597 🔁 98 💬 21 📌 7the gop is going to try their damndest to make it illegal to be a democrat. and this is why as effective as the health care attack is, it cannot be the only thing democrats talk about.
10.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 223 🔁 103 💬 2 📌 0“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently."
— David Graeber
Her baby…was in her…placenta??
Sir. If you have no knowledge of health or the human body it is fine to go back to falconry or whatever you were previously doing
if the eyes of the internet are going to be on Brooklyn Democratic primaries I, uh, have some related downballot races I would like to interest you all in www.axios.com/2025/10/09/z...
09.10.2025 02:53 — 👍 127 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 3Putting aside the many reasons they should include it, this is also negotiation 101: don't negotiate against yourself, such as by locking your demand in low when your counterparty refuses to negotiate.
Dems shouldn't take stuff off the table until Trump & GOP are truly negotiating.
#WarRavagedPortland
08.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 36183 🔁 11300 💬 1292 📌 1811not comforting that every time someone says Well It Sure Feels Like We're Living in Unprecedented Times, the history knowers have to reach further and further back in history to smugly rebut them
08.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 74 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 3yes, us! here you go:
07.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 78 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 6hi, cis folks in california!
this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.
he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841
want to know what to say? next post! 🧵
I know the news is tough right now.
So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology.
WOW.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...
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You can donate to *any* NPR station, NPR-Plus or not, via: www.npr.org/donations/su...
State of the World alone is worth it.
Stephen Miller asks when in our history have we tolerated unlawful, riotous assemblies around government buildings
Irony just took its shoes off and slowly started walking into the ocean until it was never seen or heard from again…
06.10.2025 21:13 — 👍 2175 🔁 455 💬 76 📌 36“Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over & shooting the woman five times.”
DHS has lied, a lot, about every act of violence.
"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
06.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 11731 🔁 3520 💬 497 📌 191
Protester watches state troopers from behind cement barricade
State police putting protesters in sheriff's wagon
State trooper with long baton
Broadview police officer
The free speech zone.
06.10.2025 01:35 — 👍 276 🔁 86 💬 7 📌 2The GOP has a political violence problem
06.10.2025 01:41 — 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Genuinely incredible how unprofessional these guys are. One dude yelling in your face and you immediately assault them on camera?
04.10.2025 20:51 — 👍 4189 🔁 1132 💬 214 📌 61
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is
03.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 2803 🔁 937 💬 42 📌 16Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.
"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...
A yellow cardboard carton on a CVS shelf with brightly colored letters that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” and “statue of liberty chicken.” Inside the carton are hot pink, teal, and royal blue rubber chickens with googly eyes rendered like the Statue of Liberty, with their faces distressed and frozen in a shriek. They have tags around their necks that say “squeeze me to hear me scream”
Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect
03.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 2177 🔁 518 💬 52 📌 39900 people. Jesus fucking Christ.
02.10.2025 23:34 — 👍 99 🔁 47 💬 4 📌 0
Media exclusive Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources By Alexandra Steigrad Published Oct. 2, 2025, 3:24 p.m. ET
CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation.
Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.
"Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
02.10.2025 03:12 — 👍 189 🔁 41 💬 4 📌 0Wow. Brilliant, powerful piece by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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