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Ian Alexander

@eeyoan.bsky.social

he/him, PhD candidate in political sociology studying welfare system reform in developing countries, UNC, πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ,

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i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

04.03.2026 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4994    πŸ” 1258    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 37

Most telling part of this rant: That the war will go on until "we decide it is over," not until the aims of the war are achieved - because there are no stated aims; and Trump prefers having none, so any result will allow him to try to claim a "win."

04.03.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1586    πŸ” 435    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 11
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The judge describes a string of discriminatory, retaliatory and unrebutted abuses by DHS and ICE against a man who was granted accces to the country and had permission to work -- then was arrested for ... seeming Latino? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

03.03.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 901    πŸ” 259    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

03.03.2026 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6897    πŸ” 3102    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 48
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Trump Rambles About Golden Drapes in White House as Americans Die Overseas President Donald Trump touted gold curtains he selected for the White House at a Medal of Honor ceremony shortly as Americans die in the Iran war.

Trump Rambles About Golden Drapes in White House as Americans Die Overseas

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

02.03.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

for what it cost for our allies to shoot down three of our own planes by accident in a murderous illegal war we could have funded the NEH at 150% of its historic peak funding for a year

02.03.2026 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 664    πŸ” 294    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 11
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🚨 Trump Got US Troops Killed The president doesn’t even seem like he’s pretending to care about dead US soldiers, plus the Pentagon quietly admits Iran wasn’t going to attack the US.

🚨 Trump Got US Troops Killed

The president doesn’t even seem like he’s pretending to care about dead US soldiers, plus the Pentagon quietly admits Iran wasn’t going to attack the US.

Read today's 'First Draft' from @swin24.bsky.social:
zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...

02.03.2026 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 450    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 19

This isn’t hard: Saddam Hussein was world historically brutal and sadistic and awful. Ranks in the upper tiers of the 20th century. Surpasses the brutality of Iranian leadership.

We don’t need to throat clear before saying why it’s atrocious and illegal what is being done by trump, vance et al

28.02.2026 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 506    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

27.02.2026 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4508    πŸ” 1342    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 27

15 months. He'd been in the US for 15 months.

25.02.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

24.02.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3232    πŸ” 1103    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 15

This is, among other things, a reflection of the right's decades-long effort to redefine the word "criminal" among the general voting public to mean something a person simply *is* as opposed to describing a person's specific actions within a legal context.

23.02.2026 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vanderbilt Ends Adult Trans Surgeries, More Clinics Cut Trans Youth Care β€” Assigned Leading Off: A wave of clinic closures creep towards the erosion of adult transition care in the US, with transmasculine underwear also threatened with restrictions as trans people are targeted in al...

Access to gender-affirming care for trans youth is increasingly restricted as more clinics turn their backs on young patients in need.

Also, adult care looks increasingly under threat. Get prepared for what's coming - read Leading Off this week.

23.02.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 375    πŸ” 149    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 17
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Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

21.02.2026 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1617    πŸ” 892    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 258

OpenAI has a lot of explaining to do, and might want to start by revealing to authorities what responses ChatGPT gave during interactions with Van Rootselaar.

21.02.2026 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Why Is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park? The East Potomac Golf Links is a municipal course that has been a fixture in Washington for decades. President Trump is turning it into something else.

President Trump is using East Potomac Park in Washington as a dumping ground for the remains of the East Wing. He also wants to turn its affordable golf course into a luxury destination. β€œIt’ll be a real loss for a lot of people in the city,” a local resident said.

19.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 292    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 21
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

19.02.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2751    πŸ” 1569    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 402
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Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR RΓΌmeysa Γ–ztΓΌrk has earned her PhD!!

19.02.2026 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11786    πŸ” 1540    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 129

Surveys that have dropped gender identity items include: General Social Survey, Monitoring the Future, National Crime Victimization Survey, National Health Interview Survey, National Survey of Children’s Health, National Survey of Family Growth and Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.

19.02.2026 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

18.02.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2190    πŸ” 725    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

"No Lives Matter": They have been doing shit like this to Emmett Till's memorial for 70 yeard. Now they are doing it to a white queer woman's memorial. They are nihilists.

18.02.2026 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bari Weiss built her career in part by whining about how the left was supposedly censoring conservatives. β€œThe Free Press” - the unironic title of her publication - ran numerous pieces about a β€œcensorship-industrial complex.”

Now, under her watch, we get to see real censorship - and hypocrisy.

17.02.2026 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1658    πŸ” 426    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 8

I'm staying on this, since it's not breaking through enough.

This is the stupidest, most dangerous thing Trump is doing. It affects the entire world and it's irreversible.

#ClimateCrisis

16.02.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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The death toll from Musk’s budget cuts will surpass that of every war in the last few decades combined.

He knowingly triggered famines and collapsed health systems, yet he faces no consequences.

We need to stop calling it cost-cutting and start calling it what it is: mass murder

16.02.2026 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 395    πŸ” 136    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 13

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

16.02.2026 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6911    πŸ” 2279    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 43
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β€˜A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

13.02.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

The concept of β€œlying under oath” is up for grabs right now. All the Trump SCOTUS judges did it about Roe. Kennedy did it to get his post. If one of these fuckers isn’t prosecuted it will be crystal clear that there are zero repercussions for doing so, and everyone will lie forever.

13.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1332    πŸ” 362    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 5
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Venezuelan Politician Living in Exile in the US is Detained by ICE Carlos Roberto GarcΓ­a, an ex-mayor opposed to the Maduro regime, fled Venezuela in 2017. He faces deportation to a country with a long history of punishing political dissidents.

Carlos Roberto GarcΓ­a, an ex-mayor of a Venezuelan city opposed to the Maduro regime, fled the country in 2017. Now he's been detained by ICE, and is facing deportation back to Venezuela, a country with a long history of punishing political dissidents. nyti.ms/4qCQtOL

13.02.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 8
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

13.02.2026 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3872    πŸ” 1838    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 205