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Alder and Agora

@alderandagora.bsky.social
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Husband of 1. Dad of 4. Ex-vangelical. Raised Conservative ➡️ Liberal Adult. Love your neighbor, folks. Alabama is home and I want to see it change.

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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 19h
Shoalsfest and Jedd Tweedy are the best October vibes.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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held steady @heldsteady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The fact that there are conservative assholes at a Drive-By Truckers & Jason Isbell show is incomprehensible to me.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Restaurants are warning that the tariffs Ken Paxton supports could end free chips and salsa.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nice evening for some DBT and Jason Isbell. Even if it requires me to be in Florence.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking the 26th death in ICE custody in 2026.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We fight for democracy by showing up, not just where winning is easy, but where someone has been told not to even bother. I ran in one of those places, and I lost, but the next Democrat won’t have to start from scratch. Now imagine doing that in every district. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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The Only Race We Can’t Win...
Is the one we don’t run
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cell phone plans: famously non-predatory.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is going to move the needle in Alabama. Just... Not the way we want it to. Right now would be the perfect time for a Aubie/Big AL "Black or White" video.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner. How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can absolutely imagine a scenario where this government attempts to claim people who hold multiple passports and people who hold no passport are not part of the official "citizen voter roll".
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These people don't know how insurance works. But sure, go ahead and kick out the people who make the system actually (barely) function. And how, exactly, is it fraud to pay for something but not use it?
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Byrum Brown seems confused about what he is and what his best qualities actually are. If he would embrace them earlier in a game it could turn Ls into Ws. He wants to be a pocket passer to convince NFL scouts. But he's not a pocket passer. At his best he is bootleg Chambliss. I'd take that.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The family of my 5th Grader's best friend is self-deporting this weekend despite legal status. The kid was born here. They've been here 20 years. Gutted.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wouldn't consider myself a violent person. I'm not prone to conflict. But multiple times over the last week I have found myself thinking about how easy it would be to absolutely beat the shit out of everyone in Trump's orbit. They like tests of "Masculinity". I assume they'd be up for a fight.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shameful. It's also just abundantly clear that Trump does not, and does not care to, have any clue what the American people want. Israel's (and specifically Netanyahu's) favorability in the US is at an all-time low. But I mean, thanks for giving Republicans another thing to defend.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Detestable. But also, beyond belief, still more charisma than JD Vance.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
At some point you guys will realize that there is no "last straw" for his supporters.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hegseth pisses me off. Citing Isaiah ("Send Me") as a recruitment tool into exactly the thing Isaiah was warning against... Claiming to trust God, yet everything points to self-sufficiency. I know this post isn't for everyone. But know this: the Bible isn't what these guys claim it is.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RS with your home river. Pinhook Creek. Soon to be home to SkyBridge.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good piece.
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Juries wanted them to live. Alabama judges sent them to die. Will Kay Ivey side with the jurors?
25 people remain on death row, even though the jury didn't vote for them to die. The governor could change that.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As I explained the last time this dumb argument made the rounds, if Congress was never allowed to change the Court’s size (something it’s done seven times), that would mean four of the *current* justices (all of whom are Republicans) hold unconstitutionally created seats: www.ms.now/opinion/repu...
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Republicans say court packing is 'unconstitutional.' They're wrong.
The argument that court expansion is unconstitutional is weak, transparently political — and most importantly, wrong.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every time I hear someone complaining about homelessness through the lens of how homelessness annoys them rather than how homelessness exists at all... It makes me want to scream. If you vibe with this, make a donation. showerup.org
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Looked at the weather at breakfast and saw 93°/46%. And that was enough to give me optimism about the day. It's the little things in life that make hell liveable.
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A-A-Ron Prime🐿 @a-a-ron-prime.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
50%.. that's cute
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
At the press conference, Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Gordon asked US envoy Steve Witkoff if he thinks Putin has been deceiving him, if Russia only understands force, and if it feels disgusting to sit at the same table with a war criminal.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Another year of trying to get people to understand that Yes it’s important to me to watch the Auburn football game and No I am not enjoying myself.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My man looks like he owns a Hooters-branded Discover Card
Secretaryof Homelandsecurity Markwayne Mullin
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I was a college football player and a college football coach. And my sons won't be playing football. Literally any experience of communal adversity can teach the same lessons. They aren't unique to football.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
10/10 on the easiest college football quiz known to man. Name these mascots without looking it up and win a prize!!!: -Delta State University (unofficial) -Arkansas Tech University -Arkansas-Monticello -LeMoyne-Owen College -Southern New Hampshire Bet you can't.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uh what? www.newsweek.com/allison-guer...
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Woman who exposed FBI official for working with Russian oligarch found dead
A judge praised Allison Guerriero for her "extraordinary contributions" to counterespionage ops on behalf of the United States.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Transparently bullshit political talking points have real-world consequences www.the-express.com/news/us-news...
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Widow of Epic Fury airman denied death benefits as Iran conflict is 'not a war'
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Or around 10 years of Medicaid expansion.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I generally try to refrain from hyperbole. So note that this is not hyperbole: This administration has a "slaver's mindset". Every single aspect of it. Every policy, every cabinet secretary, the president....
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just watched an old man drive up to my local gas station in a vintage Rolls-Royce, buy one quart of dairy free ice cream, and drive off. There's no point to the story. I'm just reporting what I saw.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The lesson of history is that capitulating to a tyrant only invites more tyranny. www.commondreams.org/news/google-ma…
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'Embarrassing': Google Maps Renames 'Lake Ontario' as 'Lake America' in US | Common Dreams
​The name change followed President Donald Trump's executive order and "served as a reminder that billionaires will alwa
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Did this pompous asshole ever think that his postdoc students might not actually want to come over to his house for Thanksgiving but feel like they have to since they have no workplace protections? It isn't that he can't invite them if they're unionized. It's just that no one will show up.
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Alder and Agora @alderandagora.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
An administration that was serious about changing the ledger regarding trade with Canada would invest heavily in renewable energy. This isn't about trade. This is about bullying and distraction.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/08/2026
Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime task force in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back, according to an autopsy report obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, contradicting police accounts that said the man was facing the troops when they fired.
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Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back
An autopsy shows that an armed man killed by the Tennessee National Guard was shot in the back. The report that Tyrin Johnson’s family shared with The Associated Press on Thursday contradicts accounts by law enforcement.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026
Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.
An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.
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