Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 02/09/2026Wild how often variations of this line about the private sector needing to get involved in African agriculture gets rehashed and how each time the people saying it act like it's the first time anyone's said such a thing. 000
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 31/07/2026People who profess their victimhood while they abuse you are the absolute worst kinds of people. 010
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 17/06/2026Who cares about fast food work, right? It might be the lowest and least respected form of labor in this country, but the ascent of AI at the drive-thru window could soon preview changes that will touch a lot of other people, as well. 111
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 09/06/2026One thing that stands out about this map: despite industry objections to a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California, the median wage there is actually $0.33 above the minimum. 000
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026It's the standard blend of philanthropy, early-stage investment, and outright lobbying (but only for good causes!) that the Gates Foundation pioneered ... 100
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026She set out to make her own identity as a philanthropist, with a new foundation focused on women and girls--the people who Epstein's victims and who Melinda Gates was most focused on at the Gates Foundation. 100
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026Herz asked to talk to the people who made the investments so they could explain their reasoning. The Foundation wouldn't allow it. (Full story: www.thestranger.com/blogs/the-ga...) 100
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026Everything he said was just embarrassing. Herz called it "philanthro-splaining." TL;DR: The Gates Foundation invests in some morally reprehensible stuff and then they use the money to do good stuff, so shut up. 100
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026GEO Group, the private prison company, is in the news lately, and for good reason. But keep in mind that the whole concept of a private prison company is that it benefits investors. So who are those investors? Well, one appears to be Pivotal Philanthropies, a foundation started by Melinda Gates 🧵 101
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 22/05/2026Said the lady who made news for the first time in years by ripping a ten year old constituent on official letterhead 000
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 11/05/2026Cool how the Guardian talks up a new angry letter from democrats as a bombshell exclusive… 000
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 06/04/2026Meanwhile from mr young and handsome or whatever it was ... 101
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 29/03/2026Mr progressive billionaire sure has a lot of money offshore 010
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 11/10/2025Actually, there aren’t any good billionaires. Plenty of middle class SF people who have managed to stay in place despite all number of forces coming together to dislodge them knew that ten years ago. 000
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 07/10/2025At least now we know where Pam Bondi is getting her information 010
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 15/09/2025In our desperate search for some reasonable voice, we might have to accept that maybe Gov Cox isn't all that person. 100
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 15/09/2025It's as good a day as any to call out the mainstream media for saying a person is trans as though its evidence of an assassin's motivation 120
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 03/09/2025Obama literally campaigned on clean coal and this is what we get in return 000
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 28/08/2025For good measure we can throw in the crypto idiocy to the list. Some crass attempt to look “progressive” by embracing a “new technology.” Perhaps people could see right through that one for what it was: craven appeasement of billionaires. 100
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 09/08/2025Before 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 000
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 04/07/2025The 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 000
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 24/06/2025I guess I’m still a little surprised when I see how nu twitter being just as dumb as twitter original 000
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 15/06/2025Bhutan is apparently a hotbed of terrorism and/or antisemitism. Good to know. 100
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 05/05/2025I 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 4303
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 21/03/2025I’m ok with Guantanamo staying open if it means Elon stays there 010