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Alex C. Park

@alexcpark.com
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Look at fast food and all you see is burgers. Look through fast food and you see the world. Sometimes I publish things, lately in Jacobin, the Conversationalist, The Oakland Review of Books. More: www.alexcpark.com

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 02/09/2026
Wild 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.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 26/08/2026
Emma is a moron.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 31/07/2026
People who profess their victimhood while they abuse you are the absolute worst kinds of people.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 12/07/2026
Lindsey on climate change, in the before times:
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 17/06/2026
Who 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.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 09/06/2026
One 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.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 03/06/2026
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026
Apparently not. End 🧵
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026
It's the standard blend of philanthropy, early-stage investment, and outright lobbying (but only for good causes!) that the Gates Foundation pioneered ...
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026
She 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.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026
Herz 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...)
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026
Everything 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.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026
GEO 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 🧵
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 22/05/2026
Said the lady who made news for the first time in years by ripping a ten year old constituent on official letterhead
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 11/05/2026
Cool how the Guardian talks up a new angry letter from democrats as a bombshell exclusive…
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 12/04/2026
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 12/04/2026
This week in Congress:
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 10/04/2026
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 06/04/2026
Meanwhile from mr young and handsome or whatever it was ...
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 31/03/2026
That’s not right.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 29/03/2026
Mr progressive billionaire sure has a lot of money offshore
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 28/03/2026
The scene in Oakland
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 09/02/2026
lol.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 06/02/2026
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 09/01/2026
I refuse to believe he was actually this articulate
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 22/12/2025
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 02/11/2025
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 11/10/2025
Actually, 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.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 11/10/2025
Yep. Fuck that.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 07/10/2025
At least now we know where Pam Bondi is getting her information
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 15/09/2025
In case yer wondering …
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 15/09/2025
In our desperate search for some reasonable voice, we might have to accept that maybe Gov Cox isn't all that person.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 15/09/2025
It'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
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 03/09/2025
Obama literally campaigned on clean coal and this is what we get in return
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 28/08/2025
For 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.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 23/08/2025
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 09/08/2025
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
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 21/07/2025
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 21/07/2025
Smart people doing really smart suff
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 04/07/2025
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
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 30/06/2025
I think about this passage sometimes …
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 24/06/2025
I guess I’m still a little surprised when I see how nu twitter being just as dumb as twitter original
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 15/06/2025
Bhutan is apparently a hotbed of terrorism and/or antisemitism. Good to know.
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 05/05/2025
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
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 29/04/2025
:)
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 08/04/2025
The things that pass as progressivism these days …
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 21/03/2025
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 21/03/2025
I’m ok with Guantanamo staying open if it means Elon stays there
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 17/03/2025
Today in utterly useless takes
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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 05/03/2025
Just in time
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