alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 16/10/202660% chance that his advisors have convinced him that we now own Greenland 010 1
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I think the fact that the world's richest man who is almost singlehandedly bankrolling the Republican party this year is a vehement white supremacist should be relevant for media reporting. but what do I know 000 0
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 16/10/2026this is literally just racism and the media will never call it that 032 3
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 15/10/2026deft political instincts to come out swinging for the side of an issue with like 20% support 020 2
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 14/10/2026at least he didn’t eat a hot dog with Satan’s Condiment (Dijon mustard) 020 2
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 14/10/2026“she plays a lawyer on TV” basically means she is a lawyer in Trump’s head 010 1
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 14/10/2026finance bros can now say the r-word with impunity so it’s a net positive 030 3
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 14/10/2026don’t worry, the Trump Accounts will help build generational wealth 🥴 040 4
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 14/10/2026it is a very depressing fact that, for basically my entire life, Republican governance has basically boiled down to massive, wealthy-friendly tax and government service cuts and expensive Middle East wars, with basically no long-term effects on their brand despite disastrous consequences every time 010 1
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 13/10/2026it's incredible how MAGA fabricated a conspiracy about Talarico checking into rehab then almost immediately a real story broke about Ken Paxton partying in the Middle East with convicted felons. and MAGA is still mad about the fake story! 010 1
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Democrats have gone so far left that they’re making Republicans solicit and accept bribes 010 1
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 07/10/2026it’s incredible to me that the approach Dems are signaling is way less militant than the post-2018 midterm approach, despite way more egregious and numerous abuses of power to deal with this time around 020 2
Reposted by alex mearsCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version. 7454341308 5.4K
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 06/10/2026another major generator interconnection rulemaking right after Order 2023 compliance has mostly wrapped upstatic.klipy.comDr. Cox Bangs Head on Wall (Scrubs)ALT: Dr. Cox Bangs Head on Wall (Scrubs) 121 2
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 05/10/2026it’s really puzzling that voters aren’t connecting with Republicans’ message of “affordability is a hoax, fuck you” 060 6
Reposted by alex mearsMatthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Here in Birmingham, our electricity bills are 41% higher than Huntsville's because we have an awful investor-owned utility (that has the state government in their pocket) and Huntsville has public power www.al.com/news/birming...al.comComeback Town: Birmingham residential electric bills are 41% higher than Huntsville’sBirmingham cannot change its electric utility overnight. But Alabama can change the way that utility is regulated. 1134 13
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the waste, fraud, and abuse is coming from inside the house 060 6
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and yet the media will always portray Republicans as the party that is better for business and fiscal responsibility 050 5
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 26/09/2026it’s a softball school in my head canon at this point 010 1
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 21/09/2026this was laughable analysis at the time (April 2016) and has aged about as well as a gallon of milk would age over 10 years. an essential piece for the pantheon of inane Trump-era op-eds www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk (Gift Article)The Clinton-Trump battle of the sexes is already getting ugly. Hide the children until November. 050 5
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 20/09/2026it’s funny how Trump is somehow an incredible businessman and leader but the buck always stops with someone else 000 0
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 18/09/2026his overall approval has been relatively stable but the intensity gap has widened. there was a 21-point gap between strong disapprove/strong approve in mid-2025. now it’s 32 points open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...open.substack.comPoll: New low for Trump on prices and foreign policy, now net negative on border securityThe president lost his last positive issue, and the gap between strong disapproval and strong approval is now nearly 3-to-1 (50% vs 17%) 001 1
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 13/09/2026conversely, Democrats have made the Epstein files and corruption big attacks on Republicans but the media hardly ever asks about those issues 140 4
Reposted by alex mearsAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026a nazi pedophile that loves data centers is fully funding the republican partys midterm efforts 552405480 2.4K
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 04/09/2026they describe this set of policies as “ruthlessly pragmatic” lmao 050 5
Reposted by alex mearsMicah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it 202649683 2.6K
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 02/09/2026it’s unconscionable that Hasan Piker, a popular streamer who sometimes endorses a Democrat, is considered heftier moral baggage through association than white supremacist, anti-democracy billionaires like Musk and Thiel who literally bankroll the Republican Party 040 4
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 31/08/2026it’s not communist central planning if a Republican does it 1121 12
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 31/08/2026translation: eat shit and die, but be happy about it 000 0
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 31/08/2026one of the dumbest articles I’ve ever read. thank you 030 3
Reposted by alex mearsSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.axios.comExclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midtermsMusk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024. 10334231093 3.4K
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Interesting to see the intense discipline of the media to focus on this “story” but they hardly ever ask Republicans about the very real, tangible white supremacy that is rampant in their party and driving significant policy decisions of the current administration 070 7
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 28/08/2026i don’t think we “gotta hand it to him” for drafting the northwest ordinance language and then continued on with a life characterized in part by unabashed slave ownership and reactionary politics… 150 5
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 27/08/2026it’s insane to me that an average person reading news media is likely left with the idea that any association with Hasan Piker is one of the most extreme things a politician could do these days, rather than, say, pardoning violent insurrectionists or covering up the Epstein sex trafficking ring 010 1
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 26/08/2026they’ll gladly rip up Title IX to “protect women’s sports” 060 6
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“Lake America” is so uninspired. he’s really lost his touch 180 8
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“Data centers are awesome for your community, just trust us!” “Who is ‘us’?” “We can’t tell you that” 030 3
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 15/08/2026love how the media treats advocating for universal healthcare as “extreme” but not this 000 0
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 11/08/2026everyone is my friend if you don’t count my enemies 020 2
alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 11/08/2026these guys will proselytize about free markets and hard work while making their money in the most corrupt and/or non-traditional ways imaginable 000 0