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Alex Rothman

@alexrothman.bsky.social
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Politics, pop culture & baby animals (for balance). @amprog, @civilrights alum. now: state & local govt performance. California boy living in Chicago. 🏳️‍🌈

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨Fired up child alert🚨
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/07/2026
My friend just texted me "no goal is offsides on stolen land" 😭😭😭
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
WE WERE GIVEN A FIFA PEACE PRIZE THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Been a life long Cabo Verdean since the start of this tournament
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
bless the ancestors for allowing us to enjoy this Black ass team on juneteenth without jan6 juninho
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Arielle Dror @arielledror.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sonnett quaking in her boots after watching that VAR check
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).

For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.

Thank you for your service”
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Liv @itslivagain.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If I were in DC right I would just go to some monument or outside some government building and sit down calmly and then just FERAL SCREAM That could be a fun protest idea
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I know y'all sometimes think, "but her emails," and fair enough, but this is the one that I keep coming back to.
screenshot of donald the dove and hillary the hawk
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is what you'll find if you look for the CDC's guidelines for PrEP. www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/risk...
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Also, it’s fucking 2025, I can understand that the main message is directed at Joe Median Voter, but there should be an extremely active secondary stream directed at hyper engaged people like us, giving both assurance and instruction.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 31/01/2025
🆕 🏘️ The 'Missing Middle Housing Act' has been filed in Illinois to legalize middle housing on all residential-zoned land in cities with >25,000 population! This would mean the following types housing would be allowed by-right 2️⃣ Duplexes 3️⃣ Three flats 4️⃣ Four flats! #twill ilga.gov/legislation/...
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Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB1814
Bill Status - Illinois General Assembly
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Mandy Medley @videstellae.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Chicago, baby.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025
i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
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Kelly Fleming, PhD @doctorkflem.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Some buried news about DOT - last night Sec. Sean Duffy released this unhinged memo which directs DOT to prioritize funding for “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average”, and prohibits DOT funding from going to communities with vaccine requirements. Link below 1/
transportation.gov
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 30/01/2025
24 Democratic senators voted for the new DOT secretary, who signed this, two days ago
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
dear god I can’t believe people voted to do this again
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
*Colombia
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is kinda like "Don't Be Evil" as a slogan. It's a bit worrying when you choose it, but it's a lot more worrying when you take it down
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/01/2025
America Defeats America theonion.com/america...
America Defeats America
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/01/2025
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/01/2025
The ineluctable fact is, if you want the most eyeballs, the most clicks, the most "happy users," good journalism is a *terrible strategy*. Truth is expensive to obtain, slow to reveal itself, complicated, nuanced, often orthogonal to neat ideological conclusions. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
nytimes.com
The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
this is so profoundly dispiriting
tweets by Lu Kapreliants

"Mayor Bass announced a sweeping executive order for fire rebuilds:

•Permit Center: Centralized, staffed 7 days/week

•Expedited Reviews:
- Initial: 30 days
- Inspections: 2 business days
- Clearances: 5 business days

•General Waivers, including: 
- All-Electric 
- Demolition

Eligibility:

- Size capped at 110% of original floor area, height, bulk

- Must be in roughly the same location

- No changes in use (e.g., residential to commercial) or increased density, including ADUs

- Non-conforming features allowed if within the 110% limit"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/01/2025
lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...
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Alex Rothman @alexrothman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
media.tenor.com
a cookie monster is sitting in front of a window and says waiting
ALT: a cookie monster is sitting in front of a window and says waiting
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/01/2025
‘We Must Protect The Pure Aryan Bloodline,’ Says Child After 9 Minutes Of Unsupervised Facebook Access
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‘We Must Protect The Pure Aryan Bloodline,’ Says Child After 9 Minutes Of Unsupervised Facebook Access
PEABODY, MA—Having discovered the social media website open on his father’s unattended laptop, local 6-year-old Oliver Sherman stated “We must protect the pure Aryan bloodline” Friday after nine minut...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/01/2025
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters
MENLO PARK, CA—Claiming that the banner embodied the spirit of the company’s values, Mark Zuckerberg defended his controversial decision Friday to fly a Confederate flag at the Facebook headquarters. ...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
I keep coming back to Paxton’s definition of fascism.
What Is Fascism?
The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 09/01/2025
look at these beasts
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“In Altadena, Calif., on Wednesday, residents and Pasadena Police officers helped evacuate Laverna Sharpe, 101.” Photo credit: Credit...Kyle Grillot for The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
A Pasadena police officer carries an elderly woman to help her evacuate.
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James @james.tarnation.lol · 07/01/2025
why are they called porn bots and not intrusive thots
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
there should be a website where people can watch the revenues from congestion pricing accruing in real time I would love that
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Steely Dad @poliopoliopolio.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Party
Naomi Watts on the 2025 Golden Globes red carpet with Katya's head replacing her dress ruffle
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/01/2025
"the defining feature of American politics this century is that neither party can 'win' elections anymore; they can only be the 'not-loser'."
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Amazon has denied a leave of absence to an Alabama woman who was struck by the New Orleans attacker’s truck and shot in the foot during the attack. She worried she won’t have a job to return to when she recovers. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
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Alabama mom hit by truck, then shot in Bourbon Street attack: 'It's just so disturbing'
A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Eve after they came from Mobile, Alabama to
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
President, humanitarian, strike thrower
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Well done RollingStone for reporting it accurately.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
dreamed i was in charge of christmas dinner and had to make a dish called "Chicken Jennifer", a roast chicken with a wig of spaghetti made to resemble beautiful, flowing blond locks. it was stuffed with croutons, cream cheese, and had a tiny cornish game hen peeking out of its butt cavity
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Kelzor @bloodlesscoup.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I have to take an annual fire safety training for work, and I am reminded that I asked some of the folks who manage these things how they evacuate the NICU and apparently they have vests you can load up with babies
A product photo with a supposed hospital employee wearing a vest with three visible pouches that are made of probably nylon and mesh, and they are buckled closed like the buckles on bike helmets, and in each pouch is a baby doll
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/12/2024
A U.S. Congresswoman disappeared for the last six months of her term. Nobody noticed. Turns out she's in a memory care unit, & her staff (and apparently other people?) covered it up (though she was somehow propped up for an event a month ago?) WILD story
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‘Missing’ GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home - WCBM TALKRADIO AM 680
In a startling revelation, Rep. Kay Granger, missing for six months, has been found living in a dementia care home. Discover the details behind her sudden disappearance and the implications for her political legacy. The post ‘Missing’ GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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valentine @dozygay.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
me at my extended family christmas dinner tomorrow
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Steve Uncle @the-barely-jew.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I'm really worried about trans illegal immigrants ruining women's sports which is why I support cutting $190m from pediatric cancer research
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 16/12/2024
All pleasures are guilty pleasures if you have high enough anxiety
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The Department of Defense, which gets $800+ billion per year, can’t pass an audit but routinely gets more money year after year, even when the U.S. ends wars. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row but says progress made
The Pentagon on Friday failed its seventh audit in a row, with the nation’s largest government agency still unable to fully account for its more than $824 billion budget, though officials str…
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 11/12/2024
In new work @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I examine development in Chicago, showing its “three cities”: —Intense development downtown —Development blocked by restrictive zoning in wealthy neighborhoods —Development nonexistent due to lack of market demand in poor areas www.urban.org/urban-wire/z...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
You’re laughing? Americas greatest criminal is named Matthew Spaghetti and you’re laughing?
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
you're laughing, a family is without their father because he had to flee the country he tore apart with a violent civil war and ruled as a dictator and you're laughing
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