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Alexander Means

@alienmeans.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, Educational Foundations

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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bumper sticker that reads, "YOU KNOW THESE FUCKERS BANNING BOOKS DON'T READ SHIT".
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what they’re really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldn’t be able to vote.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is clearly where things are headed: outright repression. They are sinking trillions into AI and will exhaust all angles to protect those investments. Unfortunately for them, we are winning all across the country.
theintercept.com
Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is a true posting masterpiece.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Most of the attended a klan rally, I mean “alternative half time show”.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
history: “I’m going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents.” The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, “No. Not like this.”
closertotheedge.net
THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION
The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
His ex-wife says he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches at his bedside table.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Any reconstructive project that doesn’t begin from the premise of severely disciplining the American oligarchic class is DOA. Criminal prosecutions, nationalization of tech platforms, knee capping Citizens United and more.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
What his supporters see and admire most is precisely his grotesque racism. That and his willingness to use symbolic and real violence to strip black and brown people of formal rights and recognition.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
America has not always been a fascist state because racialized violence and colonialism are not unique to fascism. Liberal democratic states are also guilty of these crimes. This distinction matters for understanding and confronting far right radicalization and shredding of “formal” civil rights.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I really do not understand why the majority of Republicans don't just move to Russia. Or DPRK, if that is their preference. They can live the lives they so strongly seem to desire without fighting about it, and without losing more time.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Watching in real time the flame of anti-fascist militancy spread.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/01/2026
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The American political right is a cesspit of bigotry, white grievance, conspiracism, religious zealotry, violent ideation and action, and plutocrat money fueling it all. Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A young white Christian male who was raised by Republicans and taught to use guns from a young age shot Charlie Kirk. Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door. #ThisIsAmerica
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Many have commented that the war on science and medicine is irrational from the standpoint of capitalism. The destruction of the CDC makes sense though if you realize the war is actually on us, our communities, our very lives. It’s a class war against life itself.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Adorno referred to this typology as “manipulative man”.
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valentine @dozygay.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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noiceplease.bsky.social @noiceplease.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
#NoKings #Manhattan @luckytran.com @imanor.bsky.social @newseye.bsky.social @handle.invalid @alienmeans.bsky.social @ranaman004.bsky.social @adamjschwarz.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @indivistwincities.bsky.social @firehawkjw.bsky.social @nemaha.bsky.social #handsoffiran
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is what it looks like when permanent war comes home.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
These regime change wars, beginning with Iraq, are about instituting chaos and never letting any successful democratic or marginally independent state from ever arising in the Middle East. American Israeli hegemony are the ends, failed states are the means.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Time will tell what the consequences are of the US entering Israel’s war against Iran. But it gives me a sickening feeling. We need an anti-war movement to arrest this drift toward oblivion. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...
nbcnews.com
U.S. attacks three Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says: Live updates
Follow live updates on the conflict between Israel and Iran as it enters its 9th day of attacks.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
One piece of good news. Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Standing up to fascism with my boy today.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Honolulu #nokings
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/06/2025
Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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God @thegodshow.com · 13/06/2025
Keep an eye out this weekend for outside agitators like the Proud Boys showing up at the No Kings Protests! They will try to incite violence and blame it on the left as they did during the George Floyd protests.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 14/06/2025
Hey for tomorrow's protests, make sure your vehicle registration is up to date and your tag is current. Double check your headlights and tail lights. Any protective gear or even your kids' sports equipment, put it in the trunk or cover it with a blanket (see "plain view" exception).
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Almost as depressing as the UCLA AI humanities course, but at least these folks are getting paid.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Bluesky vibe
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Trolling the Bedbug honor of the year
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Have it and looking forward to reading it. Richard Seymour is such a smart and sensitive analyst. This book looks like it has a lot to say about this moment.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Brett Stephens is incapable of understanding the dialectic.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero
He’s a model for how a talented, determined man from humble roots can rise to the top of corporate life.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
In their 1955 sci-fi novel Preferred Risk, Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey depict a dystopian insurance era ruled by “The Company,” a massive insurance firm that achieves total global domination, displacing state governments.
bostonreview.net
Our Insurance Dystopia - Boston Review
Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.
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Alexander Means @alienmeans.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I thought the point of this platform was to escape this dummy’s face in my feed.
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