Reposted by AlisaJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/03/2026If we want people to eat "healthier," we have to make it easier to find joy in things other than food. Like, by guaranteeing paid time off, increasing wages to reduce overwork, lowering housing costs to reduce commutes, and providing healthcare to ensure that bodies/minds are strong enough for fun. 322049
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I think Syracuse should give my accepted student more money now because they've hurt my artist feelings 😉 000
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Marco looks like he might be going through some internal shit and I love that for him 000
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Will this painting ever become irrelevant? Please? "Tired of Winning," 18x24 inches, watercolor on paper by Alisa Shea, 2019 050
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 29/01/2026My latest. "Coming Unraveled," 13x20ish inches, #watercolor on paper 1123
Reposted by AlisaAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵 6653002345
Reposted by AlisaMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration. 14874765320438
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Current watercolor work in progress... because everything is coming undone 130
Reposted by AlisaJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 10/01/2026How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here 5266031784
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Holy shit. This Kennedy Center speech is the worst I've ever seen him. It is CRIMINAL that people in government are watching this and not coming away saying this guy is completely incapacitated by dementia. This is shockingly bad, even by his standards 010
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Pleased to have received an honorable mention in Artist's Magazine's 42nd annual art competition, shown here in the Jan/Feb 2026 issue 031
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 27/11/2025You've just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. Wow. This is... disturbingly appropriate? Or the opposite. I'm not even sure 010
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Current watercolor work in progress (cropped) and social commentary :/ 160
Reposted by AlisaAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943 256169837923
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Dogs and cats living together--mass hysteria Is this the upside down? 000
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 26/06/2025What the fuck is this propaganda bullshit festival I'm watching right now?!?? 010
Reposted by AlisaAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time 390364457701
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Trading the watercolors today for some protest poster work instead #nokings 010
Reposted by Alisakate conger @kateconger.com · 05/06/2025Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign. 3434194859
Reposted by AlisaPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation. 449151517827
Reposted by AlisaAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage 6547951843
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Just finished. "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things," 16 x 20 inches, watercolor on paper My first painting since the election. This is the only subject that seemed to reflect how I'm feeling + the current state of affairs 080
Reposted by AlisaCourt💕 Cross @clholly.bsky.social · 10/04/2025With the SAVE act passing through the house I would like to remind everyone that it took the Taliban only 3 years to ban women from speaking #waronwomen #SAVEact 361813735
Reposted by AlisaKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Republicans in Congress can end this any time 1023628854
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I guarantee this idiot is citing a grant that uses transGENIC mice, but is far too stupid and learning averse to ever realize what that means www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK231...ncbi.nlm.nih.govGenetically Altered Mice: A Revolutionary Research Resource“Important as transgenic mice are, they are really the tip of the iceberg when compared with what we are going to see in the next few years.”–Janet Rossant 010
Alisa @alisa-shea.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I painted this watercolor in 2019, "Tired of Winning" I can't believe it's still so relevant 010