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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, elsewhere. More: www.alexcpark.com
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Bhutan is apparently a hotbed of terrorism and/or antisemitism. Good to know.

Andrew Cuomo’s single largest donation—$1 million—comes from a company that claims to facilitate people’s experience of their own neighborhoods, but in fact makes nothing but software. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Public discourse is really getting some basic things wrong about the new people deemed refugees …

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

How’s it feel carrying water for the White House, Axios? bsky.app/profile/axio...

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There's slavery in the coffee www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/w...

LOL what is this idiocy www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The things that pass as progressivism these days …

Thinking of how Putin was in East Germany when the wall fell, burning documents on the Kremlin’s orders and plotting a restoration of Soviet greatness … I wonder who that will be for our country …

Yeah, it's not a "tradition," @apnews.com, it's literally the law. Do better.

Ivanka & Jared are going to Jeff Bezos’ wedding. And people wonder why I read TMZ. www.tmz.com/2025/03/26/j...

Always reassuring when the CIA director seems to have no concept of what classified information is bsky.app/profile/atru...

I’m ok with Guantanamo staying open if it means Elon stays there

[email protected] with the goods once again. The premiere service out there for tracking fossil fuel divestment is entirely pledges repackaged as data. timschwab.substack.com/p/divesting-...

Left: government declaration filed yesterday in the Alien Enemies Act case. Right: Lt General John DeWitt, Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942 Sometimes history rhymes damn near *perfectly*. #LawSky #Skystorians

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Today in utterly useless takes

Oh look at that futurism.com/bill-gates-g...

AOC should announce a primary against Schumer tonight.

This is heading for war and we would be best to get onboard with that fact sooner rather than later. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The fact that Musk has lost $100B over the last month but is still the wealthiest person on Earth and financially unharmed in the slightest—all while wealth and income inequality is worse now than it was after the Great Depression—is Exhibit A on why we need to tax billionaires out of existence.

+1 Conan

When this is over, maybe we can go hard the other way and nationalize Tesla and SpaceX

Zelensky found out what it was like to be a US governor in a blue state asking Trump for medical supplies during the pandemic. Or disaster relief after a wildfire or storm. It’s not his money, but he fully expects you to beg and plead for it and tell him how wonderful he is.

Always good to see the torture memo guy back in the saddle saying ever more inane garbage about executive power. Missed you, John! 👋 www.aei.org/op-eds/trump...