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alexanderlester.bsky.social
Nerd 🤓, Brother, Pet Parent 🐕, Telephile 📺, Director of Instructional Technology and Design 👨🏻‍🏫, Lifelong Learner 🔎 | Gay🏳️‍🌈 | He/Him/His Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views of my employer
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Rachel Maddow called out MSNBC for getting rid of Joy Reid and Katie Phang, saying it’s “indefensible” to get rid of their non-white anchors. Bingo.

submitted 11 hours ago • 267 comments

How much of Congress’ 6.5 billion for operations will be cut?

submitted 7 hours ago • 350 comments

NEW LAWSUIT: An employee of the VA since 2006, who took law classes at night to get a promotion to the general counsel's office in 2024, was fired as a "probationary" employee because of her recent job change. She is asking a court for her job back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 21 hours ago • 235 comments

BREAKING: As predicted:

submitted 1 day ago • 1056 comments

If you have not read this book yet (or listened to it) you are not properly prepared for what we’re facing right now, full stop. And it is clear far too many have not.

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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

DOGE has been sending their mass emails from a misconfigured server, causing DOGE emails to fail SPF (Sender Policy Framework) validation. This means that agencies are probably marking DOGE emails as spam.

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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Musk and DOGE are closing local Social Security offices, making it hard for people with disabilities to access help. Frank Bisignano, former FISERV CEO, is Trump’s nominee for commissioner of Social Security. He is likely to expand this. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

If Luigi walks because of David Zaslav and Eric Adams I will laugh so hard I will probably have a stroke and die.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

The NYPD and our criminal mayor accidentally Brady violating this guy out of a conviction because they can’t stop publicity hounding would absolutely be the most fitting end to the entire saga.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

From United Humanists on FB

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did not expect to be attacked like this at the art museum

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.

submitted 4 days ago • 1163 comments

"The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role." foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Against all odds, Amazon let me cancel my contract early with them. Unfortunately, this means my book is no longer on KU. Fortunately, this means I can work towards getting it on platforms like Kobo earlier than anticipated! Will keep everyone updated! ❤️📚 #booksky #Kobo #Kindle

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 3 days ago • 227 comments

One more PSA! It is time to #Degoogle your life. If you want #privacy controls and the ability to reduce the #ads you are slammed with/the #data companies sell about you as well as speed up your browsing speed. You may want to try another browser option such as #Firefox, or #Brave.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

@mcuban.bsky.social Here are some ideas! Start by funding grocery stores in America’s food deserts. You can also check out The Store, a free grocery store founded by Brad Paisley — thestore.org/our-story

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

You have until February 26th to download and convert your Kindle books—after that, you’ll be stuck within the Kindle ecosystem! This is more than just a #consumerrights problem; it is an #accessibility problem and an issue of democracy and #censorship!

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

submitted 8 days ago • 217 comments

Little Free Libraries are underrated gems 📖✨️ ✔️ Free books, no strings attached ✔️ Encourages reading ✔️ Promotes sustainability ✔️ Turns neighborhoods into book-sharing hubs. Take a book, leave a book, spread the love. Found any good reads in one? #BookSky #BlackBookSky

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

submitted 8 days ago • 228 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 8 days ago • 126 comments

Controversy surrounding NYC Mayor Eric Adams deepened Monday as four of his top aides and deputy mayors announced they're resigning. The news comes days after the Justice Department moved to drop corruption charges against Adams after he agreed to collaborate with Trump's immigration crackdown.

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

I guess a considerable amount of protestors from City Hall did go to the Tesla dealership on Van Ness. sfstandard.com/2025/02/17/m...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments