Brian “Enemy Within” Alexander
Books: Glass House, The Hospital, The Mayor. http://BrianRAlexander.com.
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- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderLove and support you always, Cincinnati Enquirer (support local media), but esp today This is a Midwest daily paper. About as middle of the road as you can get & they understand that this is an objective, straight news headline, in the context of a planned Trump/GOP onslaught in Springfield, etc
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- I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” Alexander. @nickijhabvala.bsky.social: "Will Lewis was too busy to join the call to tell his staff he’s destroying the @washingtonpost.com sports department yesterday … but he did have time to walk the red carpet at NFL Honors here in San Francisco today. Amazing."
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- I used this all the time in my book and article research. The only reason to shut it down was how unflattering the U.S. looked compared to other nations when comparing, for example, health and death rates and inequality.
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderVery big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...
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- People often ask me why I no longer follow, or even care about, Big Time sports. Here's a good example of why: www.sportico.com/business/tea...
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderI think in the end AI's primary effect will not be to replace workers so much as to destroy whatever is left of our notion of a shared reality.
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- Gee. Who could have guessed? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderMedgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
- Farmers love socialism.
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- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” Alexanderhere's a gift link to @nitasha.bsky.social's story, which shows just how forcefully Musk is pushing sexual content, including sexual abuse and harassment content—including of children.
- My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
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- New in the newsletter: bad news, but good news, too (and once again, free for all). by.brianralexander.com/a-washington...
- Boy, did I need this. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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- Well, they got the “break things” part down pretty good, I’d say.
- The @ohiocapitaljournal.com has a story today about the big money gap between the GOP and Democratic candidates for governor. Well, @amyactonoh.bsky.social can win by goin retail, like Mamdani.
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderCrazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
- We are at the point where only people who are already famous will be able to get books published and earn any money.
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- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderAnyway, congrats to Will Lewis bumping the UK tabloid scandal to the second sentence of his obit.
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- These guys all look alike to me.
- Like it wasn’t predictable. And this guy is supposed to be a financial wizard, and we are all supposed to be enthralled by this type.
- Billionaire investor and GOP donor Ken Griffin: “This administration has definitely made mis-steps in choosing decisions or courses that have been very, very enriching to the families of those in the administration” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderBut were they missteps? Really?
- Billionaire investor and GOP donor Ken Griffin: “This administration has definitely made mis-steps in choosing decisions or courses that have been very, very enriching to the families of those in the administration” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderDon't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.
- The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- “Boundary-pushing”
- Rub Roy
- Decades ago, I broke into journalism by writing about water politics. Back then a lawyer working on Colorado River litigation said "My kid is two years old, and I'll put him through college on this," and, sure enough, here we are. by @sammyroth.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...
- I have friends who were assistant U.S. attorneys who had to defend border patrol guys, and, well...yes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
- About time! No public employee pension fund (no pension fund of any kind) should be in private equity. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/03/o...
- Does anybody care about the Olympics any more?
- Yes, please do tell rural voters that they are not worthy of having doctors. Please!
- Hocking.
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- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderSeeing all the “professional” activists go after Stancil is negatively polarizing me into a stance that Minnesota is winning because it’s normal people rising to the occasion and pushing a lot of activist nonsense out of the way by doing it
- “Blindsided” by Trump? Man, if at this late date you are blindsided by Trump you’re just willfully blind.
- I know you know this but I just have to: He’s delusional.
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- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderThis is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.
- I was a little late to catch up with this WSJ kleptocracy story. We already knew Sheikh Tahnoon dropped $2b on World Liberty Financial to get Trump to let UAE import advanced chips. Now we learn Tahnoon also purchased 49 percent of World Liberty Financial. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Can anybody recommend reading that explores the pros and cons of schools-as-work-training? I think schools should be about citizenship, culture, exploring futures, exposing kids to knowledge, not job training per se. I'm talking about K-12, mostly. Am I wrong?
- Wasn’t there a thing awhile back about “weaponizing” the Justice department, or something? I seem to vaguely recall something of that sort.
- BREAKING: Trump team to start “daily” meetings to focus on prosecuting his political adversaries, according to CNN Looks like Susie Wiles’ efforts to “limit” Trump’s focus on retribution has failed spectacularly. www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...
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- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderToday is the 178th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, formally ending the Mexican-American War, which dramatically enlarged the US, propelled the nation toward Civil War, & was a conflict U.S. Grant described as "One of the most unjust (wars) ever waged"🗃️... www.cfr.org/articles/twe...
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- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderMeeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderIf a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.
- University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
- Reposted by Brian “Enemy Within” AlexanderBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Yep. San Diego papers routinely cover these cases.
- Every place in the United States is “the Heartland.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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- New post, again free to all. Dumping on Chester One poor city as an avatar for many places where people can't afford to buy political power. by.brianralexander.com/dumping-on-c...
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- Guy on the right doesn't know how to hold a gun. He thinks he's in a movie.
- This is in small-town Minnesota. This is not in one of those demonic blue cities that the GOP talk about. This is pretty goddam rural. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Every time I see that fake book described this way the top of my head blows off, because, man, what a slur on the white working class.
- This is the thing, right here. The gig is up on the fancy set, the rich, the “powerful,“ the “influential.” They’ve got nothing.
- Right wing “intellectuals” and those in the press who give them any credence whatsoever crack me up.
