Brigid Alverson
Comics journalist, library fan, ally. I vote. Support trans youth! Pronouns: She/her.
- This is gross and his excuses are ridiculous. Yes, there are people like Epstein (and Gelertner) in the world, but they should be shunned, not defended or catered to. Also, Yale should just shut down and apologize to everyone for all the harm their alumni have done in this century alone.
- Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
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- From today's Poynter report, re @washingtonpost.com layoffs: www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonNEW: The Justice Department unit responsible for pursuing potential wrongdoing by law enforcement, including during the crackdown in Minneapolis, has lost two-thirds of its prosecutors and is under orders to scale back its investigations of excessive force. www.reuters.com/world/justic...
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonMoney can buy you the deaths of 14 million people who depended on USAID, but not love.
- Getting ready to unlock my superpower.
- Great work from the student journalists at BU. Student papers have really stepped up in the past year, which gives me hope for the future. Also, shame on her. A dean should know better. Even if she didn't know who he was at first, she had to have found out before long.
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonInterview: Cartoonist Zander Cannon on the frontlines of the Minnesota resistance: "It's truly astonishing the way that life has changed just in the last couple of weeks."
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- This is powerful and well stated.
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonTo put it another way: Jeff Bezos could easily ensure there are no staff cuts at The Washington Post for the next decade, and he'd still have more than $249B in net worth left over.
- This is a very scary short thread.
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonThis is in fact one of the things congressional Dems can do - and they're doing it (and have been on this and other topics). Hard to break through, but this one seems to have a bit and even when it doesn't creating a public record is worthwhile.
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- Reposted by Brigid AlversonI personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
- Today at Good Comics for Kids, Mao Reynolds reviews Love, Misha, a YA graphic novel from @01firstsecond.bsky.social about a nonbinary teen and their mother negotiating an uneasy relationship while trying to escape from the spirit realm. goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2026/02/04/l...
- Reposted by Brigid Alversonamericans: whenever you see a turbotax advertisement, never let yourself forget that turbotax and companies like it are WHY we have to file taxes like we do in the first place.
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- Delightful interview with Wimpy Kid author Greg Kinney, who is not only incredibly successful (300 million sold) but has invested some of the largesse in the town where he lives. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
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- This is wonderful news, and Rep. Castro's letter is beautiful.
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- Reposted by Brigid AlversonHe's talking about this as if it's self-evidently bad, but everyone my age grew up learning that this was exactly what made this country uniquely good
- Reposted by Brigid Alversonit’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonYou can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonGreg Ketter, owner of the comic shop DreamHaven Books, speaks with USA Today about his 15 minutes of fame & how sales in his store have jumped 700% since his protest video went viral. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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- This will provide fodder for cautionary sci-fi novels and freshman philosophy students for years to come.
- This piece is… scary: www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonThis piece is… scary: www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...
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- Of course, I meant to say "every accusation is a confession" which makes more sense.
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonYou can find ways to support families and pets in Minnesota, as well as organizations working to defend and advance the rights and opportunities of immigrants below campsite.bio/wrdsmm
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- Reposted by Brigid AlversonRecall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
- You can tell what @theguardian.com thinks of Warsh from the photo they chose to use of him. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Not only am I not spending any money today, I'm taking the opportunity, as I did on the last buy nothing day, to unsubscribe from things. Today it's Substack and ComiXology. I know I'm not bringing Jeff Bezos and the Nazi supporters to their knees, but I'm not giving them a dime, either.
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- Remember when there were all those paranoid right-wing conspiracy theories about Obama buying abandoned Wal-Marts to use as detention camps? Every accusation is a projection. What's next? Guillotines and body bags?
- BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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- Yale has somehow managed to make itself even worse.
- Yale is launching a new Presidential Senior Fellowship to expand access to the transformative work of universities. As part of this program, author and columnist David Brooks will join the Jackson School of Global Affairs starting February 1. Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
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- After Amazon bought and destroyed ComiXology, they continued the ComiXology Unlimited service, and I kept subscribing. On Wednesday they announced big layoffs, powered by AI, which reportedly affect ComiXology. I canceled my subscription immediately. www.comicsbeat.com/amazon-layof...
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- Reposted by Brigid AlversonAn unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Today at Good Comics for Kids, Mao Reynolds interviews Jarrett Dapier about Wake Now in the Fire, his new graphic novel about the banning of Persepolis in the Chicago Schools - and how students fought back: goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2026/01/28/j...
- We are going backwards in so many ways. Children will die because of RFK Jr.'s lunatic theories and the willingness of others to go along with them.
- (CNN) - The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...
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- Also, two DOGE employees MAY be in hot water for discussing sharing SSA information with a political advocacy group to compare it to voter rolls to "find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States." www.npr.org/2026/01/23/n...
- There's a lot going on right now, but this shouldn't slip under the radar: During their rampage through the Social Security Administration last year, DOGE mishandled personally identifiable information, possibly of millions of people. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
- There's a lot going on right now, but this shouldn't slip under the radar: During their rampage through the Social Security Administration last year, DOGE mishandled personally identifiable information, possibly of millions of people. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonSen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
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- Reposted by Brigid AlversonI am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
- Reposted by Brigid AlversonReminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.
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- Reposted by Brigid AlversonToday is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!
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