alyshalynn
I’m mean on Twitter. They kinda deserve it tho.
- Reposted by alyshalynnI will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
- Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
- Reposted by alyshalynnthe symbols of the revolution being the whistle, hothands warmers, and yaktrax
- Reposted by alyshalynn“I’m a political science professor at Texas A&M San Antonio. I’ve taught ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ more than 100 times and have never questioned whether I’d be violating university policy. Now I am, and it’s a disservice to students.” thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/19/w...
- Reposted by alyshalynnSCOOP: Trump quietly pardoned several people this week, including: ▶️A Venezuelan-Italian banker implicated in a bribery scheme whose daughter donated $3.5M to Trump's PAC. ▶️A California woman who was freed from prison by a Trump commutation in 2021 & was then convicted in an unrelated case in 2024.
- Reposted by alyshalynnDonald Trump in his inauguration address a year ago: "The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end…Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents."
- Reposted by alyshalynnNEW: Trump pardoned a porta-potty magnate named Arie Eric De Jong III who was sentenced to 5 months in federal prison for illegally disposing of sludge in cities across southern California.
- Reposted by alyshalynnThe powerful Chicago Teachers Union that regularly slams the Trump administration received word on Thursday that its finances are being investigated by a federal agency on top of an already announced inquiry by a Republican-led U.S. House committee.
- Reposted by alyshalynnNEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by alyshalynnSuspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
- Reposted by alyshalynnI’ve seen a million media stories about how sad Republican voters in CA are about losing their Republican representatives. But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.
- Reposted by alyshalynnJo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
- Reposted by alyshalynnMerriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
- Reposted by alyshalynnNORAD Santa tracker is Woke
- Severe lack of ‘Mermaids’ in this thread.
- Reposted by alyshalynn“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
- Reposted by alyshalynn“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.” By @keribla.bsky.social
- Reposted by alyshalynnNEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
- Reposted by alyshalynnThey gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
- Reposted by alyshalynnThis was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
- Reposted by alyshalynnCristian Vazquez is the seventh person on a bike to be killed by dooring this year in New York City. He was riding an electric Citi Bike, capped at 15 mph. Mayor Adams' e-bike speed limit didn't save his life. A protected bike lane might have. Where was he supposed to ride?
- Reposted by alyshalynnRecords obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
- Reposted by alyshalynnMany of my liberal peers see clearly how mainstream outlets have ruined their already imperiled businesses by capitulating to bad-faith right-wing criticism. They have a harder time seeing that the Democratic Party has fallen victim to the same kind of self-sabotage.
- This perspective says so much about the beholder. If you see service work as inherently relegated to the most-marginalized & you can’t fathom an examination to that perspective, you are actively participating in the devaluation of service work which enables the economic component of marginalization
- That and/or you just fundamentally misunderstand the reasons people perpetuate bigotry in their systems of society.
- None of these jokers care about free speech - ya know, the actual kind, that keeps you out of trouble w your government. They only care about their checks💸And their egos cannot fathom earning less money because they are not considered funny anymore. It’s anyone else’s fault. Not their 🧠laziness.
- Reposted by alyshalynnwhite supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state
- * TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESTRICTING COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSES FOR NON-U.S. CITIZENS, USDOT SAYS @reuters.com
- People are saying this is just ‘DEI’ But this is miles closer to the argument that Incels just need sex workers. For both of these kinds of guys - they do not want the actual exchange of human interaction, they want unquestioned authority.
- Reposted by alyshalynnWhether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
- Reposted by alyshalynnThe two things authoritarians fear most is satire and hope The first exposes their absurdity and the second gives people a reason to resist them Promote satire and spread hope
- Reposted by alyshalynnAaaand Steve Martin has covid and has had to cancel part his tour with Martin Short. He is 80 years old. This is a stupid way to live and we don’t need to keep doing it like this.
- Reposted by alyshalynnremember kids, this bullshit gets you nothing but fired anyway
- Reposted by alyshalynnFun fact: Texas is a one party consent state when it comes to recording conversations, which means that you can legally record any conversation of which you are a part — and can share it with a journalist, such as me
- Reposted by alyshalynnthis is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true
- It’s called a ‘pipeline’ for a reason. They never start you off w the vile stuff. And I don’t think media illiteracy is a great excuse for being unaware of racism when a person’s entire brand reached peak velocity specifically by saying racist garbage directly into the camera. youtu.be/P55t6eryY3g
- Reposted by alyshalynnWhy isn’t every local news broadcast opening with, “What are the ‘Groypers’, and how do you know the signs of your son is part of the deadly gang?”
- Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
- Reposted by alyshalynnIf you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
- Reposted by alyshalynn”what’s the male equivalent of a mini skirt?” a mini skirt, obviously. what are you, a coward?
- Like everything else in their ideology: they despise plurality. Everyone must believe & experience exactly what they do. And imagining something different is not just distasteful, to them it’s criminal.