Alison Smaalders
Archaeology major, currently working in P&C insurance. Gamer, LARPer, general nerd, cat lover. Occasionally known as Fun Fact. She/her.
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersThe Struggles Of Elon Musk 😔
- Reposted by Alison Smaalderswait so a US citizen was basically the operational centre for a war his country was supposedly supporting the other side in? There's a word for that, innit
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersKilling the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.
- Reposted by Alison Smaalderswhen you are a big strong tough man but also a tiny little angel who wants to be held like a baby
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- Reposted by Alison Smaaldersthe number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.
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- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersFull on concentration camps. "We don't know half of what's going on in the camps, but we know enough" is echoing from 85 years ago.
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersFloored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersThis is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersDem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersSo the next step from democrats is: “it is illegal to do this without approvals and in 2029 we will hold all companies that take part criminally liable and seize all their assets to pay for restoration.”
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersAbolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
- Reposted by Alison Smaaldersi am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersI'll just add, as someone who's been doing investigative reporting for decades, all publications doing real journalism (i.e., not a sockpuppet or Some Guy on the Internet)--they have MANY layers of editorial & legal review. Every major investigation I've done has had EVERY WORD checked many times.
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersImportant for people to realize that like 30% of all the bad stuff in society is already explicitly illegal it's just not enforced.
- Three delivery apps, including UberEats, will pay NYC delivery workers $4.6 million after they violated the city's minimum pay law. The Mamdani admin will announce the settlement today, which comes after enforcement action taken by the city. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/t...
- Reposted by Alison Smaaldersthe Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersI was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole. (1/?)
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersThere were a flurry of "spontaneous" replies last month to various posts i made. All written the same way. All trying to link to the random substack about how innocent he is. My first thought (after blocking) was: "Oh i see someone's publisher has hired a bot farm."
- Reposted by Alison Smaalders'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersAnd unless it's a cost-free government ID, it's a POLL TAX. If you have to pay the government for a document that you must have to vote, that is a POLL TAX.
- Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process. bit.ly/4cikrkp
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersNO ICE ON OUR HOME TURF MASS RALLY ⏰ Monday, Feb 2 at 11:30 AM 📍 Cesar Chavez Park, San Jose The Super Bowl is coming to our community, and so is the threat of ICE. The Bay Area will NOT be silent. #IceOutOfTheBay #SuperbowlWeekOfAction
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- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersThinking about how the victims of Savile & other British Celebrity Rapists did go to the police but for some reason the police only ever started investigating said cases once there'd been a documentary on the telly about it
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersTom Morello live in Minneapolis
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersSo, let's get this straight. Christopher "Moot" Poole created 4chan as a gathering place for hentai and CSAM enthusiasts, started /pol/ the day he met with Jeffrey Epstein, then /pol/ memed Trump to the presidency and birthed Qanon, a conspiracy theory in which Trump is a good person who hates CSAM.
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- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersI wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersThat feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersLowtax banning hentai from SomethingAwful being one of the more consequential events of the 21st century is going to do me in
- Reposted by Alison Smaaldersthought this was a shitpost and oh jesus
- Reposted by Alison Smaaldersxbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersA very significant vote. The $75 billion can be taken away; this marks a clear vote by the Democratic caucus to do so.
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- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersNot to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersSan José Museum of Art is free today in solidarity with the general strike against ICE
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersA+++ Appalachian protest sign:
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersCatherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
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- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersYou might enjoy my little essay on Greatness in Art in the age of AI, AKA, "Sinners is Great, actually, but greatness doesn't exist, also." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sinners-one-...
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersIt’s an affront to the idea of a written constitution that this case will reach oral argument.
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- Reposted by Alison Smaalders“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day
- Reposted by Alison SmaaldersLiterally obsessed with this pic I got of one Cedar Waxwing getting very mad at another for drinking in the same spot as him despite there being a whole stream
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