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Alex Wenzel

@alexwenzel.bsky.social

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Postdoc studying cancer. Academic unionist and transit enthusiast. Trying to make buses less invisible. Medic main in TF2. he/him

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 28d

Critically important thread. In fact, I’m going to pin this quote post. Cut through all the noise and commentary and various overlapping mirror worlds that it’s easy to fall into, this is the core of what has always been happening, and what our options are.

Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 29d

seeing a lot of takes alleging that kirk's death is what is specifically going to trigger a civil war.

and, no, i have to say as my official opinion as not only a politics journalist but someone whose been in leftist activist spaces for nearly a decade. it is not what will trigger it specifically 🧵

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 2h

The current country was born with Yankee Doodle, whatever comes next will be born with Yakety Sax.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 5h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 4h

I grew up in the Catholic Church and experienced it as empty performance for judgmental authority. Christianity as I've seen it practiced at the wall is the complete opposite.

James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 5h

People are making light of this, and I get it, but some of my most profound experiences of something bigger than myself have been my times with migrants. I am not a religious person, but I have spent time with Jesuits, Sikhs, and Friends who serve migrants and we had a great deal in common.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11h

Go woke, go Pope

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 6h

There's only one thing in the regime's attacks on universities that it is correct about: Admin's constant expansion by creating and appointing themselves and their friends to increasingly superfluous, self-aggrandizing job titles.

Importantly, Dean Bardzell has accepted a secondary appointment as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI, a crucial and timely position that will help shape

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 9h

Deliberately ignoring RFK Jr’s new brain diarrhea because it’s going to be the ultimate “assume someone holds the worst opinion possible unless they explicitly say otherwise” Bluesky discussion.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 10h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 9h

The point of MAHA is to leverage the reach and regulatory authority of the federal government to sell supplements. One of the many conflicts within MAGA between established grift-capital and aspiring grift-capital.

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 14h

Multiple far-right & MAHA personalities have attacked Trump's Pfizer deal regarding prescription drugs, saying the deal was a “huge betrayal,” “a bomb going off with the MAHA-MAGA alliance,” & meant the movement “is completely destroyed.”

My latest:

Far-right media and MAHA figures have rebuked Trump’s Pfizer deal

Multiple far-right and MAHA media personalities have been critical of President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new deal with Pfizer regarding prescription drugs.These figures, some of whom have expl...

www.mediamatters.org

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 13h

Reich is a segregationist.

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

Aerial view of an urban residential neighbors. Approximately two dozen homes have been partially or completely destroyed by fire, smoke is rising from most of them.

Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

You can have a lot of opinions about the utility of no fares in this specific point in time, but I can’t imagine many San Diego politicians doing this. So far, our most progressive elected has suggested fixing the deficit by charging extra for Rapid routes, that’s apparently the best we can get.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"On Wednesday, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, rode the full route of the M57, a crosstown bus that traverses Midtown Manhattan and is one of the city’s slowest, to remind New Yorkers that he wanted to speed up their commutes."

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

www.nytimes.com

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 1d

He keeps asking questions like this so I feel like I'm repeating myself but, for those asking, the fuck here is Jordan Conradson, a Gateway Pundit propagandist who got his start running cover for the Cyber Ninjas "audit" & getting bossed around by Kari Lake. He also assaulted his girlfriend in 2022.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Reporter: "Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending Habeus Corpus to not only deal with these insurrectionists across the nation but also to continue rapidly deporting illegal aliens?"

Trump: "I'd rather leave that to Kristi [Noem]"

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

The media's unspoken rule that anything done by anyone inside or adjacent to the regime is automatically normal is a big contributor to this.

If a 2028 Dem candidate runs on universal healthcare, that will be portrayed as far more extreme than anything the regime has done.
bsky.app/profile/aelk...

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of explicitly fascist ideas that have a lot more conscious uptake on the right than a lot of people who don't routinely stare into the abyss may realize. Repealing the 19th amendment is one. "We joined the wrong side in WWII" is another.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

He didn't misspeak, he knows exactly what point he's making. There has been paid advertising on X/Twitter for at least a year claiming that Hitler has been misunderstood and that America should've supported the axis. That's the environment he's enclosed in and he thinks it's ready to go mainstream.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

Proves how silly it was for fascists to claim that corporations were somehow pushing "woke". They were always making PR decisions, and they were always ready to instantly change the second they thought public opinion is 50%+1 in the opposite direction. They don't have any values.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

Aforementioned thrusting frog. bsky.app/profile/adam...

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4d

A frog just defeated ICE. Somewhere Pepe is crying.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 2d

This wasn’t done in secret. They wanted the whole world to see this.

In video footage from NewsNation, whose camera crew was invited to join the raid, masked agents are shown surrounding the building wearing green uniforms, with vests and yellow lettering spelling out "U.S.
Customs and Border Patrol".
Some officers pointed handguns equipped with tactical lights at the building; others held long rifles and wore helmets equipped with cameras and lights. Helicopters hovered in the sky, and agents on the ground threw flashbang grenades. Hastily awakened residents were only given a few seconds to open before agents broke doors down and forced their way inside, according to recordings by residents witnessing the raid.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 2d

I intentionally removed the thumbnail to make it more likely people would read this post before clicking, and because the article is so full of wall-to-wall violence and bigotry that I thought even the generated thumbnail shouldn’t be just thrown on people’s timelines.

Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 2d

cw: apparent photograph of a dead child

This was CBP in a private facebook group in 2019. They've always been like this.

www.propublica.org/article/secr...

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 2d

Please don’t say he is not trained. Border Patrol agents do this on the border all the time. Agents at my station used to throw rocks into car windows that sometimes made them crash. They think it us funny. It’s not training in the academy, but in the field.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

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