Alexander Means
@alienmeans.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, Educational Foundations
Most of the attended a klan rally, I mean “alternative half time show”.
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
February 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Most of the attended a klan rally, I mean “alternative half time show”.
history:
“I’m going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents.”
The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, “No. Not like this.”
“I’m going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents.”
The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, “No. Not like this.”
THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION
The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.
www.closertotheedge.net
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
history:
“I’m going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents.”
The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, “No. Not like this.”
“I’m going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents.”
The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, “No. Not like this.”
His ex-wife says he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches at his bedside table.
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
His ex-wife says he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches at his bedside table.
Any reconstructive project that doesn’t begin from the premise of severely disciplining the American oligarchic class is DOA. Criminal prosecutions, nationalization of tech platforms, knee capping Citizens United and more.
“Returning to where we were means going back to a state of affairs that was manifestly unsustainable. To borrow from the architect of the Democratic Party’s most enduring platform, any recovery that simply restores things will see us all right back where we are now.” @rauchway.bsky.social
We need reconstruction, not restoration—as FDR knew.
Eric Rauchway responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
www.bostonreview.net
February 7, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Any reconstructive project that doesn’t begin from the premise of severely disciplining the American oligarchic class is DOA. Criminal prosecutions, nationalization of tech platforms, knee capping Citizens United and more.
What his supporters see and admire most is precisely his grotesque racism. That and his willingness to use symbolic and real violence to strip black and brown people of formal rights and recognition.
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM
What his supporters see and admire most is precisely his grotesque racism. That and his willingness to use symbolic and real violence to strip black and brown people of formal rights and recognition.
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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
America has not always been a fascist state because racialized violence and colonialism are not unique to fascism. Liberal democratic states are also guilty of these crimes. This distinction matters for understanding and confronting far right radicalization and shredding of “formal” civil rights.
Another small issue with saying "We have always been a fascist nation" is that fascism itself is about 100 years younger than the US by even the most generous measures. Fascism doesn't just mean "racism" or "authoritarian violence," and what Trump is doing is very distinctly fascist.
January 22, 2026 at 4:39 PM
America has not always been a fascist state because racialized violence and colonialism are not unique to fascism. Liberal democratic states are also guilty of these crimes. This distinction matters for understanding and confronting far right radicalization and shredding of “formal” civil rights.
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It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo
Many Americans are terrible neighbors to each other, and that is why MN is striking everyone as extraordinary activism... when they are telling us that it is not. They're good neighbors!
It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.
It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.
January 18, 2026 at 6:24 PM
It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo
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I really do not understand why the majority of Republicans don't just move to Russia. Or DPRK, if that is their preference. They can live the lives they so strongly seem to desire without fighting about it, and without losing more time.
January 18, 2026 at 2:29 AM
I really do not understand why the majority of Republicans don't just move to Russia. Or DPRK, if that is their preference. They can live the lives they so strongly seem to desire without fighting about it, and without losing more time.
Watching in real time the flame of anti-fascist militancy spread.
“Whose streets? Our streets!”
Protesters have shut down Columbus demanding the arrest of Johnathan Ross and ICE be abolished.
#JusticeForGood #AbolishICE #RefuseFascism
Protesters have shut down Columbus demanding the arrest of Johnathan Ross and ICE be abolished.
#JusticeForGood #AbolishICE #RefuseFascism
January 11, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Watching in real time the flame of anti-fascist militancy spread.
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Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
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So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
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The American political right is a cesspit of bigotry, white grievance, conspiracism, religious zealotry, violent ideation and action, and plutocrat money fueling it all.
Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.
Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.
At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org
Southern University, other HBCUs close due to ‘potential threat’
Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge will be closed through the weekend after officials called a lockdown Thursday morning due to a “potential threat.”
www.wwno.org
September 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The American political right is a cesspit of bigotry, white grievance, conspiracism, religious zealotry, violent ideation and action, and plutocrat money fueling it all.
Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.
Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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A young white Christian male who was raised by Republicans and taught to use guns from a young age shot Charlie Kirk.
Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door.
#ThisIsAmerica
Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door.
#ThisIsAmerica
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A young white Christian male who was raised by Republicans and taught to use guns from a young age shot Charlie Kirk.
Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door.
#ThisIsAmerica
Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door.
#ThisIsAmerica
Many have commented that the war on science and medicine is irrational from the standpoint of capitalism. The destruction of the CDC makes sense though if you realize the war is actually on us, our communities, our very lives. It’s a class war against life itself.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say
"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.
www.statnews.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Many have commented that the war on science and medicine is irrational from the standpoint of capitalism. The destruction of the CDC makes sense though if you realize the war is actually on us, our communities, our very lives. It’s a class war against life itself.
Adorno referred to this typology as “manipulative man”.
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism
Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lo...
www.psypost.org
August 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Adorno referred to this typology as “manipulative man”.
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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This is what it looks like when permanent war comes home.
It was tense in Maywood and Bell as ICE/CBP and multiple local police agencies confronted protesters and local residents vocalizing their anger at ICE/CBP violently arresting individuals and a protester.
June 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This is what it looks like when permanent war comes home.
These regime change wars, beginning with Iraq, are about instituting chaos and never letting any successful democratic or marginally independent state from ever arising in the Middle East. American Israeli hegemony are the ends, failed states are the means.
“The rationale for war was rotten. Despite advocates’ stated aims, the war was ultimately motivated by a desire for regime change. Neoconservatives in the Bush administration thought they could transform Iraq and the wider region into a pro-U.S. democratic stronghold.”
The Iraq War’s Catastrophic Consequences - Boston Review
Twenty years later, the U.S.-led invasion continues to shape geopolitics for the worse.
www.bostonreview.net
June 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
These regime change wars, beginning with Iraq, are about instituting chaos and never letting any successful democratic or marginally independent state from ever arising in the Middle East. American Israeli hegemony are the ends, failed states are the means.
Time will tell what the consequences are of the US entering Israel’s war against Iran. But it gives me a sickening feeling. We need an anti-war movement to arrest this drift toward oblivion.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...
U.S. attacks three Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says: Live updates
Follow live updates on the conflict between Israel and Iran as it enters its 9th day of attacks.
www.nbcnews.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Time will tell what the consequences are of the US entering Israel’s war against Iran. But it gives me a sickening feeling. We need an anti-war movement to arrest this drift toward oblivion.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...
One piece of good news.
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
June 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
One piece of good news.
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
Standing up to fascism with my boy today.
June 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Standing up to fascism with my boy today.