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AmyAlexCA

@amyalexca.bsky.social

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Fact-based Communicator and Storyteller. https://www.amyalexanderink.com/

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 1h

Congratulations ✨

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 2h

Yep. Possibly one of more of her former Comms staffers are in PAYBACK mode. I am sympathetic to their cause🤣

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks to you and your team too. 🙌🏾

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 2h

Bryan is an American Hero in the tradition of WEB DuBois + many other experts in U.S. history. Alas: Fact-based, historically accurate experts on the White Racist foundation of U.S. history are now de trop—especially if they’re Black. Very grateful for his work and glad he stood up #EJI before now.

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 3h

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 3h

Saluting @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for his Courage in service of the Greater Good: see his talk with the Scurrilous #PiersMorgan, a RW, amoral, UK / former U.S. *News Anchor* 🫡👇🏾 #ZETEO

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 4h

Anyways— I hope to learn more about who / how / why these @katieporteroc.bsky.social “Karen” videos are now leaking. 🧐

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 4h

California pols (city / county / state gov) are horribly addicted to a #CASTE ladder: White people on top, followed by Latinos, Asians, Black people on lower rungs. The fact that no state or national Journos EVER pull and examine the Data on this reality is also due to the #CASTE system.

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 4h

As I noted on the initial leak of a #KatiePorter Goes Karen vid recently, I’ve dealt with a WW in a top #CA State role who rolls like this: Publicly claiming egalitarianism but behind the scenes with staff, behaving like a RW Karen-type Asshole, especially to PoC staff. It’s a PROBLEM IN CALIFORNIA

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 4h

LoL, folks are leaking vids of #CA Gov candidate #KatiePorter behaving like a KAREN—and while I appreciate the impulse to Expose a Bad Boss who Masquerades as a For the People advocate, the Accountability Journo in me also now requires more info on the Leakers: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 4h

Less is more! Safe Travels. 🙌🏾

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 5h

Terrible. I grew up not far from this address; went to jnr high blocks away, at #Aptos. Far too many alleged *Experts / Commentators* in #CA and Nationwide in 2025 have no idea of the reality of WorkingClass people in #SF during the past 20yrs or so, specifically how #BigTech drives Unaffordability😢

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 5h

Other possible scenario: This hardworking couple struggled to make ends meet, and found themselves in debt to entities who showed up to Collect. Either way—heartbreaking. 😔

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 5h

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 5h

Tragic. Paula Truong is an alumni of my HS, Abraham Lincoln in #SF. Her husband, Tom Ocheltree, is from #Woodland in #Sacramento region. Awaiting more details but it appears they had debt (and possibly other burdens) that led them to end their lives—and their two kids. sfstandard.com/2025/10/08/f...

Four found dead in San Francisco home, police investigating as possible homicide

Police have deemed the incident as a suspicious death.

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 6h

Great talk btwn @marcmaron.bsky.social and MATT GROENING, creator of “The Simpsons” and the grimly hilarious “Life is Hell” underground comic that I got hooked on in the late ‘80s. Fun to learn that #Groening grew up in PortlandOR—and that his dad was an Ad Man podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Episode 1684 - Matt Groening

Podcast Episode · WTF with Marc Maron Podcast · 10/06/2025 · 1h 16m

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 7h

Wait — they’re letting Dementia Don post and or DM on his own? Whatever happened to the WH Social Comms team? (Sarcastic rhetorical Q 🤣🙄)

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7h

Remember that "Pam: I have reviewed ..." TruthSocial post from Trump, the one that looked a lot like a private message?

Yes, it was supposed to be a private message.

Trump "was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 7h

Lots of NYT staffers, editors and biz office people are Harvard alumni.

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 9h

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 9h

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 10h

Please see our statement on the unauthorized use of our logo to create a false story by City Council candidate Johnathan Rinaldi.

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 10h

PS: I grew up in a #WestOfTwinPeaks middle-class neighborhood in which #JuniperoSerraBlvd was one of the main thoroughfares: not until college at SFStateU did I learn the full, terrible true history of the “Mission System” that #FatherJuniperoSerra help establish across #NorCal in the 18th Century🥺

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 10h

Great news! That super-creepy statue of #FatherJuniperoSerra—one of my home state’s first European Colonizers who led a reign of terror on Indigenous people here —has finally been removed. For nearly my entire life, this Blight loomed above HWY280 near where I grew up. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

26-foot-tall Bay Area freeway icon removed after 50 years

The statue of Junipero Serra was made of concrete and steel.

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 11h

How about More of this kind of direct emphatic confrontation, please @thedemcoalition.bsky.social, thanks.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11h

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries get into it outside a news conference at the Capitol

(video via Rachel Schilke)

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 11h

omg this thread! @kashhill.bsky.social is “nicer” than me: note that she refrains from naming the airline. I honestly don’t get why they diverted the flight—couldn’t they have nabbed the guy after the plane arrived in NYC? Doesn’t sound like he was violent, he just tried to Scam a cheaper fare. 🛬👇🏾

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 15h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 11h

Good profile of #SF native Theo Ellington, a candidate for a seat of the #SF Board of Supervisors. sfstandard.com/2025/10/08/t...

Theo Ellington enters D10 supervisor race with big Bayview plans

Theo Ellington was in his 20s when he lost his first supervisor race. Now a family man with a vast network, the Bayview native is pitching a bold vision for the district and San Francisco’s historical...