Alex Wood, MPA, MSW
@aowood.bsky.social
Passionately curious! Books, 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪 politics, history, architecture, cities, transportation, public policy, etc. | ⛳️🏌🏼| ⚽🏟🔱 fan | Alumnus of Goucher College, UGA & CUA | Chicagoland➡️Baltimore. RT&F≠E T=M. (Not really Yakko Warner).
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This incredible story only happens because the kids live in a walkable town with a train station.
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This incredible story only happens because the kids live in a walkable town with a train station.
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This is incredibly dangerous.
Trump is now calling the New York Times a national security threat and says they “must be dealt with and stopped.”
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is incredibly dangerous.
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Caleb Williams x Celine Dion mashup
December 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Caleb Williams x Celine Dion mashup
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A majority of Americans say the cost of living in their area is unaffordable, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A majority of Americans say the cost of living in their area is unaffordable, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.
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Rob and Michele Reiner were tragically killed, and their loved ones now face unimaginable grief.
The President of the United States should be a healer and a uniter — it is a sad moment indeed to instead see this from President Trump.
The President of the United States should be a healer and a uniter — it is a sad moment indeed to instead see this from President Trump.
December 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Rob and Michele Reiner were tragically killed, and their loved ones now face unimaginable grief.
The President of the United States should be a healer and a uniter — it is a sad moment indeed to instead see this from President Trump.
The President of the United States should be a healer and a uniter — it is a sad moment indeed to instead see this from President Trump.
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The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week | Analysis
The solution to America’s affordability problem might be broken, too | CNN Business
The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week | Analysis
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One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
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we just went through a months-long cultural project where people lost their jobs for speaking ill of a dead man's politics
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
we just went through a months-long cultural project where people lost their jobs for speaking ill of a dead man's politics
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You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block President Trump’s construction of a large new ballroom on White House grounds, arguing that he violated at least four laws in bypassing any review process.
National Trust Sues to Block Trump’s White House Ballroom Construction
The lawsuit seeks to force President Trump to submit his ballroom plans for public review and input.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block President Trump’s construction of a large new ballroom on White House grounds, arguing that he violated at least four laws in bypassing any review process.
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Katy Tur: The President just gave the economy an A plus plus.
Me: "Wow, so grade inflation, huh?"
Me: "Wow, so grade inflation, huh?"
December 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Katy Tur: The President just gave the economy an A plus plus.
Me: "Wow, so grade inflation, huh?"
Me: "Wow, so grade inflation, huh?"
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The Dawgs run it back 🔥
With a 28-7 win, Georgia captures back-to-back SEC titles and defeats Alabama for the first time since 2021.
With a 28-7 win, Georgia captures back-to-back SEC titles and defeats Alabama for the first time since 2021.
December 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The Dawgs run it back 🔥
With a 28-7 win, Georgia captures back-to-back SEC titles and defeats Alabama for the first time since 2021.
With a 28-7 win, Georgia captures back-to-back SEC titles and defeats Alabama for the first time since 2021.
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Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
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The entire U.S. population is in the low hundreds of millions (340m), meaning that according to NoemMath, nearly all of us were on track for a cocaine-related death. I am so grateful to have been saved.
Noem: You have saved hundreds of millions of lives with the Cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean
December 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The entire U.S. population is in the low hundreds of millions (340m), meaning that according to NoemMath, nearly all of us were on track for a cocaine-related death. I am so grateful to have been saved.
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I write parodies! When you donate to charities! #GiftIdeas tinyurl.com/hwtylda
Parodies for Charities!
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December 8, 2024 at 8:35 PM
I write parodies! When you donate to charities! #GiftIdeas tinyurl.com/hwtylda
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Costs (the money needed to provide an education) have risen. Prices (what students pay) have been at or below inflation for the past decade. That doesn't get nearly enough attention.
NPR folks, you know where to find me.
NPR folks, you know where to find me.
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Costs (the money needed to provide an education) have risen. Prices (what students pay) have been at or below inflation for the past decade. That doesn't get nearly enough attention.
NPR folks, you know where to find me.
NPR folks, you know where to find me.
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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U.S. elections are sending a consistent message: Americans are deeply frustrated with their government’s inability to solve problems. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4hXdx88
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
U.S. elections are sending a consistent message: Americans are deeply frustrated with their government’s inability to solve problems. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4hXdx88
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The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
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No, President Obama is not getting “royalties” from Obamacare
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
No, President Obama is not getting “royalties” from Obamacare
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me
-- Me
October 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
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Posting again for the Monday crowd.
Lemme speak with directness and a sense of urgency about our most important economic threats, and what history teaches us about moments like this.
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Posting again for the Monday crowd.
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President Trump and Governor Abbott have illegally sent the Texas National Guard into the sovereign state of Illinois over the objections of Governor Pritzker.
This is a frightening and unconstitutional escalation.
This is a frightening and unconstitutional escalation.
October 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
President Trump and Governor Abbott have illegally sent the Texas National Guard into the sovereign state of Illinois over the objections of Governor Pritzker.
This is a frightening and unconstitutional escalation.
This is a frightening and unconstitutional escalation.