Mark Allen
@markingalveston.bsky.social
Engineer, Islander, cyclist, amateur astronomer, fisherman, guitarist… I’m complex but I’m still me and you’re you.
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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Yeah, this is what I wrestle with -- a college freshman today was only nine when Trump first ran for president. They've grown up with him as a baseline, not an aberration.
It's odd for me to realize that my first-year undergraduates are at an age where they don't really remember that there was a form of US politics prior to Donald Trump. For them, Trump is not an aberration from the normal course of political discourse, but just how US politics is done.
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Yeah, this is what I wrestle with -- a college freshman today was only nine when Trump first ran for president. They've grown up with him as a baseline, not an aberration.
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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ICE is lying. Go figure
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
ICE is lying. Go figure
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This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
September 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
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Gotta hand it to the artist.
August 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Gotta hand it to the artist.
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CNBC on the new inflation report: "3.1 percent on year over year core. Definitely hotter than expected."
August 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
CNBC on the new inflation report: "3.1 percent on year over year core. Definitely hotter than expected."
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The meteorologists did their job
Local officials did not and are currently shirking responsibility in broad daylight
www.wired.com/story/meteor...
Local officials did not and are currently shirking responsibility in broad daylight
www.wired.com/story/meteor...
Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas
DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk.
www.wired.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The meteorologists did their job
Local officials did not and are currently shirking responsibility in broad daylight
www.wired.com/story/meteor...
Local officials did not and are currently shirking responsibility in broad daylight
www.wired.com/story/meteor...
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We must call this out.
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BREAKING: 27 dead after Trump cuts blindside Texas
According to officials, this was entirely preventable.
open.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We must call this out.
open.substack.com/pub/americam...
open.substack.com/pub/americam...
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Trump and Elon made massive cuts to all US weather tracking and warning systems in the spring of 2025.
Trump on the Texas floods: "It's terrible. The floods? It's shocking. They don't know the answer yet as to how many people, but it looks like some young people have died."
July 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Trump and Elon made massive cuts to all US weather tracking and warning systems in the spring of 2025.
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Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
June 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
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Nobody tell Elon that “the guy I got elected president is a child rapist and I’ve known it all along” is not the sick own he thinks it is.
June 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Nobody tell Elon that “the guy I got elected president is a child rapist and I’ve known it all along” is not the sick own he thinks it is.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
May 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will
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I am a big fan of my latest newsletter edition, some relevant but somewhat hopeful reading for the weekend. Bite-sized!
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/keta...
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/keta...
Ketamine Jesus
A high-functioning ketamine messiah, apostles, and the limits of “functioning.” Also: Past Due and Space the Nation updates.
newsletter.anamariecox.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I am a big fan of my latest newsletter edition, some relevant but somewhat hopeful reading for the weekend. Bite-sized!
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/keta...
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/keta...
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"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"
Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
December 27, 2024 at 5:41 PM
"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"
Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
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Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’
Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac.
This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽
Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac.
This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽
April 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’
Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac.
This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽
Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac.
This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽
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The plan for tariffs was threaten them and other countries would go "oh sir, we're so scared, we'll do anything" and the news would be filled with deals and the rest would flood US coffers.
Wasn't supposed to raise prices, disrupt supply chains, and crash the economy. That's what the experts warned.
Wasn't supposed to raise prices, disrupt supply chains, and crash the economy. That's what the experts warned.
This furious reaction is a reminder that the reckoning for Trump's tariffs is about to crash down on the US economy and they know it.
Any Democrat with any sense at all should be talking nonstop *now* about how it's all Trump's fault because they're going to be pushing back hard when it happens.
Any Democrat with any sense at all should be talking nonstop *now* about how it's all Trump's fault because they're going to be pushing back hard when it happens.
April 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The plan for tariffs was threaten them and other countries would go "oh sir, we're so scared, we'll do anything" and the news would be filled with deals and the rest would flood US coffers.
Wasn't supposed to raise prices, disrupt supply chains, and crash the economy. That's what the experts warned.
Wasn't supposed to raise prices, disrupt supply chains, and crash the economy. That's what the experts warned.
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Jeff Bezos is Trump's bitch.
ROBERTS: I understand there might've been a phone call from the president to Jeff Bezos on this this morning
STEPHEN MILLER: I have no news to add on it. All I can say is things worked out exactly as they should.
STEPHEN MILLER: I have no news to add on it. All I can say is things worked out exactly as they should.
April 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Jeff Bezos is Trump's bitch.
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- Hosts his home state Buckeyes after they win the College Football Championship
- Trophy falls apart the moment he touches it
- Diplomatically pressures the Vatican into meeting with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday
- Pope Francis dies twelve hours later
- Trophy falls apart the moment he touches it
- Diplomatically pressures the Vatican into meeting with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday
- Pope Francis dies twelve hours later
April 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
- Hosts his home state Buckeyes after they win the College Football Championship
- Trophy falls apart the moment he touches it
- Diplomatically pressures the Vatican into meeting with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday
- Pope Francis dies twelve hours later
- Trophy falls apart the moment he touches it
- Diplomatically pressures the Vatican into meeting with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday
- Pope Francis dies twelve hours later
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Please let JD Vance killed the Pope become the new JD Vance fucked a couch.
April 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Please let JD Vance killed the Pope become the new JD Vance fucked a couch.
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here are my 10 new entries. if any of these are your senators, prep for a primary, won't you?
1) Durbin
2) King
3) Schatz
4) Schumer
5) Cortez Masto
6) Fetterman
7) Peters
8) Hassan
9) Gillibrand
10) Shaheen
1) Durbin
2) King
3) Schatz
4) Schumer
5) Cortez Masto
6) Fetterman
7) Peters
8) Hassan
9) Gillibrand
10) Shaheen
any democrat votes for this they go to the top of my arya stark list
BREAKING: Trump and Republican leadership in Congress admit they are incapable of passing their own budget for NINE FREAKING MONTHS because they take a fuck-ton number of days off so they can perform angertainment spectacles, Trump can play golf, and because they hate each other.
March 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
here are my 10 new entries. if any of these are your senators, prep for a primary, won't you?
1) Durbin
2) King
3) Schatz
4) Schumer
5) Cortez Masto
6) Fetterman
7) Peters
8) Hassan
9) Gillibrand
10) Shaheen
1) Durbin
2) King
3) Schatz
4) Schumer
5) Cortez Masto
6) Fetterman
7) Peters
8) Hassan
9) Gillibrand
10) Shaheen
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🚨TODAY’S REVISED ACTION ITEM: IT’S TIME TO CHUCK SCHUMER! Sign the petition to demand Chucky step down. #timesup #newleadershipnow
www.change.org/p/boycott-co...
Thank you @charlotteclymer.bsky.social
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Thank you @charlotteclymer.bsky.social
Sign the Petition
Boycott Contributions to Senate Democrats Until Chuck Schumer Steps Down
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March 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🚨TODAY’S REVISED ACTION ITEM: IT’S TIME TO CHUCK SCHUMER! Sign the petition to demand Chucky step down. #timesup #newleadershipnow
www.change.org/p/boycott-co...
Thank you @charlotteclymer.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/boycott-co...
Thank you @charlotteclymer.bsky.social