AmyAlexCA
@amyalexca.bsky.social
Fact-based Public Trust Communicator and Storyteller. https://www.amyalexanderink.com/
Thanks to Idiot, Corrupt 47 defanging #CISA and the #EPA, get ready for “Boil Water” advisories in your town! 🤦🏽♀️ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect
Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.
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For the millionth time: No honor among #MAGA thieves and crooks. #PackItInPirro www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Blanche Defends Pirro but Says Trump Can Fire Her at Any Time
The head of the Justice Department praised the U.S. attorney in Washington after her tense meeting with the president.
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“These businesses aren't just wasting billions – they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society.” — @doctorow.pluralistic.net www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Whoopi Goldberg is one of the most talented Americans ever. One of the few performers to “EGOT” and the 1st Black Woman to do so—having won all 4 major U.S. entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Jennifer Hudson is the 2nd Black Woman and John Legend is the only Black man and to EGOT.✨
JP@johnathanperk.bsky.social · last yr.If you’ve never heard Whoopi Goldberg tell the story of how she came to be cast in the film adaptation of Dr. Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” you should definitely watch this. This right here. This Black Culture. This is Community. We are truly a remarkable people. 🖤🖤
Inter-connected layers of Self-Own here, all linked by a single stubborn Glue: White Gatekeepers + Owners in entertainment + Mass Comm sectors who are Culturally Incompetent (if not Racist.) Why did the #Ellison FailSon place this @nytopinion.nytimes.com? Who is Advising him re growth audience? 🤷🏽♀️
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h agoI spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...
Familiar dynamic re Black people: “Will Wagner, a [WM] electrician in Laramie, said he didn’t believe in the concept of MH until he woke up in a hospital after he shot himself. ‘I was taught that you didn’t cry, you didn’t talk about your feelings. If you had a problem, you just got over it.’” 👇🏾
Criming in Plain Sight — and daring the U.S. Taxpayers to do anything to protest. #Impunity #CrooksLiars&ThievesLLC
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h agoBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
Tough test! Off the top of my head, there are two, IMO: Carole King’s “Tapestry.” 1973 Prince’s “Prince.” 1979
Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 21h agoWhat's the best second album ever released by an artist or band?
Exactly! This is the main Q: “What’s the point of having all that vaunted ‘access’ to Trump and the White House if reporters won’t acknowledge, investigate and address the extent of Trump’s connection to reality?” — @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump's grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there | Press Watch
Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional.
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“Chicago should be a warning sign to the rest of the country. If this model spreads, public access to home listings could become a fallback rather than the default. We risk breeding the kind of widespread inequity that harkens back to redlining.”
The Next Fight for Fair Housing Is Online
“The growing acceptance of private listing networks by powerful real estate interests signals a shift in how the market operates,” warns Derrick Johnson.
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Sure, but Corrupt, Idiotic, Misogynistic 47 loves him so here we are 🤦🏽♀️
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:
Alleged emotional abuse AND physical abuse of his toddler daughter! #MaxMiller needs to lose shared custody of that child, along with his job! 🥺
Adam Mockler@adammockler.com · yesterdayMax Miller Held a Toddler's Stuffed Bunny Hostage
Splendid literary analysis and cinematic criticism here from Emily Wilson: I’m no expert in the many iterations of #TheOdyssey texts, but she surfaces and contextualizes aspects that gave me faint sense of Let Down I felt after I watched #Nolan’s epic recently. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.
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This is the story of how a group of perfectly ordinary neighbors took on one of the worst landlords in New York. And won. Introducing, the Union of Pinnacle Tenants: the short film. Watch the full film: youtu.be/h5dvGKI26ZA
When I say my hometown is Down Bad “thanks” to the surfeit of craven #AI startups…🥺 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
These Employees Like Their A.I. Boss. Its Shop Is Kind of a Disaster.
A new study of a bot running a first-of-its-kind San Francisco store finds it is really friendly, but not very smart.
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This part! “The attacks [on local water infrastructure], tentatively attributed to Iran, expose a dangerous mismatch at the heart of American cybersecurity: The threat is geopolitical, while the defense is municipal.” — Jen Easterly, former #CISA Chief www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | Small Towns Shouldn’t Have to Defend America’s Water Supply From Iran
Local communities need Washington’s help to fight foreign hackers.
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My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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New York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AI reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-yor...
New York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AI
When Malachy Browne started piecing together videos of the Arab Spring in early 2011, he wasn’t thinking about building a new kind of journalism. He was just trying to figure out what was real.What be...
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Obviously, the non-American world has a digital sovereignty problem - Trump has means, motive and opportunity to order his tech companies to shut down any public official, large corporation, or individual who displeases him: pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/t... 1/
The Technology Freedom Cooperative is a brand new organization founded by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (San Francisco), Kilómetro 0 (Puerto Rico), Invisible Institute (Chicago), Data Cívica (Mexico) and Innocence & Justice Louisiana: www.linkedin.com/pulse/techfr... 15/
#TechFreedomCoop
Human Rights Organizations Launch Technology Freedom Cooperative to Protect Critical Data and Build Independent AI Infrastructure New cooperative will provide technical infrastructure for organization...
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Praying that the check clears. 🙏🏾 #SpokaneWA
Gov. Bob Ferguson@governorferguson.bsky.social · yesterdayThe federal government granted my request in full for an emergency declaration to help cities, counties, the state and tribes fight our record setting wildfires, with the exception of debris removal. We have support for emergency shelters, food and water, search and rescue. Read more here:
Neat, Dave. The deal still shouldn’t go through.
Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal (Gift Article)
The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN
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“There’s a wide gap btwn expressing concern and picking apart someone’s appearance for sport. A lot of the loudest commentary online falls firmly into the second category. Trolls don’t need a real diagnosis to justify cruelty, they just need a headline-worthy body to mock..” — @thatericalper.com
Let’s see what happens over the next month or so. Pretty sure there are lots of craven Male #MAGA lawyers inside 47’s inner-circle who are now in a frenzied Lobbying Campaign to *convince* Corrupt, Misogynistic 47 that they would never have “betrayed him like Pirro did.” 🫠 bsky.app/profile/amya...
AmyAlexCA@amyalexca.bsky.social · 2d agoUpdate: today’s pic by @cnn.com of #Pirro towing file boxes out of 1600 doesn’t mean she’s immediately “fired,” per se. However, considering the MO of Misogynistic, Corrupt in such matters, it may happen in the coming days. See the respective TLs of when #Noem and #Bondi were each officially fired.
Update: today’s pic by @cnn.com of #Pirro towing file boxes out of 1600 doesn’t mean she’s immediately “fired,” per se. However, considering the MO of Misogynistic, Corrupt in such matters, it may happen in the coming days. See the respective TLs of when #Noem and #Bondi were each officially fired.
AmyAlexCA@amyalexca.bsky.social · 4d agoSo much for throwing Eyebrows Burgum under the bus: Pirro better start packing up her wine stash. 🤷🏽♀️