MK Alexander

MK Alexander

@smartreads.bsky.social

Longtime Author. I write genre fiction for a small niche market: Readers who are smart, well-educated, and have a robust sense of humor. https://www.amazon.com/stores/MK-ALEXANDER/author/B009BDR7OO

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I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

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Replying to @politiburb.bsky.social

No. This is dooming for nothing. Lula *did* end up cruising to re-election, it was called an hour after polls closed. The fact that he managed to pull that off when everything was pointing to a Bolsanaro win is not terrifying, it's inspiring. Stop looking at things through the worst possible lens.

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Absolutely searing story from the New York Times on an Oklahoma family struggling to pay their utility bills and avoid having their power shut off, as climate change drives record heat and the local electric company invests in data center growth: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/u...

nytimes.comThis Is What America’s Utility Bill Crisis Looks LikeRecord heat and a rising demand for electricity are closing in on Oklahoma families trying to keep the lights on and the AC running.

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Yep stop blaming social media for all the world ills Regulate the billionaires, tax them Stop the Murdochs from continuing their misogyny racism and general depravity

What hope have we got to turn things around when we have Lachlan Murdoch’s #NewsCorpse running this sort of stuff just days after an horrific deliberate attack on a beloved politician Do they even have a line that they’d never cross?

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