Jesse O’Connell
@oconnell.bsky.social
Advancement at the American Council on Education. Del Ray dad and 2x Hoya. Books, baseball, beer, higher ed, and all things Alexandria. Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
Public service announcement for all my Thursday trash day ALXers - there is no slide tomorrow, it’s Thurs morning like usual.
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Public service announcement for all my Thursday trash day ALXers - there is no slide tomorrow, it’s Thurs morning like usual.
Ideal night for the season’s first fire. Cozy vibes loading.
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ideal night for the season’s first fire. Cozy vibes loading.
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Excited to announce our AMP ALX 2025 music lineup featuring incredible local bands! 🎶 Join us on December 18 for an unforgettable night of community, food, and fun. Register today at a4alx.com/ampalx25 and be part of the celebration!
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Excited to announce our AMP ALX 2025 music lineup featuring incredible local bands! 🎶 Join us on December 18 for an unforgettable night of community, food, and fun. Register today at a4alx.com/ampalx25 and be part of the celebration!
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so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
Riley Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates are speaking out about the real problems on her team: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
ow.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
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We’re hiring!
The @NOVA_Parks team is looking to fix several important roles, including a new Park Manager at Brambleton Golf Course and part-time roles at parks throughout our system.
Apply today and join the best park authority on the planet!
novaparks.com/employment
The @NOVA_Parks team is looking to fix several important roles, including a new Park Manager at Brambleton Golf Course and part-time roles at parks throughout our system.
Apply today and join the best park authority on the planet!
novaparks.com/employment
Employment
novaparks.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We’re hiring!
The @NOVA_Parks team is looking to fix several important roles, including a new Park Manager at Brambleton Golf Course and part-time roles at parks throughout our system.
Apply today and join the best park authority on the planet!
novaparks.com/employment
The @NOVA_Parks team is looking to fix several important roles, including a new Park Manager at Brambleton Golf Course and part-time roles at parks throughout our system.
Apply today and join the best park authority on the planet!
novaparks.com/employment
Found a guy’s wallet on the ground yesterday and Miss Marple’d him down this morning by emailing a real estate agent whose business card was in the wallet, after Facebook didn’t turn up any leads. Feeling pretty pleased with my sleuthing efforts, and the guy was pumped to hear from me.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Found a guy’s wallet on the ground yesterday and Miss Marple’d him down this morning by emailing a real estate agent whose business card was in the wallet, after Facebook didn’t turn up any leads. Feeling pretty pleased with my sleuthing efforts, and the guy was pumped to hear from me.
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
“We are the Bears Shufflin' Crew.
Shufflin' on down, doin' it for you.
We're so bad, we know we're good.
Blowin' your mind like we knew we would.”
Shufflin' on down, doin' it for you.
We're so bad, we know we're good.
Blowin' your mind like we knew we would.”
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“We are the Bears Shufflin' Crew.
Shufflin' on down, doin' it for you.
We're so bad, we know we're good.
Blowin' your mind like we knew we would.”
Shufflin' on down, doin' it for you.
We're so bad, we know we're good.
Blowin' your mind like we knew we would.”
Haven’t loved this start. Spirit back line needs to settle.
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Haven’t loved this start. Spirit back line needs to settle.
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1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
Let’s goooooooo!!
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Let’s goooooooo!!
Guess we’re about to find out if McClean still has the pace for this level!
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Guess we’re about to find out if McClean still has the pace for this level!
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All of Bluesky this morning:
a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
Alt: a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
All of Bluesky this morning:
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can't believe ryan lizza is up against zamdani hypnotizing trump and mtg leaving congress and people are still going to pay to get past that paywall to read more about bamboo
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
can't believe ryan lizza is up against zamdani hypnotizing trump and mtg leaving congress and people are still going to pay to get past that paywall to read more about bamboo
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“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”:
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”:
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism