Alexis Lloyd 🏳️🌈
@alexislloyd.bsky.social
Ethical design, weird machines, native Brooklynite. Designing at Google, alum of NY Times, Axios, Medium. She/her
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Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...
January 16, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
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Holly Hunter as Nahla Ake is quickly going to end up of my short list of favorite Starfleet captains.
Please note her chaotic bisexual chair usage.
Please note her chaotic bisexual chair usage.
January 17, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Holly Hunter as Nahla Ake is quickly going to end up of my short list of favorite Starfleet captains.
Please note her chaotic bisexual chair usage.
Please note her chaotic bisexual chair usage.
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Someone should explain to him why there are so few OBGYNs in Alabama.
Dr Oz: "Alabama has no OBGYNs in many of their counties, so they're doing something pretty cool. They're actually having robots do ultrasounds on these pregnant moms."
January 17, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Someone should explain to him why there are so few OBGYNs in Alabama.
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This paper is essential.
I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 17, 2026 at 1:52 AM
This paper is essential.
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The annual ICE budget — at $28 billion — is now larger than the annual budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons COMBINED. (Source: Bernie Sanders post)
And they want to INCREASE it?!
And they want to INCREASE it?!
January 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The annual ICE budget — at $28 billion — is now larger than the annual budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons COMBINED. (Source: Bernie Sanders post)
And they want to INCREASE it?!
And they want to INCREASE it?!
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
"To read a book in full, with your phone in another room and time allowed to stretch, is to opt out of a prevailing tempo. It is to choose immersion over interruption. It is to move at a speed the internet no longer recognizes."
thearchivists.substack.com/p/reading-as...
thearchivists.substack.com/p/reading-as...
Reading as pleasure and resistance in a culture that rewards urgency and distraction
Choosing books over scrolling, interior life in the age of constant interruption, and for the love of the gods, read something
thearchivists.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:08 PM
"To read a book in full, with your phone in another room and time allowed to stretch, is to opt out of a prevailing tempo. It is to choose immersion over interruption. It is to move at a speed the internet no longer recognizes."
thearchivists.substack.com/p/reading-as...
thearchivists.substack.com/p/reading-as...
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Minneapolis tonight.
January 15, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Minneapolis tonight.
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
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Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.
Annnnnddddd St Paul schools are closing next week for 2 days to prepare for virtual learning options.
January 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.
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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
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Lots of people quoting that Margaret Atwood line after Renee Good’s murder—“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”—and it’s making me feel a kind of gendered chauvinism. Imagine being so scared just of being laughed at.
As a small woman I think it’s pathetic to feel the need to carry a gun everywhere to feel safe. If I don’t feel the need how tf do these men that think they’re so big and tough.
January 15, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Lots of people quoting that Margaret Atwood line after Renee Good’s murder—“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”—and it’s making me feel a kind of gendered chauvinism. Imagine being so scared just of being laughed at.
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telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to
January 14, 2026 at 6:43 AM
telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to
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y'all may remember that Justice Amy Coney Barrett claimed to have no knowledge about how the government treats trans people, & said trans people had been subject to "relatively little" discrimination
y'all may not know that her skepticism had legal significance..
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...
y'all may not know that her skepticism had legal significance..
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...
This Is the History of Anti-Trans Bigotry Amy Coney Barrett Doesn’t Want to Talk About
Barrett thinks transgender people have been subjected to “relatively little” discrimination. This amicus brief aims to set the record straight.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
y'all may remember that Justice Amy Coney Barrett claimed to have no knowledge about how the government treats trans people, & said trans people had been subject to "relatively little" discrimination
y'all may not know that her skepticism had legal significance..
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...
y'all may not know that her skepticism had legal significance..
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...
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My 7yo niece came home from school with a drawing of herself fighting ice in her backyard with a knife
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
My 7yo niece came home from school with a drawing of herself fighting ice in her backyard with a knife
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He’s 21. Aunt says a DHS agent shot him in the face with a “less lethal” at close range, nearly severing an artery
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim.
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
He’s 21. Aunt says a DHS agent shot him in the face with a “less lethal” at close range, nearly severing an artery
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the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
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Whatever groups Good may or may not have been a part of have no bearing on what happened the day she was killed. Nor would her membership in any group justify her killing.
This is not an investigation. It's authoritarian propaganda.
This is not an investigation. It's authoritarian propaganda.
F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Whatever groups Good may or may not have been a part of have no bearing on what happened the day she was killed. Nor would her membership in any group justify her killing.
This is not an investigation. It's authoritarian propaganda.
This is not an investigation. It's authoritarian propaganda.
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This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
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Folks this was not a door to door search this house was being targeted. I'm not saying that door-to-door search is not happening but this was in my neighborhood I know exactly what happened they were targeting this house with a bullshit administrative warrant.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Folks this was not a door to door search this house was being targeted. I'm not saying that door-to-door search is not happening but this was in my neighborhood I know exactly what happened they were targeting this house with a bullshit administrative warrant.
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3. Mutual aid. There's going to be a TON of need in Minnesota in the near future, as the community tries to provide rent and food money for all the people who cannot safely leave their homes.
@riotousmuse.bsky.social has a thread of mutual aid asks:
bsky.app/profile/riot...
@riotousmuse.bsky.social has a thread of mutual aid asks:
bsky.app/profile/riot...
Thread of remote ways to support Minneapolis
Mpls Parents are raising funds for families at South HS impacted by ICE raids. Money will go towards food, necessary supplies, and rental assistance. We appreciate your love and solidarity during these difficult times. ❤️ Please share widely with friends and family! gofund.me/e32d501a3
January 11, 2026 at 10:41 PM
3. Mutual aid. There's going to be a TON of need in Minnesota in the near future, as the community tries to provide rent and food money for all the people who cannot safely leave their homes.
@riotousmuse.bsky.social has a thread of mutual aid asks:
bsky.app/profile/riot...
@riotousmuse.bsky.social has a thread of mutual aid asks:
bsky.app/profile/riot...