Alex Lober
@bigalober.bsky.social
Engineer in Training, hopeful literary mastermind at heart
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A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh
May 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh
“much yet” feels so wrong but I don’t have any other choice.
May 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“much yet” feels so wrong but I don’t have any other choice.
Can we stop with the normalization and matter of fact delivery of the term “unitary executive theory”? It’s a tyrant/dictator strategy and it cannot co-exist with our representative democracy.
April 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Can we stop with the normalization and matter of fact delivery of the term “unitary executive theory”? It’s a tyrant/dictator strategy and it cannot co-exist with our representative democracy.
I need to up my #whitelotus comedic takes to balance out my steady stream of #slideintodictatorship skeets.
March 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I need to up my #whitelotus comedic takes to balance out my steady stream of #slideintodictatorship skeets.
I cannot recommend this piece enough. open.substack.com/pub/annehele...
This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World
The Twilight of the American Passion Job
open.substack.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I cannot recommend this piece enough. open.substack.com/pub/annehele...
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I went to the tesla protest for a thing I'm working on and I talked to several onlookers - not protesters - and asked them what they knew about Elon and Doge and I'm telling you people don't know
March 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I went to the tesla protest for a thing I'm working on and I talked to several onlookers - not protesters - and asked them what they knew about Elon and Doge and I'm telling you people don't know
Please Europe, just boot us out of NATO and accept Ukraine. What I just saw in the Oval Office was pathetic and emblematic of the next 4 years.
February 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Please Europe, just boot us out of NATO and accept Ukraine. What I just saw in the Oval Office was pathetic and emblematic of the next 4 years.
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so hey did we get those litterboxes out of the school bathrooms or did someone eat all the relevant cats or where are we on this
February 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
so hey did we get those litterboxes out of the school bathrooms or did someone eat all the relevant cats or where are we on this
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Another sandwich combination has been officially banned for life: herby garlic chicken, wheat bread, mayo, Muenster cheese and bbq sauce.
February 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Another sandwich combination has been officially banned for life: herby garlic chicken, wheat bread, mayo, Muenster cheese and bbq sauce.
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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE
February 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE
It’s pronounced “doggie” committee. Don’t validate them by using their pronunciation.
February 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It’s pronounced “doggie” committee. Don’t validate them by using their pronunciation.
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Gangster capitalism.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
February 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Gangster capitalism.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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you’re saying it’s only a penny for a hot cross bun…wait, you can get 2 for a penny?
February 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
you’re saying it’s only a penny for a hot cross bun…wait, you can get 2 for a penny?
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Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
February 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
The senate confirmation process is the dumbest thing I ever witnessed. What was the point of the endless “well maybe they will block [unqualified doofus]” articles?
I know it was just for ads, but from a bigger picture view, why??
I know it was just for ads, but from a bigger picture view, why??
February 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The senate confirmation process is the dumbest thing I ever witnessed. What was the point of the endless “well maybe they will block [unqualified doofus]” articles?
I know it was just for ads, but from a bigger picture view, why??
I know it was just for ads, but from a bigger picture view, why??
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The amount of dissociation required to sit at my computer and do my job while our entire system of government implodes is feeling increasingly untenable
February 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The amount of dissociation required to sit at my computer and do my job while our entire system of government implodes is feeling increasingly untenable
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“Two weeks into a fast-moving coup by a South African tech oligarch, the USA hangs suspended this weekend in a liminal state between the constitutional republic it has been for 249 years and an authoritarian regime akin to Europe’s fallen democracy, Hungary.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...
White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta
A second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Two weeks into a fast-moving coup by a South African tech oligarch, the USA hangs suspended this weekend in a liminal state between the constitutional republic it has been for 249 years and an authoritarian regime akin to Europe’s fallen democracy, Hungary.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...
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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
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This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.
We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
February 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.
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February 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Holy shit.
“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.
Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”
Follow the money.
“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.
Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”
Follow the money.
February 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Holy shit.
“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.
Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”
Follow the money.
“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.
Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”
Follow the money.
The “tariffs” and Trump Gaza are the waving hands distraction from the destruction of the federal agencies happening now.
February 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The “tariffs” and Trump Gaza are the waving hands distraction from the destruction of the federal agencies happening now.