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Alexandra Marshall

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Writer at Large, Air Mail; contributor, WSJ., FT How to Spend It, Vogue and other glossy pages. Middle-aged French country bumbling at alexandramarshall.substack.com. Presently very worried.

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So the fact that we bombed a girls elementary school, while likely using AI for targeting, is going to be a major headline story dominating American news coverage when exactly?

06.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 4099 πŸ” 1226 πŸ’¬ 149 πŸ“Œ 36

the problem with mells' protesting too much is that the shoe fits so beautifully well.

02.03.2026 11:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop Making Sense Sometimes the urge to make meaning can be counter-productive.

Shhhh. Everyone just shush.
alexandramarshall.substack.com/p/stop-makin...

01.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

she may have slept through that module.

27.02.2026 10:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

It's so rotten and awful it's hard to manage cognitively. And all the people who design our toys (social media, chatbots) are involved. Their fondest wish is to impoverish us and turn us into slaves. The brainwashing and slop we swim in now is just the start. Help.
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27.02.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you have no idea what my politics are. have a blessed day.

26.02.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what does that have to do with your responsibility to vote as an american? among other things, MLK led the fight FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO VOTE. that is by definition the first order of business in democracy. voting is now moderate?

26.02.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

voting for the lesser of two evils is not accepting the status quo, it is participating in democracy while we still have one. expecting any presidential candidate to be your twinsie and stamping your feet and not playing when you have a disagreement leaves everyone else to the wolves.

26.02.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

here is what happens every four years: two people (and sometimes one spoiler) run to lead america. you have the choice of two, maybe three, people. not participating is letting everyone else decide. maybe that's fine with you, your life is fine either way. i think that's sociopathic but do you.

26.02.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you have a very strange definition of both of those things.

26.02.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

not voting is a temper tantrum by people who don't realize that they have one of two options. not to choose out of purity or butthurt is an abdication of responsibility with real world harmful outcomes. GROW UP HOLD YOUR NOSE THINK OF THE MOST PRECARIOUS AMONG US AND PICK THE LEAST WORST OPTION.

26.02.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

is masculinity ok?

19.02.2026 04:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He tells us what he’ll do.
We laugh, then it happens.
He promised invasion; he invaded.
He promised troops at home; they’re here.
He promised retribution; prosecutors and investigators are now targets.
He seized ballots; he’s calling to seize elections.
This isn’t bluster; it’s a plan.
Stop laughing

03.02.2026 10:29 πŸ‘ 3892 πŸ” 1488 πŸ’¬ 196 πŸ“Œ 76

then they did a look-at-me flounce and announced they were leaving the platform.

03.02.2026 11:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Again: the release of the Epstein Files is meant as an establishment redo of #MeToo -- one in which the named parties suffer no consequences.

03.02.2026 10:11 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

first they make vaccines optional now this. MAHA is all about culling "the weak."

03.02.2026 10:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Where's Pam Bondi, defender of the sanctity of religious institutions?

02.02.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 252 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3

"in secret recording" = "ted sent it over in dropbox for a 2028 test run."

26.01.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tankard

24.01.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.

Any second now, I'm sure.

He was a white guy, if that helps?

Hello? NRA?

24.01.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 13233 πŸ” 3423 πŸ’¬ 314 πŸ“Œ 109
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Would be rather nice if a few more senior British politicians were willing to back Canada with the vehemence shown by Gabriel Attal

20.01.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 246 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

21.01.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 6900 πŸ” 1317 πŸ’¬ 348 πŸ“Œ 128
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We wish you a Merry #Caturday

17.01.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a big no-no in armed combat.

It’s like dressing up as a doctor or a nurse and then shooting someone.

If this is proven accurate, it’s 100% a war crime.

13.01.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 5893 πŸ” 2122 πŸ’¬ 323 πŸ“Œ 72

He’s trying.

13.01.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

people whose entire business is white supremacy tend not to like it when white ladies get shot in the face.

09.01.2026 11:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

SCOTUS retained the right to arbitrate their so-called presidential immunity. i don't see them making fair calls on anything a democratic president does.

09.01.2026 11:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus Christ it was five years ago. Time is moving too quickly. Also I'm a girl and math is hard.

06.01.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Four years ago, I was interviewed on BFMTV about 1/6. I told my interlocutor that it was the saddest day of my life as an Americanβ€”including living in NYC on 9/11β€”because it was us against us. The only worse day since then was Nov 6 2024, when we re-elected the POS that orchestrated it all.

06.01.2026 09:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Routine Appreciation It's 2026. Let’s get back to business.

Here is a little meditation on routines and rituals, intimate things that we can feel trapped by but that actually make us safe.
alexandramarshall.substack.com/p/routine-ap...

05.01.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0