Olivia Alperstein

@oliviaalperstein.bsky.social

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Communications professional out here fighting the good fight. Deputy communications director, Institute for Policy Studies. She/her. I post on behalf of myself not any org. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.

Image of a graphic with the report title "Billionaire Blowback on Housing: How Concentrated Wealth Disrupts Housing Markets and Worsens the Housing Affordability Crisis" with light blue background and logos of IPS and Popular Democracy. Illustration up top shows a person in black silhouette standing on a green background with multiple small houses on their side, while on the other side of a crack, multiple people stand in silhouette next to only one house.
Image of Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard from the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," wearing a black and red captain's uniform and raising his right hand in a pointing gesture, with large text at the bottom of the image that reads, "Make it so." Picard is a middle-aged bald man with pale complexion, with a determined facial expression. I do not own the rights to this image. No copyright infringement intended.
A screenshot of the main villains from the movie Spaceballs (a spoof of Star Wars) aboard their space vessel. They are panicking- the President in a grey three-piece suit, Dark Helmet in a black Vader-like helmet with a tie, and the Colonel Sandurz in a pilot's cap and grey uniform. Each is shouting to the other, "Do something!"
Screenshot of article from Politico, with heading "No Defensible Argument": Anger boils over at CEO pay. Featured photo is of a crowd of people carrying signs during the UAW strike. Caption reads: "The UAW claims that the Big Three automakers saw their average CEO pay increase by 40 percent in the last four years while union members got 6 percent raises."
Screenshot of Lucille Bluth, an older white woman in a black and tan-ish patterned jacket and black necklace, from the TV show "Arrested Development". I do not own any rights to the image.
Painting depicting the Great Fire in Rome in 64 AD by Hubert Robert. The oil painting vividly depicts yellow and orange flames and smoke engulfing columns in the background under a dark sky, while in the foreground women and children flee in dark silhouettes, some atop a stone bridge near marble buildings, others running to safety near boats of some kind.