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Andy Lewis/The Optionist

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Looking for great IP? Read the Optionist on Substack. Also wrote the civil rights history The Shadows of Youth, UVA Phd, Hollywood Reporter alum, lapsed college prof, retired fencer, once on KUWTK

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think about this more often than I'd like to.
A side-by-side of two head shots: at left, Gavin Newsom smiles, baring top and teeth in a strange expression; at right, Elizabeth Holmes smiles in an oddly similar way.
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sorry Dan you're gonna have to wait another week or two to hoist Lincoln Riley's head on a pike. But fear not seems more likely than not to happen for you sometime this season
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh look, it's Reed, Johnny, Ben and Sue.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Payton looks like a Simpsons drawn character come to life, an extra from the famous baseball episode.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the kind research RFK, Jr. is hostile to. This is the cancer that killed his beloved uncle Ted Kennedy. The death cult doesn't care who it kills.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's the thing it's actually a GOP bailout of Big Sport, endorsed/promoted by college sports execs/coaches (football) at the expense of students, no matter how much lipstick on the pig. Might be marginally pop. in the deep red South but to extent it matters will alienate as many as it attracts.
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The first color TV hit stores #OTD in 1951. “Color TV will sweep the country!" said the head of CBS, whose proprietary technology was deemed superior by the FCC—even though it was incompatible w/ black & white TVs. Only 100 sets were sold—and CBS killed its color broadcasts 3 weeks later. #TVSky
CBS-Columbia 12CC2 Field Sequential Color Receiver (1951)
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's Make a Dealer. (I know it's TV. I just couldn't resist)
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please share. #Pinks
girlyfeminist girlyfeminist
l've been a SA advocate for decades:
NEVER go to campus resources for a SA. Call a rape care hotline/program (off campus), get a SA advocate (they're free), go to a SART hospital for care (and evidence collection if you choose).
They activate the police. Schools have NO business in this process and will minimize and bury it. It's a criminal matter, not an administrative matter.
Period. No exceptions.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nobody should take this article srsly. It's as much kicks for clicks as the original Globe story. The "story" is 95W% baseless speculation. There's a huge gap b/t a fun to read story & something adaptable for the screen, even as a doc. The lesbian bar story sits on the wrong side of that equation.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can we talk about the kits? It would be worth it for the merch alone imgur.com/a/states-cup...
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States' Cup Jerseys
Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and ...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An acute reminder that we don’t live in a free country as long as American tech oligarchs continue to maintain their power.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So (no surprise really) this will be in the style of Shakespeare in Elizabethan English. The original report was a miscommunication.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Quite a thread
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I didn't take it that way! Also, the confusion is from the source not the reporter.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I asked the reporter, a friend, to clarify this with their sources.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh, this is better. When I first saw it trending I read it as "Meryl Streep cast as ASIAN" and I thought, 'oh boy'
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NDSU’s punter might hold the record for kinds of cultural experience in a six year span
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Also this detail is amazing: "After this article was published, a family lawyer for Colonel Tejero Molina confirmed that he died at age 93 on Wednesday, the day of the release of the documents.)"
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
C'mon Phil you must know at least one academic who got denied tenure for those very same three reasons .. 😂
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh man, did I love those old-timey Pirates hats. Even being a Sox fan young me got one b/c I thought I was stylin'
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is an A+ event with lots of talent on stage. Harper's latest A Violent Masterpiece is a gem.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm a Sebastian Stan stan. He's carved out a great career, sought out challenging roles & really grown as an actor and in the couple times I've talked to him at parties low-key, interesting and unfailingly nice. I'll watch a movie b/c he's in it. www.vulture.com/article/seba...
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Sebastian Stan Wants the Hard Parts
The Marvel star is making risky career choices — most recently in the Cannes favorite Fjord.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I hope biographer Walter "Musk is the Great Man of our time" Isaacson and NYT"s Jeremy "what [Musk] stands for remains largely unclear" Peters are both forced to watch this documentary, then beg for our forgiveness.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Curious what were the honorable mention contenders besides The League? Good list, which of course just means I agree with the choices.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For long time I assumed good but now I wonder. And FYI you think Rahm is bad? Ari is 10x worse.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just to add to your excitement his brother Ari's memoir about being a super agent drops in three weeks. It's like the doublemint twins of bullshit hype cycles!
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 31/08/2026
What are the odds the same justices issue an emergency stay on a highly accelerated timeline blocking a Democratic president from demolishing it?
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Remember which company bent the knee to Trump (Google) and which company didn't (👇)
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'We're not changing it': SoCal-based Mapquest takes stand against Trump's 'Lake America'
Like a voice of dissent from 2005, the mapping site holds firm to Lake Ontario despite Trump's executive order stemming from his escalating trade war with Canada.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
your denials-of-care at work
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Jillian Sauers @jilliansauers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So excited to see #CoyoteVsAcme this weekend! It's had such a hard road, and Ketchup Entertainment deserves all the praise and box office rewards for rescuing it from David Zaslav chucking it into a bottomless pit
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If fat bear week isn't enough for you. (Look out Shark Week ....) www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
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Cast Your Vote for the Chunkiest Alpine Rodent During Colorado's First-Ever Fat Marmot Week
The inaugural competition puts eight yellow-bellied marmots head-to-head while shining a light on the science behind their seasonal weight gain and survival at high elevations
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hasn't been adapted for the screen since the early 80s (as a TV movie) and only on film once in 1916. (How do I know this? Because I went down this rabbit hole a while back in suggesting it to someone as good material for a movie)
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The email pitch for this asked "What if Bari's version of 60 minutes is better?" Sure, and pigs wil fly. There's basically zero chance it will be better. How do I know? Because we have *evidence* based on what's she's done so far. (Also I'm sick of journalists being contrarian for clicks)
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Bari Weiss Blew Up 60 Minutes. Now She Has to Fix it.
Inside her battles with the staff and her attempts to overhaul the show.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In Trump's world the NIH wouldn't fund this basic research, ICE would deport some of the researchers, and the FDA wouldn't approve the vaccine.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
All this because these guys can't take it that these "feminist pagan women" have been saying no to them for years
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
oh I've been down that exact same road. Made me realize how much of the subject had rubbed off on the chronicler.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Man, I can't believe Bari Weiss hasn't hired him yet to join 60 Minutes as a correspondent.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The problem w/this (& by extension larger attacks on hiring) is that it imagines some fantasy ranking of absolute quality-1 pt for this, 1/2 pt for that etc-not lots of factors (area of expertise, potential courses, next project) alongside race/gender (does dept not have many/any women or POC?)
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For example, lots of media hostile to segregationists both theorists like James Kilpatrick & elected officials that seemed out of step with broad post-war values & sympathetic to Black claims for inclusion w/in those values. But hostile to things like Black Power which seemed opposed to those values
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is the problem with trying to turn complicated nuanced history into a social media post. The start & finish of this are mostly right, the middle is not. How "the media" viewed the sweep of the "CRM" can't be captured like this but to say "largely hostile, indifferent at best" isn't right.
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I gotta say the media falls into this trap by too often interchangeably using "president" and "commander in chief" when talking about solely domestic things. Giving that term a wider meaning in a pernicious way. We've had "comander in chief" creep since Reagan (and Bush II) but it is out of hand now
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Andy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is the "baby shoes, never worn" of TV criticism. Everything about this episode and what's wrong with it in fewer words than I'm using to describe it.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Yet another story framed around Trump’s supposed anger rather than his incompetence. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
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An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders
Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 05/08/2026
We’re auctioning a limited number of MetroCard Vending Machines and MetroCard Express Machines! The auction is now open and offers must be received by Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8 pm EST. Learn more and bid on our website: mta.info/auction
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CBCC🔜NYCC @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"1982: Steven Spielberg & Jack Kirby Talk Comic Book Evolution" via Today. www.today.com/popculture/m...
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Steven Spielberg Predicted the Superhero Boom Back on TODAY in 1982
The comic book revolution was just getting started, but Spielberg and Jack Kirby knew superheroes were perfect for movies.
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Mark Ratledge @markratledge.com · 01/08/2026
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