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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

A haunted house but it’s just the creepy shit toddlers do 365 days a year

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Can someone get a family episode of The Bear around this stat?

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A smart friend of mine just noted that so often the real people and places that inspire incredible work get left behind, even when a movie or show makes it big. Sinners was awesome and the people of Clarksdale deserve to share in this moment ❤️

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Idk if it’s because I just binged all of Yellowstone or *gestures broadly at everything* but going outside with some whiskey and just screaming into the wilderness feels really appealing right now.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Like truly. The bar is in hell, just pick a thing that’s on fire (everything) and be bold about talking about it. Any amount of backbone and gumption is going to get you somewhere.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Absolutely wild to try to gaslight a journalist (and the country) when you’ve ALREADY been told that they’ve got Receipts. Proof. Timeline. Screenshots.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Literally that is what we are here for!

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In any case it all feels terrible and gross and is not actually the drama that folks want from their escapist popcorn reality. Fix it Andy!

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

And on the other side you have a woman who has said terrible stuff who never stops to actually express empathy for what her friend has gone through, but instead jumps to horror for herself that she has been publicly accused of knowing about the trauma and making a callous “joke” anyway.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This makes the whole thing on both sides feel terrible. Now the “villain” is a woman who is obviously coping with multiple traumas while also potentially overplaying her hand through lies to maintain star status on a show that demands drama in order to keep your job.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

When the big accusation about Ubah is shared, one of the very first things Ubah asks is whether or not it was on camera. That shifts central tension from a very normal “how could anyone think I would do that?” to“is Brynn maliciously trying to undermine Ubah’s reputation, brand, and livelihood?”

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

All season the question has been framed as whether Brynn is lying to stir the pot and fracture relationships. But really the question is as much about what they discuss and agree to on screen vs off and the betrayal breaking that code and damaging the brands they are all there to build and bolster

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We see the same explicit and frequent pulling back of the curtain happening throughout the entire season of RHONY culminating in a really strange finale that no one quite knows what to do with.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Lala’s growing panic about Ariana refusing to be near Tom and the constant discussion of the agreements and tradeoffs made to be in the cast and keep the storylines going made the central drama about the business of the show as much as the supposed relationships within it.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Scandoval was so epic because the whole framework exploded. The discovery didn’t happen on camera but social media replayed it in nearly real time, and the timeline was viewable. The personal and professional fallout were so deeply intertwined which was great tv until it wasn’t

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

That’s meaningful only because the premise of these shows rely on our ability to believe,at least minimally, that these folks have some level of unscripted relationship and we are bearing witness to at least a sliver of authenticity related to those relationships, especially around drama

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The questions all season about Brynn lying or not weren’t just questions about whether a liar was in their midst, it was about if and how on screen vs off screen interactions were being used and fudged to manipulate and inflame on screen storylines and to what end

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Scandoval and the fallout from that shattered the third wall and they cannot seem to put the genie back in the bottle, especially with newer casts. The RHONY finale is further proof of that amid pretty sad and disturbing storyline.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The world is on fire literally and figuratively but I still have *deep* analytical thoughts about the finale of RHONY and what it says about the fracturing of the Bravo reality genre for those who need that form of escapism.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🙏🏾 getting a lot of responses that this is a tough question to fully answer in the moment.

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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 10/01/2025

And what does wildfire smoke mean for Los Angeles' air quality, which is already the worst in the country? "Technically," notes @emilypont.bsky.social. "Wildfire smoke is completely unregulated."

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The New Age of Wildfire Is Overwhelming America’s Clean Air

A pre-print study from smoke researcher Marshall Burke and others shows how fires are eating into air quality gains.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Climate and environment journalists friends—who and what should I be following to understand air quality issues and the ability to be outside, especially as this pertains to tiny vulnerable respiratory systems. LA moms need guidance we can trust ❤️ @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social @edyong209.bsky.social

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adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Throughout Los Angeles, ash, smoke, wind & flames are rewriting the landscape & although less publicized, Black history. My latest gets into what is being lost, & how disaster-capitalism + the collapse of the insurance system will make it so much worse. capitalbnews.org/california-w...

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Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires

As multimillion-dollar mansions in celebrity enclaves dominate headlines, Black communities in Altadena face an uphill battle to rebuild their lives.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Official correction, stay safe yall

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The way everyone’s nerves are FRIED from that double false alarm alert

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Haha I made a concerted effort this year to test the girls out on my music so I didn’t get stuck with Disney songs and nursery rhymes every car ride 😂.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Big news: for the first time in 3 years there are NO brain melting kid songs anywhere on my Spotify wrapped 🏆🏆🏆

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

One short post to plug @capitalb.bsky.social as a candidate for your Giving Tuesday dollars. Non profit news, local news, and Black communities need your support. A donation to Capital B contributes to all three. 🖤 capitalbnews.fundjournalism.org/donate/?camp...

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

As someone who just went to Schwartz & Sandy’s on Saturday (🫣) I have too many deep thoughts about all the big Pump Rules news this week

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Was feeling very smug about not having this unhinged fight on in my house, but then @johnbminor.bsky.social got the remote.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You’ve been here for less that 10 minutes and already hating

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Devastating that I still have to add “long-suffering” in front of Knicks fan on this bio

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I heard we doing this for real this time.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

I’m so mad that I finished @joelanderson.bsky.social’s Clarence Thomas season of slow burn so quickly. I can’t stop thinking about what the Clarence shuffle must look like.

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

We'll be sharing our work here, and if you want to get more acquainted with us and our reporters, you should RSVP for Capital B Fest, our flagship virtual event happening Thursday, June 29. www.crowdcast.io/c/capital-b-fest

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Capital B Fest

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

👋🏾 Hey, y’all! Capital B is now on Bluesky!! If you don't know who we are, we're a Black-led local and national news organization reporting for Black communities across the country. Our first local newsroom is in Atlanta, and we're headed to Gary, Indiana, this fall!

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 08/06/2023

This Pump Rules reunion is next level. Golden Globe. Emmy.

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 03/06/2023

This tracks. @johnbminor.bsky.social was into it. I had no idea what was going on and walked away

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 30/05/2023

this is how nonprofit media companies think AND work 😉

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Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

This is so gross. If you want to reach the lucrative BIPOC market with an *authentic voice* you could…idk, just work with and pay BIPOC people.

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