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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The Big Short is my go-to comfort delivery system during times of anxiety. It's not *cozy*, but the performances, writing, direction, sound editing & music, and its combo of bleak humor w/righteous indignation all hit the sweet spot when I wanna laugh, get indignant, & have my worldview validated.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This. If people publically posting snarky/joyful stuff are under the impression that the movement that adored Kirk doesn't contain enough psychos to use this as a trigger for a bloodbath against our own left-leaning public figures... y'all are insanely shortsighted. This is a solemn, scary moment.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

What happened today is awful. People who fight against gun violence, people who loathe what Charlie Kirk stood for, must also condemn political violence. It’s a vicious cycle. This is a very dangerous moment.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Oh no! Tragic for his family, friends, colleagues & fans. #TristanRogers was an idol of my teen years & beyond. His skill & charm made his Robert Scorpio sharp, brave, quirky, cool & often the highlight of every scene. Easily in my pantheon of top 3 male soap characters. Awful year for soap vets.

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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wooden door .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wooden door .

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Sadly, the real corpse--non-sensationalistic soap storytelling itself--was never dug back up again. Ave atque vale, #DaysofourLives.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Absolutely right. Jesus, and the guy you're responding to is a former prosecutor who should bloody well know better than to make such a blanket statement.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Amid all the vitriol (absolutely justified), that one "Bless him" was like a shaft of light beaming from his dad.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Hi Tarrell! Mostly, I just wish to God saying goodbye hadn't been necessary. Drake Hogestyn had charm, class, humor & not-too-shabby looks. He pulled off John's gothic hero phase w/Isabella (fav pairing) beautifully & passionately. Saying farewell onscreen must've been torture for the cast. #DAYS

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Gotcha. I just meant to explain why I wanted to focus on something that meant a lot to me (& a small group of others too). J&I were my favorite soap pair. (Used to be Jack/Jen but w/decades of mistreatment... a girl can only take so much!) As I mentioned in my OP, yours was a 💗💔💗 tribute! Lovely.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Of course! Good lord, I would expect no less. Who said otherwise?

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Beautiful tribute to Drake and John Black. Since most are focusing on one family, I'm gonna focus on the little family John had for too brief a time; the one I knew and loved best: John and Isabella--and, of course, Brady. #DAYS www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFMG...

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John and Isabella: The Dance

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The only way they'll take em dashes away is from my cold dead hands. I use them like others use commas. It takes more than an em dash to be an AI "tell," and if professors don't recognize it, shame on them.

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Local Counsel @localcounsel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Is he dead yet asked Pigglet
No says Pooh
Fuck says Pigglet

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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I’m devastated to hear my friend of 50 years has passed. Just spoke to her 2 days ago & she was her usual feisty, hysterically funny self. This is a hard one. I was her 1st house guest in her new home in 1975 & helped her paint her NYC apartment. Just heartbroken. So hard to lose old friends.💔💔💔

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Ooh followed by my belle idéale, which I'm not sure is correct French... but screw it, Isabella was Italian anyway, and the "Belle" pun makes it worth it. Thanks for passing these along, @70judyjack.bsky.social -- gave me a happy little memory boost on this kinda gloomy Sunday. #DAYS #Daysofourlives

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Just because Matthew's face makes me smile and drags me back to the delightful heydays of my crushiest of all actor crushes. My beau idéal for sure. No one could hold a candle to him. #DAYS #JnJ #Daysofourlives

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I believe that's Occidental College's hillside theater?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

JALEN BRUNSON

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white. by Stephen Miller

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Kim Lerner @kimclerner.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Who benefits from SNAP in NY State? Millions do!

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

NEW: Another Skadden attorney has resigned in protest, citing the law firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump. “Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.

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Dear colleagues and friends,
I just spoke to many of you. Thank you for listening. I am writing to let you know that I am leaving this firm.
There was a time when my employment here was so unlikely. For much of my early childhood, I was not a good student. I struggled to focus in class and take anything (other than my friendships) seriously.
But even then, there was one subject I loved: history. I thought it was so wonderful to learn about all that came before me, about the triumphs and tragedies, about the moments of individual bravery and collective complacency. And I loved recognizing the patterns in the stories across time and space. This rhyming nature of history informed and continues to inform my deeply held belief-that self-evident truth-that all humans are created equal. And that our individual differences are the product of our times and circumstances, and that who we are is shaped by what we choose to do.
While learning about these stories, many of them avoidable tragedies, I would often imagine myself faced with the same dilemmas. What would I do if I was there? Would I do the right thing? It always felt like there was no way to know.

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I believe, as I know many of you do, that what the current presidential administration is doing is wrong. That we are sliding into an autocracy where those in power are above the rule of law. Skadden's agreement with the Trump administration sent our country deeper down this descent.
I am sure some of you will question my decision and chalk it up to me being a young attorney too eager to throw his career away. I am sure there will also be those of you who will think of me as naïve.
But there was a time when I sincerely believed that this place was committed to its true pro bono causes and diversity initiatives, even though these things may not always be lucrative, because it believed these things would make the world, and this firm, a better place. Having held itself out as a champion for these values, for this firm to turn its back on them so suddenly and so easily was shameful. I am embarrassed to work here. How can Skadden represent others when it can't even stand up for itself?

It has also become clear to me that this firm no longer tolerates open discourse. Ahead of Friday's announcement, the firm took preemptive action to silence critics by covertly limiting our access to firmwide distribution lists. This was a clear effort to silence criticism of the firm's decision.
The consequences of Skadden's agreement with the Trump administration go beyond our own firm. It legitimized behavior that threatens our democracy.
As lawyers, we have an obligation to uphold the rule of law. This responsibility does not end when profits are threatened by a burgeoning autocracy.
I am making this decision to leave even though I was happy here. I have made so many great friends at this firm and learned from many great mentors.
Thank you so much, I will miss you all dearly. And I am making this decision knowing that not everyone can leave as readily as I can, that many of you have families who depend on the income you earn here—I do not mean to shame you into leaving, only to explain my decision.
Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed.
Sincerely,
Thomas Sipp

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thank you, Steve. Imagine, all this sudden letter-of-the-law BS from a guy who still believes he can declassify documents just by thinking about it.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Chilling. I'm reminded of the scene in Schindler's List where the concentration camp workers are meant to be transported back to Schindler's factory & relative safety. While the men arrive, the women/children are taken on a separate train "accidentally" rerouted to Auschwitz.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I bet tons of webserials exist (specifically soap or soap-adjacents like romance, mystery, gothics, etc.) that I've never seen 'cause I'm too insular. I wouldn't dare categorize them as major or minor! :) Anyway sorry to be pedantic. I hope 2025 is about flourishing, rebirths & discovery! 2/2

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

HIya! Thrilled to see new/reboots in a genre that's seemed relatively static. But *was* it static? I'm too ignorant to know. I hesitate to call it a renaissance when I personally know little of the canvas at large. There could be burgeoning projects but I just haven't found them yet. 1/2

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Also beware of "globalist" and "elite," but more people know about those. "East coast liberals" is a yellow light: proceed with caution.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

You should do what you feel comfortable with, it's your belief system. But if you think nobody treats Black people who rethink their policies this way, say hi to Michael Steele and Tara Setmeyer, former asshat pro-Bush Black Republicans now more than lauded for getting some sense.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

#BTG deserves its flowers for sure. Still, after a year of intense hype & PR, it'd take a serious nationwide grid outage for its premiere month NOT to beat #GH. The hope is that it keeps the momentum. Networks have long needed to treat their soaps like real TV shows, not afterthoughts.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Yeah. But mostly this is mostly on the dumbasses who didn't vote for Kamala Harris in 2024. Whether they voted for Trump, Stein, or some other nonsense, none of this happens without those millions of people. Don't let them disclaim their responsibility.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Can't believe they left Democracy out of the In Memoriam montage.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize for Volodymyr Zelenskyy starts here.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Good lord and it's not even an expansion of the original story, it's a straight-up sequel. Thefts of Egyptian mummies and evil twins and whatnot. The description alone at the beginning is a thing of beauty. youtu.be/m4R5YGI9ftU?...

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Stella Dallas (1/2) The Egyptian Mummy

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

WOW. That's a lot of interesting info for two sentences! Is this magazine the inspiration (or partial inspiration) for the old Alt.Soaps?

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

My God, look at all those glorious old serials, all airing at once! (At least I assume they were.) And Stella Dallas had a radio serial adaptation? I frickin' adore the movie. Even w/o brilliant Barbara Stanwyck in the role, I'd love to hear how the tale was expanded. Thanks for these recaps!

Mother played by Barbara Stanwyck in a rain hat and coat standing alone by a gate crying tears of pride as crowd passes by. From "Stella Dallas," 1937

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A paraphrase of Judge E. Bunker's remark, "Shame, shame, everybody knows your name" (Archie Bunker v. Girgis's Laundromat, 1972).

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"Just last week, Ms. Smith sought a restraining order against Mr. Brown, citing public threats and prior assault convictions. The court denied the request--even though Brown was currently holding a knife against her throat--since it hadn't breached her skin. Funeral services will be Tuesday."

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It'd be awesome if these judges would stop firing shots across the bow and start aiming right the fuck at it.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The meeting ID is listed as not existing; it's actually not the same as the one on Chutkan's own site, which is 493633106. (Note the 9 instead of the 8.) But it seems like no one's able to dial in either. Sigh.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hi Tarrell! ASF was a goofy parody of post-'94 soap plots my cowriters & I hated, an improv email story among ourselves for 2 yrs. CUE PLOT TWIST: we'd accidentally turned it into a genuinely solid saga! In '96 we started over, yanked the dumb stuff (e.g. zombie babies) & launched on the web in 97.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Harris: pro-ceasefire, humanitarian aid & 2-state solution. Trump: Muslim-hating Netenyahu-loving despot with a known desire to turn Gaza into his next spa & golf course. Yet your "anti-genocide Left" still needed to be "COURTED" to help prevent Trump's win? That's not advocacy, that's hubris.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My AVG Antivirus is warning me when I go to my usual x.com/home link. (I only check there 'cause of some stubborn friends in my field whom I follow.) Claims they're trying to scam money. Which, y'know, they're not wrong. Refreshing my timeline throws the error: "Something's wrong, try again."

Screenshot of alert from AVG Web Shield about x.com/home. The pop-up warns that this is a threat of the type "Scam: This threat aims to trick you into giving an attacker your personal information or money."

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

As an alternate take: No. Fuck them and their ideological spite. I am SICK of being asked to excuse people who betrayed their country because of their purity tests or "let it all burn" nihilism. Their kind have been screwing us over since Gore, FFS.

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I was lucky to have a music-loving family to introduce me to other eras/genres. Sinatra, Garland, Holliday, Gordon Macrae; Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rice/Lloyd Webber, Sondheim, Gershwin, Porter; also, I sang opera in high school & adored Beverly Sills, Placido Domingo & Kathleen Battle. You? 2/2

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Kira J. Lerner (not the journalist) @kiralerner.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hi Tarrell, happy weekend! Rock/pop: The Beatles, Billy Joel, Donna Summer, Streisand, Michael Jackson, James Ingraham. Tied w/Beatles: Sting (both w/Police & solo) for his haunting melodies, harmonies that lean into dissonance, exquisitely crafted lyrics & sinuous/soulful/unique voice. 1/2

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