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Lily Roberts

@lilyroberts.bsky.social
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VP, Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Opinions are mine unless they're actually David Byrne lyrics.

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Washington Center for Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1/2 Renewed efforts to remove Fed Gov. Lisa Cook are another attempt by the Trump administration to undermine the Federal Reserve’s independence and inject politics into economic decision-making.
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Trump Announces White House Hearing to Investigate Fed’s Lisa Cook
The announcement signals a renewed effort to fire the Biden-appointed Fed governor as part of the president long-running attempt to wield more control over the central bank.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Auto-enrollment is a good step, but there are so many other improvements still to make. @equitablegrowth.bsky.social will keep pushing for evidence-based design, trying to get policymakers to prioritize growth and savings over weird corporate tax breaks and personal enrichment for billionaires.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There's still no guidance on how these accounts will interact with means- or asset-tested programs, including programs for kids and families with disabilities - or even with the FAFSA. equitablegrowth.org/federal-poli...
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Federal policymakers can ensure Trump accounts do not exacerbate inequality in the United States
What we know about Trump accounts and considerations for state and federal policymakers both in the short run and the longer term.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Made my WSJ debut calling for more guardrails on Trump Accounts. Treasury says kids will be auto-enrolled (great!), but will still have to claim the money (bad!), and they're overruling Congress's intent by allowing contributions of individual stocks (bad AND weird!). www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Accounts’ Extraordinary Expansion Puts Individual Stocks Into Kids’ Holdings
Millions of kids will receive donated stocks in individual companies that they can’t reject and can’t sell for five years.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds
The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm going to write my book about how stealing the taxpayers' pianos at a loss exemplifies the stupid personalism of this admin. Months after the East Wing was demolished, I'm still fixated on the apparent disappearance of the incredibly valuable/historic piano from its foyer.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was a beloved Washington institution, enjoyed by millions of people. It has been destroyed for no real reason. Just vanity, carelessness, indifference. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown
The only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands.
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Corey Husak @chusak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New simple but striking analysis from @americanprogress.bsky.social Wealth inequality has exploded since the end of 2024: -In real dollars, the top 0.1% has gained 8,000X as much wealth per household, as most American households.
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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’re not in the habit of recognizing celebrity deaths here at 925. That said, Dolly Parton is a national treasure and some folks here joke that Dolly is our Locals patron saint. After all her song “9 to 5” is our anthem. Today we remember all the love and kindness Dolly brought the world.
Tribute-style portrait of a Dolly Parton performing in a ruffled light purple blouse, arm raised and singing into a microphone, overlaid with the lyric: "You're just a step on the bossman's ladder / But you've got dreams he'll never take away."
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Light of a Clear Blue Morning" has one of the 20th century's most beautiful choruses, and Dolly Parton sends my baby free books and an email every year on his birthday telling him she loves him. What a person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BaV...
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Dolly Parton 01 - Light Of A Clear Blue Morning
YouTube video by littlesparrow185
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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New analysis from me & Diane Schanzenbach, possibly my favorite piece ever: We study the SNAP payment error rate and explain why tying how much a state will have to contribute toward SNAP payments to its PER is inherently empirically unstable. Remand. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...
A policy that could cause states to drop out of the SNAP program due to chance should not be left to chance. SNAP should be fully federally funded.Figure 3 shows confidence intervals around the point estimates for a states SNAP payment error rate in FY2023. The confidence intervals are larger than the bins.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We just put out a cool interactive scale that lets you weigh the $73 billion Trump and Republicans are requesting for Iran against things that actually help people instead of killing children overseas.
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Weighing Priorities: What U.S. Spending on the Iran War Could Fund Instead
The House of Representatives took the first step toward passing a bill that would provide the Trump administration $73 billion to fund its already costly war in Iran. That funding, if better allocated...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One of the many lies about OBBBA was that it would only affect adults. Which ignores that adults live in households, and people buy groceries for their whole families. Now, 1M kids have lost access to food they need. Kids are going hungry and moms are eating ice. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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‘Mom, are we OK?’ Children worry their families can’t afford food after Trump’s SNAP cuts
The Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” slashed spending on food stamps. Now, more than 1 million fewer children receive benefits.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lincoln! In The Bardo
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Washington Center for Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New research from nonresident scholar Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon shows that homeowners who participate more consistently in elections also accumulate more housing wealth. Read more about what these findings mean for housing policy and political representation: equitablegrowth.org/new-research...
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New research shows how U.S. homeownership and the accumulation of housing wealth are linked to political participation
Housing wealth and political representation are aligned—with homeowners who supply a disproportionate share of political participation benefitting from increased wealth.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 14/08/2026
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...
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Haitians in Springfield are required to report to Ohio's ICE offices and wear ankle monitors • Ohio Capital Journal
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“One baby at a time, the world is marching toward a grim milestone: Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.” apnews.com/article/usai...
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's been a year since President Trump deployed the National Guard in D.C., and for many seeing the 4,600 troops in the city can seem like a new normal. But activists and some elected officials say that creeping normalization is what worries them the most: www.notus.org/metro/nation...
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After a Year in D.C., the National Guard Seems Almost Normal
Critics say that's exactly the problem.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: One year in, Trump's troop deployment in D.C. is ongoing, unending, pointless — and very bad. The "America 250" flags are a particularly empty emblem on the uniforms of troops deployed on the streets of the nation's capital. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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One year in, Trump's troop deployment in D.C. is ongoing, unending, pointless — and very bad
The "America 250" flags are a particularly empty emblem on the uniforms of troops deployed on the streets of the nation's capital. And for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump administration concedes it canceled research grants in blue states
The administration said 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
More than 4.5 million people — including at least 1.5 million kids — have already lost access to SNAP in the wake of the deep cuts in last year's reconciliation law. There’s still time to make improvements to this bill & this unfolding hunger crisis demands a stronger response.
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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The SNAP cuts are already causing kids far more harm than most expected, despite Republican claims that kids would be protected. Yet, this proposal uses deeper SNAP cuts down the road to offset the 1-year payment delay even while Rs press for farm relief without offsets.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
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A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Harnessing anti-data center sentiment is good but unless it can be funneled into getting tech giants to pay for grid upgrades as part of going in they're just going to keep building them in the poorest parts of the South www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
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How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026
the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...
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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
2/2 The consequences extend beyond families who lose food assistance. Research from Equitable Growth shows that cuts to SNAP and Medicaid can ripple through local economies, weakening consumer spending, employment, and economic growth. equitablegrowth.org/medicaid-and...
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Medicaid and SNAP cuts in congressional Republicans’ budget bill will negatively impact local economies
New research shows how cuts to Medicaid and other social programs negatively impact local economies as well as program beneficiaries.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1/2 Arizona is offering an early warning of what SNAP cuts look like in practice. As states respond to new federal requirements and penalties tied to last year’s budget law, hundreds of thousands of eligible Arizonans have reportedly been dropped from the program. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
4/4 In my first column for @equitablegrowth.bsky.social , I tried to cover billions of dollars in ground - where the evidence stands, what it means for economic growth, and why the structural and data collection pieces matter for lawmaking going forward. equitablegrowth.org/the-one-big-...
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one year later: Parsing the evidence on the law’s consequences so far
One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed, research shows that its cuts to social programs negatively impact U.S. families.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
3/4 The Trump Admin is doing its best to make things even worse. Implementation guidance for Medicaid paperwork requirements is harsher than anyone dreamed, and shifting billions in SNAP costs to states will force them into terrible choices. Meanwhile, they've eliminated a key food security survey.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
2/4 The immediate story is in the numbers: 4 million Americans have already been kicked off SNAP, and ACA premiums are more expensive (sometimes prohibitively so) for millions. These are programs that pour $$ into local economies, keeping grocery stores and hospitals afloat.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
1/4 While we commemorated (or avoided celebrations of) America 250, another anniversary passed: a year ago on July 4, the One Big “Beautiful” Bill Act became law. We don’t have to project its impact on people or economic growth anymore, as the evidence comes in: equitablegrowth.org/the-one-big-...
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one year later: Parsing the evidence on the law’s consequences so far
One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed, research shows that its cuts to social programs negatively impact U.S. families.
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Washington Center for Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
1/ @lilyroberts.bsky.social on the #OBBBA's impact, a year later: "Families, communities, and states will have to shift resources to compensate for federal defunding of social programs, and are likely to spend less on education and economic investment." equitablegrowth.org/the-one-big-... -🧵-
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one year later: Parsing the evidence on the law’s consequences so far
One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed, research shows that its cuts to social programs negatively impact U.S. families.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Flyovers here in NC DC are so loud that car alarms went off and the house shook.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is a good moment to share the work of the incredible Haitian Support Center in Springfield, which needs all the support it can get -- haitiansupportcenter.org?blm_aid=1995...
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It really seems like it should be a bigger deal that 11% of states who responded to this survey identified *withdrawing from SNAP entirely* as a potential risk of the massive cost shift that's about to hit state budgets thanks to H.R. 1. aphsa.org/wp-content/u...
Looking Ahead
When asked about the potential impacts of the upcoming state benefit cost share requirement, states identified a range of possible operational, fiscal, and policy challenges. Survey findings show:
• 42% of states identified freezing or reducing hiring as a potential risk.
• 29% of states identified narrowing eligibility policies as a potential risk.
• 11% of states identified withdrawing from SNAP as a potential risk.
• 5% of states identified temporarily pausing SNAP operations as a potential risk.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide. In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to March 2026. Between H.R. 1's enactment in July 2025 and March 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4 million.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Do we at least get some new ninja turtles out of this??
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 13/06/2026
guy who's really into scaffolding logging on to bluesky for the first time tonight: holy shit
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
One of these guys touched the J and we all went wild! False alarm.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is actually a great DC night. Nice weather post-thunderstorm, people doing silly chants, applauding federal workers (maybe contractors?) for being very good at their jobs.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We started at 30 just to give them a little extra time to get in gear. My corner also sang Auld Lang Syne!
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We cheered for a guy tossing a water bottle to another guy! The crowd is riveted!
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
What if this is actually going to be a scaffold-based performance of Tonight from West Side Story
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We’ve reached the summit!
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
One guy threw a water bottle across the scaffold to another guy! The crowd cheers!
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