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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

When the liberal feminine urge to ruin the workplace hits but you work from home. 😬

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

—Dems break GOP's supermajority in MS's Senate. Still unknown: —Some school boards I'm watching still counting, tho the right is losing seats. —Seattle mayor will take a while. —RCV for Minneapolis mayor tomorrow. What am I missing that you're watching? And you can explore on my big board:

boltsmag.org

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read M...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

—PA Dems 2 open statewide judge seats in PA —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, + defend swing counties —Dems flip NY's Onondaga & Dutchess counties, a first in decades, & PA's Luzerne County —Seattle GOP city attorney trails big —MN Dems defend state Senate —Dems defend swing leg seats in NY, WA

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Watched @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social win tonight at a bar in LA packed with other progressives and man was it a different feeling from a year ago. #sisepuede

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Tweet from Dan Satterfield

Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel.
The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact?
See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area.
2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week.
3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts.
4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.
Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years.
Nothing you do will have greater impact.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It was never about FREE SPEECH. It was always about the protection of HATE SPEECH.

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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litherland @lither.land · 18/09/2025

“For reasons best understood by moguls and their lackeys, the people who run the media simply find people who do what we do either annoying or unprofitable. Extraneous. I don’t think readers agree. I truly do not.”

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

If I'm expected to vote blue no matter who, Democratic reps better do the fucking same. If I "must" vote for billionaire moderates like @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, stop SABOTAGING @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's mayoral run. The hypocrisy over the last couple weeks has been insane.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

As I worked over the winter on my new book, there was one chapter that felt particularly heavy—the accounts of Jewish refugee scientists fleeing Hitler's Europe and how democracy succumbed to fascism. Much of this feels too familiar right now: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

doomsdayscenario.co

Fleeing One Step Ahead of Fascism

The chilling warnings of Europe in the 1930s: "Reality is stronger than all our wishes"

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

In honor of #MaybeHappyEnding turning its back on AA Broadway actors, my pitch to the universe - I want a jukebox musical adaptation of Joel Kim Booster's FIRE ISLAND. Three guaranteed AA leading male roles per cast in the most fun adaptation of Pride & prejudice ever. Please give this to me.

media.tenor.com

a man wearing shorts and a white shirt is standing on a sidewalk with his hands in his pockets

ALT: a man wearing shorts and a white shirt is standing on a sidewalk with his hands in his pockets

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Evergreen "what the fuck?" To that thing that's trending.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A story about Stephen Colbert I’ve never shared before. Years ago I was hospitalized for a month. One of toughest things I ever had to do. Confined, monitored, my health a mystery with no solution, cycling through roommates & their families who needed miracles, or would go off to surgery & vanish…

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If the overlap of youngest Gen Xers and eldest millennials are Xennials, and the millennial/Gen Z version of that are Zennials, is Gen Alpha/Beta the Alphabet generation?

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I have never cared about Catholicism so much in my life as I do now

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Oh good, I was worried he was gonna say something like "Public infrastructure."

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Angela Harvey @nationsfilm.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Literal Nazis inside the Administration but the media still takes what they say about racism and antisemitism at face value.

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Carlos Foglia @lacarlos.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Bsky Fam: LOOKING FOR: PAID: An illustrator / artist / designer that can design an fleshed out idea for an adventure / archaelogy-esque style poster / hero image for a project. Struzan lite. DM me with samples / rates or anyone you can recommend! Thanks!

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

HELLO PLEASE SHARE THIS! I am auctioning entertainment industry memorabilia & other items, all to benefit worthy charities. Please check out these items and even if you can't bid or buy, spread the word. X-Files! Rez Dogs! The Bear! Star Trek SNW! The Wire! fancy purses! www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?i...

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Items for sale by moryanwatcher | eBay

Shop eBay for great deals from moryanwatcher!

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Dear TV writers, The Writers' Guild of America West released their employment analysis of the 2023-2024 year and it's... pretty damn bleak. Almost half of available staffing positions disappeared in a year. This sucks. But also? This means it's not JUST you.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Mo Ryan, who’s taken a couple abusive hollywood bosses out for, as my grandfather would put it “a tour of the gravel pit”, is now asking for help for a survivors group. I’m in, and would ask you to at least follow the link and check it out.

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Aaron Horwitz @aarontheh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Seeing this get a lot of retweets but there’s no sourcing for it anywhere. Before of misinformation.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

BREAKING: The Department of Health and Human Services has fired every single worker in its program that helps low-income Americans pay their energy bills. thehill.com/policy/energ...

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"Think about a bank robber — walks in, their face is covered,” Hochul said. “Someone assaults someone on the subway, they can get away with it, despite the fact that we have cameras, because they are masked.” Yes, because the most grievous parts of those crimes were that the criminals wore masks.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/03/2025

New Yorkers, please call your state rep, state senator, and Kathy Hochul and tell them NO MASK BANS. This garbage proposal would kill people. We're on the verge of a measles epidemic and this terrible governor is pushing this? NO. Find your reps here: reps.fyi gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...

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Gov. Hochul is pushing a last-minute mask ban in state budget talks

The governor has expressed support for restrictions in protest settings, while many protesters say they need to conceal their identities to avoid retribution.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Absolutely love that he’s reclaiming the proper pronunciation of his name. Let’s get on board, everybody.

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Ben Alper @benalp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Before there was Johnny Carson, Dave Letterman, Jay Leno and company, there was late-night caveman Grog. “Live From the Beginning of Time: Late Night Comedy Monologues Through the Ages” tinyurl.com/4mut42ve.

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Melody Cooper @melodyc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

He should not be able to profit off our pain and suffering.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Once again, Pragmatism is our friend. The thing is what it does. It doesn’t matter if they *call* this some convoluted anti-DEI bullshit, it’s resegregation.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The nine Dems & one Independent who voted to advance: John Fetterman, PA Catherine Cortez Masto, NV Dick Durbin,Il Brian Schatz, HI Gary Peters, MI Kirsten Gillibrand, NY Maggie Hassan, NH Jeanne Shaheen, NH Angus King, ME (Independent) Chuck Schumer, NY www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Senate advances funding bill

The government is due to shut down just after midnight.

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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth. An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs. No pay wall.

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America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore

Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Spoiler alert: the rest of the interview is linked and it's not better.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

WATCH--@chrislhayes.bsky.social to Sen. Chuck Schumer: "What is the cost you see to the constitutional order of a shutdown that isn't already being done now?"

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