Denise Schipani

Denise Schipani

@deniseschipani.bsky.social

Writer, editor, nonfiction author & general wrangler of words. At work on a memoir: IN THE DEEP: A surprise breast cancer diagnosis, a radical surgery, and learning to live in my new body. More words at deniseschipani.com

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Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

As the mother of a Daniel I approve this delightful piece.

Molly Reynolds@mollyereynolds.bsky.social

This is a near perfect article whose only defect is the fact that it refers to them as Dan Sullivans rather than the correct Dans Sullivan. www.washingtonsun.com/national/dan...

washingtonsun.comIs There a Reason There Are So Many Dan Sullivans in Alaska? An Investigation.Alaska’s unusual demographics could explain part of its Dan glut in state politics.
Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

Spoil away! You love to see it.

Dan Pfeiffer@danpfeiffer.bsky.social

Democrats don’t need 50% to win the Senate. If the Libertarian gets 3% in Texas, Talarico wins at 48.5. In Iowa, Laehn is polling at 8%. Nader and Stein cost Democrats the White House. This year, the spoilers are hurting Republicans. www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-third-...

messageboxnews.comThird Party CandidatesWith all of the attention on Trump’s rallies, the GOP’s money advantage, and the overall political environment, very little attention has gone to one of the most important factors in the battle for th...
Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

This is excellent

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

nytimes.comVideo: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About TrumpIn this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...
Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

I have no time for any news outlet that doesn't call him a convicted child predator who was also, it so happens, a long-serving House Speaker.

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social

If your newscast says Hastert was 'tied to' a child sex abuse scandal, you're failing your listeners.

Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

Fascinating, says the woman trying her darndest to get an agent to pay attention!

On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social

“If agents are as important as authors make them out to be, then they should have had some impact on the way that books have been published and bought and sold and consequently the books that we read.” – @lbmcgrath.bsky.social on the influence of the literary agent lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

lnk.toOn the MediaThe Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

What he's saying here is what I vibed with as a kid Catholic. But when the Church felt too much other than that, I left. This is what matters. I hope for Texas' sake, he's breaking through with this message.

Skylar Jones@skylarettajones.bsky.social

@meidastouch.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social This is so powerful from James Talarico. This man doesn't need to have memes of himself dressed up like Jesus, he has him in his heart. youtube.com/shorts/WJ02N...

youtube.comJames Talarico: “show me how you treat other people, and I will tell you what you believe.”YouTube video by James Talarico

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk. Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.

propublica.orgA Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

What does "stands in defense" mean? They should walk out in defense, imo.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Last night: The mighty White House Correspondents Association declares that it “stands in defense of our colleagues.” This morning: Trump administration refuses entry to MS Now crew, confiscates their White House access badges.

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Raider
@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Historians aren't even gonna bother writing books about this era. They're just gonna publish a massive group chat thread titled 'Did you see this shit?

Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

Of all the things that didn't happen, Trump saying "I love you kids" didn't happen the hardest.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

SHERMAN: Ds want to impose ethics restrictions & limit your family's ability to conduct crypto business. How do you feel? TRUMP: They want me to be different than everybody else S: So you're against it? T: I let my kids run it. I don't talk to them about much other than to say, 'I love you kids.'

Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

Yes because we can all confidently say that abusers always end up in jail.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

The State Department. A place that famously has no actual maps lying around.

PBS News@pbsnews.org

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

What’s everyone else doing with their free hour on Sunday evenings?

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: Ross Douthat, The New York Times opinion columnist, is joining CBS News’s “60 Minutes” in one of the first major hires since Bari Weiss’s takeover.

nyti.msRoss Douthat Joins ‘60 Minutes’ as a CorrespondentMr. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, will join the CBS News program, along with several other journalists.
Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

After I saw this IKEA ad one time I was sure I'd hallucinated it, it's so perfect. Spike Jonz directed; it won awards. youtu.be/Nix6tC3vvjs?...

youtu.beIKEA - Lamp - TV commercialYouTube video by thwartd
Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social

here are some commercials from my youth that have permanently etched themselves in my brain. feel free to QT or repy with your own faves. this one ran during my saturday morning cartoons and i think ended up on a vhs of transformers the movie or the duck tales movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVzZ...

youtube.com80's Simon CommericalYouTube video by SpacedCobraTV
Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

This is an awful, shortsighted, painfully horrible idea. College isn’t, or shouldn’t be, a training program.

NPR@npr.org

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

n.prUnder a new federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aidIf an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

In the end, to quote Cher in Moonstruck, you will be dead and I will come to your funeral in a red dress.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Trump on Strait of Hormuz: I think in the end, we will end up just controlling the whole thing.

Denise Schipani
@deniseschipani.bsky.social

Not saying anything was an option that was just sitting right there, Senator. No one on the right side of history is going to care that you thought Lindsay was a fun, cool colleague when he wasn't being a fascist's toadie.

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov

What I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

When Lindsey Graham appears in a history book, it'll be his prediction in 2016 that the Republican Party would be destroyed for supporting Donald Trump and then a few lines about how he proved it by becoming Trump's toady. That's pretty much it. That's his legacy. Pathetic lickspittle.