Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
@lisatakeuchicullen.bsky.social
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I am a TV writer. Former President of the Writers Guild of America East, longtime journalist (TIME) and sometime author. New Jersey by way of Japan 🇯🇵🇺🇸
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
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“I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

~James Baldwin
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NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.
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Only attend No Kings if y'all believe in one or more of the following:

Equality, democracy, freedom of speech, the Constitution, LGBTQ+ rights, voting rights, women's rights, due process, diversity, museums, books, objective truth, stopping measles and not going to war with Portland and whatnot.
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Reporters walked out of the Pentagon on Wednesday after news outlets refused to sign new press rules laid out by Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense. The new rules raise the prospect of punishment for simply requesting information on matters of public interest. Read more: nyti.ms/48sfl6q
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA
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KNOXVILLE: “Allies of Knoxville's Immigrant Neighbors said longtime advocate and organizer Alejandro Guizar Lozano was detained by ICE while reporting for a routine appointment… beloved community organizer and union member…” www.wbir.com/article/news...
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NBC News has laid off 150 employees, eliminating teams dedicated to Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ issues - The Wrap
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You can't insure it. It hard to drive. It's ugly. It's a hard to park as a real truck but can't do truck things. It falls apart. It rusts which is why you rarely see an unwrapped cybertruck. If someone *gave* me a cybertruck I'd junk it for metal and use that money as a down payment on a Honda
Americans Raced to Buy Any EV They Could Last Month — Except for the Cybertruck #Climate
Americans Raced to Buy Any EV They Could Last Month — Except for the Cybertruck
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15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper
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he’s so, so good at this
Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."
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PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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So far in 2025 the U.S. has lost a total of 33,000 manufacturing jobs.
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1999: someday the internet will be a record of everything that ever happened

2025: someday the internet will be a record of everything that never happened
Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)
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To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
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“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup
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Just FIVE days until America takes to the streets to proclaim #NoKings!

Who’s going? ✋

SIGN UP TODAY: seiu.com/nocrowns
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