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Denise Schipani

@deniseschipani.bsky.social

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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 · 18h

You seem nice

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 23h

Melon? Okay, sure. I describe the young repubs on my campus as Reagan groupies and you conclude I don't know Reagan was racist? You do you I guess!

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely not! I was at a very liberal campus in the 80s. The young Republicans there were the Alex Keaton type. Reagan groupies. Different times.

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Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 2d

Oh wow this bit right here? Nailed. It.

i really believe the pressure to constantly create on people who are actually not as creative as they think wears them down mentally

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Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 15d

If only…

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15d

I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.

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Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 15d

Been doing that for a while. “Wait, HOW much now?!”

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 17d

Not great

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17d

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 18d

The very definition of "this meeting could have been an email."

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Aug 15

What this guy said!

HAVE YOU STUPID FUCKS LEARNED NOTHING OR ARE YOU FALLING IN LOVE WITH FASCISM?
Yes, Gavin Newsom fucked up with his French Laundry appearance during Covid. I was not happy about that.
I was FUCKING APOPLEPTIC when he had Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his podcast.
I wanted to drop an anvil on his head when he threw transgender athletes under the bus.
But... he and Governor Pritzker (is he too fat for you to support, you fucking idiots?) are about the last bastions of dissent blocking our descent into complete authoritarianism.
Have you LEARNED nothing by continuing the EXACT BEHAVIOR that has put us on this precarious slope of shittiness? Kamala was too progressive, not progressive enough, had a weird laugh, didn’t distance herself from Biden enough, distanced herself from Biden too much...
It’s as if your spouse is getting bludgeoned and raped on the subway and the only person willing to jump in and try to save them has uneven sideburns and is missing the ring finger on their left hand so you tell them not to help and you’ll just wait for someone else a little better to yank the dick out of your loved one.
We’re fucking lucky to have someone who isn’t a goddamned pussy standing up to the fatorangefascistfuck. Stop throwing out the entire pizza because you don’t like olives.

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Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 20d

Over and over and over, election after election.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21d

i feel we dramatically overestimate the intelligence of the American electorate

Cory, 31, Tenn., white, Republican, construction
I believed Trump was focused on lowering drug prices, prescription drug prices. I have a chronic condition. I’m a Type 1 diabetic. And since he has taken office, my medications have tripled in price. Again, I don’t know if that’s a correlation to where I live or my insurance but it’s gotten to a point where, for a disease I did not cause and do not have any control over, seeing a very high increase in the prices that I’m paying.

Kelsey, 32, Ill., white, independent, technology
Immigration. I just think it’s way too aggressive. Even if it’s the worst of the criminals, can they be treated more humanely once they get to the deportation centers?

Sarah, 32, Mont., white, Republican, engineer
I feel like on Kelsey’s point, I agree. Criminals — drug dealers, violent people — don’t belong here. The thing I’m worried about is this administration’s use of executive power. I have a hard time trusting in my current democracy and my Constitution when I’m not really sure I’m seeing those honored even in these processes of deportation. Sometimes I don’t know if I’m getting the real truth, and if somebody was documented and causing certain issues, or were they not? Is it just anything goes?

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 21d

A government that is closed for business is not available for a floor vote to release documents relating to the sexual abuse of children involving the nation's powerful people.

These shitheels will close the doors on the United States and go home rather than spill out the dirt.

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Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 22d

I feel like factchecking is too quaint an exercise at this point. Yeah, sure, he lies. But also: he's a stark raving lunatic. In front of the entire world.

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 22d

Correct. Oatmeal cookies are fantastic ... assuming they eschew raisins in favor of chocolate chips. I mean, come ON.

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 25d

Not enough people in the so called opposition seem to have a grip on this.

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 25d

This is the most sobering post of the day. Aaron is absolutely right.

This is the most brazenly corrupt, authoritarian regime the U.S. has probably ever seen.

It is a test we cannot fail to rise to. Trump must be (legally) removed from office. Congress must act.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 25d

Fact.

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 27d

Thx for reminding me why I am no longer Catholic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 27d

I was just yesterday idly wondering when Nuzzi's timeout would be over and her rehab would begin. Seriously!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28d

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

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Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 28d

She's melting....

Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 28d

Someone needs to put a new light-bulb in Melania.

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 28d

Perfectly put. Contrast with Ezra Klein, who's a good, even great, writer -- but much more self-consciously intellectualizing, like he could be anybody, and it's his take that has primacy. Coates is Coates, and yes -- he carries moral urgency with absolute authenticity.

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · 28d

One among many. But anyone could see this one coming.

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · Sep 16

OK, happy accident then! I'll take it.

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · Sep 16

nice.

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Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · Sep 16

Too liberal ... to be trusted? What the fuck does that even mean?

Denise Schipani @deniseschipani.bsky.social · Sep 16

Is this coincidental timing, or did he make this after that Fox asshole I won't dignify by naming him suggested lethal injections for homeless/mentally ill people?

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