Savannah Thorpe Capizzi
@savthorpecap.bsky.social
Black progressive press sec in Lancaster Pennsylvania. I like the muppets and my husband and trains and good music and line dancing and vintage clothes and freedom for the homies. She/her. https://linktr.ee/savthorpecap. Posts are just mine! Go to stuff!
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I had a Coolest Girl in the World attack (opposite of an ugliest girl in the world attack) and decided to make a collage of all the moments I felt full of love and life and friendship and community. This thanksgiving, I’m grateful for all the friends and strangers who made me feel SO COOL in 2025!
This is another one of those I learned about from my boys on the American Internet radio show Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig. Highly recommend the podcast!
Today I learned that two-thirds of the band that would become ZZ Top started their careers by touring the U.S. while falsely claiming to be the British band the Zombies.
www.buzzfeed.com/danielralsto...
www.buzzfeed.com/danielralsto...
The True Story Of The Fake Zombies, The Strangest Con In Rock History
In 1969, the Zombies had a huge hit single, despite having broken up two years earlier. To meet the unexpected demand, one promoter did the only sensible thing: hire four kids from Texas to tour Ameri...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is another one of those I learned about from my boys on the American Internet radio show Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig. Highly recommend the podcast!
We thanksgivinged!!!
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We thanksgivinged!!!
Lancaster Pennsylvania mentioned in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade!!!!! Jonathan Groff is ONE OF OURS!!! He showed up in a big way when our butthole commissioners sabotaged our library’s Drag Queen Story Hour!!! lancasteronline.com/jonathan-gro...
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Lancaster Pennsylvania mentioned in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade!!!!! Jonathan Groff is ONE OF OURS!!! He showed up in a big way when our butthole commissioners sabotaged our library’s Drag Queen Story Hour!!! lancasteronline.com/jonathan-gro...
I had a Coolest Girl in the World attack (opposite of an ugliest girl in the world attack) and decided to make a collage of all the moments I felt full of love and life and friendship and community. This thanksgiving, I’m grateful for all the friends and strangers who made me feel SO COOL in 2025!
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I had a Coolest Girl in the World attack (opposite of an ugliest girl in the world attack) and decided to make a collage of all the moments I felt full of love and life and friendship and community. This thanksgiving, I’m grateful for all the friends and strangers who made me feel SO COOL in 2025!
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The Working Pennsylvanians Tax Credit Calculator is live!! Thanks to this brand-new program, nearly one million Pennsylvanians will keep more money in their pockets this coming tax season. Learn more about how much YOU could save here.
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Working Pennsylvanians Tax Credit Calculator is live!! Thanks to this brand-new program, nearly one million Pennsylvanians will keep more money in their pockets this coming tax season. Learn more about how much YOU could save here.
Sometimes if I have a number of texts and emails I need to respond to but have let pile up, I set aside an hour to “catch up on my correspondence” so I pour some tea and light a candle and imagine I am doing Very Serious Business as if I’m in the HBO series The Gilded Age
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Sometimes if I have a number of texts and emails I need to respond to but have let pile up, I set aside an hour to “catch up on my correspondence” so I pour some tea and light a candle and imagine I am doing Very Serious Business as if I’m in the HBO series The Gilded Age
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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The Young Adults YEARN For Stuff To Do!!!! politics is a practice in togetherness and sharing space with people!! It's about the joy of living and meeting new friends!!! More campaigns should center community building as a path to success and lasting change!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Young Adults YEARN For Stuff To Do!!!! politics is a practice in togetherness and sharing space with people!! It's about the joy of living and meeting new friends!!! More campaigns should center community building as a path to success and lasting change!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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NEW: I profiled a powerful Democratic woman you’ve likely never heard of: Terri McCullough, @pelosi.house.gov’s longtime outgoing chief of staff, who reshaped the policy + political landscape for women and made history of her own alongside Pelosi 19thnews.org/2025/11/terr...
The woman who made history with Nancy Pelosi
Terri McCullough, the first woman to serve in a formal role as chief of staff to a House speaker, worked alongside Pelosi on big policy wins and broke a marble ceiling of her own.
19thnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: I profiled a powerful Democratic woman you’ve likely never heard of: Terri McCullough, @pelosi.house.gov’s longtime outgoing chief of staff, who reshaped the policy + political landscape for women and made history of her own alongside Pelosi 19thnews.org/2025/11/terr...
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Among the half dozen lawmakers targeted by the Trump administration are two Pennsylvania U.S. House members -- Chris Deluzio, a Navy veteran, and Chrissy Houlahan, who served in the Air Force.
From @statesnewsroom.com
From @statesnewsroom.com
Democrats threatened by Trump over video, including two from Pa., say they’re now being probed by the FBI • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Democratic members of Congress who released a video in mid-November telling members of the military that they are not required to follow illegal orders announced Tuesday the Federal Bureau of Investig...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Among the half dozen lawmakers targeted by the Trump administration are two Pennsylvania U.S. House members -- Chris Deluzio, a Navy veteran, and Chrissy Houlahan, who served in the Air Force.
From @statesnewsroom.com
From @statesnewsroom.com
the recession indicator I do not see ANYBODY talking about is that smarties reduced the number of smarties per roll from 15 to 10, and me personally, I think we should be making a way bigger stink about that
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
the recession indicator I do not see ANYBODY talking about is that smarties reduced the number of smarties per roll from 15 to 10, and me personally, I think we should be making a way bigger stink about that
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"I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government."
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government."
I always tell my friends going to weddings that they can just flag down the photog and ask for a nice photo, so I put that logic to work at the vintage festival and got this photo back today :)
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I always tell my friends going to weddings that they can just flag down the photog and ask for a nice photo, so I put that logic to work at the vintage festival and got this photo back today :)
Farm rio sponsor me I beg!!!!!
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Farm rio sponsor me I beg!!!!!
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In this new essay on the internal culture of the right, I report on something big: allegations by a Heritage Foundation insider that the organization has allowed a toxic culture of "open misogyny and racism" to grow among a segment of the staff
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
The toxic culture behind the right’s civil war
A Heritage insider alleging “openly misogynistic and racist” conduct shines a light on the right’s inner workings.
www.vox.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In this new essay on the internal culture of the right, I report on something big: allegations by a Heritage Foundation insider that the organization has allowed a toxic culture of "open misogyny and racism" to grow among a segment of the staff
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
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NEW: The backlash to Trump has been coming in big waves. Dems' sweep in last week’s elections. The 7 million people who turned out for “No Kings” protests.
But it's been fueling something else all year: a surge in young progressives signing up to run for office.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
But it's been fueling something else all year: a surge in young progressives signing up to run for office.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The Trump Backlash That's Flying Under The Radar
In the past year, nearly 75,000 people have signed up to run for local and state office through Run for Something. And its candidates are winning.
www.huffpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
NEW: The backlash to Trump has been coming in big waves. Dems' sweep in last week’s elections. The 7 million people who turned out for “No Kings” protests.
But it's been fueling something else all year: a surge in young progressives signing up to run for office.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
But it's been fueling something else all year: a surge in young progressives signing up to run for office.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Hoo boy, good evening from the train :)
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Hoo boy, good evening from the train :)
I was the hottest girl at both the vintage festival and the local film festival fyi
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I was the hottest girl at both the vintage festival and the local film festival fyi
Yesterday we went to visit my sister in New Jersey and visit the Montclair Flea Market at Lackawanna Station. Then we went to see John fogerty! He was on my favorite Internet radio show Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig talkin up the tour so I snagged some tix! Ol boy is 80 years old and rippin!
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Yesterday we went to visit my sister in New Jersey and visit the Montclair Flea Market at Lackawanna Station. Then we went to see John fogerty! He was on my favorite Internet radio show Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig talkin up the tour so I snagged some tix! Ol boy is 80 years old and rippin!
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One thing I realized is that definitely people didn't realize that forcibly deporting the undocumented parents of American citizen children would end up requiring violence. They thought the deportations were going to be invisible to them.
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One thing I realized is that definitely people didn't realize that forcibly deporting the undocumented parents of American citizen children would end up requiring violence. They thought the deportations were going to be invisible to them.
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It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”
More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP
“We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”
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TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
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i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count
The Young Adults YEARN For Stuff To Do!!!! politics is a practice in togetherness and sharing space with people!! It's about the joy of living and meeting new friends!!! More campaigns should center community building as a path to success and lasting change!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Young Adults YEARN For Stuff To Do!!!! politics is a practice in togetherness and sharing space with people!! It's about the joy of living and meeting new friends!!! More campaigns should center community building as a path to success and lasting change!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...