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Chas LiBretto
@chaslibretto.bsky.social
playwright, novelist, librettist (yes really)

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“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:22 AM
The way this guy incessantly concern trolls about M4A lately makes me think this is closer to a political reality than any of us realize
I'm here willing to read anything someone puts together that details how we can get from here to there

I'm all for universal healthcare. Tell me how we get there.
December 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Honestly I have thought about this quote from @mikeduncan.bsky.social for years relating to this point.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This isn’t a real comic but I still think about it a lot.
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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that’s right beg you miserable worm
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Always a little embarrassing to start writing a new play
October 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
new play. Revision of something I did earlier in the year - a bit of a departure from anything I’ve tried to tackle in the last ten years. Gonna throw it up on NPX for grins - would love your feedback.
September 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Theater Review: ‘The Royal Pyrate’ – A New Musical—"a smooth-sailing voyage that cruises on cat-o-nine-tails storytelling, crackling performances, inspired (and mostly merry) music, and barrels of pure fun." Jon Sobel has our review: blogcritics.org/theater-revi... #theater #theatre #pirates
August 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
August 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language.
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
NO KINGS
June 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Vance discovering trump’s queeny fandom for musicals the secret to his power, a power he will never be able to replicate with any authenticity.
June 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
did a double take at this headline 😭
June 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
a lot going on but there’s a reading of one of my plays happening on Monday.
June 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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people are getting disappeared, innocent men sent to foreign gulags, the civil service hollowed out, thousands left to die without foreign aid, and schumer is saber rattling about iran. these people make me fucking sick.
If TACO Trump is already folding on Iran, the American people need to know about it.

No side deals.
June 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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no it’s actually because of the slavery
June 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM