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.
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We can honor Catherine O'Hara through buying, renting, and streaming her filmography over the next few days, so that the revenue is more than the box office receipts for "Melania" on opening weeken--oh, excuse me...
[puts finger to ear]
...okay, yes, I'm being told that's already happened.
[puts finger to ear]
...okay, yes, I'm being told that's already happened.
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 PM
We can honor Catherine O'Hara through buying, renting, and streaming her filmography over the next few days, so that the revenue is more than the box office receipts for "Melania" on opening weeken--oh, excuse me...
[puts finger to ear]
...okay, yes, I'm being told that's already happened.
[puts finger to ear]
...okay, yes, I'm being told that's already happened.
Perfection exists👇👇
The Atlantic was founded in 1857, the New York Times in 1851. So it's a bit surprising that David Brooks is leaving the Times for the Atlantic, given that the Atlantic is only six years younger.
January 30, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Perfection exists👇👇
$50 is not nearly enough to remain in your seat the whole time. Wait - can you be wearing an eye mask and listening to pod save America?
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 PM
$50 is not nearly enough to remain in your seat the whole time. Wait - can you be wearing an eye mask and listening to pod save America?
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My takeaway from the Bari Weiss transcript is that she's a strikingly stupid person.
January 27, 2026 at 5:30 PM
My takeaway from the Bari Weiss transcript is that she's a strikingly stupid person.
I hate that I live in a timeline that also includes a “longevity influencer.”
Along w/ Huberman, CBS also announced Mark Hyman, a longtime RFK Jr ally and functional medicine proponent, and Peter Attia, a longevity influencer, as contributors. All three were cited by Kennedy in a recent interview as the best people for lifestyle advice.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Bari Weiss to CBS News staff: Without a shift in strategy, ‘we are toast’
The CBS News editor in chief said the network needs to produce journalism people want as she named a raft of new contributors from her website, the Free Press.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I hate that I live in a timeline that also includes a “longevity influencer.”
Who could possibly have guessed?
Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week.
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos
The first lady’s documentary was a mess in production—and now it’s struggling at the box office.
trib.al
January 27, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Who could possibly have guessed?
Kids, CBS used to have Walter Cronkite. It used to have Mike Wallace. They called it “journalism.” Look it up!
January 27, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Kids, CBS used to have Walter Cronkite. It used to have Mike Wallace. They called it “journalism.” Look it up!
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Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community.
I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:
I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:
January 25, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community.
I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:
I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:
I'm rooting for the blood clot, it's gotta be there somewhere. It needs to break free!
Trump's *left* hand -- not the one that is usually disfigured -- now has a large bruise and is discolored
These pictures are from today in Davos and are via Chip Somodevilla (Getty) and Fabrice Coffrini (AFP)
These pictures are from today in Davos and are via Chip Somodevilla (Getty) and Fabrice Coffrini (AFP)
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I'm rooting for the blood clot, it's gotta be there somewhere. It needs to break free!
Well, this is disturbingly on the nose: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...
How to Become a Professional Writer
Do you enjoy writing? Do you like the idea of taking the thing you love doing the most in the world and turning it into work? So that your access t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 21, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Well, this is disturbingly on the nose: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...
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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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We are living in a world where the only safe place to be is in the Epstein files.
January 16, 2026 at 1:40 AM
We are living in a world where the only safe place to be is in the Epstein files.
Uh, yes she does?
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"
January 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Uh, yes she does?
He is all of us who have essential things like a conscience and working vision.
January 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
He is all of us who have essential things like a conscience and working vision.
This is so fucking good. Now, where my pink pussy hat at?
I try to maintain some emotional distance while writing, which is an analytical exercise for me.
But I wept through much of this, because the videos of Trump’s fascist assault are hard viewing.
But they also convinced me we will win. Here’s why.
www.salon.com/2026/01/14/r...
But I wept through much of this, because the videos of Trump’s fascist assault are hard viewing.
But they also convinced me we will win. Here’s why.
www.salon.com/2026/01/14/r...
Resistance moms will save us
Renee Good's courage shows our best hope lays with ordinary people
www.salon.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This is so fucking good. Now, where my pink pussy hat at?
fact check: No. No. Also no. Yeah, right; no. Nope nope nope.
Trump lies: "Grocery prices are starting to go rapidly down. Rent is down. Airfares are down. Hotel rates are down. Cell phone prices are down."
January 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
fact check: No. No. Also no. Yeah, right; no. Nope nope nope.
Great piece, not least for the reference to my all-time favorite song, Unsatisfied. Honestly the perfect GenX anthem. We may never get what we want, but we endure.
Hat tip to @deardara.bsky.social for the visual of an animatronic Christian Slater in the back of the 9:30 Club, protesting American foreign adventurism until the heat death of the universe!
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
Generation X’s Lessons for the Second Trump Era
We are living through one of the most 1980s-coded cycles in American life—take it from somebody who survived it the first time around.
newrepublic.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Great piece, not least for the reference to my all-time favorite song, Unsatisfied. Honestly the perfect GenX anthem. We may never get what we want, but we endure.
I don't know a lot but I know that Rahm Emmanuel is not going to be president.
January 12, 2026 at 6:10 PM
I don't know a lot but I know that Rahm Emmanuel is not going to be president.
"The answer is to survive to tell the story." INDEED. Love this thread.
Everyone has some shit to say about how they're going to write a book, and they never will because only you are emotionally naked enough to give yourself over to the years of pointlessness, spiraling, and incredibly difficult work that will almost certainly lead to absolutely nothing! Live más.
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
"The answer is to survive to tell the story." INDEED. Love this thread.
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We also just gotta straight up outlaw crypto. But but but but I don't care, shut the fuck up, you're done
January 12, 2026 at 1:07 AM
We also just gotta straight up outlaw crypto. But but but but I don't care, shut the fuck up, you're done
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What a story, what a life.
Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish Baby on Cover of Nazi Magazine, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
What a story, what a life.
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Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
He thinks "this is going on your permanent record" or "you'll get your retirement pay docked" is going to intimidate Mark Kelly? That's laughable.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Sen. Mark Kelly will face administrative action
January 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
He thinks "this is going on your permanent record" or "you'll get your retirement pay docked" is going to intimidate Mark Kelly? That's laughable.
I’m not! I miss it but I’m staying away.
53 DAYS INTO THE LONGEST NATIONAL ULP STRIKE IN STARBUCKS' HISTORY! 🔥
Remind your friends and family: Don't buy Starbucks for the duration of our strike!
bsky.app/profile/sbwo...
Remind your friends and family: Don't buy Starbucks for the duration of our strike!
bsky.app/profile/sbwo...
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
January 5, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I’m not! I miss it but I’m staying away.
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Take Trump literally and seriously. Banish into the sun all the hacks who told us we were being hysterical & radical. Ignore them forever.
This is a white nationalist regime in service of an international broligarchy that won't stop until it drinks all our milkshakes.
Venezuela was the start...
This is a white nationalist regime in service of an international broligarchy that won't stop until it drinks all our milkshakes.
Venezuela was the start...
January 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Take Trump literally and seriously. Banish into the sun all the hacks who told us we were being hysterical & radical. Ignore them forever.
This is a white nationalist regime in service of an international broligarchy that won't stop until it drinks all our milkshakes.
Venezuela was the start...
This is a white nationalist regime in service of an international broligarchy that won't stop until it drinks all our milkshakes.
Venezuela was the start...