Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
@lisatakeuchicullen.bsky.social
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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really wish Epstein commentators would stop using the phrase "underage women"
the word you are looking for is "girls", teenage girls.
the word you are looking for is "girls", teenage girls.
January 30, 2026 at 8:55 PM
really wish Epstein commentators would stop using the phrase "underage women"
the word you are looking for is "girls", teenage girls.
the word you are looking for is "girls", teenage girls.
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If you believe in American democracy, this is a very good time to stand up for the free press
January 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
If you believe in American democracy, this is a very good time to stand up for the free press
"If I wanted to watch someone inconsequential doing nothing for two hours, I could make popcorn at home and stare at myself in the mirror."
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Mocking Melania Trump's documentary is an act of patriotism | Opinion
Like most Americans, I'm over-the-moon excited to not see 'Melania,' an unrequested documentary about first lady Melania Trump.
www.usatoday.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:54 PM
"If I wanted to watch someone inconsequential doing nothing for two hours, I could make popcorn at home and stare at myself in the mirror."
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
"It will exist as a striking artifact – like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will – of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly."
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film – review
Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving, the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chatea...
www.the-independent.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:49 PM
"It will exist as a striking artifact – like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will – of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly."
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
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Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
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Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
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ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/
January 30, 2026 at 5:32 PM
ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/
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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Ahhh. The timing of the bogus arrests all begins to make sense.
Blanche says that any Epstein document that "would jeopardize an active federal investigation" is not being released by the DOJ
January 30, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Ahhh. The timing of the bogus arrests all begins to make sense.
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i am utterly bereft
Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71
Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.
www.tmz.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
i am utterly bereft
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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Journalism is not a crime.
The Justice Department should investigate the federal agents who killed US citizens in broad daylight, not arrest reporters like Don Lemon. He should be released.
It's a spine-chilling assault on press freedom and threatens the public's right to know.
The Justice Department should investigate the federal agents who killed US citizens in broad daylight, not arrest reporters like Don Lemon. He should be released.
It's a spine-chilling assault on press freedom and threatens the public's right to know.
January 30, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Journalism is not a crime.
The Justice Department should investigate the federal agents who killed US citizens in broad daylight, not arrest reporters like Don Lemon. He should be released.
It's a spine-chilling assault on press freedom and threatens the public's right to know.
The Justice Department should investigate the federal agents who killed US citizens in broad daylight, not arrest reporters like Don Lemon. He should be released.
It's a spine-chilling assault on press freedom and threatens the public's right to know.
"Hollywood loved saying the word ‘representation.' It said it at panels and podcasts. I know because I sat on more than 50 of them. It said it in press releases. It said it during awards season. It said it like a promise. And then, quietly, it stopped keeping it."
deadline.com/2026/01/odes...
deadline.com/2026/01/odes...
The Latino Waiting Game: When One Role Means Everything – Guest Column
'One Day at a Time' reboot creator Gloria Calderon Kellett's guest column on the 'Deep Cuts' casting of Odessa A'Zion as a Latina character and representation.
deadline.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
"Hollywood loved saying the word ‘representation.' It said it at panels and podcasts. I know because I sat on more than 50 of them. It said it in press releases. It said it during awards season. It said it like a promise. And then, quietly, it stopped keeping it."
deadline.com/2026/01/odes...
deadline.com/2026/01/odes...
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@brucespringsteen.net Thank you for your voice and always your empathy! Stand strong Minnesota, more Americans stand with you than not.
#Resist
#IceOut
#Resist
#IceOut
Bruce Springsteen pens new Trump protest song, 'Streets of Minneapolis'
The song, released Wednesday, describes how “a city aflame fought fire and ice ’neath an occupier’s boots,” which Springsteen calls “King Trump’s private army.”
www.pbs.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:19 PM
@brucespringsteen.net Thank you for your voice and always your empathy! Stand strong Minnesota, more Americans stand with you than not.
#Resist
#IceOut
#Resist
#IceOut
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Gloria says in this article that she’s been told in the last year that shows centered on an all-Latino family are “too political.” I’ve also heard in the last year that my work, which tends to be all-Black, is also “too political.” If you miss minorities on screen, that might be why.
Entertainment folk (and everybody else too) - my friend and colleague Gloria Calderón Kellett wrote an op-ed that’s worth your time deadline.com/2026/01/odes...
The Latino Waiting Game: When One Role Means Everything – Guest Column
'One Day at a Time' reboot creator Gloria Calderon Kellett's guest column on the 'Deep Cuts' casting of Odessa A'Zion as a Latina character and representation.
deadline.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Gloria says in this article that she’s been told in the last year that shows centered on an all-Latino family are “too political.” I’ve also heard in the last year that my work, which tends to be all-Black, is also “too political.” If you miss minorities on screen, that might be why.
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'Late Night' host Seth Meyers shared some heartfelt words with longtime peer Stephen Colbert after announcing the May 21 'Late Show' series finale date.
January 28, 2026 at 2:42 PM
'Late Night' host Seth Meyers shared some heartfelt words with longtime peer Stephen Colbert after announcing the May 21 'Late Show' series finale date.
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ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
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The biggest signal an American human can ever receive that they are deeply and profoundly fucking up is finding themselves as the bad guy in a Bruce Springsteen song.
January 28, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The biggest signal an American human can ever receive that they are deeply and profoundly fucking up is finding themselves as the bad guy in a Bruce Springsteen song.
Documentaries that follow a subject for a limited amount of time usually cost less than $5 million to produce. The $35 million for marketing is 10 times what some other high-profile documentaries have received.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...
Amazon’s Promotion of ‘Melania’ Has Critics Questioning Its Motives
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Documentaries that follow a subject for a limited amount of time usually cost less than $5 million to produce. The $35 million for marketing is 10 times what some other high-profile documentaries have received.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...
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I think the power of a song like Bruce Springsteen's "The Streets of Minneapolis" is not just that it cuts right through the moral smoke screen the feds are putting down, and not just that it is very direct, but that it claims the wider scope and vindication of history and the future to come.
January 29, 2026 at 5:49 AM
I think the power of a song like Bruce Springsteen's "The Streets of Minneapolis" is not just that it cuts right through the moral smoke screen the feds are putting down, and not just that it is very direct, but that it claims the wider scope and vindication of history and the future to come.
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An ICE agent attempted to enter the Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis, threatening the staff member who prevented him from entering.
Hello? ICE is so out of control that its agents think they can break international law.
Congress needs to rein them in yesterday.
Hello? ICE is so out of control that its agents think they can break international law.
Congress needs to rein them in yesterday.
January 28, 2026 at 8:45 PM
An ICE agent attempted to enter the Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis, threatening the staff member who prevented him from entering.
Hello? ICE is so out of control that its agents think they can break international law.
Congress needs to rein them in yesterday.
Hello? ICE is so out of control that its agents think they can break international law.
Congress needs to rein them in yesterday.
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Join us as we honor the memory of union member Alex Pretti and stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota.
January 29, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Join us as we honor the memory of union member Alex Pretti and stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota.
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The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”:
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”:
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
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States are coming together to bring state charges against ICE agents. It's about freaking time!
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
Philly DA joins nationwide coalition to prosecute ICE agents who break laws
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has joined a nationwide coalition of prosecutors to hold ICE agents accountable for breaking state laws.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:44 PM
States are coming together to bring state charges against ICE agents. It's about freaking time!
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...