Tappin Lisa
@tappinlisa.bsky.social
Introvert and UCLA alum who votes blue and loves to dance 💜
VSA moderator and Wonkette non-commenter 😁
VSA moderator and Wonkette non-commenter 😁
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🌟VICE CHAIR SPOTLIGHT — @replindasanchez.bsky.social🌟
Congresswoman Sánchez has spent her career fighting for a safer & more equal future for the LGBTQI+ community, including as one of our incredible Vice Chairs.
Let us introduce you!
Congresswoman Sánchez has spent her career fighting for a safer & more equal future for the LGBTQI+ community, including as one of our incredible Vice Chairs.
Let us introduce you!
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🌟VICE CHAIR SPOTLIGHT — @replindasanchez.bsky.social🌟
Congresswoman Sánchez has spent her career fighting for a safer & more equal future for the LGBTQI+ community, including as one of our incredible Vice Chairs.
Let us introduce you!
Congresswoman Sánchez has spent her career fighting for a safer & more equal future for the LGBTQI+ community, including as one of our incredible Vice Chairs.
Let us introduce you!
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But what can I do??? Deny your dollars to all who aid, abet and amplify fascism. Let the corporations funding fascism know we #AintBuyingIt.
Spare those resources for local business and/or mutual aid in your community.
boycotthomedepot.network
Spare those resources for local business and/or mutual aid in your community.
boycotthomedepot.network
Boycott Home Depot - Protect Our Communities from ICE
The Economic Toolkit To Fight for Our Rights! BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT TAKE ACTION TODAY VIEW FULL TOOLKIT STOP Home Depot ICE Raids Everyday, we open the news and see another immigration raid taking place ...
boycotthomedepot.network
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
But what can I do??? Deny your dollars to all who aid, abet and amplify fascism. Let the corporations funding fascism know we #AintBuyingIt.
Spare those resources for local business and/or mutual aid in your community.
boycotthomedepot.network
Spare those resources for local business and/or mutual aid in your community.
boycotthomedepot.network
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In March, @wassermanschultz.house.gov, @replindasanchez.bsky.social, and I led 59 Members demanding the IRS stop illegally sharing taxpayer information with DHS.
A federal judge has now blocked this unlawful practice.
A federal judge has now blocked this unlawful practice.
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the IRS from sharing taxpayer information with ICE, ruling the practice unlawful.
Judge issues order blocking IRS from sharing taxpayer information with ICE
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued her order after finding the Trump administration policy was "unlawful."
nbcnews.to
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In March, @wassermanschultz.house.gov, @replindasanchez.bsky.social, and I led 59 Members demanding the IRS stop illegally sharing taxpayer information with DHS.
A federal judge has now blocked this unlawful practice.
A federal judge has now blocked this unlawful practice.
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This, and also: If you want Gen Z to show up at your anti-Trump rallies, incorporate Gaza and trans rights and campus issues into your messaging.
And yes, it'll turn off a bunch of boomers if you do. But that's the thing—either way you're choosing one generation over another.
And yes, it'll turn off a bunch of boomers if you do. But that's the thing—either way you're choosing one generation over another.
this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This, and also: If you want Gen Z to show up at your anti-Trump rallies, incorporate Gaza and trans rights and campus issues into your messaging.
And yes, it'll turn off a bunch of boomers if you do. But that's the thing—either way you're choosing one generation over another.
And yes, it'll turn off a bunch of boomers if you do. But that's the thing—either way you're choosing one generation over another.
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can
Please don't take him even though you can
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can
Please don't take him even though you can
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Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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. . . said "she is just a kids book writer."
Just? I "just" write for kids?
That is who is important. That's where the future is.
Just? I "just" write for kids?
That is who is important. That's where the future is.
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
. . . said "she is just a kids book writer."
Just? I "just" write for kids?
That is who is important. That's where the future is.
Just? I "just" write for kids?
That is who is important. That's where the future is.
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🦬 Two things Elon’s little X experiment (showing users’ locations) has made clear are:
1) There are so many more of us than there are of them.
2) What a world we live in…that making rage bait is the only way some people in developing countries are able to survive.
1) There are so many more of us than there are of them.
2) What a world we live in…that making rage bait is the only way some people in developing countries are able to survive.
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
🦬 Two things Elon’s little X experiment (showing users’ locations) has made clear are:
1) There are so many more of us than there are of them.
2) What a world we live in…that making rage bait is the only way some people in developing countries are able to survive.
1) There are so many more of us than there are of them.
2) What a world we live in…that making rage bait is the only way some people in developing countries are able to survive.
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They should dump Nuzzi and bring back the Teen Vogue political reporters group.
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
They should dump Nuzzi and bring back the Teen Vogue political reporters group.
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A story in two parts. At the start of the Trump administration I heard from Republican Senators that they knew the outlandish people Trump was sending up for confirmation were tests of the "if you roll on this, you'll roll on everything" variety. And they rolled (1/2)
TAPPER: Dr Cassidy, RFK Jr lied to you
CASSIDY: First let me say what's most important -- vaccines are safe.
CASSIDY: First let me say what's most important -- vaccines are safe.
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A story in two parts. At the start of the Trump administration I heard from Republican Senators that they knew the outlandish people Trump was sending up for confirmation were tests of the "if you roll on this, you'll roll on everything" variety. And they rolled (1/2)
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PSA (unrelated to *all this*)
Take that turkey out the freezer babes.
Take that turkey out the freezer babes.
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
PSA (unrelated to *all this*)
Take that turkey out the freezer babes.
Take that turkey out the freezer babes.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
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good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...
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This is simultaneously one of the best passing plays a WR has ever made and one of the best catches a QB has ever made
An absolutely unbelievable TD from Jameis Winston and that Lions defender is catching hell in film study this week
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is simultaneously one of the best passing plays a WR has ever made and one of the best catches a QB has ever made
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Rep Jasmine Crockett on MTG quitting: “I was like, you got to be kidding. You’re on the other side of the president for one week and you can’t take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes.”
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Rep Jasmine Crockett on MTG quitting: “I was like, you got to be kidding. You’re on the other side of the president for one week and you can’t take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes.”
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
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NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
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"All New York boroughs are cities unto themselves, each with a distinct character. Queens is the mouthy cousin wearing booty shorts. Queens will tell you to fuck off and then ask whatchu gonna do about it, biiiiitch?" michaelianblack.substack.com/p/glory-to-m...
Glory to Mother Queens
Zohran Mamdani launched a Thanksgiving charm offense aimed squarely at the president, resulting in Donald Trump himself becoming the day’s main course.
michaelianblack.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"All New York boroughs are cities unto themselves, each with a distinct character. Queens is the mouthy cousin wearing booty shorts. Queens will tell you to fuck off and then ask whatchu gonna do about it, biiiiitch?" michaelianblack.substack.com/p/glory-to-m...
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
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UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
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