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Brand strategy advertising comms lady. Essayist. Running a creative agency in NY and London. Lover of telly, scripted things, audacious ideas, culture, and shops
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Tyler Perry, Steven Spielberg, and Bob Iger should buy a performing arts property, put Amanda Gorman, Michelle Obama, and Sarah Jessica Parker on the board and call it @ The Real Kennedy Center

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it's that bit in the zombie apocalypse movie where some of the survivors suggest going to CDC headquarters, but one of them cautions, nah they gutted that place of expertise years ago, but then the group goes there only to find military monsters and, like, maybe one sad scientist who held the line

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the thing about cultural trends vs fads is that they point to larger forces that play out for many years. SNL saw this coming a mile off (as the writers often do, yes for all the faults, they are cultural orators) www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

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looking for every news outlet to report mercilessly on unemployment numbers, inflation, stock market, oh, and egg prices

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and yet how quickly corporations across America folded

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1187 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1509 comments

AOC: And he is running around because he thinks he got a bank account with a lot of zeros in it that it makes him some kind of super citizen. I don't think so.

submitted 15 hours ago • 176 comments

If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

submitted 15 hours ago • 716 comments

AOC is the only one who gets it. Donald campaigned for 4 yrs. if Democrats don't start playing that game, they're toast. we need Dem doing rallies, interviews, being at the Met Gala, shadow meetings w/ global leaders, stealing every fucking ounce of media for FOUR YEARS. get on their nerves. get out

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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and there it is. God it's a sad time to be around www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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SpaceX has a TERRIBLE track record when it comes to prioritizing safety. If that’s how Elon Musk wants to run his company then so be it, but him and his engineers shouldn’t be anywhere NEAR initiatives that affect aviation safety for everyone else. www.popsci.com/science/nasa...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The Daily Star this morning is brutal.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

I work in advertising, on specialty retail, banking apps, chocolate spread, spirits, and toy brands. it's a refuge from the news. but increasingly wonder where I could be useful in comms strategy for Dems or democracy. yet so many like me are told, no thanks ad world dumndumb, we got this. yet,

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great idea. resources for anyone who wants a sense of community. I've personally found @indivisible.org inspiring as they don't ask for blanket donations but facilitate events, calls, community

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From me: After Trump broke Tarrio out of prison, Tarrio said: “Success is going to be retribution. We have to ensure the next four years set us up for the next 100 years." Tarrio and Trump are on the same page. The retribution agenda is about entrenchment. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/trumps-par...

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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated. This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

in DC back in the 2000s we used to wayfind and joke about each neighborhood's Safeway: there was the sexy Safeway, the unsafeway, the Soviet Safeway (with long lines and empty shelves). thought of that in the grocery store agg aisle earlier (limiting 1 carton per customer)

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me in 2077: what people forget is that there were a half dozen plane crashes each month before the Great AI Plane Skyfall of 2025 grandson: wow so everybody thought AI was going to fix all of that? me: haha what? oh. no. not even kind of. No

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

listen, I know there's a lot happening right now but, real quick, we've all got a huge, kinda out of nowhere, like oooh wait is he new here?! crush on Jack Kennedy Schlossberg yeah?

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in case you were still on the fence about your NYT subscription

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I suspect we’re going to be hearing more stories about failing farmers having their land bought for cheep—it’s not a coincidence. Is this why USAID was cut—to make way for billionaires?! Watch til the end and keep an eye on national parklands too. 🧵

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