Robin Epley
@byrobinepley.bsky.social
Me: Opinion hackette @ The Sac Bee
Mainly: Pics of my dog
Sometimes: Politics
Formerly: Pulitzer Prize finalist @ Chico Ent.-Record
Always: Feminine rage
Mainly: Pics of my dog
Sometimes: Politics
Formerly: Pulitzer Prize finalist @ Chico Ent.-Record
Always: Feminine rage
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Robin Epley
@byrobinepley.bsky.social
· Jun 8
Abolish ICE
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Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃
Juno and I are both very sad to hear about Claude’s passing :(
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Juno and I are both very sad to hear about Claude’s passing :(
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a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?
🎉Join the Sacramento Press Club for our End-of-the-Year Mixer!
Catch up with colleagues from the press corps, make new connections and celebrate the close of 2025 🍸 Your first drink is on us!
📅 Tuesday, December 9
📍 SMIC’s, 1200 K Street
⏰ 4–6 p.m.
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Catch up with colleagues from the press corps, make new connections and celebrate the close of 2025 🍸 Your first drink is on us!
📅 Tuesday, December 9
📍 SMIC’s, 1200 K Street
⏰ 4–6 p.m.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
🎉Join the Sacramento Press Club for our End-of-the-Year Mixer!
Catch up with colleagues from the press corps, make new connections and celebrate the close of 2025 🍸 Your first drink is on us!
📅 Tuesday, December 9
📍 SMIC’s, 1200 K Street
⏰ 4–6 p.m.
sacpressclub.org/events/upcom...
Catch up with colleagues from the press corps, make new connections and celebrate the close of 2025 🍸 Your first drink is on us!
📅 Tuesday, December 9
📍 SMIC’s, 1200 K Street
⏰ 4–6 p.m.
sacpressclub.org/events/upcom...
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While everyone is debating whether the second strike was legal, let me point out that none of the first strikes were legal. If a foreign government started blowing up US boats, killing Americans, in international waters, that would be illegal. The US would consider that an act of war.
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
While everyone is debating whether the second strike was legal, let me point out that none of the first strikes were legal. If a foreign government started blowing up US boats, killing Americans, in international waters, that would be illegal. The US would consider that an act of war.
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Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.
I realized my annual holiday cards were getting premium ad space on my friends’ and family’s fridges all year long… so this is my Christmas card this year 😘
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I realized my annual holiday cards were getting premium ad space on my friends’ and family’s fridges all year long… so this is my Christmas card this year 😘
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
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Oh, that's where I know him from
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh, that's where I know him from
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This is, obviously, some deeply disturbing shit.
The White House web site now includes a "media bias" tracker with a leaderboard and an offender hall of shame. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is, obviously, some deeply disturbing shit.
Tra(i)nsgender
Queer-coded transit news: the M train is taking over some of the F train’s service and the F train is taking some of the M train’s service. So, put simply, F to M and M to F.
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Tra(i)nsgender
Someone lit a small bonfire in my dad’s kitchen yesterday and I had to put it out with just my breath 🎂
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Someone lit a small bonfire in my dad’s kitchen yesterday and I had to put it out with just my breath 🎂
My uncle is telling me that he recently found out Disney lied to him about The Alamo 😂
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My uncle is telling me that he recently found out Disney lied to him about The Alamo 😂
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honestly with how much these two deserve each other it's kind of beautiful they found each other if only for a little bit 😍
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
honestly with how much these two deserve each other it's kind of beautiful they found each other if only for a little bit 😍
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
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man this just fucking sucks
this never should have happened, they never should have been there
this never should have happened, they never should have been there
NEW: The governor of West Virginia says that two members of the state National Guard shot today in DC have died.
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
man this just fucking sucks
this never should have happened, they never should have been there
this never should have happened, they never should have been there
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New pricing tiers at national parks based on who you are and where you come from is EXTREMELY Nazi stuff
The Trump administration is raising national parks' prices and adding fees for international tourists from next year in an "America-first" initiative, the Interior Department announced.
Trump admin hikes national parks prices by up to $170 for international tourists
The Interior Department said the "America-first" policy will see "resident-only patriotic fee-free days" on some holidays.
www.axios.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 AM
New pricing tiers at national parks based on who you are and where you come from is EXTREMELY Nazi stuff
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And much of what you know about Epstein was produced by the NYT on the reporting side. So the idea that there was some institutional knowledge about this and it was withheld by the same people who were fine breaking the story about Epstein is ridiculous
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
And much of what you know about Epstein was produced by the NYT on the reporting side. So the idea that there was some institutional knowledge about this and it was withheld by the same people who were fine breaking the story about Epstein is ridiculous
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To be honest I wouldn’t necessarily assume we’d have worse politics than we have now if dryers could vote.
Your dryer can sing Schubert. Does it deserve to vote?
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
To be honest I wouldn’t necessarily assume we’d have worse politics than we have now if dryers could vote.
Your dryer can sing Schubert. Does it deserve to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Your dryer can sing Schubert. Does it deserve to vote?
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
It’s not the sexiest of garments. It arguably looks more like a discarded fishing net. And yet it has cast a spell over the internet
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline
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WHAT STARBUCKS WILL PAY FOR:
✅A swanky office with all the fixings so CEO Brian Niccol can chill near his home in Newport Beach
❌Investing in workers with fair pay, hours, & protections in a union contract that would cost LESS THAN 1 DAY OF SALES
We just want to chat, Brian... #NoContractNoCoffee
✅A swanky office with all the fixings so CEO Brian Niccol can chill near his home in Newport Beach
❌Investing in workers with fair pay, hours, & protections in a union contract that would cost LESS THAN 1 DAY OF SALES
We just want to chat, Brian... #NoContractNoCoffee
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
WHAT STARBUCKS WILL PAY FOR:
✅A swanky office with all the fixings so CEO Brian Niccol can chill near his home in Newport Beach
❌Investing in workers with fair pay, hours, & protections in a union contract that would cost LESS THAN 1 DAY OF SALES
We just want to chat, Brian... #NoContractNoCoffee
✅A swanky office with all the fixings so CEO Brian Niccol can chill near his home in Newport Beach
❌Investing in workers with fair pay, hours, & protections in a union contract that would cost LESS THAN 1 DAY OF SALES
We just want to chat, Brian... #NoContractNoCoffee
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.