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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD
@elizabethbitmeehan.com
Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and polisci metascience. Run @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. Go 'Cats. Always a Midwest Princess 👑
i cannot tell you how glad I am to have found the justice for keri russell corner of bluesky
January 12, 2026 at 3:39 AM
it is a link to his CV - the book isn't out yet
January 12, 2026 at 3:37 AM
January 12, 2026 at 3:24 AM
been listening to this one a lot today

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ-6...
Throwing Stones (Live at Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA, 6/3/23)
YouTube video by Dead & Company - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Also any time I take a train / bus combo to and from the airport (NYC, DC, Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, etc.) I get so pissed that more Americans don’t get to experience the glory of Not Having to Drive and Park at Airports
January 11, 2026 at 2:40 PM
night 4 - what a beautiful, funny gut punch about love & grief

fin
January 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM
NOTUS:
Dem House Rep Steven Horsford:
“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me. These are the same people that I’m supposed to call to coordinate security or to do support when I have a town hall.”
www.notus.org/democrats/me...
Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection
“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.
www.notus.org
January 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
It is! And I wouldn’t know because we ordered it at a Georgian restaurant 😂
January 10, 2026 at 11:18 PM
the stakes are “everyone’s lives are threatened by intelligence agencies” 🙃
January 10, 2026 at 4:22 PM
ngl post-shower I really am in a delusional “maybe I’m the one who can Actually Fix CHESS” mindset 😅
January 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM
- TL;DR I would stick closer to original themes like “governments fuck with people for no reason all the time”, “media is a tool weaponized by the state”, “money & status go a long way to appeasing people” & reinforce “women fucked over by men who literally play chess instead of going to therapy”
January 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM
- Florence & Svetlana are fleshed out (good!). Florence is presented as a grandmaster & they could’ve leaned more into the real-world problems of chess being a boys club (real life Hungarian Susan Polgar!) Make Svetlana a woman training for greatness from childhood like Anatoly who chose love & duty
January 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
- Walter is just a Random CIA Guy, not a TV Producer CIA guy. This removes the natural reason why he’d know the main cast and again all the basis for commentary about media manipulation & financial motivations. You can even have the arbiter be like “people expected better of their media in 1979!”
January 10, 2026 at 12:50 PM
follow up for @saragoodman.bsky.social:

- lines are kept that now don’t make sense, i.e. Press Conference line about Freddie asking for more $ in a show where he’s a sad boi bipolar medicated man, not a money-obsessed asshole desperately trying to fill the hole in his soul
January 10, 2026 at 12:50 PM