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Elizabeth Lopatto

@lopatto.bsky.social

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internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher tip me: [email protected]

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Ingersoll’s calls for violence are in line with the official Republican position. John Gillette, a Republican state representative for Arizona, called for Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to be hanged on his X account. Two Kansas Republicans alluded to — “joked” — about shooting a former Democratic colleague on the floor of the Kansas House. Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins threatened to jail the mayor of Denver, while Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna threatened to refer him for criminal charges. Arizona Republican Paul Gosar shared an anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking then-President Joe Biden.

Denaturalization is another favorite Republican threat. Republican Andy Ogles of Tennessee said that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani should be stripped of his citizenship and deported; Ogles later demanded the same for Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois. Texas Republican Brandon Gill, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, and South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace have called for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized US citizen, to be deported.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10h

AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10h

I have been unable to tell what the fuck is going on and so have focused on normie posting. if there is another meltdown tomorrow I'm making my cat do a photo shoot

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10h

wow, good call, I could have not one but TWO kinds of pickles

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10h

you make a good point but here's the thing: I'm going to pass out in like an hour or two anyway

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10h

don't want to make dinner. what if I just eat an entire jar of pickles

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 13h

thank you!

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 15h

thank you!

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 17h

just going to speak this into the world: I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall for her first meeting with standards and practices. if you know anything, I'm very easy to reach xo

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 17h

www.theverge.com/24282022/kam...

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles

Trump doesn’t care about any of this.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18h

hey, thanks!

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18h

dang I had no idea about all that... thanks for filling me in!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21h

this is very good

— lol, lmao —

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20h

thank you!

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 21h

Just barely

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 22h

it was indeed the new republic. @alexshephard.bsky.social, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you...

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 22h

creature

A beautiful tuxedo cat with a pink nose looks skeptically at the camera as she rolls on the floor. Close observers will notice little pink toe beans and a flexed paw with claws out

The same tuxedo cat, now lurking over the camera with her tongue out

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

I want to be clear: she is right

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

thank you!

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

I know a glass cliff when I see one

This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs. You're Marissa Mayer at Yahoo without the Googler street cred. You're Nancy Dubuc at Vice without the string of hit TV shows. You're Linda Yaccarino at Twitter without the advertiser relationships. You have been hired as a sop to a Trump administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, and you will be made to oversee wave after wave of layoffs until you quit or get fired and the entire news division is shut down in a final spasm of cost-cutting after the next inescapable media merger.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

there's a guy at I think the new republic who writes (or wrote? I don't think he did it last year) a very funny column of nobel prize predictions and I would very much like for him to do that again before next week. in particular I want to know what he thinks pynchon's odds are