All are welcome! Come to my Going Away party at Dream Baby Bar in the East Village between 10th and 11th on Avenue B. We’ll be in the back bar. Friends, RISK! fans, and pizza! Thursday, Sept 11 from 7 to 10pm.

There’s still time to jump in one of my 8-week online storytelling workshops this summer! In fact, it’s okay to jump in a little late too. One starts Wednesday July 23 and one starts August 17. Email me at [email protected] to learn more!

Jump in my next online storytelling workshops! Email me at [email protected] for info! One starting July 23. Another stating August 17!

The online storytelling workshops I’ve taught this summer have been so wonderful, I’m adding 2 more! One starting July 23, one starting Aug 17!  Email me at [email protected] for more info on how to jump in for an experience that’s equal parts creative, therapeutic and fun. #storytelling

My 1st time on RISK! I told the story of finding out at age 46 that my dad was not my biological father. 2nd time, I told @thekevinallison.bsky.social about my 1st kiss & the high school mischief that led to police pointing shotguns at me. This time? I tell how I ended up in a Maureen Dowd book.

Have you seen @thekevinallison.bsky.social ‘s latest essay in @slate.com ? You might recognize this hilarious story from RISK! Check it out here: slate.com/life/2025/06...

Hey guess what?? @thekevinallison.bsky.social & RISK! are coming back to Philly this June 19th at FringeArts.... and I'm making my return to the show!! I can't wait to receive my Third Timers jacket....

Still spots in my 3 storytelling workshops on Zoom this spring/summer. Personal stories to share on stage, for the page, for podcasts or interviews, in socializing, the workplace. We’ll be workshopping true stories long and short. Email [email protected]

For most of my childhood, most of the west side of Cincinnati thought my dad was the model for this poster, a belief he very much encouraged.

Out now! The User’s Guide to Storytelling by Doug O’Brien is fantastic. If you get it on Tuesday, there’s a reduced price and coupons to two different online courses Doug teaches. Go get it!

A story you can hear me tell on @thekevinallison.bsky.social ’s brilliant storytelling podcast, RISK! www.risk-show.com/story/how-i-... #XPNcountdown

Before I moved to the 35th floor of a building I had no idea pigeons flew this high.

Netflix is so wild to me. There’s a first rate production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” starring Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington and I only know about it because of a post on BlueSky. Like, I’m watching it now while reading along and it’s BRILLIANT.

This is horrific, and is exactly the kind of violence that is a direct result of the cruel, brutal attacks by Nancy Mace, Trump and the GOP. www.advocate.com/crime/trans-...

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"We shouldn’t be surprised by people like Jared Polis complying in advance. But we should also be very clear: anyone who suggests that RFK Jr. running HHS is anything but a monumental, catastrophic disaster is a liar, a fool, or quite possibly both."

At this point, democrats have to concentrate on stopping the ones that will do the most damage. Forget the distraction nominees. Focus on the serious threats. Gaetz, Gabbard and Hegseth remain the most problematic.

Trump isn't even in office yet & we're already talking about letting him bypass the Constitution as though that's a normal conversation to be having.

That whole "don't f**k someone if they don't have books" thing. We live in jail-cell sized spaces. Please check under the sink.

With the most brittle man in history about to regain the presidency, everyone in the chain of command needs to remember their oaths and their duty to disobey illegal orders. He once demanded peaceful protesters be shot in the legs and he’s more unhinged and deeper in sycophancy than before

We are all witnessing anticipatory obedience in real time.

this gets to the point i keep making. to the media elites who are obsessed with anti-wokeness, something like mass deportation is a total abstraction whereas they are annoyed, on a daily basis, by their supposedly “woke” younger colleagues and social media antagonists

Can we please have Ben Wikler as DNC Chair? Please? If Democrats aren't campaigning on Medicare for all, raising the minimum wage, taxing billionaires, and fighting poverty, then what are we even doing?

Watching Cobra Kai Season 4 and spotting @thekevinallison.bsky.social

What’s wild about nonfiction books, films, & podcasts that make the case that truth, justice & knowledge of facts are so important, is that we now live in a world where, quite officially and overtly, none of that applies even a little bit to those at the top.

We’re not planning on having RISK! live shows in Los Angeles in 2025… so don’t miss the last one! Amazing true stories from Shauna McGarry, Tuesday Thomas, @thedavidcrabb @imlaurahouse and Zeke Nicholson. Nov 19th, 7:30 at @lyrichyperion Tix at risk-show.com/live

What is this "normalizing" you speak of? In "analysis" from our leading paper.

“raw milk is a reasonable choice for some people” is a good example of being so open minded your brains start to leak out of your ears

Yes yes yes. I have run a 24/7, 365 operation since I got elected. I have a permanent campaign HQ that rotates between off-year and on-year organizing. People thought it was nuts when I first set it up. I said you’re setting yourself up for disaster if you only show up 6 mos before an election.

yes www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

trump will be the next reagan in the sense that in 30 years every time you notice some horrible defect in society you'll do some quick research and trace it back to trump

"It's not my job to educate you" and "block with wild abandon" and "we have to build a new mass movement" are all legitimate things to say, but they are also at least somewhat in tension with each other. The Bluesky ecosystem is going to be evolving and diversifying in the weeks and years to come.

either people specify what they mean when they say “elite” or the term is just meaningless pejorative. both parties are dominated by elites in any conventional sense of what that means! the question is: why are right-wing elites more palatable to voters than liberal ones?

This is really, really petty, but why do so many people posting long, detailed hypotheses about how we got here not know how to spell the goddamn name Reagan? If there's no extra A, it's the girl in The Exorcist. The other one was personally responsible for the evil he unleashed.

I feel like Wednesday and Thursday were mostly stunned shell shock for many of us but today, I hear rage. What a colossal disgrace this is.

I have never, in all my years as a therapist, witnessed such a rapid and precipitous decompensation in 24 hours. The fear is so palpable and pervasive that infrastructure is buckling. Whatever you do, please support lgbtq orgs and crisis lines as much as you can. Pour resources into the community.

Welcome to everyone new to Bluesky! Here are 4 (illustrated) steps you can take to make your experience here more pleasant than what you left behind on X and/or Threads. A 🧵

Those most recent Dylan albums about how this place is just plain doomed… 😢

The new podcast I produced actually dropped today. I knew the story of a family surviving its country’s descent into authoritarianism would be gripping, but I didn’t know it would be so relevant. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Coin flip as to whether RFK Jr outright bans adderall or mandates its addition to the public water supply

I am seeing more and more opinions bubbling up about how throwing trans people to the wolves would be a winning strategy for Democrats, and I just want to quickly say: Fuck off with that absolute dog shit.

Just got done talking with two classes of students, which confirmed my suspicion that this is really the first "unreality" election. No two people saw the same thing & many people gave up even trying to know what was happening. "Unreality" propaganda strategy: 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Okay, the space ain’t all there yet, but someone likes his new bed

This is the whole ballgame for me: You cannot run a functioning democracy in a media environment where voters do not know basic facts about what candidates do and believe. Voters are living in a post-internet world and legacy institutions have not kept up.

How do people like this app? In this overwhelming time, I’m thinking of leaving the bird app and migrating over here.

Amazing shot by fan of #TheState Ted Ilsley.

The State's tour covered in @RollingStone ! Great article 🎉 And tix for November shows at The-State dot com. #TheState www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...