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Laura Skopec

@lauraskopec

Optioned TV writer, published humor writer, stand-up. Work @mcsweeneys, @The_Belladonnas. Parent to a first grader, disgruntled assistant to an angry cat.

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In their new Forefront article, Robert Berenson + Laura Skopec from Urban Institute argue that the goal of ensuring that measurement is relevant and outcomes-focused is not furthered by using suspect measures or using measures beyond their original intent. bit.ly/3yCYDkK

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Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7pm Pacific!! Come hear me make jokes about AI, parenting, and the time I temped at a Catholic Church. Zoom or in-person tickets available at eventbrite.com/e/lrgf24patio6…

Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7pm Pacific!! Come hear me make jokes about AI, parenting, and the time I temped at a Catholic Church. Zoom or in-person tickets available at eventbrite.com/e/lrgf24patio6…
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Folks, we don’t ask for anything at The Stunt List— But we have a small favor now—Elizabeth Ditty has volunteered for 2+ years to help boost our writers. She just launched an ULTRA RAD short film crowdfunding campaign. If ur able to donate or share, we’d be so grateful 🙏

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As congress considers expanding PACE under the DUALS Act, we examined the PACE payment system and how it compares to D-SNP payments for Parts A, B, and D: urban.org/research/publi…

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The tiny airport we left from today was fine, but I think my kid and I might live in Detroit now. Thought after 2 days the airlines would be recovering, but not @delta. Flight cancelled, no automatic rebooking, told to “use the app” which shows 0 flights in the next 7 days.

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Tweeting into the void, but Delta canceled our flight on Sunday and said they can’t get us to LA until Thursday, won’t book us on other airlines, and won’t pay for a hotel. They said it’s the computer glitch so “uncontrollable.” U.S. Department of Transportation says otherwise: businessinsider.com/airline-delay-…

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Trying to think of recent comps for a half-hour comedy I’m outlining and it’s really hitting me how few sitcoms are being made.

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Oh no, signed my kid up for a soccer team and it’s everything I feared it would be. On the plus side, the dialogue in this sports parents feature I’m working on is definitely not unrealistic.

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We need a Darwin awards but for cities. I nominate Huntington Beach and its brilliant fiscal strategy of “what if we spent our entire budget on getting ourselves sued?”

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Posting for accountability to finish this draft of my insane new horror/comedy feature, CANDY, by the end of the month. #firstpagefriday #1stPageFriday

Posting for accountability to finish this draft of my insane new horror/comedy feature, CANDY,  by the end of the month. #firstpagefriday #1stPageFriday
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JD Vance has a real talent for making pretty mainstream opinions sound weird/insane. Normal: Increase the child tax credit. JD: Tax penalties for childless people! Normal: Grandparents helping with childcare is great. JD: Free childcare is the purpose of postmenopausal women!

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Oh no, my son picked Madame Web to watch tonight. Now he’s gonna have a lot of weird/spectacularly wrong ideas about CPR 😂

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Working on getting more green stuff into the kid. Made peas tonight and threw some feta on them. Kid, “wow, mom, I can’t even taste the pea-ness!” That one took me a few beats to suss out.

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Working on resurrecting a half-hour pilot that's been in a drawer for over a year. CLOWN TOWN: After an alcoholic stand-up goes viral for all the wrong reasons, she must take a job as a children's birthday party entertainer while she tries to navigate sobriety. #firstpagefriday

Working on resurrecting a half-hour pilot that's been in a drawer for over a year.

CLOWN TOWN: After an alcoholic stand-up goes viral for all the wrong reasons, she must take a job as a children's birthday party entertainer while she tries to navigate sobriety. #firstpagefriday
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When *things* are happening, this sh!t is so fun (says the person who spent the entire summer worried nothing would ever happen again).

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This was a fascinating project exploring how maternity care varies across high-income countries. tl;dr the US has more medically intensive labor and delivery processes (more epidurals, more docs/specialists) and less emphasis on postpartum care: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…