Roma Panganiban
romapancake.bsky.social
Roma Panganiban
@romapancake.bsky.social
Literary agent at Azantian Literary Agency; constantly mortified by the ordeal of being known. Don't buy books from Amazon. she/her
www.romapanganiban.com
I would ruin my wedding day makeup before making it through the doors if I found out Zohran would be officiating my ceremony
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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There is a certain brand of high-minded media story that is "I have just noticed this thing everyone else has been discussing for years and I will now make a pronouncement on it" and I just... I don't personally need that
February 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Do I know any journalists or news outlets who might be willing to write an article about the months I’ve spent begging GoFundMe to release the funds I’ve raised? I wish this were more common knowledge so no one else finds themselves in this position. (Please boost!)
February 13, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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We are on day 43 of continuous rain here in the South West of the UK so I am sending out this yellow #1880s Liberty gown as a blast of sunshine to brighten the endless sogginess @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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I love figure skating but I hate the ISU.
February 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
"Pornography" is when brown people look hot and white people can't look away 🙃
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I'm not watching the Olympic skating live this year, but that has not and will not stop me from spreading the lore of Evil Guillaume to anyone who will listen (and everyone else on the subway platform at the time)
February 10, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Analysis: Cizeron/Fournier-Beaudry were wildly overscored considering they weren't even in sync on their twizzles
Analysis: The first phase of the ice dance competition at the Winter Olympics was the best chance for Madison Chock and Evan Bates to control their fate.

But the three-time world champions found themselves behind the French team by 0.46 points.
Analysis | In a tight Olympic ice dance, the most subtle slip comes with a steep cost
Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates are looking up at the French team of Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry after the first day of competition.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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This is the correct energy
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?

LYONS: Yes mam

McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?

LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question

McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
February 10, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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This obsession people have with normalcy is why tragedies get swept under the rug

No, sit in that uncomfortable truth and fight so these monsters are held accountable
February 10, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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I am begging people to understand that "illegal" does not mean "impossible."

"How is that allowed? Isn't that illegal?"

Laws of society aren't laws of physics. Life isn't a video game. There's no Big Boss who's going to fire someone from life for not playing by the rules.
February 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
No better place to watch Bad Bunny Bowl tonight than from the dance floor of a Brooklyn bar hosting a mutual aid fundraiser to support our community 🥲 Te amo, Nueva Yol
February 9, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.
February 8, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Feel like there has been a lot of “conspiracy theorists were right” but what actually happened was victims were and that’s much harder to accept for most people
This conspiratorial thinking is actually the easy way out that ignores addressing real, solvable problems that contribute to victim’s deaths. It ignores failures of the justice system, not fictional shadowy figures and assassins, to keep her safe. It ignores how she was punished by the courts
February 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
What if we all started signing off our messages with "xoxo," but unironically
February 7, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Repeatedly extending the presumption of good faith to people who quite explicitly operate in bad faith is, at base, disrespecting yourself.
February 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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gotta agree with this. at some point we all have to contend with what good faith is actually for and extend it accordingly
A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.
February 7, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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oh man this is EVEN WORSE than the judge calling out your grammar, it's a judge saying "yo I can tell you didn't write this because when you're writing your grammar sucks"
Do you know how mad a judge has to be to call out your grammatical errors
February 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Just spent $196.94 on the new-again hobby, so I'm confessing on main as penance
The real joke is that I picked up an old hobby 10 years later and had to buy a whole new set of equipment, but this time even better and more expensive
This meme just punched me in the face and stole my wallet
February 6, 2026 at 6:19 AM