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Elaine Rothman (she/her)
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webway.bsky.social
happy hogswatch
“All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need . . . fantasies to make life bearable.” REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. “Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—” YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. “So we can believe the big ones?” YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. “They’re not the same at all!” YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME . . . SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. “Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—” MY POINT EXACTLY.
December 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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ruthz.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.

Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Not sure why, but all this “Halloween” stuff—witches, vampires, werewolves—is totally foreign to me. Where does it come from? Definitely not here, at Alabama Bible College.
tinymysteries.bsky.social Martin Guerre’s wife @tinymysteries.bsky.social · Oct 19
This guy was probably pretty excited when Olivia Nuzzi got hired by Vanity Fair.
October 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I am just so fucking proud of her.
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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susanrinkunas.com
“we heard tale of expanding the tent”
Photo of the three vampires from “sinners” trying to get invited into the juke joint where a party is happening
October 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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parkermolloy.com
Jezebel has little choice but to hire the same witches to curse Kelly. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Sep 23
Megyn Kelly has called on Etsy to burn the witches.

"You're playing with fire messing with this stuff. There are actually are demons in this world. Calling up the spirit world, in particular the devil's spirit world, can actually have real world consequences. It's not something to mess with!"
Screenshot of Megyn Kelly's Youtube channel Video title: Megyn Kelly Reveals Erika Kirk Was Shaken By Jezebel's Article About Placing a CURSE on Charlie Kirk
September 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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midgiepie.bsky.social
a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors.

@theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches
one of those trucks that's a roving billboard (is it just called a roving billboard? I'm not gonna look it up right now). it's got an Onion headline that reads "ICE agent decides he wants kids after seeing incredible love and devotion of parents begging him not to take their child"
September 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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adamwritegood.bsky.social
“The new @lindsayellis.bsky.social video has everything: Analysis of pre-K children’s entertainment, doomsday cults, digressions about Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rwandan genocide—“
August 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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simonee.bsky.social
current state of NYC mayoral race
A fucked up three headed hydra of Sliwa, Adams, and Cuomo’s heads on an outline of a guy yelling “I FUCKING HATE YOU AND HOPE YOU DIE” next to Zohran’s head on a little boy saying “i planned a fun scavenger hunt to get people to enjoy the city :)”
August 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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punzer.bsky.social
get in loser we're wishing jk ill will
August 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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leftistlawyer.com
I wish ill on JK Rowling. I *also* wish ill on the Bluesky mods who suspended Jessie Gender.
August 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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susanrinkunas.com
Grandma-killer says what? (This is deeply deranged and Mamdani got the apartment when he was making $47K)
Twitter screenshot: Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment. You grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman. You’ve had weddings on 3 continents. You own property in LGTBQIA+ murderous Uganda. You make $142,000 a year plus stipends, and your wife works too, meaning you together likely make well over $200,000. No matter which way you cut it: Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich. Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. That should be housing for someone who needs it. We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis. Millions of low income New Yorkers need this apartment and an apartment like it. Yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don’t need it. Today, I am calling on you to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who need it. Leaders must show moral clarity. Time to move out. posted: 3:15 PM · Aug 8, 2025
August 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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nerdvanacrafts.bsky.social
This is getting ridiculous. Some of my video selections are because I babysit and need to entertain my nieces and nephews. Why should that restrict my account and what i watch? Sign the petition, for all of us.
chng.it/G4pMxdGsVP
YouTube’s AI Tracks Everything You Watch — Stop This Now
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
August 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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katelynburns.com
Why is he presenting his patents of nobility? Is he about to compete in the joust?
August 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Great clip of @marcmaron.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
"Bluesky is dying"

Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .
ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .
media.tenor.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Murphy. She shared a father-dogter dance with her human on his wedding day. Couldn't let the bride and groom get ALL the attention. 14/10 (IG: murphythelady & castanedafilms_)
August 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social
When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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tuphlos.bsky.social
Oh.
July 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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anildash.com
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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trickweekes.bsky.social
I still think the Good Place should have had a breakfast diner called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes.
June 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent.

Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
Attacks on Muslims flood mainstream after Mamdani win
Openly racist rhetoric has become normalized at the highest levels of American politics.
www.axios.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM