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Ethan חנן Harfenist

@harfenist.bsky.social

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NY-based editor and sometimes reporter | Pursuing MLIS @ CUNY Queens College Work in SPLC, LA Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, CJR, VICE News, Quartz, NowThis, Mongabay, DNAinfo, Phnom Penh Post, The Diplomat, BOMB Magazine, ESF, more

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1h

I’m so damn spooked by this headline

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National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 2h

Reading relatively good news feels illegal these days www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Israel and Hamas Reach Deal on Hostage Release and Troop Pullback

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 3h

We all have to adapt to the times we’re living in.

Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 4h

My professor just left our zoom class to get a delivery and it was just wine lol

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 5h

“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” is so good and makes me hope more Persian horror can break thru.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 5h

Seems crazy to send your head of Homeland Security in what you’re declaring is a “war zone.” But logic never mattered here—just shitty sunglasses and facial filler

Kristi Noem tours Portland Ice facility with Maga influencers in tow

Oregon governor, Tina Kotek, accuses Ice of antagonizing protesters with teargas and by inviting influencers to film

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 7h

Taylor swift as Mr burns in the bus with Barney

B: hey aren’t you that 36 year old singer who sings about high school?
T: no I’m Taylor Swift

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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 9h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 8h

Ah fuck, Shaun of the Dead too. There are just too many!!!

Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 8h

This could be a commercial for the Texas National Guard being deployed

America's 17th Line of Defense

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 8h

Honorable Mentions:

Prince of Darkness & In the Mouth of Madness
The Cabin in the Woods
The IT Miniseries

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 8h

10 horror movies to get to know me

The Thing
Haxan
The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
Hereditary
Starry Eyes
Possession
Noroi: The Curse
V/H/S
Evil Dead II

Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 9h

10 horror movies to get to know me

✝️ Exorcist III
🏚 The Shining
🥃 Doctor Sleep
🎬 Shadow of the Vampire
🧛‍♂️ Dracula (1979)
🐀 Dracula (1992)
🐺 American Werewolf in London
🦈 Jaws
🩸 Dracula (2020 Netflix/BBC)
🚀 Lifeforce

Bukkakestocracy (cumming soon) @boo.bsky.social · 9h

10 horror movies to get to know me

👹The Wailing
🚃Train to Busan
🌞Midsommar
🥓Martyrs
🐙The Void
📷Lake Mungo
🐵Nope
🧩Hellraiser
⚰Let The Right One In
🎸Green Room

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 11h

I would’ve watched every single episode of “Twin Peaks: The Return” in a cinema

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 1d

In Italy episodes of Colombo were released as feature films in theaters.

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 11h

"Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims"
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 11h

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 11h

It’s going to be crazy and infuriating watching all these sycophants try to distance themselves from Trump once he either croaks or the Epstein files finally drop

Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

May his memory be a blessing

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

“She’s never had a Redwood in her life!”

I would like to take this opportunity to express my fondness for having sex (Sabrina Carpenter as Kennedy debating Nixon in an old Simpsons bit)

I’d also like to ezprsss my fondness for that particular recreational activity (Taylor swift as Nixon in a fake Simpsons debate with kennedy(

Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

Unfucking real that this is the state of the U.S. these days. Why Biden never packed the court, I’ll never ever ever understand www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Highlights of the Conversion Therapy Argument at the Supreme Court

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the spooky season, motherfuckers

Chuckie

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I refer to us as “off white”(even though it makes no sense color-wise).

Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly, Shitty Milhouse is too busy monitoring his son’s porn preferences

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

But while I don’t agree with Samuel on everything, he’s absolutely correct that Jews—especially Israeli Jews—are considered “white” when it’s convenient to hate on them. Which totally ignores that Ashkenazim are the minority when it comes to Israeli Jews, a fact antisemites love to ignore.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 1d

To call Theodor Herzl “antisemitic” is just straight up crazy—you seem like somebody who subscribes to the Khazar myth just based on such batshit takes.

Herzl was shitty in many ways, undoubtedly; he (correctly) predicted antisemitic countries would be great allies for Israel in the case of Europe.

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