@pollyannainhell.bsky.social
Recovering lawyer, minor public official, (very) former sf/fantasy editor, occasional painter. This is the account I admit to in public.
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Which came first? The octopus or the nationalization of #Holyoke's election this year? Yes, it's all part of the story of the Paper City's results last month. #mapoli wmasspi.com/2025/12/nati...
National Politics Seeped into Holyoke, Possibly Breaking a Council Stalemate… — Western Mass Politics & Insight
HOLYOKE—On the precipice of the municipal election, the Facebook page Keep Holyoke Affordable took out the knives and blasted Mimi Panitch.
wmasspi.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Which came first? The octopus or the nationalization of #Holyoke's election this year? Yes, it's all part of the story of the Paper City's results last month. #mapoli wmasspi.com/2025/12/nati...
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anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!
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 6:24 PM
anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!
My God, they've reinvented the Deadly Joke. And somehow possibly developed immunity to it. We're all doomed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_o...
July 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
My God, they've reinvented the Deadly Joke. And somehow possibly developed immunity to it. We're all doomed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_o...
This. Greenblatt and the travesty he's made of the ADL shouldn't be allowed to claim they're the one true arbiter of "Jewish concerns."
They're not; they don't speak for anything like all of us; and they don't get to claim to do so over our objections.
They're not; they don't speak for anything like all of us; and they don't get to claim to do so over our objections.
lol he finally just said it
Greenblatt is a disgrace. I hope Mamdani continues to ignore the ADL and they fade into deserved irrelevance or Greenblatt is fired and they get a new head who makes them into a civil rights organization
Greenblatt is a disgrace. I hope Mamdani continues to ignore the ADL and they fade into deserved irrelevance or Greenblatt is fired and they get a new head who makes them into a civil rights organization
July 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This. Greenblatt and the travesty he's made of the ADL shouldn't be allowed to claim they're the one true arbiter of "Jewish concerns."
They're not; they don't speak for anything like all of us; and they don't get to claim to do so over our objections.
They're not; they don't speak for anything like all of us; and they don't get to claim to do so over our objections.
To be clear, this is what actual antisemitism looks like.
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner says she "100%" questions the faith of Jewish politicians who endorse Zohran Mamdani.
"The same way I would question Chuck Schumer, who works against the interests of his own people at times for the politics."
Emily Compagno then accuses Mamdani of Holocaust denial!
"The same way I would question Chuck Schumer, who works against the interests of his own people at times for the politics."
Emily Compagno then accuses Mamdani of Holocaust denial!
June 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
This whole thread. Please. A grateful nation will thank you. DON'T RANK CUOMO.
As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you.
Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.
Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.
June 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This whole thread. Please. A grateful nation will thank you. DON'T RANK CUOMO.
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Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.
June 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.
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I don’t see this mentioned at all about Andrew Cuomo.
He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims.
nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...
He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims.
nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...
Andrew Cuomo joins high-powered legal team to defend Netanyahu against ICC’s war crime claims
Andrew Cuomo has joined the legal team defending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jewish State after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant accusing him of war crimes in…
nypost.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I don’t see this mentioned at all about Andrew Cuomo.
He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims.
nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...
He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims.
nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...
I'm trying "Brad Lander is a Jewish Zionist, and he knows both Mamdani and Cuomo better than most of us do, and he's ranking Mamdani #2 and not ranking Cuomo. I think we can probably trust his judgment on this one."
It has the merit of all being true. We'll see whether it works.
It has the merit of all being true. We'll see whether it works.
i don’t know what to say to anyone who thinks zohran mamdani wants to do antisemitic pogroms in brooklyn other than “you should try being less stupid”
June 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I'm trying "Brad Lander is a Jewish Zionist, and he knows both Mamdani and Cuomo better than most of us do, and he's ranking Mamdani #2 and not ranking Cuomo. I think we can probably trust his judgment on this one."
It has the merit of all being true. We'll see whether it works.
It has the merit of all being true. We'll see whether it works.
Why I will never give another penny to the @nytimes.com , number approximately three hundred thousand.
I know excellent journalists still try to make it a good paper. I only wish they could quit en masse and create the paper they deserve to work for, free of their clueless management.
I know excellent journalists still try to make it a good paper. I only wish they could quit en masse and create the paper they deserve to work for, free of their clueless management.
In 2024, the NYT, a local newspaper, to the surprise of many, loudly proclaimed it would no longer endorse local candidates.
And yet today, a non-endorsement endorsement; a reverse endorsement by telling NYers to not vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social but instead an alleged sexual harasser.
And yet today, a non-endorsement endorsement; a reverse endorsement by telling NYers to not vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social but instead an alleged sexual harasser.
June 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Why I will never give another penny to the @nytimes.com , number approximately three hundred thousand.
I know excellent journalists still try to make it a good paper. I only wish they could quit en masse and create the paper they deserve to work for, free of their clueless management.
I know excellent journalists still try to make it a good paper. I only wish they could quit en masse and create the paper they deserve to work for, free of their clueless management.
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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
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With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
June 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
Another moment where I wish a vid or podcast had been an article. I recently tried to watch Exodus, which I'd heard was hugely influential when it came out. It's a shockingly awful movie, for itself and not just its politics, and I bet this is really interesting - if you can do video/audio.
June 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Another moment where I wish a vid or podcast had been an article. I recently tried to watch Exodus, which I'd heard was hugely influential when it came out. It's a shockingly awful movie, for itself and not just its politics, and I bet this is really interesting - if you can do video/audio.
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Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic."
Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual]
18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]
Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual]
18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]
June 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic."
Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual]
18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]
Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual]
18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]
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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
www.wnep.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
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Bondi DOJ has a problem.
On left:
DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas
On right:
DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"
On left:
DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas
On right:
DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"
June 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Bondi DOJ has a problem.
On left:
DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas
On right:
DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"
On left:
DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas
On right:
DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"
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This doesn’t even include one of his most egregious decisions:
Teaming up with RFK Jr. to shut down the Indian point nuclear reactor, which was replaced with fossil fuels, driving up electricity bills
Teaming up with RFK Jr. to shut down the Indian point nuclear reactor, which was replaced with fossil fuels, driving up electricity bills
June 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This doesn’t even include one of his most egregious decisions:
Teaming up with RFK Jr. to shut down the Indian point nuclear reactor, which was replaced with fossil fuels, driving up electricity bills
Teaming up with RFK Jr. to shut down the Indian point nuclear reactor, which was replaced with fossil fuels, driving up electricity bills
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I never thought I would say
I FUCKING LOVE THIS CAMPAIGN AD
I FUCKING LOVE THIS CAMPAIGN AD
Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
June 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I never thought I would say
I FUCKING LOVE THIS CAMPAIGN AD
I FUCKING LOVE THIS CAMPAIGN AD
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every single paragraph more disqualifying than the last.
June 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
every single paragraph more disqualifying than the last.
But seriously: What is the use case? I'm trying to imagine the buyer who wants this thing, and I hate admitting to failure; but I'm coming up mostly blank. (An assistive device for early-onset Alzheimer's, maybe? But other than that . . .)
I’m a little disappointed this doesn’t have a shock collar
May 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
But seriously: What is the use case? I'm trying to imagine the buyer who wants this thing, and I hate admitting to failure; but I'm coming up mostly blank. (An assistive device for early-onset Alzheimer's, maybe? But other than that . . .)
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My hypothesis: the AI has hallucinated that Omelas exists, the child's name is Dorian, and that instead of aging like the Portrait, he instead receives all the injuries that customers would otherwise suffer. Dorian enables a perfect, harm-free society, so long as we don't have to insure Dorian.
May 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My hypothesis: the AI has hallucinated that Omelas exists, the child's name is Dorian, and that instead of aging like the Portrait, he instead receives all the injuries that customers would otherwise suffer. Dorian enables a perfect, harm-free society, so long as we don't have to insure Dorian.
Your regular reminder that if it weren't for Cuomo and NY redistricting, which Cuomo and his allies designed to create extra Republican districts, the House would not have been able to pass this bill.
Don't rank Cuomo. Just don't.
Don't rank Cuomo. Just don't.
USA: how did your reps to Congress vote in maga GOP’s latest assault on our health and lives? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Every House Member Voted on the G.O.P. Megabill (Gift Article)
The House voted 215 to 214 to pass the domestic policy bill that will deliver President Trump’s domestic agenda.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Your regular reminder that if it weren't for Cuomo and NY redistricting, which Cuomo and his allies designed to create extra Republican districts, the House would not have been able to pass this bill.
Don't rank Cuomo. Just don't.
Don't rank Cuomo. Just don't.
It would be so much more persuasive if they even tried to give any reason why it's a bad comparison, besides "it makes us feel bad in our tummies."
You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”
May 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It would be so much more persuasive if they even tried to give any reason why it's a bad comparison, besides "it makes us feel bad in our tummies."
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“well, my neighbor got thrown in a gulag, my kid has measles and the ps6 costs as much as a ford bronco, but i just can’t get past dems refusing to say joe biden was old in 2025” - a voter who definitely exists
May 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“well, my neighbor got thrown in a gulag, my kid has measles and the ps6 costs as much as a ford bronco, but i just can’t get past dems refusing to say joe biden was old in 2025” - a voter who definitely exists