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Elise

@eliserothberg.bsky.social
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” - Philip K. Dick “Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.” - Bertrand Russell

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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 6h
Because *of course* there are layoffs.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 21h
There are currently 344 active FDA food recalls even with "roughly 1 in 5 food and drug safety personnel being laid off or forced out" according to the FDA’s Office of Inspections and Investigations. And they are now looking to hire over 2000 because oops! turns out that wasn't fraud and waste!
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
any cell will do: padded, barred, necrotic....
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's quite the bribe.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Agreed. And also interesting- his girlfriend Renee keeps insisting he didn't see what he saw, that she- *who was not there*- knows what he saw- very MAGA of her.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
on deck: sweater weather as fuck!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Protip to Ground News @groundnews.bsky.social: you might want to rethink using the Epstein Files as an example of a story that has two equally deserving sides in your ads (or on the site, or anywhere). I was seriously considering subscribing and that turned me right off.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
300 years later...not so much.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They still ignore DST in Arizona (and Illinois, I think). Half the year I'm on the same time as my boss and half not and it screws with me every year.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you are using the constitution as the basis to get what you want while flagrantly violating it to get other things you want your case should not only be thrown out with prejudice but you should be heavily, heavily fined. All or nothing, you gross, smug, grifting hack.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The social contract, fraying since the 1980s, is completely broken. Some people need to fully realize that and stop expecting a level of basic human decency and reciprocity from people who view you as exploitable, expendable cogs in their machine.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
‘Like caring for a pet’: the app that lets you know if your neighbourhood tree is thirsty
theguardian.com
‘Like caring for a pet’: the app that lets you know if your neighbourhood tree is thirsty
Gieß den Kiez app shows trees in critical need of watering and can be adopted by other heat-stressed cities around the world
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NO ONE who was paying ANY ATTENTION AT ALL to ANY part of reality expected anything but this inescapable, irredeemable, horrific fascist death cult of an administration and if anyone expected otherwise they are a complete fucking moron, a closet racist, or both.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NO ONE who was paying ANY ATTENTION AT ALL to ANY part of reality expected anything but this inescapable, irredeemable, horrific fascist death cult of an administration and if anyone expected otherwise they are a complete fucking moron, a closet racist, or both.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Representation matters! ;)
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Says covefe
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think I am going to start wryly commenting into the void more often.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While conservative/establishment dems are not perfect they at least think, "I'll do some good AND line my pockets tra la!" while the GOP think, "Haha I've gotten rich, ruined the economy & the literal Earth, made people hate each other for manufactured reasons, & those morons still vote for us!"
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MAGA: Morons Are Gutting America
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At what point is it enough money?
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And they will also never understand that they are a danger to all the rest of us as well.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Caring about others has always been a point of exploitation to most politicians Red: badge of honor- keep pushing to see how far they can take it & how much they can profit Blue: calculated as part of doing business- try to minimize it but accept “can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs”
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For now, at least. I can see them demanding it come pre-installed as a requirement to get tax breaks or something any day now. And of course, everyone will cave because no one in charge has a spine.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“sweater weather as fuck” made me literally laugh out loud and is now my new favorite phrase.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Calling this “scary” is like calling Trump "mildly problematic".
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump has delivered on his promises- just not the ones he made to the American people.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Welp.
Close up of Donald Trump’s eye bearing more of a resemblance to the example photo of the eye of a pig than to the eye of a human
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Of Course The Virus That Has Killed Millions Doesn’t Disable People
A laughing human
Headline:
Of Course The Virus That Has Killed Millions Doesn’t Disable People
Story by Kelvin Dorbel and Grad Forthright

Photo from Adobe
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t give a fuck what it says in your version of Early Civilization's Aesop’s Fables- YOU DON’T GET TO COMMIT GENOCIDE (you know, the thing you thought was horrifying when it was happening to the Jewish people). There is no excuse for this. Ever.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every day a little more doom.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/09/2026
you don’t have to have the conversation on their terms and in fact you shouldn’t have the conversation on their terms more democrats should follow this playbook instead of existing in a constant defensive crouch
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
it’s Super Spidey Iron Captain America Slop Man! Come to steal from the poor to give to the rich!
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And some of those unmasked people are going to give other people Long Covid. And then tell them they are overreacting.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wish more people understood that "critical thinking" does not mean simply criticizing (or mocking, deriding, etc) the thinking of others.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It is journalistic malpractice that major news outlets are not producing 5-alarm-fire reports to warn the public that the president of the United States is out of his mind.
Trump posts a map of New Mexico with the word "Mexico" crossed out and "America" added in its place.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is an excellent idea
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I think having a plan in place is a great idea but currently, most people’s plan is to deny that Covid is in any way harmful and that Long Covid does not exist and that higher-risk people need to just get over it so we can all “live our lives” (and I have had my view of people altered forever).
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/08/2026
“Why didn’t scientists warn us?”
Newspaper clipping:

Thr Rodnen & Otamatea Times
WAITEMATA & KAIPARA GAZETTE
PRIOE~10s perannum in adrance
WARKWORTE, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14, 1912
3d per Copy.
Science Notes and News.
COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECT.
ING CLIMATE.
The furnaces of the world are now
burning about
2,000,000,000 tons of
coal a ycar.
When this is burned,
uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the carth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The idea that "you can’t have more than me” (unless for some bizarre reason “you” is a billionaire) & it’s cousin, “it doesn’t matter until it happens to me” (unless for some bizarre reason “it” happens to a billionaire) , is true for all selfish, small, shitty people but especially for today's GOP.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And also a big fuck you to the rest of you who gave that tight little smile and condescendingly replied, “I’m sure it’s not that bad.” when the alarm was raised. Enjoying your deportation/imprisonment/measles/leprosy/meat-bread-blueberries-lettuce/lack of bodily autonomy/inflation?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/08/2026
"Vaccine resisters should be thought of like drunken drivers: people who recklessly endanger innocent strangers.”
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I read that as “Worst Billionaires List”, saw Musk's name and thought, “Well that tracks- I bet Bezos is two, maybe tied with Zuckerberg”.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Objective journalism is not reporting the same amount of negative things about each side- it’s reporting actual, factual reality. Bias is not showing flaws or asking tough questions- bias is showing the flaws & asking tough questions of one side while forgiving the same behavior in the other.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’ll be interesting to see what’s being served at Mar-a-lago going forward.
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Elise @eliserothberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Objective reality- what does it mean?!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026
The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
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