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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you for passing that on! I just emailed the campaign!

info@marcykaptur.com

Campaign Strategy

Good afternoon,

I just learned about Rep. Kaptur's recent campaign ad in which she brags about 'voting with Republicans' against 'transgender ideology.' I am deeply disappointed in this capitulation to and endorsement of far-right talking points, especially given her support for the Equality Act and extending anti-discrimination protections for gender identity and sexual orientation.

Giving in to far-right rhetoric will not win over any voters; anyone who would be won over by this is already voting Republican. On the contrary, it is more likely to alienate LGBTQ+ voters and their allies in the core Democratic base, as Sherrod Brown learned in 2024. If this anti-trans shift is not reversed, it will hurt your campaign donations, hurt the party, and hurt vulnerable Democrats in other close races.

Trans people are not an "ideology," a "controversial topic," or an "issue" to be solved. They are our friends and family, our neighbors and fellow citizens. I urge Rep. Kaptur to reject the far right's bigotry and protect the most vulnerable--in the 9th District and across the nation.

Very truly yours,
Harold Jaffe

SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JOSS WHEDON: The Cabin in the Woods is a basically a very loving hate letter to the horror genre JANE SCHOENBRUN: Hold my joint and KFC

Two women with thousand-yard stares stand covered in blood in front of a pastel sunrise over a snowy landscape of evergreens and mountains. The background is interrupted by concentric white squares. in the foreground, text reads TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Concept art for Orange Julia's breakup hat from @thatguttershow.bsky.social Ep 9: Welcome to Hell (Mall) w/ @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social!

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Leonard Leo trying to pin it all on Roberts and Trump during the Woke 2/Reconstruction 3 tribunals

An open book with the inscription "This girl is the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met. DO NOT TRUST HER. She is a fugly slut!" The writer has just finished underlining "fugly slut."

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Just finished @mattielubchansky.com's uproarious, devastating, beautiful BOYS WEEKEND. If you like graphic novels, horror, the heady mix of gender dysphoria & euphoria, or [SPOILER] douchey tech bros, MLM scammers, and cultists getting what's coming to them, HIGHLY recommend. Onward to SIMPLICITY!

A book cover featuring lit up Vegas-style signs sunken at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by marine life--including several long, mysterious tentacles. The signs read:

Boys Weekend
Mattie Lubchansky

A Novel

"Sensitive and fraught without sacrificing fun or black magic, with a winsome heroine one wants to root for and wipe blood off of in equal parts."
-Daniel M. Lavery

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I just emailed Kwame Raoul asking him to enforce the Illinois Human Rights Act and compel the hospitals that have capitulated to the Trump administration's illegal, unconstitutional EOs against trans healthcare to restore that care. Please join me! forms.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/Forms/OAG_Co...

Your message to the Office of the Attorney General

Dear Attorney General Raoul,

I am grateful for your commitment to protecting access to gender-affirming care in the face of the Trump administration’s executive orders claiming to "protect children." We are lucky to live in a state where the legislation like the Illinois Human Rights Act requires health care providers to provide health care to all residents and prohibits unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity.

As such I've been disgusted to hear about Illinois hospitals capitulating to these hateful, illegal, and unconstitutional executive orders and cutting trans healthcare for patients under age 19. UIHealth, UChicago Medicine, Rush University Medical Center and Lurie Children's Hospital have all stopped offering trans surgical care to minors, and Rush, UChicago Medicine, and Advocate Health Care have stopped providing trans medication care to patients under 18.

You have spoken eloquently and forcefully about your support for health care policies that respect the dignity and rights of all people, about the necessity of lifesaving medical treatment that supports individuals in living as their authentic selves. Please enforce the IHRA per the guidance of the Illinois Department of Human Rights and compel these hospitals to restore the trans healthcare they have rescinded.

Very truly yours,
Harold Jaffe

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Just finished @thekylestarks.bsky.social and @ericafails.bsky.social's excellent shoot-em-up/whodunit action comedy Assassin Nation. Highly recommend, and hope they get to continue the story someday!

Twenty-one people in a Mexican standoff, most with guns trained on each other. At the top, text reads "Kyle Starks," "Erica Henderson," and "Assassin Nation." At the bottom, text reads "Number One With A Bullet."

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Some characters from one of my favorite movies, Jane Schoenbrun's mind-bending I Saw the TV Glow. Also my first attempt at making an animated gif in years!

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The worst cross between the Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Grouchy Ladybug

A caterpillar with the face of a grouchy ladybug. Text reads: The Very Hangry Dershowitz (with apologies to Eric Carle).

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

almost as if you practiced riddick's every morning?

comment by Something Awful forum user greay alien:
EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, RIDDICK. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME NECRO BASTARDS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY ESCAPED THE GALAXYS MOST DANGEROUS PRISON. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Corporate media and PACs the minute it looks like a progressive might have a shot against their disgraced sex pest golden boy (Art by @dresdencodak.com, dresdencodak.com/2022/08/22/d...)

Panel 1: A woman with a white streak in her hair wakes with a start in a movie theater. Someone in the movie asks, "All right, Dr. Kill, what's your scheme this time?"
Panel 2: On the movie screen, the vampiric/cybernetic-looking Dr. Kill replies to the heroes (one of whom has a dollar sign on his lapel): "Oh it's quite simple. I'm going to end homelessness -by blowing up the rainforest!"

One of the heroes from the movie replies, "Blowing up the rainforest is wrong! No one should end homelessness!"
The young woman with the white streak in her hair watches bemusedly, sitting in an otherwise empty theater with her companions: a tall woman with visible cybernetic prostheses who has nodded off, a scholarly-looking nonbinary person holding a soda, and a grumpy man whose head floats in a bubble atop a tiny robot body.

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Do you understand the issue here? Do you understand what it looks like to talk about a "nearly impossible standard for parenting" immediately after describing people cutting off contact with their parents for physical or sexual abuse?

I suspect there’s some truth in all of these explanations. But I think there’s another reason, too, one that’s often been overlooked. Over the past few decades, Americans have redefined “harm,” “abuse,” “neglect” and “trauma,” expanding those categories to include emotional and relational struggles that were previously considered unavoidable parts of life. Adult children seem increasingly likely to publicly, even righteously, cut off contact with a parent, sometimes citing emotional, physical or sexual abuse they experienced in childhood and sometimes things like clashing values, parental toxicity or feeling misunderstood or unsupported.

This cultural shift has contributed to a new, nearly impossible standard for parenting. Not only must parents provide shelter, food, safety and love, but we, their children, also expect them to get us started on successful careers and even to hold themselves accountable for our mental health and happiness well into our adult years.

So I want to suggest that there’s another reason my generation dreads parenthood: We’ve held our own parents to unreachable standards, standards that deep down, maybe, we know we ourselves would struggle to meet.

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Just finished @renstrapp.com's How Could You. It is beautiful, funny, painfully familiar, hella gay, and broke my heart a little bit. Highly recommend! 👍👍 [alt text by @bitchesoncomics.bsky.social]

"The cover of How Could You by Ren Strapp has a dark blue background and water spilling over the page in all directions with the title of the book How Could You in orange-tan letters. Six characters appear between the water and letters, looking in various directions, but almost none at one another. Some look sad or pleased, but most look unsure."

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm rereading some old @samandfuzzy.com comics and I was struck by this panel--from 2015! What a decade, huh? www.samandfuzzy.com/2123

A reporter in the press corps crowd asks the president, "How do you respond to criticisms that your reckless policies have DEVASTATED the national economy and DANGEROUSLY DESTABILIZED GLOBAL SECURITY?"

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I saw that this bill passed. I emailed Sokola and Pettyjohn again on Thursday, March 27, and Pettyjohn replied on Saturday, March 29.

Text of the first half of an email from Delaware Senate Minority Whip Brian Pettyjohn (R-19). My original questions are in purple and his replies are in red.

Harold,

Thank you for the opportunity to answer your questions. They are reflected below in red text.

-Brian

I've read that typically bills to change Delaware corporate law explicitly state that they don't apply to pending cases. Since, as you say, litigation regarding Elon Musk's compensation package at Tesla is currently on appeal to the Supreme Court, can you explain why there is no such language in SB 21? Would you be willing to amend it to explicitly exclude pending cases from this change?

Clarifying text to the intent of retroactivity was incorporated into Section 3 of the substitute bill. Retroactivity was also addressed in the testimony during debate, and can be viewed here.

[Link: https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00329/harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20240109/-1/4912?startposition=20250313150030&mediaEndTime=20250313150613&viewMode=3&globalStreamId=3]

Could you clarify what you mean by saying "We reviewed the first draft, made various suggestions and changes, and held the final pen" given that lead sponsor Brian Townsend has said that the final draft of the bill was written by John Mark Zeberkiewicz, a corporate lawyer at Richards, Layton & Finger which is representing Tesla in Delaware lawsuits? (https://spotlightdelaware.org/2025/02/19/delaware-corporate-law-change-sb-21/)

While John Mark was the scribe of the final version, he did so with input from the lead sponsor (Sen. Townsend), as well as former Chief Justice and Chancellor Leo Strine, Former Chancellor Bill Chandler, and Professor Larry Hammermesh. Additionally, changes were made as suggested by the Corporation Law Council and included in the substitute.

Text of the second half of an email from Delaware Senate Minority Whip Brian Pettyjohn (R-19). My original questions are in purple and his replies are in red.

Finally, could you share which companies (and if possible which representatives of those companies) have been reaching out to you and what specific frustrations or concerns they've expressed?

I cannot share the specific companies and individuals. Many of the conversations I have with constituents are done with an expectation of privacy and confidentiality. Those conversations, in general terms, dealt with a creep in the rulings of the court cured by SS1/SB21, as well as certain administrative concerns with the Court of Chancery.

Thank you again. Any light you could shed on these questions would be much appreciated.

I look forward to the return of “normal order” within the process of the annual corporate law update. This certainly was not the ideal process in which to make the changes. If we left the process to normal order, it was the consensus that the changes that were required would have come too late for some companies, and they would have chosen redomestication rather than wait for these changes to take place.

Again, I appreciate the opportunity to engage on this. Have a good weekend,

Brian

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Couple sketches of PITILESS GAZE, the (cursed? haunted?) AR headset from @thatguttershow.bsky.social. If you haven't listened yet, check it out at gutter.show!

Sketch of a beaten-up AR visor headset. There's a blackened hole in the right eye of the visor and a winged ouroboros in the center. A mass of twisted tube and cables dangle from the back.

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As @dael.bsky.social already mentioned, Senate President Pro Tempore David Sokola (D-08) repeated the same talking points.

Text of an email from Delaware Senate President Pro Tempore David Sokola (D-08):

Thank you for your both your call on Friday and this email. SB 21 not a bill generated by Tesla or Musk’s lawyers. That narrative appears to have come from a CNBC story, and the story is inaccurate.

SB21 is not retroactive and would not affect the litigation regarding Elon Musk's compensation package at Tesla, currently on appeal to the Supreme Court. And, since Musk and his companies have left Delaware, no future Musk issues would relate to Delaware and this legislation.

SB 21 was drafted by a coalition of experts, at the invitation of the Governor and General Assembly leadership, and with full involvement and reflection of legislative leaders and our attorney. We reviewed the first draft, made various suggestions and changes, and held the final pen.

When in 2023/2024 Musk announced he was leaving Delaware, we did not view that as a threat to Delaware; this is about the many companies we have talked to the past few weeks in the wake of January 31 and February 1 who also have frustrations and already are leaving or are considering leaving.

This would be horrible from a State revenue perspective and a Delaware jobs perspective. I can assure you, my colleagues and I are focused on everyday Delawareans who depend on this leading part of our economy, and on both sides (stockholders and directors/officers) who all need each other in a balanced corporate framework. We all know, for Delaware corporate law to be sustainable, it must be balanced.

Best Regards,

David P. Sokola – 8th District

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SCARE-old Jaff-EEK! @hrjaffe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I emailed the bill's sponsors this morning. So far I've only heard back from Senate Minority Whip Brian Pettyjohn (R-19). He claims, "This is not about Musk at all, it is about the many companies we have talked to [...] who also have frustrations and already are leaving or are considering leaving."

Text of the first half of an email from Delaware Senate Minority Whip Brian Pettyjohn (R-19):

Thank you for your email. This is not a Musk bill.

That narrative appears to have come from a CNBC story, which is inaccurate due to its incompleteness. SB21 is not retroactive and would not affect the litigation regarding Elon Musk's compensation package at Tesla, currently on appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court. Furthermore, since Musk and his companies have left Delaware, no future Musk issues would relate to Delaware and this legislation.

As to your point that SB21 was drafted by Musk attorneys, that is also false. It was drafted by a coalition of experts, at the invitation of the Governor and General Assembly leadership, and with full involvement and reflection of legislative leaders and our attorneys. We reviewed the first draft, made various suggestions and changes, and held the final pen.

I will note, CNBC only published an excerpt of the Richards Layton & Finger statement that made it seem that RLF alone drafted it. CNBC (shockingly?) omitted the fuller statement that mentioned the coalition of drafters, not just an RLF attorney. A citation to what appears to be RLF's full statement provides important information. (Example: https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2025-02-18/del-lawmakers-propose-corporate-law-changes-amid-ongoing-departure-threats-and-musk-litigation)

Text of the second half of an email from Delaware Senate Minority Whip Brian Pettyjohn (R-19):

When in 2023/2024 Musk announced he was leaving Delaware, we did not view that as a threat to Delaware and our reputation as the venue of choice for corporations. This is not about Musk at all, it is about the many companies we have talked to the past few weeks in the wake of the January 31/February 1 announcements who also have frustrations and already are leaving or are considering leaving.

It is critical that we stabilize our cooperate law to avoid an additional flood of companies leaving Delaware. This would be horrible from a State revenue perspective and a Delaware jobs perspective. I can assure you, my colleagues and I are focused on everyday Delawareans who depend on this leading part of our economy, and on both sides (stockholders and directors/officers) who all need each other in a balanced corporate framework. We all know, for Delaware corporate law to be sustainable, it must be balanced.

I am available to discuss more if helpful.

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