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@mlejnas.bsky.social
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Good at books, terrible at the world.

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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If we don’t shut it down, he will tear it all down.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sartre got it wrong. Hell is not other people, but endless customer service calls staffed by bots.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don’t really need to lose weight, but out-of-pocket Ozempic is now more affordable than groceries, so…
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tyler Austin Harper isn’t critiquing DEI/wokeness, but the cynical, silly ways wokeness is used to deny institutional and earning power to faculty & staff. The chief work of higher ed is growing endowments, not teaching and research. It is part of the neoliberal order.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It makes me tear up every time Mamdani puts out a video telling New Yorkers how to stay safe in a weather event, and what city services are there to help us. Americans have gotten so used to an uncaring government that tells us we’re on our own.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Remember the clamoring and pressure for Biden to drop out after a poor showing in a debate? What’s it going to take to stop this madness? We all need to apply the thumbscrews and keep turning.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Prior to this, the stupidest reason for making war was to steal back a beautiful woman.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
What Egyptologist Barry Crump said about Akhenaten is still relevant: “The danger of being an absolute ruler is that no one dares tell you that what you have just decreed is not a good idea.”
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As a New Yorker, I have a deep respect for rats. Rats would never get behind an old, diseased, obese rat who had preyed upon females before they were sexually mature and repeatedly starts shit with other rat colonies for personal gain. That rat would have been banished long ago.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Kristi, Tulsi, and Bondi are Donald's Demons, with JD Vance as Beelzebub Bosley.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pam Bondi acts like she’s part of a 1000-year Reich when she’ll be lucky to last the rest of the year.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Refusing to appreciate the best from other cultures while praising the worst from your own culture will not garner you the respect you so obviously crave.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I suppose we should be thankful that Brett Ratner is no Leni Riefenstahl.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Wondering what kind of monster fills out a brief survey about their coat check experience.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
So killing an RN who saves lives gets you the full protection of the federal government, whereas killing a CEO who prevents life-saving care gets you charged by the feds with a capital crime.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In conversation, a Republican friend imagined and sympathized with Jonathan Ross’s “fear”while failing to ascribe any feelings to Renee Good while he shot her three times in anger and she bled to death. This is how dehumanization works.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
When I was younger, I wished I’d married rich. Now I just regret not having married a Canadian.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The barbarians were inside the country.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It’s a good time to remember John Mueller’s finding that internecine conflicts are driven, not by ethnic and religious hatreds, but by a government’s use of paramilitary thugs.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Major media outlets presenting video of the murder of Renee Good like it’s the fucking dress.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Apparently the US is as susceptible to a corrupt strongman seizing power as any other country in the Americas.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I despise Trump with every fiber of my being, but I’d be alarmed and enraged if another country’s military bombed Washington, DC, and kidnapped him.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.” —Simón Bolívar, 1829
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thanks to Ozempic, my fridge is full of neighbors’ pumpkin and pecan pies with tiny wedges carved out.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
According to the WSJ’s breakdown, Mamdani only lost the majority of households making >$300,000 and <$30,000. Everyone who’s not very rich or very poor put affordability front and center. It’s always the economy, stupid.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
So fantastic to hear people on my street spontaneously break into cheers when Mamdani’s win was declared. Glad I don’t live anywhere else, including the Upper East Side.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Thanks, NYT, for clarifying that you’re looking for quality, not quantity, in protests.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Trump is more Imperial Wizard than wannabe king, drawing upon a history of homegrown hate to intimidate and terrorize.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
That Trump is still alive, “exceptional” health or not, shows how many American lives are lost early because of unequal access to health care.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Dada Antifa vs Ubu Roi (King Turd).
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Trump is a Don Quixote dictator, brain-addled from watching Fox News, tilting at wind turbines, waging “glorious” battles without provocation or cause, enjoining employees to play along with what they know to be preposterous nonsense.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Stephen Miller must’ve studied Nazi Germany and concluded, the only thing they did wrong was invade foreign countries instead of German cities.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Just learned that Kant had dementia in his 70s, so never mind doing brain teasers and Sudoku.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Reading Peniel Joseph’s Freedom Season (about the fight for civil rights in 1963) to remind myself how very, very hard it has always been to make any progress toward social justice.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
If this were 19th-century Japan, every single one of those generals would have committed seppuku.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Regarding those who vote for the feels, how can Dems give them more than their glee from hatred, revenge, breaking things, and inclusion in a dominant group? Dems need to focus on those who don’t vote out of despair, cynicism, and/or inertia. Which Mamdani is doing.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Congress and SCOTUS have bestowed almost unlimited executive power on a man who does not have power over himself.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
So why wasn’t there a significant decline in autism rates for US babies born in 1983?
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My mother’s rural Midwestern church prayed for Charlie Kirk’s assassin to be a leftist. These fools want civil war.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My only worry about Trump’s failing health is that he’s so vindictive, he’s going to try to take all of us with him.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
When the National Guard takes over Times Square, I hope tourists plug their gun barrels with Statue of Liberty tchotchkes.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I, too, love NY—but holy fuck is it expensive to live here. Manhattan Buy Nothing Groups are the new Filene’s Basement. Instead of fighting over discount wedding gowns, we compete for free toilet paper and dry beans.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In future, when the United States is ready to reckon with the crimes of the Trump administration, the Republican party should be banned.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New Yorkers aren’t as insulated from economic inequality as Americans in other areas. For example, I’m in a low-income apartment building facing a luxury high-rise. Based on what I see on their giant TVs, rich people are complete idiots.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Are we going to decriminalize euthanasia for people who need care but can’t pay for it, or are we just putting them in camps?
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
At a time in which higher ed in the US is fighting for its very survival, it’s good to see that Amherst Magazine is leading with a story on Ultimate Frisbee.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Zohran’s baby baskets are lovely. Care, not precarity.
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Zohran’s victory is especially vital because many young people are parched for ethical role models who don’t seem like chumps or losers.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Happy Don’t Rank Cuomo Day for all who observe
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The nation I’m most worried about having nuclear weapons is the only one to have used them against another country.
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