Molly J.

@mollyjasi.bsky.social

Here to yap, mostly about Taylor Swift songs, Green Bay Packers football, and niche pop culture things I care way too much about. Part of the @Swifties4Hope team 🫶🏻 she/her

One of the best things about football is when you’re watching a game that you have no real rooting interest in and the game is absolute pandemonium and you can just enjoy the ride

“These days, we doomscroll to the next atrocity, our outrage for the anonymous dead anesthetized like an alcoholic who feels nothing after downing a pint of gin. The pain only lingers when it is someone we know or someone we think we know from TV or Instagram.”

Stephen Rodrick@stephenrodrick.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope

His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.

thehandbasket.co

I’m equally relieved that Wisconsin did not have to vote today (being in a battleground state is not for the weak of heart!) and feeling left out watching exciting results roll in

NEW: Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and a state assemblymember, will become New York City’s next mayor, The Associated Press reports. He will be the city’s first Muslim mayor and, at age 34, ties the record for the youngest person to hold the office. https://to.pbs.org/4ovh28q

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