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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian
@lilbrownbat.bsky.social
Lesbian, activist, tech worker, aikidoka, writer
Pronouns she/her
Located in Massachusetts
I manage projects and plan to take over the world for the good of humanity
I write sf/f, political essays, occasionally something about martial arts
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They had been floating in the Caribbean for over an hour, and they were going to keep running drugs?
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Illiterate Gravy Seals. What could go wrong.
December 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
That slimy little weasel can move fast when he wants to.

(As one commenter pointed out, there hasn't even been enough time to certify the election results)
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If anyone was still taking Serious Eats, um, seriously, the relentless flogging of Amazon throughout Black FridaySaturdaySundayMondayTuesdayGoshItsWednesdayAlready should convince you otherwise.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I have fallen down a Watergate rabbit hole. Reading "Watergate: a New History", watching the Discovery Channel documentary, already read a bunch of other stuff including the obvious "All the President's Men". I need 2 things:

- Recs for more of same
- Software to construct a Pepe Silvia wall map
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“The Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid...all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside.”
Federal judge dismisses indictments against Letitia James and James Comey, saying Lindsey Halligan appointment was unlawful | CNN Politics
A federal judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday.
www.cnn.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Couple of yt dudes named Tanner and Gavin because of course.
Argyle 20-year-old among two North Texans accused of planning deadly Haitian invasion, US Attorney says
Two North Texas men planned an invasion of a Haitian island, according to a report by the U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District.
www.keranews.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Thinking of that opening scene in "A Bridge Too Far" when the Dutch woman asks her husband, "What is that noise?" (the sound of German heavy equipment as the German army retreats). And he replies, with a beatific smile:

"Panic."
below 40 is the threshold where you sort of start to expect open panic/revolt.

which you're kind of seeing with the epstein files vote.
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Epstein is HUGE. It's also directly connected with Russia, kompromat and corruption, which in turn all require gutting DOJ and attacking the rule of law.
Just as a reminder: Trump's doing Putin's bidding on Russia, his attacks on science at HHS and with regard to the environment, his corruption, his ICE army attacking US cities, his gutting of the DoJ and attacks on the rule of law and democracy are all much, much, much bigger scandals than Epstein.
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"The possibility that Epstein gave compromising information to Russia on Trump has risen very dramatically and is directly connected to what Trump did today, in putting US on the side of Russia against our European allies in Ukraine."

www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-are-str...
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Unfuckingbelievable the audacity of these fash.
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Read upthread...
“A simple answer” sounds like a “final solution”.
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
They went to shit when the New York Times acquired them.

From the "who saw that coming" files...
Very disappointing to see @bostonglobe.com running a piece from Richard Hanania today.
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The only thing lamer than a flounce is threatening to flounce and then...not.
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Don't cross the picket line!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Pure poetry.
roses are red
big laughs are hearty
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If I could have picked a single image to accompany this news...this would have been it.
Dick Cheney died
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I don't know, I didn't see, I just heard, I just read it, I haven't seen that, I'm not gonna comment on that
CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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in days, 42 million kids and adults, including sick kids and adults, will see their life saving SNAP (food benefits) stopped because of an illegal refusal by Trump & Vought to release emergency funding FOR THAT PURPOSE during the shutdown:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...
When SNAP benefits run out, 'people can die,' say health experts
“People can die” from even short gaps in nutrition and food access, experts say ahead of SNAP benefits not going out in November in at least 25 states.
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Face taxes or face pitchforks.
This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.

It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.

There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Yeah, what the fuck, we need another gaudy eyesore built to Trump aesthetics at taxpayer expense. Why the fuck not. Not like there's any better use for that money.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is the kind of news that inspires me to make popcorn. Seriously, dude wants banks to give him a do-over? Really?
Elliott Broidy is also suing @americanexpress.bsky.social, claiming he was denied him a credit card because of his conviction for illegal foreign lobbying, even though he was pardoned by Trump.

AmEx says he was denied because he had previously misused his accounts.
October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A central component of Republican mental illness is their fetishization of what they imagine victimhood to be. It's like grown-ass adults who love dystopian YA fiction where all problems are solved after a little lightweight performative "suffering".
Mariannette Miller-Meeks: "When you talk about authoritarianism, let me tell you, my first 4 years in Congress were spent under authoritarian government. It was President Biden ... "
October 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM