Maria Browning
@marbro.bsky.social
Books, dogs, birds, music, art, wild things & human rights — not necessarily in that order
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December 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
For a dear friend of mine: gofund.me/e12777b50
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Please enjoy Gertie and Eloise making their bed. 😂
December 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Please enjoy Gertie and Eloise making their bed. 😂
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The wildest thing to me is that multiple Black people had to die in a manner akin to public spectacles for 2020 to happen and the backlash is being fueled by white guys who can’t sell a screenplay or manuscript.
December 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The wildest thing to me is that multiple Black people had to die in a manner akin to public spectacles for 2020 to happen and the backlash is being fueled by white guys who can’t sell a screenplay or manuscript.
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INCREDIBLE CHRISTMAS MURDER!! ❤️ 😭 😭 🪶
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
INCREDIBLE CHRISTMAS MURDER!! ❤️ 😭 😭 🪶
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Speckled Tanager from San Vito #CostaRica.
It's always a treat when I get to spend time with these birds.
#birds #nature
It's always a treat when I get to spend time with these birds.
#birds #nature
December 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Speckled Tanager from San Vito #CostaRica.
It's always a treat when I get to spend time with these birds.
#birds #nature
It's always a treat when I get to spend time with these birds.
#birds #nature
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Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste
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But I hope ONE LONG NIGHT clarifies just what is happening today. If we understand that what Congress has funded and the government is building are concentration camps, the stakes are obvious. The majority of Americans are, by and large, free to act and can undo this. It is more than possible. [2/2]
December 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
But I hope ONE LONG NIGHT clarifies just what is happening today. If we understand that what Congress has funded and the government is building are concentration camps, the stakes are obvious. The majority of Americans are, by and large, free to act and can undo this. It is more than possible. [2/2]
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I feel like things are a bit too serious on here for Christmas Eve. One or two nights on non-doomery are okay. Not just okay: necessary.
So, to try to break that up, here’s one of my fav Christmas carols of all time.
So, to try to break that up, here’s one of my fav Christmas carols of all time.
Sump'n Claus - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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December 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I feel like things are a bit too serious on here for Christmas Eve. One or two nights on non-doomery are okay. Not just okay: necessary.
So, to try to break that up, here’s one of my fav Christmas carols of all time.
So, to try to break that up, here’s one of my fav Christmas carols of all time.
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Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality.
Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves.
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...
Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves.
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...
Merry Christmas, I Don’t Want To Fight: Trump’s White House UFC Event and The Politics of Violence
Trump is seeking to elevate America’s most violent professional sport to an emblem of national identity.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality.
Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves.
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...
Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves.
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...
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I made a feed for baby birds if you ever need a jolt
December 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I made a feed for baby birds if you ever need a jolt
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Tis the season to watch It's A Wonderful Life, a movie that actually gets better and better as you age into it, which also means it's a good time to share this excellent reflection and what it says about the miracle of having a true partner in this world.
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
www.thebulwark.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Tis the season to watch It's A Wonderful Life, a movie that actually gets better and better as you age into it, which also means it's a good time to share this excellent reflection and what it says about the miracle of having a true partner in this world.
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
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People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.
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Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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A solstice sunrise over Lake Winnipeg.
December 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A solstice sunrise over Lake Winnipeg.
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Mr. Sammy thinking, inside the box.
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Mr. Sammy thinking, inside the box.
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Wishing y’all a mellow Winter Solstice. Found elsewhere, sharing here
December 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Wishing y’all a mellow Winter Solstice. Found elsewhere, sharing here
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Sometimes, given what’s lived in the public domain for a decade, ‘what the Epstein files might reveal’ seems absurd. Everyone knows and everyone has known for years. What revelation are we waiting for?
December 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Sometimes, given what’s lived in the public domain for a decade, ‘what the Epstein files might reveal’ seems absurd. Everyone knows and everyone has known for years. What revelation are we waiting for?
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Bobby Nunez was arrested and prosecuted for "brazenly towing an ICE vehicle" according to the U.S. Attorney. He towed the vehicle during the arrest of a TikTok influencer in downtown Los Angeles on August 15th.
After a 4-day trial, he was acquitted! His lawyers were two Deputy Public Defenders. ✊🏼
After a 4-day trial, he was acquitted! His lawyers were two Deputy Public Defenders. ✊🏼
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Bobby Nunez was arrested and prosecuted for "brazenly towing an ICE vehicle" according to the U.S. Attorney. He towed the vehicle during the arrest of a TikTok influencer in downtown Los Angeles on August 15th.
After a 4-day trial, he was acquitted! His lawyers were two Deputy Public Defenders. ✊🏼
After a 4-day trial, he was acquitted! His lawyers were two Deputy Public Defenders. ✊🏼
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Across the country, women are dying of sepsis, losing organs, being arrested for miscarriages, and used as brain-dead incubators.
Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.
What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?
Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.
What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?
December 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Across the country, women are dying of sepsis, losing organs, being arrested for miscarriages, and used as brain-dead incubators.
Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.
What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?
Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.
What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?
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I wish he'd gotten to get old with us.
December 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I wish he'd gotten to get old with us.
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That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness.
You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.
You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.
December 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness.
You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.
You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.