Elizabeth Wassell Montague
@elizabethwm.bsky.social
Novelist & short story writer; occasional journalist; Europhile; cinephile; New York-born Irish citizen residing in France; wife of John Montague
Before bath. After bath.
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Before bath. After bath.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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If you are a British citizen or resident in the UK, please consider signing this petition to help conserve brown hares in England. Needs to be signed today or you'll be too late.
Thank you. ❤️
#wildlife
#nature
#conservation
#countryside
Thank you. ❤️
#wildlife
#nature
#conservation
#countryside
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If you are a British citizen or resident in the UK, please consider signing this petition to help conserve brown hares in England. Needs to be signed today or you'll be too late.
Thank you. ❤️
#wildlife
#nature
#conservation
#countryside
Thank you. ❤️
#wildlife
#nature
#conservation
#countryside
Can he get any crazier? He can—and will.
open.substack.com/pub/barry119...
open.substack.com/pub/barry119...
Can he get any crazier? He can—and will.
It seems like years ago, but it was just six months, that I wrote a blog asking when Americans will finally wake up to the fact that they are being led by a ruler with serious mental problems.
open.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Can he get any crazier? He can—and will.
open.substack.com/pub/barry119...
open.substack.com/pub/barry119...
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Opinion | The Fallout From Charlie Kirk’s Killing Reveals Two Truths of Trumpism
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September 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Apparently some US Republican lawmakers have called for the incarceration of transgender people. We are living in hell. I don’t believe Trump & Farage are manipulating people through lies and gnarled theories. I believe people know just how evil they are & they like it. Hell indeed
September 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Apparently some US Republican lawmakers have called for the incarceration of transgender people. We are living in hell. I don’t believe Trump & Farage are manipulating people through lies and gnarled theories. I believe people know just how evil they are & they like it. Hell indeed
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So … Donald Trump had dinner with Nick Fuentes who inspired Tyler Robinson who shot Charlie Kirk who supported Donald Trump.
Bloody lefties.
Bloody lefties.
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So … Donald Trump had dinner with Nick Fuentes who inspired Tyler Robinson who shot Charlie Kirk who supported Donald Trump.
Bloody lefties.
Bloody lefties.
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In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
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The Wall Street Journal is now walking back its earlier reporting that "transgender ideology" messages were found on the shooter's ammunition.
But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update.
Thanks, WSJ.
But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update.
Thanks, WSJ.
September 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The Wall Street Journal is now walking back its earlier reporting that "transgender ideology" messages were found on the shooter's ammunition.
But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update.
Thanks, WSJ.
But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update.
Thanks, WSJ.
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I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
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This is the kind of action that makes us proud.
Please share this widely.
Please share this widely.
Bannatyne customer?
Please set your gender to non-binary
Then he'll have a data conversion problem. If he tries to eliminate the option, he won't know which to set: male or female
I am an LGBTi+ ally
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Please set your gender to non-binary
Then he'll have a data conversion problem. If he tries to eliminate the option, he won't know which to set: male or female
I am an LGBTi+ ally
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST
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What the heck is Bannatyne thinking?
August 31, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This is the kind of action that makes us proud.
Please share this widely.
Please share this widely.
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She reminds me of JKR in the way her transphobia grows more and more vicious over time. More spiteful, more unbridled: it's like a drug to these people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
She reminds me of JKR in the way her transphobia grows more and more vicious over time. More spiteful, more unbridled: it's like a drug to these people.
Riley Gaines Finished 5th. Now She Believes Victory Is in Her Grasp.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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She reminds me of JKR in the way her transphobia grows more and more vicious over time. More spiteful, more unbridled: it's like a drug to these people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
She reminds me of JKR in the way her transphobia grows more and more vicious over time. More spiteful, more unbridled: it's like a drug to these people.
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About sixth of the public hold extreme/toxic views on mass deportations even beyond asylum.
This is not larger than a decade ago. Elites are shifting *much* more than the public (which is liberalising longterm & frustrated about asylum/boats in the short-term).
This is not larger than a decade ago. Elites are shifting *much* more than the public (which is liberalising longterm & frustrated about asylum/boats in the short-term).
About a sixth of the public endorse very extreme views on making legal/settled migrants leave & then follow up on the specifics. (This overlaps with the 8% who say they support violence in protests & liked the riots, so it should be challenged, not indulged)
August 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
About sixth of the public hold extreme/toxic views on mass deportations even beyond asylum.
This is not larger than a decade ago. Elites are shifting *much* more than the public (which is liberalising longterm & frustrated about asylum/boats in the short-term).
This is not larger than a decade ago. Elites are shifting *much* more than the public (which is liberalising longterm & frustrated about asylum/boats in the short-term).
Trump crows because European leaders have accompanied Zelenskyy. He is delusional enough to believe they have come to honour him. They have come because they know he is a sick, depraved, stupid grandiose infant who must be controlled.
August 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Trump crows because European leaders have accompanied Zelenskyy. He is delusional enough to believe they have come to honour him. They have come because they know he is a sick, depraved, stupid grandiose infant who must be controlled.
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Well. I am cancelling my GymGroup membership because they are happily abiding by the flawed EHRC interim guidance and instituting transphobic policies. Please share this so that other queer members have this info and can make informed choices.
August 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Well. I am cancelling my GymGroup membership because they are happily abiding by the flawed EHRC interim guidance and instituting transphobic policies. Please share this so that other queer members have this info and can make informed choices.
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Where to start…
A startling example of projection…
An authoritarian christofascist, racist regime judges the UK and finds it wanting.
And our govt meekly apes the far right while Tory politicians wine and dine Vance because they’re all in this together.
Profiteering from prejudice. Repulsive.
A startling example of projection…
An authoritarian christofascist, racist regime judges the UK and finds it wanting.
And our govt meekly apes the far right while Tory politicians wine and dine Vance because they’re all in this together.
Profiteering from prejudice. Repulsive.
![Two headlines in The Times today
US claims human rights have got worse in Britain
One extract:
The report takes issue with Britains hate speech laws in general but also specifically with "public space protections (sic] orders"
- used by local coun-
cils to ban certain kinds of behaviour within limited areas -
and "safe access
zones around abortion clinics. Both are personal bugbears for Vance.
Vance holds court to top Tories in the Cotswolds
J D Vance discussed free speech, the Ukraine war an the future of the British riel with members of the shadow cabinet over tea in the
Cotswolds on Tuesday afternoon
(Katy Balls writes).
The US vice-president met
Conservative politicians including Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, and George Osborne, the former chancellor, in the garden of Dean Manor, the grade Il listed, 18th-century property that Vance is renting for his summer break.
Visitors also included Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary; Laura Trott, the shadow education secretary; and Katie Lam, the 2024 intake Tory MP and former Home Office adviser. Also in attendance was Sir Paul Marshall, the owner of GB News and The Spectator.
The gathering was organised by Osborne, who selected a group of people he thought would be of interest to Vance. The meeting ran for 90 minutes with a wide range of topics discussed, including border control, how the Tory party can recover and the possibility of a centre-right government in 2029.
Afterwards, Osborne went on alone with Vance and the US Vice president's family friends from Ohio for dinner.
The gathering was part of a series of meetings Vance has undertaken while in the UK as he looks to further understand and learn more about British politics. Yesterday
morning he met Nigel Farage, the Reform UK party leader, for a breakfast meeting.
Speaking after the conversation, Farage told The Times: "Good to catch up with my old friend JD Vance this morning. Everything we discussed remains confidential."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreicwaxbndr3g6wniegeohpfxywz7zhoj4bgsvmtxu75tvwz7gtlpi4@jpeg)
August 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Where to start…
A startling example of projection…
An authoritarian christofascist, racist regime judges the UK and finds it wanting.
And our govt meekly apes the far right while Tory politicians wine and dine Vance because they’re all in this together.
Profiteering from prejudice. Repulsive.
A startling example of projection…
An authoritarian christofascist, racist regime judges the UK and finds it wanting.
And our govt meekly apes the far right while Tory politicians wine and dine Vance because they’re all in this together.
Profiteering from prejudice. Repulsive.
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This is potentially seismic case for us.
Please, we know many of us are broke, but if you could spare even a few bob and share this
Please, we know many of us are broke, but if you could spare even a few bob and share this
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August 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is potentially seismic case for us.
Please, we know many of us are broke, but if you could spare even a few bob and share this
Please, we know many of us are broke, but if you could spare even a few bob and share this
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Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man
August 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man
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The moment I saw that "trans bra" M & S story I sensed it was nonsense.
Seconds later, having read the Telegraph piece I knew it was worse than that. It was deliberate hate mongering completely devoid of evidence, names and facts.
Superb job of debunking it here
www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...
Seconds later, having read the Telegraph piece I knew it was worse than that. It was deliberate hate mongering completely devoid of evidence, names and facts.
Superb job of debunking it here
www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...
Dispelling harmful misinformation about M&S 'trans' bra fitting row
Dangerous misinformation over an M&S 'trans' bra fitting story is spreading online; here's what we actually know.
www.thepinknews.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The moment I saw that "trans bra" M & S story I sensed it was nonsense.
Seconds later, having read the Telegraph piece I knew it was worse than that. It was deliberate hate mongering completely devoid of evidence, names and facts.
Superb job of debunking it here
www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...
Seconds later, having read the Telegraph piece I knew it was worse than that. It was deliberate hate mongering completely devoid of evidence, names and facts.
Superb job of debunking it here
www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...
It’s hot out there under the Mediterranean sun but she’s a chihuahua.
July 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s hot out there under the Mediterranean sun but she’s a chihuahua.
Sad this evening. It’s politics I think. At times I read replies to perfectly clear posts and these replies are thickets of confusion, fragmented, paranoid, full of villainies as Hamlet says. Especially on the right I must say. The absence of ethics & love of cruelty get me down.
July 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Sad this evening. It’s politics I think. At times I read replies to perfectly clear posts and these replies are thickets of confusion, fragmented, paranoid, full of villainies as Hamlet says. Especially on the right I must say. The absence of ethics & love of cruelty get me down.
This Epstein matter intrigues me because paranoia IS projection. For ages the MAGA lot have accused their perceived foes of practising child sexual abuse. Are they realising at last that the man they consider a sterling almost mythic figure is in fact the ickiest of all?
July 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This Epstein matter intrigues me because paranoia IS projection. For ages the MAGA lot have accused their perceived foes of practising child sexual abuse. Are they realising at last that the man they consider a sterling almost mythic figure is in fact the ickiest of all?
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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July 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I inadvertently heard bits of the press conference btwn Trump and that toadying Rutte. Trump described Gaza as prime waterfront property & the worst real estate deal in history. Mainly I came away with a strong sense of his sickness. It’s like a miasma or an acrid smell: you can feel it.
July 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I inadvertently heard bits of the press conference btwn Trump and that toadying Rutte. Trump described Gaza as prime waterfront property & the worst real estate deal in history. Mainly I came away with a strong sense of his sickness. It’s like a miasma or an acrid smell: you can feel it.