Mari Brighe
@maribrighe.bsky.social
Writer, Academic, Scientist, Queer Theorist, Occasionally interesting. BirdApp Refugee under the same name. You probably have read my stuff if you’re a Millennial queer. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️(Formerly: SpookyGayBabe on TikTok)
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Mari Brighe
@maribrighe.bsky.social
· Feb 3
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“In fact, President Trump is so pro-family, he’s calling himself the ‘fertilization president.’ And if reading the phrase ‘fertilization president’ just made you throw up in your mouth a little bit, that’s called morning sickness. Congratulations, you’re pregnant.”
"The GOP prides itself on being the pro-family party. We help women achieve the American dream: having so many babies that their weary bodies collapse in a shopping center parking lot with ninety-six-count packs of Walmart diapers under each arm."
We’re the Pro-Family Party; We’re Also Deporting Families
“National Immigration Project said on Friday the New Orleans ICE Field Office ‘deported at least two families, including two mothers and their mino...
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May 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“In fact, President Trump is so pro-family, he’s calling himself the ‘fertilization president.’ And if reading the phrase ‘fertilization president’ just made you throw up in your mouth a little bit, that’s called morning sickness. Congratulations, you’re pregnant.”
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Once again we have created the torment nexus
I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.
Yet women are less likely to be in leadership positions than men.
Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...
Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...
February 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Once again we have created the torment nexus
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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
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And there's going to be a lot of sketchy-to-blatantly unconstitutional orders coming in the next year.
Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.
February 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And there's going to be a lot of sketchy-to-blatantly unconstitutional orders coming in the next year.
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We can learn so much from disability history and the disability justice movement.
If you're struggling to understand how eugenics impacts daily life right now, I recommend going back to the historical records to see how the eugenics movement took off 100 years ago. We need to be able to recognize it when we see it, so that we can push back and resist. 1/20
February 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
We can learn so much from disability history and the disability justice movement.
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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position.
www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
February 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position.
www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests?
There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.
There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.
No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.
February 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests?
There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.
There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.
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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
It’s my 12 tranniversary today. That means I’ve spent more of my adult life on estrogen than without it.
It’s weird to feel more scared about my future now than I did back then.
But, I’m not going anywhere. I worked too damn hard to become the person I am.
It’s weird to feel more scared about my future now than I did back then.
But, I’m not going anywhere. I worked too damn hard to become the person I am.
February 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
It’s my 12 tranniversary today. That means I’ve spent more of my adult life on estrogen than without it.
It’s weird to feel more scared about my future now than I did back then.
But, I’m not going anywhere. I worked too damn hard to become the person I am.
It’s weird to feel more scared about my future now than I did back then.
But, I’m not going anywhere. I worked too damn hard to become the person I am.
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This is literally all of Medicaid btw
BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.
February 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is literally all of Medicaid btw
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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)
February 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
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I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
February 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
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"I'm complying in advance!"
February 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"I'm complying in advance!"
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not really. most of what T***p has done through his career has been illegal but not punished; T***p is above the law, as we have seen. anyone else would have been prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated long ago.
All that corporate training on FCPA is now moot. If the president does it, that means it’s legal.
February 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
not really. most of what T***p has done through his career has been illegal but not punished; T***p is above the law, as we have seen. anyone else would have been prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated long ago.
Musk knows less about writing code and data structures than a first year PhD student in bioinformatics teaching themself Bash, R, and Python.
not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)
February 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Musk knows less about writing code and data structures than a first year PhD student in bioinformatics teaching themself Bash, R, and Python.
Who would have guessed that siphoning off the balance sheets of hospitals to buy some private equity douchebags more yachts and Congressmen would result in a drop in patient care?
Private equity acquisitions of US hospitals have increased over the past decade, and such acquisitions were associated with a worsening of patient care experience compared to non-acquired hospitals.
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#MedSky
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#MedSky
February 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Who would have guessed that siphoning off the balance sheets of hospitals to buy some private equity douchebags more yachts and Congressmen would result in a drop in patient care?
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They really want to force young white women out of the workforce. And it is wild to watch conservative white women stump for their own subjugation. Because when they are not longer useful they will find out the cage isn't even gilded
What annoys me most about the anti-DEI attacks: We already rolled back, then ended affirmative action. Ask yourself: Where is this going? What more do they want?
If we roll back & then end DEI, what's next? Remember, theirs is a political movement that wants to position empathy itself as a vice...
If we roll back & then end DEI, what's next? Remember, theirs is a political movement that wants to position empathy itself as a vice...
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
They really want to force young white women out of the workforce. And it is wild to watch conservative white women stump for their own subjugation. Because when they are not longer useful they will find out the cage isn't even gilded
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Eugenics against disabled people are ramping up, it’s BAD, we will die VERY QUICKLY.
What you’re doing RIGHT NOW is what you’d have done “back then”.
We NEED nondisabled people to speak up, to act up, to do SOMETHING, because your voices & actions always carry more weight in our ableist society.
What you’re doing RIGHT NOW is what you’d have done “back then”.
We NEED nondisabled people to speak up, to act up, to do SOMETHING, because your voices & actions always carry more weight in our ableist society.
February 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Eugenics against disabled people are ramping up, it’s BAD, we will die VERY QUICKLY.
What you’re doing RIGHT NOW is what you’d have done “back then”.
We NEED nondisabled people to speak up, to act up, to do SOMETHING, because your voices & actions always carry more weight in our ableist society.
What you’re doing RIGHT NOW is what you’d have done “back then”.
We NEED nondisabled people to speak up, to act up, to do SOMETHING, because your voices & actions always carry more weight in our ableist society.
Can we just shove a certain loud mouthed bootlicker trans woman back her glass closet and lock the door?
She’s such a waste of oxygen.
She’s such a waste of oxygen.
February 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we just shove a certain loud mouthed bootlicker trans woman back her glass closet and lock the door?
She’s such a waste of oxygen.
She’s such a waste of oxygen.
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I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
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framers couldn't account for the speaker of the house being a pathetic toady
"I do think there has to be accountability. Congress has the power of the purse, of course. And we have oversight responsibility. And we’ve been vigorously using both of those powers." - Mike Johnson, May 2024.
February 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
framers couldn't account for the speaker of the house being a pathetic toady
The idea that they’re “dissolving” a congressionally-created, cabinet-level department that’s existed on its own for 45 years, and within the cabinet for 70 years, on the say so the president, an unelected billionaire, and like 3 racist code-monkeys is…well, fucking insan
Stansbury says her understanding is the Trump admin "has been running drills for the last couple of weeks, planning for this."
She also said she expects that "the Department of Education is going to potentially be dissolved in the coming days."
And yes, this is illegal.
She also said she expects that "the Department of Education is going to potentially be dissolved in the coming days."
And yes, this is illegal.
February 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The idea that they’re “dissolving” a congressionally-created, cabinet-level department that’s existed on its own for 45 years, and within the cabinet for 70 years, on the say so the president, an unelected billionaire, and like 3 racist code-monkeys is…well, fucking insan
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Let’s be honest here
The “return to office” obsession that’s happening is because US capitalism is a high-control cult. They want people monitored for dissension and to ensure as much energy is wrung from them as possible.
An exhausted, burned out working class is less likely to revolt
The “return to office” obsession that’s happening is because US capitalism is a high-control cult. They want people monitored for dissension and to ensure as much energy is wrung from them as possible.
An exhausted, burned out working class is less likely to revolt
February 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Let’s be honest here
The “return to office” obsession that’s happening is because US capitalism is a high-control cult. They want people monitored for dissension and to ensure as much energy is wrung from them as possible.
An exhausted, burned out working class is less likely to revolt
The “return to office” obsession that’s happening is because US capitalism is a high-control cult. They want people monitored for dissension and to ensure as much energy is wrung from them as possible.
An exhausted, burned out working class is less likely to revolt