Meg Pillow
@megpillow.bsky.social
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Meg Pillow
@megpillow.bsky.social
· Jul 31
On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)
“The woman is a footnote in the man’s history.” –Rebecca Hazelton * There’s this photo of Lana Clarkson that I think about often. She’s outside, backed by a blue sky, the green and brown spotted hi…
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My essay is up at @literaryhub.bsky.social about the late, great Lana Clarkson and other promising young women whose lives have been derailed or destroyed by men. It’s also about my childhood sexual abuse and how I have tried, and failed, to reckon with it.
lithub.com/on-promising...
lithub.com/on-promising...
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Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
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If you're not talking to your neighbors about how you can protect your community, today is the day to start. Love Ellen's message here. ❤️👇
Group of 14 'suburban moms' arrested during protest outside Broadview ICE facility
Group of 14 'suburban moms' arrested during protest outside Broadview ICE facility
Streaming now at https://abc7chicago.com/watch/live/11064984/.Sheriff’s deputies removed a group of 14 suburban moms, as they call themselves, outside of the...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If you're not talking to your neighbors about how you can protect your community, today is the day to start. Love Ellen's message here. ❤️👇
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Thread.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Thread.
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if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare
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glamour uk have made trans women their ‘women of the year’.
this really highlights how transphobes have lost the ‘culture war’ and are wholly reliant on bigoted politicians like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting
they wouldn’t do this if they were worried about it losing them readers:
this really highlights how transphobes have lost the ‘culture war’ and are wholly reliant on bigoted politicians like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting
they wouldn’t do this if they were worried about it losing them readers:
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
glamour uk have made trans women their ‘women of the year’.
this really highlights how transphobes have lost the ‘culture war’ and are wholly reliant on bigoted politicians like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting
they wouldn’t do this if they were worried about it losing them readers:
this really highlights how transphobes have lost the ‘culture war’ and are wholly reliant on bigoted politicians like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting
they wouldn’t do this if they were worried about it losing them readers:
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It's me again, just putting it out there that I am going to need space in 2026 for at least 5 events that can hold at least 100 people. Looking for accessible and also CHEAP spaces in NYC. None of the convenings will be charging people to participate. Thank you.
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's me again, just putting it out there that I am going to need space in 2026 for at least 5 events that can hold at least 100 people. Looking for accessible and also CHEAP spaces in NYC. None of the convenings will be charging people to participate. Thank you.
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Another banger essay: “People may understand that COVID exists and is infecting people, but feel that “it’s here to stay,” “we can’t fight it”, and “I’d rather be with my family”- giving themselves up to the virus in order to join with the majority due to fear of isolation.”
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Another banger essay: “People may understand that COVID exists and is infecting people, but feel that “it’s here to stay,” “we can’t fight it”, and “I’d rather be with my family”- giving themselves up to the virus in order to join with the majority due to fear of isolation.”
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1. This is stolen land. We have no moral right to exclude anyone.
2. "Illegal immigration" is a product of 20th century racism; your forebears came "legally" because there was no such thing as "illegal immigration" then.
3. Open borders are good. Borders are racist and colonial violence.
2. "Illegal immigration" is a product of 20th century racism; your forebears came "legally" because there was no such thing as "illegal immigration" then.
3. Open borders are good. Borders are racist and colonial violence.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
1. This is stolen land. We have no moral right to exclude anyone.
2. "Illegal immigration" is a product of 20th century racism; your forebears came "legally" because there was no such thing as "illegal immigration" then.
3. Open borders are good. Borders are racist and colonial violence.
2. "Illegal immigration" is a product of 20th century racism; your forebears came "legally" because there was no such thing as "illegal immigration" then.
3. Open borders are good. Borders are racist and colonial violence.
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It is interesting how whenever I raise Bernie's (frankly terrible) record on immigration, people who call themselves leftists immediately jump into my mentions and start spewing right wing anti-immigrant talking points.
Let me be absolutely clear:
Let me be absolutely clear:
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It is interesting how whenever I raise Bernie's (frankly terrible) record on immigration, people who call themselves leftists immediately jump into my mentions and start spewing right wing anti-immigrant talking points.
Let me be absolutely clear:
Let me be absolutely clear:
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it's something i try to keep in mind despite frustrations; i used to be a liberal. watched a lot of daily show, read a lot of magazines and newspapers, considered myself oh so smart. eventually, the contradictions were just too much for me to stay there.
happened earlier for me. later for others.
happened earlier for me. later for others.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
it's something i try to keep in mind despite frustrations; i used to be a liberal. watched a lot of daily show, read a lot of magazines and newspapers, considered myself oh so smart. eventually, the contradictions were just too much for me to stay there.
happened earlier for me. later for others.
happened earlier for me. later for others.
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sure, the party could spurn communists like me forever. but they decided they could eternally play in the face of the brunch types too. even that has a limit.
having no plan for the roe overturn, even after it leaked, and a shrug of a response when it happened, really broke open the dam there.
having no plan for the roe overturn, even after it leaked, and a shrug of a response when it happened, really broke open the dam there.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
sure, the party could spurn communists like me forever. but they decided they could eternally play in the face of the brunch types too. even that has a limit.
having no plan for the roe overturn, even after it leaked, and a shrug of a response when it happened, really broke open the dam there.
having no plan for the roe overturn, even after it leaked, and a shrug of a response when it happened, really broke open the dam there.
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the democrats over years have intentionally tried to cultivate a base of suburban home owning high engagement liberals who watch a lot of TV news and can and will max out an ActBlue donation and never considered once that they too might one day start to notice patterns of behavior
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
the democrats over years have intentionally tried to cultivate a base of suburban home owning high engagement liberals who watch a lot of TV news and can and will max out an ActBlue donation and never considered once that they too might one day start to notice patterns of behavior
Re: my last thread because it was getting too long: and now Trump etc. know that Dems will cave in the end. The GOP can do whatever they want now, because they know who is going to blink first.
They just sold the whole country out for nothing
They just sold the whole country out for nothing
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Re: my last thread because it was getting too long: and now Trump etc. know that Dems will cave in the end. The GOP can do whatever they want now, because they know who is going to blink first.
They just sold the whole country out for nothing
They just sold the whole country out for nothing
I’m serious when I say you need to have just as much rage for the Democrats as you do for Trump. They are a bunch of fucking cowards, and they all need to be primaried
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I’m serious when I say you need to have just as much rage for the Democrats as you do for Trump. They are a bunch of fucking cowards, and they all need to be primaried
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What I mean by this is that people will die by suicide to avoid burdening their families with medical bills
I can’t stop thinking about how bad the Blue Monday death toll will be in 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What I mean by this is that people will die by suicide to avoid burdening their families with medical bills
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someone needs to buy the biggest speaker available, put this in front of his house, and play this video over and over again every single night
cowardice. malice. pathetic.
cowardice. malice. pathetic.
SENATOR ANGUS KING: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. It actually gave him more power."
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
someone needs to buy the biggest speaker available, put this in front of his house, and play this video over and over again every single night
cowardice. malice. pathetic.
cowardice. malice. pathetic.
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“That it is radical to think of Muslims as humans is made obvious by how casually Mamdani’s opponents in this mayoral election engage in anti-Muslim hate.”
From "Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human" by @hebagowayed.bsky.social.
➡️ buff.ly/rhFYoAZ
From "Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human" by @hebagowayed.bsky.social.
➡️ buff.ly/rhFYoAZ
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“That it is radical to think of Muslims as humans is made obvious by how casually Mamdani’s opponents in this mayoral election engage in anti-Muslim hate.”
From "Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human" by @hebagowayed.bsky.social.
➡️ buff.ly/rhFYoAZ
From "Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human" by @hebagowayed.bsky.social.
➡️ buff.ly/rhFYoAZ
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less than a week 🙃
leftists swept the fucking board tonight, and The Party will still say we need to go right to win 🙃
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
less than a week 🙃
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i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
Does the Democratic leadership realize yet that not only do we not like them at this point but we wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire?
Do they understand how on the brink the average citizen is?
Because they really need to get a fucking clue
Do they understand how on the brink the average citizen is?
Because they really need to get a fucking clue
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Does the Democratic leadership realize yet that not only do we not like them at this point but we wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire?
Do they understand how on the brink the average citizen is?
Because they really need to get a fucking clue
Do they understand how on the brink the average citizen is?
Because they really need to get a fucking clue
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I am not an establishment Dem and that’s one of the reasons I AM running for Congress. We need to change the party and make real and lasting change. I am also always out in my community raising $ for the causes @megpillow.bsky.social lists.
Donations to my campaign let me do just that.
Donations to my campaign let me do just that.
Also, and I say this with my whole chest: do not give establishment Dems a dime of your money. Not a CENT. Give that money to mutual aid, to food pantries, to your library, to the guy on your street corner. All of them will put that money to better use.
Do not give politicians your money.
Do not give politicians your money.
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I am not an establishment Dem and that’s one of the reasons I AM running for Congress. We need to change the party and make real and lasting change. I am also always out in my community raising $ for the causes @megpillow.bsky.social lists.
Donations to my campaign let me do just that.
Donations to my campaign let me do just that.
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What we are seeing is a replay of the surrender on Covid protections because it was going to impact the wealth class in a way that would make it harder to accrue wealth without consequences.
Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.
Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.
Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
What we are seeing is a replay of the surrender on Covid protections because it was going to impact the wealth class in a way that would make it harder to accrue wealth without consequences.
Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.
Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.
I don’t know how to say it any more clearly than this: if Democrats are willing to scrap something like ACA subsidies, you have to be willing to tell them you’re not going to vote for them. And then actually do it.
You can’t keep voting for ppl who sell us all out to compromise with fascists
You can’t keep voting for ppl who sell us all out to compromise with fascists
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I don’t know how to say it any more clearly than this: if Democrats are willing to scrap something like ACA subsidies, you have to be willing to tell them you’re not going to vote for them. And then actually do it.
You can’t keep voting for ppl who sell us all out to compromise with fascists
You can’t keep voting for ppl who sell us all out to compromise with fascists