Lauren Merry Vale (they/she)
@pixielauren.bsky.social
Queer & genderqueer. Associate Professor. Creative writer. Backpacker. I teach LGBTQ Studies! 🌈 I'm obsessed with mushrooms & cats. Tiny farm in rural Ohio, USA. 🍀 🍄 🌸
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"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."
-- Kurt Vonnegut
-- Kurt Vonnegut
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every teacher in america is a replaceable widget except for larry summers
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
every teacher in america is a replaceable widget except for larry summers
I keep saying this. THEY PAID A THOUSAND GUYS TO SIT IN A ROOM AND REDACT TRUMP'S NAME and/or destroy the docs that had the bad shit about Trump.
Do you really think he's gonna let the photos of him with a naked child get released?!
Bondi's loyal. Nothing new is gonna come out about Trump.
Do you really think he's gonna let the photos of him with a naked child get released?!
Bondi's loyal. Nothing new is gonna come out about Trump.
>1,000 FBI agents spent weeks of furious effort redacting Trump’s name (and others) this summer from the Epstein files, do we really think we’re gonna learn that much?
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I keep saying this. THEY PAID A THOUSAND GUYS TO SIT IN A ROOM AND REDACT TRUMP'S NAME and/or destroy the docs that had the bad shit about Trump.
Do you really think he's gonna let the photos of him with a naked child get released?!
Bondi's loyal. Nothing new is gonna come out about Trump.
Do you really think he's gonna let the photos of him with a naked child get released?!
Bondi's loyal. Nothing new is gonna come out about Trump.
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The Gilded Age but for raping teens
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The Gilded Age but for raping teens
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Nothing Trump does is a distraction. All of it is criminal, tyrannical, and treasonous. None of it is excusable, and all of it is impeachable.
Remain focused on the remedy: impeachment
Remain focused on the remedy: impeachment
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Nothing Trump does is a distraction. All of it is criminal, tyrannical, and treasonous. None of it is excusable, and all of it is impeachable.
Remain focused on the remedy: impeachment
Remain focused on the remedy: impeachment
Every single American university president must read this letter in full, today -- and then reflect on the futility of compliance on any level with the Trump Administration's threats and shakedowns.
Jim Ryan’s account of his forced resignation as UVA President makes plain the depth of misconduct and bad faith the faculty have long suspected of the BOV. Every member of the UVA community should read this letter and appreciate the need for new leadership.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
www.documentcloud.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Every single American university president must read this letter in full, today -- and then reflect on the futility of compliance on any level with the Trump Administration's threats and shakedowns.
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Let me get this straight: The Right has spent years calling trans people, drag performers, queers, teachers and librarians "groomers" -- but Epstein and Trump are NOT child molesters, because *checks notes* their victims were young-looking 15-year-olds?!
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Let me get this straight: The Right has spent years calling trans people, drag performers, queers, teachers and librarians "groomers" -- but Epstein and Trump are NOT child molesters, because *checks notes* their victims were young-looking 15-year-olds?!
Today maybe wasn't the best day for @nytimes.com to publish a story with a Toobin byline?
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today maybe wasn't the best day for @nytimes.com to publish a story with a Toobin byline?
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
If I hear someone say "The #metoo movement went too far!!!!" EVER AGAIN I'm gonna lose it oh my fucking god.
#metoo didn't go far ENOUGH. Rapists protect rapists while destroying survivor's lives and reputations.
I feel actually sick. I couldn't be angrier.
#metoo didn't go far ENOUGH. Rapists protect rapists while destroying survivor's lives and reputations.
I feel actually sick. I couldn't be angrier.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
It's not just Trump, Epstein, Maxwell.
It's a rot at the core of the billionaire class.
I want them drummed out of public life forever.
1/3
It's a rot at the core of the billionaire class.
I want them drummed out of public life forever.
1/3
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It's not just Trump, Epstein, Maxwell.
It's a rot at the core of the billionaire class.
I want them drummed out of public life forever.
1/3
It's a rot at the core of the billionaire class.
I want them drummed out of public life forever.
1/3
IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH.
NEVER stop pressing your representatives to impeach our President, a child rapist and child sex trafficker.
NEVER stop pressing your representatives to impeach our President, a child rapist and child sex trafficker.
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.“
— the ever-quotable United States Constitution, Article II Section 4
— the ever-quotable United States Constitution, Article II Section 4
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH.
NEVER stop pressing your representatives to impeach our President, a child rapist and child sex trafficker.
NEVER stop pressing your representatives to impeach our President, a child rapist and child sex trafficker.
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Another crisp fall day under the violent and oppressive pedophile regime
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Another crisp fall day under the violent and oppressive pedophile regime
The Democratic Party is as beholden to the billionaire class as the R's are -- and are thereby incapable of undoing the fascism. In case you hadn't noticed.
Today's the day to join a progressive third party ♥️
Today's the day to join a progressive third party ♥️
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The Democratic Party is as beholden to the billionaire class as the R's are -- and are thereby incapable of undoing the fascism. In case you hadn't noticed.
Today's the day to join a progressive third party ♥️
Today's the day to join a progressive third party ♥️
♥️
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Every American must read this. Every one of us. To remind us to fight harder against this evil, criminal, corrupt administration.
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Every American must read this. Every one of us. To remind us to fight harder against this evil, criminal, corrupt administration.
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Maybe it was the whole primitive, hateful idea of the feminine as dark, blind, weak, and evil that I saw shaking itself to pieces, imploding, crumbling into wreckage on a desert ground. And I rejoiced to see it fall. I still do.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Maybe it was the whole primitive, hateful idea of the feminine as dark, blind, weak, and evil that I saw shaking itself to pieces, imploding, crumbling into wreckage on a desert ground. And I rejoiced to see it fall. I still do.
Oh my god there is a Zohran Mamdani sign generator! 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Oh my god there is a Zohran Mamdani sign generator! 🤩
As the coordinator of an LGBTQ Studies program, "Don't talk to the New York Times" is my new "Shut the fuck up Friday" 🤐
This piece is AMAZING and everyone should read it ♥️
This piece is AMAZING and everyone should read it ♥️
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
As the coordinator of an LGBTQ Studies program, "Don't talk to the New York Times" is my new "Shut the fuck up Friday" 🤐
This piece is AMAZING and everyone should read it ♥️
This piece is AMAZING and everyone should read it ♥️
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
to fucking infinity
to fucking infinity
We've gotten so many of these pieces where a liberal engages in a good-faith effort to understand Trump voters. Every time, they discover that there's no deeper sympathetic reason they hold their views. They're just misinformed and hateful. My own efforts have found this too.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
to fucking infinity
to fucking infinity
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Happening Now: 100+ people rally outside of Apollo Management Group headquartered in NYC to protest its CEO Marc Rowan, the conservative billionaire behind Trump's Higher Ed compact deal that undermines universities ‼️
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Happening Now: 100+ people rally outside of Apollo Management Group headquartered in NYC to protest its CEO Marc Rowan, the conservative billionaire behind Trump's Higher Ed compact deal that undermines universities ‼️
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Hear @proftwolf.bsky.social: “OUR compact is: higher education as a public good—that means free college for all; that means an end to student debt; that means work with dignity for everyone on our campuses; it means freedom to teach and freedom to learn without Big Brother on our back!”
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hear @proftwolf.bsky.social: “OUR compact is: higher education as a public good—that means free college for all; that means an end to student debt; that means work with dignity for everyone on our campuses; it means freedom to teach and freedom to learn without Big Brother on our back!”
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abundantly clear that the six monsters currently running the Supreme Court do not think trans people are real and want them to go away
they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen
their power must be broken
they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen
their power must be broken
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
abundantly clear that the six monsters currently running the Supreme Court do not think trans people are real and want them to go away
they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen
their power must be broken
they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen
their power must be broken