Emily M
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Emily M
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I often tell myself my obsessions with television, sports, democracy, breakfast tacos, and keeping America blue are totally normal. Because the last didn’t happen, I’ve switched platforms. Writer and lady with a new baby.
Chuck Schumer is utterly useless. Dude can’t keep a caucus of 45 people together when Nancy Pelosi had no problem keeping 222 VERY different types of democrats on the same page. He must be primaried.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It’s always a great feeling to leave your job to move to a new city, have a high risk pregnancy and therefore stay out of the workforce and learn, the week before your new job search starts, that jobs don’t necessarily exist anymore. Great timeline! Fun! A rough job search is perfect for a new mom!
September 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My son will be 6mo in a little over a week. I’m already terrified to send him to school. We need sensible gun violence legislation NOW and it needs to last long enough to protect the next generation of students. And the one after that. And the one after that. And… you get it.
August 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
These children were 8 and 10 - it’s sick to claim they had a firm grasp on religion or claim that anything in this situation would bring any sort of peace no matter their beliefs. Just disgusting.
Fox News' Trey Gowdy: "The only thing that can give us any modicum of peace at all is those two children are with the person who loved them the very most, the person who created them, that being Jesus. That is the only thing that can possibly give parents in the future any modicum of peace."
August 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You think she’d be at least “mildly concerned”
Senator Susan Collins got an earful from protesters at a ribbon cutting ceremony in Searsport today.
August 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’m in California with a newborn so I had no clue Brad Lander existed before tonight. My son has been asleep for 28 minutes. In that that time I’ve discovered, learned to admire, and would now happily go to the ends of the earth for that man. He needs to run a national campaign.
June 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Oh cool, my son was born just in time to inherit a lifetime of war in the Middle East just like his mom! This really shouldn’t be a multi-generational thing.
June 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Watching “Pop Culture Jeopardy” and my fiancé asked if Scarlett Johansson now goes by Scarlett Jost-Hansson, and I now know for sure he’s ready to be a dad in 19 days or less.
February 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Everything is bad but this Gaza thing is REALLY bad. Like “let’s start a world war” bad. And with all the cuts and unconstitutional EOs we will have no way/no one to fight it.

In other news, my first child is due in 28 days. Let’s fix this before he has a memory of the America he will be born into.
February 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Reposted by Emily M
The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening?

In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control.

Call it what it is.
January 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hi, huge Giants fan over here (but raised in the DMV by a dad from NJ) so I’m obviously pissed the Eagles won, but I’m super happy for the 2.0 Commanders (and for my sister who is a lifelong WFT fan). I now think it would be very cool if the Ravens win so I-95 can really have its moment in the sun.
January 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Otherwise known as Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightening. IYKYK.
Mel Gibson’s house burned down while he was doing the Joe Rogan podcast.
January 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The who?
January 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Because at Christmas you tell the truth:

I follow @eve6.bsky.social because, in 6th grade, their debut album was the first CD I ever bought. Why? My favorite movie at the time was “Can’t Hardly Wait” and “Open Road Song” was my anthem. Both things are still true. Best follow ever - damn hilarious.
December 24, 2024 at 2:59 AM
In moments like this I wish I hadn’t totally deactivated my bad place account.

Gotta be more of a shitshow than usual.
BREAKING: Biden pardons Hunter
December 2, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Going the other direction (kinda) - I’m grateful I relapsed after 9 years of sobriety because I divorced my abusive/narcissistic ex-husband, met my fiancé who showed me what a true partnership looks like on my new sobriety journey and am now 26 weeks pregnant with my/his/our first child.
Thanksgiving challenge! What’s something that you never thought you’d be grateful for but today you are?

Me: I’m thankful for being arrested in 2014. It propelled me to get clean from a 14yr opioid addiction. Clean 10-years now.

But I’m REALLY grateful for the friends and family who support me.
Thanksgiving challenge! What’s something that you never thought you’d be grateful for but today you are?

Me: Being an alcoholic. Other people can get through life without ever perusing spiritual growth. I have to, or I may drink again. It’s not an easy journey but it has so many gifts.
November 28, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Writing a few very personal pieces that tie into the current political landscape hits different when you’re pregnant and realize how much you’ll have to protect your child now, more than ever, from the hideousness of the world.

Will it be tough? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely.
November 27, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Said this to my mom about my crippling childhood anxiety at the age of seven and truly believed it was a willpower thing. Was seeing a psychiatrist three weeks later and still haven’t stopped. This is either not possible, a good joke, or I’m just broken. Hoping it’s the second.
Decided after tonight I’m not being depressed anymore
November 26, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Marrying into a niners family and getting texts all day saying they understand how it feels to be a Giants fan. No, but at least they’re trying.
November 25, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Reposted by Emily M
2014: the movie Idiocracy is basically a documentary

2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.
November 23, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Great starter pack for anyone looking for good political (and a few fun surprise) follows. Does anyone have good recommendations for comedy/screenwriter starter packs? I want to follow some people I don’t know!
November 20, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Everyone is so concerned with the Bills/Chiefs game, but I’m just grateful the Giants have a bye so I don’t have to go through my weekly game day hope/depression cycle.
November 17, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Good info, but I thought we were all supposed to ask RFK Jr’s opinion and then do the opposite?
November 17, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Scientific fact: beginning my day on this app instead of that other one results in a 137% increase in optimism. I think I’m going to like it here.
November 16, 2024 at 9:48 PM