Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian
@lilbrownbat.bsky.social
Lesbian, activist, tech worker, aikidoka, writer
Pronouns she/her
Located in Massachusetts
I manage projects and plan to take over the world for the good of humanity
I write sf/f, political essays, occasionally something about martial arts
Pronouns she/her
Located in Massachusetts
I manage projects and plan to take over the world for the good of humanity
I write sf/f, political essays, occasionally something about martial arts
Thinking of that opening scene in "A Bridge Too Far" when the Dutch woman asks her husband, "What is that noise?" (the sound of German heavy equipment as the German army retreats). And he replies, with a beatific smile:
"Panic."
"Panic."
below 40 is the threshold where you sort of start to expect open panic/revolt.
which you're kind of seeing with the epstein files vote.
which you're kind of seeing with the epstein files vote.
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thinking of that opening scene in "A Bridge Too Far" when the Dutch woman asks her husband, "What is that noise?" (the sound of German heavy equipment as the German army retreats). And he replies, with a beatific smile:
"Panic."
"Panic."
Epstein is HUGE. It's also directly connected with Russia, kompromat and corruption, which in turn all require gutting DOJ and attacking the rule of law.
Just as a reminder: Trump's doing Putin's bidding on Russia, his attacks on science at HHS and with regard to the environment, his corruption, his ICE army attacking US cities, his gutting of the DoJ and attacks on the rule of law and democracy are all much, much, much bigger scandals than Epstein.
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Epstein is HUGE. It's also directly connected with Russia, kompromat and corruption, which in turn all require gutting DOJ and attacking the rule of law.
"The possibility that Epstein gave compromising information to Russia on Trump has risen very dramatically and is directly connected to what Trump did today, in putting US on the side of Russia against our European allies in Ukraine."
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-are-str...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-are-str...
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"The possibility that Epstein gave compromising information to Russia on Trump has risen very dramatically and is directly connected to what Trump did today, in putting US on the side of Russia against our European allies in Ukraine."
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-are-str...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-are-str...
Unfuckingbelievable the audacity of these fash.
Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Unfuckingbelievable the audacity of these fash.
Read upthread...
“A simple answer” sounds like a “final solution”.
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Read upthread...
They went to shit when the New York Times acquired them.
From the "who saw that coming" files...
From the "who saw that coming" files...
Very disappointing to see @bostonglobe.com running a piece from Richard Hanania today.
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
They went to shit when the New York Times acquired them.
From the "who saw that coming" files...
From the "who saw that coming" files...
The only thing lamer than a flounce is threatening to flounce and then...not.
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The only thing lamer than a flounce is threatening to flounce and then...not.
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
Don't cross the picket line!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Don't cross the picket line!
Pure poetry.
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Pure poetry.
If I could have picked a single image to accompany this news...this would have been it.
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If I could have picked a single image to accompany this news...this would have been it.
I don't know, I didn't see, I just heard, I just read it, I haven't seen that, I'm not gonna comment on that
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I don't know, I didn't see, I just heard, I just read it, I haven't seen that, I'm not gonna comment on that
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in days, 42 million kids and adults, including sick kids and adults, will see their life saving SNAP (food benefits) stopped because of an illegal refusal by Trump & Vought to release emergency funding FOR THAT PURPOSE during the shutdown:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...
When SNAP benefits run out, 'people can die,' say health experts
“People can die” from even short gaps in nutrition and food access, experts say ahead of SNAP benefits not going out in November in at least 25 states.
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
in days, 42 million kids and adults, including sick kids and adults, will see their life saving SNAP (food benefits) stopped because of an illegal refusal by Trump & Vought to release emergency funding FOR THAT PURPOSE during the shutdown:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...
Face taxes or face pitchforks.
This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.
It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Face taxes or face pitchforks.
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The only thing that went right was that California did not believe the U.S. government’s insistence that it was totally safe, and so made the life-saving decision to close the freeway.
October 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The only thing that went right was that California did not believe the U.S. government’s insistence that it was totally safe, and so made the life-saving decision to close the freeway.
Yeah, what the fuck, we need another gaudy eyesore built to Trump aesthetics at taxpayer expense. Why the fuck not. Not like there's any better use for that money.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yeah, what the fuck, we need another gaudy eyesore built to Trump aesthetics at taxpayer expense. Why the fuck not. Not like there's any better use for that money.
This is the kind of news that inspires me to make popcorn. Seriously, dude wants banks to give him a do-over? Really?
Elliott Broidy is also suing @americanexpress.bsky.social, claiming he was denied him a credit card because of his conviction for illegal foreign lobbying, even though he was pardoned by Trump.
AmEx says he was denied because he had previously misused his accounts.
AmEx says he was denied because he had previously misused his accounts.
October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is the kind of news that inspires me to make popcorn. Seriously, dude wants banks to give him a do-over? Really?
A central component of Republican mental illness is their fetishization of what they imagine victimhood to be. It's like grown-ass adults who love dystopian YA fiction where all problems are solved after a little lightweight performative "suffering".
Mariannette Miller-Meeks: "When you talk about authoritarianism, let me tell you, my first 4 years in Congress were spent under authoritarian government. It was President Biden ... "
October 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A central component of Republican mental illness is their fetishization of what they imagine victimhood to be. It's like grown-ass adults who love dystopian YA fiction where all problems are solved after a little lightweight performative "suffering".
Finally, someone said it.
do people realize they can just do stupid things and not make them everyone else's fuckin problem
I never wash our bread knife – and I won’t let the internet shame me into changing my ways | Emma Beddington
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Finally, someone said it.
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The agenda is to punish Dems for standing up to Trump and reward Dems for capitulating, in part because they want the Dems to lose the midterms and don't want them pursuing politically effective strategies for that reason alone bsky.app/profile/them...
yeah...that's one of their favorite stories to tell: "Democrats stood their ground. Will this come back to haunt them in the midterms?" -- it gives them reliable copy they've already written many times over, so they can just search-and-replace
October 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The agenda is to punish Dems for standing up to Trump and reward Dems for capitulating, in part because they want the Dems to lose the midterms and don't want them pursuing politically effective strategies for that reason alone bsky.app/profile/them...
Kash Patel is a flaming asshole.
"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said."
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
www.reuters.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Kash Patel is a flaming asshole.
Look, I'm not gonna give my uneducated hot take on what flavor of neurological damage The President(tm) has. But he's got something and it's bad, and that's all the reason you need to know about why this is happening. What to do about it is the problem.
“The President of the United States—who has access to better intelligence than anyone on Earth—is moving to deploy military forces against American citizens based on what he saw on TV and what his “people” told him, without bothering to verify whether any of it was real.”
So Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him
Who’s running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an American …
www.techdirt.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Look, I'm not gonna give my uneducated hot take on what flavor of neurological damage The President(tm) has. But he's got something and it's bad, and that's all the reason you need to know about why this is happening. What to do about it is the problem.
This is a brilliant succinct takedown of AI-generated media. But also, you really wanna look upthread.
Whatever they do with AI brainrot, it will never beat watching a real jerk take a sharp blow to the gonads, and knowing that it's real. And if the AI promoters are honest with themselves, they know that too.
September 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is a brilliant succinct takedown of AI-generated media. But also, you really wanna look upthread.
I know the news is worse every day, but I'm about done with constant posts of "you people should be terrified and freaking out and you're just not doing enough of that (for me)". Think what it says that your response to a crisis is to demand that OTHER PEOPLE act terrified in ways that satisfy you.
September 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I know the news is worse every day, but I'm about done with constant posts of "you people should be terrified and freaking out and you're just not doing enough of that (for me)". Think what it says that your response to a crisis is to demand that OTHER PEOPLE act terrified in ways that satisfy you.
September 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM