Maria Browning
@marbro.bsky.social
Books, dogs, birds, music, art, wild things & human rights — not necessarily in that order
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I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
Quiet, Piggy
Trump's relentless campaign against women has shifted U.S. culture.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
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This bullshit is making everything worse and the only thing I’m sure of is that I will continue to spend five figures a year to access four figures of care just in case I need seven figures of care.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This bullshit is making everything worse and the only thing I’m sure of is that I will continue to spend five figures a year to access four figures of care just in case I need seven figures of care.
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
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When another boy has a box
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
When another boy has a box
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NEW: "The turkey is beautiful.... The turkey is striking.... The turkey is prolific.... The turkey is delicious.... The turkey is ours."
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-defense-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-defense-...
A Defense of the Thanksgiving Turkey
The noble, beautiful, all-American bird pays worthy homage to our grand culinary inheritance.
www.thebulwark.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
NEW: "The turkey is beautiful.... The turkey is striking.... The turkey is prolific.... The turkey is delicious.... The turkey is ours."
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-defense-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-defense-...
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ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!
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RIP Jimmy Cliff (1944 - 2025)
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
They never seem to hear us when we cry
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
They never seem to hear us when we cry
Jimmy Cliff Recording The Harder They Come In Studio Session
YouTube video by Perry Henzell
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
RIP Jimmy Cliff (1944 - 2025)
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
They never seem to hear us when we cry
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
They never seem to hear us when we cry
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Yoram Hazony's empty phrases; did the Iroquois really influence the Constitution?; Chomsky and Kissinger on the Khmer Rouge
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-vices-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-vices-...
The Vices of Nationalism; America in the Longhouse; Revisiting Chomsky on Cambodia
Reading, Watching 11.23.25
www.unpopularfront.news
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Yoram Hazony's empty phrases; did the Iroquois really influence the Constitution?; Chomsky and Kissinger on the Khmer Rouge
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-vices-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-vices-...
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À réactivation of apartheid , now with the spectre of “fascism” and survival work .
Black women are often doing the exact same care work
And work work
But now unstructured and under malice
Black women are often doing the exact same care work
And work work
But now unstructured and under malice
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
À réactivation of apartheid , now with the spectre of “fascism” and survival work .
Black women are often doing the exact same care work
And work work
But now unstructured and under malice
Black women are often doing the exact same care work
And work work
But now unstructured and under malice
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Music, always.
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Music, always.
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I do not use ChatGPT because I still remember when you had to go to your local at a specific time of day to listen to someone slurring conspiracy theories with utmost confidence and I will never allow Sam Altman to take that from me
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I do not use ChatGPT because I still remember when you had to go to your local at a specific time of day to listen to someone slurring conspiracy theories with utmost confidence and I will never allow Sam Altman to take that from me
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WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
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I found this tiny, young Olive-snouted Tree Frog (Scinax elaeochroa) on my office window this afternoon and spent some time with my macro lens with it.
#frogs #costarica #amphibians #macro
#frogs #costarica #amphibians #macro
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I found this tiny, young Olive-snouted Tree Frog (Scinax elaeochroa) on my office window this afternoon and spent some time with my macro lens with it.
#frogs #costarica #amphibians #macro
#frogs #costarica #amphibians #macro
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I know some of you are fans of pelicans spashing in the water in 5 minutes before Sunset and the water giving off an orange hue. May I present to you: a humpback whale surfacing 5 minutes before sunset 😇
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I know some of you are fans of pelicans spashing in the water in 5 minutes before Sunset and the water giving off an orange hue. May I present to you: a humpback whale surfacing 5 minutes before sunset 😇
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Starting off strong! Putting my phone away! 🦑
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Starting off strong! Putting my phone away! 🦑
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"Ukraine must “enshrine in its constitution” a promise to never join NATO. Ukraine must shrink the size of its armed forces to 600,000, down from 900,000. Ukraine may not host foreign troops on its soil. Ukraine must hold new elections within 100 days, a demand not made of Russia, a dictatorship"
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Ukraine must “enshrine in its constitution” a promise to never join NATO. Ukraine must shrink the size of its armed forces to 600,000, down from 900,000. Ukraine may not host foreign troops on its soil. Ukraine must hold new elections within 100 days, a demand not made of Russia, a dictatorship"
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She wanted to run for senate. Trump wouldn’t let her. She knows she has no path to higher office through MAGA. She’s been getting popular with the left cause you’re all a bunch of fucking suckers. And she taking advantage of the moment to make a noisy step and gain more attention.
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
She wanted to run for senate. Trump wouldn’t let her. She knows she has no path to higher office through MAGA. She’s been getting popular with the left cause you’re all a bunch of fucking suckers. And she taking advantage of the moment to make a noisy step and gain more attention.
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
WATCH: After six Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders, Trump erupted online, accusing them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the senators in that video, joins Chris Hayes to respond.
'HANG THEM': Trump melts down, accuses six Dems of ‘seditious behavior’
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
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Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...