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Mari Brighe

@maribrighe.bsky.social
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Writer, Academic, Scientist, Queer Theorist, Occasionally interesting. BirdApp Refugee under the same name. You probably have read my stuff if you’re a Millennial queer. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️(Formerly: SpookyGayBabe on TikTok)

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Dr. Meredith Wills ⚾️⚾️👀 @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“In fact, President Trump is so pro-family, he’s calling himself the ‘fertilization president.’ And if reading the phrase ‘fertilization president’ just made you throw up in your mouth a little bit, that’s called morning sickness. Congratulations, you’re pregnant.”
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 22/02/2025
Once again we have created the torment nexus
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/02/2025
I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
And there's going to be a lot of sketchy-to-blatantly unconstitutional orders coming in the next year.
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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We can learn so much from disability history and the disability justice movement.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
“Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last. Today, the President of the United States has targeted one particular group on one particular issue which Maine law has addressed. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it – and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so."
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/02/2025
in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It’s my 12 tranniversary today. That means I’ve spent more of my adult life on estrogen than without it. It’s weird to feel more scared about my future now than I did back then. But, I’m not going anywhere. I worked too damn hard to become the person I am.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is literally all of Medicaid btw
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"I'm complying in advance!"
A military ad from Starship Troopers, where the soldiers break formation to turn to the camera and say, "I'm doing my part!"
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joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
not really. most of what T***p has done through his career has been illegal but not punished; T***p is above the law, as we have seen. anyone else would have been prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated long ago.
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Musk knows less about writing code and data structures than a first year PhD student in bioinformatics teaching themself Bash, R, and Python.
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Who would have guessed that siphoning off the balance sheets of hospitals to buy some private equity douchebags more yachts and Congressmen would result in a drop in patient care?
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 11/02/2025
They really want to force young white women out of the workforce. And it is wild to watch conservative white women stump for their own subjugation. Because when they are not longer useful they will find out the cage isn't even gilded
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Sam Wise Masks @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Eugenics against disabled people are ramping up, it’s BAD, we will die VERY QUICKLY. What you’re doing RIGHT NOW is what you’d have done “back then”. We NEED nondisabled people to speak up, to act up, to do SOMETHING, because your voices & actions always carry more weight in our ableist society.
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Can we just shove a certain loud mouthed bootlicker trans woman back her glass closet and lock the door? She’s such a waste of oxygen.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/02/2025
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.
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Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025
framers couldn't account for the speaker of the house being a pathetic toady
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The idea that they’re “dissolving” a congressionally-created, cabinet-level department that’s existed on its own for 45 years, and within the cabinet for 70 years, on the say so the president, an unelected billionaire, and like 3 racist code-monkeys is…well, fucking insan
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Let’s be honest here The “return to office” obsession that’s happening is because US capitalism is a high-control cult. They want people monitored for dissension and to ensure as much energy is wrung from them as possible. An exhausted, burned out working class is less likely to revolt
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Clip and save this for when he spends the majority of his time at his golf courses again, I guess
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 11/02/2025
SCOOP: Texas State Law Library has removed public access to their LGBT Law name/gender marker change information page. This is especially concerning as there are already limited resources for options trans people from Texas have for changing documents. Texas ignores gender change court orders.
This page is not currently available due to visibility settings.
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I saw someone name drop @nataliereed84.bsky.social as important influence today! Nice to know people still think about trans writing that’s mote than 5 years old.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025
If you think resisting the nazis was only about active violence, & not also about the grinding & halting of gears, the bureaucratic sabotage, the disruption of process, then go reassess what you understand about history. It's not everything, but it's a slowdown for them, & breathing space for us.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025
Like… the very concept of the rule of law is in fucking shambles, to be sure, but it takes them time and cost them effort even to dismiss shit. Every second gained through procedural delay is a second in which material resistance can be organized and enacted, and safety shored up.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025
If you don't understand the powers and procedures available to the party in minority by which they can stymie the agenda of the party in majority, please don't come to me making it my problem. Like, your basic failure to learn from very recent history is neither my fault nor my responsibility.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/02/2025
I wrote about the decimation of "reality" for @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social last week but the big upshot is this: the tech bros hate knowledge and they would rather fund a wrong computer to give them (and the world) bad answers than learn anything from people who aren't just like them.
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Reality Bytes
So-called ‘AI,’ performative ignorance, and old-fashioned human assholery are degrading reality as we know it.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/g...
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German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest researchers' access to
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Conservatives about trans people just existing as teachers, academics, etc: “Burn them all!! ROOT OUT THE EVIL INDOCTRINATORS” Conservatives about a federal employee with long history of posting violent racist shit: “ZOMG cancel culture, let’s not be too hasty, what if he’s good at his job?”
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 07/02/2025
They called 17 year old murdered child, Trayvon Martin, a grown man.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."
The serious concerns over how the Order will detrimentally impact transgender
youth cannot be overstated. One Washingtonian, as her parents describe her, was a bright and
gentle soul who loved playing musical instruments, trying new things, and playing Magic the
Gathering. She was excited to learn Japanese and the impact of gender-affirming care was
immediately clear to her family. Her parents described that “her joy was clear with every new
milestone in her transition. She was so happy to get to the next step, to get closer to presenting
in a way that was true to herself.” But the day before the presidential election, she shared,
“[t]omorrow I get to find out if I’m illegal.” After the election, she asked her parents if they
could move to Canada because she was fearful of new restrictions on transgender youth and
worried about losing access to gender-affirming care. In January 2025, she took her life. After
the Order issued, her parents expressed that the outlook for transgender futures looks scary and
shared fears of what ending gender-affirming care would have meant for their daughter’s access
to therapy, puberty-delaying medication, hormones, and hope of surgery. Her parents have
expressed fear for the many lives who depend on gender-affirming care and that what happened
to their daughter does not happen to any other children.
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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Republicans lose in Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled — unanimously — that the head of the state's Elections Commission, Meagan Wolfe, can stay in her role until a bipartisan commission replaces her or she resigns. Republicans sought to fire Wolfe despite evidence of no wrongdoing.
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media.tenor.com
a cartoon character says i 'm shocked in front of a fence
Alt: a cartoon character says i 'm shocked in front of a fence
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 06/02/2025
Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing? DON'T DO IT. If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT. Document, document, document. Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
this is just untrue, Democrats need him out as leader, just so embarrassing
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
BBC article: “Dr Upton had planned to arrive at work with a female colleague, but the colleague was late…Dr Upton therefore went into the changing room alone - before Ms Peggie WALKED OUT OF A CUBICLE” This whole case is a GC attack weapon, brought to cause harm.
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Trans doctor left 'upset and afraid' by nurse - BBC News
Dr Beth Upton described being left in tears after the confrontation in a hospital changing room.
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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I’m sorry but “trans people are not invisible.”? What the fuck is that supposed to mean? No shit we’re not invisible. It’s a full blown moral panic to the point where cis people are getting harassed for supposedly being one of us.
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It turns out the NY doc indicted for telemedicine abortion care in LA was once MY doctor. Hands down the best I have ever had - I broke down in tears on my 1st visit because I had never received care like that & didn't even know it was possible Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate
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Donate | The ACT Group
Donate and help us make a difference in access to telemedicine for all
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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Madonna all accidentally unpacking transphobia and femmephobia like Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short Wear shirts and boots 'cause it's okay to be a boy But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading 'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We've warned for years that on-campus surveillance (the explosion of CCTV cameras, schools using facial recognition, keycards that track student movements, etc etc) would be weaponized by a future government to chill speech and attack vulnerable students Welp... www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/tru...
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Trump Threatens to Deport Pro-Palestinian International Student Protesters
An executive order that purports to combat antisemitism on university campuses is likely to chill free speech and target students for pro-Palestine, antiwar and anti-racist views. The order, signed by...
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Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The federal government built the internet and bankrolled nearly every tech innovation of the last 60+ years, one way or the other, from the “mother of all demos” in 1968 to Biden’s bailing out billionaire VC nitwits who did a run on Silicon Valley Bank in 2023
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