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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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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
SELECT pizza FROM menu WHERE topping = pepperoni ORDER BY MIN(price)
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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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jab lung @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
It’s me, I was the first year bioinformatics PhD student teaching herself Bash, R, and Python.
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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
Private equity ruined the soup experience at Panera out of greed. SOUP. They have no business near a fucking hospital.
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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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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The staggering selfishness of our populace makes my whole spirit hurt
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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
I was at 55 in October, and I’m a certified fat girl. Genetics and physiology are fucking wild.
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
And so, to circle back to the original point: cults are high-control organizations with low tolerance for dissident thought, where all effort of its members is focused on benefiting the few at the top. They fall apart without control. Return-to-office is the oligarchy asserting control bc they can
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
That’s why they’re willing to make decisions that are nonsensical in even a traditional capitalist analysis. I.e. destroying public health, innovation through academic research, & even basic education itself They don’t care how much wealth there is, as long as they’re in total control of everything
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
That’s the thing with this current phase of capitalism…the drive isn’t even for production. It’s for wealth concentration, power, and control. It’s for the further entrenchment of the oligarchy, to place them beyond the reach of even the most basic restraints.
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
They will, of course, use the dip in profits due to the pointless and counterproductive return-to-office mandate to justify culling jobs and increasing demand on those who remain, and shifting the labor demand curve back in their favor (can’t have all this wage growth, after all!)
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The shift to WFH took workers out of the watchful eye of the cult masters, and enough of them started to see what life with more self-determination meant…an unacceptable risk to the oligarchy. Which is why they’re willing to (temporarily) sacrifice the clear financial benefits of WFH for control
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The things that oppose those forces of control are regulation and labor organization: the two things that the corporate oligarchs have long labeled the enemy Through this high-control mindset they’ve installed the oligarchy’s values in enough workers to turn the working class into a crab pot
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The language of the return to office mandates is often full of double-speak and euphemism to disguise what Trump plainly gave away as the true motivation: They believe they own your time, and they hate the idea you might “waste” time on yourself. They view every minute not devoted to them as theft.
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
In a cult mindset, your service to the purpose of the cult is the priority above all other things…above happiness, family, and even self-preservation. Your mind is too occupied with the cult’s demands to think of much else, and your time is never your own. That’s the working experience in the US.
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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
This might actually be the push I need to get back to writing.
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Mari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I know but youngins can’t tell the difference 😜
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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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