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Mary @marybadthings.com · 06/05/2026

New coworker. It’s about time he got a job.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 23/04/2026

HIS MOM WAS THE HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCES?!

In November 2023, Mavromatis formally complained about “the sexually inappropriate encounters and harassment, and demeaning and hostile work environment she and other female employees had been living and experiencing working at MrBeast,” to the company’s then head of human resources, Sue Parisher, who is also Donaldson’s mother, according to the suit.

Mary @marybadthings.com · 27/01/2026

Now would you look at that!

Its openness to immigration was also a factor in plugging holes in key sectors for job creation, they added.

"Immigration sets us apart from other countries," said Raymond Torres of think tank FUNCAS. "It has dynamised growth in sectors like hospitality and care which otherwise would have encountered labour shortages."

MORE MIGRANTS, MORE FULL-TIME WORKERS
Spain's Socialist government has advocated for integrating migrants into the labour market to bolster the welfare state and growth, setting it apart from other European countries tightening their borders.
The government struck a deal on Monday with hard-left party Podemos, set to be passed by the cabinet in coming weeks, to expedite legal status for roughly 500,000 irregular migrant workers who have lived in Spain for five months and have no criminal record.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 15/01/2026

Yeah, this isn’t OK.

That includes pictures Heather Ammel claims she found of Sinema wrapped in a towel and texts between the two in which Sinema called the idea of having missionary sex “boring!” Sinema and Matthew Ammel frequently attended concerts together and she encouraged him to bring MDMA on Senate-related travel so that “she could guide him through a psychedelic experience,” per the lawsuit.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 15/01/2026

No amount of training or reforming can fix this.

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car […] My 6-month-old can't even breathe. This was flipped over," Shawn said, holding up his child’s car seat. "My car filled with tear gas, I'm trying to pull my kids from the car."

His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby while others poured milk on her other children in an effort to neutralize the tear gas.

Mary @marybadthings.com · 14/01/2026

I wonder if she was on Trump's Media Offenders website. time.com/7338411/whit...

The White House recently launched what it is calling a “Media Bias Portal,” which lists journalists, news outlets, and articles that it has deemed biased against the Trump Administration. On Tuesday, the White House announced a tipline, encouraging Americans to “submit biased or undeniably false articles” in order to help “keep the Media Bias Portal updated.”

The portal, the White House said, is “a service to truth and transparency.”

“Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies, purposely omitted context, and outright left-wing lunacy of the Fake News Media—a tall task that demands the help of everyone who believes in facts and accuracy over Fake News,” it continued. “So-called ‘journalists’ have made it impossible to identify every false or misleading story, which is why help from the American people is essential. The days of the Fake News Media controlling the narrative with lies, fake anonymous sources, and willful bias are over.”

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 14/01/2026

We need a real opposition party that will stand up to fascists.

The Justice Department, Ms. Bondi wrote, “will not tolerate unauthorized disclosures that undermine President Trump’s policies, victimize government agencies and cause harm to the American people.”

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 13/01/2026

You have got to be kidding me.

Picture of George Conway.

Mary, I’m George Conway. Former Republican turned anti-Trump activist.

I put everything about my life on the line to defeat Donald Trump.

First, I quit the Republican Party.
Then, I founded the Lincoln Project.
Now, I’m running for Congress.

I’m not your typical Democrat – but times like these require proven fighters.

Mary, I 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝗮 “𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿,” 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗜’𝗺 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀.

Mary @marybadthings.com · 07/01/2026

This man cannot be anywhere near the presidency. From Politico Playbook:

QUESTION OF THE DAY: How should Democrats respond to Donald Trump’s excursion into Venezuela?

One 2028 presidential hopeful has a clear answer: By staying laser-focused on the kitchen table issues Americans care about. “The president wants to focus on Venezuela? Democrats are focused on Virginia,” Rahm Emanuel tells Playbook. “He wants to talk about what’s happening in Caracas? I want to talk about what’s happening in Columbus.”

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 24/12/2025

Bridging new and old Christmas Eve traditions: sleeping downstairs near the big Christmas tree, watching the Flintstones movie, I Yabba-Dabba Do!, while my dog wears his silk pajamas.

Black and white Shih Tzu wearing blue satin pajamas

Mary @marybadthings.com · 23/12/2025

Literal authoritarianism

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 21/12/2025

Ain’t no fun when the rabbits got the gun, is it?

On Friday, Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian American who is running for governor of Ohio as a Republican, took on a faction on the right that is pushing the idea that so-called “heritage Americans” — people whose families have been in the country for multiple generations — have a greater claim to the nation than more recent arrivals.

Mr. Ramaswamy assailed the idea as a “blood and soil” conception of citizenship, one that is “un-American at its core” and “about as loony as anything the woke left has actually put up.”
Although Mr. Ramaswamy did not mention Vice President JD Vance, his remarks appeared to put him at odds with the vice president, who in a controversial July speech spoke against “importing millions and millions of low-wage serfs” and extolled the country and its heritage as “a distinctive place with a distinctive people.”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene never left MAGA. She’s running a con and people are falling for it.

To Carlson’s fans, he’s a champion of the populist “America First” agenda they see as the future of the GOP — a movement also embodied by MAGA stars such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), who earlier this year called Carlson one of her “favorite humans on the planet.”

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Put him under the jail!

The prosecutor stated that the two have lived in Cincinnati for the last year or so, with police having been called out to Saxon's residence about 23 times during that period.

The prosecutor alleged the victim had reported injuries prior to this, including in April, when she was taken to a hospital with a broken pelvis, and in 2018 in Virginia, when she had surgery for a broken nose.

This man is currently 47. www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...

Hamilton County prosecutors have previously said that Saxon's alleged victim was 18 when the two started their relationship. According to prosecutors, the two had been together for "a number of years" and had lived in a couple of different states together prior to settling in Ohio.

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I can’t stand Ross Douthat, but Pinker might want to sit this one out.

Pinker’s numerous interactions in Epstein’s orbit have long been the subject of reporting and speculation.
In 2007, when Epstein was first indicted for procuring a minor for prostitution, Pinker “provided his expertise on language” for Epstein’s defense, according to The New York Times. Pinker offered his services for free and, he told the Times, at the request of his friend, Havard law professor Alan Dershowitz—who has himself been accused of sexually assaulting minors trafficked by Epstein, which he denies.

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Highlighting this again because this is a pipeline we’re seeing all over social media of how young women are being radicalized.

Her fandom extends beyond political junkies; on TikTok, you’ll find Owens followers who otherwise post mostly about celebrities and wellness, both subjects she talks about often.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 19/12/2025

She’s completely lost it.

On Thursday, Owens had on her show a man who claimed to have seen Erika Kirk at an army base the day before Kirk’s assassination, implying that Erika was somehow part of the plot against her husband. That plot also involves, in Owens’s telling, the French Foreign Legion, the federal government and leaders of Turning Point, Kirk’s organization, all somehow masterminded by demonic Zionists.

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All she did was go to a Coldplay concert with her boss and some friends

She was doxxed, and for weeks received 500 or 600 calls a day. Paparazzi camped across the street from her house and cars slowly cruised her block, “like a parade,” she recalled. She received death threats: “Not 900. That showed up in People magazine. I got 50 or 60,” she told me.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 19/12/2025

I would crawl into a crater and never be heard from again. www.thecut.com/2019/05/naom...

Before Sweet delivered the punch, Wolf was audibly ready to speak about the “several dozen” similar executions she noted in her book, many of which rely on her completely wrong understanding of the term “death recorded.” But there is no historical evidence that shows anyone was ever executed for sodomy during the Victorian era, Sweet said on Twitter. Which means … much of the premise of Wolf’s entire book is just false.

Wolf cited on Twitter historical findings from a peer-reviewed article written by A.D. Harvey, a historian who’s been labeled a hoaxer. (He deceived the public into thinking that Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoyevsky met once and created several online personas and an entire fake community of academics.)

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 19/12/2025

Who wouldn’t want this woman teaching college students? www.theguardian.com/books/2021/f...

Outrages recounts the life of writer John Addington Symonds and how gay men in the 19th century would have feared lengthy prison sentences and hard labour for “unnatural offences”. The book first ran into trouble when it was published as a hardback in 2019, when Wolf, the author of The Beauty Myth, was confronted during a BBC radio broadcast by the historian Dr Matthew Sweet. Sweet pointed out that she had misunderstood the term “death recorded” in historical records. Wolf had believed it signified an execution, and claimed that she had found “several dozen executions” of gay men after the last recorded execution for sodomy in 1835. However, the term reflects a crime punishable by death that was commuted to a custodial sentence, a common occurrence. The book was subsequently pulled and pulped in the US, and corrected in the UK by Wolf’s publisher, Virago.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 17/12/2025

He said, “fuck those babies.”

In an emailed statement, Andrew Nixon, an HHS spokesperson, said the grants “were canceled along with a number of other grants to other organizations because they no longer align with the Department’s mission or priorities.”

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 16/12/2025

We’re not going to let her whitewash her legacy time.com/6183520/sher...

Without incentives to do otherwise, Facebook’s algorithms amplified hate speech, disinformation, and conspiracy theories to maximize engagement. Recommendation engines drove vulnerable people towards extreme content, all in the name of profit. The damage to public health, democracy, the right to self-determination, and competition by Facebook is arguably the worst by any corporation in a century or more. The company played a central role in politicizing the nation’s response to a pandemic, enabled the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and has been exploited by mass killers bent on livestreaming their crimes. All of this happened while Sheryl Sandberg was chief operating officer.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 12/12/2025

I’m fortunate enough to have a warm home and was able to grow grocery shopping this morning and now have enough food in my house to last me for weeks, but I can’t help but think of our unhoused neighbors during times like this.

Screenshot of weather channel update warning of lake effect snow of possibility 5-10 inches.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 11/12/2025

According to @forbes.com, this fascist has shown “resilience” through turbulent times 🤮

From the Editor
On October 22, 2022, Giorgia Meloni took office as Italy's prime minister, becoming the first woman in history to hold the role.
Meloni is also the president of Italy's right-wing Brothers of Italy party, which she cofounded in 2012.
At 15, she joined the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement, a party that was founded by supporters of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and which has been described as "neo-fascist."
Meloni is a prominent figure in European nationalist movements and has pursued a political agenda focused on social conservatism, immigration control and protectionist economic policies.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 10/12/2025

This is horrifying and was on the platform that @cnn.com has recently chosen to partner with.

“Will the IPC classify Gaza as experiencing famine this year?” read the wager from this past summer. The bet was eventually settled in the affirmative after the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) did indeed declare famine in Gaza on Aug. 22. The more overtly cynical Polymarket, a rival of Kalshi that’s backed by right-wing multibillionaire Peter Thiel, allows for even more obscene wagering, permitting users to bet on whether Palestinians will be ethnically cleansed. “Gaza mass population relocation in 2025?” reads one of its many Gaza-related betting markets. You can also bet on when Israel will bomb Gaza, bomb the West Bank, or annex either.

Mary @marybadthings.com · 09/12/2025

Because why would kids need to know how to read and do math and science? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/15/l...

Kindergarten through fifth grade students typically attend LifeWise during their library and STEMM special class and the middle school students attend LifeWise during their lunch time, he said.

Mary @marybadthings.com · 08/12/2025

It’s critical to thoroughly vet people!

The FBI said the information came from a “sensitive source with excellent access” and introduced the report as a warning about “extremist actors targeting law enforcement officers and federal facilities”.

In “late May”, an individual “participated in a debrief session held via a Signal call within the ‘courtwatch’ Signal groupchat”, the FBI wrote, without identifying the individual or the specific group or organizations involved. That person “discussed how to improve future activities near federal facilities in New York City, including 26 Federal Plaza, 201 Varick Street and 290 Broadway”, the report continued, listing the addresses of three immigration courts in Manhattan.

The FBI added: “‘Courtwatch’ is a private/invite only, encrypted Signal application group chat created by the identified [individual]. In private encrypted online chats, the identified [individual] is known to instruct protest participants to use violence against [law enforcement].”

The FBI declined to comment in response to a detailed list of questions. The DHS also declined to comment, referring questions to the FBI. ICE did not respond to requests for comment.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 07/12/2025

I got an A in the class anyway

Little black girl putting her hair behind her ear with her tongue sticking out

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 05/12/2025

The 14th Amendment was passed with the sole purpose of overturning the Dred Scott decision and granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people. If you think they’re only going after children of undocumented immigrants, you are very, very wrong.

Birthright citizenship, the idea that virtually all children born on American soil are automatically citizens, regardless of the status of their parents, has long been considered a core tenet of the country.

That notion, which is rare among the most-developed countries in the world, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment. The amendment, ratified after the Civil War, states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 04/12/2025

Apparently it’s National Cookie Day, so here is my dog, Cookie 🐾

Black and white Shih Tzu sitting on a red couch

Black and white Shih Tzu in a pink sweater mid-air

Mary @marybadthings.com · 03/12/2025

These fake clinics are dangerous. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Sarah Varney:

Baker points to cases where patients were misdiagnosed, delaying needed medical care, or were misled about the safety of abortion. And because nearly all of the centers are not licensed medical clinics, and, because of that, not subject to federal health care privacy laws, critics worry about what they are doing with patient information.

Carrie Baker:

There's a fair amount of evidence that anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers are collecting information about people, and they're creating a mass database of young pregnant women or people that may not yet be pregnant, but might become pregnant.

My concern about CPCs is that they are actually surveilling women for criminal prosecution.