Merry Austin
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
<p>The Last Rose of Summer is a true story about corruption in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cancer</span></a> research. I discovered a cheap, plant-derived drug that could replace some much more toxic (but more lucrative) therapies. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BigPharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigPharma</span></a> got involved and suppressed the research. Eventually I had to publish the story in thinly veiled fiction and survive a bunch of murder attempts.</p><p>"Mary Austin" is a pseudonym, as my publisher forced me to use one. So... hi, I'm "Mary." ๐คทโโ๏ธ</p>
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Well, he is known to be a "word class hater." ๐ ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ Seriously NYT you want him you can fucking have him. #StephenMiller #NYT #media
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On allegations that Woke 1.0 "went too far":
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Protestors from Climate Defiance disrupted a Congressional briefing on BAAJA, the bill that Republicans and some Dems are using to destroy environment protection and force data centers down our throats. When calling and writing and interacting normally with our representatives only gets ignored, I really think this is warranted. If they won't listen they need to hear the message louder. https://www.instagram.com/reels/Dfn34uqAGlc/
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Keep talking... ๐ค
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Leadership update: Ayanna Pressley seems to be testing the waters for a leadership challenge. I'm for anybody who isn't actively selling us out to the tech fascists we just overcame to have the election. https://act.ayannapressley.com/sign/soc-pressley-agenda/ #HakeemJeffries
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"Reaching across the aisle" update: #Veterans #VeteransDay
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There aren't many ball washers left pretending we can trust Hakeem Jeffries, that all his obvious failures are just Extra Special Smart Politics. But I'd like to see if I can sell these people a bridge. Exhibit A: #HakeemJeffries #Hegseth
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RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117599020828184776 HOLY SHIT Y'ALL CANCER AND HEART DISEASE DON'T EXIST NOW! PRAISE BE TO OUR AI OVERLORDS! WE NEED TO GIVE THEM ALL OUR REMAINING MONEY SO THEY CAN FAIL WITH THAT TOO! NOBODY NEEDS HEALTHCARE NOW THAT EVERYTHING IS CUUUUURED... passes out from bong
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Once again, US protestors are addressing the issues because the media outlets will not. #50501movement #California #USNavy
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Oh FFS. You can't make this stuff up. "Pelosi skips crucial Hegseth impeachment vote to get lifetime achievement award" https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/pelosi-hegseth-impeachment-vote-22524306.php
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While Republicans and some treacherous Democrats in the Senate suck off the AI fascists we just defeated so we could even have elections, the AFL-CIO is drafting comprehensive new AI regulations. The people's movement can't be stopped. https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/afl-cio-drafting-gold-standard-085402918.html #AI #Unions
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Some restaurant in Shanghai, where #JensenHuang took an incriminating picture with his mistress, has decided there's no such thing as bad publicity. ๐
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The nation's bridge trolls are mostly a bunch of cheerful normies. Outside the brainworm ridden halls of Congress and the Beltway media, it's obvious that it's not just a fringe that wants new leadership. Look, the Republicans couldn't get our movement to bow to kings with guns in our faces. Idk what these dumbfuck corrupt Dem "leaders" think they're going to do to intimidate us. We already proved we'll never quit FFS. #Arizona #50501movement #NoKings
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This is going around on other platforms, paying tribute to the tremendous courage especially of Black voters in the South who fought against horrific attacks on their voting rights to save the nation and world. And 11 national Democrats couldn't even drag their asses in to vote to impeach #Hegseth. Good for Rep. Sidney Kamlager-Dove for calling them out on it. She has been extremely brave about ICE.
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In the new session, #Texas #Democrats will have the State House but not the Senate. And they aren't even waiting for the new session, much less a trifecta, to start slugging it out. They're rapid firing new bills that would improve life for everyone in their state so they can expose the cruelty and corruption of the #Republicans. Once again, southern Democrats are schooling the old national Democrats who think they're safe in their deep blue coastal districts. Texas Dems know how...
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Representatives who stand up for democracy in this crucial moment should know that we have their backs. #HakeemJeffries should not be able to use mob tactics to overrule the will of the people. If you are able, please consider donating to the two Reps (so far) who have bravely spoken out against this: the newly elected Rep. Don Leonard and Rep. Angela Gonzales-Torres. We showed up and voted for fighters. Now we need to rally behind them. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/not-hakeem #House
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The #Democrats are having a convention in Denver this week to decide the party's future-- after we already made it crystal clear what we want. #Denver protestors will not be found wanting. I'm already seeing the protest notices. #NoKings #Schumer #50501movement
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My God, how did I miss this David and Goliath story in the #midterms? An #LGBT mom took on one of the most homophobic #GOP Congress critters (a crowded field of homophobes!) and won. IN RURAL #TENNESSEE. It mystifies me that any of the old "guard" can think that this country hasn't fundamentally changed in the last two years. I'm at the heart of it going to the protests, but come the fuck on, how do you even get enough Beltway brainworms not to know by now? https://www.queer...
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#Texas Democrats are hitting the ground running: this bill which will be taken up in the new legislature looks like a good first step on #Flock. We really need a nationwide ban on ALPRs but this would prohibit sharing data with #ICE and other abuses. No waiting to see whether fascists wanna play ball. Just dare the fools to vote against it. https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/11/10/texas-bill-would-restrict-flock-cameras-prohibit-sharing-license-plate-data-with-federal-agencies/
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Let's check in on #Schumer in DC! Oh my. These are members of Get Free, a #WashingtonDC based youth-led organization that stood outside Schumer's office to protest the lack of transparency he wants about the leadership. Schumer locked his door and apparently had them arrested. People like this group just saved the country. via Here's Why Kevin
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Is he gonna do the raised fist to these Nazis again?
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On Reich Wing Watch there's another Nazi every day being exposed as a sex offender. Since those articles are triggering for rape victims, I don't post them. But this one is hilarious and at least doesn't involve rape. Christopher Pohlhauser, leader of the Nazi group Blood Tribe, had just finished a livestreamed rant about "traditional values," decrying sexual degeneracy, and then accidentally left the livestream on as he had cybersex. ๐๐ผ https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/ar...
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#Trump can sign illegal diesel deals with #Putin all he wants but our elected representatives and potential US buyers aren't playing ball. As the Kyiv Independent said in late February 2025, after the ambush of Zelensky at the White House, "The American President has changed sides in the war. The American people have not." True, and now even those who lack morals are afraid of consequences. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/tankers-carrying-russian-diesel-change-course-raising-...
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Historically the pharma industry has used attractive young women as representatives to get older male doctors to change their prescribing practices. With more women in medicine came an attempt at the reverse. When I was practicing, some drug company sent a young male body builder to our all female practice. He didn't flirt with the married female doctor or PNP, but he was showing me shirtless pics on his phone. We somehow managed to hold the laughter in until he was gone and then we lost i...
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Chicago started something! Now people in other cities are gathering at random times to push on landmarks. St. Louis has answered the call. #StLouis #Missouri
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Journalist Johnny Palmadessa, who recently spent months documenting daily vandalism of Trump's Hollywood star, is now in DC to troll Republican lawmakers who lost their jobs. Or in this case their leadership. The little card contains information about applying for a job at Trader Joe's. He's been handing these out to Republicans who sadly aren't cut out for the demanding, respectable work of retail grocery.
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Like many of the January 6ers Trump pardoned, Jake Lang is right back to committing crimes. He's not even allowed in the state of Texas except for court dates, he has an ankle monitor, and he is under indictment in Minnesota too. So there's this hard core of Nazis who are going to prison again. After his latest racist attack on Hindus at a Diwali celebration, he also wants to try to re-run January 6 on January 3. He won't get the takers he thinks he will. https://timesofindia.indi...
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Hey, that's $100k she won't see again if she can't grift off #MAGA. Being a sore loser is expensive! https://www.westword.com/news/lauren-boebert-loses-election-may-call-recount-40957877/ #Boebert #Colorado
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I'm seeing stories of well off Trumpers who moved from blue states to places like Texas or Georgia because their neighbors hated them being fascist. And now, tragedy of tragedies, the South is turning blue. It's reminding me of old school flea dip on a dog: you gotta get every single square inch or all the fleas will hide in the part you didn't treat. On that note, we can't just let all the fleas go to #Florida. The blue voters there don't deserve it. Hell, the manatees do...
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Mom, they're putting Jensen Huang in the Coldplay meme with random women...