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Mia Brett

@queenmab.bsky.social

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Your neighborhood legal historian with a focus on constructions of race & antisemitism in US law. She/her (was @queenmab87 at the other place) https://open.substack.com/pub/miabrett

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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · Nov 7

Moving the thread of my work on antisemitism and CRT over here t.co/cavk5p6nUO

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/ten-thousand-bigamists-in-new-york

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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 4h

With SCOTUS back in session we're all terrified of all the horrible decisions coming from the conservative wing but I think Kavanaugh opinions might offer a winning argument to protect abortion access across state lines. My latest for @rewirenewsgroup.com
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/14/b...

Kavanaugh Voted To Overturn 'Roe'—But His Words Could End Up Helping to Protect Abortion Access

Opinion: Abortion advocates should weaponize the Supreme Court justice's Dobbs decision to ensure patients can still get out-of-state reproductive health care.

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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks to @catesby.bsky.social for editing

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 4h

With SCOTUS back in session we're all terrified of all the horrible decisions coming from the conservative wing but I think Kavanaugh opinions might offer a winning argument to protect abortion access across state lines. My latest for @rewirenewsgroup.com
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/14/b...

Kavanaugh Voted To Overturn 'Roe'—But His Words Could End Up Helping to Protect Abortion Access

Opinion: Abortion advocates should weaponize the Supreme Court justice's Dobbs decision to ensure patients can still get out-of-state reproductive health care.

rewirenewsgroup.com

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 5h

None of the others are honored to the same extent. And they didn’t all commit the same atrocities. For example comparing Cabot or Magellan to Columbus is just silly

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 5h

What about them? And why are you screenshotting AI to post here?

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 5h

I didn’t ask for cooking tips. This has mushrooms and plenty of butter

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 9h

Yum!

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 20h

Chicken and mushrooms. Legitimately one of the best chicken dishes I’ve ever made

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 20h

Cauliflower!

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 22h

I made a delicious soup and chicken entree from scratch today. Please clap

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many lies associated with Columbus Day. He didn't discover America, he wasn't "a man of his time," and the holiday is not a response to "the largest mass lynching in US history." All these lies serve to whitewash US history. open.substack.com/pub/miabrett...

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 1d

I’m even older than you!!

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who is horrible at closing umbrellas this is the silliest thing ever. Not sure how it helps us fight fascism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 2d

What are you talking about

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 3d

Missing Diane Keaton already

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 3d

It’s actually completely unnecessary to quibble over the word we use for a genocide. I don’t think we actually need to tell Palestinians not to use the term Holocaust right now

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 3d

Not yet! Just started

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 3d

I need a list of local places to order from if you’re watching Great British Baking show and are very suggestible when it comes to food desires

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 3d

So I have no empirical research to point to but I have ton a ton of qual research on serial killers targeting sex workers & my guess would be no. They target sex workers bec police don’t care. Worth noting Gilgo beach killer met victims online

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 3d

Before the Gilgo Beach murderer there was Joel Rifkin. He killed 17 women on Long Island between 1989 and 1993 (mostly sex workers). He was caught because he was driving a car w/o a license plate & had a dead victim in his car at the time. Police weren’t even looking

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4d

More of this. Signing this authoritarian devil’s bargain would betray higher education’s independence and the pursuit of knowledge.

Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 4d

MIT rejects "the Compact"
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 4d

Of course the majority of Americans oppose militarizing cities. But it doesn’t matter. Fascism doesn’t require the support of the people

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 4d

We’re also seeing this supposed “deception” being used as a “trans panic defense” when the men kill trans women. Even when they have been in long term relationships

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 4d

I desperately hope the ceasefire holds and this moment of ramped up genocide ends. But the fight is far from over. I think Trump was motivated to end the bombing bec he wants to transition to development which will require ethnic cleansing. Stay vigilant

Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 4d

Saying Trump deserves the Nobel peace prize is so bizarre and gross. We don’t know if the ceasefire will hold. He allowed this to continue & even escalate for months. He might encourage ethnic cleansing to build hotels. The bar is subterranean for y’all