🐦‍⬛Magpie's Nest 🪹

29-year-old Zillennial (she/her) writing about whatever's rattling around in my brain. Usually that means politics, culture, and the mess of being a person in 2025. Neurodivergent ✨

[lurkingmagpie]

Did they really think the generation that grew up decoding FNAF lore wasn't gonna crack the Epstein files?

And finding unpublished shared drive links is basically a staple of ARGs.

[lurkingmagpie]

Yahoo advertising their LGBTQ+ news in this article is hilarious to me 😂 Bizarre Epstein files reference to Trump, Putin, and oral sex with ‘Bubba’ draws scrutiny in Congress

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I feel like a lot of Gen Z don't know that the ACA/Obamacare was the compromise.

The Democrats wanted Medicare for All. The Republicans wanted Free Market Healthcare (aka poor people die). Obama took a plan initially conceived by the Heritage Foundation (those project 2025 fuckers) and implemented by Romney for Massachusetts to say "hey, you can have a little free market, but we gotta cover other people too".

It was already a compromise. And the Republicans lost their shit and have proceeded to spend fifteen years crying about their own plan being rampant socialism and repeatedly trying to repeal it despite never actually having a back-up plan for healthcare, simply because they never really wanted compromise to begin with. The moment Obama got elected, they got into a meeting and vowed to tear down everything he tried to build no matter how much it agreed with their so-called values. Because racism, let's be honest, but also because any compromise they put forward is just a show.

"Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man" isn't just a hypothetical. It's literally what happened when we tried to meet Republicans in the middle with healthcare.

[lurkingmagpie]

Uhh... holy shit?

I mean, with this context too? 🫤

Epstein claimed he had enough dirt on Clinton and Trump to derail 2016 US election, his brother says

Jeffrey Epstein once boasted he had information about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that would have derailed the 2016 election if it were made public, his brother has claimed.

The late, disgraced financier’s links to the rich and famous have been underscored in a vast number of legal documents made public by a US court on Wednesday.

However, Epstein’s younger brother, Mark, 69, has suggested his ties with powerful figures went further than has been disclosed.

“Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016,” Mr Epstein told The New York Post.

The New York-based property developer said his sibling never disclosed the details of what he knew.

While Mrs Clinton was not known to spend time with Epstein, her husband was known to be a friend of the billionaire.

[lurkingmagpie]

While everyone else talks about Epstein, FOX is still terrified of the concept of socialism. Imagine trying to add a fire department or the police or libraries in this day and age 😂

Someone watching their house burn down: "I can't call the fire department, I don't have fire-fighter insurance!" Meanwhile, in modern day: "I can't call an ambulance, I have medical insurance and still can't afford it!"

Religion and capitalism are fine to exist, just not at these extreme versions🫤

[lurkingmagpie]

Humans are a bunch of weird monkeys trying to be god and animals at the same time

[lurkingmagpie]

Don't underestimate the power of outrage, it can be a powerful catalyst for change

[lurkingmagpie]

Seeing a news channel read the Epstein emails aloud with a slight panic and disgust in their voices feels a little satisfying.

I hope this is the beginning of the end 🤞

[lurkingmagpie]

Being sick makes you poorer. Being poorer makes you sicker. Insecurity is a poison that claws into the mind... until lashing out feels like the only way to get some air.

[lurkingmagpie]

Fascism is a church for people who've given up hope

[lurkingmagpie]

If it feels like something has finally tipped, it’s because enough of us learned to act like raindrops with a memory. We learned to see where the water was already pooling and then to push together, a little harder. Each of us is small, but we’re not alone. The systems that used to rely on our confusion are now facing an audience trained to say, “Show me the proof.”

From my essay, "Once the drama youtubers got their hands on the Epstein files, I knew we'd already won" // Read the full piece on Substack: Lurking Magpie

[lurkingmagpie]

Victory isn’t universal agreement. It is creating an environment where the truth has a better shot at seeing the light of day than it used to. It means creating timelines that don’t get forgotten and asking questions that don’t back down when people get angry. This is a kind of patient courage that refuses to mistake silence for peace. We learned from the absolute worst parts of the internet how to intentionally build better ones, and that might be the most surprising outcome of it all.

From my essay, "Once the drama youtubers got their hands on the Epstein files, I knew we'd already won" // Read the full piece on Substack: Lurking Magpie

[lurkingmagpie]

Many of us are now setting boundaries that can look hostile from the outside. We’re stepping back from family arguments, refusing to play roles that ask us to hide who we are, and turning down futures we simply can’t afford. This behavior, which can look like apathy, is actually a form of triage. It’s a belief that a connection built on honesty is better than an obligation built on denial.

From my essay, "Once the drama youtubers got their hands on the Epstein files, I knew we'd already won" // Read the full piece on Substack: Lurking Magpie

[lurkingmagpie]

My generation learned how to think in the margins of the internet. While formal lessons came from school, the real context came from video essays, forums, and comment sections. It taught us a different language of information, one of receipts, timestamps, and having way too many tabs open. We learned to trace a claim back to its source and watch how a narrative bends when met with a thousand tiny arguments that refuse to die.

From my essay, "Once the drama youtubers got their hands on the Epstein files, I knew we'd already won" // Read the full piece on Substack: Lurking Magpie

[lurkingmagpie]

Then he told me his stance on food stamps: “We live in a fallen world.” That’s why we can’t feed children. Like charity cancels out the ballot. Like a plate passed on Sunday absolves a vote cast on Tuesday. You can’t eat respect. Children can’t digest rhetoric. Policy is a pantry or a padlock.

From my essay, "Republicans took away all my parents" // Read the full piece on my Substack: Lurking Magpie

[lurkingmagpie]

Anyone else get the sense they're feeding Trump directions like he’s on reality TV? He saw Zohran get big cheers for talking about affordability and for a moment seemed ready to make it his own cause. Then *snap* someone reminds him: “No, it’s just a Democrat lie. Everyone’s already rich! Stock market’s up!” Like, the improv stops and the script kicks back in 😵‍💫

[lurkingmagpie]

My mother was single and raised three kids in poverty and taught me, with the certainty of a church bulletin, that gay people were wrong and Black people were “genetically dumber” and taking over the world. We were also on SNAP in my childhood. I learned early that some adults can’t tell the difference between prejudice and principle.

From my essay, "Republicans took away all my parents" // Read the full piece on my Substack: Lurking Magpie