Cammy Pedroja, Author at The Mary Sue https://www.themarysue.com/author/cammy-pedroja/ The Nexus of Pop Culture and the Uncharted Universe Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:52:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=2024.30 https://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-tms-icon-square.png?fit=32%2C32 Cammy Pedroja, Author at The Mary Sue https://www.themarysue.com/author/cammy-pedroja/ 32 32 210961709 George Santos Keeps Threatening Us With a Good Time and It Might Be Another Lie https://www.themarysue.com/george-santos-keeps-threatening-us-with-a-good-time-and-it-might-be-another-lie/ https://www.themarysue.com/george-santos-keeps-threatening-us-with-a-good-time-and-it-might-be-another-lie/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:13:05 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=741788 Former Republican Representative George Santos of New York

He's going to take a few down with him!

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George Santos, the hilariously disgraced Republican Congressman from New York who was recently expelled by a bipartisan vote of 311 House members, is apparently willing to cut a few b*ches on the way down.

After the House introduced a resolution to expel the Long Islander last week, Santos, perhaps sensing that his end was near, turned aggressively to an offensive tactic and began attacking other members of Congress. Some of the insults he’s been hurling appear to be true, but could some of them just be more of his infamous wild lies?

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‘Squid Game’ Reality Show ‘Vomit Guy’ Haters Might Want To Think Again https://www.themarysue.com/squid-game-reality-show-vomit-guy-haters-might-want-to-think-again/ https://www.themarysue.com/squid-game-reality-show-vomit-guy-haters-might-want-to-think-again/#respond Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:14:33 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=741546 Squid game player 299 umbrella frown

I'd be barfing too if I might lose $4.5 million.

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Anyone who has been watching the new Netflix reality show Squid Game: The Challenge will know who I mean when I say “vomit guy.”

Yes, I’m talking about player 299, Spencer, the 21-year-old engineer from North Carolina who absolutely could not stop retching during his screen time on episode two when he was responsible for picking the dreaded umbrella during the Dalgona game. Player 299 has taken a lot of heat on social media for being “dramatic” and “disgusting,” but looking at the facts, I think the court of public opinion is judging my guy 299 too harshly.

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Why Player 382 Is the Stereotypical Boomer Villain of ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ https://www.themarysue.com/why-player-382-is-the-stereotypical-boomer-villain-of-squid-game-the-challenge/ https://www.themarysue.com/why-player-382-is-the-stereotypical-boomer-villain-of-squid-game-the-challenge/#respond Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:25:48 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=741251 The doll in Squid Game

He goes from harmless dude to self-centered dick in under two minutes.

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Oh no, Tim. Oh no! This is all I could whisper under my breath while watching the newly released sixth episode of Squid Game: The Challenge on Netflix this Wednesday night when Tim, the 62-year-old shop owner from the U.K., talked himself from unknown harmless dude status straight off the edge of a cliff into complete and utter unexpected asshole status in under two minutes.

I am not part of the group of people who think that the phrase “boomer” is an ageist slur because to me, the phrase is only negative when applied to a collection of stereotypical harmful behaviors that generation R (is that a thing?) demonstrates without remorse, and not all people of a certain age. I don’t think the term Karen is a slur either because, by the same logic, you really can’t be oppressed when you have historically been the oppressor, y’all!

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Trump Claims He’s Done More for Black Americans Than the President Who Ended Slavery https://www.themarysue.com/trump-claims-hes-done-more-for-black-americans-than-the-president-who-ended-slavery/ https://www.themarysue.com/trump-claims-hes-done-more-for-black-americans-than-the-president-who-ended-slavery/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:51:51 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=740588 Trump on stage head and shoulders with blue background.

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Hey, remember when President Lincoln led the Union army through the American Civil War in an effort, among other things, to end slavery, and then issued the Emancipation Proclamation, paving the way for the 13th Amendment, which legally ended the white southerners’ ownership of Black Americans? Yeah, well, Trump says he has done much more for Black people in our country than that guy did.

The 45th president took to his weird little vanity social network, Truth Social, on Wednesday morning to brag about his professed gifts to Black people, writing, “Spoke with Mark Fisher yesterday, a great guy, very honored to have his and BLM’s support. I have done more for Black people than any other President (Lincoln?), including 10 year funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, where they had none, Opportunity Zones, Criminal Justice Reform, and much more. Thank you to Mark!”

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Monica Lewinsky Is Right: It’s Time for a New Constitutional Amendment! https://www.themarysue.com/monica-lewinsky-is-right-its-time-for-a-new-constitutional-amendment/ https://www.themarysue.com/monica-lewinsky-is-right-its-time-for-a-new-constitutional-amendment/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:52:19 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=740517 Monica Lewinsky head and shoulders on red carpet

Most people stop driving in their 70s and 80s. Do we really want 90-year-olds in the Senate?

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Monica Lewinsky has endured an unfairly bad reputation for a long time, and her political acumen has steadily grown in that time. Now, she’s turning her focus to constitutional amendments.

In a recent Vanity Fair feature penned by Lewinksy, she explained why she thinks it’s ridiculous that we as a nation simply don’t seem to do constitutional amendments anymore, even though there are so many areas of our democracy that would so desperately benefit from the protections of an amendment, and damn if she isn’t so, so right. Her point about the need to create an amendment to protect the nation from leaders who are out of touch with modern facts of life is particularly poignant.

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Texas Schoolboard Reverses Appalling Policy Banning Trans Student From School Musical https://www.themarysue.com/texas-schoolboard-reverses-appalling-policy-banning-trans-student-from-school-musical/ https://www.themarysue.com/texas-schoolboard-reverses-appalling-policy-banning-trans-student-from-school-musical/#respond Sun, 19 Nov 2023 02:45:26 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=737076 A sign for Texas against a blue sky.

A small right after a really stupid wrong.

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A trans teen in Texas was forced out of his role in the local high school’s production of Oklahoma! because he was playing a character that didn’t match his “sex assigned at birth.” This week, after local and national pushback, the school board voted unanimously to reinstate him

Brad Morgan, President of the Sherman Independent School District Board of Trustees, said in a statement, “We understand that our decision does not erase the impact this had on our community.” He added, “We hope that we will reinforce to everyone, particularly our students, that we do embrace all of our Board goals, to include addressing the diverse needs of our students and empowering them for success in a diverse and complex world.”

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Why Joe Biden Won’t Be on the Primary Ballot in New Hampshire https://www.themarysue.com/why-wont-joe-biden-be-on-new-hampshires-ballot-this-primary-season-explained/ https://www.themarysue.com/why-wont-joe-biden-be-on-new-hampshires-ballot-this-primary-season-explained/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:49:43 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=736754 New Hampshire voter at center of a few voting booths

Idea for new state motto: "Be first or die"

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On Wednesday, New Hampshire’s highest election officials announced that they would be holding onto their traditional position as the first state to hold an election in the upcoming primary cycle, no matter the consequences.

This announcement actively goes against a decision made earlier this year by the Democratic National Committee and President Joe Biden, declaring the first Democratic primary should be held in South Carolina. And because the president is obligated to act in accordance with the DNC’s delegate selection rules, that means Biden will not appear on the ballot for the New Hampshire Democratic primary. 

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Senator Markwayne Mullin Doubles Down on Embarrassing Tough-Guy Stunt https://www.themarysue.com/markwayne-mullin-mma-fight-threats-continues-online/ https://www.themarysue.com/markwayne-mullin-mma-fight-threats-continues-online/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:09:07 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=736668 Sen. Markwayne Mullin speaking during a senate hearing

Are beatdowns part of being a legislator now?

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin made headlines this week when he stood up from the mic in the middle of a senate hearing and threatened to fight a union leader. Now, the Republican from Oklahoma has replied to a tweet inviting him to appear on the rightwing podcast Ruthless with a picture of himself brandishing one of multiple guns laid out on the back of his pickup truck.

The message’s intention seems to be that he does not regret his aggressive behavior in the chamber.

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Another 2016 Nightmare Is Back, and Her Name Is Jill Stein https://www.themarysue.com/presidential-election-2024-jill-stein-is-back-oh-no/ https://www.themarysue.com/presidential-election-2024-jill-stein-is-back-oh-no/#respond Wed, 15 Nov 2023 23:02:37 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=736069 Jill Stein speaking into a microphone.

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Is it infuriating that ours is a political system where voters have the chance to choose between more than just one pretty unpalatable old white man and one who is even worse? Yes. Is 2024, when it’s looking more and more like Americans will once again see an all-out election brawl between Democratic incumbent Joe Biden and the criminally indicted former President Donald Trump the time to try to introduce a third-party system? No! Unequivocally no.

Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced last week that she intends to run as a third-party candidate in the 2024 election, and those of us who want to see Trumpism shut down are not happy. 

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Megyn Kelly Promises Next Republican Debate Will Be ‘The Margarita of Debates’ and I Don’t Want To Know What That Means https://www.themarysue.com/megyn-kelly-invites-controversy-as-next-republican-debate-moderator/ https://www.themarysue.com/megyn-kelly-invites-controversy-as-next-republican-debate-moderator/#respond Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:21:24 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=735057 Megyn Kelly head and shoulders, black top, white background.

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In what appears to be an effort to make the fourth Republican primary debate a splashy and gossip-inducing TV special, the Republican National Committee has announced via a press release that one of the moderators of the December 6th event will be former Fox News anchor, Megyn Kelly. Kelly is not a totally shocking choice, despite her controversy, since she has been a presidential debate moderator before. But she seems to be approaching the role with a strange brand of gusto.

“It will be the margarita of debates — spicy, fun and somewhat intoxicating,” Kelly said in the RNC press release. And I’m sorry, what? What in the strip mall Tex-Mex family restaurant does that mean? 

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American Ornithological Society Makes Some Changes To Make Birding More Inclusive https://www.themarysue.com/american-ornithological-society-makes-some-changes-to-make-birding-more-inclusive/ https://www.themarysue.com/american-ornithological-society-makes-some-changes-to-make-birding-more-inclusive/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 23:33:52 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=733411 Stellar's Jay on a log

Inclusion matters!

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The American Ornithological Society is taking measures to make the science and hobby of birding more inclusive by renaming birds that are named after people, or that have offensive names instead of descriptive ones.

“We’ve come to understand that there are certain names that have offensive or derogatory connotations that cause pain to people, and that it is important to change those, to remove those as barriers to their participation in the world of birds,” said Colleen Handel, the society’s president and a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska. 

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Judge Reinstates Gag Order, Trump Immediately Violates It https://www.themarysue.com/judge-reinstates-gag-order-trump-immediately-violates-it/ https://www.themarysue.com/judge-reinstates-gag-order-trump-immediately-violates-it/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:29:30 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=729876 Trump head and shoulders, weird smile, against blue background

Sad!

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Former President Donald Trump seems to have already violated the partial gag order that was reinstated on Sunday by the federal judge overseeing his 2020 presidential election interference trial. In just a matter of hours, after the gag order banning him from slandering prosecutors, court staff, and witnesses, which had been previously lifted in response to an appeal by Trump’s lawyers, was back in place, Trump had already publicly attacked a key witness in the trial and the judge herself.

“The First Amendment rights of participants in criminal proceedings must yield, when necessary, to the orderly administration of justice,” the judge wrote in the order. “And contrary to Defendant’s argument, the right to a fair trial is not his alone, but belongs also to the government and the public.” Perfection.

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Elon Musk Wants To Control Your Entire Financial Life, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? https://www.themarysue.com/elon-musk-wants-to-control-your-entire-financial-life/ https://www.themarysue.com/elon-musk-wants-to-control-your-entire-financial-life/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:25:07 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=729911 Elon Musk profile, blurred background

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According to an audio recording of a pretty major all-staff call at The Company Formerly Known as Twitter Before Elon Musk Destroyed It, Musk himself and CEO Linda Yaccarino are planning a major new suite of services at X that would turn the app into a mega-powerful financial hub. 

“I actually mean someone’s entire financial life,” Musk said on the audio obtained by The Verge. “If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”

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North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx Loves Yelling at People https://www.themarysue.com/north-carolina-rep-virginia-foxx-loves-yelling-at-people/ https://www.themarysue.com/north-carolina-rep-virginia-foxx-loves-yelling-at-people/#respond Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:05:17 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=729535 Virginia Fox head and shoulders at microphone wearing glasses

Yelling at clouds is no longer the province of old men.

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A video of Virginia Foxx, a Republican congresswoman from North Carolina, has been making the rounds since she angrily shouted at an ABC reporter at a press conference on Wednesday. The reporter was not speaking to her and was instead trying to ask the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson about his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Foxx can be heard yelling “Shut up! Shut up!” at an off-camera Rachel Scott, as Republicans booed and jeered at the question. This reaction came despite them literally attending a press conference, where questions from the press are expected. Johnson smiled smugly while ignoring the question.

It's about time

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Last month, however, the U.S. Department of Labor suggested it would be reviewing the Section 14(c) program that has allowed employers to gain certificates granting them the legal right to pay disabled persons less than minimum wage (right now, that’s just $7.25 per hour) for almost the last 100 years. 

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https://www.themarysue.com/department-of-labor-considering-eliminating-subminimum-wage-for-disabled-workers/feed/ 0 729228 Apparently, Clarence Thomas’ ‘Man of the People’ RV Was Another Unreported Gift From a Billionaire https://www.themarysue.com/clarence-thomas-rv-controversy-explained-another-billionaire-gift/ https://www.themarysue.com/clarence-thomas-rv-controversy-explained-another-billionaire-gift/#respond Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:05:10 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=729307 Clarence Thomas head and shoulders in 2021 in front of blue curtain

Not surprised

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has come under fire for accepting huge, unreported gifts from Republican donors, is in the news again for more of the exact same.

It seems Thomas’ RV, which he used to present himself as an all-American folksy kind of road-trippin’ guy, was paid for by, yes, another Republican billionaire buddy, and then appears to have been lied about, according to a report from the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee. 

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Woman Sues Alabama Prison for Leaving Her To Give Birth and Bleed Out in a Shower https://www.themarysue.com/woman-sues-alabama-prison-for-leaving-her-to-give-birth-and-bleed-out-in-a-shower/ https://www.themarysue.com/woman-sues-alabama-prison-for-leaving-her-to-give-birth-and-bleed-out-in-a-shower/#respond Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:46:28 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=726731 Pregnant woman torso with hands in cuffs against blue background

In Alabama, a "chemical endangerment" law might do more harm than good.

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On Friday, Ashley Caswell of Alabama filed a lawsuit claiming that the Etowah County Detention Center (ECDC) denied her medical care to the point that she gave birth without medical assistance, standing in a prison shower. She then apparently lost consciousness and lost a near-fatal amount of blood.

In many ways, modern America is cruel to women, but pregnancy and postpartum while incarcerated can be a fresh new level of hell for many female inmates. The conditions for imprisoned mothers aren’t great to begin with, and in many cases, what rights they’re supposed to have and what they get are wildly different. That’s why groups like Pregnancy Justice and the Southern Poverty Law Center seek to protect those rights by getting involved in cases like Caswell’s.

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Adobe Evokes Interest, Alarm, and Mockery With New Animated Dress https://www.themarysue.com/adobe-invokes-interest-alarm-and-mockery-with-new-interactive-dress/ https://www.themarysue.com/adobe-invokes-interest-alarm-and-mockery-with-new-interactive-dress/#respond Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:40:27 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=725173 A woman in a dress covered in scale-like display screens.

Is this the future of fashion? If so, it might not be quite cute enough.

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Not since 2015, when “the dress” (was it blue and black or was it white and gold?) broke the internet, has a non-celebrity-worn gown rocked the internet as much as the new “smart display fabric” interactive dress unveiled by Adobe last week. Project Primrose, which is the name of Adobe’s smart display fabric project, is making waves for a variety of reasons. 

First of all, it features actual flexible fabric display screens that look something like shiny one-inch fish scales come together to create adjustable, programmable patterns that can change every second if the wearer wishes. Adobe has shown us smart fabric displays before, but only on flat surfaces. Christine Dierk, a research scientist at Adobe, revealed the dress prototype at Adobe’s annual Max Conference to much enthusiasm, including audible oohs and ahs in the audience. She showed how the pattern could change according to various inputs, even swishing according to her own movement. 

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Sidney Powell Pleads Guilty in Trump’s Georgia Election Interference Case! https://www.themarysue.com/sidney-powell-pleads-guilty-in-trumps-georgia-election-interference-case/ https://www.themarysue.com/sidney-powell-pleads-guilty-in-trumps-georgia-election-interference-case/#respond Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:16:24 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=726140 Headshot of Sidney Powell in front of American flag taken during press conference in 2020

Trump is looking less and less invincible.

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In the latest installment of news that doesn’t make me want to throw up, one of former President Trump’s legal cronies, Sidney Powell, pleaded guilty today for her role in the Georgia election conspiracy case. Powell is one of 19 total defendants, including Trump himself and Rudy Giuiani, charged with racketeering over an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election by interfering with Georgia’s results. Powell pleaded guilty to six total counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties, which are misdemeanor charges, one day before the trial was set to begin.

According to court documents filed on Thursday, Powell admitted to acting with “the purpose of willfully tampering with electronic ballot markers and tabulating machines” and “with the intention of taking and appropriating information, data, and software, the property of Dominion Voting Systems Corporation,” among a longer list of crimes committed relating to election tampering.

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Messing Up Just One Form Causes Hundreds of Michigan Patients to Lose their Abortion Appointments Every Month https://www.themarysue.com/one-form-hundreds-of-michigan-patients-losing-abortion-appointments-every-month/ https://www.themarysue.com/one-form-hundreds-of-michigan-patients-losing-abortion-appointments-every-month/#respond Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:52:43 +0000 https://www.themarysue.com/?p=725911 Drawing of female reproductive system with judge's gavel and stethoscope.

There's always one more hurdle between patients and care

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In our post-Roe v. Wade America, Michigan has been able to maintain stronger abortion and other reproductive rights than many other states. This is largely because voters passed Proposition 3 last November, enshrining the right to reproductive freedom, explicitly including abortion, into the state’s constitution.

However, as one would expect in a purple state, Michigan still has several unnecessary barriers between abortion care and those needing it, including preexisting laws requiring unnecessary paperwork hurdles and a 24-hour waiting period. A new bill in the state legislature seeks to remove a needlessly confusing step from the abortion process, but some lawmakers are saying no.

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