Scary AustinThe Last Rose of Summer is a true story about corruption in #cancer research. I discovered a cheap, plant-derived drug that could replace some much more toxic (but more lucrative) therapies. #BigPharma got involved and suppressed the research. Eventually I had to publish the story in thinly veiled fiction and survive a bunch of murder attempts.
"Mary Austin" is a pseudonym, as my publisher forced me to use one. So... hi, I'm "Mary." 🤷♀️
Scary Austin@shannonpersists@mastodon.social Thanks. I am not trying to downplay the gravity of the situation-- I have just already been through a lot and I say fuck it all, let's do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NICI7yKp7cw&rco=1
Scary AustinHere are the other outlets. I used to have a website, but it kept getting attacked.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-last-rose-of-summer-mary-austin/14849805
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-rose-of-summer-mary-austin/1137245105
https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Last-Rose-Summer/Mary-Austin/9781480890510
https://www.archwaypublishing.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/806852-The-Last-Rose-of-Summer
Scary AustinY'all, I have lived through terrible things.
I don't believe this is over, and in any case I have already spent years fighting against impossible odds and faced a great deal of violence because of it. Many times when I needed someone to stand with me, they took the easy route out. I should be dead about a million times over, and somehow I am not.
The horrors persist, but so do I and my cats. No matter what happens, we are going nowhere.
Scary AustinThis should probably be one of my pinned posts.
Scary AustinThe banner image is panax quinquefolium, American ginseng. It's the source of a chemical I used to treat cultured human tumor cells in lab as a college student. My hypothesis about the drug turned out to be correct.
Because of the chemical's very low toxicity compared to many #cancer drugs, this discovery had real clinical potential. What if it could spare the use of more toxic agents?
A major drug company got involved and the knives came out. This is a true story.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rose-Summer-Mary-Austin-ebook/dp/B08G4J1WGJ
Scary AustinHaving been run out of immigration courts and thwarted on the streets, #ICE is now trying to catch "the worst of the worst" on Tinder. I shit you not, they are posting pictures of handsome white men (presumably not real pics of ICE incels) who claim they're on "vacation" and trying to get Latina women to go on dates with them for kidnapping purposes.
This woman in #SouthCarolina wrote a song about it because the media won't warn people.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSKgLKkYjC/
Scary AustinOf course, two can play at this game. This woman in #northCarolina notes that some #ICE agents come out and say who they are on Tinder. So she asked people who were unable to protest to do a group project finding these losers. She got 100s of DM's about it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRXaFdbDaCb/?img_index=1
Scary AustinHaving been run out of immigration courts and thwarted on the streets, #ICE is now trying to catch "the worst of the worst" on Tinder. I shit you not, they are posting pictures of handsome white men (presumably not real pics of ICE incels) who claim they're on "vacation" and trying to get Latina women to go on dates with them for kidnapping purposes.
This woman in #SouthCarolina wrote a song about it because the media won't warn people.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSKgLKkYjC/
Scary AustinI'd hand over mine just to add some extra couch fucking memes.
But seriously, this is disgraceful. Y'know, JD, you'd finally have a vacation in piece if you weren't such a complete dick.
Scary AustinIn an obvious case of racial profiling, the Keystone Kops occupying #WashingtonDC are stopping people around Howard University for no reason, just driving while black.
We must all stand up and put an end to this.
Cities across the US have been holding emergency rallies in solidarity with DC, and I've seen notices for protests this Saturday at every state capitol (in addition to everything else).
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNPH-dYNwJS/
#protests #50501movement #racism
Scary AustinI promised I'd post shit show GOP town hall footage as I found it, and I am a woman of my word. 😂
"Rep. Doug LaMalfa faced the fury of his Northern #California constituents during an early morning town hall in Chico on Aug. 11, making him the latest in a string of Republican members of Congress shouted down at district events over their support for President Donald Trump’s agenda."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNPBLRXh-aJ/
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/congress-town-hall-doug-lamalfa/
#MAGA #GOP #BigUglyBill #Medicaid
Scary Austin"Donald Trump seized control of the D.C. Police and has announced the occupation of D.C. by 800 National Guard Troops. He claimed 'D.C. is under siege from out-of-control violent crime,' despite the fact that violent crime is actually on a decline in the District.
"Well he messed with the wrong people. The people of D.C. are fed up and will continue to fight back against this baseless attempt of consolidating presidential authority. WE WONT BACK DOWN!"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNOm-OJpN6k/
#WashingtonDC
Scary Austin"This isn’t another 'thoughts and prayers' photo op. They’re there to demand action — a discharge petition to force a House vote and their Epstein Files Transparency Act that would make every single Epstein-related document public, searchable, and impossible for the political class to quietly shred in some basement."
Scary Austin"Of course, the names of these survivors are being kept under wraps for now — probably to keep the media from turning this into a clickbait pity-fest instead of asking the actual questions:
• Why did Alexander Acosta give Epstein the sweetheart deal of the century?
• Why is Acosta now on the board of Newsmax?
• And why the hell is anyone still trying to float the idea that Ghislaine Maxwell was a 'victim'?
📅
Date: Sept. 3
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Time: 10:30 a.m. ET
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Location: U.S. Capitol — BE THERE"
Scary Austin@AskOliviaRose says:
"In the middle of blending my makeup BUT had to pause to tell you this: 🚨
BREAKING: EPSTEIN SURVIVORS ARE COMING TO THE CAPITOL — SEPT. 3 🚨
"The very morning Congress drags itself back from vacation, Reps. Thomas Massie (R) and Ro Khanna (D) are about to drop a political grenade on the steps of the Capitol — flanked by survivors of Jeffrey #Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse, including several who will be speaking publicly for the first time ever."
Scary Austin"This isn’t another 'thoughts and prayers' photo op. They’re there to demand action — a discharge petition to force a House vote and their Epstein Files Transparency Act that would make every single Epstein-related document public, searchable, and impossible for the political class to quietly shred in some basement."
Scary AustinTo get around Zuck's censorship of resistance, Dem accounts (even the AG of Massachusetts!) are doing "dance" or "music" videos that are really about protests. LA resisters are using "LA music festival" hashtags for protest content, which started a nationwide trend of calling protests "music festivals."
Here, a Dem influencer does a "music video" about a Sept 3rd DC Capitol event with #Epstein survivors and Reps. Khanna and Massie demanding the release of the files.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNRB7AIO7nf/
Scary Austin@AskOliviaRose says:
"In the middle of blending my makeup BUT had to pause to tell you this: 🚨 BREAKING: EPSTEIN SURVIVORS ARE COMING TO THE CAPITOL — SEPT. 3 🚨
"The very morning Congress drags itself back from vacation, Reps. Thomas Massie (R) and Ro Khanna (D) are about to drop a political grenade on the steps of the Capitol — flanked by survivors of Jeffrey #Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse, including several who will be speaking publicly for the first time ever."
Scary AustinTo get around Zuck's censorship of resistance, Dem accounts (even the AG of Massachusetts!) are doing "dance" or "music" videos that are really about protests. LA resisters are using "LA music festival" hashtags for protest content, which started a nationwide trend of calling protests "music festivals."
Here, a Dem influencer does a "music video" about a Sept 3rd DC Capitol event with #Epstein survivors and Reps. Khanna and Massie demanding the release of the files.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNRB7AIO7nf/