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Julia Carrie Wong

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Apr 8

I tried to write about empathy and ended up writing about fascism again

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy

Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3h

this isn’t funny portlanders only turn into inflatable frogs when their neighbors are being kidnapped by a fascist secret police force

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6h

thank you for your service 🫡

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 7h

yeah I had to take it off

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 7h

finished my hood now I just need the temperature to drop about… 50 degrees?

me wearing a grayish blue hand knit hood with a big knit drawstring tied in a bow

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12h

now I’m wondering if otter knows I’m half Jewish

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12h

still weird

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13h

lol wot why is it racially profiling you

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16h

I agree that he should be *reported* on, and I shared two examples of what I think are responsible journalism that does that. My concern here is with Douthat providing Wilson an enormous platform without providing readers with important context that would help elucidate his extremism.

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 17h

We are at the terrifying point where Doug Wilson is being interviewed by Ross Douthat, and there is no earnest caveat of his extremism.

I interviewed Wilson in 2020. Compare Douthat's interview and this, and you'll see only one is not normalizing his bigotry:

www.hcn.org/issues/52-8/...

As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven - High Country News

Extremist pastors are using the COVID-19 pandemic to push their conservative religious ideologies.

www.hcn.org

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 17h

From @jasonaw.bsky.social's excellent *reporting* on Wilson.

“a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care”

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/n...

In the early 2000s, Wilson received criticism over a book, Southern Slavery as it Was, which he had co-written in the previous decade with J Steven Wilkins. Wilkins is a Louisiana pastor who was a co-founder of the neo-Confederate organization, the League of the South. His church is a member of Wilson’s congregational umbrella group, the CREC.

The book depicted slavery in the antebellum southern United States as “a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence”, and argued that the enslaved enjoyed “a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care”.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18h

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 1d

Hello! The Guardian is expanding our American soccer coverage. In the US, we're hiring:
• Reporters
• Asst. editor
• Audience editor
• Social video producer
• Sports biz reporter
These are all full-time, permanent, union positions.
www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

The Guardian announces plans to expand its global soccer coverage ahead of 2026 men’s World Cup in North America

Combination of seven new roles, including six in the US, spanning sports and business coverage, visuals, video and more

www.theguardian.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20h

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

look I made a drawstring band
where there never was a drawstring band

A person wearing a newly knitted grayish blue balaclava with a ribbed drawstring band around the face hole. There’s a piece of yarn where the drawstring will eventually go.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

he’s clearly going through something but I kind of wish that something didn’t involve live-streaming the block

A close up of two of the signs with more detail:

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And a real shot at something big — if we move together.
What's a Meme Coin?
A meme coin is a community-driven cryptocurrency that thrives on energy, humor, and hype.
People buy it not just for profit to join, the faster it grows.
Viral equals value.
3. Watch the Ducks Live -They re our 24/7 mascots of madness and momentum.
4. Never Sell eNever Sell - Holding builds community strength.
The longer we stay united, the higher we fly.
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Meme coins explode when people spread them wildefire.
I everyone here buys a little and spreads the word, this can xplode.
It's not just about ducks— it's about us building our own fortune together. We are early. The meme is hilarious. The internet is hungry for something new. The next viral moment is waiting— and it's ours to create.
Join the Star's
→ Columbia - The plus-size queen
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- Douglass - The dude
Join the coin. Watch the ducks. Spread the word.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

I regret to inform you that the ducks are become crypto

A cream Shiba Inu walks by a wrought iron fence with a number of obnoxious laminated signs advertising “assquack”, a duck themed meme coin premised on running a livestream of three ducks in the front yard of a brownstone in Brooklyn, where keeping ducks is illegal. Behind the fence is a pond with some ducks in it.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

russ & daughters slander wtf

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

splash image on the guardian us front rn goes hard

A screenshot of the homepage of the Guardian US. Top headline: "US supreme court appears poised to overturn Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’
Ruling in favor of Christian legal group could undermine care and rights for LGBTQ+ youth across the country"

The accompanying photo shows two protestors from the shoulders down holding signs. One, held by a person in a rainbow shirt, reads: "I was born GAY. Were you born HATEFUL?" The other, held by an adult, reads: "Does Conversion therapy work for BIGOTS?"

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

i know that as a people (journalists) we have a deep and under-explored psychosexual attachment to second mentions but does anyone normal actually call cbs "the tiffany network"?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

this is very good

— lol, lmao —

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 2d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

a lot of words when 14 would do

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

did you see the longer excerpt from her federalist society speech? It’s… a lot bsky.app/profile/jool...

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3d

“In the fight for the West, I know who my allies are. And my allies are not the people who, looking at facile, external markers of my identity, one might imagine... My allies are people who believe that America is good. That the West is good. That human beings —not cultures-are created equal”

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

bellissima

We're thrilled to announce that Anduril founder Palmer Luckey will join Bari Weiss live in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 8, at 7:00 p.m. for a conversation on the future of American power-and the fight for the West.
Tickets are LIVE- get them here!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3d

“Riefenstahl’s heterodox politics are hard to pin down. She has called herself ‘classically liberal’ and ‘really more left-wing than not’ on different occasions.”

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