Julia Carrie Wong
@joolia.bsky.social
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Julia Carrie Wong
@joolia.bsky.social
· Apr 8
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
I tried to write about empathy and ended up writing about fascism again
well what else would you call them
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
well what else would you call them
when I was in college a famous novelist was a guest professor for a year and immediately became notorious for her scathing comments to undergrad writers, including, “it’s not that you need to be a better writer, [name], it’s that you need to be a better person”
anyway, thinking about that today
anyway, thinking about that today
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
when I was in college a famous novelist was a guest professor for a year and immediately became notorious for her scathing comments to undergrad writers, including, “it’s not that you need to be a better writer, [name], it’s that you need to be a better person”
anyway, thinking about that today
anyway, thinking about that today
the thing about finally breaking down and ordering a sad lamp at my age is that if it actually works I’m gonna be so mad
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
the thing about finally breaking down and ordering a sad lamp at my age is that if it actually works I’m gonna be so mad
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NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
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Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law | CBC News
The "Lost Canadians" legislation, which aims to fix Canada's unconstitutional citizenship by descent rules, passed in the Senate Wednesday and received royal assent Thursday afternoon.
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🎉🇨🇦🎊🇨🇦🌟
can’t tell if I’m Christian now or I just really like Rosalia’s new album
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
can’t tell if I’m Christian now or I just really like Rosalia’s new album
I was walking Georgie down smith street earlier today and this guy nodded at me (us?) and said “sup dog” and kept going and I’m still wondering if he was talking to me or my dog
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I was walking Georgie down smith street earlier today and this guy nodded at me (us?) and said “sup dog” and kept going and I’m still wondering if he was talking to me or my dog
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NEW: For months, my colleagues and I dug into YouTube's conservative airwaves and found a flourishing network of host-read ads on right-leaning podcasts. This phenomenon has enriched hosts, YouTube, and businesses that use ideology to sell. bloom.bg/3Kaio9w
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
NEW: For months, my colleagues and I dug into YouTube's conservative airwaves and found a flourishing network of host-read ads on right-leaning podcasts. This phenomenon has enriched hosts, YouTube, and businesses that use ideology to sell. bloom.bg/3Kaio9w
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"Both Zohran and Mira kept telling me: 'You have to insert yourself as a character in this. You were alive. You were involved. Take responsibility, but tell us. Tell us the part of the story which nobody else will be able to tell us.'”
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
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November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Both Zohran and Mira kept telling me: 'You have to insert yourself as a character in this. You were alive. You were involved. Take responsibility, but tell us. Tell us the part of the story which nobody else will be able to tell us.'”
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“But his long career and extensive bibliography attest to a lifetime interrogating the colonial categories that continue to define and divide postcolonial politics: race, tribe, Indigeneity; citizen, settler, subject.” @joolia.bsky.social
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Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“But his long career and extensive bibliography attest to a lifetime interrogating the colonial categories that continue to define and divide postcolonial politics: race, tribe, Indigeneity; citizen, settler, subject.” @joolia.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
My sister and I have been ranting back and forth at each other about Larry Summers all week but today she fully hit her limit when she found out that Elisa New dragged My Antonia into the Epstein mess for no conceivable reason.
“Indignity upon indignity,” she wailed. I do agree.
“Indignity upon indignity,” she wailed. I do agree.
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My sister and I have been ranting back and forth at each other about Larry Summers all week but today she fully hit her limit when she found out that Elisa New dragged My Antonia into the Epstein mess for no conceivable reason.
“Indignity upon indignity,” she wailed. I do agree.
“Indignity upon indignity,” she wailed. I do agree.
part 2 tonite 👀
part 2 tonite queen
part 2 tonite 👀
part 2 tonite queen
part 2 tonite 👀
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
part 2 tonite 👀
part 2 tonite queen
part 2 tonite 👀
part 2 tonite queen
part 2 tonite 👀
I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
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I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
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"It was scandalous to me that [the NYT] was resurrecting this dividing line between the Indigenous and the non-Indigenous, that could only be crossed through miscegenation. The Times was so narrowly preoccupied with marginalizing one candidate that it seemed to have forgotten everything else."
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"It was scandalous to me that [the NYT] was resurrecting this dividing line between the Indigenous and the non-Indigenous, that could only be crossed through miscegenation. The Times was so narrowly preoccupied with marginalizing one candidate that it seemed to have forgotten everything else."
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“All the threads which led to the Asian expulsion in 1972 are present in the US now. But it’s not the same.
The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”
The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“All the threads which led to the Asian expulsion in 1972 are present in the US now. But it’s not the same.
The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”
The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”
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What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.
“All the threads which led to the Asian expulsion in 1972 are present in the US now. But it’s not the same.
The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”
The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“All the threads which led to the Asian expulsion in 1972 are present in the US now. But it’s not the same.
The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”
The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”
"It was scandalous to me that [the NYT] was resurrecting this dividing line between the Indigenous and the non-Indigenous, that could only be crossed through miscegenation. The Times was so narrowly preoccupied with marginalizing one candidate that it seemed to have forgotten everything else."
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"It was scandalous to me that [the NYT] was resurrecting this dividing line between the Indigenous and the non-Indigenous, that could only be crossed through miscegenation. The Times was so narrowly preoccupied with marginalizing one candidate that it seemed to have forgotten everything else."
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"You cannot peg humans to a particular piece of territory over centuries and millennia. You can’t. They’ve moved. This fiction that every tribe had a homeland was extended so that every homeland had a customary authority."
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"You cannot peg humans to a particular piece of territory over centuries and millennia. You can’t. They’ve moved. This fiction that every tribe had a homeland was extended so that every homeland had a customary authority."
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Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.