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Julia B. Chan

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Editor in chief ⌲ https://19thnews.org Co-founder/admin ⌲ https://journalistsofcolor.us More if you wanna ⌲ https://juliachanb.com/about ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ here for skeets and giggles

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · Nov 9

reintroducing myself to the skyline hii 👋 i’m julia. i’m the editor of @19thnews.bsky.social, a nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersections of gender, race, policy and politics. i’d love to follow fellow journos and you know, do that whole exchange of information and conversation thing

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 1d

All of this happening one day after Comey pleaded not guilty—Comey and James, a Black woman, are two of the most high-profile targets but Trump’s playbook in seeking retribution against political enemies has been used on many others in the past—including >> other Black women in positions of power <<

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“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system,” James said in response. “These charges are baseless and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.” 19thnews.org/2025/10/leti...

From Letitia James to James Comey, Trump is treating the DOJ like an instrument of revenge

The New York AG and former FBI director are two of the most high-profile targets, but the president’s playbook in seeking retribution has been used on many others in the past — including other Black w...

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Axios @axios.com · 1d

SCOOP: Dominion Voting, the voting machine behemoth that Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election, has been sold to a company run by an ex-GOP election official.

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 9d

“No book shelf will be left untouched if local and state book bans continue wreaking havoc on the freedom to read in public schools,” Sabrina Baêta, senior manager of PEN America’s Freedom to Read program.

These women are among the top five most banned authors in schools

From horror to manga, PEN America reports thousands of books are being pulled from school shelves, with three southern states leading the pack.

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 9d

It's Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Over the last eight months, the first administration led by a man found liable for sexual abuse in federal court has endangered survivors even as it professes to "protect women."

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The Trump administration is making the country less safe for domestic violence victims

Slashed and paused funding, mass firings and information purges have destabilized an infrastructure that took 40 years to build.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 7d

1/ October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, first observed by activists nearly four decades ago. It took more years of advocacy to pass the Violence Against Women Act for the first time in 1994.

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 14d

didn’t take long to see what would be first to come out of this

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14d

“The national security state is a wonderful tool for a skilled authoritarian to crush American democracy.”

"Extremely disturbing": What does Trump's "antifa" executive order actually do?

"The national security state is a wonderful tool for a skilled authoritarian to crush American democracy."

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 14d

this copy irks me. why is survivors in quotes? you know damn well people won’t click to read the story to see who said it and why. it just reads like the chron doesn’t believe or agree that the women are survivors — big yikes.

it’s 2025 and we live on the internet PLEASE let’s write like it

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 14d

Police found three women “survivors” at an illicit massage parlor, and four men were arrested for soliciting prostitution in San Jose.

S.F. suspect linked to prostitution operation arrested in San Jose

Police found three women “survivors” at an illicit massage parlor, and four men were arrested for soliciting prostitution in San Jose.

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 16d

Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16d

spiritually and emotionally I am these lions from a 1500s painting

MICHIEL COXCIE (1499-1592), CARTOONIST; WILLEM DE PANNEMAKER (ACTIVE 1535-1578), WEAVER
Noah Builds the Ark
"Story of Noah' series
Brussels-Brabant, 1563-1566
Tapestry; gold, silver, silk and wool
In 1556, Philip II acquired a set of tapestries that told the story of Noah. However, in 1559 the ship carrying them to Spain sank and only two hangings were saved, so the king ordered another set in 1562. It originally consisted of ten tapestries, only three of which are still extant: one shows God commanding Noah to build the ark, another depicts the disembarkation after the flood, and the third is this scene, where the biblical patriarch is giving his sons instructions on how to build the ark. For the borders, Philip II chose his coats of arms and a few animals alluding to the four elements silhouetted against a landscape in the background, whose painstaking details must have posed quite a technical challenge. This tapestry arrived in Madrid in 1566 and was displayed in emblematic settings like the Monastery of El Escorial.

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 19d

ok good luck to all of us getting back to sleep

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 19d

i guess this was one way to realize i wasn’t following the same quakebots i followed on the bird site..

San Francisco QuakeBot @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social · 19d

M 4.6 - 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492

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quake-bot.com @quake-bot.com · 19d

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake occurred 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California!
🗺️ Coordinates: 37.858800, -122.239800

This is an automatic report and may be revised.

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3 km ESE of Berkeley, California

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 19d

that was a fucking strong one!!

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 19d

i screamed

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 19d

holy shit is everyone ok??

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23d

What’s Sinclair Media? Take a tour through our archives www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 23d

We've reached the point where CDC medical experts are declining to speak publicly about vaccine safety because they’re afraid of being violently targeted by anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-ex...

Fearing Violent Threats, CDC Medical Experts Are Scared To Talk About Vaccine Safety

"I have many that won't speak about vaccines now and have removed their names off of papers," said former CDC chief medical officer Debra Houry.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 23d

There is no legal category as “major terrorist organization.” It does not exist. And he can’t do this.

Just an administration of posters, basically.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 23d

Nexstar, the largest owner of ABC stations, has business before Carr's FCC: Not only do they need him to bless their $6.2 billion merger with Nexstar, but they also need him to relax the national ownership cap that prevents them from getting bigger.

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 23d

mhmmm

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 24d

"If now is not the time to challenge who is in power, when will there ever be a time?" Inside Kat Abughazaleh’s, punk-rock, Chicago-area House bid grounded in radical empathy and righteous anger: 19thnews.org/2025/09/kat-... via @19thnews.org

Kat Abughazaleh’s punk-rock House bid

The 26-year-old Chicagoan is betting that empathy and righteous anger can remake Democratic politics.

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 26d

guessing what got bleeped became a game — and now we know

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26d

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26d

“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

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