J. Hamilton
@juliahamilton.bsky.social
Unitarian Universalist Minister in Santa Barbara. Would like to post about the struggle to be human in a beautiful and heartbreaking world. But probably mostly politics. Also sometimes food.
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Trump’s America.
Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway.
Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability.
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Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway.
Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability.
1/2
December 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Trump’s America.
Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway.
Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability.
1/2
Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway.
Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability.
1/2
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
As a kid in New Orleans, we played "It" at recess instead of "Tag". Is this a southern thing or was it specific to New Orleans? Who else played "It"?
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
As a kid in New Orleans, we played "It" at recess instead of "Tag". Is this a southern thing or was it specific to New Orleans? Who else played "It"?
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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"AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
loving some Gwedolyn Brooks today:
“Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.”
Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks, who left us 25 years ago today, with her wisdom on vulnerability as strength and her advice to writers www.themarginalian.org/2017/04/19/g...
Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks, who left us 25 years ago today, with her wisdom on vulnerability as strength and her advice to writers www.themarginalian.org/2017/04/19/g...
Gwendolyn Brooks on Vulnerability as Strength and Her Advice to Writers
“Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
loving some Gwedolyn Brooks today:
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Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
Any of my New Orleans peeps have a recomendation for a where to have a fun dinner on NYE? Possibly a late seating?
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Any of my New Orleans peeps have a recomendation for a where to have a fun dinner on NYE? Possibly a late seating?
great analogy:
Giving Trump what he wants is like feeding a seagull. All you have done is teach him that he can get more.
The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
great analogy:
Time for a recipe report out: What were your fave new recipes you tried this year? At my house the Pecen Pie from Smitten Kitchen was delish.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Time for a recipe report out: What were your fave new recipes you tried this year? At my house the Pecen Pie from Smitten Kitchen was delish.
I can skip the big corporate balloons, but the National Dog Show is a non-negotiable part of today 😀
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I can skip the big corporate balloons, but the National Dog Show is a non-negotiable part of today 😀
Share this with anyone who says they just want people "to do it the right way". Hint: there is no "right way" ...
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Share this with anyone who says they just want people "to do it the right way". Hint: there is no "right way" ...
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
This is an excellent antidote to the previous article I posted about the Border Patrol. Do yourself a favor and read it: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process — theonion.com/not-sure-how...
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is an excellent antidote to the previous article I posted about the Border Patrol. Do yourself a favor and read it: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process — theonion.com/not-sure-how...
BP is functioning as domestic secret police. Where are all the conspiracy theorists when you need them? "The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports..."
Creepy
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
BP is functioning as domestic secret police. Where are all the conspiracy theorists when you need them? "The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports..."
If only they had believed women in 2005 when he revealed what a mysogynist creep he was back then...
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
If only they had believed women in 2005 when he revealed what a mysogynist creep he was back then...
Why is this man still employed as a professor? I started Div school there in 2005, right before he was ousted as President. He showed us who he was back then - these emails should be the nail in the coffin.
As always, nice reporting from the Crimson here
While Summers has broken no laws, and he’s free to correspond with whom he chooses, there’s a lot here to support the idea that he should not be taken as an authoritative spokesman on so many important issues
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
While Summers has broken no laws, and he’s free to correspond with whom he chooses, there’s a lot here to support the idea that he should not be taken as an authoritative spokesman on so many important issues
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Faculty Disturbed by Revelations of Summers’ ‘Cozy Friendship’ With Epstein | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard professors responded with outrage to a tranche of emails showing a close yearslong correspondence between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, reop...
www.thecrimson.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Why is this man still employed as a professor? I started Div school there in 2005, right before he was ousted as President. He showed us who he was back then - these emails should be the nail in the coffin.
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Seemed topical:
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Seemed topical:
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Do you remember when the White House had good taste?
Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.
Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Do you remember when the White House had good taste?
Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.
Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.
When housing is percieved as an investment tool and not as a basic need, it opens the door to abuse and exploitation, whether you are at the high end (like here in Santa Barbara) or low end (like Baltimore) of the mareket. Real estate shenanigans explained:
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
When housing is percieved as an investment tool and not as a basic need, it opens the door to abuse and exploitation, whether you are at the high end (like here in Santa Barbara) or low end (like Baltimore) of the mareket. Real estate shenanigans explained:
Socialism is thier name for almost anything that helps all the people.....
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Socialism is thier name for almost anything that helps all the people.....