JulieBWriter
@juliebwriter.bsky.social
Professor and journalist: Reading, writing, traveling, swimming, walking. Aspiring polyglot. RP/USH She/her
Images of a ceramic fox and a neon “Magikist” sign.
Images of a ceramic fox and a neon “Magikist” sign.
Reposting. Don’t forget the first strikes are also illegal. Reframing focus on only the second one is fascist creep.
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reposting. Don’t forget the first strikes are also illegal. Reframing focus on only the second one is fascist creep.
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Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
I get this but plenty of people had been calling all the strikes murder and it hadn't broken through. This revelation did and put even Republicans on the defensive and willing to do some oversignt. My sense is that any crack the regime's implacability is a foothold.
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
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Steve Jobs himself would not give his kids unlimited computer access.
The number of peeps in Silicon Valley who would pay extra to sign their kids up for this would blow people’s minds.
So may of my friends in tech are seriously critical of AI and want their kids to think for themselves.
The number of peeps in Silicon Valley who would pay extra to sign their kids up for this would blow people’s minds.
So may of my friends in tech are seriously critical of AI and want their kids to think for themselves.
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Steve Jobs himself would not give his kids unlimited computer access.
The number of peeps in Silicon Valley who would pay extra to sign their kids up for this would blow people’s minds.
So may of my friends in tech are seriously critical of AI and want their kids to think for themselves.
The number of peeps in Silicon Valley who would pay extra to sign their kids up for this would blow people’s minds.
So may of my friends in tech are seriously critical of AI and want their kids to think for themselves.
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We are much less safe with these people in charge.
This is abject incompetence and insanity, rejecting sound public health policy and science.
This is abject incompetence and insanity, rejecting sound public health policy and science.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to end the longstanding guidance that all babies born in the United States be vaccinated against hepatitis B on the day of their birth.
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We are much less safe with these people in charge.
This is abject incompetence and insanity, rejecting sound public health policy and science.
This is abject incompetence and insanity, rejecting sound public health policy and science.
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I'm here for the growing caregiver resistance to ed-tech, a movement pushing back against scenes like this: "it’s now normal to walk into a classroom and see all the students staring at devices with headphones on [while completing i-Ready lessons] and no direct teaching or conversation occurring."
December 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm here for the growing caregiver resistance to ed-tech, a movement pushing back against scenes like this: "it’s now normal to walk into a classroom and see all the students staring at devices with headphones on [while completing i-Ready lessons] and no direct teaching or conversation occurring."
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The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
I won the Ville de Caen Association des Pompiers gold medal in immaculate housekeeping. 🌟 🥇 🌟
Hey I heard it's irrelevant and undeserved prize day!
I just won the Zoo of Mesopotamian Mesomorph Prize for Absolutely Not Procrastinating, Ever.
What did you win?
I just won the Zoo of Mesopotamian Mesomorph Prize for Absolutely Not Procrastinating, Ever.
What did you win?
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I won the Ville de Caen Association des Pompiers gold medal in immaculate housekeeping. 🌟 🥇 🌟
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Yet again, a district court showed its work
Yet again, the Supreme Court showed its ass
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...
Yet again, the Supreme Court showed its ass
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...
The Supreme Court Wants Republicans to Keep the House In 2026
A federal district court found that Texas Republicans’ redistricting proposal is an illegal racial gerrymander. The conservative justices couldn't care less.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Yet again, a district court showed its work
Yet again, the Supreme Court showed its ass
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...
Yet again, the Supreme Court showed its ass
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...
I am not sure why my comment was lost. Anyway, this is a video by Tad Stoermer, a professor of resistance history. He makes several good points about politics and what must come next if we want real change.
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I am not sure why my comment was lost. Anyway, this is a video by Tad Stoermer, a professor of resistance history. He makes several good points about politics and what must come next if we want real change.
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I'm digging out from the first significant snowfall of the year, and am reminded that cleared walkways are essential forms of access. Please shovel the full width of your sidewalk so folks using wheelchairs or white canes are able to navigate them. Also a reminder: FUCK ICE.
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'm digging out from the first significant snowfall of the year, and am reminded that cleared walkways are essential forms of access. Please shovel the full width of your sidewalk so folks using wheelchairs or white canes are able to navigate them. Also a reminder: FUCK ICE.
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Bird flu hits 18,000 turkeys in north central Iowa www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/...
Bird flu hits 18,000 turkeys in north central Iowa
Bird flu hits an operation in north central Iowa with 18,000 turkeys. It's the ninth outbreak in the state this year.
www.desmoinesregister.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Bird flu hits 18,000 turkeys in north central Iowa www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/...
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The holiday-themed cozy mystery anthology is here!
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The holiday-themed cozy mystery anthology is here!
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Thread to keep bookmarked, in case ICE or CBP is coming to invade your town
If you want to make your own whistle kits or do 3d printing of whistles etc @dansinker.com has got you covered dansinker.com/posts/2025-1... and there are also a ton of "how to help" links from @lefttheprairie.bsky.social linktr.ee/apwhistles
Whistle Up | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Thread to keep bookmarked, in case ICE or CBP is coming to invade your town
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If you want to make your own whistle kits or do 3d printing of whistles etc @dansinker.com has got you covered dansinker.com/posts/2025-1... and there are also a ton of "how to help" links from @lefttheprairie.bsky.social linktr.ee/apwhistles
Whistle Up | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you want to make your own whistle kits or do 3d printing of whistles etc @dansinker.com has got you covered dansinker.com/posts/2025-1... and there are also a ton of "how to help" links from @lefttheprairie.bsky.social linktr.ee/apwhistles
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Really takes the heat off the child sex trafficking thing and the journalist’s catch-and-kill operation and the pardoned fraudsters and the air traffic control snafus and the Russian-authored “peace plan” and DOGE and the thing where secret police keep disappearing kids and schoolteachers
I'm mostly trying to stay out of US politics rn but the whole Sec of War doing the example of an illegal order to bomb drug dealers and start a war for oil whilst the Prez pardons a drug dealer is a pretty impressive shitstorm
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Really takes the heat off the child sex trafficking thing and the journalist’s catch-and-kill operation and the pardoned fraudsters and the air traffic control snafus and the Russian-authored “peace plan” and DOGE and the thing where secret police keep disappearing kids and schoolteachers
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this just flooded my brain with so much dopamine
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
this just flooded my brain with so much dopamine
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The images on your phone are presumptively adversarial.
Compare the YouTube thumbnail with the actual scene in the video.
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The images on your phone are presumptively adversarial.
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Compare the YouTube thumbnail with the actual scene in the video.
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Compare the YouTube thumbnail with the actual scene in the video.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - US appeals court rules former Trump lawyer Alina Habba disqualified as New Jersey prosecutor.
@apnews.com
@apnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - US appeals court rules former Trump lawyer Alina Habba disqualified as New Jersey prosecutor.
@apnews.com
@apnews.com
Fulnecky (screenshot below), posted she was proud of her daughter. A lawyer, she faced a recall effort from the city council for failing to register her business between 2007-2015.
ballotpedia.org/Kristi_Fulne...
ballotpedia.org/Kristi_Fulne...
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Fulnecky (screenshot below), posted she was proud of her daughter. A lawyer, she faced a recall effort from the city council for failing to register her business between 2007-2015.
ballotpedia.org/Kristi_Fulne...
ballotpedia.org/Kristi_Fulne...
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So we are at zero hour and we need feminist and womens to start talking about this NOW NOW
Ciswomen should be leading the charge on why this is terrible .
The discussion on using white women and womanhood to undermine all genders and needs to happen
Ciswomen should be leading the charge on why this is terrible .
The discussion on using white women and womanhood to undermine all genders and needs to happen
Turning Point is making is pretty clear what it's all about. Check that headline.
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
So we are at zero hour and we need feminist and womens to start talking about this NOW NOW
Ciswomen should be leading the charge on why this is terrible .
The discussion on using white women and womanhood to undermine all genders and needs to happen
Ciswomen should be leading the charge on why this is terrible .
The discussion on using white women and womanhood to undermine all genders and needs to happen
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So the leaders of the nonprofit mentioned in the story are a tea party organizer and a trump pollster, and they’ve got buy-in from a Republican member of congress. I feel like they’re probably just one arm of a larger “prevent a democratic majority” alliance.
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
So the leaders of the nonprofit mentioned in the story are a tea party organizer and a trump pollster, and they’ve got buy-in from a Republican member of congress. I feel like they’re probably just one arm of a larger “prevent a democratic majority” alliance.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.