McJulie
@mcjulie.bsky.social
Ruining your workplaces since the early 1990s. Former journalist. Current data scientist. For fun I write books about Cajun werewolves https://www.gothhouse.org/tales-of-the-rougarou/
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McJulie
@mcjulie.bsky.social
· Apr 14
Reporter: And a sense of helplessness because there's nothing you can do about it.
Marche: Oh, we're not helpless. There's lots we can do. It's you guys that are helpless. You have a political system that can't respond to reality.
THIS WAS SUCH AN AMERICAN COMMENT BY THE REPORTER HOLY GOD.
Marche: Oh, we're not helpless. There's lots we can do. It's you guys that are helpless. You have a political system that can't respond to reality.
THIS WAS SUCH AN AMERICAN COMMENT BY THE REPORTER HOLY GOD.
“We’re not helpless… it’s you guys that are helpless”
That hits HARD
That hits HARD
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this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
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i mean not the main point but a beard doesn't just... rip off? like i guess you could tear out some hair or whatever, but it doesn't just rip away in a big clump like in a cartoon or whatever?
The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
i mean not the main point but a beard doesn't just... rip off? like i guess you could tear out some hair or whatever, but it doesn't just rip away in a big clump like in a cartoon or whatever?
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Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
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Come and learn
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Come and learn
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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As we approach the holiday season, and all the Die Hard Xmas movie discussions, here’s my first time ever watching it at the old age of 40-somefing.
Yippee-kai-yay, motherfuckers!
Yippee-kai-yay, motherfuckers!
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
As we approach the holiday season, and all the Die Hard Xmas movie discussions, here’s my first time ever watching it at the old age of 40-somefing.
Yippee-kai-yay, motherfuckers!
Yippee-kai-yay, motherfuckers!
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And this concludes my notes on my first watching EVER of Die Hard.
It is a Christmas movie. Accepted. As much as Home Alone.
It is a Christmas movie. Accepted. As much as Home Alone.
December 26, 2024 at 12:25 AM
And this concludes my notes on my first watching EVER of Die Hard.
It is a Christmas movie. Accepted. As much as Home Alone.
It is a Christmas movie. Accepted. As much as Home Alone.
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Punch him in the face, Holly!
(And then she did!)
William Atherton is very punchable.
(And then she did!)
William Atherton is very punchable.
December 26, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Punch him in the face, Holly!
(And then she did!)
William Atherton is very punchable.
(And then she did!)
William Atherton is very punchable.
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How many moments from Die Hard got homaged in Fifth Element?
I’ve counted two so far. Ducts and the machine gun catch.
I’ve counted two so far. Ducts and the machine gun catch.
December 26, 2024 at 12:16 AM
How many moments from Die Hard got homaged in Fifth Element?
I’ve counted two so far. Ducts and the machine gun catch.
I’ve counted two so far. Ducts and the machine gun catch.
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Lots of yelling SCHNELL SCHNELL
I am please to tell you that my high school German was up to the task of verstehen.
I am please to tell you that my high school German was up to the task of verstehen.
December 26, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Lots of yelling SCHNELL SCHNELL
I am please to tell you that my high school German was up to the task of verstehen.
I am please to tell you that my high school German was up to the task of verstehen.
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Yippee kai-yay, motherfucker!
HE SAID IT
HE SAID IT
December 26, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Yippee kai-yay, motherfucker!
HE SAID IT
HE SAID IT
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In which we meet the second man in a chair, buying food in a convenience store.
Me: it’s for a pregnant wife.
Cop: it’s for my wife.
Cop: and she’s pregnant.
Me: boo yeah.
Me: it’s for a pregnant wife.
Cop: it’s for my wife.
Cop: and she’s pregnant.
Me: boo yeah.
December 25, 2024 at 11:56 PM
In which we meet the second man in a chair, buying food in a convenience store.
Me: it’s for a pregnant wife.
Cop: it’s for my wife.
Cop: and she’s pregnant.
Me: boo yeah.
Me: it’s for a pregnant wife.
Cop: it’s for my wife.
Cop: and she’s pregnant.
Me: boo yeah.
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Alan Rickman: That’s a nice suit.
Me: it would be a shame to ruin it.
Alan Rickman: it would be a shame to ruin it.
Me: it would be a shame to ruin it.
Alan Rickman: it would be a shame to ruin it.
December 25, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Alan Rickman: That’s a nice suit.
Me: it would be a shame to ruin it.
Alan Rickman: it would be a shame to ruin it.
Me: it would be a shame to ruin it.
Alan Rickman: it would be a shame to ruin it.
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Dude, there are Christian Japanese. Nine Japanese prime ministers have been Christians.
John is reminding me this movie was made during a wave of Japanaphobia.
John is reminding me this movie was made during a wave of Japanaphobia.
December 25, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Dude, there are Christian Japanese. Nine Japanese prime ministers have been Christians.
John is reminding me this movie was made during a wave of Japanaphobia.
John is reminding me this movie was made during a wave of Japanaphobia.
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We’re just watching a race to see which bubble or Ponzi scheme or presidentially endorsed grift collapses the world economy first.
Newsletter: Crypto’s latest “infinite money machine” is the digital asset treasury company — a publicly traded firm that exists primarily to accumulate crypto. For a while, these stocks traded at hefty premiums to the underlying assets. But now, the trade is unraveling.
Digital asset treasury companies are running out of steam
Convincing traders to pay $2 for $1 of bitcoin worked — for a while. As premiums evaporate, an unwind could be painful.
www.citationneeded.news
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We’re just watching a race to see which bubble or Ponzi scheme or presidentially endorsed grift collapses the world economy first.
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To be fair, she had the day she deserved
Pam Bondi’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Pam Bondi’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
No Dignity Left Behind Pam Bondi long ago gave up her dignity,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
To be fair, she had the day she deserved
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In all these stories, President Trump is corruptly weaponizing the system to get revenge on enemies for corrupt purposes. Yet, his revenge project is running aground—and he’s at fault for all of it. trib.al/tQivqVS
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In all these stories, President Trump is corruptly weaponizing the system to get revenge on enemies for corrupt purposes. Yet, his revenge project is running aground—and he’s at fault for all of it. trib.al/tQivqVS
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My mind has been spinning the last few days as multiple crises of journalism converged—the Nuzzi book, Epstein’s emails revealing journalists hid information, Trump berating a reporter with no consequence—and it occurred to me they all stemmed from the same source: elite impunity.
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My mind has been spinning the last few days as multiple crises of journalism converged—the Nuzzi book, Epstein’s emails revealing journalists hid information, Trump berating a reporter with no consequence—and it occurred to me they all stemmed from the same source: elite impunity.
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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It makes you think, I can say that.
Never forget who dove head first into defending this. Remember them every time we hear about a kid who dies of whooping cough.
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
It makes you think, I can say that.
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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Don't think of an Enron
It is wild to me that the largest company on the stock market, one with such incredible prestige and a huge PR team got dog-walked here. Why would you EVER give this ANY oxygen? Now everybody is asking whether NVIDIA is like Enron! This didn't help at all!
Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying "Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue" (Tae Kim/Barron's Online)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Don't think of an Enron