Julie F Foster
Julie F Foster
@indyfos.bsky.social
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From Gabrielle Calvocoressi's book, The First Time I Saw Amelia Earhart.

#poem #books #writing
April 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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We're 4 days into Signalgate and Trump clearly doesn't even know what Signal is.

Who is running the White House?
March 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Chuck Schumer’s capitulation is a lesson in how *not* to fight fascism.

Democrats who are real true warriors know that we

NEVER SURRENDER

Now that’s a movement I would join.
March 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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BREAKING: Job losses spiked a whopping 245% in February.

This is higher than any month since July 2020 (the middle of pandemic) and the highest in any February since the Great Recession of 2009.
Layoffs Hit Unbelievable High Thanks to Trump and Musk
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government have caused a record-breaking surge in layoffs.
newrepublic.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It's been obvious for a while, but the Post is definitely done
After the disturbing news this morning about the Washington Post's opinion section, Democracy Docket sent out the following.

If you want to support its commitment to pro-democracy news, information, opinion and analysis, become a member today. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
February 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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From Marge Piercy's book, To Be of Use.

#poem #poetry #books
February 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Hi, I’m God.

Your reality is in a Groundhog Day loop of misery until you all decide to embrace a revolutionary progressive form of politics.

Lmk
January 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum claps back at Trump using a map from 1607 to say that parts of the United States should be renamed 'Mexican America' (voice translated with AI)
January 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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“About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a [Trump] senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox…images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot.”

www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/m...
Trump camp was fed questions for Fox News town hall in advance from person inside network, new book says | CNN Business
President-elect Donald Trump’s team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance by someone inside the network, according to a forthcoming book, in wh...
www.cnn.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Let’s see - I’m being sentenced for 34 felonies on Friday, I’ve nominated a bunch of unschooled idiots for my cabinet, and I owe E Jean $483 million. What can I distract the idiots with?
January 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Oh, honey . . . not so "deep undercover at Bluesky" now.

The Bluesky account is @therealblueskylibs.bsky.social and I just blocked it. I encourage you to do the same.

The account this nasty person uses on Twitter to childishly mock screen-caps of progressive posts on Bluesky is here:
January 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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the answer to a question in a headline is always "no", but never has the answer to a question in a headline been MORE "no" than how much "no" it is here
January 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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BREAKING: President Biden awards Liz Cheney with the Presidential Citizens medal, the second-highest award.

Standing ovation for the role she played on the Jan 6th Committee.
January 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Military disability payments are well deserved. There is a massive glut at the moment because Burn Pit veterans are retiring, and the burn pits caused all kinds of issues, for me as well. And we have no idea what it WILL do to us when we are older. Cont…
December 3, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Insane article. The vast majority of this increase is because we were exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s our generation’s agent orange.

As a burn pit veteran myself, the economist is absolutely wrong here. My guess is there were no burn pit vets on the board that wrote this
December 1, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.
December 1, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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Russia fired a 2nd ICBM and hit itself. That’s all you need to know about its nuclear capabilities.
November 22, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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Something I learned on deployments. Our minds play mental models to help us prepare for the unknown. Worst case rehearsals. Bad things can/will happen. No way around it. But It’s often not as bad as we imagined. Still, a worst case can happen. Acceptance of it will allow you to act as you need to.
The truth is, none of us really know what the next four years will look like. It’s incredibly difficult to predict what happens next. It does not feel good.
November 21, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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not beating the allegations
What happened here with Don Jr at the SpaceX launch today
November 20, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫡🇺🇸
October 9, 2024 at 3:05 AM