Julia Callahan
@juliacallahan.bsky.social
You may know me from Dawson’s Critique. Book slinger. Lesbian.
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They’re not sending their best.
Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
December 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
They’re not sending their best.
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If you are a public-facing business with an actual physical location and your street address is not immediately and blatantly visible as soon as I click over to your website, then your website sucks.
December 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Always fun when I am excited about a book and then learn I get to be the one to sell it.
Coming out with Basic Books.
The publication date is still to be settled. Maybe fall 2026, but probably spring 2027.
Clear your calendars.
The publication date is still to be settled. Maybe fall 2026, but probably spring 2027.
Clear your calendars.
December 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Always fun when I am excited about a book and then learn I get to be the one to sell it.
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Prosecute them all. Beyond the depravity of this, it's pure theft. The local prosecutor should open an investigation and charge them all.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Prosecute them all. Beyond the depravity of this, it's pure theft. The local prosecutor should open an investigation and charge them all.
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When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
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This Lions/Vikings halftime show might the most psychotically focus-tested thing I've ever seen.
December 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This Lions/Vikings halftime show might the most psychotically focus-tested thing I've ever seen.
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Jacob Wohl is the guy of “I overheard people talking in a hipster coffee shop about how much they love Donald Trump” fame. He’s apparently now making six figures securing pardons for fraudsters.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Jacob Wohl is the guy of “I overheard people talking in a hipster coffee shop about how much they love Donald Trump” fame. He’s apparently now making six figures securing pardons for fraudsters.
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Merry Christmas yall
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Merry Christmas yall
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Christmas morning 2025.
ICE loading abductees in chains on a plane headed to a concentration camp.
ICE loading abductees in chains on a plane headed to a concentration camp.
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Christmas morning 2025.
ICE loading abductees in chains on a plane headed to a concentration camp.
ICE loading abductees in chains on a plane headed to a concentration camp.
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I love his attitude to being asked if it’s mean not to airbrush Karoline Leavett’s face
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I love his attitude to being asked if it’s mean not to airbrush Karoline Leavett’s face
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This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
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The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.
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Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983
December 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983
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I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
December 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
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This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention:
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
ICE Releases Grandma With Green Card After 5 Months in Time for Christmas
Donna Hughes Brown's case was highlighted during a hearing with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
www.star-telegram.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention:
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
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The genocide will continue until morale improves.
"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you."
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The genocide will continue until morale improves.
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A grandmother will spend Christmas with her family after ICE held her for nearly five months. She’s had a green card for 30+ years and lived in the U.S. since childhood. Her detention ended only after public and congressional pressure.
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
www.star-telegram.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A grandmother will spend Christmas with her family after ICE held her for nearly five months. She’s had a green card for 30+ years and lived in the U.S. since childhood. Her detention ended only after public and congressional pressure.
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
I sell books for a living and I’d love to sell this book.
All - genuinely.
If this is something you want to see, can you quote tweet this and explain why?
Since I've been fighting to write this book for years, and I keep getting told there's no market interest.
I get it; it's not a sexy book. But it's an important book, imho. LMK what you think?
If this is something you want to see, can you quote tweet this and explain why?
Since I've been fighting to write this book for years, and I keep getting told there's no market interest.
I get it; it's not a sexy book. But it's an important book, imho. LMK what you think?
Also: I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Publishing, let me write a media literacy book, I am begging you. I keep being told that there's no appetite for this...
But how can there NOT be, when it's an urgent and pressing issue, especially with how we aggregate news + use of AI?
Publishing, let me write a media literacy book, I am begging you. I keep being told that there's no appetite for this...
But how can there NOT be, when it's an urgent and pressing issue, especially with how we aggregate news + use of AI?
December 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I sell books for a living and I’d love to sell this book.
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The “What Would Putin Do?” theory of the American presidency remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The “What Would Putin Do?” theory of the American presidency remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
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i’m posting the video again
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
i’m posting the video again
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this is absolutely true, but the trick is that you’re supposed to kill it
Bari executed the lesser known and far more risky “catch and release only to Canada,” but since Canada also has the internet it did not go as planned
Bari executed the lesser known and far more risky “catch and release only to Canada,” but since Canada also has the internet it did not go as planned
I think the mistake people keep making with this is assuming she was hired for generating ratings and not for doing exactly what she just did—MAGA/Trump catch and kill.
December 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
this is absolutely true, but the trick is that you’re supposed to kill it
Bari executed the lesser known and far more risky “catch and release only to Canada,” but since Canada also has the internet it did not go as planned
Bari executed the lesser known and far more risky “catch and release only to Canada,” but since Canada also has the internet it did not go as planned
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Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”