Julia Conrad
@juliaconrad.bsky.social
Writer & translator with second violin energy. Writing a book about women in classical music for Simon & Schuster. She/her/lei
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"Since September, at least six unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents. That number is likely higher, but the social invisibility and isolation already faced by people experiencing homelessness make their disappearances harder to track" by @katieprout.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social
Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community
Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.
chicagoreader.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"Since September, at least six unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents. That number is likely higher, but the social invisibility and isolation already faced by people experiencing homelessness make their disappearances harder to track" by @katieprout.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social
HL Mencken in 1918: "[Woman] may envy [man's] masculine liberty of movement and occupation, his impenetrable complacency... But she never envies him his puerile ego; she never envies him his shoddy and preposterous soul."
August 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
HL Mencken in 1918: "[Woman] may envy [man's] masculine liberty of movement and occupation, his impenetrable complacency... But she never envies him his puerile ego; she never envies him his shoddy and preposterous soul."
I highly recommend this great, thoughtful critique of Ezra Klein's book Abundance (and also a lot of his arguments in general).
“A much more promising path to abundance than the one this book offers is to embrace a twenty-first-century New Deal. That is the tried-and-true model for a ‘liberalism that builds’ in the United States. Yet Klein and Thompson strangely shy away from calling for a new (or Green) New Deal.”
The Real Path to Abundance - Boston Review
To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.
www.bostonreview.net
August 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I highly recommend this great, thoughtful critique of Ezra Klein's book Abundance (and also a lot of his arguments in general).
just learned the word "incompossible" and I hate it
June 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
just learned the word "incompossible" and I hate it
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“Do not memorize one dictionary alone, a dictionary of the German language; instead, memorize dictionaries of two languages, and then reflect on their differences, which are the differences between two conceptual maps of the same universe.” —J.M. Coetzee
Word Search, by J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos
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May 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“Do not memorize one dictionary alone, a dictionary of the German language; instead, memorize dictionaries of two languages, and then reflect on their differences, which are the differences between two conceptual maps of the same universe.” —J.M. Coetzee
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VAN 401:
🎭 Komische Oper's "Don Giovanni," reviewed by Jeff Brown and @hwfmorris.bsky.social
🎭 “Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed by Hannah Edgar and @juliaconrad.bsky.social
🎭 Ben Poore on Quartet for the End of Time
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🎭 Komische Oper's "Don Giovanni," reviewed by Jeff Brown and @hwfmorris.bsky.social
🎭 “Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed by Hannah Edgar and @juliaconrad.bsky.social
🎭 Ben Poore on Quartet for the End of Time
van-magazine.com/mag/scratchi...
The Thirty-Year Itch
“Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed in the bar
van-magazine.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
VAN 401:
🎭 Komische Oper's "Don Giovanni," reviewed by Jeff Brown and @hwfmorris.bsky.social
🎭 “Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed by Hannah Edgar and @juliaconrad.bsky.social
🎭 Ben Poore on Quartet for the End of Time
van-magazine.com/mag/scratchi...
🎭 Komische Oper's "Don Giovanni," reviewed by Jeff Brown and @hwfmorris.bsky.social
🎭 “Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed by Hannah Edgar and @juliaconrad.bsky.social
🎭 Ben Poore on Quartet for the End of Time
van-magazine.com/mag/scratchi...
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First known American citizen to be deported.
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
First known American citizen to be deported.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared that feeding children and supporting local farmers are no longer ‘priorities,’ and it’s just the latest terrible cut with real impact on families across Massachusetts,” Healey said in a statement.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
www.politico.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared that feeding children and supporting local farmers are no longer ‘priorities,’ and it’s just the latest terrible cut with real impact on families across Massachusetts,” Healey said in a statement.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
having a calming nightcap of some Susan McClary: “For music is always a political activity, and to inhibit criticism of its effects for any reason is likewise a political act”
March 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
having a calming nightcap of some Susan McClary: “For music is always a political activity, and to inhibit criticism of its effects for any reason is likewise a political act”
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March 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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For NYC folks, there's a protest scheduled for saturday at 1pm at the Tesla dealership in the meatpacking district, if anyone else is interested in going.
February 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
For NYC folks, there's a protest scheduled for saturday at 1pm at the Tesla dealership in the meatpacking district, if anyone else is interested in going.
"Our country did not get here by being typical" :')
Since I have defended and supported the WaPo in the months since the election and the infamous pulled endorsement, I feel obliged to say: this is very, very bad. A dear friend at a Post vet says it's the worst thing to happen to the Post in its long history, and I can't argue.
February 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"Our country did not get here by being typical" :')
just an fyi: jeff bezos's email is [email protected]
February 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
just an fyi: jeff bezos's email is [email protected]
reading Benjamin Labatut feels like asking ChatGBT a question
February 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
reading Benjamin Labatut feels like asking ChatGBT a question
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A worthwhile re-read of @juliaconrad.bsky.social's overview of the life and legacy of Julia Perry as well as cuing up the Experimental Orchestra's American Counterpoints for my #BlackHistoryMonth listening this evening.
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Seeking the Truth About Julia Perry
I am always bitter about going to the established-yet-edgy New York venue (Le) Poisson Rouge—their cheapest beer is $10—but their programs make it impossible to stay away. The kickoff event for the Ju...
van-magazine.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A worthwhile re-read of @juliaconrad.bsky.social's overview of the life and legacy of Julia Perry as well as cuing up the Experimental Orchestra's American Counterpoints for my #BlackHistoryMonth listening this evening.
van-magazine.com/mag/julia-pe...
van-magazine.com/mag/julia-pe...
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Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework.
Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there
prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...
Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there
prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...
February 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework.
Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there
prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...
Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there
prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...
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Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
February 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
call me spoiled but i could really use some nightly Fireside Chats for the next 4 years on like... PBS
February 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
call me spoiled but i could really use some nightly Fireside Chats for the next 4 years on like... PBS
we need a new political party called the Humanity party
January 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
we need a new political party called the Humanity party
Wendy Carlos made the platinum selling album Switched on Bach in an apartment across the street from Zabar's ... make your own conclusions
January 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Wendy Carlos made the platinum selling album Switched on Bach in an apartment across the street from Zabar's ... make your own conclusions
goodbye to Tom Johnson, the passionate Village Voice critic who put language to minimalism, and who wrote an early review of Eliane Radigue's sounds "oozing from the walls" <3
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/a...
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Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85
He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his own.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
goodbye to Tom Johnson, the passionate Village Voice critic who put language to minimalism, and who wrote an early review of Eliane Radigue's sounds "oozing from the walls" <3
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/a...
bless ProPublica for their series on the tax records of the .001%
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2024 at 6:26 PM
bless ProPublica for their series on the tax records of the .001%
my Italian boyfriend just burst into the room to declare "HE'S ITALIAN!"
December 9, 2024 at 7:18 PM
my Italian boyfriend just burst into the room to declare "HE'S ITALIAN!"