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Julia Fierro

@juliafierro.bsky.social

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4x Novelist. Nightknitter. Gloveless gardener. Founder of Sackett Street Writers' Workshop. Granddaughter of a cummara. Working on a WWII historical speculative novel set in the caves of Southern Italy. 🧚‍♀️🐝💣

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Julia Fierro @juliafierro.bsky.social · 5d

*The* book. The one you wait till you’re grown up to write. My family’s story. Historical, magical realism. WWII Italy, fascism, cave fairies, superstition, cunning women, bombs & bees & a young woman who alters lives in a time where power is only for men carrying guns or crosses. THE QUEEN MUST DIE

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Julia Fierro @juliafierro.bsky.social · 21h

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

It's harrowing seeing some clueless North Americans accidentally stumble into Irish Bsky.

It's like one of those nature documentaries where an ant colony strips an antelope to the bone.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Julia Fierro @juliafierro.bsky.social · 21h

Ditto. Sometimes it seems this is my only comfort. But my children, their children… 🥲

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 23h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Julie 🖤🎼 @juliemch.bsky.social · 1d

#20songsbyyear

1981. Unranked.

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U2 - Gloria

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 23h

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Julia Fierro @juliafierro.bsky.social · 21h

Just made a huge order of new books by #sackettstreetwriters tonight!

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Julia Fierro @juliafierro.bsky.social · 21h

What restaurant? Yum

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Julia Fierro @juliafierro.bsky.social · 1d

No one. Ever.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 1d

They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Julia Fierro @juliafierro.bsky.social · 1d

New affirmation/reminder for every moment I spend enraged: BILLIONAIRES BILLIONAIRES BILLIONAIRES fucking BILLIONAIRES BILLIONAIRES BILLIONAIRES (and those who enable them).

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Julia Fierro @juliafierro.bsky.social · 1d

Loved it. Atmospheric. A little crazy in the storyline but I’m in for the ride.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 2d

I’m looking at what Black women artists did in their thirties.

Lucille Clifton published Good Times at 32.

Toni Morrison published The Bluest Eye at 39.

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Julia Fierro @juliafierro.bsky.social · 1d

What? How much?

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d

BOOM 🔥:

Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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