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Julie Goldberg
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Academic librarian, reader, writer, teacher, mother of grown-ups. One-time NY State Senate candidate. Extremely curious person. Ed.M, MA, MLIS. ADHD. Dual citizen 🇺🇸🇮🇪. Tá cúpla focal agam, but don’t quote me on that.
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The future of the country is in the hands of low-information voters. God help us.

nymag.com/intelligence...?
Screenshot of magazine text: "For example, polls suggest as much as a quarter of the electorate is now composed of so-called low-information voters — the type who can’t name their representatives and get most of their news from memes but tend to be more persuadable than their better-informed neighbors. That makes them all-powerful in swing elections, provided campaigns can reach them with a message simple and arousing enough to resonate with what little else they know."
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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42% of immigrants approve of the way Trump is handling border security? That...seems like a lot.
Chart of survey results in blue and orange. Do you approve or disapprove of how President Trump is handling border security? All immigrants: 42% Approve/57% Disapprove By citizen status Citizens: 46% Approve/54% Disapprove Lawfully present noncitizens: 41% Approve/58% Disapprove Undocumented: 24% Approve/ 71% Disapprove
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I want to meet the others. We may have a shared destiny.
Screenshot of part of a Connections bot report. Uniqueness: just for fun, how many players made the exact same guesses as you? 1 in 1 million
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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The AI that’s going to do your job better than you can doesn’t know that 2017 came after 2013, not before it.
AI summary about Amy Robertson, hired as a principal in Kansas in 2017. Student journalists discovered that her credentials were fake, and that the school she’d worked at in Dubai had been shut down in 2013. The AI summary has the 2013 incident listed as subsequent to the 2017 one.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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These were the most comfortable socks that could ever be, plus cheap, so naturally, Hanes quit making them. I’ve worn mine to threads. So while it’s NUTS that an eBayer is angling for $100, they might just get it! Just not from me. (You don’t need to tell me this is a neurodivergent post. I know.)
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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My favorite costume at the Rockland #NoKings rally in Nanuet, NY was this one—The Emperor Has No Clothes!
Use myth, symbol, folklore, art, music, poetry! Use it ALL!
Person wearing a costume mint to represent a naked Donald Trump wearing a plastic cape.
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Illustration of a 19th century woman on a fainting couch.
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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“So much for the party of ‘family values’!” Looks like Republicans stopped saying that years ago and we didn’t notice. (I didn’t, anyway. Maybe you did.)
Google N-gram for “family values” showing a steep rise from 1980 to the mid-1990s, and a decline ever since.
October 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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A Western Republic and a Northeastern and Upper Midwestern Republic, maybe two regions of the same republic. Hold a vote. Pennsylvania might opt for the economically viable country.
A map of the United States with states colored in red or blue.
October 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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When I click on your new handle, I don’t see how to follow you. Here’s what it looks like:
October 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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“Drawing for Girls,” 1960.
Photo of a 1960 book called “drawing for girls.” Photo of a child concentrating on creating a pencil drawing.
September 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Baby’s First Drone Show! (I am the baby in question).
Image in lights against the night sky of a cartoon horse’s head in blue and yellow.
September 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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If “Nuclear Celtic” isn’t the name of a trad/punk band, WHY isn’t it?
Tree of Celtic language history with “Nuclear Celtic” circled.
September 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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First draft complete!
Scrawled-on white index cards spread messily on a small, round table. One purple and one black pen on top of the cards.
September 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Oh, that’s a great one!
It’s based on a rather older slang sense of shoot, to discard or get rid of, of which the earliest form is to get shot of something, which dates from the beginning of the nineteenth century. An alternative version is characteristically American, of which an example from 1884 in the Oxford English Dictionary is: “If I had all the cash he takes in to-night, I’d buy an island and shoot the machine business.” It often turned up as shoot that, a mild imprecation, especially as shoot that hat! The next step might have been to form the verb to shoot trouble in the sense of disposing of, dealing with or generally getting rid of trouble. Oddly, the records don’t show this form turning up until recently as a humorous reversal of troubleshoot. The first recorded form after trouble-shooter is trouble-shooting for the process. The verb to troubleshoot doesn’t appear until the late 1930s, which means it may have been a back-formation from trouble-shooter, the -er ending suggesting to people that there ought to be a verb to go along with it.
August 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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This doesn’t look like the Bronx, but it is! Orchard Beach.
Beach scene.
August 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Pair of feet with white ankle socks and blue and white striped sandals.
August 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Restaurant. Grade. PUDDING!
July 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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The Romans wrote for National Geographic? (Please don’t rely on Google’s AI summaries.)
Screenshot of a Google AI summary about Druids with one sentence circled in red. “While there's a romanticized image of Druids, historical knowledge about them is surprisingly limited. We know they were a priestly or shamanic class among the Celts, but written records from the Celts themselves are virtually non-existent. Information comes from [start red circled part] Roman writers like Julius Caesar and others from the National Geographic [end red circled part] but their accounts are not always reliable. Additional-ly, later Irish and Welsh myths and legends offer some insights, but they were written long after the Druids' time.”
June 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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?!?!?!?
I'm just glad it's not a required question!
A web form asking name, SSN, email address, and "Employee Date of Death." I have circled that question in red and added a red question mark.
June 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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This was her.
Elderly woman looking out a window, from the outside.
June 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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New job! New career! (Still a librarian, but now, at the college level).
Woman in sunglasses in front of Mercy University’s Main Hall. Banners on either side of the entrance feature photos of students, with the text “Made for Mavericks.”
June 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I just did this, and you should, too. There are some good templates available, but I didn’t use it. I opted to take an aggressive, conservative attitude, and I tried not to sound too much like the fancy East Coast liberal I am. (No idea if that matters.)
It is extremely important that anyone who needs or wants a COVID booster be able to get one. Instead of the Federal government dictating who is qualified, and patients needing to prove that they are the family member of an immunocompromised person, or a nurse, teacher, or caregiver, anyone who wishes to protect themselves and their family members by getting a COVID booster should be permitted to do so. We need the government out of our personal medical decisions!
May 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Interesting eyewitness account from the infamous Mike Lawler Town Hall about the man who was calling for violence against Emily Feiner. According to this person, commenting in an #NY17 Facebook group, he was NOT MAGA, and was being inappropriately ironic.
I hope this is true.
Screenshot of a Facebook comment. “I was sitting 2 seats away from that guy and I talked to him. He was not a MAGA supporter. He was horrified by what was happening. His hat said, “Make Anxiety Great Again” and he explained it was because we should all feel anxious about what’s happening. What he said when Emily was dragged out was inappropriate and misguided; however his intent was to imitate how eager the MAGA’s are to deport people and he was not literally calling for her to be beaten, deported or killed. Someone asked him to stop and he did. Again, he definitely should not have said what he said, but I don’t think people need to be going after him.”
May 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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It’s not working today! Here’s a screenshot of the LoHud app:
Screenshot of LoHud newspaper site. Photo of a woman being forcibly carried out of Mike Lawlor’s public meeting yesterday. She has gray curly hair and is holding both hands up in peace signs. Headline: “Mike Lawler grilled again on tariffs, deportations, funding cuts.”
May 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM