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Julie Tallard Johnson

@jtallardj.bsky.social
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Author, counselor, writer's sherpa, mentor, citizen, a dangerous old woman, and dog rescuer. I hold writer's circles, mentor writers, and tend to what I can. Here to help save democracy. www.julietallardjohnson.com

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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
substack.com/@broadwaybab... and Netanyahu started a war.
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Broadwaybabyto (@broadwaybabyto)
Reuters confirms that Trump’s own administration told Congress there was no evidence to suggest Iran was about to attack america. This was not a “pre-emptive strike”. This was an act of aggression....
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism)
🚨BREAKING: A clip of Donald Trump from 2024 is going mega viral: “I can tell you you’re not going to have a war with Iran with me as president.” Truly curious if any MAGA voters are willing to admit ...
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Reaching for Meaning open.substack.com/pub/julietal... Reaching for other options -- to restore democracy
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Reaching for Meaning
What do we reach for when we feel trapped between two impossible choices?
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I just ordered my first body cam. Never thought I would want or need one. I am headed to the Twin Cities next week.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Graham told the grand jury he told Trump "more times than we can count that he fell short" and that "if you told him Martians came and stole votes, he'd be inclined to believe it." Georgia's Republican Governor called Trump's plan to overturn the election a "fruitless exercise."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This is ONE reason the tRump regime doesn't like science: Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. Minnesota's Ice occupation is not about immigration.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Newsom Says He Is Blocking Louisiana's Push to Extradite Doctor Accused of Mailing Abortion Pills
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he was blocking Louisiana’s attempt to extradite a doctor in the Golden State accused of mailing abortion pills.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
FFS. ICE is targeting Native Americans!
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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January 9, 2026
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I focus on sustaining inner strength, calm, and integrity, knowing that how we move outward is shaped by where we stand within. When we meet the world from a grounded place, we meet adversity with steadiness rather than fear. #courage #unity #mindfulness
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What's Still Possible
for you, for all of us
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “ICE Out Solidarity Vigil and Action” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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ICE Out Solidarity Vigil and Action · Indivisible
Members of Local Indivisible Groups have helped organize this Voces de la Frontera event. SOLIDARITY VIGIL & ACTION 5:00 Top of State/Capitol On Wednesday, January 7th, an ICE agent murdered Renee N...
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The irony is blinding: Donald Trump just deposed the kind of regime he is actively trying to build here. In America.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
There is nothing a walk outside won’t help. That’s it. That’s my message. open.substack.com/pub/julietal...
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The Cure
Come into the peace of wild things
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Trying to case a Trump $100 bill Psychologists describe this as a form of investment or sunk-cost syndrome: the more someone has given—time, money, belief, reputation—the harder it becomes to admit that the foundation was false. www.channel3000.com/news/man-arr...
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Man arrested for using fraudulent $100 bill with Trump's face in Mount Horeb
MOUNT HOREB, Wis. — A 75-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to pay with a fraudulent $100 bill featuring President Donald Trump's face.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Jack Smith just revealed: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Once you realize that, we are in the end game of a 40 to 50 year movement that was designed to get rid of an America that reaches and works for all of us. This is a moment for Americans to say, this is enough and take our country back. - Heather Cox Richardson, Historian
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A must read. #HoldFast
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/12/2025
You have the right to record ICE. You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it. Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Ak Mermaid (@akmermaid)
Scream it from the rooftops.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Traitor Trump has pardoned more felons than he's deported. Traitor Trump has pardoned more felons than he's deported. Traitor Trump has pardoned more felons than he's deported. Traitor Trump has pardoned more felons than he's deported. Traitor Trump has pardoned more felons than he's deported.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer (@themouthyrenegadewriter)
Traitor Trump has pardoned more felons than he's deported.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
substack.com/@themidnight... Trump sealed the Epstein files in his first administration
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Don Knight (@themidnightmanuscripts)
Mike Johnson — on the propaganda news outlets today, you asked why Biden didn’t release the Epstein files “if Trump was guilty.” Because the files were sealed, you manipulative weasel. Unlike your a...
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
substack.com/@josephthoma... Common sense: The more Trump fights the release of the Epstein files, the more likely it is he actually did rape children.
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Joe Thomas (@josephthomas176336)
Trump just posted a rant about how he no longer supports MTG and then goes on to list dozens of his so-called achievements, all lies, but the biggest lie was this: "…being RESPECTED by every country ...
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
According to multiple reports, senior DOJ officials have privately admitted to Republican lawmakers that the sealed Jeffrey Epstein files are “even worse” for Donald Trump than anyone imagined. Let that land for a second. EVEN WORSE. substack.com/@themouthyre...
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer (@themouthyrenegadewriter)
BREAKING NEWS: More than 100 GOP lawmakers are now planning to join Democrats in forcing the release of the Epstein files, according to new reporting from journalist David Schuster. They’re not doing ...
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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UnPresidented (@unpresidented)
A US Navy vet of 20 years breaks into tears when he’s asked about what Trump is doing to the country. “I never thought this country would see this day. 20 years in the navy fighting for our freedom ...
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Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Tennessee lawmakers have steadily shifted more of the tax burden from corporations to people, resulting in low-income families having a “higher tax burden than wealthier families and businesses.” tennesseelookout.com/2025/11/04/p... @friedmanadam5.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com
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Past business tax cuts push Tennessee’s government to rely even more on regressive sales tax • Tennessee Lookout
Under Tennessee's sales-tax heavy system, low-income families pay a higer proportion of their income than businesses and wealthier families.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
. Why is the media ignoring this corruption?https://substack.com/@mikenellis/note/c-173508032?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=9gk47
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Mike Nellis (@mikenellis)
I'm not letting this go. It seems like it should be a much bigger deal that the President of the United States admitted on live TV Sunday night that he has no idea who he's pardoning — that he only pa...
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
substack.com/@aaronrupar/... Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."
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Aaron Rupar (@aaronrupar)
Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Gavin Newsom (@gavinnewsom)
Donald Trump is nothing but weakness masquerading as strength. Real strength looks like this room. It looks like this election. It looks like taking back our democracy and voting YES on Prop 50.
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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Corporations hate this one trick. It may create the right conditions to neuter Citizens United. Lead the way Montana and thank you. prospect.org/2025/10/27/m...
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Montanans Go After ‘Citizens United’ - The American Prospect
Montanans are putting forth an ingenious ballot measure that, while it wouldn’t legally overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that allowed corporations to buy elections, would negate its...
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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Julie Tallard Johnson (@writerssherpa)
How putting my boots on brings me JOY. (Even now) 4 minute video
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/10/2025
NEWS: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva have SUED the U.S. House of Representatives in federal court in Washington, D.C. over Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Grijalva. Grijalva would be the 218th vote for the Epstein Files discharge petition.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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Lesley (@lesleygunter)
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings?” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? · No Kings
No Kings will be massive, powerful, and meaningful - but it won’t be the end of our work. Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to come together, celebrate what we accompl...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
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Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/10/2025
Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Middleton, WI” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Middleton, WI · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
substack.com/@mikenellis/... Please listen and share
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Mike Nellis (@mikenellis)
This is the best messaging I’ve seen from any Democrats on the shutdown. Kudos to AOC, Bernie, and their teams for putting this out there.
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Governor Josh Stein @ncgovernor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
To all across North Carolina observing Yom Kippur – G’mar chatima tova. May you have a peaceful, prayerful, and meaningful fast, and may you be inscribed into the Book of Life.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus. - Andrea Junker
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Given that the man who attacked the Mormon church was a white, Trump voter, we won't hear about him again from corporate news media. Donny does a racism, because fuck you, what else is new? open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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Donny does a racism, because fuck you, what else is new?
scenes from an impending government shutdown
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Again: Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2025
Can't we just get healthcare
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
How a "Sanctuary Community" REALLY operates open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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How a "Sanctuary Community" REALLY operates
Unlike a "sanctuary city" or "sanctuary state," no one can stop you from becoming part of one
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Prosecutor Maya Song, who told the DOJ there was not enough evidence to indict James Comey, has just been fired by the Trump DOJ. Honesty gets you fired if you get in the way of Trump. This woman is a hero.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
HOSTING OUR EDGES open.substack.com/pub/julietal...
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HOSTING OUR EDGES
Transforming Life’s Edges into Pathways of Belonging & Becoming January 2026 ​ A Year-Long Virtual Journey with Acahk Miskinahk Iskwew (Corinna Stevenson, MA) & Julie Tallard Johnson, MSW, LCSW
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigned, saying parent company Unilever had “silenced” the brand’s activism on peace, justice, and human rights; vowing to continue his social justice work outside the ice cream giant.
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
YES to this
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Julie Tallard Johnson @jtallardj.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
REMINDER: GOP stands for Guardians of Pedophiles. REMINDER: GOP stands for Guardians of Pedophiles. REMINDER: GOP stands for Guardians of Pedophiles. REMINDER: GOP stands for Guardians of Pedophiles. REMINDER: GOP stands for Guardians of Pedophiles. .
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