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Jules

@julesfern.bsky.social
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Coffee, dogs, travel, democracy. 💙 🌈🌎🗽⚖️🔬♏️🇺🇸 Retired journalist - crime and politics. No DMs please.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
When I was young my mom or dad’s arm was my seatbelt if we ever had to come to a sudden stop and I swear that was safer than living in trump’s America.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The United States to the world is like the National Enquirer to literature.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Tragic. And with budget cuts that protect people with early warning systems and resources to help afterward, it’s only going to get worse. My heart is with those who lost loved ones. apnews.com/article/torn...
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Severe weather leaves at least 23 dead, including 14 in storm-battered Kentucky
Severe storms across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 23 people dead. Gov. Andy Beshear said Saturday that there were 14 weather-related deaths in Kentucky — including from what ...
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
While he’s importing white people from South Africa. Many of these Afghans put their lives on the line to help our troops www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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DHS terminates temporary protected status program for Afghans
The move follows the Trump administration’s decision last month to not renew such protections for Afghans residing in the U.S.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Brownshirts or redhats, I see no difference.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Must be awesome to have so much hate boiling in his soul on a holy day of love and rebirth.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
“Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I’m thinking the “go woke and go broke” crowd are having a day…
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Ahhhh, the good old days.
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hahahahahahhahaahahahahaha
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/02/2025
C-PAC is a cult gathering, not a convention! This “Third Term Project” poster at CPAC is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. The same people who were screaming about “the deep state” are now openly fantasizing about a dictator-for-life.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I’m glad people will be doing a no spend day on the 28th, but does that really do enough? I would think a no spend week would REALLY wake up the anti-DEI crowd and the corporate elite. It’s not that hard to shop small for a week or even a month. I and some of my friends have been doing it since 2/1.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Tell your friends.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
CNN's Jim Acosta signing off: "I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too." I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too. Pass it on.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If you see people being abused or harassed due to new protocols, record it and post it to social media immediately. They’re not going to show it on legacy media. Don’t let them try and hide in the dark. America needs to know what we’re becoming.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Welp, here we are, and it’s just as bad as we expected. From Trump pardoning criminals who invaded the Capitol and smeared their shit on the walls to Elon’s Nazi salute for the MAGA crowds, America is now a fascist oligarchy. Germany got rid of Hitler and the Nazis. We’ll get rid of Trump and MAGA.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
And the horror begins…
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The Department of Housing and Urban Development says it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness. Elon could do this and still have $380 billion left over.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
48 hours of holiday follow-backs! If you’re fighting for democracy, we need to stick together For the next 2 days: - Follow me, I’ll follow you back - Repost this, I’ll follow you back Happy Holidays!
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The NRA and gun manufacturers make too much money and own too many politicians to stop the death machine.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
What a fucking embarrassment.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I cannot find “common ground” with fascists, white supremacists, oligarchs or christian nationalists. Not gonna happen.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/12/2024
we're cooked
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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SuzyQ @suzyqfit4u.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Family includes everyone! ❤️
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The media is certainly trying…
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable". - JFK
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The right really hates the very idea that a white man can't kill a black man without consequences. Ted Cruz used the acquittal of Daniel Penny to attack NY City DA Alvin Bragg – and encouraged the marine veteran to pursue legal action against the prosecutor. www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-267...
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'Absolute catastrophe': Ted Cruz goes after 'rogue' DA after Marine veteran’s acquittal
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) used the acquittal of Daniel Penny on Monday to attack New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg – and encouraged the marine veteran to pursue legal action against the prosecuto...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A powerful artist and activist. Just everything about this woman and her poetry was good and clean and straight truth. She pushed us. She’d cut you and then smile to show that she’d done it with love. Rest in Peace and Power Nikki Giovanni.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
When I was traveling through Italy I got a severe case of salmonella. So bad the hotel called a doctor who came to my room (like a home visit). He examined and treated me. Gave me all the meds I needed. It cost $40 because I wasn’t a citizen. I hope current events incite a revolution in the US. 🤞🏻
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Well, when you put it that way, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
From Joyce Carol Oates on the dead bird app 

"very bad of people to be hinting at sympathy for the CEO silencer-assassin. it is absolutely not the American way to execute by extrajudicial means unless one is a police officer with guaranteed immunity or a vigilante rightwing hero like, for instance, the murderer of Trayvon Martin."
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Probably going to be wearing this pin for about four years or so….
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What keeps me up nights…
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Professor Carol Anderson nails it all: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #whitemalerageisreallyimpotence
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Will the American project survive the anger of white men? | Carol Anderson
At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Why I haven’t given up on people.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 09/11/2024
DID YOU KNOW that you can get a well reviewed stun gun on Amazon (or wherever) for <$30 and/or a high-powered pepper spray device with UV tracking dye for about $10 apiece - and furthermore, did you know that holidays are approaching and that these things fit inside stockings for women of all ages
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Maybe we should keep a record of all the incel bros saying “your body, my choice”. It’s the kind of shit they could lose their job over, or lead to a conviction in a rape or assault case.
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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 06/11/2024
It is the day after Trump won the White House for the second time and two different Alabama university campuses have reported Black students receiving this text message (trigger warning racism)
Screen shot with redacted Facebook information of poster saying a Black student on the University of Alabama campus received the following text message and that she wasn’t the only one: “Greetings, you have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 1 pm SHARP with your belongings. Our executive slaves will come get you in a brown van, be prepared to be searched down once you enter the plantation. You are in plantation group C. Good day.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Anyone with a good, thorough, history book might want to hang on to it. Might come in handy if you want to teach future generations the real history of the U.S.
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Jules @julesfern.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Here because I don’t believe in supporting Zuck or Musk. Would love to follow like-minded people.
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