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Julia Inspired

@julesinspired.bsky.social
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Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs! Truth to power. Old punk. One-handed lifer. Democracy, equity, tech inclusion, and disability rights. To all: Hope. Resist. Love. Peace. 📍 Kakistocracy, USA

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nicki Minaj is not a US citizen. She’s a green card holder. Her husband, Kenneth Petty, is a registered sex offender. Her brother, Jelani Maraj, was convicted of repeatedly raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter. So, of course, she’s MAGA.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Julia Inspired @julesinspired.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes, they are, just like the perverts who have always existed since the beginning of time. Lucky us 🤓
New York Times business section with the photo of metal glasses and a headline that states pervert glasses are here to stay
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026
rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great piece from @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social on the Redemption-Era evils the Roberts Court has resurrected www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Thank you! If you'd like to show appreciation for the decade I've been doing this work by buying me a coffee, you can do so here:
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Aaron Rupar
Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter. Your support makes my work possible, including all the clipping I do across my social media channels.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With 45 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Julia Inspired @julesinspired.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Norway speaking the truth with that wonderful lilt! "Ever noticed how things tend to die a little too soon? So have we. That’s the topic of our latest report." The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SP...
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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kevin Roberts is the president of The Heritage Foundation, the largest conservative think tank in America. He claims we shouldn’t be free to do what we “may,” but what we “ought.” Who says what we “ought” to do? Him? If that isn’t a threat to our freedom, then what is? More in our profile:
civildefenseinstitute.org
Kevin Roberts, “Mastermind” of Project 2025 — Civil Defense
Kevin Roberts has been the president of the Heritage Foundation since 2021. His tenure has been marred by controversies.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Allegations against Lauren Boebert include sexual relations with Congressional employees, hush money payments, and thousands of dollars in misused official and campaign funds. Here's the redacted complaint: media.coloradotimesrecorder.com/wp-content/u...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026
Receiving Medicaid, food stamps, tuition assistance and free school lunch could all be grounds for denying a green-card application now. New York led 21 other states, D.C. and several cities in suing the Trump administration over the new rule. wapo.st/475AnWm
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2026
How did a man named Umar Kremlev go from Russian biker gang member to Putin ally to secret benefactor of Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding? 🎧 Tune in for a very special episode of ProPublica's “Paper Trail” podcast:
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Podcast: The Russian Benefactor Who Funded Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The USA experienced declines in Free Political Parties, Effective Parliament, Access to Justice, and Judicial Independence, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press, and Economic Equality. US scores on most of these measures are at their lowest levels since 1975" www.idea.int/publications...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Disabled people, like anyone else, may not want to be filmed by strangers in their day-to-day lives—and are uniquely affected by surveillance in ways that predate smart glasses.
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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Disabled people must “prove” they’re disabled enough to receive meagre benefits. Poor people must “prove” they’re poor enough for SNAP and social supports. US Senators don’t even have to prove they’re mentally competent to vote. Yet they decide who gets basic needs met.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, including renting out a private island. National security experts say it raises an urgent question: What motivated Kremlev to spend a fortune cultivating the connection?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/09/2026
It’s hard to avoid the similarities between Trump's relationship with the Kennedy Center and a psychopathic courtship. If he can’t possess it, he threatens to kill it.
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epistemiccrisis.bsky.social @epistemiccrisis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This video is my opinion 🤓
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
🚨 Patel admits agents will be deployed to polling places 👇 WELCH: I thought you weren't going to be sending people to the polls? PATEL: Nope W: So you are sending FBI agents? P: We have election crisis coordinators manned at all 56 field offices. Election integrity is of paramount importance
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Julia Inspired @julesinspired.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shut it all down at this point no one cares, its one more thing he and his sycophants have destroyed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Kennedy Center to close as Trump threatens to block repairs over name dispute
President says he will block renovation project unless court decision to bar his name from being added is overturned
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026
Katie Phang on a Russian oligarch bankrolling Don Jr.’s wedding: “They’re so dumb, we see it happening in real time. But because there’s no consequence or accountability, they just do it in the wide open.”
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Julia Inspired @julesinspired.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
C'est parfait!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
The taxpayer-funded White House incitement account is now attacking me for [checks notes] being in my 40s
President Trump does, in fact, travel with staff.

Aaron, on the other hand, is a sick, deluded freak (in his 40s) who sits behind a keyboard and posts creepy things like this.
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Julia Inspired @julesinspired.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Espresso! One of my favorite lines to recite at inappropriate times. Coupled with: "At last sweet mystery of life I found you..."
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Julia Inspired @julesinspired.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'There’s a new goading quality to the talking points of the super-rich – explicit eugenicism and Islamophobia, raw delight in the prospect of AI wiping out our jobs. It almost feels as though they’re daring us to rebel, just so that they can prove that rebellion is fruitless.' 1/3
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 12/09/2026
I don't fuckin know; sometimes you just need to look at a jellyfish.
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Steve Ricketts @stevericketts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
remember when we poked fun at George W Bush's comments and Dan Quayle's frequent gaffes? good times, those...
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
David Maxwell, served as Paxton’s director of law enforcement until 2020, when he accused Paxton of abusing the power of his office to help a campaign donor under federal investigation Paxton fired him Then a judge awarded a $6.6 million to Maxwell & 3 others in a whistle-blower lawsuit 🎁 link
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Paxton Aide Turned Whistle-Blower Appears in Ad Endorsing His Rival, Talarico (Gift Article)
David Maxwell was among the staffers in the Texas attorney general’s office who accused Ken Paxton of abusing the power of his office, allegations that led to his impeachment. Mr. Paxton was acquitted...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/09/2026
A MAGA activist flooded Georgia with voter challenges. Now he works for the State Election Board.
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A MAGA activist flooded Georgia with voter challenges. Now he works for the State Election Board.
“This man is trying to suppress votes, and he’s happy to suppress as many as he can for any reason he can.”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
similar systems were part of the mass crackdown in Xinjiang, largely in order to provide a fig-leaf of justification for arresting people for the crime of being Uyghur
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 10/09/2026
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Julia Inspired @julesinspired.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well, isn't that special 🙄 www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/a...
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Experts weigh in as researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of 'killing all humans'
Jacob Coxon said in a post on X that Anthropic and OpenAI are "gambling with our lives."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.
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Julia Inspired @julesinspired.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Haha, Tillis throwing in underhanded alcohol references regarding Hegseth. Geez they do know nuances. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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Julia Inspired @julesinspired.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If I didn't know that Netflix's Raygun:Breaking Badly was a documentary, I would have thought it was a Christopher Guest movie turning into an homage of the Enchanted Cottage circa 1945, wrapped up in horror with a redemption. It's a lot.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kroger, which wants to buy yet ANOTHER grocery chain: -Ranks among the largest companies with employees dependent on Medicaid & SNAP -Paid its CEO $14M last year, 417x its median worker's pay of just $34,552 -Spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 This is what corporate greed looks like.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing his most recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, ethics experts told ProPublica and @texastribune.org.
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Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full picture...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/09/2026
This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026
NEW on “Paper Trail”: More likely than not, there are ”forever chemicals” in your blood. Here’s the thing: 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into people’s blood for decades — and continued making them. We found out how they kept this secret. Listen to the full episode:
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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