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Julia Conrad

@juliaconrad.bsky.social
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Writer & translator with second violin energy. Writing a book about women in classical music for Simon & Schuster. She/her/lei

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Since September, at least six unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents. That number is likely higher, but the social invisibility and isolation already faced by people experiencing homelessness make their disappearances harder to track" by @katieprout.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social
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Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community
Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
HL Mencken in 1918: "[Woman] may envy [man's] masculine liberty of movement and occupation, his impenetrable complacency... But she never envies him his puerile ego; she never envies him his shoddy and preposterous soul."
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I highly recommend this great, thoughtful critique of Ezra Klein's book Abundance (and also a lot of his arguments in general).
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
just learned the word "incompossible" and I hate it
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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“Do not memorize one dictionary alone, a dictionary of the German language; instead, memorize dictionaries of two languages, and then reflect on their differences, which are the differences between two conceptual maps of the same universe.” —J.M. Coetzee
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Word Search, by J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos
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VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
VAN 401: 🎭 Komische Oper's "Don Giovanni," reviewed by Jeff Brown and @hwfmorris.bsky.social 🎭 “Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed by Hannah Edgar and @juliaconrad.bsky.social 🎭 Ben Poore on Quartet for the End of Time van-magazine.com/mag/scratchi...
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The Thirty-Year Itch
“Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed in the bar
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
First known American citizen to be deported.
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared that feeding children and supporting local farmers are no longer ‘priorities,’ and it’s just the latest terrible cut with real impact on families across Massachusetts,” Healey said in a statement. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
politico.com
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
having a calming nightcap of some Susan McClary: “For music is always a political activity, and to inhibit criticism of its effects for any reason is likewise a political act”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Tesla worst day since Sept 2020 .. -14% $TSLA @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
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Sam @very-simple.com · 26/02/2025
For NYC folks, there's a protest scheduled for saturday at 1pm at the Tesla dealership in the meatpacking district, if anyone else is interested in going.
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"Our country did not get here by being typical" :')
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
just an fyi: jeff bezos's email is jeff@amazon.com
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
reading Benjamin Labatut feels like asking ChatGBT a question
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Blue_Sky_Music @blueskymusic2024.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A worthwhile re-read of @juliaconrad.bsky.social's overview of the life and legacy of Julia Perry as well as cuing up the Experimental Orchestra's American Counterpoints for my #BlackHistoryMonth listening this evening. van-magazine.com/mag/julia-pe...
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Seeking the Truth About Julia Perry
I am always bitter about going to the established-yet-edgy New York venue (Le) Poisson Rouge—their cheapest beer is $10—but their programs make it impossible to stay away. The kickoff event for the Ju...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
call me spoiled but i could really use some nightly Fireside Chats for the next 4 years on like... PBS
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
we need a new political party called the Humanity party
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Wendy Carlos made the platinum selling album Switched on Bach in an apartment across the street from Zabar's ... make your own conclusions
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
goodbye to Tom Johnson, the passionate Village Voice critic who put language to minimalism, and who wrote an early review of Eliane Radigue's sounds "oozing from the walls" <3 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/a...
nytimes.com
Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85
He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his own.
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
bless ProPublica for their series on the tax records of the .001%
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How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
my Italian boyfriend just burst into the room to declare "HE'S ITALIAN!"
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The only good man is a missing man.
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I wrote about why Black feminist classical music organizing in 1930s Chicago has been my Trump election security blanket -- and can be yours too!
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Julia Conrad @juliaconrad.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
mired in the mud of my own long-windedness
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