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Julie Kohler

@juliekkohler.bsky.social
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Host of White Picket Fence podcast. Articles in CNN, Washington Post, The Hill, MSNBC. Senior Advisor, The New School’s Institute for Race, Power, and Political Economy. www.juliekkohler.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/01/2026
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has stayed noticeably silent after one of the newspaper’s reporters, Hannah Natanson, had her home searched by federal agents Wednesday—and the Post’s staff isn’t happy. trib.al/Gjzxp8z
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Washington Post in Uproar Over Jeff Bezos Reaction to FBI Raid
Bezos doesn’t seem to care that the FBI raided the home of a reporter who covers President Trump.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Musk's Grokipedia is a cesspool of white supremacist and Neo Nazi garbage. Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
There is no walking back the rampant disinformation that he has peddled or the unspeakable harm that he has caused to millions of Americans.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This is how we're making America healthy again?!
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The establishment of a strict gender binary is foundational to the maintenance of a gender hierarchy. The many faces of the current gender backlash - and its links to authoritarianism - is the focus of this season of my podcast, White Picker Fence. lnk.to/wpfep1
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America's Gender Whiplash
America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
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Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Not content with spreading disinformation through the media, MAGA now corrupts public education.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Imagine knowing, as Mike Johnson does, that the president thinks that you're his puppet, his lap dog, and being...cool with that.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
A friendly reminder from the World Health Organization (WHO): “Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year.” #vaccines
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I know it all feels horrific, grotesque, and bleak at the moment, but just think of how amazing it will be to bulldoze this McMansion monstrosity of a ballroom in the not-so-distant future. #WhiteHouse #EastWing
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Every day, the Trump Administration uses new tactics to broaden its attack on women and LGBTQ+ people. Interested in learning why? Listen to this season of my podcast, White Picket Fence. lnk.to/wpfep1
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America's Gender Whiplash
America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/10/2025
Under Trump, the federal workplace anti-discrimination agency engaged in...workplace discrimination
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Under Trump, federal workplace anti-discrimination agency engaged in… workplace discrimination
A judge rules that the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission created a hostile work environment for a transgender employee.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Even though Biden won nearly 4M more votes in 2020 than Trump did in 2024 and won the popular vote by a significantly larger margin.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
It is striking - and deeply depressing - to see how so many of the most powerful individuals - those the least to lose - are showing the least courage.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
More winning.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So.much.winning. 🙄
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/10/2025
Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive
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Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive
The manosphere is known for misogyny, but that’s not the only thing that influencers in this space offer. Young men explain the allure and the problems of the manosphere in their own words
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Thanks for covering this, @us.theconversation.com and @rewirenewsgroup.com. The connection between attacks on women and LGBTQ+ people and authoritarianism is the focus of this season of my podcast, White Picket Fence. lnk.to/wpf-ep2
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Hatred Rolls Downhill
Nearly a century ago, Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, Germany became the first establishment in the world to offer comprehensive medical services, counselling, and sex education to the LGBTQ c...
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
…and that JD Vance would help usher in conservative “post-neoliberalism” that was legitimately concerned with rebalancing power in our economy. 🙄
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#tradwives - and the broader womanosphere - are not harmless social media trends. They’re an intentional right-wing strategy to tap into what so many women are feeling: exhaustion. Listen to today’s episode of White Picket Fence with guests @annehelen.bsky.social and Sophie Lewis. lnk.to/wpf-ep5
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Sisyphus in a Sundress
Tradwives. Stay-at-home girlfriends. Femcels. If you're a young woman in America, this is the kind of content you've likely seen on your feed lately. Last episode, we explained how the Right's investm...
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Updating my LEGO White House
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
See what they’re doing here? Moving oversight of the most essential resources for children with disabilities to the guy who…has said reprehensible things about children with disabilities and is spewing disinformstion about autism. #ProtectSpecialEducation share.google/p6rJvmXXk6R3...
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Trump administration seeks to move special education to different agency
The move would affect the $15 billion IDEA program and comes as the administration seeks to close down the federal Education Department
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Chilling.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I was delighted to be joined by @jmillzdc.bsky.social, Pasha Dashtgard from @perilresearch.bsky.social & @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social on ep. 4 of White Picket Fence to discuss young men’s rightward turn and the massive, decades-long investment in media that facilitated it. 🎧 now: lnk.to/wpf-ep4
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The Business of Masculinity
We're starting this week's episode with a bit of a rewind, back to the 1970s in the U.S. As women gained new rights and visibility, a backlash took shape among men who felt left behind. What began as ...
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The Trump Administration just hollowed out the office within the Department of Education that administers IDEA, which supports students with disabilities. Apparently, this horrific history is what they aspire to recreate. #IDEA #SpEd #educationforall
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Sick and amoral. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
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Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources
The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 09/10/2025
True scientific method in action: 1) Draw your conclusion 2) Gather "data" and conduct "analysis" to align with conclusion 3) Develop post hoc "theory" that links your conclusion to your "results" 4) Restate your conclusion and pat yourself on your back for your prescience
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Loved having you on the show, @kieraevebutler.bsky.social! Check out today’s episode, which examines how pronatalism is part of a larger gender backlash.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
We loved having you on the show! @praeyesright.bsky.social
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I was delighted to welcome Annie Wilkinson from @praeyesright.bsky.social on this week’s episode of White Picket Fence to explain why the weaponization of gender and sexuality is a universal feature of authoritarianism. 🎧 here: lnk.to/wpf-ep2
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Hatred Rolls Downhill
Nearly a century ago, Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, Germany became the first establishment in the world to offer comprehensive medical services, counselling, and sex education to the LGBTQ c...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:
Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We loved having you on, @bschillace.brandyschillace.com! Such important history - and parallels to today.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
✨ Check it out - season 6 episode of my podcast, White Picket Fence, just dropped! ✨ Our first episode features @imarajones.bsky.social from @translash.org and @gbbranstetter.bsky.social from @aclu.org disucssing how anti-trans attacks are part of a larger gender backlash. 🎧 here: lnk.to/wpfep1
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Bob Osmond (he/him) @bobosmosis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If you’re interested in conversations about gender politics and its impact on American life, subscribe and listen to this season of the award-winning podcast, White Picket Fence, with @juliekkohler.bsky.social.
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Season 6 Coming Soon!
Podcast Episode · White Picket Fence · 09/11/2025 · 3m
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The trailer for the 6th season of my podcast, White Picket Fence, just dropped! This season tackles the growing gender backlash in the U.S. - from anti-trans attacks to pronatalism to online “manosphere” influencers - and asks what it means for our democracy. Subscribe now! 🎧 lnk.to/wpftrailer
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Season 6 Coming Soon!
Right now, we're in the midst of a gender backlash. A growing number of voices have started calling for a return to a simpler time. A time, they say, when men were men and women were women. But "gende...
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Facilitating a descent into authoritarianism at every step. #capturedcourt www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on Immigration Stops in L.A.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Never been so happy to be a YouTube TV subscriber. Bye, Fox! 👋 variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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YouTube TV May Drop Fox News, Fox Local TV and More Channels in Contract Dispute
YouTube TV subscribers could lose Fox News, FS1, local Fox TV stations and more if the Google-owned video service can't reach a deal with Fox Corp.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
NEW: We found the politicization of intelligence. Tulsi Gabbard is running a con job generating fake evidence for a fake criminal case against Obama and others—all to help Trump distract from the Epstein mess and feed Trump’s desire for revenge. This is fraud. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tulsi Gabbard's dangerous disinformation campaign against America
The DNI shows how far she'll go to politicize intelligence to help Donald Trump.
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
“A society is only as strong as its most vulnerable members.” On that account, we are failing miserably. #Medicaid #Medicaidcuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...
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Disabled Americans Fear What Medicaid Cuts Could Do to Them
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
“To tell such egregious lies for the approval of some higher authority is to prostrate yourself — to show, for the world to see, your lack of self-respect.” Perfectly stated, @jamellebouie.net. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
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Opinion | Mike Johnson Would Like You to Know About His Subservience
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Carter Sherman @cartersherman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
NEWS from me: The Trump administration has decided to destroy almost $10 million worth of contraceptives rather than send them to women in need overseas. The destruction itself will cost $167,000, the state department told me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas
As part of president’s shuttering of USAID, destruction of the contraceptives will cost US taxpayers $167,000
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
👏👏👏, @annagreenberg.bsky.social. There is a difference between finding ways to address the challenges men are experiencing (esp. as a result of decades if failed economic policies) and kicking women to the curb. thehill.com/opinion/camp...
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
5 rural nursing homes in upper PA are at risk of closing b/c of GOP cuts to Medicaid. The nursing homes are in districts represented by Republicans who voted to close them. “The cuts represent the largest cuts to Medicaid in history & are going to have impacts across PA.” @alexsjacquez.bsky.social
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