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Julie

@juliewb.bsky.social
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Hi! I like news, history, nature photography, space, politics, fiction, nonfiction, art & people. Happily married. Dbl lung transplant recipient. Grateful. Born at 319 PPM. #RVA Racism is the reason we can’t have nice things, like a social safety net.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 12h
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 40m
www.nbcnews.com/world/middle... Thorough article on this event
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What we know about the cockpit stabbing on Israel-bound flight
Here’s what we know about the Flydubai flight, and how close it came to resulting in tragedy.
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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 50m
Why we must vote in indisputable massive numbers We must win majority in both the House & the Senate Our lives, family, children... our immigrants, the babies, toddlers, & children who are traffic in deportation, the murders on high seas, the illegal Iran war, the Palestinian genocide... VOTE!
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 50m
Think about this. Then vote accordingly.
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Political Poll Bot @pollresults.org · 3h
Virginia House (First Congressional District) Sep 23 - 28, 2026 Shannon Taylor (D) 50% (+4.0%) Robert Wittman (R) 46% Don't know 3% Would not vote 1% Someone else 0% The Washington Post/George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government (B/C) 609 LV View Poll
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 2h
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Christa Pike: What to know about the case of Tennessee death row inmate
Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered classmate, Colleen Slemmer. She was due to be the first woman the state had executed in more than 200 years.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 8h
To anyone who is looking to find out the identity of Jane Doe in the Cornell rape case, look no further, because it's Amee Vanderpool. I am Jane Doe.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10h
An obvious villain who isn’t vilified nearly enough by the opposition or the press and this is what happens.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h
Hegseth makes a bigoted, unhinged rant and this is how axios covers it up
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 4h
Today is the feast day of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, known as Little Flower of Jesus, she died in 1897. "A word, a kindly smile, will often suffice to gladden a wounded and sorrowful heart." “The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent...
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h
It's another piece that pretends that "culture wars" in schools have not been *the core strategy of the right* to achieve its segregation, privatization, and indoctrination goals since school integration began.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h
JFC this is some tremendous ahistorical bullshit. Another Atlantic piece blaming the "woke left" for the actions of the right. The argument hinges on a lie: that Heritage and the voucher movement simply recognized an opportunity in the 2020s "culture wars" to push for vouchers.
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How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk
Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 3h
Who knows? perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening... ~ Rilke Photo: Adam Fuss
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 3h
I am struck by this Christa Pike situation. I’m glad they failed in executing her, as awful as she is. Killing people by the state is barbaric.
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Just Susan @sspicer29.bsky.social · 12h
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 12h
Macklemore is a rapper?
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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 17h
Today, I wear orange to honor the Indigenous children who endured these schools, the families who saw their children ripped away, and the generations who continue to carry that trauma. 🧡 We must remember, tell the truth, and keep working toward healing and a more just future. 🧡
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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 17h
My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17h
Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12h
Ossoff (D-Ga.) on AI can self-regulate: “the conflicts are so immense, and the president's judgment is so poor that the American people are rightly concerned that Donald Trump has neither the capacity nor the incentive to protect them from the risks arising from this technology.”
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Green Island is a beautiful scuba-diving destination off Taiwan's east coast. Just a few hours from my home by train and boat. This dive site is Youzihu Reef. #landscapephotography #landscape #seascapephotography #seascape #naturephotography #nature #ocean #marinelife #eastcoastkin #photography
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 14h
Eating clementines. So good.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 15h
Musk is now Planning the Future of Warfare. We're Doomed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Elon Musk will help lead a new Pentagon initiative examining the future of warfare. Musk will lead the effort alongside defense technology executive Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich.
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Hegseth details new initiatives in partisan address to troops
In a fiery speech, the Pentagon chief solicited bids to build a new base, called for more focus on religion and said Elon Musk will help develop next-generation weapons.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15h
Two absolute lunatics
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Renée in L.A. 🐦‍⬛ @reneepatrice.bsky.social · 16h
🚨important info to get out there for our LGBTQ folks suffering with depression
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rahkymbriggs37.bsky.social @rahkymbriggs37.bsky.social · 23h
I'm paralyzed from my waist down in a wheelchair. I do almost everything for myself, it wears me out and I have to take a nap a lot of days but I don't need anyone to feel sorry for me, I do more things than a lot of people. #DisabledAdult #CerebralPalsy #SpinaBifida #Hydrocephalus
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
Voters have begun to wake to the fact that America has a genuine maniac at the helm, and one who has bogged down the economy to boot. Spotlighting his criminal and authoritarian behavior today intensifies these concerns. This time really might be the time:
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Parkin's Ankle Socks @theriverwanders.bsky.social · 18h
Nope.
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 15h
What a woman!
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 19h
Every state needs to pass a law forbidding its residents from taking part in any action that seeks to overturn legitimate election results within the state relating to congressional, gubernatorial, local & presidential elections this means a presidential pardon will not save them
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 15h
Highly-endangered Hawksbill Turtle hatchlings emerging from the sand and marching to begin their life in the unimaginably vast ocean. One of the most amazing experiences of my life. As a volunteer, we do not divulge their whereabouts. My heart is melted. #herps #love #marinelife #nokings #turtle
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 19h
Jane Doe, you are remarkably brave. I wish you didn’t have to be. “I am Jane Doe.” Do not let them doxx Jane Doe. If you see their name, you did not. Do not punish the victim. I stand with survivors. You will not take away their power. We believe you.
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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 16h
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. I'm going with this sassy diva! #littleblueheron #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky
Little blue heron with purple head and neck and blue body striking a sassy pose as it stands in a shallow pond with algae.
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 15h
magazine.atavist.com/2026/pilands...
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The Extremist in the Family
The Kerrs were devoted to one another and to their faith. But when one of their own rejected modern medicine in the name of God, they faced a dire question: What if her children ever needed a doctor t...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 17h
Thinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.”
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 17h
He looks different from what I’d have suspected.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 17h
was just having a conversation about this. it's true. of all the trump admin crimes since 1/2025, these killings are among the clearest cut, with the most law/jurisprudence to support prosecution of a whole range of ppl involved, from leadership to subordinates.
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 17h
magazine.atavist.com/2026/a-holly... Good piece from Atavist
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My Brother's Murder
We hear about the shootings that grab headlines, but what about those that don’t?
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you're having trouble visualizing 57 men ignored an attack on another human, this might help. 57 people is 11 basketball teams + 2 5 football teams + 2 A school bus full of children Four 12-person felony juries, plus nine people. That's how many men failed to help this poor woman. #Cornell7
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 21h
www.insidenova.com/headlines/af... This piece has more details about Justin Wolfe’s fight for freedom.
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After 25 years in prison, Justin Wolfe released in Prince William County murder-for-hire case
Justin Michael Wolfe walked out of the Prince William-Manassas regional jail Monday night after serving 25 years in prison, including 13 on death row, for a 2001 murder-for-hire scheme in
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 21h
Oh wow, Justin Wolfe…
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 22h
Zuzu was loopy after surgery yesterday. Her tongue 😂
Blk & white cat lying in a pink blanket with her tongue out, looking dazed.
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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 22h
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Stupid Stupidity
ALT: Stupid Stupidity
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 22h
As my sons grew up, I wish I had talked more about consent. What I did tell them that they didn’t want a girl waking up feeling bad about herself with your name attached. Empathy, I guess.
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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Cornell #WestandwithJaneDoe
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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 22h
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What to Make of the Dubai-Tel Aviv Flight Drama
Israeli passengers thwarted a major terrorist attack. We should all be grateful.
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