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Julie Westfall

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 03/09/2026
I wrote about Google and Apple's enthusiastic support of Trump's pointless and wildly-unpopular attempt to rename Lake Ontario.
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Never Forget How Eagerly Apple And Google Coddled Fascism
The US slide into autocracy has been enabled at every step by pathetic tech executives that enthusiastically embraced a complete lack of ethics.
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My group of friends had a solid tradition of attending the US Open for 15+ years. And this year is the first we won't solely because it's too outrageous.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
That and also he sent the fbi and DNI to raid Fulton county already. This isn’t abstract
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Accepting the premise, especially a wildly improbably one, in a headline is not the way and I hope we learn one day. "Blames vandals" with no other context makes it sound like there are for sure vandals, when there's zero evidence of that
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a really good interview with Scott Pelley, but fact check: "Last season, we had 2.5 billion views. That’s a third of humanity!" I feel obligated to remind everyone that views ... are not people.
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm old enough to remember when the US Open was accessible and fun and full of way less bullshit
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you're wondering what actual Christian nationalism looks like, here it is
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/05/2026
When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/05/2026
NEW: The FBI wants to buy access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs) nationwide, which would likely allow the agency to track the movements of vehicles—and by extension people—across the country without a warrant, according to FBI procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
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The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book
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JP Stormcrow @jpstormcrow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
My daughter's pithy summation: "Covid reminded people they lived in a society; and they hated it."
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/05/2026
WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
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High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The entire gerrymandering project has shown over and over that the U.S. House of Representatives is not a democratic branch of government, even though it is supposed to be the *most* democratic federal branch. This entire election season is just one more example
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In Huge Blow to Democrats, Virginia Court Strikes Down House Map
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
There is simply no way for officials who are selected entirely by politicians to be non-political actors. It will never compute.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
From December: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Never forget that the British monarchy has no power, it just gets to headline in front of Congress just because
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Live Updates: King Charles to Speak to Congress
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Dumb question: Isn't this ballroom just a bigger ballroom? The White House already has a ballroom? That is uses to do things like host state dinners? Which it has continued to do during this nonsense?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
They made a whole TV show about it. Kiefer Sutherland starred. It ran for three seasons. It was meh.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Indeed. A person rushed at POTUS's security perimeter and was stopped there. A person whose plan is to do a one-man charge through POTUS's security perimeter is, ipso facto, irrational. To the extent anything can be done to prevent this, it's universal free healthcare including mental healthcare.
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
CEO probably also has "No subject" as the subject line
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
assume people are bright and interested but not necessarily following closely. be clear about what you're doing, the values that underlie it, and the intended outcomes. it's not guaranteed political gold but there's a proof of concept for it and it also happens to be the right thing to do ethically.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Journalists planning to honor Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner have a choice: A. Party with the dictator, wear fancy clothes and network to boost their careers. B. Stand up for democracy by staying home. They’re going to choose A. It looks terrible now. It will look worse to history.
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Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Don’t worry there’s gonna be an article 2 weeks from now saying how JD Vance was privately “uncomfortable with the president’s escalating rhetoric”
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I dunno, kind of sounds like *more* than a grave threat but tohmaytoh tumahto?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
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The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/03/2026
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
NEWS: The Trump administration is reviewing DACA renewals so slowly that the delays are causing people to lose their jobs, licenses, and deportation protection. It’s happening across the country. Our Sunday story with @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/15/d...
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DACA delays lead to lost jobs, less stability and anxiety over potential deportation under Donald Trump
Without the renewal, DACA recipients are in danger of being placed in deportation proceedings.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10/02/2026
Politicians have spent so long being terrified of being labeled anti-cop that this administration is now getting away with shielding the identities of guys in quasi-legal rendition squads by pretending that *they* are the people at risk.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 09/02/2026
President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop. Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government. This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...
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Trump suggests federal control of elections in ‘some areas’
In a lengthy interview with NBC, the president said he will accept the results of the midterm elections if they are “honest.”
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
When I told an engineer at a news org I wanted to become a product manager, they said I would have a hard time because those on the biz side would think I'd always be on the side of the newsroom.
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
You just knew the beginning of the end of the world order was always going to about some dude being butt hurt
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Don't forget eating snacks and leaning against walls in Union Station!
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 08/01/2026
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This continues to be real fucking life, somehow, that has made its way into workforce management software
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is very clearly nothing short of human body part trafficking. It should be illegal, and even though it's not, the hospitals making money from it should be shamed. AND the people who do it are just like, "Yeah, we traffic organs and we make a ton of money" and shrug.
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Hospitals Cater to ‘Transplant Tourists’ as U.S. Patients Wait for Organs
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"Our success will be used to discredit us, like a quantum theory of suicide: If democracy survives, then that is proof that it was never under threat in the first place."
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Beef, and most other meat, *should* be expensive
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As the Price of Beef Soars, Restaurants Are in ‘Code Red’ Mode
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In Chicago, rich kids take advantage of free school lunches AND breakfasts because Chicago decided that it was an efficient AND moral idea to give all kids access to nutrition without fussing about tax forms.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Donald Trump and his billionaire allies are opposed to democracy everywhere. They know popular control of government threatens their ability to rob from the people.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?
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Julie Westfall @juliewestfall.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Columbia Journalism Review recently interviewed Betsy Reed, editor of the Guardian's U.S. edition. www.cjr.org/the-intervie... She says: "If we regard it, for good reason, as being extreme and out of line with basic humane values, we won’t treat it as part of the normal discourse in America."
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