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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

do you think trump has ever personally read a single court order in his entire life?

julia @true-story.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we could stop the runaway AI train immediately with legislation that makes companies strictly liable for whatever their AI does.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i got a skirt at a vintage shop with a tag that says it was made by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. the skirt outlived the union by more than 30 years.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

these guys are wrong about AI, but this is actually a pretty accurate description of the corporate profit motive

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the 6yo is crying because her older brother told her he's known mom and dad longer and she can't catch up

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

in coyote v acme, coyote’s ad hoc jail on the floor of the senate to hold uncooperative witnesses is a statement about the necessity of inherent contempt. in this essay i will

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ok but if this guy brought the guillotine to an abortion clinic instead the supreme court would say it was protected speech

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some magic: Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris singing Neil Young on Letterman, 1999 youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...

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Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)

YouTube video by Don Giller

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

a district court in texas just decided that the National Firearms Act of 1934 is unconstitutional actually, because congress recently zeroed out the tax on most gun sales and the NFA was predicated on congress’ taxing power

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

PETA has been constantly, wildly misjudging what will provoke people to outrage for as long as i can remember and at this point i am convinced it is a bit

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i love emily wilson writing 4,000 words about how the new Odyssey movie is terrible then ending with “but at least maybe it will inspire some of you idiots to read Homer”

Despite all this, the release of The Odyssey is still an event to celebrate. In what we are told is the streaming era, this epic is bringing audiences back to cinemas. In what we are told is a time of declining literacy and the 'death of the humanities'.
', translations of The Odyssey, including mine, are flying off the shelves. Some of those who buy the book or show up in cinemas to watch Tom Holland may go on to study ancient Greek. Perhaps the film will persuade a few college administrators not to cut their literature, language and history departments. Nolan, who studied English at University College London - where students still study The Odyssey as a first year 'foundational text' - is doing his best to get the general public reading again, and Iam grateful.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

i just saw the Odyssey and i assume the casting controversy people were mad about is that Argos is a floppy-eared pointer as a puppy but then grows up to be a completely different breed of dog

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

this is the halftime show equivalent of leaving an ipod on shuffle

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“this event will be held rain or shine” ok but what about toxic air

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

relatedly, i maintain that a recurring SNL skit where will arnett plays john roberts, an umpire who keeps changing the rules during the baseball game, would do more for the court reform movement than a thousand academic articles ever could

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Paul Alan Levy @paulalanlevy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If you use PACER, your social responsibility is to include the RECAP extension on your browser to that every court document you pay to examine gets uploaded to CourtListener for free access by others. free.law/recap/

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RECAP Suite — Turning PACER Around Since 2009

RECAP is an online archive and free extension for Firefox, Chrome and Safari that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankrupt...

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

extremely hinged mug i found in my office kitchen today

a coffee mug that says “don’t talk to me until i’ve had my abortion”

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

folks, the idea is out there. Virginia Democrats are talking about it. this could happen. gift link to the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u...

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

new rule: youth sports league can’t send out an email blast reminding parents to “model good sportsmanship” and “remember it is just a game” without spilling the tea. who punched a coach. i need names.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

a logic problem from our second drunkest cabinet member: “This fbi director has been on the job twice as many days as every director before me. What that means is I have taken half as many days off as those before me. What that means is I’ve taken a third less vacation than those before me.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

my coping mechanism is developing extremely strong views about hyperlocal municipal issues because it is the only news that doesn’t make me want to claw my eyes out

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

the Fifth Circuit just decided federal regulatory agencies don't get to regulate anymore

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

5 y/o figured out how to take videos on my phone and accidentally made a blair witch style found-footage documentary of herself exploring the outer limits of her brother’s patience

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

20 minutes into the SOTU i realized i could be rewatching heated rivalry instead, and i immediately feel much better about the current state of things

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

this happened to me when i was a baby lawyer, like 8 mths out of law school, & a partner left it to me to file something (much less important than this) while he was abroad i figured out how to get it done in time bc i'm competent & wanted to do my job well - two things this AUSA is apparently not

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

good stuff happening in the VA subreddit

a badly drawn picture of a brown blob with legs, under the caption “anyone know a bird that kinda looks like this?”

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WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

best halftime show in at least a decade

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

has anyone tried clearing the sidewalks with a blow torch?

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

just drove my car for the first time since it snowed. 0/10 not recommended.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

someone sent me a link to their kid’s cookie sales page. i asked if i could just give her a donation for the troop instead bc i don’t need cookies, and she said her daughter won’t get rewards credit for donations, only cookie sales. extremely sus fundraiser tbh.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

girl scout cookies are just an MLM for children and they sell better cookies at the grocery store year round send tweet

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

a bobcat plow just got stuck trying to plow the ice on my street

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

golf is political because you can’t golf if you’re murdered by masked agents of the state

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

re-reading the federalist papers for a project and it's striking how many of our current problems can be traced back to the fact that the guys who designed our government just could not fathom a sociopathic president. hamilton on the why pardon power shouldn't be limited:

A passage from Federalist Paper No. 74: "The reflection that the fate of a fellow-creature depended on his sole fiat, would naturally inspire scrupulousness and caution; the dread of being accused of weakness or connivance."

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

no way, this rules. if you've never been to the Vegas Sphere, you have no idea what you're missing. it's genuinely incredible. and National Harbor is already a synthetic commercial district, this won't ruin anyone's neighborhood character or whatever. i hope people actually let this happen.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Well, those boots were not made for walking

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

the children have discovered 3d printing

a 3d printed plastic number 6-7 with small arms and bendy legs

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

the first time i saw Bob Weir was in 2001 at Pier 6 in Baltimore. RatDog was on tour w/ Rusted Root, Karl Denson, DJ Logic & Keller Williams. it was messy & joyful. the last time i saw him was in 2025 with Dead Forever at the Sphere in Vegas. it was slickly produced & awe-inspiring.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

i thought Heated Rivalry was going to be fun, smutty escapism, then out of nowhere it emotionally wrecked me. i am now reading the books because i have to find out what happens to the characters and my husband has asked me twice this week if i am crying over the gay hockey porn again (yes)

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

i spent all of december pushing off as much work as possible until after the new year. pretty upset to discover that it is now, in fact, after the new year.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

dave troy pointed this out on twitter: in fiona hill’s testimony during the first trump indictment in 2019, she claimed russia was signaling that they wanted to make a strange swap of some kind - venezuela for ukraine s3.documentcloud.org/documents/65...

…This is, you know, March, April, into May, where we were having a standoff over Venezuela. And the Russians at this particular juncture were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine.

In other words, if we were going to exert some semblance of the Monroe Doctrine of, you know, Russia keeping out of our backyard, because this is after the Russians had sent in these hundred operatives essentially to, you know, basically secure the Venezuelan Government and, you know, to preempt what they were obviously taking to be some kind of U.S. military action, they were basically signaling: You know, you have your Monroe doctrine. You want us out of your backyard. Well, you know, we have our own version of this.

You're in our backyard in Ukraine. And we were getting that sent to us, you know, kind of informally through channels. It was in the Russian press, various commentators.

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julia @true-story.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

yale law school graduate (derogatory)

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