Reposted by Juliejgv @jacksonvoss.bsky.social · 17/03/2025It is Day 2 of Early Voting - tell your friends and family to vote 'no' on them all, if they want to know why, this thread covers Amendments 1, 3, and 4... 135
Reposted by JulieIsabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Last year, I wrote a profile of Vought for @motherjones.com:motherjones.comThe bureaucrat who could make Trump's authoritarian dreams realRuss Vought has a plan to take presidential power to new heights. 417273
Julie @truerjulie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I needed someone to articulate this. The overwhelm is different and worse this time. 021
Reposted by JulieTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... 18975991928
Reposted by JulieBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025New from me: Trump is a lame duck, an old, tired, easily manipulated one, whose vanity is a useful tool. Foreign leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum are right to mock him, and American elites should uncurl from the fetal position and get in on the fun.offmessage.netPoke The BearDonald Trump is a lame duck (not a bear)—an unusually weak one, in some ways—and he knows it. 1234131857
Reposted by JulieDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Good piece here on what an actual opposition to the current Republican Party would look like: www.the-reframe.com/being-more-l...the-reframe.comBeing More Like RepublicansFour simple observations on the recent election about the nature of opposition. 1142
Reposted by JulieSteve Roth @steveroth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024It's almost impossible to grasp the magnitude of US wealth inequality & concentration: $100K saved for retirement is a 4.3-inch stack of $100 bills. $1M: 43 inches. $1B: 3,600 feet. 12 football fields. World's tallest building is 2,722 feet. Musk: $486B. 330 miles high. 60 Mt. Everests, stacked. 27449204
Julie @truerjulie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Helpful sign at Walgreens reminding you that employees are also humans, so please don’t treat them like shit. 🙃 010
Julie @truerjulie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024It’s hard to believe Rick Rolling actually happened in our life times. Feels like an artifact of a lost civilization. 000
Reposted by JulieDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I wrote for Bad Faith Times about the behavioral advantages of the American right, which, according to recent research, values "in-group dominance" far more than its opponents. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/the-american...bad-faith-times.ghost.ioThe American Right And The Desire For In-Group DominanceWe're going to need more shit slingers on the left. 15417
Reposted by JulieNeil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no 561370827004
Julie @truerjulie.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The bigger story is how utterly lax federal agencies have been. No wonder this corruption is so widespread. 021
Reposted by Juliesteven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...texasobserver.orgRevealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X AccountsAnonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms. 26888403714
Reposted by JulieAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 22/11/2024The lesson from Gaetz's collapse: Not just that resistance can work, but how to do it in a smart and effective way. Building on prior analysis of authoritarians' weaknesses, I look at why Gaetz imploded and how that can be used going forward. www.salon.com/2024/11/22/r...salon.comResistance is not futile: Gaetz's implosion shows how to use MAGA's own chaos against themTrump's first nominations reveal the serious fractures in his coalition — which can be used to weaken him 18604193
Reposted by JulieChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Ah yes, surely one of the main takeaways from #MeToo was that if police didn’t arrest someone for a sexual assault, then the sexual assault didn’t happen. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comSenate Republicans are more receptive to Hegseth despite Gaetz’s exitSenators stressed that police had investigated a 2017 allegation that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, had drugged and sexually assaulted a woman at a California political conference ... 611312185
Julie @truerjulie.bsky.social · 14/11/2024@ffhitman.bsky.social whispers in the bushes say this is where the cool kids are hanging out now. 010
Julie @truerjulie.bsky.social · 17/03/2024Yes. I’ve always used “translator” but with the same meaning. 070
