Julia Isaacs
@jbixleri.bsky.social
Quaker, climate activist with Third Act Wisconsin, retired child policy analyst, grandmother, birder.
Thank you senator Baldwin. As a former federal employee I hate to see a government shutdown but shutting down funding for ICE is so important.
January 29, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Thank you senator Baldwin. As a former federal employee I hate to see a government shutdown but shutting down funding for ICE is so important.
Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
Heartbreaking. Horrible. Shameful. That people paid by our taxpayer dollars, under the direction of our federal government, are doing this to people in our country.
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Heartbreaking. Horrible. Shameful. That people paid by our taxpayer dollars, under the direction of our federal government, are doing this to people in our country.
Heartbreaking. Horrible. Shameful.
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Heartbreaking. Horrible. Shameful.
10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/10-r...
10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut
Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:04 AM
10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/10-r...
Protesting fascism on my 66th birthday makes a sound bite on the local news. It was my way to observe the anniversary of what we must acknowledge is a fascist regime. #freeamericawalkout
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January 21, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Protesting fascism on my 66th birthday makes a sound bite on the local news. It was my way to observe the anniversary of what we must acknowledge is a fascist regime. #freeamericawalkout
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Joined the #freeamerica walkout yesterday with @thirdactwisconsin.bsky.social. Saying no to fascism.
January 21, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Joined the #freeamerica walkout yesterday with @thirdactwisconsin.bsky.social. Saying no to fascism.
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I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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We just saw this, and it’s a good idea for businesses to post. Private businesses are allowed to set dress and conduct rules. Requiring no full face coverings has long been standard for safety and loss prevention reasons, and it is within a business’s rights to refuse entry or service.
January 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
We just saw this, and it’s a good idea for businesses to post. Private businesses are allowed to set dress and conduct rules. Requiring no full face coverings has long been standard for safety and loss prevention reasons, and it is within a business’s rights to refuse entry or service.
This is emotionally intense and lasts 12 minutes but I still encourage people to watch it.
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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January 11, 2026 at 12:28 AM
This is emotionally intense and lasts 12 minutes but I still encourage people to watch it.
Great article about finding purpose and community in activism, featuring @thirdactorg.bsky.social and @laniritterhall.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We have to go out and touch people’: how activism is tackling the US loneliness epidemic
Most people join social movements to try to change the world, but many also find community and a greater sense of purpose
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Great article about finding purpose and community in activism, featuring @thirdactorg.bsky.social and @laniritterhall.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Just possibly it's the oil?
A solar panel is the new peace sign
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January 5, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Demand your Member of Congress do everything in their power to stop Trump’s escalating attacks against Venezuela. act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-tr...
Take Action: Stop Trump’s War in Venezuela
Demand your Member of Congress do everything in their power to stop Trump’s escalating attacks against Venezuela.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Demand your Member of Congress do everything in their power to stop Trump’s escalating attacks against Venezuela. act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-tr...
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Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
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They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
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January 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
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January 3, 2026
January 3, 2026
Today was the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to submit to Congress a written justification for any documents from the Epstein files that the department had redacted or withheld.
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January 4, 2026 at 8:21 AM
January 3, 2026
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Margaret Fell was affectionately known as the “mother of Quakerism.” One of the ways she nurtured Friends was through her writings—which, Shulamith Clearbridge suggests, continue to speak directly to our spiritual needs today.
When You’re Surrounded by Briars, Mountains, and Cold Hearts
Margaret Fell for modern Friends.
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January 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Margaret Fell was affectionately known as the “mother of Quakerism.” One of the ways she nurtured Friends was through her writings—which, Shulamith Clearbridge suggests, continue to speak directly to our spiritual needs today.
His journal entry of Feb 19 begins, “what we’ve learned in the past weeks is that, yes, we can carry on with our lives during the Trump catastrophe”.
Yes we did learn that. Hopefully many of us are also learning ways to slow down and set the stage for reversing the catastrophe.
Yes we did learn that. Hopefully many of us are also learning ways to slow down and set the stage for reversing the catastrophe.
Calvin Tomkins, who has written for The New Yorker since 1958, turns 100 today. Read his reflections on art, aging, and family. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Becoming a Centenarian
Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
His journal entry of Feb 19 begins, “what we’ve learned in the past weeks is that, yes, we can carry on with our lives during the Trump catastrophe”.
Yes we did learn that. Hopefully many of us are also learning ways to slow down and set the stage for reversing the catastrophe.
Yes we did learn that. Hopefully many of us are also learning ways to slow down and set the stage for reversing the catastrophe.
Tell Congress: No War With Venezuela act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...
Tell Congress: No War With Venezuela
The Trump regime has been amassing forces in the Caribbean as it threatens war against Venezuela. Over the past few months, they’ve bombed small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific that they claim were...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Tell Congress: No War With Venezuela act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...
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Current US Policy:
If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.
If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.
December 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Current US Policy:
If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.
If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.
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11/27-12/1, don't shop at Target, Amazon, or Home Depot. Shop local, independent stores instead.
Target caved to Trump’s attacks on DEI. Home Depot colludes with ICE. Amazon funds funding Trump to secure corporate tax cuts.
@thirdactorg.bsky.social #WeAintBuyingIt #BlackoutBlackFriday
Target caved to Trump’s attacks on DEI. Home Depot colludes with ICE. Amazon funds funding Trump to secure corporate tax cuts.
@thirdactorg.bsky.social #WeAintBuyingIt #BlackoutBlackFriday
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
11/27-12/1, don't shop at Target, Amazon, or Home Depot. Shop local, independent stores instead.
Target caved to Trump’s attacks on DEI. Home Depot colludes with ICE. Amazon funds funding Trump to secure corporate tax cuts.
@thirdactorg.bsky.social #WeAintBuyingIt #BlackoutBlackFriday
Target caved to Trump’s attacks on DEI. Home Depot colludes with ICE. Amazon funds funding Trump to secure corporate tax cuts.
@thirdactorg.bsky.social #WeAintBuyingIt #BlackoutBlackFriday
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This holiday season, we’re saying it loud and clear: We Ain’t Buying It.
For too long, corporations have profited off of us. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re taking action with our wallets to demand accountability.
Visit weaintbuyingit.com for more information. #weaintbuyingit
For too long, corporations have profited off of us. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re taking action with our wallets to demand accountability.
Visit weaintbuyingit.com for more information. #weaintbuyingit
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This holiday season, we’re saying it loud and clear: We Ain’t Buying It.
For too long, corporations have profited off of us. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re taking action with our wallets to demand accountability.
Visit weaintbuyingit.com for more information. #weaintbuyingit
For too long, corporations have profited off of us. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re taking action with our wallets to demand accountability.
Visit weaintbuyingit.com for more information. #weaintbuyingit
As a former SNAP/food tamp analyst and a former federal worker and a former budget analyst at CBO, I know thr pain and inefficiencies that government shutdowns cause and I appreciate Tim Kaine’s vote. It was a hard call.
Tim Kaine: Why I Voted to End the Shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Tim Kaine: Why I Voted to End the Shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | Tim Kaine: Why I Voted to End the Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As a former SNAP/food tamp analyst and a former federal worker and a former budget analyst at CBO, I know thr pain and inefficiencies that government shutdowns cause and I appreciate Tim Kaine’s vote. It was a hard call.
Tim Kaine: Why I Voted to End the Shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Tim Kaine: Why I Voted to End the Shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
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🔥 Yesterday, a group called "14 Suburban Moms" do a civil disobedience protest by crossing the barricade at Broadview and sitting in a circle. ✊🏼
Watch as they get arrested one by one while protestors shout "Mother Power" and blow whistles the way it's done to warn that someone is being detained‼️
Watch as they get arrested one by one while protestors shout "Mother Power" and blow whistles the way it's done to warn that someone is being detained‼️
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🔥 Yesterday, a group called "14 Suburban Moms" do a civil disobedience protest by crossing the barricade at Broadview and sitting in a circle. ✊🏼
Watch as they get arrested one by one while protestors shout "Mother Power" and blow whistles the way it's done to warn that someone is being detained‼️
Watch as they get arrested one by one while protestors shout "Mother Power" and blow whistles the way it's done to warn that someone is being detained‼️