Julie Louise
@jmartian.bsky.social
Attorney. Gardener. Neurospice Afficianado.
I think I can pinpoint the moment when the internet pivoted from awesome into *gestures broadly* as the day Aaron Swartz got indicted. Did one thing result in the other? Prob not, but feels like in alt universe, prosecutors made different choice and we didn't enter Darkest Timeline.
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think I can pinpoint the moment when the internet pivoted from awesome into *gestures broadly* as the day Aaron Swartz got indicted. Did one thing result in the other? Prob not, but feels like in alt universe, prosecutors made different choice and we didn't enter Darkest Timeline.
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
The degree to which MAHA comes from parents of autistic kiddos make me nauseous. And I see the same vibes in the push for genetic counseling for those afraid to have another autistic kid. WTF. I have 2, and would try for 3 if life in MA weren't so expensive. Try loving your kids as they are, folx.
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The degree to which MAHA comes from parents of autistic kiddos make me nauseous. And I see the same vibes in the push for genetic counseling for those afraid to have another autistic kid. WTF. I have 2, and would try for 3 if life in MA weren't so expensive. Try loving your kids as they are, folx.
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The thing that bothers me about abolition frameworks is how necessary conversations get derailed by absolutest language. The blurb for this includes, "no kinship network benefits from . . . forced separation." As someone whose life was saved by separation from an abusive father, F right off.
🗓️Monday, Dec. 1 at 4-5:30 PM ET: Join our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, Dorothy Roberts and @movfamilypower.bsky.social's Erin Miles Cloud for this @haymarketbooks.org event as they discuss the historical context of the family policing system and how organizers have strategized against it:
How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our…
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November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The thing that bothers me about abolition frameworks is how necessary conversations get derailed by absolutest language. The blurb for this includes, "no kinship network benefits from . . . forced separation." As someone whose life was saved by separation from an abusive father, F right off.
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nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck
I am partly on board with this, but part of me thinks that it would have played out the same with any other President, b/c Epstein was so entrenched with the power players that butter media bread. Bringing Trump down would shine sunlight on them, too. There is no access journalism without access.
Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
“a nothing burger” lol
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I am partly on board with this, but part of me thinks that it would have played out the same with any other President, b/c Epstein was so entrenched with the power players that butter media bread. Bringing Trump down would shine sunlight on them, too. There is no access journalism without access.
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if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
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Launch this man into the sun.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Launch this man into the sun.
Citizens already have been fighting the real dangers, literally putting their bodies on the line. The Senate proved they are never going to be part of that fight. So step 1 is fighting to replace current elected "leaders" with those who are willing to ante up and chip in.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Citizens already have been fighting the real dangers, literally putting their bodies on the line. The Senate proved they are never going to be part of that fight. So step 1 is fighting to replace current elected "leaders" with those who are willing to ante up and chip in.
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Centrists and moderates, what have you done for America lately?
Reminds me of the white moderates MLK warned about so many years ago.
Just useless.
Reminds me of the white moderates MLK warned about so many years ago.
Just useless.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Centrists and moderates, what have you done for America lately?
Reminds me of the white moderates MLK warned about so many years ago.
Just useless.
Reminds me of the white moderates MLK warned about so many years ago.
Just useless.
Welp, today is a good reminder of why, though I always vote straight-ticket D, I dropped my party registration 15 years(ish) ago. And only fund specific candidates. Enjoy your flights, you spineless tools.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Welp, today is a good reminder of why, though I always vote straight-ticket D, I dropped my party registration 15 years(ish) ago. And only fund specific candidates. Enjoy your flights, you spineless tools.
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Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
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I respect this, as much as he could still do good on the bench. Back in 2016 I was a law school intern at D. Mass and it was SO HARD to shut my mouth as required when I was looking at the upcoming election and envisioning...*gestures broadly.*
“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I respect this, as much as he could still do good on the bench. Back in 2016 I was a law school intern at D. Mass and it was SO HARD to shut my mouth as required when I was looking at the upcoming election and envisioning...*gestures broadly.*
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The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.
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Mark this down:
On Monday, Trump will announce that he "saved" the SNAP program and people will get their food stamps for November. Republicans will claim that Democrats wanted people to starve but Trump made sure it didn't happen. The media will go along with them.
On Monday, Trump will announce that he "saved" the SNAP program and people will get their food stamps for November. Republicans will claim that Democrats wanted people to starve but Trump made sure it didn't happen. The media will go along with them.
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Mark this down:
On Monday, Trump will announce that he "saved" the SNAP program and people will get their food stamps for November. Republicans will claim that Democrats wanted people to starve but Trump made sure it didn't happen. The media will go along with them.
On Monday, Trump will announce that he "saved" the SNAP program and people will get their food stamps for November. Republicans will claim that Democrats wanted people to starve but Trump made sure it didn't happen. The media will go along with them.
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what stage of capitalism is this
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
what stage of capitalism is this
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
I see you, Gen X, as a Xennial who grew up seeing your s*#! on the playground. Other night I was chatting with the (Gen X) spouse about how all this nonsense was because John Hughes film villains were in charge. And he said no, it was also because some of the "heroes" in those films were in charge.
NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age
18-29: +5 | -39
30-44: -6 | -14
45-64: +12 | -10
65+: -4 | -10
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age
18-29: +5 | -39
30-44: -6 | -14
45-64: +12 | -10
65+: -4 | -10
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
![A multiple line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Views of Donald Trump by age in his second term."
The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Donald Trump] (% with a very or somewhat favorable opinion minus the % with a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion)."
The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ke6f766al4swdugyvmvyipuo/bafkreifqum7lgpne6l4l7yf57ousd7heyjlnxp4cn25v6perrhpina3pv4@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I see you, Gen X, as a Xennial who grew up seeing your s*#! on the playground. Other night I was chatting with the (Gen X) spouse about how all this nonsense was because John Hughes film villains were in charge. And he said no, it was also because some of the "heroes" in those films were in charge.
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They want to create the (false) perception that autism is preventable and curable, because that allows them to: 1) cut accommodations, services, and support for autistic kids and their families, and 2) blame mothers for autism in ways that make (1) seem justified.
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Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
October 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
They want to create the (false) perception that autism is preventable and curable, because that allows them to: 1) cut accommodations, services, and support for autistic kids and their families, and 2) blame mothers for autism in ways that make (1) seem justified.
bsky.app/profile/jess...
bsky.app/profile/jess...
All these "Catholics" who have cozied up with the R party, just you wait until communion is raided by a fed goon squad because someone up the ranks heard about transubstantiation and we can't have TRANS indoctrination in our churches. "That is wine, not blood, no matter what it calls itself!"
October 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
All these "Catholics" who have cozied up with the R party, just you wait until communion is raided by a fed goon squad because someone up the ranks heard about transubstantiation and we can't have TRANS indoctrination in our churches. "That is wine, not blood, no matter what it calls itself!"
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the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists