Jules W.
@julesfod.bsky.social
Black, queer man. Professor of English and humanities.
My favorite living writers are Walter Mosley and James Lee Burke.
Fan of the Ravens, Orioles, and Capitals. Owned by two horses and three cats.
My spirit human is Orville Peck.
My favorite living writers are Walter Mosley and James Lee Burke.
Fan of the Ravens, Orioles, and Capitals. Owned by two horses and three cats.
My spirit human is Orville Peck.
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When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine.
It's the same court and lawyers.
It's the same court and lawyers.
June 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine.
It's the same court and lawyers.
It's the same court and lawyers.
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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
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I have spent my life fighting for justice alongside brilliant lawyers, organizers, activists and artists. And I am not stopping now or ever.
June 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I have spent my life fighting for justice alongside brilliant lawyers, organizers, activists and artists. And I am not stopping now or ever.
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I'll say it over and over.
I do not believe in gate keeping.
I do not believe in pulling up the ladder.
I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next.
Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.
I do not believe in gate keeping.
I do not believe in pulling up the ladder.
I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next.
Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'll say it over and over.
I do not believe in gate keeping.
I do not believe in pulling up the ladder.
I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next.
Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.
I do not believe in gate keeping.
I do not believe in pulling up the ladder.
I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next.
Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.
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y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
June 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
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They're anti-free speech
June 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
They're anti-free speech
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OK i’ve seen almost no media outlet pick up on the fact the Supreme Court ruling endorsed conversion therapy
and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally
so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care
(1/x)
and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally
so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care
(1/x)
June 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
OK i’ve seen almost no media outlet pick up on the fact the Supreme Court ruling endorsed conversion therapy
and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally
so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care
(1/x)
and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally
so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care
(1/x)
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Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill.
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
June 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill.
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
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The Bible said Adam and Eve, not David and Jonathan!
…wait
…wait
June 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The Bible said Adam and Eve, not David and Jonathan!
…wait
…wait
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Hello he lied
Elon Musk says "10% of federal expenditures" are due to people having fake Social Security numbers, claiming it is "half a trillion dollars."
March 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Hello he lied
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Chris Rufo always has bragged about his evil plans like he's got James Bond suspended over a tank of sharks.
His interview with Douthat is no exception.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
His interview with Douthat is no exception.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
March 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Chris Rufo always has bragged about his evil plans like he's got James Bond suspended over a tank of sharks.
His interview with Douthat is no exception.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
His interview with Douthat is no exception.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
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the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain
March 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain
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The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
March 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
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Vivian Wilson reveals on 2025-03-09 that she was sex-selected prenatally by Elon Musk: "My assigned sex at birth was a commodity that was bought and paid for. So when I was feminine as a child and then turned out to be transgender, I was going against the product that was sold." archive.ph/yyKda
March 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Vivian Wilson reveals on 2025-03-09 that she was sex-selected prenatally by Elon Musk: "My assigned sex at birth was a commodity that was bought and paid for. So when I was feminine as a child and then turned out to be transgender, I was going against the product that was sold." archive.ph/yyKda
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It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.
March 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.
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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
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School: “Fill out this 20-page form, have it signed by your pediatrician, notarized with three witnesses then we can give your child their prescription asthma inhaler.”
Republicans: “Schools turned my boy into a girl through gender affirming care within one school day!”
ffs 🤦♀️ #SupportEducation
Republicans: “Schools turned my boy into a girl through gender affirming care within one school day!”
ffs 🤦♀️ #SupportEducation
March 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
School: “Fill out this 20-page form, have it signed by your pediatrician, notarized with three witnesses then we can give your child their prescription asthma inhaler.”
Republicans: “Schools turned my boy into a girl through gender affirming care within one school day!”
ffs 🤦♀️ #SupportEducation
Republicans: “Schools turned my boy into a girl through gender affirming care within one school day!”
ffs 🤦♀️ #SupportEducation
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How does terrorizing farm workers, school kids and hard working immigrants make America great, especially when you release and pardon violent insurrectionists?
White Nationalism is Nazism.
White Nationalism is Nazism.
January 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
How does terrorizing farm workers, school kids and hard working immigrants make America great, especially when you release and pardon violent insurrectionists?
White Nationalism is Nazism.
White Nationalism is Nazism.
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If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Currently lost in the conversation: anti-DEI is not about the relatively recent additions to HR programming and staffing that is literally called 'DEI.' It's also motivated by longstanding opposition to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. Don't accept the framing that says they are the same!
January 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Currently lost in the conversation: anti-DEI is not about the relatively recent additions to HR programming and staffing that is literally called 'DEI.' It's also motivated by longstanding opposition to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. Don't accept the framing that says they are the same!
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This has been an exceptionally difficult and frightening week. Check in with the people around you. You never know who might need that kindness.
January 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This has been an exceptionally difficult and frightening week. Check in with the people around you. You never know who might need that kindness.
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Hegspeth is confirmed. Now What? He has no idea how to manage the Pentagon. So he is going to be dependent on his direct reports. Most of which require confirmation.
The Dems have to use whatever political skills they have to get qualified, rational people in these positions ?
Suggestions ?
The Dems have to use whatever political skills they have to get qualified, rational people in these positions ?
Suggestions ?
January 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Hegspeth is confirmed. Now What? He has no idea how to manage the Pentagon. So he is going to be dependent on his direct reports. Most of which require confirmation.
The Dems have to use whatever political skills they have to get qualified, rational people in these positions ?
Suggestions ?
The Dems have to use whatever political skills they have to get qualified, rational people in these positions ?
Suggestions ?
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Can’t wait t’git my hands on nem cheap eggs!
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Can’t wait t’git my hands on nem cheap eggs!