Julia S
@juliacsmith.bsky.social
She/her. Recent transplant to NJ from Chicago.
My newsletter = short, energizing examples of community organizing, mutual aid, arts, & more. Subscribe at https://here-for-you.ghost.io/
"what we pay attention to grows." - adrienne maree brown
My newsletter = short, energizing examples of community organizing, mutual aid, arts, & more. Subscribe at https://here-for-you.ghost.io/
"what we pay attention to grows." - adrienne maree brown
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
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Hello dear friends… Winter is very hard on us. Our tent is thin and cold seeps in from all sides. Children shiver at night. I started a fundraiser to raise $3000 for a stronger tent, warm clothes, blankets, and mattresses. Even the smallest help matters. Thank you 🙏💖
www.gofundme.com/f/help-mitqa...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-mitqa...
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hello dear friends… Winter is very hard on us. Our tent is thin and cold seeps in from all sides. Children shiver at night. I started a fundraiser to raise $3000 for a stronger tent, warm clothes, blankets, and mattresses. Even the smallest help matters. Thank you 🙏💖
www.gofundme.com/f/help-mitqa...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-mitqa...
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I'm glad people are waking up now, but it should not have taken this.
Y'all should have woken up to how the dems handled COVID. To how they handled prosecuting Trump.
To how they handled a genocide.
Y'all should have woken up to how the dems handled COVID. To how they handled prosecuting Trump.
To how they handled a genocide.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I'm glad people are waking up now, but it should not have taken this.
Y'all should have woken up to how the dems handled COVID. To how they handled prosecuting Trump.
To how they handled a genocide.
Y'all should have woken up to how the dems handled COVID. To how they handled prosecuting Trump.
To how they handled a genocide.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.
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There is no world in which the deaths by suicide of young people, or the documented mental unraveling of vulnerable people can be an "acceptable" cost for ANY technology, no matter how revolutionary these technologies are claimed to be.
It’s not the second or the third or the fourth either.
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
There is no world in which the deaths by suicide of young people, or the documented mental unraveling of vulnerable people can be an "acceptable" cost for ANY technology, no matter how revolutionary these technologies are claimed to be.
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No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
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No reason at all to do this besides hate
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
No reason at all to do this besides hate
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Taylor Frazier McCollum points out that there are other beneficial sources of potential revenue for PG County! One example is “Heritage tourism” which is huge in DMV but underrepresented along the Anacostia in PG. Go after the “clean money” and ditch the data center.
Hearing from Taylor Frazier-McCollum now via a panel being streamed from Cheverly tonight. She created this petition which folks in PG County can still sign if you oppose the proposed data centers on the old Landover Mall site! #pgcounty #maryland
www.change.org/p/stop-data-...
www.change.org/p/stop-data-...
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Taylor Frazier McCollum points out that there are other beneficial sources of potential revenue for PG County! One example is “Heritage tourism” which is huge in DMV but underrepresented along the Anacostia in PG. Go after the “clean money” and ditch the data center.
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For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.
Read it here:
Read it here:
Loving and Protecting Us — Interrupting Criminalization
A resource for people interested in and working to develop abolitionist crisis response rooted in transformative justice. This offering aims to help demystify a few things about how we develop, think ...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.
Read it here:
Read it here:
For folks in #PGCounty MD who want to read notes + next steps following tonight’s forum about the proposed #datacenters at the old Landover Mall site, check this site in the coming days:
sites.google.com/site/cheverl...
sites.google.com/site/cheverl...
cheverlygreenplan
MISSION OF THE CHEVERLY GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN
Preserve, restore and sustain the natural environment of Cheverly and surrounding areas as intact and healthy ecosystems, through a community particip...
sites.google.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
For folks in #PGCounty MD who want to read notes + next steps following tonight’s forum about the proposed #datacenters at the old Landover Mall site, check this site in the coming days:
sites.google.com/site/cheverl...
sites.google.com/site/cheverl...
Maurice Mitchell talks about how organizing isn’t a sprint OR a marathon — it’s a relay race. My dad’s been working so hard w/ other PG County folks to fight the data center. I’m proud of him for making this panel happen…& my mom is hoping he’ll pass the baton for a little while after tonight. ;)
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Maurice Mitchell talks about how organizing isn’t a sprint OR a marathon — it’s a relay race. My dad’s been working so hard w/ other PG County folks to fight the data center. I’m proud of him for making this panel happen…& my mom is hoping he’ll pass the baton for a little while after tonight. ;)
Panelist Daniel Broder, who’s an expert on both AI and quantum computing, says PG County is already investing in the latter and should be investing in it more! The data centers would divert $ from QC which, he says, will change the world for the better.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Panelist Daniel Broder, who’s an expert on both AI and quantum computing, says PG County is already investing in the latter and should be investing in it more! The data centers would divert $ from QC which, he says, will change the world for the better.
Hearing from Taylor Frazier-McCollum now via a panel being streamed from Cheverly tonight. She created this petition which folks in PG County can still sign if you oppose the proposed data centers on the old Landover Mall site! #pgcounty #maryland
www.change.org/p/stop-data-...
www.change.org/p/stop-data-...
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Hearing from Taylor Frazier-McCollum now via a panel being streamed from Cheverly tonight. She created this petition which folks in PG County can still sign if you oppose the proposed data centers on the old Landover Mall site! #pgcounty #maryland
www.change.org/p/stop-data-...
www.change.org/p/stop-data-...
Thank you @jennyabamu.bsky.social for moderating tonight’s forum about data centers in PG County, and thanks to the panelists for sharing expertise. Really grateful to the organizers for the opportunity to join remotely!
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Thank you @jennyabamu.bsky.social for moderating tonight’s forum about data centers in PG County, and thanks to the panelists for sharing expertise. Really grateful to the organizers for the opportunity to join remotely!
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Horrifying footage of a child care provider being detained by ICE in Chicago outside her center. No one should be violently ripped from their place of work. Child care providers are deeply important to the well-being of kids and our communities. Please give if you are able: gofund.me/9efc0639d
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Horrifying footage of a child care provider being detained by ICE in Chicago outside her center. No one should be violently ripped from their place of work. Child care providers are deeply important to the well-being of kids and our communities. Please give if you are able: gofund.me/9efc0639d
More New Yorkers voted on the WFP party line on the ballot than the Republican one. We can no longer call the WFP a "third party" in NYC. - @mauricewfp.bsky.social on the @workingfamilies.org post-election call
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
More New Yorkers voted on the WFP party line on the ballot than the Republican one. We can no longer call the WFP a "third party" in NYC. - @mauricewfp.bsky.social on the @workingfamilies.org post-election call
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
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Honestly, this was my favorite news of the night.
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Honestly, this was my favorite news of the night.
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LOCAL ELECTION RESULT:
Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board.
For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.
Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board.
For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
LOCAL ELECTION RESULT:
Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board.
For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.
Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board.
For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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I think we are going to win. But anything's possible.
So I just wanna say, with seven minutes before the polls close in NYC...
...win or lose, we are AHEAD and ready to KEEP FIGHTING because of this MASSIVE mobilization of neighbors who care about neighbors in NYC.
❤️💪🗽
So I just wanna say, with seven minutes before the polls close in NYC...
...win or lose, we are AHEAD and ready to KEEP FIGHTING because of this MASSIVE mobilization of neighbors who care about neighbors in NYC.
❤️💪🗽
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I think we are going to win. But anything's possible.
So I just wanna say, with seven minutes before the polls close in NYC...
...win or lose, we are AHEAD and ready to KEEP FIGHTING because of this MASSIVE mobilization of neighbors who care about neighbors in NYC.
❤️💪🗽
So I just wanna say, with seven minutes before the polls close in NYC...
...win or lose, we are AHEAD and ready to KEEP FIGHTING because of this MASSIVE mobilization of neighbors who care about neighbors in NYC.
❤️💪🗽