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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I haven't seen the dunks but I will say that LOCAL CONDITIONS have to determine TACTICS. Folks, whistles are just a tactic and tactics vary according to context. Why waste time on this? If you've organized for 10 minutes, you know this is true. Keep it moving.
People are dunking on the posts from rapid response groups in the DC area about why they don’t use whistles
But those groups are making these kinds of decisions after talking with a whole bunch of people in the targeted communities. They’re not doing it arbitrarily
But those groups are making these kinds of decisions after talking with a whole bunch of people in the targeted communities. They’re not doing it arbitrarily
January 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I haven't seen the dunks but I will say that LOCAL CONDITIONS have to determine TACTICS. Folks, whistles are just a tactic and tactics vary according to context. Why waste time on this? If you've organized for 10 minutes, you know this is true. Keep it moving.
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In advance of King Day tomorrow, I am resharing a piece about Coretta AND MLK as a reminder that they were a team. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
Coretta Scott King and Looking Backwards
No MLK without CSK
open.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:04 PM
In advance of King Day tomorrow, I am resharing a piece about Coretta AND MLK as a reminder that they were a team. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
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I hadn’t realized until recently that we have The Peoples Laundry Mpls! thepeopleslaundrympls.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I hadn’t realized until recently that we have The Peoples Laundry Mpls! thepeopleslaundrympls.com
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January 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
🚨 Reminder: Apply to be part of our Local Reporting Network by Feb. 5!
If selected, we cover your salary (up to $80K, plus benefits) and partner with your newsroom to help you dive deep into a project that matters to your community. All newsrooms are eligible.
More info 👇
If selected, we cover your salary (up to $80K, plus benefits) and partner with your newsroom to help you dive deep into a project that matters to your community. All newsrooms are eligible.
More info 👇
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
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Recommend this book to make sure the young folks in your life know her story. www.rainbowresource.com/036523.html?...
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Recommend this book to make sure the young folks in your life know her story. www.rainbowresource.com/036523.html?...
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HUGE NEWS: the immigrant protections bill package has passed floor votes in both houses and is heading to the Governor’s desk!
We urge @govmurphy.bsky.social to pass these bills *as written* to better protect the constitutional rights of all New Jerseyans and make our state stronger and safer.
We urge @govmurphy.bsky.social to pass these bills *as written* to better protect the constitutional rights of all New Jerseyans and make our state stronger and safer.
January 13, 2026 at 2:28 AM
HUGE NEWS: the immigrant protections bill package has passed floor votes in both houses and is heading to the Governor’s desk!
We urge @govmurphy.bsky.social to pass these bills *as written* to better protect the constitutional rights of all New Jerseyans and make our state stronger and safer.
We urge @govmurphy.bsky.social to pass these bills *as written* to better protect the constitutional rights of all New Jerseyans and make our state stronger and safer.
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I'm seeing loads of posts from #KidLit authors (including me) willing to virtual visit with MN classes who are on lockdown or doing virtual school right now or just in need of something exciting, fun, or kind in their day.
Thread as I find them. ⬇️
Thread as I find them. ⬇️
January 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I'm seeing loads of posts from #KidLit authors (including me) willing to virtual visit with MN classes who are on lockdown or doing virtual school right now or just in need of something exciting, fun, or kind in their day.
Thread as I find them. ⬇️
Thread as I find them. ⬇️
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Go to bystander training, get to know your mutual aid groups, and make your go bags.
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
January 9, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Go to bystander training, get to know your mutual aid groups, and make your go bags.
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I want us to stay focused on the grief of this terrible moment, but when Black people tell you not to touch something, that is not a challenge. Some things are ours for a reason. We can remember Renee Good as the person she was and the circumstances of her murder without co-opting Black suffering.
“Say her name” is not about allyship. It’s a term crafted for people who are the focus of violence that deliberately erases us. It’s not for her, and it wouldn’t be for her, even if she were Heather Heyer, who didn’t get it when she died for civil rights. Can you understand that?
January 8, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I want us to stay focused on the grief of this terrible moment, but when Black people tell you not to touch something, that is not a challenge. Some things are ours for a reason. We can remember Renee Good as the person she was and the circumstances of her murder without co-opting Black suffering.
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👇 No amount of training or policy change or technology or oversight will stop violence that is inherent to policing. If anything, attempts to reform them end up pouring even more money into them, as many people, including our co-founders, have long talked about. We have to take that money away.
The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.
January 8, 2026 at 7:36 AM
👇 No amount of training or policy change or technology or oversight will stop violence that is inherent to policing. If anything, attempts to reform them end up pouring even more money into them, as many people, including our co-founders, have long talked about. We have to take that money away.
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A local rapid response group I work with is desperately trying to raise $5K tonight to get immediate legal representation for a group member who is facing deportation. It is crucial that these funds be raised by tomorrow. These are organizers I trust.
Venmo for donations: @geebees5818
Venmo for donations: @geebees5818
January 8, 2026 at 4:12 AM
A local rapid response group I work with is desperately trying to raise $5K tonight to get immediate legal representation for a group member who is facing deportation. It is crucial that these funds be raised by tomorrow. These are organizers I trust.
Venmo for donations: @geebees5818
Venmo for donations: @geebees5818
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Tomorrow is Bluestockings's last day open! If you've been holding off and have a chance to go, NYC, now's your last chance!
December 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Tomorrow is Bluestockings's last day open! If you've been holding off and have a chance to go, NYC, now's your last chance!
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Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
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Hiring a part-time workshop coordinator. Ideally u have xperience working w/ Indigenous young people & in creative writing. It's part of a larger project, fighting the erasure of indigenous people in the story of America. Apps due Jan. 1. Details here:
Youth Writing Workshop RFP.pdf
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December 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hiring a part-time workshop coordinator. Ideally u have xperience working w/ Indigenous young people & in creative writing. It's part of a larger project, fighting the erasure of indigenous people in the story of America. Apps due Jan. 1. Details here:
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Something I learned this year after so many years of taping and pinning up community info
December 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Something I learned this year after so many years of taping and pinning up community info
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Help us clear the shelves before we have to inventory all these books!
20% off all in-stock books until the end of the year, in the store or online at redemmas.org/books (use the code BOOKSROCK at checkout)
20% off all in-stock books until the end of the year, in the store or online at redemmas.org/books (use the code BOOKSROCK at checkout)
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Help us clear the shelves before we have to inventory all these books!
20% off all in-stock books until the end of the year, in the store or online at redemmas.org/books (use the code BOOKSROCK at checkout)
20% off all in-stock books until the end of the year, in the store or online at redemmas.org/books (use the code BOOKSROCK at checkout)
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this week's post is something i've been working on for a long time, and is a little guide to living the good life. Or it's early aughts punk nostalgia. Or it's my response to tradwife culture.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
this week's post is something i've been working on for a long time, and is a little guide to living the good life. Or it's early aughts punk nostalgia. Or it's my response to tradwife culture.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Texted my aunt, who makes these exact cheesy potatoes for the family buffet in Pittsburgh every single year:
December 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Texted my aunt, who makes these exact cheesy potatoes for the family buffet in Pittsburgh every single year:
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Two years ago today, the three of us began Crips for eSims for Gaza. Alice, are you reading this? (We know you are.)
Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social
Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Two years ago today, the three of us began Crips for eSims for Gaza. Alice, are you reading this? (We know you are.)
Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social
Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social
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On Christmas help some children who don’t have big piles of presents if you can ❤️
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Omar. Omar is just 16 and is taxed with helping his whole family. His father was a food industry engineer before the war but he is unemployed now and struggling.
Omar is trying to take care of his younger brothers Hasan, 14 and Emad, 7.
Omar is trying to take care of his younger brothers Hasan, 14 and Emad, 7.
December 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
On Christmas help some children who don’t have big piles of presents if you can ❤️
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Various items for sale and for free this Saturday 12pm-5pm at Bluestockings
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Various items for sale and for free this Saturday 12pm-5pm at Bluestockings
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Anyways help this sweet little girl named Ela www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-my...
December 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Anyways help this sweet little girl named Ela www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-my...