Julia Lee Barclay-Morton
@julialeebarclay.bsky.social
Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
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Hibernating is working. I'm closing in on half my book ( lyric researched memoir about reframing my life after Very late autism diagnosis) being revised. I keep finding ways of showing up.
February 9, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Hibernating is working. I'm closing in on half my book ( lyric researched memoir about reframing my life after Very late autism diagnosis) being revised. I keep finding ways of showing up.
so sad to read this. She was a wonderful human and writer. Honored to have known her.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...
Suzannah Lessard Dies at 81; Stanford White Descendant Who Wrote a Haunting Family Memoir
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:00 PM
so sad to read this. She was a wonderful human and writer. Honored to have known her.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...
This is gorgeous. So glad @helenshaw.bsky.social is at NYT to write beautiful articles like this one www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/t...
The Actress Who Disappeared Twice
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:28 AM
This is gorgeous. So glad @helenshaw.bsky.social is at NYT to write beautiful articles like this one www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/t...
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One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode
This shift is possible and important to aim for
This shift is possible and important to aim for
February 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode
This shift is possible and important to aim for
This shift is possible and important to aim for
In celebration of Groundhog Day, I'm extending my hibernation through February because it's working. Revisions on book are coming along and my monotropic Autistic soul is happy to be able to focus on one thing. Am rarely on socials and took most off my phone. Take this as permission slip to do same.
February 2, 2026 at 11:57 PM
In celebration of Groundhog Day, I'm extending my hibernation through February because it's working. Revisions on book are coming along and my monotropic Autistic soul is happy to be able to focus on one thing. Am rarely on socials and took most off my phone. Take this as permission slip to do same.
brilliant piece, so glad for a take on DFW I can relate to...
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM
brilliant piece, so glad for a take on DFW I can relate to...
Dems: wow we could shut it all down now.
Also Dems...nah let's wait 2 weeks.
All the people being killed and disappeared by ICE and anyone who gives a shit: WTAF???
Also Dems...nah let's wait 2 weeks.
All the people being killed and disappeared by ICE and anyone who gives a shit: WTAF???
January 30, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Dems: wow we could shut it all down now.
Also Dems...nah let's wait 2 weeks.
All the people being killed and disappeared by ICE and anyone who gives a shit: WTAF???
Also Dems...nah let's wait 2 weeks.
All the people being killed and disappeared by ICE and anyone who gives a shit: WTAF???
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Democrats are hoping we'll all be calmer about this in 2 weeks
They are hoping we will memory hole every awful thing that's happened this month while the GOP tries to get their people to be more genteel with the kidnappings
Calling my senators to tell them to vote "no" actually
They are hoping we will memory hole every awful thing that's happened this month while the GOP tries to get their people to be more genteel with the kidnappings
Calling my senators to tell them to vote "no" actually
🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.
January 29, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Democrats are hoping we'll all be calmer about this in 2 weeks
They are hoping we will memory hole every awful thing that's happened this month while the GOP tries to get their people to be more genteel with the kidnappings
Calling my senators to tell them to vote "no" actually
They are hoping we will memory hole every awful thing that's happened this month while the GOP tries to get their people to be more genteel with the kidnappings
Calling my senators to tell them to vote "no" actually
Whomever ICE kills in the next two weeks (and make no mistake they will) is on the Democrats. I am just furious with how they roll over even when they have the advantage.
January 30, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Whomever ICE kills in the next two weeks (and make no mistake they will) is on the Democrats. I am just furious with how they roll over even when they have the advantage.
A reading list for where we find ourselves now...feel free to add to this. These are simply suggestions for writing that can offer historical context, in all genres (see thread)
1. Angela Davis: Women Race and Class (which I would subtitle: how we got here - if you can only read one, read this)
1. Angela Davis: Women Race and Class (which I would subtitle: how we got here - if you can only read one, read this)
January 26, 2026 at 4:06 AM
A reading list for where we find ourselves now...feel free to add to this. These are simply suggestions for writing that can offer historical context, in all genres (see thread)
1. Angela Davis: Women Race and Class (which I would subtitle: how we got here - if you can only read one, read this)
1. Angela Davis: Women Race and Class (which I would subtitle: how we got here - if you can only read one, read this)
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik
I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE
www.gofundme.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
I'm spending a lot less time on socials and getting a lot more writing done..coincidence? I think not.
Pro tip: you want to get your book written, take the social media app you use most off your phone.
So far it's working.
Pro tip: you want to get your book written, take the social media app you use most off your phone.
So far it's working.
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 AM
I'm spending a lot less time on socials and getting a lot more writing done..coincidence? I think not.
Pro tip: you want to get your book written, take the social media app you use most off your phone.
So far it's working.
Pro tip: you want to get your book written, take the social media app you use most off your phone.
So far it's working.
High school students in Minneapolis are doing more for democracy than all our mainstream Dem so called leaders. They need to resign and make way for the new generation like Mamdani and AOC et al. People who act and aren't corrupt or complicit or just being craven cowards afraid to risk anything.
January 16, 2026 at 3:22 AM
High school students in Minneapolis are doing more for democracy than all our mainstream Dem so called leaders. They need to resign and make way for the new generation like Mamdani and AOC et al. People who act and aren't corrupt or complicit or just being craven cowards afraid to risk anything.
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
To understand what is happening in Minneapolis you must watch this..
www.kare11.com/video/featur...
www.kare11.com/video/featur...
January 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
To understand what is happening in Minneapolis you must watch this..
www.kare11.com/video/featur...
www.kare11.com/video/featur...
I've lost words for our current state of degradation, outright cruelty, mendacity, and blatant gaslighting.
January 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I've lost words for our current state of degradation, outright cruelty, mendacity, and blatant gaslighting.
my favorite line from his speech today....
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 2, 2026 at 3:10 AM
my favorite line from his speech today....
That whole inauguration ceremony was a gorgeous display of non-toxic masculinity. The Williams speech was mind blowing. Mamdani extraordinary. Feel a calm hope the tide is finally shifting. After my adult life in Reagan world that is now in supernova, this feels like the new world coming into being.
January 1, 2026 at 8:58 PM
That whole inauguration ceremony was a gorgeous display of non-toxic masculinity. The Williams speech was mind blowing. Mamdani extraordinary. Feel a calm hope the tide is finally shifting. After my adult life in Reagan world that is now in supernova, this feels like the new world coming into being.
A Democratic Socialist is now Mayor of the global center of capitalism. Anything is possible. Woohoo!
January 1, 2026 at 6:33 AM
A Democratic Socialist is now Mayor of the global center of capitalism. Anything is possible. Woohoo!
YESSSSS!!!
Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early on Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...
January 1, 2026 at 6:29 AM
YESSSSS!!!
This is the Rumi card I pulled today. #facts
I've gone beyond the self.
I've soared beyond the limits of time.
I've traveled to eternity.
I've taken a strange form.
I've gone beyond the self.
I've soared beyond the limits of time.
I've traveled to eternity.
I've taken a strange form.
December 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is the Rumi card I pulled today. #facts
I've gone beyond the self.
I've soared beyond the limits of time.
I've traveled to eternity.
I've taken a strange form.
I've gone beyond the self.
I've soared beyond the limits of time.
I've traveled to eternity.
I've taken a strange form.