Julia Ringma
@juliaringma.bsky.social
Truth first, philosopher, lawyer, student, military brat.
On Substack: "philosophical thoughts, and 500 miles on the A.T."
They/them: gender binary only props up the patriarchy
(Photos: 2024 AT hike. Wolfe Island wind farm.)
On Substack: "philosophical thoughts, and 500 miles on the A.T."
They/them: gender binary only props up the patriarchy
(Photos: 2024 AT hike. Wolfe Island wind farm.)
The other thing the U.S. is going to have to do (when this is all over) is amend the presidential pardon power rules. And add 4 justices to SCOTUS.
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The other thing the U.S. is going to have to do (when this is all over) is amend the presidential pardon power rules. And add 4 justices to SCOTUS.
This caught my eye because I have said “I like everywhere I go” and I can feel at home anywhere. It really is true: everywhere you go, there you are.
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This caught my eye because I have said “I like everywhere I go” and I can feel at home anywhere. It really is true: everywhere you go, there you are.
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We have long possessed the ability to have everyone fed, clothed and housed and have chosen not to do so. Now, this regime demands the power to commit more aggravated impoverishment.
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
We have long possessed the ability to have everyone fed, clothed and housed and have chosen not to do so. Now, this regime demands the power to commit more aggravated impoverishment.
As for the filibuster, just make it difficult again. Make people stand there all day giving speeches to delay legislation. Take it back to its roots!
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
As for the filibuster, just make it difficult again. Make people stand there all day giving speeches to delay legislation. Take it back to its roots!
Reposting to save (so I know where to find it). Also, for posterity.
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Reposting to save (so I know where to find it). Also, for posterity.
Great comments.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Great comments.
You know the show “Is It Cake?” Well, now that it’s fall, I’m playing “is it dog poop?” It’s like hop scotch to avoid stepping on what may only be wet brown leaves, but could be something else.
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
You know the show “Is It Cake?” Well, now that it’s fall, I’m playing “is it dog poop?” It’s like hop scotch to avoid stepping on what may only be wet brown leaves, but could be something else.
We do not own the world because we did not make the world. The world made us. (Terry Pratchett, Discworld argument)
Because the world made us, we owe it - respect, and other things. It's time we realized this.
Because the world made us, we owe it - respect, and other things. It's time we realized this.
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We do not own the world because we did not make the world. The world made us. (Terry Pratchett, Discworld argument)
Because the world made us, we owe it - respect, and other things. It's time we realized this.
Because the world made us, we owe it - respect, and other things. It's time we realized this.
Excellent podcast with @djrothkopf.bsky.social on possibilities for nuclear annihilation over at the DSR: thedsrnetwork.com/trump-is-ame...
Good list of favourite nuclear disaster movies. You forgot Testament, also from 1983. Bleak in the extreme. And On The Beach.
Good list of favourite nuclear disaster movies. You forgot Testament, also from 1983. Bleak in the extreme. And On The Beach.
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Excellent podcast with @djrothkopf.bsky.social on possibilities for nuclear annihilation over at the DSR: thedsrnetwork.com/trump-is-ame...
Good list of favourite nuclear disaster movies. You forgot Testament, also from 1983. Bleak in the extreme. And On The Beach.
Good list of favourite nuclear disaster movies. You forgot Testament, also from 1983. Bleak in the extreme. And On The Beach.
I feel like more people should know about this.
I saw a Cuomo ad last night that was basically "if there's another 9/11, we need a mayor with experience like Andrew Cuomo," and it made me wonder, wait, what was Andrew Cuomo doing on 9/11?
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
![PROBE RIPS ANDY IN $130M HUD MESS
By Deborah Orin
Published Sep. 10, 2001, 4:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON – Federal watchdogs today will testify that Andrew Cuomo’s “lax oversight” let crooks loot a housing program for the poor that will now cost taxpayers $130 million to bail out.
At issue is Cuomo’s role as Bill Clinton’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development and his pet home-ownership program for the poor, which collapsed in scandal.
Today’s bipartisan congressional hearing was called by Rep. Sue Kelly (R-Westchester), with Reps. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) – who backs Cuomo’s gubernatorial rival Carl McCall – and Felix Grucci (R-L.I.) also expected.
“Decisions made during [Cuomo’s] tenure opened up this program to widespread fraud and abuse while the concerns of federal investigators were ignored,” Kelly said.
The program was supposed to help poor people fix up housing. But instead, it left tenants stuck in 719 homes – including almost 200 Harlem brownstones – that are mostly a mess, in foreclosure and, in some cases, without heat.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/bafkreihyqpupyp3u22r7upavo3tpwgtjgseq5ay77oq6vodleupm75cqny@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I feel like more people should know about this.
I wonder if there are so many women in the academic humanities and sociology et al because we are trying to figure out our oppression, how it got here, and what can we do about it. The concentration of power leads to oppression, so we need to figure out how to stop that.
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I wonder if there are so many women in the academic humanities and sociology et al because we are trying to figure out our oppression, how it got here, and what can we do about it. The concentration of power leads to oppression, so we need to figure out how to stop that.
Some people don't want to have to actually be morally good, but they want to be seen as morally good. They get offended when you suggest that they are not morally good, because of how they treat other people. They come up with reasons why they acted that way, to excuse their moral lapses.
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Some people don't want to have to actually be morally good, but they want to be seen as morally good. They get offended when you suggest that they are not morally good, because of how they treat other people. They come up with reasons why they acted that way, to excuse their moral lapses.
Once we find out who's on the Epstein list, they all have to go live on Epstein's island. Then, they can play Survivor and vote each other off, preferably by being put in small boats and shoved out to sea. It would make for great reality tv.
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Once we find out who's on the Epstein list, they all have to go live on Epstein's island. Then, they can play Survivor and vote each other off, preferably by being put in small boats and shoved out to sea. It would make for great reality tv.
I was thinking about Expo 67 and how it was titled "Man and His World" and I would bet money that no one (officially) objected to the title when it was proposed. In those days, "man" was assumed to include women; it was the generic term for human beings. And that was less than 60 years ago.
November 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I was thinking about Expo 67 and how it was titled "Man and His World" and I would bet money that no one (officially) objected to the title when it was proposed. In those days, "man" was assumed to include women; it was the generic term for human beings. And that was less than 60 years ago.
Good, short thread.
🧵ICE is detaining US citizens. They are profiling Latinos, going on nothing but their appearance. Many have to provide proof of their citizenship status before getting released. Have we seen this before in America? You betcha! Stay with me, folks. (cont)
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
'No due process': L.A. nurse, veteran among citizens forcefully arrested by ICE amid immigration crackdown | CBC News
Two U.S. citizens whose forceful arrests by ICE were caught on video say federal agents violated their constitutional rights. As backlash against the administration's escalating immigration raids grow...
www.cbc.ca
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Good, short thread.
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An assumption is meta-knowledge. It is knowledge about knowledge.
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
An assumption is meta-knowledge. It is knowledge about knowledge.
Listening to @npr.org's Up First bit on air traffic controllers, and they said the Dept. of Transportation says its priority is safety. But given the loyalty of fed gov heads to the pres and not their jobs, can we trust them? Maybe not.
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Listening to @npr.org's Up First bit on air traffic controllers, and they said the Dept. of Transportation says its priority is safety. But given the loyalty of fed gov heads to the pres and not their jobs, can we trust them? Maybe not.
This is not even about higher education. It's about justice v supremacy. The stink and hate of supremacy pervades society and it is past time to expose it as the moral failure that it is.
over the past 9 months, the Trump admin has used just about every lever available to pressure universities to follow his vision for higher ed...
how it's going, so far>>
my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social
pls listen & share!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
how it's going, so far>>
my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social
pls listen & share!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This is not even about higher education. It's about justice v supremacy. The stink and hate of supremacy pervades society and it is past time to expose it as the moral failure that it is.
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The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Two big opposing rallies in Hungary today.
Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.
His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.
Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.
His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.
October 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Two big opposing rallies in Hungary today.
Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.
His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.
Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.
His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.
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I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.
October 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.
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Every country has a powerful right wing that argue “if you tax the wealthy, they’ll leave”
We need to start calling their bluff.
We need to make it so the ultra wealthy either contribute enough to be a positive part of society, or be globally shunned and unable to extract further funds from us.
We need to start calling their bluff.
We need to make it so the ultra wealthy either contribute enough to be a positive part of society, or be globally shunned and unable to extract further funds from us.
October 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Every country has a powerful right wing that argue “if you tax the wealthy, they’ll leave”
We need to start calling their bluff.
We need to make it so the ultra wealthy either contribute enough to be a positive part of society, or be globally shunned and unable to extract further funds from us.
We need to start calling their bluff.
We need to make it so the ultra wealthy either contribute enough to be a positive part of society, or be globally shunned and unable to extract further funds from us.
Great question.
It's easy to be so distracted by all the things the President is doing, to miss one thing he's not doing:
Rallies.
After he first won election in 2016, he kept having rallies b/c he liked them so much. He did them all through his first term, even during COVID. (RIP Herman Cain.)
Why not?
Rallies.
After he first won election in 2016, he kept having rallies b/c he liked them so much. He did them all through his first term, even during COVID. (RIP Herman Cain.)
Why not?
October 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Great question.
Gird your loins and get out there to re-establish democracy!
Do one small thing. Then do another. VOTE every chance you get. Demand accountability!
Do one small thing. Then do another. VOTE every chance you get. Demand accountability!
I had the pleasure of joining @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on @slate.com’s Amicus Podcast to discuss why I believe it’s up to us-the public-to save democracy. We are not quitters! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Demolition Man
Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 10/25/2025 · 52m
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October 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Gird your loins and get out there to re-establish democracy!
Do one small thing. Then do another. VOTE every chance you get. Demand accountability!
Do one small thing. Then do another. VOTE every chance you get. Demand accountability!