Julia
@juliathequixotic.bsky.social
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Hey y’all, can we help out this local family? Jose and Norma recently had to move their family into a mobile home community to save money because Norma has had cancer, and now they have been flooded out of their home 2 weeks before Christmas.
Donate to Norma's Fight Against Cancer, organized by Norma Castillo
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December 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hey y’all, can we help out this local family? Jose and Norma recently had to move their family into a mobile home community to save money because Norma has had cancer, and now they have been flooded out of their home 2 weeks before Christmas.
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doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
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🐙 Sidra the Nebula Octopus 🌌✨ Hand sculpted from clay ⭐
#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🐙 Sidra the Nebula Octopus 🌌✨ Hand sculpted from clay ⭐
#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
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If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The Democratic base is hungry from AI regulation from their representatives, but the members of Congress hand-picked by Hakeem Jeffries to shape Democratic policy on AI are unlikely to give that to them. From Henry Burke:
trib.al/XxANiCW
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Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. - The American Prospect
A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.
trib.al
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Democratic base is hungry from AI regulation from their representatives, but the members of Congress hand-picked by Hakeem Jeffries to shape Democratic policy on AI are unlikely to give that to them. From Henry Burke:
trib.al/XxANiCW
trib.al/XxANiCW
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Good afternoon. We are a bit behind on our December bail review threads but we are back and getting up to date!
This thread is for Tuesday 12/2/25's morning bail review docket in Baltimore City Circuit Court. It was presided over by Judge Ringgold-Kirksey.
This thread is for Tuesday 12/2/25's morning bail review docket in Baltimore City Circuit Court. It was presided over by Judge Ringgold-Kirksey.
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Good afternoon. We are a bit behind on our December bail review threads but we are back and getting up to date!
This thread is for Tuesday 12/2/25's morning bail review docket in Baltimore City Circuit Court. It was presided over by Judge Ringgold-Kirksey.
This thread is for Tuesday 12/2/25's morning bail review docket in Baltimore City Circuit Court. It was presided over by Judge Ringgold-Kirksey.
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$5-25/month keeps Baltimore Beat:
→ FREE (no paywall)
→ printing 20k newspapers every 2 weeks
→ accessible to everyone
→ community-controlled
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#Baltimore #NewsMatch
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
become a NEW NEIGHBOR 🏘️
$5-25/month keeps Baltimore Beat:
→ FREE (no paywall)
→ printing 20k newspapers every 2 weeks
→ accessible to everyone
→ community-controlled
through NewsMatch: every recurring gift MATCHED (up to $1k) before 12/31
join: baltimorebeat.com/neighborhood
#Baltimore #NewsMatch
$5-25/month keeps Baltimore Beat:
→ FREE (no paywall)
→ printing 20k newspapers every 2 weeks
→ accessible to everyone
→ community-controlled
through NewsMatch: every recurring gift MATCHED (up to $1k) before 12/31
join: baltimorebeat.com/neighborhood
#Baltimore #NewsMatch
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For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.
Gaza's displaced face storm disaster with almost nothing
For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.
www.aljazeera.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.
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It wasn’t “architects” risking their lives to bolt those girders together. Several blue collar workers *died* during their construction of the Empire State Building.
It’s *our* lives the AI tech bros are risking.
It’s *our* lives the AI tech bros are risking.
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
It wasn’t “architects” risking their lives to bolt those girders together. Several blue collar workers *died* during their construction of the Empire State Building.
It’s *our* lives the AI tech bros are risking.
It’s *our* lives the AI tech bros are risking.
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Less than 48 hours after receiving written notice to decamp, and with no response to multiple written requests for clarification, NPS and Park Service police physically destroyed the tents under the cover of darkness. They took a saw to the tents and structures inside.
💥CONTINUES IN THREAD💥
💥CONTINUES IN THREAD💥
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Impeachment is a tool for political accountability, not a “sacred” constitutional ritual. If it were truly about evidence, the Senate would’ve convicted Trump unanimously after his coup attempt—the same way every jury has unanimously found him liable or guilty when the facts actually matter.
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Impeachment is a tool for political accountability, not a “sacred” constitutional ritual. If it were truly about evidence, the Senate would’ve convicted Trump unanimously after his coup attempt—the same way every jury has unanimously found him liable or guilty when the facts actually matter.
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Pay attention to what happens during library board meetings, attend the meetings and seek election/appointment to the boards.
Guest author, Miranda Williamson, provides an eyewitness account of the recent library board meeting in Salado, TX where the board voted to uphold the reconsideration committee recommendation to retain “When Aidan Became a Brother” by @kylelukoff.bsky.social
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
A Children’s Book, a Packed Library, and a Community Standing for the Right to Read
An eyewitness account on the recent Salado, Texas library board meeting.
www.txftrp.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Pay attention to what happens during library board meetings, attend the meetings and seek election/appointment to the boards.
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Greater Baltimore DSA turned 10 this year! Join us for our holiday party on Dec. 19th, from 5-9pm, at Red Emma's for food, drinks, photos, raffles, and good vibes. Come toast to a decade of organizing and look ahead to the fights to come!
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/a-very-merry-marxmas/
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/a-very-merry-marxmas/
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Greater Baltimore DSA turned 10 this year! Join us for our holiday party on Dec. 19th, from 5-9pm, at Red Emma's for food, drinks, photos, raffles, and good vibes. Come toast to a decade of organizing and look ahead to the fights to come!
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/a-very-merry-marxmas/
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/a-very-merry-marxmas/
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I keep thinking about how terrible it is that so many people will be losing their health insurance in January due to costs and cuts. I was rejected from insurance once before the ACA [preexisting conditions]. I was hospitalized that year and it almost bankrupted me. We need universal heathcare ASAP.
December 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I keep thinking about how terrible it is that so many people will be losing their health insurance in January due to costs and cuts. I was rejected from insurance once before the ACA [preexisting conditions]. I was hospitalized that year and it almost bankrupted me. We need universal heathcare ASAP.
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Trump doesn't have this authority.
States are filling a void left by the federal government's failure to hold AI companies accountable.
But after those companies donated millions to Trump's campaign, his inauguration fund, and his ballroom, Trump is doing their bidding. This cannot stand.
States are filling a void left by the federal government's failure to hold AI companies accountable.
But after those companies donated millions to Trump's campaign, his inauguration fund, and his ballroom, Trump is doing their bidding. This cannot stand.
Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Trump doesn't have this authority.
States are filling a void left by the federal government's failure to hold AI companies accountable.
But after those companies donated millions to Trump's campaign, his inauguration fund, and his ballroom, Trump is doing their bidding. This cannot stand.
States are filling a void left by the federal government's failure to hold AI companies accountable.
But after those companies donated millions to Trump's campaign, his inauguration fund, and his ballroom, Trump is doing their bidding. This cannot stand.
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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I loved this zine! You can read it at invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I loved this zine! You can read it at invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...
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Anyway I've got a zine up for preorder of a compilation of essays from the last year and I was gonna just do a run of 150 but maybe we do 1201? Lol shop.dansinker.com/products/the...
They Can't Take Us All - zine preorder
I think physical objects are pretty great, and so I'm collecting my favorite writing from 2025's blog posts into a little perfect-bound zine called "They Can't Take Us All." It will feature pieces li...
shop.dansinker.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Anyway I've got a zine up for preorder of a compilation of essays from the last year and I was gonna just do a run of 150 but maybe we do 1201? Lol shop.dansinker.com/products/the...
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🧵 of good free #zines on ethical+safe digital preservation of protest & advocacy:
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
FINAL DRAFT, How to Archive a Protest Zine.pdf
drive.google.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🧵 of good free #zines on ethical+safe digital preservation of protest & advocacy:
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
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Trump has promised infinite retribution toward the 21 Republican senators in Indiana who voted against the gerrymander today.
Important note: 11 of those 21 Republicans are not up for reelection until 2028.
So 10 have their terms end next year, though at least 2 are retiring anyway.
Important note: 11 of those 21 Republicans are not up for reelection until 2028.
So 10 have their terms end next year, though at least 2 are retiring anyway.
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump has promised infinite retribution toward the 21 Republican senators in Indiana who voted against the gerrymander today.
Important note: 11 of those 21 Republicans are not up for reelection until 2028.
So 10 have their terms end next year, though at least 2 are retiring anyway.
Important note: 11 of those 21 Republicans are not up for reelection until 2028.
So 10 have their terms end next year, though at least 2 are retiring anyway.
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🚨SCOOP: Google gave lawmakers gifts up to $2,000 to attend a secret perk-filled summit touting AI & data centers as lawmakers consider AI dereg & data center subsidies, according to documents reviewed by @levernews.com.
Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.
Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.
Google Bankrolled Secret Summit For Key State Lawmakers
Disclosure documents show the tech giant treated state legislators to a perk-filled Chicago junket this fall; now those officials are considering legislation that could impact Google’s bottom line.
www.levernews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🚨SCOOP: Google gave lawmakers gifts up to $2,000 to attend a secret perk-filled summit touting AI & data centers as lawmakers consider AI dereg & data center subsidies, according to documents reviewed by @levernews.com.
Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.
Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.
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“Palestinians in Gaza are literally left ALONE, FREEZING and STARVING in the winter storm. I keep asking how we became such monsters, [i]ncapable of stopping this nightmare,” said Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israel Leaving Palestinians in Gaza to Freeze in Winter Storm, UN Expert Says
Winter Storm Byron slammed Gaza on Thursday, causing widespread flooding. An eight-month-old has died.
buff.ly
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Palestinians in Gaza are literally left ALONE, FREEZING and STARVING in the winter storm. I keep asking how we became such monsters, [i]ncapable of stopping this nightmare,” said Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories.
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I'm raising money for our Black Zine Fair coming next May. We don't charge exhibitors or participants and would love to keep it accessible in this way. Please consider a donation if you are able. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... - I would be so happy to be 50% to our goal by the end of the year.
Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
gogetfunding.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I'm raising money for our Black Zine Fair coming next May. We don't charge exhibitors or participants and would love to keep it accessible in this way. Please consider a donation if you are able. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... - I would be so happy to be 50% to our goal by the end of the year.
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Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.
From @prisonpolicy.org: New analysis of government data from ICE via the Deportation Data Project shows federal agents reliant on local jails and police to reach their arrest numbers.
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.