Jules
@thepriceofitall.bsky.social
I don't know what to do 🎉🫠
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Goddammit.
When a bunch of folks were making fun of the bodies of the Texas National Guard deployed to Illinois, my reaction was that those folks signed up to help their neighbors, not to be an invading army.
This sucks so much.
When a bunch of folks were making fun of the bodies of the Texas National Guard deployed to Illinois, my reaction was that those folks signed up to help their neighbors, not to be an invading army.
This sucks so much.
I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Goddammit.
When a bunch of folks were making fun of the bodies of the Texas National Guard deployed to Illinois, my reaction was that those folks signed up to help their neighbors, not to be an invading army.
This sucks so much.
When a bunch of folks were making fun of the bodies of the Texas National Guard deployed to Illinois, my reaction was that those folks signed up to help their neighbors, not to be an invading army.
This sucks so much.
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This is to say: this golf course could be housing 13000-25000 people, AND generating $20-30 million / year in taxes, the entire size of the Dept of Neighborhoods, or >25% of the Seattle Public Schools deficit.
Instead it’s paying $85,770 in taxes and housing no one.
bsky.app/profile/just...
Instead it’s paying $85,770 in taxes and housing no one.
bsky.app/profile/just...
Assessments consider land and "improvements" (the structures) separately.
The land only (no improvements) of a parcel near me is assessed at $11,000,000\acre.
At that value, this golf course would pay over 12 mil in taxes.
The land only (no improvements) of a parcel near me is assessed at $11,000,000\acre.
At that value, this golf course would pay over 12 mil in taxes.
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is to say: this golf course could be housing 13000-25000 people, AND generating $20-30 million / year in taxes, the entire size of the Dept of Neighborhoods, or >25% of the Seattle Public Schools deficit.
Instead it’s paying $85,770 in taxes and housing no one.
bsky.app/profile/just...
Instead it’s paying $85,770 in taxes and housing no one.
bsky.app/profile/just...
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This was two days ago.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This was two days ago.
My food bad take/confession is that I think mashed potatoes are the most mediocre way to prepare potatoes 😓 because it's potatoes, they're edible and not "bad" or "gross", but in my opinion just about any other way to prepare a potato is better 🫠🥔
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My food bad take/confession is that I think mashed potatoes are the most mediocre way to prepare potatoes 😓 because it's potatoes, they're edible and not "bad" or "gross", but in my opinion just about any other way to prepare a potato is better 🫠🥔
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Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
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Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
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that one pic going around really oversells how put together he looked today lol
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
that one pic going around really oversells how put together he looked today lol
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these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
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this actually looks pretty good on him, I would take this man's French poetry class.
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
this actually looks pretty good on him, I would take this man's French poetry class.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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when your movement is populist AF it is very important that class position be visible at all times
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
when your movement is populist AF it is very important that class position be visible at all times
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Data from the National Association of Realtors paints a painful portrait of American home buying:
All-cash buyers at 26% of the market.
Median age of the typical homebuyer: a stunning 59 years old.
nar.realtor/research-and...
All-cash buyers at 26% of the market.
Median age of the typical homebuyer: a stunning 59 years old.
nar.realtor/research-and...
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Data from the National Association of Realtors paints a painful portrait of American home buying:
All-cash buyers at 26% of the market.
Median age of the typical homebuyer: a stunning 59 years old.
nar.realtor/research-and...
All-cash buyers at 26% of the market.
Median age of the typical homebuyer: a stunning 59 years old.
nar.realtor/research-and...
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No wonder it feels like everyone is going fucking insane....bleak ass list
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
No wonder it feels like everyone is going fucking insane....bleak ass list
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Here's that video of Johnson shortly after he realized that Thune had no desire to amend the bill. The panic is absolutely wild
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Here's that video of Johnson shortly after he realized that Thune had no desire to amend the bill. The panic is absolutely wild
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With news of Chi Ossé challenging Hakeem Jeffries this year, you may be wondering—
• Why are Zohran + AOC against the idea?
• Why is this even being debated in NYC-DSA?
If you read this piece by Paul Engler, you'll get why. But here's my TLDR take.🧵
whirlwinddispatches.substack.com/p/what-socia...
• Why are Zohran + AOC against the idea?
• Why is this even being debated in NYC-DSA?
If you read this piece by Paul Engler, you'll get why. But here's my TLDR take.🧵
whirlwinddispatches.substack.com/p/what-socia...
What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’
Considering how we can encourage new and creative strategies for making change.
whirlwinddispatches.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With news of Chi Ossé challenging Hakeem Jeffries this year, you may be wondering—
• Why are Zohran + AOC against the idea?
• Why is this even being debated in NYC-DSA?
If you read this piece by Paul Engler, you'll get why. But here's my TLDR take.🧵
whirlwinddispatches.substack.com/p/what-socia...
• Why are Zohran + AOC against the idea?
• Why is this even being debated in NYC-DSA?
If you read this piece by Paul Engler, you'll get why. But here's my TLDR take.🧵
whirlwinddispatches.substack.com/p/what-socia...
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there's a lovely James C. Scott line about how "the same mechanisms can be used to track cholera or round up Jews"
Bureaucracy is essential to freedom, it’s just hard to see this because not only can it enable tyranny, the mechanisms that make freedom possible superficially resemble tyranny as well. Postal services and secret police alike keep standardized registries of the names and homes of the citizenry.
Look it's weird to say "the city is liberation. Bigness is liberation. Bureaucracy is liberation." But it so often is. The village is inherently tyrannical. Sherly Jackson knew this.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
there's a lovely James C. Scott line about how "the same mechanisms can be used to track cholera or round up Jews"
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I will say again that it has been just *beyond* hammered home for me that not only do we not live in a meritocracy, we live in an economic and sociopolitical order that actively rewards avarice, incompetence, unkindness, dishonesty.
And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.
And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.
I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I will say again that it has been just *beyond* hammered home for me that not only do we not live in a meritocracy, we live in an economic and sociopolitical order that actively rewards avarice, incompetence, unkindness, dishonesty.
And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.
And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.
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It’s almost like living in The Truman Show, where the top 10% wrote the script and the rest of us are just surviving to add value to their lives and bank accounts.
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
It’s almost like living in The Truman Show, where the top 10% wrote the script and the rest of us are just surviving to add value to their lives and bank accounts.
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Still going to teach undergrads. If you were a woman in his class, would you approach him for help or feedback?
Sex pest : i am retiring from public life
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Still going to teach undergrads. If you were a woman in his class, would you approach him for help or feedback?
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Okay I've had my fun, back to trying to think as little as possible about either of these sweaty, purple-prosed twits
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Okay I've had my fun, back to trying to think as little as possible about either of these sweaty, purple-prosed twits
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Really nice stiff arm to scumbag former viewers from @wcnc-charlotte.bsky.social on TikTok. Local journalism in Charlotte has been doing a great job covering the attack on our community.
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Really nice stiff arm to scumbag former viewers from @wcnc-charlotte.bsky.social on TikTok. Local journalism in Charlotte has been doing a great job covering the attack on our community.