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Julie J Lee
@jjlee.bsky.social
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grad student in investigative journalism, formerly nerd @ aclu ma 📍 New York, NY 🌐 julielee.net 📱signal: julielee.101
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This interactive map of citibike usage in nyc is fascinating: bikesharemap.com/newyork/time...
Usage of citibikes in new york represented by different size dots
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Andrew Cuomo stop getting ratio'd challenge (also just noticed the man doesn't even have a bluesky? what gives)
Screenshot of Andrew Cuomo on a roller coaster, a clear rip off of Brad Lander's Cyclone video, with 334 replies, 246 retweets, and 678 likes. Screenshot of Brad lander quote tweet saying "Stealing my Cyclone campaign ad? A little pathetic. Doing it without the Nathan’s hotdog? Go back to Westchester." with 162 replies, 1800 retweets and 39000 likes
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Meme where sweating man is trying to decide between two buttons: high vis and camo
August 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Zohran was at the end! I didn’t make it in time to meet him though
Zohran saying hi to a child through a window
August 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Yes not campaign swag but still amazing
I’m looking for a new mayor button in front of a sign mentioning Eric Adams
August 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Earlier, the line outside the final stop to see Zohran himself! #ZcavengerHunt
August 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Crowd at the last stop for those without cards #zcavengerhunt
Aerial pic of a bunch of zohran scavenger people at a plaza
August 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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#zcavengerhunt
Picture of “I’m looking for a new mayor” badge from the zohran scavenger hunt with a sign that says Eric Adams in the back
August 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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got these sweet custom buttons commemorating the #zcavengerhunt by
@michaelzorek.bsky.social from his wife and daughter www.etsy.com/shop/buttons...
“I’m looking for a new mayor” button and picture of zohran button. Close up of “I’m looking for a new mayor” button
August 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Packed M14-A for Zohran
Another selfie of me in a packed bus mostly of other Zohran scavenger hunt participants
August 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Catch me at the zohran scavenger hunt
Me in the corner as a selfie with a huge crowd behind me
August 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Life update: I moved back to new york for journalism school! I hope to continue to cover surveillance, privacy and AI, but my first beat for class is UNIONS, a topic close to my heart. Any interesting in union-land in NYC that I should be covering? Upcoming actions? Shady union-busting? LMK!
A picture of a NYC bridge and skyline, taken from a train. It's golden hour: there's a beautiful sunset.
August 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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lol they changed the headline
New headline reads "Even New York’s Strict Gun Laws Couldn’t Prevent the Midtown Shooting"
July 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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PSA: Zoom has end-to-end encryption but it's buried in settings and you can only turn it on in the web app. Log into your zoom account on the web and find it under My Account > Settings > Meeting > Security zoom.us/profile/sett...
Screenshot of setting in question, reading: Allow use of end-to-end encryption. Choose between enhanced encryption (encryption keys stored in the cloud) and end-to-end encryption (encryption keys stored on your local device) when scheduling or starting a meeting. When using end-to-end encryption, several features (e.g. cloud recording, phone/SIP/H.323 dial-in) will be automatically disabled.
July 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Painfully accurate diagnosis of the problem not just for institutions but also everyone trying to seek justice under power asymmetries
even if though they almost certainly have the law on their side, they do not have the resources to wait for the wheels of justice to turn slowly. The targets also know that Trump will pretextually use other levers of government power to retaliate against them if they resist.
July 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Screencap of classic Elmo tweet: "Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?"
July 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Another quote from @bradlander.bsky.social saying it like it is
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Screenshot of quote: "Meanwhile, you have Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams, who are three non-Jews weaponizing antisemitism and Jewish anxiety for their own craven political purposes, and it’s just critical that we don’t fall for it."
July 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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"Retail investors reap big gains from ‘buying the dip’ in US stocks. A record $155bn from individual investors has flowed into Wall Street equities this year, even as markets stumbled" from @data.ft.com www.ft.com/content/d73a...
Graph of returns on "buying the dip" -- 2020 is highest but 2025 is also unusually high with respect to profiting off dips in the economy
July 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Eric Adams going in on the NYT piece with an AI generated cartoon of Zohran Mamdani is... something
Screenshot of Eric Adams' Twitter where he posts the article with an AI generated mamdani with "african american" and "asian" selected
July 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Underrated fun detail about brad lander leading in a couple precincts in park slope, prospect heights and brooklyn heights
June 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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This is the most helpful graphic I have to show someone who's never lived in NYC about what the different neighborhoods are like
NYC neighborhood maps showing cuomo, mamdani and lander votes
June 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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okay this can never top cynthia nixon's though
Screengrab of Cynthia Nixon's bagel order with lox capers red onions cream cheese and tomato on a cinnamon raisin bagel
June 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Is this….. normal…. Spotted at Boston Logan
Picture from an airplane showing a lot of black smoke coming from a vessel on the water
April 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Colleges across the US are rescinding PhD offers, via www.reddit.com/r/gradadmiss...
WashU rejection email for Biological and Biomedical Science PhD UW Madison rejection email for PhD UMich Biomedical Sciences rejection email for PhD
March 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Okay I’ve officially fallen in love with VisiData for command-line data exploration at @jsvine.com workshop this morning at #NICAR25
Photo of VisiData workshop with laptop terminal showing VisiData in foreground and students and instructor in the background, next to a projector showing VisiData
March 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM