Julia Franks
@juliafranks.bsky.social
Author of two award-winning novels (The Say So and Over the Plain Houses). Still kayaking Southern rivers and sleeping on the ground.
Here's a list of all the NIH medical research cancelled or delayed in the past months, from studies of brain cancer to Alzeimer's to drug studies for ebola and bird flu. Stay healthy, y'all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
June 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Here's a list of all the NIH medical research cancelled or delayed in the past months, from studies of brain cancer to Alzeimer's to drug studies for ebola and bird flu. Stay healthy, y'all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I'm thrilled to see my essay published in the Threepenny Review: guilt, dogs, and the complications of friendship across the political divide. www.threepennyreview.com/someday-thes... #booksky #writingcommunity
Someday These Separate Channels – The Threepenny Review
www.threepennyreview.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'm thrilled to see my essay published in the Threepenny Review: guilt, dogs, and the complications of friendship across the political divide. www.threepennyreview.com/someday-thes... #booksky #writingcommunity
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To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.
President Trump asserted on Tuesday that undocumented immigrants should not be entitled to trials, insisting that his administration should be able to deport them without appearing before a judge.
Trump Says Undocumented Immigrants Shouldn’t Get Trials Before Deportation
The president claimed that countries were sending their prisoners to the United States and that he needed to bypass the constitutional demands of due process to expel them quickly.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.
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Yes, yes abolishing the exceptionally rigorous foreign service exam and appointing diplomats based on vibes should work beautifully to find the most competent people.
3/ It appears to essentially abolish what we now know as the foreign service. Immediately ends the foreign service exam. Institutes new system based on things like "demonstrated charisma", "verbal authenticity", "alignment with President's foreign policy vision", et al.
April 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Yes, yes abolishing the exceptionally rigorous foreign service exam and appointing diplomats based on vibes should work beautifully to find the most competent people.
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As a TX taxpayer I have always gladly paid taxes to support our public school systems, even tho I don’t have kids in them.
I am not as glad about my taxes being taken from the public school system to support private religious institutions at the expense of public schools.
I am not as glad about my taxes being taken from the public school system to support private religious institutions at the expense of public schools.
April 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
As a TX taxpayer I have always gladly paid taxes to support our public school systems, even tho I don’t have kids in them.
I am not as glad about my taxes being taken from the public school system to support private religious institutions at the expense of public schools.
I am not as glad about my taxes being taken from the public school system to support private religious institutions at the expense of public schools.
Looking for examples of the #wisefool #holyfool trope in literature. Example: #DonQuixote, #DeaconKingKong, Forest Gump, #Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin. Got any others? #booksky #writingcommunity #writersky #writers #fiction
April 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Looking for examples of the #wisefool #holyfool trope in literature. Example: #DonQuixote, #DeaconKingKong, Forest Gump, #Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin. Got any others? #booksky #writingcommunity #writersky #writers #fiction
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my offer to america: we bring woke back
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
my offer to america: we bring woke back
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Almost 90 degrees in Atlanta this weekend, the air gritty and thick with pollen, the streets and sidewalks lemonade yellow. But people had something to say. #handsoff #handsoffatlanta
April 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Almost 90 degrees in Atlanta this weekend, the air gritty and thick with pollen, the streets and sidewalks lemonade yellow. But people had something to say. #handsoff #handsoffatlanta
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Despite Trump’s best efforts to gaslight us, people understand what’s happening.
March 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Despite Trump’s best efforts to gaslight us, people understand what’s happening.
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People are taking things into their own hands
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
People are taking things into their own hands
Our nation is in a battle to define reality. Describing what you see is not “virtue signaling," “pearl clutching” or “finger wagging” or any other cliche meant to minimize the importance of speaking truth. If you see the emperor's not wearing any clothes, then go ahead and describe his naked butt.
March 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Our nation is in a battle to define reality. Describing what you see is not “virtue signaling," “pearl clutching” or “finger wagging” or any other cliche meant to minimize the importance of speaking truth. If you see the emperor's not wearing any clothes, then go ahead and describe his naked butt.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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I am for the prisoners at the bar, and shall apologize for it only in the words of the Marquis Beccaria: “If I can but be the instrument of preserving one life, his blessing and tears of transport, shall be a sufficient consolation to me, for the contempt of all mankind.”
—John Adams
—John Adams
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I am for the prisoners at the bar, and shall apologize for it only in the words of the Marquis Beccaria: “If I can but be the instrument of preserving one life, his blessing and tears of transport, shall be a sufficient consolation to me, for the contempt of all mankind.”
—John Adams
—John Adams
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On projected revenue:
To put $500 billion in context, the US spent ~$825 billion on the Defense Department in fiscal 2024.
The current tax gap is $700 billion. Think about almost doubling the tax gap in a single year.
To put $500 billion in context, the US spent ~$825 billion on the Defense Department in fiscal 2024.
The current tax gap is $700 billion. Think about almost doubling the tax gap in a single year.
🚨 Big SCOOP 🚨
Tax revenue could fall by as much as **10%** this year, per sources, as taxpayers and businesses see the Trump admin as less likely to challenge tax cheats.
That'd be **$500 BILLION** in lost revenue.
It'd nearly double the tax gap in a single year.
Tax revenue could fall by as much as **10%** this year, per sources, as taxpayers and businesses see the Trump admin as less likely to challenge tax cheats.
That'd be **$500 BILLION** in lost revenue.
It'd nearly double the tax gap in a single year.
Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRS
Staff cuts and disruptions related to the U.S. DOGE Service have officials bracing for a sharp loss of revenue.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
On projected revenue:
To put $500 billion in context, the US spent ~$825 billion on the Defense Department in fiscal 2024.
The current tax gap is $700 billion. Think about almost doubling the tax gap in a single year.
To put $500 billion in context, the US spent ~$825 billion on the Defense Department in fiscal 2024.
The current tax gap is $700 billion. Think about almost doubling the tax gap in a single year.
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March 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Georgia book lovers! Come to the Townsend Ceremony in April, Georgia's most prestigious event. atlantawritersclub.org/writer-resou...
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The Tennessee Holler-glad you’re out there with the truth!
January 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Tennessee Holler-glad you’re out there with the truth!
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We live in what has been an exceptionally stable country, but it's just been destabilized. In that instability is possibility--not to return to the world of January 19th, 2025, but to something other than this rampage of hate and destruction, this oligarchs against everything coup. If we seize it.
People Get Ready
Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous red States have fallen or may fall into the grip of DOGE-MAGA and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We live in what has been an exceptionally stable country, but it's just been destabilized. In that instability is possibility--not to return to the world of January 19th, 2025, but to something other than this rampage of hate and destruction, this oligarchs against everything coup. If we seize it.
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It: Would you like to update the software to install our new productivity enhancing tools?
Me: It that a euphemism for some AI bullshit?
It: Yes.
Me: Then no.
It: Congratulations! The installation is complete!
Me: It that a euphemism for some AI bullshit?
It: Yes.
Me: Then no.
It: Congratulations! The installation is complete!
March 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It: Would you like to update the software to install our new productivity enhancing tools?
Me: It that a euphemism for some AI bullshit?
It: Yes.
Me: Then no.
It: Congratulations! The installation is complete!
Me: It that a euphemism for some AI bullshit?
It: Yes.
Me: Then no.
It: Congratulations! The installation is complete!
For decades, liberals have tried to use government to protect themselves from the extremes and overreaches of Big Business. Now our nation has empowered Big Business to protect us from government. Raise your hand if you feel protected.
February 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
For decades, liberals have tried to use government to protect themselves from the extremes and overreaches of Big Business. Now our nation has empowered Big Business to protect us from government. Raise your hand if you feel protected.
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remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week
and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it
and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it
January 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week
and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it
and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it
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Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.
November 18, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.
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"Washington was calm, murderous, neo-classical.
More lies than cherry trees and nothing changed."
Robert Hass
More lies than cherry trees and nothing changed."
Robert Hass
January 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Washington was calm, murderous, neo-classical.
More lies than cherry trees and nothing changed."
Robert Hass
More lies than cherry trees and nothing changed."
Robert Hass