@julie-garcia.bsky.social
Wife, sister, dog mom.
Library patron. Slow runner. Gamer. Music lover. Always ready to eat.
Interested in systems, maps, resource management, environmental justice, nutrition access, community development, governance, tech, and humanity’s potential
Library patron. Slow runner. Gamer. Music lover. Always ready to eat.
Interested in systems, maps, resource management, environmental justice, nutrition access, community development, governance, tech, and humanity’s potential
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One of the very best albums ever made www.stereogum.com/2307166/gori...
Gorillaz' 'Demon Days' Turns 20
Demon Days wasn’t supposed to happen. When Gorillaz’ self-titled dropped in 2001, it was easy to imagine as a one-off: Famed Britpop frontman Damon Albarn bids farewell to the decade of his stardom by...
www.stereogum.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One of the very best albums ever made www.stereogum.com/2307166/gori...
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The EPA canceled 781 grants worth billions of dollars aimed at helping people and communities deal with the impacts of climate change.
The EPA is canceling almost 800 environmental justice grants, court filing reveals
The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged in a court filing that it plans to terminate 781 grants, almost twice the number previously reported.
wapo.st
April 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The EPA canceled 781 grants worth billions of dollars aimed at helping people and communities deal with the impacts of climate change.
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if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
April 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
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Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"
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Needless to say, Justice Sotomayor is not mincing words. "The Government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law. ... We, as a Nation and a court of law, should be better than this."
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Needless to say, Justice Sotomayor is not mincing words. "The Government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law. ... We, as a Nation and a court of law, should be better than this."
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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We are chasing an illusory industry from 1970 and 1980, but we could be building the industry of 2030.
April 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We are chasing an illusory industry from 1970 and 1980, but we could be building the industry of 2030.
Still going - 6:20am
It is 5 a.m.
Cory Booker has been speaking on the Senate floor for ten hours.
There are about 13.7k people watching live on his YouTube page.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ut...
Cory Booker has been speaking on the Senate floor for ten hours.
There are about 13.7k people watching live on his YouTube page.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ut...
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
m.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Still going - 6:20am
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“I was wrong about one big thing in 2024: I did not realize that most American institutions—the media, the legal world, big business, universities, the tech sector—would immediately capitulate to Trump.”
How to think (and act) like a dissident movement. Via @thebulwark.bsky.social
How to think (and act) like a dissident movement. Via @thebulwark.bsky.social
How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
www.thebulwark.com
March 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“I was wrong about one big thing in 2024: I did not realize that most American institutions—the media, the legal world, big business, universities, the tech sector—would immediately capitulate to Trump.”
How to think (and act) like a dissident movement. Via @thebulwark.bsky.social
How to think (and act) like a dissident movement. Via @thebulwark.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE: Tonight at the Kennedy Center, Guster brought on cast members from Finn, an LGBTQ+ kids musical that was recently canceled when Trump took over the center. They performed the band’s song “Hard Times” to a standing ovation.
Full story, exclusive quotes and video on The Handbasket:
Full story, exclusive quotes and video on The Handbasket:
EXCLUSIVE: After Kennedy Center cancels LGBTQ+ musical, Guster brings cast on stage in protest
Finn's run at the storied DC venue was axed after Trump took over.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Tonight at the Kennedy Center, Guster brought on cast members from Finn, an LGBTQ+ kids musical that was recently canceled when Trump took over the center. They performed the band’s song “Hard Times” to a standing ovation.
Full story, exclusive quotes and video on The Handbasket:
Full story, exclusive quotes and video on The Handbasket:
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵
March 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵
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if you just scan the headline — or if you’re just uncurious — you’ll think this is a “trump bad” piece but if you read it you’ll find that it is my attempt to explain what makes something “anti-constitutional” and why that is distinct from an “unconstitutional” act.
Opinion | Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional (Gift Article)
Where all this goes is still up to us.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
if you just scan the headline — or if you’re just uncurious — you’ll think this is a “trump bad” piece but if you read it you’ll find that it is my attempt to explain what makes something “anti-constitutional” and why that is distinct from an “unconstitutional” act.
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.
March 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.
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my doing my work because they don't get to run my life/acknowledging reality and fighting fascism life balance is not good
March 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
my doing my work because they don't get to run my life/acknowledging reality and fighting fascism life balance is not good
EJ communities are the least responsible for environmental issues, the most vulnerable to their impacts, and have the fewest resources to respond. Abandoning people who have already suffered from historical neglect and lack of investment is profoundly unjust and cruel.
Environmental justice is one of the main reasons for addressing environmental issues. So evil.
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices (Gift Article)
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
EJ communities are the least responsible for environmental issues, the most vulnerable to their impacts, and have the fewest resources to respond. Abandoning people who have already suffered from historical neglect and lack of investment is profoundly unjust and cruel.
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March 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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It's not real.
It's not us.
It's not bad.
It's too hard to fix.
It's too late.
Just about every climate denial argument I've ever heard is a variant of one of these five categories, and each one is as bad as the next.
Why? Because they all have the same goal: prevent action as long as possible.
It's not us.
It's not bad.
It's too hard to fix.
It's too late.
Just about every climate denial argument I've ever heard is a variant of one of these five categories, and each one is as bad as the next.
Why? Because they all have the same goal: prevent action as long as possible.
March 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It's not real.
It's not us.
It's not bad.
It's too hard to fix.
It's too late.
Just about every climate denial argument I've ever heard is a variant of one of these five categories, and each one is as bad as the next.
Why? Because they all have the same goal: prevent action as long as possible.
It's not us.
It's not bad.
It's too hard to fix.
It's too late.
Just about every climate denial argument I've ever heard is a variant of one of these five categories, and each one is as bad as the next.
Why? Because they all have the same goal: prevent action as long as possible.
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As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
March 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.
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Many of us who don’t work on space science directly were inspired to become scientists because of NASA. Also, about 30% of NASA's science budget is for Earth and climate science, and they run one of the global climate models that's used by the IPCC. What happens at NASA will affect all of us.
NEW: NASA eliminates Office of Chief Scientist, DEI and other offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/10/n...
NASA cuts Office of Chief Scientist, diversity roles
The elimination comes ahead of what could be deep cuts to the agency's science programs.
www.axios.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Many of us who don’t work on space science directly were inspired to become scientists because of NASA. Also, about 30% of NASA's science budget is for Earth and climate science, and they run one of the global climate models that's used by the IPCC. What happens at NASA will affect all of us.
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some helpful reminders:
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
March 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
some helpful reminders:
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
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Some hopeful signs on the fate of IRA clean energy tax credits today: www.eenews.net/artic...
More Republicans sign on to protect IRA credits
The lawmakers are firing off a new warning to leaders crafting budget reconciliation legislation.
www.eenews.net
March 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Some hopeful signs on the fate of IRA clean energy tax credits today: www.eenews.net/artic...
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Historian here:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
March 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Historian here:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt