Julie Armstrong
@juliearmstrong.bsky.social
Old lady academic with no more Fs to give, short on filters and patience
My employer said to take its name off our social media profiles, so I changed mine to “Old lady academic with no more Fs left to give, short on filters and patience.”
September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My employer said to take its name off our social media profiles, so I changed mine to “Old lady academic with no more Fs left to give, short on filters and patience.”
"The lesson here is not about the 'final solution' but how things start."
A reflection by me and @tbhallock.bsky.social from our time in Germany, as we head back to Florida.
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A reflection by me and @tbhallock.bsky.social from our time in Germany, as we head back to Florida.
www.cltampa.com/news/at-ever...
At Everglades detention camp, we have let evil in. Now the question is, 'How far will evil go?'
The lesson here is not about the 'final solution' but how things start.
www.cltampa.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"The lesson here is not about the 'final solution' but how things start."
A reflection by me and @tbhallock.bsky.social from our time in Germany, as we head back to Florida.
www.cltampa.com/news/at-ever...
A reflection by me and @tbhallock.bsky.social from our time in Germany, as we head back to Florida.
www.cltampa.com/news/at-ever...
Frances McDormand, early 2000s, in a ladies’ room. Shocked to see her, I blurted out, I love you! She said, well that’s not the strangest thing someone’s said to me in the bathroom. Lol.
July 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Frances McDormand, early 2000s, in a ladies’ room. Shocked to see her, I blurted out, I love you! She said, well that’s not the strangest thing someone’s said to me in the bathroom. Lol.
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Please share this. Friends of the Everglades are organizing a protest to stop Alligator Alcatraz. Join us we have coalition members traveling overnight to be there by morning.
Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail
When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail
When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
June 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Please share this. Friends of the Everglades are organizing a protest to stop Alligator Alcatraz. Join us we have coalition members traveling overnight to be there by morning.
Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail
When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail
When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Some aspects of living in Florida are truly good. Case in point: @cltampabay.bsky.social and Eric Vaughan
St. Pete's LGBTQ+ liaison Eric Vaughan works to make the Sunshine City more inclusive www.cltampa.com/news/st-pete...
St. Pete's LGBTQ+ liaison Eric Vaughan works to make the Sunshine City more inclusive
And, yes, there is plenty of work to do.
www.cltampa.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Some aspects of living in Florida are truly good. Case in point: @cltampabay.bsky.social and Eric Vaughan
"Men will not be allowed in women's spaces"? Does that mean they'll keep their mitts out of our uteruses?
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."
May 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Men will not be allowed in women's spaces"? Does that mean they'll keep their mitts out of our uteruses?
News from Florida higher ed. This is not a joke, y'all.
Following the orders of President Convicted Felon, #Florida State scrubs its website of references to DEI, using a list that includes the terms “women” and “diverse." www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
FSU scrubbing DEI keywords from websites. Here's what the president says.
FSU has taken a deep dive into its websites, scrubbing them of keywords such as “women,” “diverse,” “systemic” and “cultural relevance.”
www.tallahassee.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
News from Florida higher ed. This is not a joke, y'all.
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Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
So much important work needs doing in the world and changing the Gulf’s name is someone’s priority
Five years ago, I traveled the southern coast of the #gulfofmexico by bus. Wrote about my journey in @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social. Re-posting this article, in hopes my words reach the President.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/10-anniversa...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/10-anniversa...
Will Florida Still Draw Tourists If It Permits Oil Drilling?
For five pesos, I could hold the crocodilio. The handler stood in the shadows of Veracruz's boardwalk. When I asked why he had an alligator, he told me
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February 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
So much important work needs doing in the world and changing the Gulf’s name is someone’s priority
It is literally my job and my honor to teach people to ask hard questions, engage in difficult conversations, challenge status quo thinking, and recognize other people’s dignity and agency. I will NEVER obey laws like this one.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
With Sweeping Executive Orders, Trump Tests Local Control of Schools
The orders seek to encourage “patriotic education” and restrict discussions about racism and gender by threatening to withdraw federal funding. But schools are often resistant to change.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It is literally my job and my honor to teach people to ask hard questions, engage in difficult conversations, challenge status quo thinking, and recognize other people’s dignity and agency. I will NEVER obey laws like this one.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
Who needs Thought Police when you can eliminate thought? 2025 is the new 1984.
January 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Who needs Thought Police when you can eliminate thought? 2025 is the new 1984.
In keeping with my New Year's resolution, I'm reading more poetry and theology. Also starting off the day with an hour of walking, listening to the liberation theology podcast with David Inczauskis, SJ. Highly recommended.
liberationtheology.org/books-videos...
liberationtheology.org/books-videos...
Liberation Theology Podcasts | Liberation Theologies
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January 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In keeping with my New Year's resolution, I'm reading more poetry and theology. Also starting off the day with an hour of walking, listening to the liberation theology podcast with David Inczauskis, SJ. Highly recommended.
liberationtheology.org/books-videos...
liberationtheology.org/books-videos...
Because the Tuskegee Airmen have been in the news, I wanted to share this powerful poem by Marilyn Nelson:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54636/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54636/...
Lonely Eagles
They were the only outfit in the American Air Corps to sink a destroyer with fighter planes. Fighter planes with names like “By Request.” Sometimes the radios didn’t even work. The funny thing about m...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Because the Tuskegee Airmen have been in the news, I wanted to share this powerful poem by Marilyn Nelson:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54636/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54636/...
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
My hometown, Birmingham, early 70s. One of the 1st to test the Clean Air Act. Those regulations are important.
January 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
My hometown, Birmingham, early 70s. One of the 1st to test the Clean Air Act. Those regulations are important.
The problem is that Costco is in the burbs, so I have to drive 30 mins one way. Also don’t you have to buy a membership? And don’t they sell in bulk? Who has room to store all that stuff? And Aldi here is gross, with limited options so I still wind up buying from the devil, Publix.
So Target got real comfy thinking us millennial moms won’t take our basic girl bits to Costco & Aldi after they cut DEI programs to satisfy the new administration.
Big mistake. Huge.
Big mistake. Huge.
January 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The problem is that Costco is in the burbs, so I have to drive 30 mins one way. Also don’t you have to buy a membership? And don’t they sell in bulk? Who has room to store all that stuff? And Aldi here is gross, with limited options so I still wind up buying from the devil, Publix.
Having this problem too. We’re talking English majors who don’t read books.
Question about student reading. I have several who will not read or even buy books. One student, who had not completed the homework for one class, lamented the 15 page "wall of text" in another. I've cut back on page count. I feel old & out of touch, standing before a generational shift. Solutions?
January 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Having this problem too. We’re talking English majors who don’t read books.
Worth your attention today
www.openculture.com/2022/01/toni...
www.openculture.com/2022/01/toni...
Toni Morrison Lists the 10 Steps That Lead Countries to Fascism (1995)
Image by Angela Radulescu, via Wikimedia Commons
The term fascism gets thrown around a great deal these days, not always with high regard to consistency of meaning. Much like Orwellian, it now seems o...
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January 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Worth your attention today
www.openculture.com/2022/01/toni...
www.openculture.com/2022/01/toni...
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These Executive Orders and freezes in the NIH and Civil Rights division are like Musk’s twitter strategy applied to government. Moving fast and breaking things to shift everything right quickly.
Destroying goverment services to own the libs, even if your own people are collateral damage.
Destroying goverment services to own the libs, even if your own people are collateral damage.
January 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
These Executive Orders and freezes in the NIH and Civil Rights division are like Musk’s twitter strategy applied to government. Moving fast and breaking things to shift everything right quickly.
Destroying goverment services to own the libs, even if your own people are collateral damage.
Destroying goverment services to own the libs, even if your own people are collateral damage.
Yes: distract you, keep you off balance, make you suspicious, keep you afraid. Resist!
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 1:51 PM
Yes: distract you, keep you off balance, make you suspicious, keep you afraid. Resist!
And I stand with them.
Civil rights advocates in South #Florida say they're ready to stand against President Convicted Felon’s orders against people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. www.local10.com/news/local/2...
Civil rights activists stand ready to defend LGBTQ people from Trump’s orders
Civil rights advocates in South Florida said they were ready to stand against President Donald Trump’s orders against people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.
www.local10.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
And I stand with them.
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Folks saying not a N@zi salute are the same ones saying the Confederate flag means heritage not hate
People with eyes: "Elon Musk make a Nazi salute."
Historians who have studied the rise of fascism: "Elon Musk made a Nazi salute."
Mainstream Media: "Elon Musk made a heartfelt gesture that was misconstrued as a Nazi salute."
Historians who have studied the rise of fascism: "Elon Musk made a Nazi salute."
Mainstream Media: "Elon Musk made a heartfelt gesture that was misconstrued as a Nazi salute."
January 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Folks saying not a N@zi salute are the same ones saying the Confederate flag means heritage not hate