Julie Antolick Winters
@julieaw.bsky.social
Editor. Mom. Sometimes-disappointed optimist.
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There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
And now I am in love.
November 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
And now I am in love.
Dear lord. Apparently I am better informed about governmental issues (just by logging onto Bluesky in the morning) than is this asshat who has a major role in our government.
Q: What's your reaction to yesterday's purge of senior ICE officials? When is it time for Congress to do some oversight?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Dear lord. Apparently I am better informed about governmental issues (just by logging onto Bluesky in the morning) than is this asshat who has a major role in our government.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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This clip says a lot more than this and it is really worth your time.
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This clip says a lot more than this and it is really worth your time.
Just the bit about the MMWR staff alone is hella bad, and that's the least of what they've done here.
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Just the bit about the MMWR staff alone is hella bad, and that's the least of what they've done here.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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We wanted huddled masses, not masked asses!!
("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper)
("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper)
October 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
We wanted huddled masses, not masked asses!!
("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper)
("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper)
Christ on a bike. Go look.
Omg. Go to hud.gov I'm not kidding.
HUD Home | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
hud.gov
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Christ on a bike. Go look.
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Everyone should read this. Because every word needed to be said. (gift article). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Everyone should read this. Because every word needed to be said. (gift article). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
YES.
The Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into ABC, Sinclair, and the FCC.
We will not be intimidated and we will defend the First Amendment.
We will not be intimidated and we will defend the First Amendment.
September 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
YES.
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This is the top headline on CNN. A good warning sign that your country may be becoming a dictatorship is when your plain-jane straight news networks start saying “Our country is becoming a dictatorship”
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This is the top headline on CNN. A good warning sign that your country may be becoming a dictatorship is when your plain-jane straight news networks start saying “Our country is becoming a dictatorship”
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It’s been a week, and this made me burst into tears over my coffee.
I needed this. Maybe you do too.
I needed this. Maybe you do too.
September 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It’s been a week, and this made me burst into tears over my coffee.
I needed this. Maybe you do too.
I needed this. Maybe you do too.
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Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you can’t do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and she’s had so many bad exs.
August 31, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you can’t do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and she’s had so many bad exs.
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To put a finer point on it, Pritzker is being presidential in a way Newsom is not. Newsom is doing a decent job trolling Trump for the lulz, but Pritzker is speaking with the gravitas this situation warrants, promising real accountability, with federal, state and local leaders standing behind him.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
To put a finer point on it, Pritzker is being presidential in a way Newsom is not. Newsom is doing a decent job trolling Trump for the lulz, but Pritzker is speaking with the gravitas this situation warrants, promising real accountability, with federal, state and local leaders standing behind him.
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The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
August 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Yikes. This is depressing.
I recently complained/asked how to stop (there were no good answers) the Democratic fundraising texts. A friend shared this piece about what a total scam it is: "$11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees."
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
data4democracy.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yikes. This is depressing.
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Huge statement by Senator Angus King
In a new statement, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) says he's done supporting any aid to Israel amid Gaza's nutrition and humanitarian crisis.
"My litmus test will be simple: no aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.”
"My litmus test will be simple: no aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.”
July 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Huge statement by Senator Angus King
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NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%.
#NASADidThat
#NASADidThat
July 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%.
#NASADidThat
#NASADidThat
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That last line hits hard
July 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
That last line hits hard
From that liberal rag Forbes:
Trump Policies Will Cost The U.S. Up To $29 Billion In Tourism
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Trump Policies Will Cost The U.S. Up To $29 Billion In Tourism
Halfway through 2025, the U.S. stands out as the world’s biggest loser in an otherwise thriving global tourism economy.
www.forbes.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
From that liberal rag Forbes:
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This is an absolutely critical read. Truly urge everyone to take ten minutes and read this. It adds so much context to where we are now, with strategy and vision for how and why we must not give up hope.
"Take my hand. We can do this."
"Take my hand. We can do this."
Why am I squeezing in a conference before I go on medical leave? Because it's my favorite conference of the year. These are the people I want to be with when so many things are going wrong. For those of you who aren't at @socialismconference.org, here are some remarks I shared today.
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
organizingmythoughts.org
July 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This is an absolutely critical read. Truly urge everyone to take ten minutes and read this. It adds so much context to where we are now, with strategy and vision for how and why we must not give up hope.
"Take my hand. We can do this."
"Take my hand. We can do this."
Welp, the bill has passed.
There's a lot of good information in this ~30-min broadcast (recorded before the vote today) about what's in the bill, when various parts go into effect, and action steps we can take to help each other at the local level. Because we're going to need to help each other.
There's a lot of good information in this ~30-min broadcast (recorded before the vote today) about what's in the bill, when various parts go into effect, and action steps we can take to help each other at the local level. Because we're going to need to help each other.
July 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Welp, the bill has passed.
There's a lot of good information in this ~30-min broadcast (recorded before the vote today) about what's in the bill, when various parts go into effect, and action steps we can take to help each other at the local level. Because we're going to need to help each other.
There's a lot of good information in this ~30-min broadcast (recorded before the vote today) about what's in the bill, when various parts go into effect, and action steps we can take to help each other at the local level. Because we're going to need to help each other.
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I flagged this in April and have been howling it into the void. Trump wants Black & Latino incarcerated U.S. citizens sent to CECOT in El Salvador, Congo, South Sudan. These are the “homegrown” Trump talked about with the Salvadoran PM.
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I flagged this in April and have been howling it into the void. Trump wants Black & Latino incarcerated U.S. citizens sent to CECOT in El Salvador, Congo, South Sudan. These are the “homegrown” Trump talked about with the Salvadoran PM.
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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On the Arsenio Hall Show, Macho Man Randy Savage had a GREAT answer to the question if he ever cried.
Happy Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.
Happy Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.
June 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
On the Arsenio Hall Show, Macho Man Randy Savage had a GREAT answer to the question if he ever cried.
Happy Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.
Happy Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.