J.P. Harbin
@julieblog.bsky.social
PNW transplant. Reluctant writer/Collaborative talker.GenX mom,wife.Fan of design, food, espresso, tap, swims, trips,space,politics. Pro human rights, science. Been around: BDL/SJJ/ KBL/SVO/VIE/BEY/SAT/SAN/DCA/RDU/EUG @NBC/NPR/RNS/WashPo/SDBJ/IMC/IWPR/DCI
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Making the leap again off Twitter. Relocated to Eugene summer ‘24. Still curious. Looking for work after 12 years at Duke University/Duke Islamic Studies & Duke Cancer Institute/Duke Health helming projects, managing web content and social media, and writing. authory.com/JuliePoucher... + LinkedIn.
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“Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp by every definition, and just like in Weimar Germany it is unlikely that immigrants are going to be the only group that end up in the camps. Anyone who studies history has seen where this train ends before.
July 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp by every definition, and just like in Weimar Germany it is unlikely that immigrants are going to be the only group that end up in the camps. Anyone who studies history has seen where this train ends before.
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The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
July 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
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I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.
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In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy -- everything. -George Orwell, "1984" (4/4)
June 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy -- everything. -George Orwell, "1984" (4/4)
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WSJ Edit Page tonight:
“It’s fanciful to think that raiding restaurants to snatch busboys, or Home Depot to grab stock clerks, won’t inspire a backlash. All the more so when ICE acts in heavy-handed fashion”
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
“It’s fanciful to think that raiding restaurants to snatch busboys, or Home Depot to grab stock clerks, won’t inspire a backlash. All the more so when ICE acts in heavy-handed fashion”
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Deportation Wars Begin
Trump has a mandate, but protests in California show the trouble that might lie ahead.
www.wsj.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
WSJ Edit Page tonight:
“It’s fanciful to think that raiding restaurants to snatch busboys, or Home Depot to grab stock clerks, won’t inspire a backlash. All the more so when ICE acts in heavy-handed fashion”
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
“It’s fanciful to think that raiding restaurants to snatch busboys, or Home Depot to grab stock clerks, won’t inspire a backlash. All the more so when ICE acts in heavy-handed fashion”
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
So wrong on multiple levels
Exclusive: New student visa interviews are on pause as Trump’s admin weighs requiring foreign students applying in the U.S. to undergo social media vetting.
Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting
The directive came in a Tuesday cable obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
So wrong on multiple levels
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"Historian returning from Gaza: 'The most shocking thing is the gap with the outside world's perception.'" No paywall.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Historian returning from Gaza: 'The most shocking thing is the gap with the outside world's perception'
Jean-Pierre Filiu, a French historian who has traveled to the Gaza Strip many times over the years, spent a month in the Palestinian territory from December to January. He answered questions from Le M...
www.lemonde.fr
May 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"Historian returning from Gaza: 'The most shocking thing is the gap with the outside world's perception.'" No paywall.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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NYU conditioned a student's right to speak at graduation on his agreement not to call attention to human rights abuses. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
Statement By NYU Spokesperson John Beckman
www.nyu.edu
May 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
NYU conditioned a student's right to speak at graduation on his agreement not to call attention to human rights abuses. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
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Incidence rates of some cancer types have risen in people under age 50, NCI study shows
https://cancerletter.com/clinical-roundup/20250509_10a/
https://cancerletter.com/clinical-roundup/20250509_10a/
Incidence rates of some cancer types have risen in people under age 50, NCI study shows - The Cancer Letter
Researchers at NCI have completed a comprehensive analysis of cancer statistics for different age groups in the United States and found that from 2010 through 2019, the incidence of 14 cancer types increased among people under age 50. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log […]
cancerletter.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Incidence rates of some cancer types have risen in people under age 50, NCI study shows
https://cancerletter.com/clinical-roundup/20250509_10a/
https://cancerletter.com/clinical-roundup/20250509_10a/
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Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius eruption: cnn.it/42U4crX
Title and author of burned, still-rolled scroll decoded after nearly 2,000 years | CNN
Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius erup...
cnn.it
May 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius eruption: cnn.it/42U4crX
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💥 BREAKING: American Express shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal at their annual meeting today, tally TBD.
Amex: "We Embrace Diversity"
"We Stand for Equity and Inclusion: We are committed to rewarding and providing opportunities for colleagues equitably, based solely on merit"
Amex: "We Embrace Diversity"
"We Stand for Equity and Inclusion: We are committed to rewarding and providing opportunities for colleagues equitably, based solely on merit"
April 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
💥 BREAKING: American Express shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal at their annual meeting today, tally TBD.
Amex: "We Embrace Diversity"
"We Stand for Equity and Inclusion: We are committed to rewarding and providing opportunities for colleagues equitably, based solely on merit"
Amex: "We Embrace Diversity"
"We Stand for Equity and Inclusion: We are committed to rewarding and providing opportunities for colleagues equitably, based solely on merit"
Interesting how this could be spreading due to climate change, and in areas that have gotten drier. Kind of evokes those Interstellar (movie) dust storms on earth.
California reports sharp rise in valley fever cases for first three months of 2025
California reports sharp rise in valley fever cases for first three months of 2025
Weather patterns, construction activity and wildfires can all play a role in outbreaks of valley fever, caused by inhaling a fungus.
www.latimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Interesting how this could be spreading due to climate change, and in areas that have gotten drier. Kind of evokes those Interstellar (movie) dust storms on earth.
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I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
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big shadow docket decision coming: can the us government exile you to a torture prison overseas vs no it can't
April 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
big shadow docket decision coming: can the us government exile you to a torture prison overseas vs no it can't
March 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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AOC is probably the most famous Dem in the country and has had a target on her back since Day 1 and she's out there every day bringing the fire.
Fuck off if you don't actually want to defend the country and just want to suck up my tax dollars in a cushy job.
Fuck off if you don't actually want to defend the country and just want to suck up my tax dollars in a cushy job.
“Frightened for the safety of their families.”
America, 2025.
America, 2025.
March 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
AOC is probably the most famous Dem in the country and has had a target on her back since Day 1 and she's out there every day bringing the fire.
Fuck off if you don't actually want to defend the country and just want to suck up my tax dollars in a cushy job.
Fuck off if you don't actually want to defend the country and just want to suck up my tax dollars in a cushy job.
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The Fulbright program is required by law. It’s literally named after the senator that passed the bill.
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The Fulbright program is required by law. It’s literally named after the senator that passed the bill.
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I’ve heard from a solid source that medical supplies from US to frontline medics in Ukraine are being withheld through USAID and military logistics. If true this is absolutely unacceptable.
March 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I’ve heard from a solid source that medical supplies from US to frontline medics in Ukraine are being withheld through USAID and military logistics. If true this is absolutely unacceptable.
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“Purge of journalists” underway at Voice of America, I’m told. Ukrainian correspondent Ostap Yarysh already impacted.
March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“Purge of journalists” underway at Voice of America, I’m told. Ukrainian correspondent Ostap Yarysh already impacted.
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The job description has changed and I get that this is not what a lot of Dem reps signed up for when they first ran for office, but it's the reality now. If they can't rise to the occasion they should resign.
March 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The job description has changed and I get that this is not what a lot of Dem reps signed up for when they first ran for office, but it's the reality now. If they can't rise to the occasion they should resign.
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Very much this. Very visibly we have the Dems like AOC hitting the streets and firing up the base, and you have the establishment Dems urging decorum as the ship sinks. We need to get behind the fighters and toss the decorum folks over the side.
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Very much this. Very visibly we have the Dems like AOC hitting the streets and firing up the base, and you have the establishment Dems urging decorum as the ship sinks. We need to get behind the fighters and toss the decorum folks over the side.
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Anyone who starts a flock because they’ve been dreaming about backyard chickens pecking in the yard will likely be happy with their choice.
Those who do it to save money will probably regret it, Tove Danovich writes. theatln.tc/HPCuqryM
Those who do it to save money will probably regret it, Tove Danovich writes. theatln.tc/HPCuqryM
The Most Expensive Eggs You’ll Ever Buy
Backyard chickens are delightful, but will not solve anyone’s egg-price woes.
theatln.tc
March 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Anyone who starts a flock because they’ve been dreaming about backyard chickens pecking in the yard will likely be happy with their choice.
Those who do it to save money will probably regret it, Tove Danovich writes. theatln.tc/HPCuqryM
Those who do it to save money will probably regret it, Tove Danovich writes. theatln.tc/HPCuqryM
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Beyond workers, federal job cuts could affect veterans in Oregon, assistance for ranchers and more.
Trump job cuts upend lives of federal workers in Oregon. Here are some impacts
Beyond workers, federal job cuts could affect veterans in Oregon, assistance for rancher and more.
www.oregonlive.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Beyond workers, federal job cuts could affect veterans in Oregon, assistance for ranchers and more.