Julien Burns
@julienburns.bsky.social
Principal, redcypress.coop. Words, politics and other things #NOLA. #COYS
Happy Levy out day 🥳
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Happy Levy out day 🥳
Don’t sleep on Louisiana! I’ll be moderating this peek under the hood of our historic, 30pt defeat of 4 far-right constitutional amendments. Come hear how we did it and the blueprint it offers for beating back MAGA everywhere! #NN25
August 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Don’t sleep on Louisiana! I’ll be moderating this peek under the hood of our historic, 30pt defeat of 4 far-right constitutional amendments. Come hear how we did it and the blueprint it offers for beating back MAGA everywhere! #NN25
“There are no magic words. You just tell the stories that people tell you”
— @ag.state.mn.us reminding us that narrative strategy is not about crafting messaging, it’s about synthesizing and finding the meaning in real life. #NN25
— @ag.state.mn.us reminding us that narrative strategy is not about crafting messaging, it’s about synthesizing and finding the meaning in real life. #NN25
August 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“There are no magic words. You just tell the stories that people tell you”
— @ag.state.mn.us reminding us that narrative strategy is not about crafting messaging, it’s about synthesizing and finding the meaning in real life. #NN25
— @ag.state.mn.us reminding us that narrative strategy is not about crafting messaging, it’s about synthesizing and finding the meaning in real life. #NN25
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the reaction to Mamdani's campaign is clear proof that centrism is a reactionary ideology, and has nothing to do with a pragmatic desire to win.
A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible
June 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
the reaction to Mamdani's campaign is clear proof that centrism is a reactionary ideology, and has nothing to do with a pragmatic desire to win.
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Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.
June 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.
The democratic impulse to try to co-opt or neuter the left flank rather than use the political cover it provides to articulate a policy alternative
June 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The democratic impulse to try to co-opt or neuter the left flank rather than use the political cover it provides to articulate a policy alternative
Boooooo. I am so tired of this shit.
BREAKING: According to multiple journalists, Ange Postecoglou has been sacked.
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BREAKING: Ange Postecoglou fired by Tottenham Hotspur
WELP.
cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Boooooo. I am so tired of this shit.
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#OPINION As voters head to the polls today to vote on four constitutional amendments, some Lens contributors – two schoolteachers and a college education professor – advise a NO vote on Amendment 2.
✍: Lens Contributors
Click the 🔗 for more info!
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✍: Lens Contributors
Click the 🔗 for more info!
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March 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#OPINION As voters head to the polls today to vote on four constitutional amendments, some Lens contributors – two schoolteachers and a college education professor – advise a NO vote on Amendment 2.
✍: Lens Contributors
Click the 🔗 for more info!
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✍: Lens Contributors
Click the 🔗 for more info!
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🚨 THREAD: They’re trying to trick us, but we’re not falling for it. 🚨
On March 29, Louisiana votes on 4 shady amendments that give politicians more power & less accountability.
They hid this election in March, hoping we wouldn’t notice. But we did. 👀
Let’s break it down. 🧵👇
On March 29, Louisiana votes on 4 shady amendments that give politicians more power & less accountability.
They hid this election in March, hoping we wouldn’t notice. But we did. 👀
Let’s break it down. 🧵👇
February 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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What is it going to take to get Dems to stop segmenting the electorate and treating everyone as single issue voters? As if all (93% non-union) workers care about is unions or all Latinx voters care about is immigration, Black voters CJR, women abortion etc. etc. etc. *screams into the void*
Today, I released a framework detailing how the Democratic Party will fight against Trump’s war on working people.
Read it here: win.dnc.org/memo
Read it here: win.dnc.org/memo
win.dnc.org
February 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
What is it going to take to get Dems to stop segmenting the electorate and treating everyone as single issue voters? As if all (93% non-union) workers care about is unions or all Latinx voters care about is immigration, Black voters CJR, women abortion etc. etc. etc. *screams into the void*
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Y’all, they’re trying to pull a fast one.
LA lawmakers are using smoke & mirrors to pass 4 amendments, thinking we won’t notice.
❌Kangaroo Courts
❌Gut education & transit funding
❌Kids in adult prisons
❌Rigging judicial elections
March 29, say #NoToThemAllYall 🗳️
LA lawmakers are using smoke & mirrors to pass 4 amendments, thinking we won’t notice.
❌Kangaroo Courts
❌Gut education & transit funding
❌Kids in adult prisons
❌Rigging judicial elections
March 29, say #NoToThemAllYall 🗳️
February 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Y’all, they’re trying to pull a fast one.
LA lawmakers are using smoke & mirrors to pass 4 amendments, thinking we won’t notice.
❌Kangaroo Courts
❌Gut education & transit funding
❌Kids in adult prisons
❌Rigging judicial elections
March 29, say #NoToThemAllYall 🗳️
LA lawmakers are using smoke & mirrors to pass 4 amendments, thinking we won’t notice.
❌Kangaroo Courts
❌Gut education & transit funding
❌Kids in adult prisons
❌Rigging judicial elections
March 29, say #NoToThemAllYall 🗳️
Perhaps we need an even more raging Cajun
February 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Perhaps we need an even more raging Cajun
Absolutely brutal ratio
Today, I released a framework detailing how the Democratic Party will fight against Trump’s war on working people.
Read it here: win.dnc.org/memo
Read it here: win.dnc.org/memo
win.dnc.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Absolutely brutal ratio
Shysters, all of them
NEW: Louisiana's surgeon general — who last week ended all state vaccine promotion and events — appears to have misrepresented his credentials.
State communications describe him as a family medicine physician. But he's not listed as certified by @TheABFM.
www.wwno.org/public-healt...
State communications describe him as a family medicine physician. But he's not listed as certified by @TheABFM.
www.wwno.org/public-healt...
No evidence Louisiana’s Surgeon General is board-certified family physician
He’s not registered with the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians either, the organization told WWNO/WRKF.
www.wwno.org
February 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Shysters, all of them
I really wish the Left would invest in winning back seats in red states. So many Dem leaders are sweet summer children from blue states who have never had to ditch the condescension and try to win over voters. Win a seat in Louisiana or Mississippi on a progressive platform and you’ll know better
democrats—resist the urge to look at these people and say “oh you are very stupid” and instead say, “here is a voter who looked at biden and kamala and saw no solutions for the most pressing problems in their life.”
how do you fix that? bold rhetoric and action to back it up. and better propaganda.
how do you fix that? bold rhetoric and action to back it up. and better propaganda.
There’s gonna be so many variations on this theme over the next three years and eleven months. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I really wish the Left would invest in winning back seats in red states. So many Dem leaders are sweet summer children from blue states who have never had to ditch the condescension and try to win over voters. Win a seat in Louisiana or Mississippi on a progressive platform and you’ll know better
I am BEGGING Democrats not to “talk more about the price of eggs” but to tell an affirmative story about the role they will make government play in a more just and equitable society
"Opposition to this set of policies is going to require an affirmative case for a different set of policies. And that is going to require articulating some general principles about how society should be organized," writes @jwmason.bsky.social. Excellent piece. jwmason.org/slackwire/wr...
Writing about Policy in the Trump Era – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
February 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I am BEGGING Democrats not to “talk more about the price of eggs” but to tell an affirmative story about the role they will make government play in a more just and equitable society
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The Trump Admin needs sheriffs for mass deportations, but sheriffs have the legal discretion to decide on immigration enforcement.
@nipnlg.bsky.social's Sirine Shebaya & Sheriff Accountability Action's Max Rose say sheriffs are right to oppose ICE collaboration:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
@nipnlg.bsky.social's Sirine Shebaya & Sheriff Accountability Action's Max Rose say sheriffs are right to oppose ICE collaboration:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Sheriffs are right to stand up against demands that they do ICE’s dirty work
The Trump administration has a problem: Local jurisdictions have the legal discretion to make their own decisions on immigration enforcement.
www.msnbc.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Trump Admin needs sheriffs for mass deportations, but sheriffs have the legal discretion to decide on immigration enforcement.
@nipnlg.bsky.social's Sirine Shebaya & Sheriff Accountability Action's Max Rose say sheriffs are right to oppose ICE collaboration:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
@nipnlg.bsky.social's Sirine Shebaya & Sheriff Accountability Action's Max Rose say sheriffs are right to oppose ICE collaboration:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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This city's government is a wholly captured enforcement arm of its tourism and real estate ownership class. In everything it does, from hosting events, to planning land use, to budgeting city services, residents are a nuisance to be moved out of the way of profit
veritenews.org/2025/02/07/s...
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Workers, unhoused people deal with Super Bowl headaches
This week’s heightened security measures — including the establishment of checkpoints around the French Quarter and government building closures — in preparation for Super Bowl LIX have led to a host ...
veritenews.org
February 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This city's government is a wholly captured enforcement arm of its tourism and real estate ownership class. In everything it does, from hosting events, to planning land use, to budgeting city services, residents are a nuisance to be moved out of the way of profit
veritenews.org/2025/02/07/s...
veritenews.org/2025/02/07/s...
Graeme Crews walking this back and say she just joined a meeting is so embarrassing. Why would you be more concerned about your MOC coming off as rude than coming as feckless at this moment?
February 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Graeme Crews walking this back and say she just joined a meeting is so embarrassing. Why would you be more concerned about your MOC coming off as rude than coming as feckless at this moment?
I think we’re so used to so much noise that the constitutional and global orders break down in the space of 2 weeks and it’s hard to even hear the alarm bells
February 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I think we’re so used to so much noise that the constitutional and global orders break down in the space of 2 weeks and it’s hard to even hear the alarm bells
WHY IS ANYONE STILL ASKING THEM??
Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
February 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
WHY IS ANYONE STILL ASKING THEM??
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NEW: The Louisiana mother has been arrested and is in custody, according to DA Clayton. He says he'll be personally prosecuting this with AG Liz Murrill
DEVELOPING: Louisiana mother, New York doctor indicted for allegedly giving minor abortion pills, @lorenaoneil.com reports. @pulitzercenter.bsky.social lailluminator.com/2025/01/31/l...
Louisiana mother, New York doctor indicted for allegedly giving minor abortion pills • Louisiana Illuminator
A West Baton Rouge grand jury indicted a New York doctor and a Louisiana mother Friday, on felony charges for allegedly providing an illegal abortion with drugs obtained through the mail.
lailluminator.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
NEW: The Louisiana mother has been arrested and is in custody, according to DA Clayton. He says he'll be personally prosecuting this with AG Liz Murrill
So Jeff Landry is taking bold and decisive action to stop the influx of… undocumented doctors coming to Louisiana to heal the sick?
www.kplctv.com/2025/01/30/g...
www.kplctv.com/2025/01/30/g...
La. executive order requires some state boards to ask for proof of citizenship
Five days after taking office as Louisiana Governor, Jeff Landry signed a seven-page executive order titled, “Identifying, Quantifying and Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Illegal Immigration on Loui...
www.kplctv.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So Jeff Landry is taking bold and decisive action to stop the influx of… undocumented doctors coming to Louisiana to heal the sick?
www.kplctv.com/2025/01/30/g...
www.kplctv.com/2025/01/30/g...
I’m worried the Right is going to crush the Left while we’re doing an icebreaker
January 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I’m worried the Right is going to crush the Left while we’re doing an icebreaker
To the many prominent national Dems who follow my account: it’s ok to say, “you know what, I’m not up to this!”
There are so many fun things you can do with your life that are not national politics. Gardening! Bowling! Bitcoin!
There are so many fun things you can do with your life that are not national politics. Gardening! Bowling! Bitcoin!
January 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
To the many prominent national Dems who follow my account: it’s ok to say, “you know what, I’m not up to this!”
There are so many fun things you can do with your life that are not national politics. Gardening! Bowling! Bitcoin!
There are so many fun things you can do with your life that are not national politics. Gardening! Bowling! Bitcoin!