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Jules of Liberty

@greeneyedmonster13.bsky.social

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Grumpy profane old broad. Lawyer. Ally to anyone who voted against the Orange Fool and his Project 2025 circus. Hobbies include mainlining schadenfreude when MAGA’s fascist bullshit ruins MAGA lives. Alt text advocate. She/her.

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Jules of Liberty @greeneyedmonster13.bsky.social · Apr 29

Would you please be so kind as to add alt text to your images for visually impaired folks? Doing so expands the reach of your skeets while ensuring people with disabilities also have access to important news, and it takes very little time to do it for most images. It’s a win-win.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.

Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.

If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays

If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid

www.gofundme.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 18h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Jules of Liberty @greeneyedmonster13.bsky.social · 2h

*calls Adult Protective Services* Hello, I’d like to report a case of financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3h

the subreddits for luxury watches are some of the darkest places on earth

Rolex subreddit post:

My uncle has Alzheimer's and is often forgetful of his possessions. One of them is a Rolex Submariner. Would I be justified in taking and caring for it as my own instead of having it left neglected and forgotten in his jewelry box? Thanks.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 6h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Jules of Liberty @greeneyedmonster13.bsky.social · 7h

I’m listening to this classical compilation while I work. All the songs have been used in movies, so I’m thinking of the movies while listening. One song I couldn’t place right away, but after a minute I realized it was from The Sheik and now I’m super proud of myself for remembering that. 😂

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry Glendale

GLENDALE
Glendale taxpayers owed $493K for Charlie Kirk memorial costs

Shawn Raymundo
Arizona Republic
Updated Oct. 14, 2025, 9:24 a.m. MT

Archive: https://archive.ph/znqsm

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

Way too many people still think that whatever happens to people as a result of American imperialism abroad *cough Palestine Sudan Congo cough* is acceptable, fine even, not our problem, as long as the lesser evil wins in the United States.

And it's not. I'm sorry. It's just not.

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 8h

Good reminder, from a fellow lawyer whose advice I trust. #ICE

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 8h

15 October 1910 | A Czech Jewish woman, Hildegarda Nettlová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 4 October 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

Vintage portrait of a woman, smiling, in a white dress with a necklace.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 8h

The answer to "is Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal?" is "yes, but he's also a genocider," and this should not be controversial.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 10h

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

ZOHRAN: “We are an existential threat to billionaires who think their money can buy our democracy.” 🇺🇸

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 9h

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Frost: Trump knows that when they passed the big, ugly bill that rips away healthcare from 17 million people, you usually don’t win elections when you do something like that…

So instead of undoing that, he’s pressuring states to give him more seats.

What California is doing is responding to that

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h

it’s amazing that it’s 2025 and people are still deluded enough to believe that age verification on the internet actually works

this was apparent to me when *I* was an extremely online child

Misandrosaurus Hex @bexone.bsky.social · 9h

My bff is a high school teacher and can verify that the (freshman) children are absolutely mobile gambling in high numbers, an activity that *already* has laws defining it as an adult-only activity requiring age verification

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 14h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 8h

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 9h

We’ve reached the point where Trump is deporting people who are legally in the United States because he doesn’t like their social media posts. This is grossly unconstitutional and contradicts the bedrock principle of free speech for which America was once known.

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

apnews.com

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 16h

Once again, please use alt text. Let everyone enjoy art.
#PortfolioDay

Screenshot of Accessibility settings on Bluesky:

Accessibility
Alt text
Require alt text before posting (toggled on)
Display larger alt text badges

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Jared @jareddc.bsky.social · 10h

Remember, before you can help others you must help yourself. There is a reason that on airplanes they instruct you to put on your own air mask before your kids. You can't save a drowning man while also drowning. Take care of your own mental health before you spend your energy on others

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10h

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h

Cameron Chell of Draganfly appears to be back on his “we’ve totally invented a drone that can detect biomarkers from the air” bullshit, which I debunked as bullshit in Slate back in 2020.

It is deeply depressing to see this obvious PR nonsense uncritically repeated in this Axios piece.

The technology is far more powerful than your standard human-operated drone.
• These machines can track everything from ground radar to air quality - and even measure a person's heart rate, breathing, blood pressure and oxygen levels from 500 meters away, Cameron Chell, CEO of Canadian drone-maker Draganfly, told Axios.

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Jules of Liberty @greeneyedmonster13.bsky.social · 9h

Good.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

NEW: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatens legal action if Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Arizona attorney general threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Adelita Grijalva

The Democrat accused Johnson of playing “political games” by delaying the swearing-in ceremony.