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Julene Tripp Weaver

@trippweavpoet.bsky.social

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Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · Mar 10

My 4th poetry book, "Slow Now with Clear Skies," published by MoonPath Press June 2024!

Cover art and design for poetry book, "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Bright oranges, pinks & reds, golden hues, stacked city on the left margin, bottom has a small house with phone hanging down, top has a clock timed at 11. Right side has line structures near top. Art by Clare Johnson, design by Tonya Namura. Available online!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

The Alaska Native village of Kipnuk was due to receive a $20M grant from the EPA that they were going to use for flood protection.

It was labelled “wasteful DEI spending” and canceled.

The recent storm destroyed homes & flooded Kipnuk: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3h

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 1h

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Second Coming No. 269 — October 15, 2025

A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 2h

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We Can Make an Impact.

Stand with U.S. Airports Refusing to Play Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Blame Video

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Luigi is a folk hero! 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @seriesjunkie.bsky.social · 1d

Hello everyone.

Antifa is not a real organization.

Proud Boys are.

Oath Keepers are.

Patriot Front is.

KKK is.

Heritage Foundation is.

Antifa is not.

Thanks for your attention.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17d

Obama on the coming shutdown.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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No Masters Zone @nomasterszone.bsky.social · 26d

After 49 years and 2 months Leonard Peltier is still not free, but at least not in prison.
A beautiful interview by @democracynow.org just after Peltier's 81st birthday.

“Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, 5 Decades in Prison & Coming Home

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to h...

www.democracynow.org

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No Masters Zone @nomasterszone.bsky.social · 23d

I read this article only till half, I promise to finish the article when Mamdani wins. ;)
But seriously - good to know.

How Zohran Mamdani’s Video Team Reinvented the Visual Art of Political Conversation and Storytelling

Drawing from sources as audacious as Bernie Sanders, to the savvy street-smarts of a New York City film production team, Mamdani has given voice to a new

www.counterpunch.org

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 4h

aclu.org/vraa

Defend our voting rights

While the fight for fair redistricting goes to SCOTUS this term, Congress has a part to play, too. Call on Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to protect our voting rights.

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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 12d

“It's very possible that Swift is leaning into pettiness and even bad taste as a way of further fleshing out the spotlight-hardened character she's exploring. But to send such messages now is a choice.” Here’s @annkpowers.bsky.social with a characteristically nuanced and generous Showgirl review. ✨

On 'The Life of a Showgirl,' Taylor Swift feels love's glow and the spotlight's glare

On her 12th album, the most dominant pop star of our era makes a spectacle of herself in full flower, in love and holding the music industry in the palm of her hand.

www.npr.org

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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 1d

For a brief, blessed stretch this spring, I was looking forward to seeing D’Angelo perform Voodoo with The Roots. Here’s what I wrote about the album — an epilogue for the 20th century, a prologue to the 21st — on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.

Shoot Your Best Shot

The Last Great 20th-Century Album: D'Angelo's Voodoo at 25

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 14h

Same interview transcribed, well worth a read or a listen!
www.eatthispodcast.com/wp-content/u...

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 14h

Naomi Duguid, The Miracle of Salt, Podcast interview with author:
www.eatthispodcast.com/salt/?utm_so...

The Miracle of Salt | Eat This Podcast

www.eatthispodcast.com

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 18h

Donald Trump has been firing people who protect your health, safety and pocketbook, and who keep our country safe.

The shutdown is just his latest excuse for these purges.

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 15h

The pain you feel is because of what you love.”
—Rebecca Solnit

Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 15h

“You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in. Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. ...

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think this Amy King is on BlueSky.
amyhappens.substack.com/p/fascism-is...

FASCISM IS FRAGILE

They were taught to dominate, not to thrive. Their myth is cracking. Our multiplicity is inevitable.

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They Rule @theyrule.bsky.social · 7d

This meme should be our spirit profile banner.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Apr 7

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Apr 23

"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." https://theatln.tc/y3RevJzO

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404 Media @404media.co · 29d

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 18h

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.” —Ursula Le Guin

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 19h

Some presses don't sell books directly. It's poetry and it's hard to make any money no matter where it is sold.