Julie Goldberg
@juliegoldberg.bsky.social
Academic librarian, reader, writer, teacher, mother of grown-ups. One-time NY State Senate candidate. Extremely curious person. Ed.M, MA, MLIS. ADHD. Dual citizen 🇺🇸🇮🇪. Tá cúpla focal agam, but don’t quote me on that.
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Reality has a way of getting the last word.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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I promise you that when low income folks are telling you that gimmick boycotts interfere with how they schedule their purchases of essentials, the answer is not to preach to them about the existence of thrift stores
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I promise you that when low income folks are telling you that gimmick boycotts interfere with how they schedule their purchases of essentials, the answer is not to preach to them about the existence of thrift stores
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Completely blown away by the dedication and artistic process of this beautiful lace-making process by Elena Kanagy-Loux
#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #lace #lacemaking #textile #fiberart #wearableart #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #lace #lacemaking #textile #fiberart #wearableart #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
March 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Completely blown away by the dedication and artistic process of this beautiful lace-making process by Elena Kanagy-Loux
#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #lace #lacemaking #textile #fiberart #wearableart #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #lace #lacemaking #textile #fiberart #wearableart #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
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"How many gray hairs am I allotted before my work begins to be perceived as the natural extension of my age and gender, rather than as a meaningful creative pursuit?"
-Elena Kanagy-Loux on art and its relation to the intersection between ageism and misogyny.
hyperallergic.com/906788/my-gr...
-Elena Kanagy-Loux on art and its relation to the intersection between ageism and misogyny.
hyperallergic.com/906788/my-gr...
My Grandma's Doilies Are Not a Joke
When will art institutions finally pay respect to our foremothers’ artistry?
hyperallergic.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"How many gray hairs am I allotted before my work begins to be perceived as the natural extension of my age and gender, rather than as a meaningful creative pursuit?"
-Elena Kanagy-Loux on art and its relation to the intersection between ageism and misogyny.
hyperallergic.com/906788/my-gr...
-Elena Kanagy-Loux on art and its relation to the intersection between ageism and misogyny.
hyperallergic.com/906788/my-gr...
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Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
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I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
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“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
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Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
I looked at my phone this morning and finally thought, “It’s empty. There is nothing for me here.”
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I looked at my phone this morning and finally thought, “It’s empty. There is nothing for me here.”
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Let me put this more productively: there was considerable public fury toward previous Republicans for lies, crimes, misbegotten wars, etc. But it ran up against the *enormous, extremely powerful* forces defending elite impunity. And the latter forces won, decisively. It was barely a fight.
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Let me put this more productively: there was considerable public fury toward previous Republicans for lies, crimes, misbegotten wars, etc. But it ran up against the *enormous, extremely powerful* forces defending elite impunity. And the latter forces won, decisively. It was barely a fight.
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JD Vance repeatedly lied, calling legal immigrants "illegal" during the campaign. He did this, because he knew that voters would balk at a plan to deport legal immigrants.
Polls repeatedly show most Americans support robust legal immigration. So Trump et all lied.
www.npr.org/2024/09/18/g...
Polls repeatedly show most Americans support robust legal immigration. So Trump et all lied.
www.npr.org/2024/09/18/g...
Vance says Haitian migrants with protected status are 'illegal aliens' to be deported
The Republican vice presidential nominee continues to rail against Haitian migrants living in Ohio, though many have Temporary Protected Status, as the GOP escalates its hardline immigration stance.
www.npr.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
JD Vance repeatedly lied, calling legal immigrants "illegal" during the campaign. He did this, because he knew that voters would balk at a plan to deport legal immigrants.
Polls repeatedly show most Americans support robust legal immigration. So Trump et all lied.
www.npr.org/2024/09/18/g...
Polls repeatedly show most Americans support robust legal immigration. So Trump et all lied.
www.npr.org/2024/09/18/g...
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This would be a great day for Gov. Hochul to sign New York’s Freedom the Read Act into law!
tennessee just kept 140+ books banned until at least next year. beloved. catch-22. on pause because lawmakers panic at paper. students are literally the collateral damage.
how is this still happening?
how is this still happening?
U.S. Book Challenges Update: November 2025 Edition
Libraries and schools across the country are experiencing unprecedented levels of attempts to ban or remove books from their shelves. I Love Libraries will continue to raise awareness by highlighting…
ilovelibraries.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This would be a great day for Gov. Hochul to sign New York’s Freedom the Read Act into law!
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Have I got a book for you if you weren't taught historic US immigration policy. My book about how the US migration & citizenship policy history and law, from the colonial period to 1888 is available for pre-order for March 10, 2026 delivery. Order info in the link on my bio.
Trump and Miller want to turn the clock back to the era of American immigration politics I think few of us were taught honestly about in American public education, outside reading The Great Gatsby
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Have I got a book for you if you weren't taught historic US immigration policy. My book about how the US migration & citizenship policy history and law, from the colonial period to 1888 is available for pre-order for March 10, 2026 delivery. Order info in the link on my bio.
4-year-old great nephew sidles up to me at the table, whispering, “Aunt Julie, can I tell you a secret?”
“Of course!”
Whispers even more dramatically, “I LOVE YOUR SOUP!”
“Of course!”
Whispers even more dramatically, “I LOVE YOUR SOUP!”
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
4-year-old great nephew sidles up to me at the table, whispering, “Aunt Julie, can I tell you a secret?”
“Of course!”
Whispers even more dramatically, “I LOVE YOUR SOUP!”
“Of course!”
Whispers even more dramatically, “I LOVE YOUR SOUP!”
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Since January, THE LIBRARIANS has been educating people about the extremist assault on school boards. People are listening, learning, and voting for intellectual freedom. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
In November's School Board Elections, Voters Stood with Librarians
From New Hampshire to New Mexico, voters aligned with educators, librarians, and unions and ushered in candidates with liberal leanings to their local school boards. We looked at the outcomes in sever...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Since January, THE LIBRARIANS has been educating people about the extremist assault on school boards. People are listening, learning, and voting for intellectual freedom. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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I was at the ER the night before Thanksgiving/early hours of Thanksgiving last year with a family member, and we overheard two doctors call that block of time "The Night of the Mandolines" due to the sheer number of sharps injuries during meal prep.
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I was at the ER the night before Thanksgiving/early hours of Thanksgiving last year with a family member, and we overheard two doctors call that block of time "The Night of the Mandolines" due to the sheer number of sharps injuries during meal prep.
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
Imagine Nancy Pelosi reading this aloud to her husband over breakfast this morning, both of them laughing until tears drop onto their toast.
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Imagine Nancy Pelosi reading this aloud to her husband over breakfast this morning, both of them laughing until tears drop onto their toast.
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Part of the problem is people think what persuades them is logic and facts.
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Part of the problem is people think what persuades them is logic and facts.
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
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2/ nor can we forget Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump campaign worked appointed as the lead counter terrorism coordinator at DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
2/ nor can we forget Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump campaign worked appointed as the lead counter terrorism coordinator at DHS.
I am sorry to report that the pie-baking is kind of a drag tonight.
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I am sorry to report that the pie-baking is kind of a drag tonight.
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One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...