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Juliette Wade

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Novelist, linguist, anthropologist, Ph.D. Fascinated by social systems. Rep'd by K. O'Higgins The Broken Trust series: 1. Mazes of Power (DAW 2020) juliettewade.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JulietteWade CA in AUS, Naarm she/her NO AI

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · Jan 21

Things I like to post:
#SFF
books, stories, art
human rights/politics
Discourse Analysis
LGBT+ support, trans and acespec rep
Cute animals esp otters, corvids, possums, cats
Science!
IRL language and culture geekery
worldbuilding, especially linguistic and cultural
my novels/stories and WIPs

The cover of Mazes of Power, Book One of The Broken Trust by Juliette Wade. The cover is in block letters over a series of rotating frames that seem to pull you in toward an underground city, while silhouettes emerge from different layers of the spin, hinting at the people inside.

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 5h

I hope it all goes smoothly.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

If they feel entitled to enforce this, and that necessarily means that they're going to feel entitled to stop and ask people for their papers if they think they might be aliens.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 23h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Kitty’s Ghost @kittysghost.bsky.social · 5h

In Chicago, ICE is filmed kidnapping unidentified people at an intersection before tear gassing civilians on the sidewalk and body slamming the ones in the cross walk.

In MA, they kidnapped a child asylee from school and transported him out of state without telling parents.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 5h

Join us as our new Poet in Residence 2025-2027 🖌

We are looking for our third Poet in Residence at Poetry Ireland as we move back home to No. 11 Parnell Square.

For more details on the role and how to apply visit www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne...

Supported by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 5h

A lot of people do not actually read the book that you wrote, they read the book that they decided you wrote whether or not that's based on the words on the pages or not. There is nothing anyone can do to change this. It can happen to anybody on the wrong day.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 23h

“It feels like getting hit by a car right after you’ve barely survived a train wreck,”…one U.S. government scientist describes having her agricultural research facility largely shut down…as it struggles to cope with…staff reductions and…budget cuts. “It’s just been one blow after another.”

As U.S. shutdown drags on, ‘it’s just one blow after another’

Federal researchers confront growing uncertainty about future

www.science.org

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7h

Double kudos to @jonhenley.bsky.social and the @theguardian.com for:

a) taking the trouble to report on a set of continental European elections where the far-right didn't sweep all before it!

b) calling the far-right the far-right, not 🤮 'the hard-right'!

Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections

Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections

www.theguardian.com

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6h

“Against the backdrop of the Trump administration's efforts to erase Black achievements, keeping these stories alive and visible takes on a renewed importance.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-second-v...

The Second Vanishing of Hazel Scott

As the Trump administration seeks to erase the history of Black achievements, we must ensure that figures like Hazel Scott are not forgotten.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 12h

Trying to rewrite reality. We're seeing a lot of that, these days.

Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 12h

"Virginia Lieutenant Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears bizarrely claimed that opposing same-sex marriage and firing a person for being gay are “not discrimination,” during a heated gubernatorial debate Thursday with rival Rep. Abigail Spanberger."

Virginia Lt. Gov. Earle-Sears Says Firing Someone for Being Gay Is Not Discrimination

In a gubernatorial debate, the candidate also continued to push her anti-trans talking points.

www.them.us

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

Solidarity is the only way

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Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 14h

Context
www.wkyc.com/article/synd...

New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won't sign new Pentagon rules

The New York Times, The AP and the conservative television network Newsmax are among the outlets who say they won't sign a new DOD document about press rules.

www.wkyc.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

I asked ICE why they couldn’t comment on their own arrest. The agent said to direct questions to DHS. And it appears DHS is making accusations via X to justify the abduction of a child.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
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Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 17h

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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AryaOrgana @aryaorgana.bsky.social · Oct 26

Neurotypicals need to stop telling autistic kids to carry a blue bucket to justify being nonverbal, or not wearing a costume.

Stop asking kids to carry a literal sign they're different.

If a kid shows up on Halloween, give them candy. No requirements. Period.

#autism #actuallyautistic

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 13h

Our internet was out for almost 24 hours. I didn't enjoy that so much. Back now.

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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social · 1d

yet more proof that the people saying “defund the police” were 100% correct and the people scolding them are the reason why we’re in this mess

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

These are the utterly heaven-sent people who publish the historical A-Zs of London, so if you write London-set historicals, you want to follow!

London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 2d

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, awesome!

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted Thyme Travellers edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social got an Ignyte. It's such an amazing collection!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw a clearly AI cover on a rather famous author's book.

Looking at the title, this seems to be the paperback edition from a major publisher.

😬

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