Julia S
@juliacsmith.bsky.social
She/her. Recent transplant to NJ from Chicago.
My newsletter = short, energizing examples of community organizing, mutual aid, arts, & more. Subscribe at https://here-for-you.ghost.io/
"what we pay attention to grows." - adrienne maree brown
My newsletter = short, energizing examples of community organizing, mutual aid, arts, & more. Subscribe at https://here-for-you.ghost.io/
"what we pay attention to grows." - adrienne maree brown
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the people screaming online daily about boycotting x, y, and z had better be in formation...
"The "We Ain't Buying It" boycott calls on consumers to shop at "small, local, or with businesses affirming our humanity" as they avoid Home Depot stores."
Home Depot to suffer massive boycott from holiday shoppers
Home Depot's sales during the holiday season may take a major hit.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
the people screaming online daily about boycotting x, y, and z had better be in formation...
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ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
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My request is small: please bring warmth to my children's hearts. Don't abandon them; they are suffering from hunger and cold. If you leave us, we will die. We are out in the open, our feet are frozen. We need $300 to buy food and clothes.
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My request is small: please bring warmth to my children's hearts. Don't abandon them; they are suffering from hunger and cold. If you leave us, we will die. We are out in the open, our feet are frozen. We need $300 to buy food and clothes.
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
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for printout purposes
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
for printout purposes
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
OOPS, edit: the podcast ep *they* reference!
Loved this so very much. And the Vibe Check episode she references too!
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
OOPS, edit: the podcast ep *they* reference!
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"Chicago's Tiny Kitchen Project provides meals for kids amid SNAP benefit gaps"
wgntv.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Chicago's Tiny Kitchen Project provides meals for kids amid SNAP benefit gaps"
If you know someone who is feeling
1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or
2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks
...great news, this workshop is for them!
1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or
2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks
...great news, this workshop is for them!
Join me on 12/12 for a public online workshop focused on deepening our social change commitments for 2026. Register at www.socialchangemap.com.
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If you know someone who is feeling
1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or
2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks
...great news, this workshop is for them!
1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or
2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks
...great news, this workshop is for them!
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When the federal immigration raids ramped up in L.A. and protesters took to the streets in June, Chan decided to make a statement the only way he knew how: By printing thousands of protest signs and distributing them for free.
The full story: lataco.com/prints-again...
By Marina Watanabe
The full story: lataco.com/prints-again...
By Marina Watanabe
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
When the federal immigration raids ramped up in L.A. and protesters took to the streets in June, Chan decided to make a statement the only way he knew how: By printing thousands of protest signs and distributing them for free.
The full story: lataco.com/prints-again...
By Marina Watanabe
The full story: lataco.com/prints-again...
By Marina Watanabe
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in the last 5 days these laid-off VIBE staffers have only made it to 31% of their GoFundMe goal after being laid off. please show them the same support you showed Teen Vogue!!
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
in the last 5 days these laid-off VIBE staffers have only made it to 31% of their GoFundMe goal after being laid off. please show them the same support you showed Teen Vogue!!
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12/4 - Resilience For Sustainable Activism - www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Resilience For Sustainable Activism · Indivisible
Many of us entered movement work out of urgency and many of us are exhausted by it. The Resilience Toolkit offers an embodied, justice-aligned framework for sustaining activism over the long arc of th...
www.mobilize.us
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
12/4 - Resilience For Sustainable Activism - www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
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Hello dear friends… Winter is very hard on us. Our tent is thin and cold seeps in from all sides. Children shiver at night. I started a fundraiser to raise $3000 for a stronger tent, warm clothes, blankets, and mattresses. Even the smallest help matters. Thank you 🙏💖
www.gofundme.com/f/help-mitqa...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-mitqa...
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hello dear friends… Winter is very hard on us. Our tent is thin and cold seeps in from all sides. Children shiver at night. I started a fundraiser to raise $3000 for a stronger tent, warm clothes, blankets, and mattresses. Even the smallest help matters. Thank you 🙏💖
www.gofundme.com/f/help-mitqa...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-mitqa...
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I'm glad people are waking up now, but it should not have taken this.
Y'all should have woken up to how the dems handled COVID. To how they handled prosecuting Trump.
To how they handled a genocide.
Y'all should have woken up to how the dems handled COVID. To how they handled prosecuting Trump.
To how they handled a genocide.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I'm glad people are waking up now, but it should not have taken this.
Y'all should have woken up to how the dems handled COVID. To how they handled prosecuting Trump.
To how they handled a genocide.
Y'all should have woken up to how the dems handled COVID. To how they handled prosecuting Trump.
To how they handled a genocide.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.
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There is no world in which the deaths by suicide of young people, or the documented mental unraveling of vulnerable people can be an "acceptable" cost for ANY technology, no matter how revolutionary these technologies are claimed to be.
It’s not the second or the third or the fourth either.
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
There is no world in which the deaths by suicide of young people, or the documented mental unraveling of vulnerable people can be an "acceptable" cost for ANY technology, no matter how revolutionary these technologies are claimed to be.
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No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
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No reason at all to do this besides hate
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
No reason at all to do this besides hate
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Taylor Frazier McCollum points out that there are other beneficial sources of potential revenue for PG County! One example is “Heritage tourism” which is huge in DMV but underrepresented along the Anacostia in PG. Go after the “clean money” and ditch the data center.
Hearing from Taylor Frazier-McCollum now via a panel being streamed from Cheverly tonight. She created this petition which folks in PG County can still sign if you oppose the proposed data centers on the old Landover Mall site! #pgcounty #maryland
www.change.org/p/stop-data-...
www.change.org/p/stop-data-...
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Taylor Frazier McCollum points out that there are other beneficial sources of potential revenue for PG County! One example is “Heritage tourism” which is huge in DMV but underrepresented along the Anacostia in PG. Go after the “clean money” and ditch the data center.
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For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.
Read it here:
Read it here:
Loving and Protecting Us — Interrupting Criminalization
A resource for people interested in and working to develop abolitionist crisis response rooted in transformative justice. This offering aims to help demystify a few things about how we develop, think ...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.
Read it here:
Read it here: