JulieBWriter
@juliebwriter.bsky.social
Professor and journalist: Reading, writing, traveling, swimming, walking. Aspiring polyglot. RP/USH She/her
Images of a ceramic fox and a neon “Magikist” sign.
Images of a ceramic fox and a neon “Magikist” sign.
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These 14 states have 3 close Senate races (ME, MI, NH) and about 25 close Congressional races - close to half of the competitive federal races in the 2026 election.
Great care by citizens, election administrators, and advocates will be needed to ensure fair and orderly contests.
Great care by citizens, election administrators, and advocates will be needed to ensure fair and orderly contests.
DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
These 14 states have 3 close Senate races (ME, MI, NH) and about 25 close Congressional races - close to half of the competitive federal races in the 2026 election.
Great care by citizens, election administrators, and advocates will be needed to ensure fair and orderly contests.
Great care by citizens, election administrators, and advocates will be needed to ensure fair and orderly contests.
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And right on cue in my timeline:
“Findings indicate an association between acute COVID-19 rates and increased car crashes…car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder.” Didn’t matter if vaxxed.
“Findings indicate an association between acute COVID-19 rates and increased car crashes…car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder.” Didn’t matter if vaxxed.
Driving Under the Cognitive Influence of COVID-19: Exploring the Impact of Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Road Safety | Neurology
ObjectiveThis study evaluated the association between acute COVID-19 cases and the number of
car crashes with varying COVID-19 vaccination rates, Long COVID rates, and COVID-19
mitigation strategies.B...
www.neurology.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
And right on cue in my timeline:
“Findings indicate an association between acute COVID-19 rates and increased car crashes…car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder.” Didn’t matter if vaxxed.
“Findings indicate an association between acute COVID-19 rates and increased car crashes…car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder.” Didn’t matter if vaxxed.
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I am assuming you are all familiar with this masterpiece from Drunk History on the Combahee raid?
youtu.be/VpTf1GFjCd8?...
youtu.be/VpTf1GFjCd8?...
Drunk History - Harriet Tubman Leads an Army of Bad Bitches (ft. Octavia Spencer)
YouTube video by Comedy Central
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December 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I am assuming you are all familiar with this masterpiece from Drunk History on the Combahee raid?
youtu.be/VpTf1GFjCd8?...
youtu.be/VpTf1GFjCd8?...
It’s actually May because no one opens their pool in April, but otherwise, I completely agree with this.
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Twelve: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
About a decade ago there was some noise made about trying to figure out what day on the calendar Ferris Bueller’s Day Off took place. The day that was decided on by the nerds who think too mu…
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December 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It’s actually May because no one opens their pool in April, but otherwise, I completely agree with this.
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whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/12/t...
He’s eating another bowl of those Cheerios.
Trump is now running an astounding (even for him) 90 minutes late for his scheduled 3pm bill signing event
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
He’s eating another bowl of those Cheerios.
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Featured in my class last week. So important for the graduate seminar of sustainable engineering candidates to learn how things fail, despite getting many elements of an investable business proposition right.
Acknowledging persons familiar with the matter disagree on parts of story.
Acknowledging persons familiar with the matter disagree on parts of story.
December 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Featured in my class last week. So important for the graduate seminar of sustainable engineering candidates to learn how things fail, despite getting many elements of an investable business proposition right.
Acknowledging persons familiar with the matter disagree on parts of story.
Acknowledging persons familiar with the matter disagree on parts of story.
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Also this comparison shopping idea is ridiculous. A ridiculous part of my husband’s job is convincing someone at his hospital or another one that they should admit his patient into their service and then arguing with three people and forcing them to talk to each other so one of them finally agrees.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Also this comparison shopping idea is ridiculous. A ridiculous part of my husband’s job is convincing someone at his hospital or another one that they should admit his patient into their service and then arguing with three people and forcing them to talk to each other so one of them finally agrees.
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Haw -- and let me be very clear about this -- haw!
Candace Owens has ignited a civil war over Charlie Kirk's murder. Now, everyone from Nick Fuentes to Kirk's own widow is trying to stop her.
Here's a look at the factions and personalities uniting against Owens—and whether they have any hope of success: www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-ow...
Here's a look at the factions and personalities uniting against Owens—and whether they have any hope of success: www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-ow...
Everybody Hates Candace
Right-wing media figures join together to counter her conspiracy theories about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
www.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Haw -- and let me be very clear about this -- haw!
Extremely important point
The fundamental difference between many countries and the GOP in the United States is the concept of healthcare as a right vs you as a consumer of healthcare.
As a consumer, if you don’t have money to spend on healthcare, then you are excluded from access to healthcare.
As a consumer, if you don’t have money to spend on healthcare, then you are excluded from access to healthcare.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Extremely important point
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It is important to stay up-to-date on vaccinations from both a “now” and a “later” perspective as we learn more and more about the viral triggers for chronic issues we associate with aging. For instance, multiple new studies on how the shingles vax can slow or prevent dementia.
Shingles vaccine may slow, prevent dementia progression, study finds
A new study shows the shingles vaccine may offer a defense against dementia. Here are the details.
www.usatoday.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It is important to stay up-to-date on vaccinations from both a “now” and a “later” perspective as we learn more and more about the viral triggers for chronic issues we associate with aging. For instance, multiple new studies on how the shingles vax can slow or prevent dementia.
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In the City with Santa
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In the City with Santa
This one goes to the fans on the north end of the lake. 🫤
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This one goes to the fans on the north end of the lake. 🫤
Exactly. I walked away from Spotify and didn’t sign on to the family replacement because honestly, I own a lot of music in various media and don’t mind paying $.99 for an occasional new song.
I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Exactly. I walked away from Spotify and didn’t sign on to the family replacement because honestly, I own a lot of music in various media and don’t mind paying $.99 for an occasional new song.
Captain Ron.
What’s your favourite movie that YOU KNOW is fantastic, and you couldn’t care less if movie snobs would say it “isn’t real cinema?”
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Captain Ron.
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Chicago Snowfall
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Chicago Snowfall
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I would like to argue about the computer skills. I spend a lot of time teaching kids how to turn things in on canvas
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I would like to argue about the computer skills. I spend a lot of time teaching kids how to turn things in on canvas
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Reposting. Don’t forget the first strikes are also illegal. Reframing focus on only the second one is fascist creep.
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reposting. Don’t forget the first strikes are also illegal. Reframing focus on only the second one is fascist creep.
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Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
I get this but plenty of people had been calling all the strikes murder and it hadn't broken through. This revelation did and put even Republicans on the defensive and willing to do some oversignt. My sense is that any crack the regime's implacability is a foothold.
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
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Steve Jobs himself would not give his kids unlimited computer access.
The number of peeps in Silicon Valley who would pay extra to sign their kids up for this would blow people’s minds.
So may of my friends in tech are seriously critical of AI and want their kids to think for themselves.
The number of peeps in Silicon Valley who would pay extra to sign their kids up for this would blow people’s minds.
So may of my friends in tech are seriously critical of AI and want their kids to think for themselves.
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Steve Jobs himself would not give his kids unlimited computer access.
The number of peeps in Silicon Valley who would pay extra to sign their kids up for this would blow people’s minds.
So may of my friends in tech are seriously critical of AI and want their kids to think for themselves.
The number of peeps in Silicon Valley who would pay extra to sign their kids up for this would blow people’s minds.
So may of my friends in tech are seriously critical of AI and want their kids to think for themselves.
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We are much less safe with these people in charge.
This is abject incompetence and insanity, rejecting sound public health policy and science.
This is abject incompetence and insanity, rejecting sound public health policy and science.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to end the longstanding guidance that all babies born in the United States be vaccinated against hepatitis B on the day of their birth.
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We are much less safe with these people in charge.
This is abject incompetence and insanity, rejecting sound public health policy and science.
This is abject incompetence and insanity, rejecting sound public health policy and science.
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I'm here for the growing caregiver resistance to ed-tech, a movement pushing back against scenes like this: "it’s now normal to walk into a classroom and see all the students staring at devices with headphones on [while completing i-Ready lessons] and no direct teaching or conversation occurring."
December 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm here for the growing caregiver resistance to ed-tech, a movement pushing back against scenes like this: "it’s now normal to walk into a classroom and see all the students staring at devices with headphones on [while completing i-Ready lessons] and no direct teaching or conversation occurring."