Juliette Wade
@juliettewade.bsky.social
Novelist, linguist, anthropologist, Ph.D.
Fascinated by social systems.
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The Broken Trust series: 1. Mazes of Power (DAW 2020)
juliettewade.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JulietteWade
CA in AUS, Naarm
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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
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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
#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
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Epstein's youngest recorded victim was 11 years old.
It would still have been morally wrong if he had sex trafficked 15 year olds.
Anyone defending sexual assault should be mocked, ridiculed, & bullied into silence.
Epstein’s many victims deserve justice, trust, & safety.
It would still have been morally wrong if he had sex trafficked 15 year olds.
Anyone defending sexual assault should be mocked, ridiculed, & bullied into silence.
Epstein’s many victims deserve justice, trust, & safety.
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Epstein's youngest recorded victim was 11 years old.
It would still have been morally wrong if he had sex trafficked 15 year olds.
Anyone defending sexual assault should be mocked, ridiculed, & bullied into silence.
Epstein’s many victims deserve justice, trust, & safety.
It would still have been morally wrong if he had sex trafficked 15 year olds.
Anyone defending sexual assault should be mocked, ridiculed, & bullied into silence.
Epstein’s many victims deserve justice, trust, & safety.
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When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
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It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
It's got to be petrichor.
Favorite smell?
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It's got to be petrichor.
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We love to see it!
Lee went to a bread factory where a worker was killed. The next week, they changed to 8-hour shifts from 12.
Labour Ministry will fine companies up to 5% of operating profit if they have 3 three deaths in a year.
New law: employers can get a 1-year jail term for a single death.
Lee went to a bread factory where a worker was killed. The next week, they changed to 8-hour shifts from 12.
Labour Ministry will fine companies up to 5% of operating profit if they have 3 three deaths in a year.
New law: employers can get a 1-year jail term for a single death.
South Korea's new president, injured as a child labourer, cracks down on 'workplaces of death' reut.rs/4pcH1RR
South Korea's new president, injured as a child labourer, cracks down on 'workplaces of death'
South Korean Kim Yong-ho thought he would die within seconds after a 200-kilogram (441-pound) industrial press at a Hyundai Steel plant sprang to life during maintenance and crushed his legs and back.
reut.rs
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
We love to see it!
Lee went to a bread factory where a worker was killed. The next week, they changed to 8-hour shifts from 12.
Labour Ministry will fine companies up to 5% of operating profit if they have 3 three deaths in a year.
New law: employers can get a 1-year jail term for a single death.
Lee went to a bread factory where a worker was killed. The next week, they changed to 8-hour shifts from 12.
Labour Ministry will fine companies up to 5% of operating profit if they have 3 three deaths in a year.
New law: employers can get a 1-year jail term for a single death.
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A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to
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Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.
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"'Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia,' he said
Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'...”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'...”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
With a Trump pardon in hand, Stewart Rhodes says he’s ‘rebuilding’ the Oath Keepers
After vowing to bring back his group, Rhodes added that he’d like to see the president “order us all to come together ... under his command.”
www.ms.now
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"'Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia,' he said
Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'...”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'...”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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periodic reminder that the main outcome of the trolley problem is normalizing the loss of life for "the greater good"
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
periodic reminder that the main outcome of the trolley problem is normalizing the loss of life for "the greater good"
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A few weeks ago I decided to read a random 2020 Dem primary transcript, when so many people think they hit 'peak woke'. It's all broad economic focused, almost no mention of identity politics. It's crazy how warped people's minds have become.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Read the full text from the fifth Democratic debate
Read the full text from the fifth debate for the 2020 presidential election hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post.
www.nbcnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A few weeks ago I decided to read a random 2020 Dem primary transcript, when so many people think they hit 'peak woke'. It's all broad economic focused, almost no mention of identity politics. It's crazy how warped people's minds have become.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak
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as a close observer of democratic party politics for 15 years i do not recall seeing such an “expression” anywhere
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
as a close observer of democratic party politics for 15 years i do not recall seeing such an “expression” anywhere
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this is a huge [citation needed]
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
this is a huge [citation needed]
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Again, this is outrageous.
Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk was detained by 🇨🇦 customs agents and, for four hours, was asked a series of questions about his participation in the conference, his involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and his position on Israel. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Border officers detain well-known legal scholar travelling to conference on Palestine | CBC News
A prominent academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Again, this is outrageous.
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With @arynbraun.bsky.social, this week we ran this big look at what ICE/CBP has become under Donald Trump and how the agencies increasingly resemble a sort of national police force he can send to whatever city he likes to intimidate people:
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force
Immigration agents are operating in cities with few legal constraints
www.economist.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
With @arynbraun.bsky.social, this week we ran this big look at what ICE/CBP has become under Donald Trump and how the agencies increasingly resemble a sort of national police force he can send to whatever city he likes to intimidate people:
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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The fact that trans people have to be medicalized or pathologized and made to jump through hoops to be "allowed" to transition is ridiculous. It's just medical oppression. People should be allowed to transition just because they WANT to.
5/8
5/8
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The fact that trans people have to be medicalized or pathologized and made to jump through hoops to be "allowed" to transition is ridiculous. It's just medical oppression. People should be allowed to transition just because they WANT to.
5/8
5/8
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Bodily autonomy is the fundamental human right from which all others are derived.
I believe we should have the right to safely modify our bodies however we wish even in ways that do not have broad societal acceptance
🧵🪡: 1/8
I believe we should have the right to safely modify our bodies however we wish even in ways that do not have broad societal acceptance
🧵🪡: 1/8
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Bodily autonomy is the fundamental human right from which all others are derived.
I believe we should have the right to safely modify our bodies however we wish even in ways that do not have broad societal acceptance
🧵🪡: 1/8
I believe we should have the right to safely modify our bodies however we wish even in ways that do not have broad societal acceptance
🧵🪡: 1/8
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Make sure to give @psfrench.bsky.social, who reported this story, a follow as well as bolts!
November 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Make sure to give @psfrench.bsky.social, who reported this story, a follow as well as bolts!
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
This is important. Many of these people have been largely de facto untouchable. We must not allow them to become *accepted* as legally untouchable.
This is an important new line being crossed. Trump isn't just pardoning the act of attempting to overthrow the government on January 6: he's pardoning *those people* for committing crimes generally. He may be creating a group of (federally) legally untouchable people.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is important. Many of these people have been largely de facto untouchable. We must not allow them to become *accepted* as legally untouchable.
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Agree. Summers engaging in friendly gossipy 100% sexist emails with underage-girls-sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, long *after* Epstein had been indicted, shows remarkably poor judgement and hubris. Professional economists should openly question people and institutions that honor Summers.
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Agree. Summers engaging in friendly gossipy 100% sexist emails with underage-girls-sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, long *after* Epstein had been indicted, shows remarkably poor judgement and hubris. Professional economists should openly question people and institutions that honor Summers.
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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This is especially key because we know that the January 6th seditionists, like all Trumpists are prone to crimes like sexually abusing children, and spousal abuse. They are, of course, setting the stage for allowing January 6th seditionists to be able to legally sexually assault children.
This is an important new line being crossed. Trump isn't just pardoning the act of attempting to overthrow the government on January 6: he's pardoning *those people* for committing crimes generally. He may be creating a group of (federally) legally untouchable people.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This is especially key because we know that the January 6th seditionists, like all Trumpists are prone to crimes like sexually abusing children, and spousal abuse. They are, of course, setting the stage for allowing January 6th seditionists to be able to legally sexually assault children.
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This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.