Juli McKenna Kearns

Juli McKenna Kearns

@idyllopus.bsky.social

Author. Artist. Playwright (twas). Cinema analyses. Dem Socialist. She/her. Husband is a musician/engineer/producer. Son makes films and I sometimes assist. No AI. Atlanta GA. Plutonium-enriched childhood in WA. My website: https://idyllopuspress.com

510 Followers 479 Following 2,006 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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A canopy alone on a mown lawn with woodsy foliage in the background under cloudy skies

The Canopy, North Georgia, 2021, processed 2026

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The urge to vomit in response to absolutely everything.

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This is the pentagon press corp now: hand picked propagandists

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Just for fun, here are some images of the same DOGE douche (Justin Fox) at the raid on the US Institute of Peace via the MPD body cam footage I obtained:

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it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

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Exclusive | Trump Administration Set to Receive $10 Billion Fee for Brokering TikTok Deal Investors in the social-media platform’s U.S. business agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources said.

this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward

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#blackandwhitephotography

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Multiple billboards advertising luxury on Atlanta buildings over storefronts "Connaisseur Paris" and "The Real Real". Luxury high rise apartments to the rear. In front, a pole with "security camera".

Advertising Luxury, Buckhead, Atlanta. Taken 2021, processed 2026

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President Trump on Fox News: “A lot of them were let in here, they shouldn't have been let in. Their genetics are not exactly your genetics.”

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We live in hell.

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Must watch 👀: Deposition of another DOGE employee, Nate Cavanaugh, who along with Justin Fox (above) flagged NEH grants for cancelation if they referred to race, feminism, or sexual identity, applying Trump’s anti-DEI EO.

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Seriously...sonofa...

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How many hours spent before a mirror practicing?

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the president of the united states just said he found out the country he started a war with had boats sometime after he started that war

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Articles and photos from various news sources are pictured: a cave, an item on the Magic Circle, on the proposition that Missouri's caves become bomb shelters (Cold War), a Magic Circle open house, and a picture of the real Belle Starr as versus the Belle Starr of the film, "The Belle Starr Story" directed by Lina Wertmuller.

How to Perform an Autopsy - Chapter Nine
Missouri, or "I wake in a panic, fear swamping me"

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BREAKING: Pentagon Report: U.S. Attcked Elementary School in Iran

Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.

theintercept.com/2026/03/11/i...

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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

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A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts” Grammarly's AI-powered "Expert Review" promises "writing feedback by subject-matter experts," and if you write about journalism, there's a good chance that includes you.

Looks like AI is coming for me, without my consent or knowledge. Lots of others too. @niemanlab.org explains.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...

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Undulating two-lane road through the desert, with several hills on either side in the foreground and flat landscape beyond.

The Painted Desert, Arizona, 2008

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Schumer: "Iran doesn't have Tomahawk missiles, Donald Trump! The claim is beyond asinine. He says whatever pops into his head no matter what the truth is. And we all know he lies, but on something as formidable as this, it's appalling."

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...grows out its back, filling where had been several magnolias. So many roofs going in so many different directions! All of this being built onto the back of a 1920s wood urban two-story (not a farmhouse, not a bungalow) with expansive covered porch in the front.

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For several years across the street from our apt building was an old house that still stood though it had been through one and a half major fires (homeless or arson). Then a developer gutted the home and tore out all the magnolia trees in the backyard and it's wild daily watching as a McMansion...

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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

And the pigs keep gobbling.

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab newrepublic.com/post/207555/... via @newrepublic.com

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‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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It’s sad that this 5 year old video is still relevant today.

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Child (son) sitting across from photographer in booth in the worst Denny's chain restaurant ever, we should have asked to see the latest health inspection result.

Chain Restaurant, Navajo Boulevard, Holbrook, Arizona, 2008, processed 2022

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Yes, yes. I was hoping someone would do this.

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I would question why Trump and Israel blew up the Azadi 12,000 seat sports center in Tehran, what does it have to do with military targets, but there's no point...

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"There is a Cover-Up Afoot": Sen. Whitehouse Unravels Disturbing Trump, Epstein, and Russia Ties YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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