Julia Franks

Here's a list of all the NIH medical research cancelled or delayed in the past months, from studies of brain cancer to Alzeimer's to drug studies for ebola and bird flu. Stay healthy, y'all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm thrilled to see my essay published in the Threepenny Review: guilt, dogs, and the complications of friendship across the political divide. www.threepennyreview.com/someday-thes... #booksky #writingcommunity

Haw. But I still think adding new material is infinitely easier than paring down, at least in a novel….

To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

Yes, yes abolishing the exceptionally rigorous foreign service exam and appointing diplomats based on vibes should work beautifully to find the most competent people.

As a TX taxpayer I have always gladly paid taxes to support our public school systems, even tho I don’t have kids in them.

I am not as glad about my taxes being taken from the public school system to support private religious institutions at the expense of public schools.

Looking for examples of the #wisefool #holyfool trope in literature. Example: #DonQuixote, #DeaconKingKong, Forest Gump, #Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin. Got any others? #booksky #writingcommunity #writersky #writers #fiction

So quickly.

my offer to america: we bring woke back

I guess he doesn’t know yet about robots and mechanization.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin. Like a Monty Python version of Dostoevsky.

Or any book. 🙂

Almost 90 degrees in Atlanta this weekend, the air gritty and thick with pollen, the streets and sidewalks lemonade yellow. But people had something to say. #handsoff #handsoffatlanta

Despite Trump’s best efforts to gaslight us, people understand what’s happening.

People are taking things into their own hands

Our nation is in a battle to define reality. Describing what we see is not “virtue signaling," “pearl clutching” or “finger wagging” or any other cliche meant to minimize the importance of speaking truth. If we see that the emperor's not wearing any clothes, let's keep describing his naked butt.

Our nation is in a battle to define reality. Describing what we see is not “virtue signaling," “pearl clutching” or “finger wagging” or any other cliche meant to minimize the importance of speaking truth. If we see that the emperor's not wearing any clothes, let's keep describing his naked butt.

Our nation is in a battle to define reality. Describing what you see is not “virtue signaling," “pearl clutching” or “finger wagging” or any other cliche meant to minimize the importance of speaking truth. If you see the emperor's not wearing any clothes, then go ahead and describe his naked butt.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

I am for the prisoners at the bar, and shall apologize for it only in the words of the Marquis Beccaria: “If I can but be the instrument of preserving one life, his blessing and tears of transport, shall be a sufficient consolation to me, for the contempt of all mankind.”
—John Adams

#quotes

That looks like a planet.

On projected revenue:

To put $500 billion in context, the US spent ~$825 billion on the Defense Department in fiscal 2024.

The current tax gap is $700 billion. Think about almost doubling the tax gap in a single year.

Sad to read this about my Alma mater.

Me too. As if the most interesting thing to write about female relationships is competition for the male eye. That has not been my experience in life, so why would I write about it? and why do so many people want to read about it?

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The Tennessee Holler-glad you’re out there with the truth!

People Get Ready Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous red States have fallen or may fall into the grip of DOGE-MAGA and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall...

We live in what has been an exceptionally stable country, but it's just been destabilized. In that instability is possibility--not to return to the world of January 19th, 2025, but to something other than this rampage of hate and destruction, this oligarchs against everything coup. If we seize it.

It: Would you like to update the software to install our new productivity enhancing tools?
Me: It that a euphemism for some AI bullshit?
It: Yes.
Me: Then no.
It: Congratulations! The installation is complete!