Julia

seashell eyes, windy smile

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Musk is worth more than South Africa’s GDP. @BernieSanders and I proposed a 5% tax on people like him.

In one year, it could fund:
- free public college & trade school
-$10/day childcare
- Special-needs education nationwide

Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Israeli tanks in Beirut, Lebanon.

Hezbollah didn’t exist.

They killed 6,800 people.

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@hannahbartlet51 @staquinasenjoyr @faithandheresy The home I grew up in was 950 sf. It was small but it had an actual living room and three bedrooms and a yard. It had closets and more than 3 windows.

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@jongeeting @JohnnyWalsh__ Sure, people sell their homes all the time but you need a critical mass. I would need a lot of money to move, not all of us want to live nomadic lives

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@GPhilly120 Very

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

His parents refusing to name the other elite private schools of the kids in attendance is crazy work.

[The Philadelphia Inquirer @PhillyInquirer]

A St. Joe’s Prep grad is recovering from a traumatic brain injury after violent high school ‘tiki party’ in Wissahickon park https://t.co/n2HenN2cZQ

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@GPhilly120 The article says multiple. My guess is Penn Charter and some of the mainline schools. All partying in the woods in the city. Gotta preserve the reputations of the elite even at the expense of your own child.

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@jongeeting @JohnnyWalsh__ Weird that people don't want to voluntarily give up their homes because some guys in the Internet want big buildings there

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@PhillyInquirer His parents shouldn't be protecting the other elite schools of students in attendance if they want their son's violent assaulters bright to justice. Name them so people in those communities know.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

Yippee

[NWS Mount Holly @NWS_MountHolly]

⚠️🔥 One day left of the oppressively hot and humid conditions. A few severe storms will be possible again this afternoon and evening, but not everyone will get a storm. It will turn much less humid for Saturday, but high temperatures will remain in the upper 80s to near 90°.

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@yumtapwater Do you have chest hair? Show it

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@CarlOrkmansen We sure as shit don't need more almonds. They are the worst nuts.

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@JohnnyWalsh__ @jongeeting Do you suggest that private developers just, what? Take over the entire neighborhood by eminent domain and bulldozer it? Those are people's homes.

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@pennslinger My niece was making $15 an hour 6 years ago in NJ working at a pool snack stand. All these companies can afford $15 an hour because they already do it in other states.

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

@mtracey @matthewstoller It's the ruling class. That's my preferred term but Epstein class seems to work with a lot of regular people.

[HalalFlow @halalflow]

"There is a class of society who are unaccountable ... I have been talking about this to my buddies and friends for the past year" — @grahamformaine on the Epstein class ad he recently put out.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: Horrific scenes from the latest Israeli bombing of a residential home near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

Everyone is so angry today. It's the heat isn't it?

[Julia @RedOctoberJuls]

Having to be part of a project to automate everything your company does to make the jobs of nearly everyone, including yourself, obsolete is the worst kind of existential dilemma.