Julian Lucas
Staff writer at the New Yorker. Jes Grew Carrier.
https://www.julianlucas.com
- Reposted by Julian LucasWe have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
- Reposted by Julian LucasPHILADELPHIA —The National Park Service has started dismantling exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park. www.pennlive.com/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by Julian LucasYou used to be able to "inspect element" in this country. You used to be able to download video
- Reposted by Julian LucasI wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
- Reposted by Julian Lucas*frantically googling* moral arc bent wrong how to fix wikihow diy moral arc fix moral arc technician near me
- Reposted by Julian LucasI went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
- Reposted by Julian Lucas"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities." An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
- Reposted by Julian Lucasonce again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.
- Reposted by Julian LucasQR codes for ICE is hilarious, like they’re a restaurant menu that shoots people in the face.
- Reposted by Julian LucasWe're going full Restoration now. Trump attacks Civil Rights Act as unfair white people. www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
- Reposted by Julian LucasICE and other federal agents claim they mask b/c they're at risk at being doxed and killed. Here's what they're really dying of: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Julian LucasMinneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."
- We’ve fallen so far from Kellogg’s chaste vision
- Reposted by Julian LucasRenee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j
- Reposted by Julian LucasThis is why it annoys me when people try to make it seem as if this is how things have always been. There was a time when greater literacy and reading as a part of everyday life for people of every class was a national mission. Then it changed drastically and now we’re here.
- Reposted by Julian Lucashappy(?) new year everyone, for my first piece of 2026 I wrote about Grok's *still*-ongoing CSAM blitz and the troubling, embarrassing silence of lawmakers in the U.S. and U.K. who've spent the past year censoring the internet for the sake of "child safety" yet are saying and doing nothing about X:
- Reposted by Julian Lucas30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
- “ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
- Reposted by Julian LucasNow more than ever.
- Reposted by Julian Lucasthis is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
- Reposted by Julian LucasA lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.
- Reposted by Julian LucasAmong the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
- Reposted by Julian LucasZohran has been mayor for twelve minutes and it's still cold in NYC. What the fuck. Mr mayor can you please turn on the sun.
- Here’s some of the writing I was proudest of this year. I dove to the wreck of Brazil’s last slave ship and reported on the fraught desire, throughout the diaspora, for traces of the Middle Passage www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- As DOGE began its purge of government data, I reported on the librarians and Reddit hobbyists fighting to preserve them (@datarescueproject.org) www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
- I profiled Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web—and traced its “enshittification” through his career-long struggle to keep it free and open www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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- Reposted by Julian LucasZohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...
- Reposted by Julian LucasUSPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
- ‘For Rimsky-Korsakov, the key of A was clear pink; for Scriabin, it was green. Duke Ellington saw the D notes of his baritone saxophonist, Harry Carney, as dark blue hessian.’ Susannah Clapp on Edward Brooke-Hitching’s The Madman’s Orchestra: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- A favorite essay on snow, by Charlie Fox, in @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...
- ‘Snow “covers all tracks, blurs the road, muffles every sound, conceals all colors.” It encourages the profitable hibernation that gives rise to new reveries and dreams . . . A double retreat to the interior is staged, at once into the house and further into the shelter of the mind.’
- Reposted by Julian Lucas(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
- Reposted by Julian LucasFascinating interview about cultural restitution. Things I learned: The stolen jewels were purchased off the private market by the museum in the 1980s, and Hitler blocked the return of the Nefertiti bust from Berlin to Egypt in 1933. I need to read her books now.
- Reposted by Julian LucasPope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:
- Parson Brown wept
- Reposted by Julian Lucas“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
- Reposted by Julian LucasImagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
- Got to tell Samuel Delany’s daughter that her baby teeth were in her father’s “papers” at the Beinecke
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- Reposted by Julian LucasPer NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
- ‘tis the season for giving (back plundered heritage), so I interviewed a champion of restitution, the art historian Bénédicte Savoy. We discussed the Napoleonic origins of the “encyclopedic” museum, Hitler’s love for Nefertiti, and the recent heist at the Louvre… www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
- Reposted by Julian LucasBénédicte Savoy has emerged as one of the art world’s leading thinkers. In a new interview, she talks about Donald Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian, and the prospects for restitution amid the breakdown of the liberal international order. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Iymz65
- Reposted by Julian LucasAn immigrant works a dangerous job to protect Americans. It puts him in medical debt. Now he also has to worry about being deported by ICE when he goes to work or takes his kid to a soccer tournament. Feel safer?
- Reposted by Julian LucasI’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato
- Reposted by Julian Lucasdo leaders of the top investigative newsroom in the country not understand what makes their journalism valuable??????
- 1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
- Reposted by Julian LucasA “take” on (or ode to) Mary McCarthy in last week’s mag www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
- Reposted by Julian LucasMerriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
- Reposted by Julian LucasOne of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
- Reposted by Julian LucasI've been reading Sven's book, and it is terrific and groundbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...
- Reposted by Julian LucasTRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
- Reposted by Julian Lucas79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
- Reposted by Julian LucasThis is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.
- Reposted by Julian LucasWe gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
- Reposted by Julian LucasBenjamin Lay was out there THROWING FAKE BLOOD on Quakers in the damn EARLY 1700s because HE KNEW that enslaving Africans was a SIN, INHUMANE and should end IMMEDIATELY.
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- Reposted by Julian LucasQuite a headline.
- Reposted by Julian LucasOne analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
- Reposted by Julian LucasBreaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
- Reposted by Julian Lucasthe password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
- Reposted by Julian LucasZohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
