@jcajohnson
Reader, writer, translator, walker, owned by many a dog, sometime teacher of teachers and middlings
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- “When you gut investigative reporting, you are not being neutral. When you purge respected journalists, you are taking a side.” www.meidasplus.com/p/a-letter-t...
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonJeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda. Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonUpdate: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonThey’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonRemember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️
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- Reposted by @jcajohnsonI posted this last night, & I was surprised there weren’t more people talking about it. This is an amazing demonstration of how unfit he is to perform the duties, that he can’t differentiate between sending a bunch of ICE & Border Patrol to occupy a US city vs kidnapping a nation’s president
- Walz told me that when he spoke to Trump on the phone the president compared the immigration operations in Minneapolis to the military mission he ordered in Venezuela. www.ms.now/news/walz-sa...
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonMinnesota needs impartial investigations, the departure of federal forces, and an end to the campaign of retribution against our state.
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonLook, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over. In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.
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- Generalissimo Francisco Franco is no longer dead
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonBan stock trading by lawmakers in Congress. Full stop.
- Santa came 🧑🎄
- Reposted by @jcajohnson"En las grandes crisis, el corazón se rompe o se curte". Honoré de Balzac
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonThis is brilliant
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonThis really is a GREAT sign!
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- Reposted by @jcajohnsonCongratulations to all the runners today at the Chicago Marathon! I hope you’re taking a moment after crossing the finish line and enjoying all that the best big city in the nation has to offer.
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonOs deseamos un feliz 12 de octubre en el que celebrar todo el patrimonio que compartimos, al margen de controversias, especialmente la lengua y una inmensa riqueza cultural. Poema de Luis Cernuda:
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- Reposted by @jcajohnsonTrump is weak.
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonThe President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
- Our representatives got more calls about TikTok than about what keeps people alive. Good god!
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonstaffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonIt's been 8 years since the iconic moment Tom Holland lip-synced "Umbrella" by Rihanna for Zendaya. 🎥
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonGov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonI tried to post this, did not succeed. Kudos to my pal Mark Hamill. Here it is.
- Your world will get bigger and brighter. THE LIFE OF CHUCK. From the hearts and souls of Mike Flanagan and Stephen King. In Select Cities 6.6, Everywhere 6.13 #ThanksChuck #HowDoYouDescribeTheIndescribable?
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonI have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonOh man! "Maybe this is exactly what the end conclusion of dismantling education and American democracy is, because this is ridiculous." I love Rep. Melanie Stansbury. This is magnificent. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonDonald Trump babbling about wanting to dismantle the Department of Education while he struggles to read his sad little script sure is something.
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonICE detained Julio Noriega, a 54 year-old US citizen who was born in Chicago, for over 10 hours on January 31st. He was walking around "Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses." They didn't show him a warrant. They didn't give him paperwork. And he's now suing.
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonI want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonDonald Trump is lying to you.
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- Reposted by @jcajohnsonLeaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them
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- Reposted by @jcajohnsonNEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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- Team Ukraine. Embarrassing press conference with orange man and couch man
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonWe should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly. Let’s start today.
- Can we also stipulate a wrongful of political jet fuel?
- *Wingful
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- Reposted by @jcajohnsonIf you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonThat seals it. No Super Bowl for me.
- I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...
- Level up erebody
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonif I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
- Reposted by @jcajohnsonTrump kills Americans.
- ➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
- And bask in the glow of all the fires you start. Metaphorical, of course
