CKJohnsonBK

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Brooklyn-based pest. Longtime volunteer with Sister District, a direct action organization working to create and maintain progressive majorities in state legislative houses.

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Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 03:57 UTC

Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.

Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.

The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.

Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.

www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:26 UTC

these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:07 UTC

Also, we seem to have lost the plot that the mere fact of spending any time in jail is destructive, as is spending time and money defending yourself from spurious charges. Part of the point of the USA is freedom from imprisonment and persecution, albeit inconsistently applied.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

I mean, I’m 58 and this fairly describes me.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

This is great! Thank you! I wish more people would do this. I don’t know why anyone is on X. This place could be great. 😢

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:26 UTC

Jeebus. Like the man said, they may not say they are fascists, but fascists think they are facists.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:22 UTC

Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:14 UTC

For real, one of the things I like on Facebook (!) is a 30-day mute button. Sometimes people you like go on jags you don’t care about (e.g. some kind of sportsball tournament) and you’d just like to ignore them for a little while.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:57 UTC

Do you always mean to do it but forget? There's a bluesky setting for that!

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

It seems to me that a vote for Biden *is* a vote for Harris.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 10:26 UTC

My child’s college appears to be running on fumes. I don’t think it will make it much longer. Very sad for everybody.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:17 UTC

I've been at the forefront of the resurgence of the court expansion effort for five years* and I can assure everyone that a necessary predicate is electing Democrats to the White House and Congress. If anyone is confused about that ... stop.

* Go follow @takebackthect.bsky.social

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:57 UTC

$14.96. Best and final offer.

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:24 UTC

It's completely ass backwards. The danger of a president committing crimes as an individual is nothing compared to him using the government for criminal ends. The very things that we should be most concerned about a corrupt president doing are the things he can't be punished for.

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Chris Gaines @bertin.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

Biden has been great on climate, filled tons of judicial positions, caused a ginormous resurgence in American manufacturing. He’s actually engaging in antitrust actions. People are no longer choosing between insulin and food. Lots of really good stuff is happening. Please stop saying he sucks.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:36 UTC

Anecdata in NYC: several cases related to my Brooklyn preschool emerged over last week.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:51 UTC

Maybe the current President could remove Supreme Court justices from office? No? Maybe he could arrest them? Blockade their houses and turn off their Internet? Ya know, for national security reasons?

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

right. the president could order troops to suppress protesters using live fire and the supreme court would extend that absolute immunity

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

And that’s the depressing fact. 😔

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

Good for her. Do it.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:08 UTC

Interior of a skunk cabbage

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:05 UTC

OK, I guess? As a 55+ person, though, I must say no thank you.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 19:15 UTC

Yeah it’s not like we’ll see a repeat of 1968, when the Democrats downshifted to a Vice President at a convention in Chicago that was plagued by protests against the party’s support for an unpopular foreign war and wound up creating an opening for a candidate they’d beat before. Totally different!

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:53 UTC

Every politics post can be understood at least in part as the poster rehearsing an argument they're planning on having with their dad later, only instead of into a bathroom mirror it's to the knowing void of internet strangers. Anyway pass the mashed potatoes.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

This Washington Post article by Matthew Capucci talks about why this is such an extraordinary storm and is a harbinger of more bad news to come. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:30 UTC

They are panicked. They aren’t panicked about Biden’s age, though, they’re panicked about a potential Trump presidency, and their time would be better spent explaining why that prospect is worthy of panic.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 12:46 UTC

The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:11 UTC

Nichols is a weird dude. He is smart and knowledgeable but has certain mental rigidities that trip him up. Very bad case of smartest man in the room syndrome.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

Since the debate I’ve stepped back my participation here and even passively reading news about it. I came here to check out J Bouie and briefly see what’s up in my timeline. It’s good to take a break. Be well.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 03:27 UTC

Watched this repeatedly as a kid.

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[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 03:22 UTC

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:12 UTC

Anyway here’s a Univision focus group of undecideds saying that the debate convinced them Biden is a better choice because Trump is “a crazy liar” twitter.com/realMABarret...

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:19 UTC

Hello new friends! Have a look at Messier 13. Visible to the naked eye, if the sky is dark enough. Edmund Halley spotted it in 1714 and wrote “This is but a little Patch, but it shews it self to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Which, same. Image: ESA/Hubble, NASA

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:56 UTC

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:27 UTC

This place has been doing some Twitter-Ancienne numbers lately!

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Mark Greene @remakingmanhood.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:20 UTC

*Clears throat loudly. Points.*

www.newsweek.com/latino-voter...

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:24 UTC

Family extinction murderers. All of them.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:57 UTC

Monday, Monday (bah-da bah-da-da-da) So good to me (bah-da bah-da-da-da) Monday mornin', it was all I hoped it would be

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Steve Bannon’s request to stay out of prison pending any remaining appeals of his contempt of Congress conviction. He is due to report to prison for a four-month sentence by Monday.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:54 UTC

Nice. Hope somebody adds the Chumbawumba song to the video and circulates it on TikTok.

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

The correct analysis.

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Kashana @kashana.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:05 UTC

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court is like “if I were you, I would simply stop being homeless.”

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CKJohnsonBK @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:33 UTC

Super interesting discussion/thread.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 08:29 UTC

For a long time, the last state didn't ban it until the 1920s, it was the norm that in many states non-citizens could vote so long as they'd been here a year and merely intended to become naturalized. When there were, for most of that time and most of the world, no limits on physically moving here.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 04:48 UTC

You can bemoan its superficial ignorance, damn the irrational electorate all day long. But people don't vote their pocketbooks or on issue positions. Nobody's sitting down balancing out their policy scorecard. They vote as an expression of their values, a statement about their identity and beliefs.

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