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Berni Johnson

@bernij.bsky.social

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💙 Writer of things, administrator of systems, devourer of entertainment, and haver of ADHD. X-pat exploring bluer skies. She/her. Spy Trivia book: https://ulyssespress.com/books/the-big-book-of-spy-trivia/ More writing links: https://linktr.ee/Bernij

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 7h

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

House Judiciary Dems announce investigation of Trump's effort to loot the Treasury for a $230 million DOJ payoff -->

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 20h

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 1d

Me, a sailor in ancient times, sailing my boat into the rocks like an idiot: Uhh a lady made me do it. By singing. Usually I'm really good at this

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 10h

In the aftermath of the Louvre heist, we have decided to beef up security around our prized collection of erotic clown paintings.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Berni Johnson @bernij.bsky.social · 8h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 8h

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 1d

QOTD: "…if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government."

-Dean Burnett

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Berni Johnson @bernij.bsky.social · 1d

The metaphors are on the verge of gaining sentience and taking over.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

DC — racial profiling, violating rights, insane waste of resources.. this video really has it all. Where are the “gOVerNmeNt wAstE” small government folks?

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DPz0rll...

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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 2d

And this is why AI will not be our overlords.

Screenshot of a search for “no kings size estimate” and the AI Overview providing a summary about a standard king mattress measurement.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Real talk…

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 2d

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Jenny @ precon stressin @slowedmountains.bsky.social · 1d

Nothin else for it

Two panel comic of a person with glasses looking down at an open book. First panel reads: I think I might be bad at this.

In the second panel they are scribbling in the book with a pencil. Text reads: I’m gonna do it anyway

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California.

Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.