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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

In the first term, he crashed into the guardrails. They held off the worst but were damaged. And instead of strengthening them, we collectively said "look, they held, what's the problem?" which allowed him to plow right through them in the second term.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

They were handing out flags at the last protest and I'm going to bring that one this weekend

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

Local Democratic offices are doing canvassing to GOTV to vote No on 1. They're always looking for volunteers to knock on doors.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

Democrats should have a running list of everything the president and his administration have done that warrant impeachment, along with a sign that says __ days since the administration committed an impeachable offense.

Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 21h

Ahh, the Good Old Days. When people also yearned for the Giod Old Days.

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 21h

Me, at least twice, reading this one:

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and a serious look on his face .

Alt: Blinking guy dot gif

media.tenor.com

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

That's multiple times he's used that talking point. I don't think he thought it through

Photo of Regina Mills from Mean Girls with text that reads

So you agree
Trump wants to be a king

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

You can see "Liberation Day" pretty clearly, but I forget, what happened in March?

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not going to the No Kings protest because I hate America. I'm going to the No Kings protest because I love America.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

That deserves to go on a sign this weekend

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.

Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.

Me, in @msnbc.com:

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot torch your own home and then demand applause for watering the neighbor’s lawn.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Peace Doesn’t Belong to Tyrants

It belongs to the survivors, not the men who funded the bombs.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

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The Bible never condemns slavery

YouTube video by Dan McClellan

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

Text from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo that reads:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

The future we could have had...

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

Anyway, the whole book is hilarious (as are Barry's other novels), and I recommend reading it.

Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

Then he reflects on how he has so much money, he could keep buying pizza places every night for 20 years and not run out of money. And while it's a fictional scene, written by someone who's not a billionaire, I think it's a good reminder of how rich people think of money.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

There's a subplot in Dave Barry's novel Insane City about a billionaire obsessed with keeping score with other billionaires. And there's a scene where an even richer billionaire gets high and buys a pizza place just so he can get delivery...

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

I've been reliably informed that this sort of rhetoric is dangerous and should be punished

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, this one sounds very typical of a new manager coming in and getting to know the lay of the land. But I also don't blame people for being on edge and seeing parallels to Elon's 5 things debacle.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

Even with these helpful explanations, I had to read that paragraph so many times to figure it out.

Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 7d

Not the first member of the administration that thinks the Constitution is there to protect the rights of the government bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 7d

It's like when Kristi Noem claimed habeas corpus was the President's right to shuffle prisoners around. These rights are to protect the people from the government, not the other way around.

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