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Bonnie Johnson

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I STAND WITH UKRAINE 💪🇺🇦 photographer and infosec nerd Chicagoland - rural burbs that still identify as Chicago, Illinois loud advocate, 'What we do in life echos in eternity'

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 7d

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Hyten’s warning from 2017: “If you execute an unlawful order, you will go to jail. You could go to jail for the rest of your life.”

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3h

It's been 22 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in. At what point will political reporters start calling this a constitutional crisis?

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 27m

Release the Epstein files.

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2h

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 29m

She's 💯
"This bullshit has to stop."

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2h

🚨🚨🚨 Governor Hochul holds nothing back in a sharp, yet poetic response to a question about exposed texts. 1/2

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

Boom! Who’s winning the shutdown debate? THE ACA.

More Republicans than Democrats use the ACA marketplace. So the GOP’s base is relying on the same program their party is causing premiums to skyrocket.

45% of ACA marketplace enrollees are Republicans, and most live in GOP-held districts.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2h

The case before the Supreme Court is called Louisiana v. Callais, a redistricting dispute that has become a major test of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the landmark civil rights law designed to protect Black Americans and other minorities from being shut out of political representation.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 2h

Jacob Soboroff is doing a great job investigating and debunking the claims that ICE is making about their arrests targeted worst of the worst

Congress can help reign in ICE- IF we get a Democratic majority. That will be more likely if California passes Proposition 50. #YesOnProp50

[Image of Uncle Sam holding California oranges]

SAVE DEMOCRACY FROM GOP ELECTION RIGGING

CALIFORNIA

VOTE YES ON PROP 50

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 45m

Me too.

Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 45m

Fuck SCOTUS.

GOP seeking to have section 2, designed to prevent discrimination in voting, declared unconstitutional as battles around redistricting take place across nation.
🖕 Republicans and their Hard Right agenda.

GOP seeking to have section 2, designed to prevent discrimination in voting, declared
unconstitutional as battles around redistricting take place across nation

Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 4h

The Republican party "governance". No strategy, Nazi approved.
@congressdotgov.bsky.social

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · 11h

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump admin. staffer reportedly in an 'I love Hitler' chat hasn't been fired by Trump yet youtu.be/EDtPJYciGHk?...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: Speaker Johnson: "I don't have any strategy"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

Remember when you tried to tell us “the younger generations don’t think that way.” And “the young people will save us.” There are a lot of great, humane, decent, bright young people out there. But there are also a lot of these young people. And they’re not going anywhere.

Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 21h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

“Defense lawyers who have clients caught up in the case have expressed bafflement at what possible crime could have been committed…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

“Dozens of prominent artists and cultural organizations will participate in a series of artistic demonstrations to protest what authoritarian overreach by the Trump administration.

The protests, known as Fall of Freedom, will take place on the weekend of Nov. 21...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’

www.nytimes.com

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 4h

The same Christian values as the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 10h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 11h

Apparently he’s funding UK celebrity racist and convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson legal fees.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

Ukraine war briefing: Poland minister shows Shahed drone and warns of ‘deep’ Russian threat
Radoslaw Sikorski, speaking in London, urges drone wall and three-year plan to back Ukraine; Odesa mayor’s ‘citizenship suspended’. What we know on day 1,330
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Ukraine war briefing: Poland minister shows Shahed drone and warns of ‘deep’ Russian threat

Radoslaw Sikorski, speaking in London, urges drone wall and three-year plan to back Ukraine; Odesa mayor’s ‘citizenship suspended’. What we know on day 1,330

www.theguardian.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

Glad I checked, the courts ruled against Trump again. 💪

Judge lifts Trump’s halt of nearly complete offshore wind energy project
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
Nearly complete.

Judge lifts Trump's halt of nearly complete offshore wind energy project

A federal judge ruled Monday that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the U.S. o...

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 11h

Or Musk who has been given tens of millions in tax subsidies by Nevada while many of his employees are in state sponsored Medicaid.

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

Elon Musk is the richest man in history. Isn't it weird there are no Elon Musk hospital wings. No Musk libraries. No Elon Musk Schools. Are there any philanthropic causes that have Elon Musk's name on
them? Has he ever helped another human being?

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