Dave Johnson
@dcjohnson.bsky.social
Former Sr Fellow, Campaign for America's Future
Former Silicon Valley. Atari, Imagic, Be, Working Software, Gobe
US expat in the UK
seeingtheforest.com
wecanhavenicethings.com
democracyandcommunity.org
governmentcheese.co.uk
Former Silicon Valley. Atari, Imagic, Be, Working Software, Gobe
US expat in the UK
seeingtheforest.com
wecanhavenicethings.com
democracyandcommunity.org
governmentcheese.co.uk
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I post on UK issues because I spent much time & effort trying to warn people about the rightward shift of US "conservatives" and what it would lead to.
I moved here and see the same forces now working to capture the UK govt and impose what has been imposed on the US. I give a shit so I post & warn.
I moved here and see the same forces now working to capture the UK govt and impose what has been imposed on the US. I give a shit so I post & warn.
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The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]
Fascists are big on collective punishment.
When you have a scapegoated "them" you go after all of "them."
When you have a scapegoated "them" you go after all of "them."
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Fascists are big on collective punishment.
When you have a scapegoated "them" you go after all of "them."
When you have a scapegoated "them" you go after all of "them."
It's about race, not migration. It always was.
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It's about race, not migration. It always was.
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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basically the "strategy" is "get re-elected", which ofc isn't actually a strategy
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
basically the "strategy" is "get re-elected", which ofc isn't actually a strategy
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The whole of Bluesky when they see our Black Friday posts.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The whole of Bluesky when they see our Black Friday posts.
Spending on things that make regular people's lives better is not what's "out of control."
Top tax rates on high incomes used to be above 80%. Corporate tax rates were much higher than now. Giant corporations used to be regulated. Unions were strong. THAT is what is "out of control."
Top tax rates on high incomes used to be above 80%. Corporate tax rates were much higher than now. Giant corporations used to be regulated. Unions were strong. THAT is what is "out of control."
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Spending on things that make regular people's lives better is not what's "out of control."
Top tax rates on high incomes used to be above 80%. Corporate tax rates were much higher than now. Giant corporations used to be regulated. Unions were strong. THAT is what is "out of control."
Top tax rates on high incomes used to be above 80%. Corporate tax rates were much higher than now. Giant corporations used to be regulated. Unions were strong. THAT is what is "out of control."
Exactly this. People need to be reminded of what things were like before Thatcher/Reagan broke the idea that government was supposed to work for the benefit of the public.
The extent to which the ideology of neoliberalism has broken British journalists' brains really helps explain why the country is peeling apart at the seams.
"This is the Labour Party of old – high taxation, high public spending, growth in welfare bills and all the rest of it.
"This puts Labour in a position where it is very much a party older people who lived through the 70s and early 80s would recognise"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
"This puts Labour in a position where it is very much a party older people who lived through the 70s and early 80s would recognise"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
November 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Exactly this. People need to be reminded of what things were like before Thatcher/Reagan broke the idea that government was supposed to work for the benefit of the public.
"Top raters let off any rise". This says all you need to know.
From April tax rates on dividends will rise by 2ppts from 8.75% (basic) to 10.75% and from 33.75% (higher) to 35.75%. Top raters let off any rise so will stay at 39.35%. Dividends are charged at your highest marginal rate.
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"Top raters let off any rise". This says all you need to know.
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They'll build a statue to the first reporter who tells this old dumbass to eat shit on camera
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
They'll build a statue to the first reporter who tells this old dumbass to eat shit on camera
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A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
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Footage shows 2 Palestinians lifting their clothes to show they aren't armed, putting their hands in the air & kneeling on the floor
@kamalimelbourne.bsky.social : "Footage shows Israeli forces killing two Palestinian men after those two men had appeared to be surrendering"
"Appeared to be"
@kamalimelbourne.bsky.social : "Footage shows Israeli forces killing two Palestinian men after those two men had appeared to be surrendering"
"Appeared to be"
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Footage shows 2 Palestinians lifting their clothes to show they aren't armed, putting their hands in the air & kneeling on the floor
@kamalimelbourne.bsky.social : "Footage shows Israeli forces killing two Palestinian men after those two men had appeared to be surrendering"
"Appeared to be"
@kamalimelbourne.bsky.social : "Footage shows Israeli forces killing two Palestinian men after those two men had appeared to be surrendering"
"Appeared to be"
Apparently the next stage after "late-stage capitalism" is fascism.
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Apparently the next stage after "late-stage capitalism" is fascism.
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People started understanding the economy is rigged, resulting in terrible, destructive inequality.
People understand what has been happening. Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and for regulating banks & corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
People understand what has been happening. Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and for regulating banks & corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
People started understanding the economy is rigged, resulting in terrible, destructive inequality.
People understand what has been happening. Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and for regulating banks & corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
People understand what has been happening. Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and for regulating banks & corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
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The more people talk about inequality, the more the billionaires will fund divisive immigration and racial propaganda.
Divide and conquer, stay on top.
Divide and conquer, stay on top.
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The more people talk about inequality, the more the billionaires will fund divisive immigration and racial propaganda.
Divide and conquer, stay on top.
Divide and conquer, stay on top.
If you think government should be "run like a business", pay the professional workers competitive rates or they leave. Then the business folds. NHS medical staff, for example.
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
If you think government should be "run like a business", pay the professional workers competitive rates or they leave. Then the business folds. NHS medical staff, for example.
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James Baldwin: "We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be, and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are so empty, so tame and so ugly."
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
James Baldwin: "We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be, and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are so empty, so tame and so ugly."
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Committing to grave war crimes is the most popular thing an Israeli politician can do. Depravity demonstrated.
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Committing to grave war crimes is the most popular thing an Israeli politician can do. Depravity demonstrated.
Sending 500 more troops is called "collective punishment." Going after every Afghan refugee is collective punishment. Going after all immigrants is also collective punishment.
The obvious question of "500 more troops to do what?" has no good answer, but many bad ones.
Place National Guard in harm’s way for no good reason. Two members are tragically and unnecessarily shot. The reckless regime’s response: We’re sending 500 more National Guard troops! What a disgrace.
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Sending 500 more troops is called "collective punishment." Going after every Afghan refugee is collective punishment. Going after all immigrants is also collective punishment.
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National Guard members were not getting shot in DC under Joe Biden.
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
National Guard members were not getting shot in DC under Joe Biden.
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CNN: Trump granted the DC shooter asylum in April.
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
CNN: Trump granted the DC shooter asylum in April.
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Eliot Jacobson: Arctic sea-ice extent current ranks 2nd lowest for the day since record began in 1979, and are on track to set a new daily record low in the next few days.
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Eliot Jacobson: Arctic sea-ice extent current ranks 2nd lowest for the day since record began in 1979, and are on track to set a new daily record low in the next few days.
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"Bitcoin’s loss of spending power since an October 6 peak would be the equivalent of an annualised 900 per cent inflation rate."
lol www.ft.com/content/a18c...
lol www.ft.com/content/a18c...
The fatal flaw in using bitcoin as a currency
There is a crypto parallel in the aftermath of Europe’s 14th century bubonic plague
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Bitcoin’s loss of spending power since an October 6 peak would be the equivalent of an annualised 900 per cent inflation rate."
lol www.ft.com/content/a18c...
lol www.ft.com/content/a18c...
People started understanding the economy is rigged, resulting in terrible, destructive inequality.
People understand what has been happening. Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and for regulating banks & corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
People understand what has been happening. Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and for regulating banks & corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
People started understanding the economy is rigged, resulting in terrible, destructive inequality.
People understand what has been happening. Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and for regulating banks & corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
People understand what has been happening. Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and for regulating banks & corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
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This is, yet again, evidence that Putin exerts some kind of control over the Trump administration. There is no way around it.
We have to look at their efforts to destroy the US govt in light of this.
We have to look at their efforts to destroy the US govt in light of this.
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is, yet again, evidence that Putin exerts some kind of control over the Trump administration. There is no way around it.
We have to look at their efforts to destroy the US govt in light of this.
We have to look at their efforts to destroy the US govt in light of this.