Jessica Johnson
@historyofjess.com
Writer, neurodivergent, bisexual, dog mom, feminist, geek, full of anxiety, wife in a straight-passing but real queer marriage. 🏳️🌈
Trying to fight the good fight over here, but occasionally I have a dog stuck in my lap.
Trying to fight the good fight over here, but occasionally I have a dog stuck in my lap.
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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You know, one of the good things about the Trump administration is it really illustrates how much racism is a death cult.
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
You know, one of the good things about the Trump administration is it really illustrates how much racism is a death cult.
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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Ace & aro folks show us there’s much more to relationships than just sex & romance - buff.ly/r2Kwv8Z
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ace & aro folks show us there’s much more to relationships than just sex & romance - buff.ly/r2Kwv8Z
This is an excellent deep dive into the lies and propaganda used by Trump administration throughout their operation in Chicago.
How the feds used propaganda to frame their "war" on Chicago: "They’re lying constantly." blockclubchi.co/4iFGlm7
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is an excellent deep dive into the lies and propaganda used by Trump administration throughout their operation in Chicago.
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Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
I would really like to know how the tenants of this building are supposed to move out in a matter of days when the elevators don't work.
And move to where, exactly, in less than two weeks?
And move to where, exactly, in less than two weeks?
Remaining Residents Of Raided South Shore Building Seek Extra Time To Move Out
A county judge last week ordered residents out of 7500 South Shore Drive by Dec. 12, following a massive immigration raid and numerous failed inspections at the building. Tenants say they're now "scra...
blockclubchicago.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I would really like to know how the tenants of this building are supposed to move out in a matter of days when the elevators don't work.
And move to where, exactly, in less than two weeks?
And move to where, exactly, in less than two weeks?
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It was another rough day in Minneapolis, but people were able to do some great work protecting each other from these Nazi kidnappers. A lot of inspiring work happening around the city - I hope you are able to plug in and get involved.
We encountered an ICE immigration enforcement action on Park Ave. in Minneapolis today. When my colleague Ben Hovland and I arrived there were only a couple observers, but there were dozens blowing whistles by the time ICE agents left without making an arrest.
www.instagram.com/reel/DR3DO1I...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR3DO1I...
MPR News on Instagram: "Nearly two dozen community members surrounded a house on the 3100 block of Park Avenue in Minneapolis when Homeland Security Investigations officers detained an East African ma...
Residents of Minneapolis's Park Avenue neighborhood respond to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation with a community watch, as reported by MPR News. The community watches as federal agents...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It was another rough day in Minneapolis, but people were able to do some great work protecting each other from these Nazi kidnappers. A lot of inspiring work happening around the city - I hope you are able to plug in and get involved.
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You can extrapolate this tactic all the way down to local police. No matter how absurd, they’ll frame any victim of their violence as the aggressor. Even if unarmed and drowning.
I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight."
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
You can extrapolate this tactic all the way down to local police. No matter how absurd, they’ll frame any victim of their violence as the aggressor. Even if unarmed and drowning.
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Have any of the comments on Trump’s disgusting racist tirade about Somali Americans mentioned that he accelerated the bombing of Somalia in his first presidency?
From Ackerman’s Reign of Terror:
From Ackerman’s Reign of Terror:
December 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Have any of the comments on Trump’s disgusting racist tirade about Somali Americans mentioned that he accelerated the bombing of Somalia in his first presidency?
From Ackerman’s Reign of Terror:
From Ackerman’s Reign of Terror:
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I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
listen
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
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Military personnel: This is what following unlawful orders looks like. Don’t do it. You don’t have the president’s get out of jail free card from SCOTUS, and these losers will not protect you.
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Military personnel: This is what following unlawful orders looks like. Don’t do it. You don’t have the president’s get out of jail free card from SCOTUS, and these losers will not protect you.
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The memo targets:
- Rules on how trans & intersex people are screened for their risk of sexual abuse & how info is used to determine housing
- Trans & intersex people’s ability to shower separately
- Protocols for sexual abuse incidents that take into account whether the victim was trans or intersex
- Rules on how trans & intersex people are screened for their risk of sexual abuse & how info is used to determine housing
- Trans & intersex people’s ability to shower separately
- Protocols for sexual abuse incidents that take into account whether the victim was trans or intersex
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The memo targets:
- Rules on how trans & intersex people are screened for their risk of sexual abuse & how info is used to determine housing
- Trans & intersex people’s ability to shower separately
- Protocols for sexual abuse incidents that take into account whether the victim was trans or intersex
- Rules on how trans & intersex people are screened for their risk of sexual abuse & how info is used to determine housing
- Trans & intersex people’s ability to shower separately
- Protocols for sexual abuse incidents that take into account whether the victim was trans or intersex
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According to survey data from the DOJ itself, incarcerated trans Americans experience sexual violence at more than 12x the rate of other incarcerated people.
The plans outlined in the memo effectively greenlight discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people who are already disproportionately at risk.
The plans outlined in the memo effectively greenlight discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people who are already disproportionately at risk.
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
According to survey data from the DOJ itself, incarcerated trans Americans experience sexual violence at more than 12x the rate of other incarcerated people.
The plans outlined in the memo effectively greenlight discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people who are already disproportionately at risk.
The plans outlined in the memo effectively greenlight discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people who are already disproportionately at risk.
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BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
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I don’t think a high number of pardons is a bad thing at all. There are many, many people who deserve clemency, far more than ever get pardons.
It’s *who* he’s pardoning that is the bad thing.
It’s *who* he’s pardoning that is the bad thing.
So far, in less than one year, Donald Trump has issued over TEN TIMES as many pardons as he did in his entire four-year first term. That’s a lot of criminals released onto our streets.
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I don’t think a high number of pardons is a bad thing at all. There are many, many people who deserve clemency, far more than ever get pardons.
It’s *who* he’s pardoning that is the bad thing.
It’s *who* he’s pardoning that is the bad thing.
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It appears there is a group of Santas doing civil disobedience in downtown Chicago while demanding "a city budget for the money not the few." The Santas want billionaires to get taxed. So say we all.
Source: www.facebook.com/reel/1415480...
Source: www.facebook.com/reel/1415480...
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It appears there is a group of Santas doing civil disobedience in downtown Chicago while demanding "a city budget for the money not the few." The Santas want billionaires to get taxed. So say we all.
Source: www.facebook.com/reel/1415480...
Source: www.facebook.com/reel/1415480...
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
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The attacks on Somalis are another illustration of how anti-immigration politics and anti-Black politics are deeply intertwined (not unlike the earlier attacks on Haitians.)
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The attacks on Somalis are another illustration of how anti-immigration politics and anti-Black politics are deeply intertwined (not unlike the earlier attacks on Haitians.)
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They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
Commander Greg Bovino led a group of Border Patrol agents on walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans this afternoon.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
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it occurs to me that people who say "trans people didn't exist until the last decade or so" really only have the object permanence of a toddler where everything came into existence the moment they heard about it and not a second before
December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
it occurs to me that people who say "trans people didn't exist until the last decade or so" really only have the object permanence of a toddler where everything came into existence the moment they heard about it and not a second before
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As part of its genocide in Gaza, Israel created the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history.
But the purple is pretty.
But the purple is pretty.
![Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA
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We illuminated the Foreign Ministry in purple in honor of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - a reminder of our commitment to inclusion, accessibility and a society where everyone can participate.
[photo of the exterior of a building surrounded by palms and bathed in purple light]
#DisabilityInclusion
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December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As part of its genocide in Gaza, Israel created the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history.
But the purple is pretty.
But the purple is pretty.
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It. Does. Not. Stop. At. Migrants.
A police state targets everyone to demonstrate their power to target anyone.
A police state targets everyone to demonstrate their power to target anyone.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It. Does. Not. Stop. At. Migrants.
A police state targets everyone to demonstrate their power to target anyone.
A police state targets everyone to demonstrate their power to target anyone.
Every time I think I couldn’t loathe Jeffries more, he says something new and awful and the bar goes down another rung.
You do not have to hand it to the man who is terrorizing immigrants daily. What the fuck?!
You do not have to hand it to the man who is terrorizing immigrants daily. What the fuck?!
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Every time I think I couldn’t loathe Jeffries more, he says something new and awful and the bar goes down another rung.
You do not have to hand it to the man who is terrorizing immigrants daily. What the fuck?!
You do not have to hand it to the man who is terrorizing immigrants daily. What the fuck?!