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Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈

@maliainthemargins.bsky.social

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Reader 📚 Ace 🏳️‍🌈 Deconstructing/Exvangelical ❤️‍🩹 Mental Health Advocate 🧠 Feminist 👩‍🦰 Alt text ⌨️ My Book: https://amzn.to/40QtENw Reading goal 2025: 43/100 Last 📚: My Boyfriends Are All Monsters Current 📚: The Let Them Theory Current 🎧: A Dark and Secret Magic

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Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · Jan 24

Wow! Lots of new faces today so I'll do a reintroduction post.
About me:

Deconstructing/Exvangelical ❤️‍🩹
Ace 🖤🩶🤍💜
Avid reader 📚 (little of everything but romance is my favorite)
LGBTQIA+ Ally 🏳️‍🌈
OG Swifty 🫶
Big fan of granny hobbies 🪡🧩🍞
Wife of a disabled veteran
Mom x3
Pets - 🐶🐶🐱🐱
Feminist 👩‍🦰
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Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 1h

Ah. The "boys will be boys" argument. 🙄 If you want to talk about a masculinity crisis in our country, it's that boys/men are often not held accountable for their actions. See ex: our current president and all of his buddies.
You're selling them short of any future potential when you excuse this.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 1h

This is why women often don't report abuse and assault. Because brushing it off as unserious is exactly the approach our country takes with women's safety.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 22h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 1d

How about you just listen to the people you represent and serve instead of a president who doesn't give a 💩 about our state aside from getting his numbers in to stay in power.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/nor...

North Carolina is the next state to take up partisan redrawing of congressional maps

NC GOP statehouse leaders say the legislature will meet next week to redraw the state's congressional districts, saying they're following Trump's call to "fight back."

abcnews.go.com

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1d

Moving vans are the new cattle cars. Doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or not if your skin isn’t white.

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Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 2d

A. Does anyone know what Johnson DOES know? Because he doesn't seem to know about anything he's asked about.
B. What I'm hearing him say is that disabled kids aren't a priority and are expendable in the name of efficiency.
From a pissed off mom: 🖕🖕🖕🖕

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 2d

What I'm hearing him say is that disabled children are not a priority and are expendable in the name of efficiency.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 2d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 2d

📌 Yes • More of this please ‼️

Brava George • You rock ‼️🐥

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 4d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 3d

My ideal Diane Keaton movie marathon:
Father of the Bride 1 & 2
Book Club
Because I Said So
The Family Stone

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Portland 🔥

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Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 4d

I yelled it over and over and over leading up to the election that students with disabilities would be pushed aside by this administration. My heart is breaking for these kids. Especially the ones whose parents voted against their wellbeing instead of protecting them.

Zach Schermele @ZachSchermele
X.com
NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/the main office in charge of special ed funding being "decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another. "I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."

Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 4d

Each one is by a different author, but Katee Roberts did book 5. Just finished it this morning and it might be my favorite so far.

Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know if it was intentional or not, but my Purity culture traumatized brain saw your cover and immediately saw Joshua Harris' I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Anyway, I just downloaded your book and look forward to reading it!

Side by side comparison of Expose Yourself by Erin Louis and I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris

Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 4d

Loved that series! I'm currently about to start the last novella in the Scared Sexy Collection which has been a very enjoyable way to pull me out of my book slump during spooky month.

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Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 4d

Every morning I wake up and he's still in the White House with his henchmen.

Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 4d

The world is burning, but I'm trying to celebrate the little wins. Like finding new meds that seem to be going well and getting accepted into ECU to finish the psychology degree I started over a decade ago. Classes start on the 15th. 🎉

Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 4d

More of this in the churches!
John 13:35 NLT
"[35] Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
Stop letting hate and violence be the hallmark of your faith!

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 4d

Truth bomb.💣 I don’t dabble with faith, but if I were to sit through a Christian service, I might consider listening to his. 1/2

Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 4d

That veteran (if he exists) already has care. The shutdown doesn't affect the VA medical care or pay. The man was lying to try to gain sympathy from people who won't check his statement for validity.

Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 5d

#booksky 💙📚 #booktok #romancebooks #spicybooks #reading
youtube.com/shorts/XV6ny...

Sorry...it's every book girlie for herself out here! #booktube #booktok #kindle #romancebooks

YouTube video by Malia Johnson

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Malia Johnson 💙📚🏳️‍🌈 @maliainthemargins.bsky.social · 5d

I've never listened to Bad Bunny but dang MAGA is doing such a great job advertising him, I think I might go download all his music now!

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Bro, Christian hate is exhausting.

📌 Turning Point USA “All-American halftime show” counter programming because Bad Bunny, an American citizen, isn’t American enough.

I can’t wait to see the ratings side by side.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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