Priscilla Johnson
@pssjohnson.bsky.social
Pittsburgher / lawyer / worrier / aging runner / loyal Mountaineer (though I no longer understand what happened to WV)
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in well over a year or Whole Foods since January, and have also cancelled my Washington Post subscription.
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in well over a year or Whole Foods since January, and have also cancelled my Washington Post subscription.
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I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
Let kids have an evening of fun and find a separate way to support families! Your local food banks and community organizations would be happy to receive a donation, no matter the amount! It doesn't have to be either/or.
I don't know what's worse, the fact that I'm surprised by this headline or the fact that I probably shouldn't be:
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Let kids have an evening of fun and find a separate way to support families! Your local food banks and community organizations would be happy to receive a donation, no matter the amount! It doesn't have to be either/or.
Trump has the same office as Washington, Lincoln, and FDR, yet he chooses to use it on performative stupidity like this.
as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
October 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Trump has the same office as Washington, Lincoln, and FDR, yet he chooses to use it on performative stupidity like this.
One of several No Kings events in & around Pittsburgh - it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood
October 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
One of several No Kings events in & around Pittsburgh - it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood
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we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president
The Deputy Chief of Staff... is in charge of military strikes? Do we even have a president?
Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats
Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president
Never forget-
When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.
September 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Never forget-
This is the most corrupt DOJ in my lifetime, and my lifetime includes the Watergate years.
September 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is the most corrupt DOJ in my lifetime, and my lifetime includes the Watergate years.
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In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
September 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
What a truly awful person he is. I'll never understand why the whole lot of them didn't just walk away on the spot or at the very least speak up for her.
Trump tells a reporter who asks him about going to war with American cities to “be quiet” and “listen”
September 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
What a truly awful person he is. I'll never understand why the whole lot of them didn't just walk away on the spot or at the very least speak up for her.
Dear Portland, we love you but you're bringing us down today. Begging whoever smashed& grabbed our car near the PJG a black carryon bag w/small women's clothing, shoes& toiletries, plus items of very sentimental value, & other valuables in a nylon shoulder bag to please return them, no ??? asked.
September 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Dear Portland, we love you but you're bringing us down today. Begging whoever smashed& grabbed our car near the PJG a black carryon bag w/small women's clothing, shoes& toiletries, plus items of very sentimental value, & other valuables in a nylon shoulder bag to please return them, no ??? asked.
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This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
August 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
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On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...
August 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...
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If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
This is fantastic.
August 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This is fantastic.
Good question. . .
August 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Good question. . .
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strong Madness of King George energy
Reporters shouted to ask what he was doing up there and he said he was "taking a little walk." He said something about the White House ballroom and made some gestures but it's not really making a ton of sense yet. Normal stuff
August 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
strong Madness of King George energy
Absolutely appalling.
NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.
Then the harassment began.
Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.
Six credible threats to his life.
More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
Then the harassment began.
Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.
Six credible threats to his life.
More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
August 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Absolutely appalling.
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Journalistic suggestion:
Zero value in offering politicians the doily of quotes about "concerns."
Senators are what they vote for. Murkowski could have stopped this atrocious bill. Could have been McCain w ObamaCare. Instead she bowed down.
(Thinking of her quote in April, "We are all afraid.")
Zero value in offering politicians the doily of quotes about "concerns."
Senators are what they vote for. Murkowski could have stopped this atrocious bill. Could have been McCain w ObamaCare. Instead she bowed down.
(Thinking of her quote in April, "We are all afraid.")
July 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Journalistic suggestion:
Zero value in offering politicians the doily of quotes about "concerns."
Senators are what they vote for. Murkowski could have stopped this atrocious bill. Could have been McCain w ObamaCare. Instead she bowed down.
(Thinking of her quote in April, "We are all afraid.")
Zero value in offering politicians the doily of quotes about "concerns."
Senators are what they vote for. Murkowski could have stopped this atrocious bill. Could have been McCain w ObamaCare. Instead she bowed down.
(Thinking of her quote in April, "We are all afraid.")
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Join us. Fight back by telling 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 story. Because your story is America’s story.
It’s time to remind Donald Trump that America is still the Home of the Brave.
June 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Join us. Fight back by telling 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 story. Because your story is America’s story.
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Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it
June 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it