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wmjohnson.bsky.social @wmjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

2+2=5 math

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 9d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24d

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 25d

Coffee is hugely more expensive under Trump’s crazy policies but hey, good news: the price of cocaine is down because so much of it is pouring across the border while drug agents are sent to Home Depot parking lots to round up undocumented construction workers.

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 25d

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.

www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Oseguera caught another break from the Trump administration. The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed. Officers stationed there were sent to process detained migrants. A senior administration official said the U.S. border is more secure than it has ever been.

Colombia is producing records amounts of cocaine, and the volume of the drug arriving in the U.S. is driving down prices, the people familiar with cartel operations said.

Cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half to around $60 to $75 a gram compared with five years ago, said Morgan Godvin, a researcher with the community organization Drug Checking Los Angeles. “The price of pure cocaine has plummeted,” Godvin said.

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · Sep 8

Release the Epstein files

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · Sep 4

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Aug 28

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

www.seattletimes.com

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · Aug 27

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

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wmjohnson.bsky.social @wmjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Old Gray Lady has a pretty spotty history with fascists…

Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · Jun 29

Posting this screenshot from the NYT archives for no particular reason

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wmjohnson.bsky.social @wmjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 20

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wmjohnson.bsky.social @wmjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 20

When did they move Gasworks from Wallingford to Fremont?

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wmjohnson.bsky.social @wmjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 17

Commercial-free public spaces are of the few examples of “sanity” we have

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · Aug 15

One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

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wmjohnson.bsky.social @wmjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 6

Great Horned Owl

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University Place, Washington

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Jul 23

I can’t for the life of me understand why Democrats haven’t made this ghoulish surveillance baron into a public enemy comparable to the role that Soros plays on the right. He’s legitimately a bogeyman.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 23

Peter Thiel is back in the game, quietly donating more than $850,000 this year to finance Republican incumbents attempting to retain their party’s control of the House in next year’s midterm elections.

As Palantir cashes in on Trump 2.0, Peter Thiel is bankrolling Republicans again

The quirky Silicon Valley billionaire's priority: retaining GOP control of the House.

www.motherjones.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Jul 18

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.

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wmjohnson.bsky.social @wmjohnson.bsky.social · Jul 3

What would we do with people like this guy without prisons? 🤷🏻‍♂️

www.npr.org/sections/the...

White Supremacist Charged With Killing 2 In Portland, Ore., Knife Attack

The disturbance began when a man started yelling on train, including slurs at two apparently Muslim women. When others tried to intervene, the man stabbed three of them.

www.npr.org

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wmjohnson.bsky.social @wmjohnson.bsky.social · Jun 28

Cedar Waxwing

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Orting, WA

#birds

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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · Jun 26

Join me in Seattle at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park on Monday 7/7 at 7pm for book and geopolitics talk. RSVP here: www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/alexan...

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wmjohnson.bsky.social @wmjohnson.bsky.social · Jun 19

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jun 18

Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.