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Kent L Johnson

@writerkentljohnson.bsky.social

1.5K followers 1.2K following 180 posts

www.KentLJohnson.com Published three books, published numerous short stories, creative. BS in Biology, world traveler, fisherman, humorous, I got lots of life experience. Retired if I want.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

This is what happens when your country is run by incompetent knuckleheads.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 5h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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@JohnBGilman.bsky.social @johnbgilman.bsky.social · 1d

Ronald Reagan's biggest lie in his 8 years of prevarication was that the US govt could not "afford" to continue supplying services to citizens. Paving roads, feeding hungry kids breakfast, making corrupt corps pay for their pollution, keeping the US food supply safe- these were all "too expensive".

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him by the Sandy Hook Elementary School families

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❤️Kai in Kanada🇨🇦 @kleinekin.bsky.social · 1d

Well, he and his dear old daddy used to attend KKK "rituals" together, so yeah, def tracks.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 1d

The face of someone who just discovered the air has…flavor.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Things to do in the future:

1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague

2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again

3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

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Reposted by David Feldman, Rosemary A. Joyce, Melissa Johnson , and 4 more David Feldman, Rosemary A. Joyce, Melissa Johnson, Gerald Friedman, Kent Johnson, Fiona Armstrong, Timothy D. McBride

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Reposted by Elizabeth Sharrow, Iain Davidson, Aaron Sojourner , and 8 more Elizabeth Sharrow, Iain Davidson, Aaron Sojourner, Gerald Friedman, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Michael Jones‐Correa, Kent Johnson, Henry Jones, Matthew Bodie, Duncan Morrow, Olivier Mannoni

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Lisa W. Fazio, Nandita Sharma , and 36 more Shannon Vallor, Lisa W. Fazio, Nandita Sharma, Jonathan A. Eisen, Jocalyn Clark, Will Jennings, Jennifer A. Richeson, Julie L. Lockwood, Karen R. Lips, Joshua S. Weitz, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, Benjamin Mason Meier, Philip N. Cohen, Philip Nel, Daniel W. Drezner, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Robert C. Richards, Alan Richardson, Silvia Secchi, Aaron Sojourner, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Margot C. Finn, Jason Lyall, Mark Rice, Kent Johnson, Brian Weatherson, Mary Jane Curry, Claire L. Adida, Larry W. Hunter, Emily Evans, Richard M. Carpiano, David S. Tanenhaus, Aviel Roshwald, Jae-Young Son, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Timothy D. McBride, Melinda Baldwin, David Darmofal

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 4d

Release the Epstein Files.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4d

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Abby @abbywinters.bsky.social · 5d

This 👇🏻

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Kent L Johnson @writerkentljohnson.bsky.social · 6d

Healthcare has seen double digit increases in costs, yearly since the 1980's. Congress should have been working on this long before it became a crisis.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6d

it’s all just a grift

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Kent L Johnson @writerkentljohnson.bsky.social · 8d

Since 2011, the republicans have voted 67 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The vote to Repeal never carried. This year, the One Big Beautiful Bill stripped the Federal subsidies the Affordable Care Act needs to operate effectively killing the ACA.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Malcolm @mdpb53.bsky.social · 8d

EPSTEIN FILES NOW !!!!!!!!!!!

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 8d

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 8d

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are.

If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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