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Angus Johnston

@angus.bsky.social

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CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's really important for Americans to understand right now that dismantling democracy isn't a thing that you wave a magic wand and make happen. It's a process. It's a fight.

It's a fight you choose when you're worried about losing, and it's a fight you're not guaranteed to win.

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Jim Snowden @snowdenwriter.bsky.social · 18h

I’ll be an elm, dancing you know it baby.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10h

So happy those nice young men get to keep playing their baseball games.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17h

What a game. What a series. What a ballclub. What a sport.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17h

🔱!!!

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 21h

And I didn't realize I had to say this, but we're talking a sweet onion here. Fin-de-siècle Barney Greengrass wasn't shaving red onions onto their bagels.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 22h

"Don't you ... forget about tree."

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Why will AI never take my job? Because it tagged this GIF "a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree ."

a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree .

Alt: Judd Nelson raising a fist in triumph as he crosses the football field in the closing shot of The Breakfast Club.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 22h

A couple of days ago I saw him saying that when Portland windows are broken they don't replace them, just leave plywood up. I honestly think that just got transmogrified in his mush brain to what he said today.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 23h

(It occurs to me that this will be an easier lift in like ten or fifteen years when I have fully achieved my final Pokemon form of Old UWS Weirdo.)

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 23h

Tremendous.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah, I think it was Vidalia. It was a big white sweet one.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

I gotta be me.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

EW.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

My only shot is circling back beyond unacceptable to eccentric.

Which cause I will do my best to advance by noting—repeatedly, in front of microphones—that cinnamon-raisin bagels are as venerable as everything bagels.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my favorite fact about "schmear. (And no, nobody's surprised I have a favorite fact about "schmear.")

My mom grew up in Manchester, England, a city known for (1) textiles, (2) rain, and (3) having a substantial Jewish population.

The guys who put the rubber on the raincoats?

SCHMEARERS.

Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 1d

Sometimes I wonder about humans and words

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting on a plane and says help me i 'm poor .

Alt: Kristin Wiig in Bridesmaids: "help me, I'm poor."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet onion. Whatever they served. It was white, probably a Vidalia.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

But I think I can still win the mayoralty! I'll govern from prison, like Debs!

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

As the white boy in Do the Right Thing said, "I was BORN in Brooklyn."

(UWS. Same diff.)

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Fuckin' A.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Why will AI never take my job? Because it tagged this GIF "a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree ."

a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree .

Alt: Judd Nelson raising a fist in triumph as he crosses the football field in the closing shot of The Breakfast Club.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree .

Alt: Judd Nelson raising a fist in triumph at the end of The Breakfast Club.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear: I regret nothing. That's a delicious fucking bagel.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

SO FUCKING DELICIOUS

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Trump believes that Portland, Oregon, median household income $91,478, is a shantytown.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

I may have what is legitimately the most edge-case answer to this question available, based on one of my go-to orders in my thirties:

Cinnamon raisin bagel with schmear and a thick slice of onion (wait for it) ... ordered from the Barney Greengrass to-go counter.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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