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Bonnie Johnson

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I STAND WITH UKRAINE 💪🇺🇦 photographer and infosec nerd Chicagoland - rural burbs that still identify as Chicago, Illinois loud advocate, 'What we do in life echos in eternity'

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 4d

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Hyten’s warning from 2017: “If you execute an unlawful order, you will go to jail. You could go to jail for the rest of your life.”

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 5d

Good to see integrity vacuum @jaketapper is back at it running interference for a pants-shitting melted pumpkin candle

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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 7h

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 1h

Reference to data or dukie? 😆

Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 2h

Oct 18 Stand Up! Fight Back! #NoKings

ABOLISH ICE
Milk carton with MISSING and a picture of Lady Justice
#KavanaughStops #ShadowDocket

Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago's lion from the Art Institute crushing a crown under his paws.
No Thrones.
No Crowns.
NO KINGS.
OCT 18
#50501 #Indivisible

ABOLISH ICE
Milk carton with MISSING and a picture of Lady Justice
#KavanaughStops #ShadowDocket

Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

Oct 18 we will take it to the streets #NoKings

Chicago's lion from the Art Institute crushing a crown under his paws.
No Thrones.
No Crowns.
NO KINGS.
OCT 18
#50501 #Indivisible

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 10h

www.axios.com/2025/10/10/f...

Trump refuses to negotiate
Speaker Johnson refuses to bring House Republicans back in session
Senate Republicans refuse to negotiate

Now this 42 MILLION people could have SNAP BENEFITS CUT..Food for Families and Children
And your insurance premiums rise

Scoop: Trump administration warns of "insufficient funds" for food stamps if shutdown continues

It's the administration's latest warning of painful consequences of a lengthy government shutdown.

www.axios.com

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

I am very excited! I just finished my poster! 💪☮️

ABOLISH ICE
Milk carton with MISSING and a picture of Lady Justice
#KavanaughStops #ShadowDocket

Chicago's lion from the Art Institute crushing a crown under his paws.
No Thrones.
No Crowns.
NO KINGS.
OCT 18
#50501 #Indivisible

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

Are Republicans refusing to swear in Democratic representative-elect Adelita Grijalva to prevent a vote on the Epstein files?

Epstein Files Fight: Rep.-Elect Grijalva Still Waiting to Be Sworn In

Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election for a House seat in Arizona two weeks ago, has still not been sworn in to Congress. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is bl...

www.democracynow.org

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

I'm ready for Oct 18. 💪
Stand Up! Fight Back! #NoKings No Thrones. No Crowns.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 4h

While I think ICE agents should face criminal charges for their kidnapping of immigrants, they should face long, and perhaps lifetime, prison sentences for anything like this involving kids. An ICE agent willing to do this is not someone who should be out among society even after Dems retake power.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 6h

See you there! #NoKings

Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 6h

Why Democrats Think They’re Winning the Shutdown Fight
They’ve clearly succeeded in elevating the issue of health care.
#Trumpcession #GOPshutdown
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Why Democrats Think They’re Winning the Shutdown Fight

They’ve clearly succeeded in elevating the issue of health care.

www.theatlantic.com

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 6h

Add to this the Court’s usurpation of trial judges’ fact-finding function, often getting facts way wrong, in ways that get the Court to desired outcomes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

And this!
MSNBC fires host Joy Reid www.npr.org/2025/02/25/g...

Joy Reid fired from MSNBC amid network shakeup

Reid is a longtime political commentator who has been vocal on progressive issues and sharply critical of President Trump.

www.npr.org

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Baldwin: Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds. A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada. Those have shot up because of tariffs. About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage. This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 13h

Now I need to take the dog for a walk to give him time to zoom. 😄

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 13h

Working on my poster for No Kings on Oct 18.
Missing on a milk carton: Lady Justice
#RuleOfLaw #AbolishICE #noKings #NoCrowns #NoThrowns

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 14h

Sending healing thoughts to you~

a man with a beard is holding a piece of paper in his hand and says `` healing vibes '' .

ALT: a man with a beard is holding a piece of paper in his hand and says `` healing vibes '' .

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 14h

Right?!
I go out of my way to share a kind word with everyone I come across because without a doubt, people are dealing with heavy stuff that you don't see on the surface.
Even a shared moment in the bathroom, (did you like the movie?) helps to remind us of our humanity. 🫶☮️

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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 23h

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Today I was out and about. I had no time nor really the desire to be on my phone checking the news.

But at the very same time, any quiet or still moment, I couldn't stop thinking about everything that is going on around us. How it seems the country still chugs along as if its not happening.

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Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 14h

ICE attacked the press 24 hours after the Court explicitly said not to.
Republicans do NOT believe in the rule of law. @congressdotgov.bsky.social
Neither does the Supreme Court. #ShadowDocket #KavanaughStops @scotusblog.com

Bonnie Johnson @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 14h

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press