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Jessica Johnson

@historyofjess.com

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Writer, neurodivergent, bisexual, dog mom, feminist, geek, full of anxiety, wife in a straight-passing but real queer marriage. 🏳️‍🌈 Trying to fight the good fight over here, but occasionally I have a dog stuck in my lap.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 8h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 4h

This is fantastic.

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 11h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5h

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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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 5h

Chelsea on CBA (A'ja punctuates her answers with tambourine shakes)
We have great players, you need to treat them like that. There’s been lot of eyes on this league, right? Everybody is stepping up to the plate, putting on performances that are legendary. It needs to be treated as such.

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Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 5h

Holly should tell Cathy about that respecting women thing.

Chrystal @chrystalll.bsky.social · 5h

Not Holly being upset that Cathy was booed lol girl bye. #WNBA

From Holly Rowe: This really disappointed me. The ONE thing we have always done as a community in the WNBA is respect women. I get it people want change in certain areas, but Cathy has done SO MUCH GREAT for the league too. #respectwomen #betonwomen

I do not support all women’s some of you bitches are very dumb!!!

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Shannon @sports21all.bsky.social · 6h

She's only been in the WNBA from 2018.

Daniel Thompson @dr-thompson.bsky.social · 6h

3 WNBA Championships
2 Finals MVPs
3 DPOYs
4 MVPs
5x Block Champ
2x Scoring Champ
5x All-Defense
6x All-WNBA
7x All-Star

And she’s still only 29.

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This Person Stinks @thispersonstinks.bsky.social · 6h

It’s crazy Jewell Loyd is undefeated in the WNBA Finals. Not a series, she has not lost a Finals game.

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Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 6h

The faces from Jewell and A'ja are killing me.

Jackie Powell @classicjpow.bsky.social · 6h

Cathy Engelbert presents the trophy to the Aces and boos ensue.

Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 6h

And now we get to spend all of this WNBA fan energy focused on the CBA. Pay these ladies!

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William Trinity @williamtrinity.bsky.social · 6h

Chelsea Gray won two chips this year!!

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Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 6h

I still think the Aces organization is dogshit, but these players are incredible and I love them.

Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 6h

That being said, I really wanted this for AT. Aces were just on one this entire finals. And the matchup did not favor Phoenix.

Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 6h

I love this for Nalyssa Smith.

Got shit from Fever fans all last year, traded to the worst team in the league and now she's gonna be a champ.

And she deserves it. She's a huge part of the Aces turnaround this season.

Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 6h

The refs had the opportunity to not look like they were putting their thumb on the scale in another must-win finals and they decided, “Nah, we’re good.”

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 16h

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 10h

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Folks playing some thematic standoff music now.

Really just cannot express how non-threatening this small group of neighbors appears at the moment, and how absurd this massive police presence appears in comparison.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

A tow truck is bringing an ICE/CBP vehicle back to the facility—and its back window has been completely smashed out.

Front driver's side window is cracked, too.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 9h

Establishing a pretty clear M.O. the past few weeks.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 9h

The WGN producer was released with no charges, per the outlet wgntv.com/news/operati...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 13h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 9h

Just saw reports from a chat that nannies in my old, posh neighborhood were apprehended by ICE/CBP at a park and the children they were caring for were left unattended.

So...who's the "worst of the worst" here?

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 13h

What happened at the ICE facility today?

Well the brownshirts got mad at a group of axolotls doing the hokey pokey, who were then relieved by a set of fluorescent macaws who spent the night dancing the collected works of Martha Graham.

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