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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

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The Bible never condemns slavery

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Text from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo that reads:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

The future we could have had...

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, the whole book is hilarious (as are Barry's other novels), and I recommend reading it.

Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Then he reflects on how he has so much money, he could keep buying pizza places every night for 20 years and not run out of money. And while it's a fictional scene, written by someone who's not a billionaire, I think it's a good reminder of how rich people think of money.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

There's a subplot in Dave Barry's novel Insane City about a billionaire obsessed with keeping score with other billionaires. And there's a scene where an even richer billionaire gets high and buys a pizza place just so he can get delivery...

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

I've been reliably informed that this sort of rhetoric is dangerous and should be punished

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this one sounds very typical of a new manager coming in and getting to know the lay of the land. But I also don't blame people for being on edge and seeing parallels to Elon's 5 things debacle.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Even with these helpful explanations, I had to read that paragraph so many times to figure it out.

Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Not the first member of the administration that thinks the Constitution is there to protect the rights of the government bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

It's like when Kristi Noem claimed habeas corpus was the President's right to shuffle prisoners around. These rights are to protect the people from the government, not the other way around.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

The 4th Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures. It allows the government to perform reasonable searches, but it's not a "protected" right of the government.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

There was a story was making the rounds on TikTok a couple weeks ago, but it was a pretty fishy story that involved the husband calling a conservative outlet in the middle of the night to report that his wife ODed on Tylenol. I'm not sure if that's what he's talking about

Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, so they're going to start bombing domestic boats too. Cool cool cool.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody's burning flags. This is just an excuse to chip away at free speech by starting with unpopular speech so he can move on to punishing any dissent

Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

My guesses, in order of probability:
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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 8d

There's so much stupid crammed into in that post, but I appreciate you pointing that little nugget out.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 8d

Is he... directing the military via his shitty social media app?

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

"Masked, secret police, profiling people and now targeting entire apartment buildings, making everyone prove they're not guilty of something, is the province of tyrants. It is the opposite of America."

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

This is the gulf of America that truly matters

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 9d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

The Hatch Act has been dead letter for a while, but this is so petulant and unprofessional

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 10d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

Kavanaugh stops quickly escalating to Kavanaugh raids

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

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Jarod Johnson @jarodjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Q: Hegseth gave an edict about no more beardos in the military. Just wanted your response

JD VANCE: I didn't see that particular comment. I thought Pete gave a hell of a speech