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JKoehn

@jkoehn.bsky.social

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JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 11m

I had to think about this and I will never have those three minutes of my life back!

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 21m

Best 45 seconds of my day!

(-Hey, I told my doctor I broke my arm in two places. He told me to stop going to those places.)

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 36m

The Trump Administration moment by moment moves ever deeper into illegitimacy.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 7h

300 million dollar empty space : design Putinesque.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 7h

Irony RIP

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 22h

Money Laundering 101

Conundrum, if you will:

A ballroom is mostly empty space, and yet it costs …$250 million. Really? Drapes? Chandeliers? Huh?

See where I’m going here?

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 22h

Trump is a tenant.

-Mary Trump

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 23h

The Republican Party thinks it’s immune from implosion. While we see it hanging off a crag by its fingernails.

Even after it was taken over by an old fashioned two bit grifter. A flim-flam man.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 23h

Oh SNAP

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 23h

Food stamps. Thanksgiving.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

The greatest hope I find these days is on calls with other organizers.

There are many many many people, smart people, experienced people, who are determined to make sure we build a better world out of this chaos.

It’s impossible to sit on those calls and think in any way that we will fail.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 23h

The only thing most people know about Marie Antoinette was her attitude about the people crying out for bread

and then she was beheaded. Which is putting it mildly.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

San Francisco here.

Metaphor, if you will:

Sometimes the president may leave your lights on. Then you’ll be happy.

Then at other times by whim he will turn the lights off. You’ll be so sad.

See how this works?

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

malignant normalization. so glad I learned that term from workd mental health coalition and Dr Bandy Lee

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Fascists decided not to kick down doors today while insisting that’s what is best for you.

Aren’t they nice? Isn’t this a nice day?

This is called malignant normalization and consolidation of presidential authority.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Fascists decided not to kick down doors today while insisting that’s what is best for you.

Aren’t they nice? Isn’t this a nice day?

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

Everything they do is a form of malignant normalization.

That’s a psych term for how fascism works in society.

They may give people favors or change a course of action.

That’s not an essential change from a wider program of violent oppression and can be a mode of further consolidation of power.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

An illegitimate abuse of power doesn’t acquire legitimacy through more illegitimate abuses of power.

It’s called “malignant normalization.”

True. I didn’t make that up.

Trump deciding not to order troops anywhere is still

…yes:

Malignant Normalization.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

An illegitimate abuse of power doesn’t acquire legitimacy through more illegitimate abuses of power.

It’s called “malignant normalization.”

True. I didn’t make that up.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has no need to militarize a sanctuary city after all

Duly noted for history.

So much for that dumb course of action.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is working really hard to de-legitimize his next term by sabotaging the next presidential election.

JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 1d

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JKoehn @jkoehn.bsky.social · 14d

The World Congress of Antifa has been canceled bc the Commanding General has a cold. Might be flu. She’s watching “Love Is Blind Brazil” and will reschedule.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.