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Terrell Johnson

@terrellwrites.bsky.social

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Nonfiction enthusiast + runner, also trying to be a better cook. Writer of a running newsletter that isn’t (just) about running 👇 https://www.thehalfmarathoner.com

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Terrell Johnson @terrellwrites.bsky.social · Feb 1

Well, one silver lining I can think of is, I know a really good way to relieve stress right now 😃

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Terrell Johnson @terrellwrites.bsky.social · 2h

W.P. Kinsella’s ‘Shoeless Joe’

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Matti has a Boo-ty 👻 @mrbtx.bsky.social · 2h

seeing folks holding a Pride fest in Lufkin, TX....y'all we are going to win

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 5d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 14h

the portland frogs are just so great

every portland frog video and picture brings joy. a real "we will win" vibe from those frogs together strong

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

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Terrell Johnson @terrellwrites.bsky.social · 23h

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

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Terrell Johnson @terrellwrites.bsky.social · 1d

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 3d

From the great novelist Sherwood Anderson, a letter to his son.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 2d

The goal of getting through an economic bust is partially financial/risk management, but it's mostly about not turning into a bitter/angry/conspiratorial who can't function going forward. You don't want to turn into Michael Burry, as well as he did in 2008.

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Terrell Johnson @terrellwrites.bsky.social · 3d

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Terrell Johnson @terrellwrites.bsky.social · 3d

… and I can’t believe they actually did this — especially given the way the media bows down to their supposed political “genius” — but they timed their big showdown with the Dems for when HEALTH INSURANCE OPEN ENROLLMENT was about to start.

Genius move, right? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Terrell Johnson @terrellwrites.bsky.social · 3d

This is a very interesting moment.

As you no doubt know, the Rs have wanted to kill the ACA since the day it became law, and this is their best opportunity since McCain’s thumbs down almost a decade ago. They might not get another chance like this, and they surely know that.

And yet….

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Terrell Johnson @terrellwrites.bsky.social · 3d

This is what I’ve been trying to put my finger on — Vance, Trump, Miller, all of them sound very European in their rhetoric and style.

They never embrace what’s special about America — the American Dream, that you can be anything you want to be.

To them, tribe/ethnicity is all there is.