CKJohnsonBK 🇺🇦🇬🇱
@ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
Brooklyn-based pest. Longtime volunteer with Sister District, a direct action organization working to create and maintain progressive majorities in state legislative houses. No automatic followbacks.
Well, this is dystopian! (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
Hundreds of Tourists on Yemeni Island Caught Up in Saudi-U.A.E. Rift
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Well, this is dystopian! (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
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January 5, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
popular.info
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
A prophet.
January 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
A prophet.
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One of the most fucking infuriating things about the United States, and I say this as an American, is the sick belief that American lives are somehow more special than others, that people in other places are mere apparitions.
They killed 80 people who never did a damn thing to anyone here.
They killed 80 people who never did a damn thing to anyone here.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:49 PM
One of the most fucking infuriating things about the United States, and I say this as an American, is the sick belief that American lives are somehow more special than others, that people in other places are mere apparitions.
They killed 80 people who never did a damn thing to anyone here.
They killed 80 people who never did a damn thing to anyone here.
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Statements from the children of MN House Leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, about a video shared by President Trump that is spreading a conspiracy theory about the lawmaker’s death.
January 4, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Statements from the children of MN House Leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, about a video shared by President Trump that is spreading a conspiracy theory about the lawmaker’s death.
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U.S. VENEZUELA ATTACK CASUALTY COUNT: At least 40 people were killed in the U.S. attack on Venezuela, according to New York Times, citing a Venezuela official.
Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
U.S. VENEZUELA ATTACK CASUALTY COUNT: At least 40 people were killed in the U.S. attack on Venezuela, according to New York Times, citing a Venezuela official.
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Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you
#1: You're a dumbass
#1: You're a dumbass
January 3, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you
#1: You're a dumbass
#1: You're a dumbass
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
Yeah baby! Looking forward to raking in the cash in the smoking-hot 2026 economy!
January 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Yeah baby! Looking forward to raking in the cash in the smoking-hot 2026 economy!
Thread on Iranian protests.
This Iranian uprising is different to previous ones. It’s underpinned by a catastrophic economic situation that the government is incapable of solving. Food prices have risen by 70% in a year. Inflation is at 40% and rising. The currency is at its lowest level. People are finding it hard to live.
January 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Thread on Iranian protests.
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The idea that any government funds going to address the needs of Black people is necessarily fraud has a long history.
December 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The idea that any government funds going to address the needs of Black people is necessarily fraud has a long history.
Good news! States are holding.
Democrats yesterday won the final special election of 2025, in Iowa: Their nominee defended a state Senate district by 43%. Harris had won it by 17% last year.
This win means Dems prevent the GOP from gaining a supermajority; the GOP lost the supermajority earlier this year.
This win means Dems prevent the GOP from gaining a supermajority; the GOP lost the supermajority earlier this year.
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Good news! States are holding.
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if someone wanted to start rectifying the media landscape, it's not complicated. give a shit ton of money to ProPublica, Bolts, Liberal Currents, The New Republic, alt weeklies.
like, not some sort of sexy new start up. just fund the fuck out of current liberal/left media. 1
like, not some sort of sexy new start up. just fund the fuck out of current liberal/left media. 1
December 31, 2025 at 3:48 AM
if someone wanted to start rectifying the media landscape, it's not complicated. give a shit ton of money to ProPublica, Bolts, Liberal Currents, The New Republic, alt weeklies.
like, not some sort of sexy new start up. just fund the fuck out of current liberal/left media. 1
like, not some sort of sexy new start up. just fund the fuck out of current liberal/left media. 1
Yup. A private school in NYC shut down for a few days because so many of their students were sick. The strain making people sick has mutated away from the strain contained in the vaccine, but the vaccine should keep you from getting very ill, even if you get the flu. Not too late to get the jab!
Looks like it’s going to be a bad flu season: www.wsj.com/health/healt...
December 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Yup. A private school in NYC shut down for a few days because so many of their students were sick. The strain making people sick has mutated away from the strain contained in the vaccine, but the vaccine should keep you from getting very ill, even if you get the flu. Not too late to get the jab!
DO IT world!!!
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
DO IT world!!!
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“they divide my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”
Psalm 22:18
Psalm 22:18
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“they divide my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”
Psalm 22:18
Psalm 22:18
Merry Christmas! Hoping your day is filled with peace and hope.
December 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Merry Christmas! Hoping your day is filled with peace and hope.
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
December 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Not only a festive post but a satisfying thread. Happy December 23 to all who celebrate.
Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Not only a festive post but a satisfying thread. Happy December 23 to all who celebrate.
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Fascism selects for people who think they see through the lie of liberal democracy but who are actually just too broken and malformed to eke out a reasonably satisfying life on conditions of general equality with their fellow citizens.
The fascists certainly aren't very good at this, are they
December 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Fascism selects for people who think they see through the lie of liberal democracy but who are actually just too broken and malformed to eke out a reasonably satisfying life on conditions of general equality with their fellow citizens.
THAT’S RIGHT.
did a video a few days ago making the case for supreme court expansion www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB_...
Why Democrats need to expand the Supreme Court
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
THAT’S RIGHT.
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Also I hope somebody’s already nicknamed her Taylor Grift
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Also I hope somebody’s already nicknamed her Taylor Grift