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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 3m

Improbably tho I’d met this cute guy, a graduate student in German, there. It took a minute and a bit of a process but soon enough we were like this sucks let’s hit da bricks and we did, nearly 30 years later we’re still a thing, guess Doug Wilson is too, glad we have nothing to do with him anymore.

Blurry picture of me and former German graduate student husband at a bar tonight

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 13m

I’ve said this on here before but my “reformed” church brining this guy (Wilson) to speak in 1997 was the first massive red flag telling me I’d gotten myself into a situation I needed to get out of.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 3h

Okay I have spontaneously run the test of "do I still know nearly all the lyrics to Robbie Fulks' 1996 debut album ‘Country Love Songs’ after not hearing it for decades” and the answer is absolutely yes.

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 5h

#FridayReads Carbonate of Copper by my former UH prof and high-key local genius Dr. Roberto Tejada

Cover of Carbonate of Copper, black and white old house with barbed wire fence in front, sitting on an old faded wood table

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 8h

here's hoping

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 9h

a woman is covering her face with her hand and looking at the camera .

Alt: brown haired white lady in a black t shirt crossing herself

media.tenor.com

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 9h

another thing I still think is weird-ish: Zooey Deschanel being married to a Property Brother

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 22h

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

“TRYING to flee to Spain” is the most chilling phrase I’ve read in a minute

Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 1d

WIRED spoke with Mark Bray, the Rutgers historian trying to flee to Spain with his family after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back from the airport on his first attempt.

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 22h

Ohhhh okay this makes some sense

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 23h

In related news I think the “Personal Life” section of Hannah Einbinder’s Wikipedia page is kind of funny

Personal life edit ]
Einbinder resides in Los Angeles, California. 23) Einbinder is bisexual. 24) She has ADHD.[25)
She is a longtime supporter of the Philadelphia Eagles. 26][27]

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t care for it I can’t say why

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 23h

still weirded out about the whole American pope thing

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 23h

skill issue

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

couldn't have timed it better tbh

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

is it bad that I'm glad I saved the entirety of Hacks for the downfall of American democracy

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

We believe what we want. We read and write what we want. We say whatever we want and hang out with whomever we want. And we go where we want, including away from here. That’s been the US’s whole deal for a long, long time, y’all. And it’s not anymore.

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

“TRYING to flee to Spain” is the most chilling phrase I’ve read in a minute

Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 1d

WIRED spoke with Mark Bray, the Rutgers historian trying to flee to Spain with his family after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back from the airport on his first attempt.

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure what past me had in mind here, but I doubt it involved faxes

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Yep agree

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome ty

Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

YES

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

read WWB; become a Nobel prophet

Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

For those of you keeping score at home... yes, that means we've now published 10 Nobel Prize winners in our 22 year history ❤️‍🔥

wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳
wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

anyway

WILLIE NELSON & RAY PRICE - Faded Love

YouTube video by Mk F

www.youtube.com

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

Will do!!

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

So true

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