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Johnny

@john13.bsky.social

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Illustrator. Attempting optimism. Comics are great. BLM. Abortion rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights. Not a fan of A.I.

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Johnny @john13.bsky.social · Nov 7

I created a starter pack for the PRF. Ping me if you belong on it and are not there yet

go.bsky.app/2d8T6RC

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 22h

When the Democrats lose an election, they debate endlessly how they can appeal to more voters. When Republicans lose an election, they think of ways to keep more people from voting.

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Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23h

Virginia Republicans have learned the difference between having a one-mile flood barrier that's 20 feet high and a ten-mile flood barrier that's 2 feet high. But while you celebrate, don't forget that their reaction won't be "We need to change" but "This is why we gotta stop having real elections."

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 23h

Big tech continues to demonstrate its’ alignment with fascists. BAN FACIAL RECOGNITION

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app

www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants

The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.

www.404media.co

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 1d

It took the ADL like four days to respond to Nick Fuentes breaking into the mainstream last week

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Bryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 1d

You might think you’re ready for this needle drop at the Cuomo watch party.

I promise you: you are not.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Quit your job @schumer.senate.gov.

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Johnny @john13.bsky.social · 1d

Thing I love is that Cuomo was out of the game. He was never going to be rehabilitated, but he had some minor status. Now he is utterly humiliated. A joke forever. His stupid face mugging on endorsements from Trump and Miller. The dummy.

All that is left is to move to Florida and run out the clock

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Johnny @john13.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone know what channel this will be on?

toymachinesh 🍁 @toymachinesh.bsky.social · 1d

Haha unless

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, this is precisely why we expect law enforcement to wear badges and uniforms and show identification. Anyone could have foreseen (and many of us did) that this would be a serious side-effect of ICE's insistence on behaving like unaccountable thugs.

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1d

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

www.wired.com

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually impressive how much mileage Republicans have gotten out of “the Democrats are actually responsible for the shutdown because they have to vote with us according to an arbitrary rule we can ignore at any time and in fact literally already did just a few weeks ago”

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Johnny @john13.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to be a nitpicker, but the bed is on the wrong side of the room and that woukld make me insane.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

lol at Target pretending the boycott has nothing to do with it.

Whatever. Keep making believe Black and anti-racist dollars don't exist. Looks like it's going great so far.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d

Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer. A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising qz.com/tgt-wmt-earn...

Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer

A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising

qz.com

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Johnny @john13.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday I got Eggnog. Today I have heartburn. Now I am trying to use Eggnog to cure the heartburn. Am I a doctor?

Johnny @john13.bsky.social · 2d

I think Sean Gunn and Ted Raimi should be in a movie together

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 3d

All of these people suffer from “not getting the shit kicked out of them constantly” disease

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5d

A reminder that Greg Bovino has videographers from DHS's Office of Public Affairs following him around Chicagoland, with the purpose of creating propaganda.

Creating Content in Broadview

Tear gas looks cool as hell on camera

www.turtlediaries.net

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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 5d

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 5d

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

While out on our Halloween evening ICE patrol, we noticed that Red Vault, an adult fashion/fetish/toy store, had a mannequin with an orange whistle around its neck in the store's front window. They also had a sign declaring ICE was not welcome and were giving away free whistles. I love this city.

A mannequin wearing a striped fetish costume also wears an orange whistle around its neck in a store window.

A sign reads: "ICE/CBP Agents DO NOT have consent to enter this business/restaurant unless they have a valid judicial warrant. Staff are not authorized to consent access to this business/restaurant. Stop."

A sign for the Red Vault fetish/toy store promotes a 20% off sale and free whistles for ICE watchers.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 5d

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 6d

TIL, thanks to the great @megsokay.bsky.social, that Aimee Mann wrote "Save Me" about her romantic relationship with Dave Foley?!?!?!?

www.thecurrent.org/feature/2012...

Dave Foley: First I was a fan of Aimee's, but then when I moved to L.A., I met Aimee through friends, and we became good friends-- and we were friends for about a year. I picked the song because [laughs] there's a good story to it.
When I finally did get out of this horrendous relationship I was in with my first wife- [l] was emotionally devastated by it and was trying to rebuild who I was as a human being-- then one day Aimee came up to me and said "I suppose you know I have a crush on you. I of course said "No, no, |.. no idea."

So Aimee and I became sort of involved for a while. and then she went out on tour, and one day when she was in Paris, she called me on the phone at around 3 in the morning, and she played this song to me, the song "Save Me," which she had written about me
Steve Seel: No, no, no. Are you serious? She wrote the song about you?
Dave Foley: The song "Save Me," which later it when on to be nomincated for an Oscar, [for Best Original Song for Magnolia in 20001 and she performed it at the Oscars, but she wrote it about me.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 7d

If you have a RING door system, ICE has the right to request that footage and use it against you or your neighbors.

RING is partnering with the Gestapo.

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Johnny @john13.bsky.social · 6d

If you shared these everyday, I would like them everyday 😻

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Johnny @john13.bsky.social · 6d

I am unfortunately swamped to get anything done for Halloween, but I would love to help shortly after

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