Kjerstin Johnson
@kajerstin.bsky.social
writer living in Portland, OR. Formerly: Bitch, Rethinking Schools, The Nib, The Ringer. Now at YES! Magazine.
When Amy Goodman has to move on from last night’s election results and read the rest of the headlines
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
When Amy Goodman has to move on from last night’s election results and read the rest of the headlines
With Zohran’s victory, I shall begin my slow return to social media …. it is time 🪽🌝🪐💫
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
With Zohran’s victory, I shall begin my slow return to social media …. it is time 🪽🌝🪐💫
Me watching the Slanted! Enchanted! footage in the PAVEMENTS movie
June 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Me watching the Slanted! Enchanted! footage in the PAVEMENTS movie
Really enjoyed Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by @amandahess.bsky.social.
The final chapter was like a mini-millennial-mom version of Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger.
The final chapter was like a mini-millennial-mom version of Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger.
June 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Really enjoyed Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by @amandahess.bsky.social.
The final chapter was like a mini-millennial-mom version of Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger.
The final chapter was like a mini-millennial-mom version of Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger.
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Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
June 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
Portland: Rupert Kinnard will be at @floatingworld.bsky.social tomorrow (Saturday) 5-7!
We're lucky to have a alt-comics legend in town. I wrote about why I think his new book is important here: www.portlandmercury.com/Comics/2025/...
We're lucky to have a alt-comics legend in town. I wrote about why I think his new book is important here: www.portlandmercury.com/Comics/2025/...
Book Review: Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History
You’ve probably seen Rupert Kinnard’s smile if you’ve passed the downtown Portland mural on NW Couch at Broadway. A wheelchair user since a car accident in 1996, Kinnard sits between Kathleen Saadat a...
www.portlandmercury.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Portland: Rupert Kinnard will be at @floatingworld.bsky.social tomorrow (Saturday) 5-7!
We're lucky to have a alt-comics legend in town. I wrote about why I think his new book is important here: www.portlandmercury.com/Comics/2025/...
We're lucky to have a alt-comics legend in town. I wrote about why I think his new book is important here: www.portlandmercury.com/Comics/2025/...
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An inside look at the Catch-22 the federal attorneys and immigration agencies are working to deport people legally seeking asylum in the U.S.
Essentially, requiring people to show up to court, dropping the court case and then having immigration officers grab that person for deportation.
Essentially, requiring people to show up to court, dropping the court case and then having immigration officers grab that person for deportation.
Asylum seeker’s courthouse arrest illustrates Trump administration’s latest immigration enforcement tactic
Legal experts say some asylum seekers are being moved from a process with legal protections into expedited removal, which has "almost none."
www.opb.org
June 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
An inside look at the Catch-22 the federal attorneys and immigration agencies are working to deport people legally seeking asylum in the U.S.
Essentially, requiring people to show up to court, dropping the court case and then having immigration officers grab that person for deportation.
Essentially, requiring people to show up to court, dropping the court case and then having immigration officers grab that person for deportation.
Kinnard's new book from @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social is the first available since a hard-to-find 1992 book. I hope it can introduce more people to his work and legacy as a Black, queer comics artist. Please order a copy and/or ask your local public library or academic library to order one too!
Book Review: Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History
You’ve probably seen Rupert Kinnard’s smile if you’ve passed the downtown Portland mural on NW Couch at Broadway. A wheelchair user since a car accident in 1996, Kinnard sits between Kathleen Saadat a...
www.portlandmercury.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Kinnard's new book from @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social is the first available since a hard-to-find 1992 book. I hope it can introduce more people to his work and legacy as a Black, queer comics artist. Please order a copy and/or ask your local public library or academic library to order one too!
A lot going on today, as there is everyday, but also I wrote about Portland comics artist Rupert Kinnard's new book! He'll be at @floatingworld.bsky.social this Saturday.
Rupert Kinnard’s 'Cathartic Comics' ran in the pages of alt weeklies and queer newspapers in the ’80s and ’90s. A new collection of this Portland cartoonist's largely out-of-print work explores his activism and art, which came from a uniquely Black, gay, and intersectional perspective.
Book Review: Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History
You’ve probably seen Rupert Kinnard’s smile if you’ve passed the downtown Portland mural on NW Couch at Broadway. A wheelchair user since a car accident in 1996, Kinnard sits between Kathleen Saadat a...
www.portlandmercury.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A lot going on today, as there is everyday, but also I wrote about Portland comics artist Rupert Kinnard's new book! He'll be at @floatingworld.bsky.social this Saturday.
Evil
Holy shit. AP reports that the Trump admin. provided deportation officials with personal data and immigration status on millions of Medicaid enrollees. Data includes "addresses, names, social security numbers and claims data for enrollees" in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington DC.
Trump administration gives personal data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials
President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.
apnews.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Evil
give me a sec... i just learned "Utahn" is a word www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/u...
June 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
give me a sec... i just learned "Utahn" is a word www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/u...
I found this whole interview very edifying after seeing MOUNTAINHEAD (2025) !
Karen Hao on How AI Colonialism Is Threatening the World: Part 2
Karen Hao on How AI Colonialism Is Threatening the World: Part 2
Extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of OpenAI and how the AI industry is leading to a new form of colonialism.
www.democracynow.org
June 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I found this whole interview very edifying after seeing MOUNTAINHEAD (2025) !
Isn’t David Lynch saying (if he said it at all) that AI is bad? We all have sharp knives, but we use them to chop vegetables and not murder people.
June 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Isn’t David Lynch saying (if he said it at all) that AI is bad? We all have sharp knives, but we use them to chop vegetables and not murder people.
horrified and saddened by murder of Jonathan Joss 💔
June 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
horrified and saddened by murder of Jonathan Joss 💔
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Loved every line of this great, bittersweet recollection about making an independent magazine when the economics of media—and really, the very concept of “media”—was upended
For more than a year, I’ve been writing essays about Punk Planet, the miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. All that time I’ve been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never get over it. dansinker.com/posts/202…
May 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Loved every line of this great, bittersweet recollection about making an independent magazine when the economics of media—and really, the very concept of “media”—was upended
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NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals.
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals.
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
PAVEMENTS (2025) premiere in Portland tonight
May 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
PAVEMENTS (2025) premiere in Portland tonight
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A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the year is over.
Marine life's latest hotspot could be an underwater volcano primed to erupt off Oregon
A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the year is over.
www.npr.org
May 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the year is over.
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Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones
May 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones
Everyone went bananas for CONCLAVE (2024) when HBO’s THE YOUNG POPE (dir. Sorrentino) was right there. With a new American pope I can be silent no longer. Please watch this zany tour de force!!
May 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Everyone went bananas for CONCLAVE (2024) when HBO’s THE YOUNG POPE (dir. Sorrentino) was right there. With a new American pope I can be silent no longer. Please watch this zany tour de force!!
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Fiona Apple says fetch the bolt cutters and let pretrial detainees go home. youtu.be/ki1nvcNbYH8?...
Fiona Apple - Pretrial (Let Her Go Home) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by fionaappleVEVO
youtu.be
May 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Fiona Apple says fetch the bolt cutters and let pretrial detainees go home. youtu.be/ki1nvcNbYH8?...
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Just finished ch. 35 in Careless People (the Facebook tell-all) detailing how the company basically handed the 2016 election to Trump. Sick stuff! Can’t imagine what awaits in the final quarter of the book.
May 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just finished ch. 35 in Careless People (the Facebook tell-all) detailing how the company basically handed the 2016 election to Trump. Sick stuff! Can’t imagine what awaits in the final quarter of the book.
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"Aaron Ortega Gonzalez is a Mexican citizen and a PhD student at Oregon State, where he’s been researching the impact of wildfires on ranchlands. Ortega Gonzalez has reportedly been given no reason why the federal government ended his visa."
Oregon State student sues Trump administration for revoking visa
Aaron Ortega Gonzalez says he’s never committed a crime despite ICE officials’ claims.
www.opb.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Aaron Ortega Gonzalez is a Mexican citizen and a PhD student at Oregon State, where he’s been researching the impact of wildfires on ranchlands. Ortega Gonzalez has reportedly been given no reason why the federal government ended his visa."