Kari Johnson
@karijohn.bsky.social
Animal lover, bleeding heart liberal, wife of USAF retired husband, grandma, aging services non-profit strategic director. karij at Daily Kos. 💙Stronger Together 💙Resist 💙Revolution
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Oh nbd, just a Canadian children’s cartoon asking the leader of the most powerful military in the world to stop using him in his murder rampage. How is this real life???
December 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Oh nbd, just a Canadian children’s cartoon asking the leader of the most powerful military in the world to stop using him in his murder rampage. How is this real life???
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December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Put grandpa to bed.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Put grandpa to bed.
This is just sick wicked bullshit. 🤬
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny. (via @kuow.org)
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is just sick wicked bullshit. 🤬
So, so grateful people will go hungry, especially the poors cause it is their own fault. 😡😡😡
Rollins: Joe Biden increased food stamp program funding by 40%. Now… we continue to roll that back… Just gratitude and joy for this work. So, so grateful to you.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
So, so grateful people will go hungry, especially the poors cause it is their own fault. 😡😡😡
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Agree with @mollymckew.bsky.social here. Powerful essay.
The focus is on “drug boat” strikes, but there are competing justifications for escalating military action against Venezuela — “cartels”, oil, bravado, liberation
But the war on Venezuela isn’t about those things
It’s about redefining—diminishing—American power
www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...
But the war on Venezuela isn’t about those things
It’s about redefining—diminishing—American power
www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...
The war on Venezuela is a war for American reality — PART 1
President Trump has pushed the nation toward a fulcrum — a point where the entire definition of American power could unhinge, and after which there is greatly increased risk for the United States of A...
www.greatpower.us
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Agree with @mollymckew.bsky.social here. Powerful essay.
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GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.”
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December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.”
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RFK Jr is a dangerous whackjob who does not care if he kills us all.
#ImpeachRFKJr
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#ImpeachRFKJr
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RFK Jr. Taps Preacher Who Blames Vaccines for Cancer, Compares Covid Tracking to Nazi Germany
Kirk Milhoan has claimed without evidence that the covid-19 shots caused spikes in cancer and miscarriages. Now he's helping shape the country's vaccine policy.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
RFK Jr is a dangerous whackjob who does not care if he kills us all.
#ImpeachRFKJr
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#ImpeachRFKJr
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Literally Nobody Wants A CyberTruck Anymore...
YouTube video by Fads
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December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
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Wow grampy shitnpantz crashed out HARD overnight.
I love that for him.
Maybe it'll happen today.
I love that for him.
Maybe it'll happen today.
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Wow grampy shitnpantz crashed out HARD overnight.
I love that for him.
Maybe it'll happen today.
I love that for him.
Maybe it'll happen today.
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I think a lot about the difference between being a wimp and being a coward, and this might be it in a nutshell!
i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I think a lot about the difference between being a wimp and being a coward, and this might be it in a nutshell!
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RFK! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
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December 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This administration can’t pretend it cares about anti-trust only when it helps allies.
If Netflix is too big to own Warner Bros, then so is Paramount/Skydance.
If Netflix is too big to own Warner Bros, then so is Paramount/Skydance.
The Orban playbook: use the regulatory powers of the state to ensure media is owned by your allies who turn it into propaganda for the regime.
Here’s Trump intervening to help his ally Ellison’s bid for Warner Bros (and CNN).
Here’s Trump intervening to help his ally Ellison’s bid for Warner Bros (and CNN).
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This administration can’t pretend it cares about anti-trust only when it helps allies.
If Netflix is too big to own Warner Bros, then so is Paramount/Skydance.
If Netflix is too big to own Warner Bros, then so is Paramount/Skydance.
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In a Thanksgiving post on social media, Trump called a sitting governor “seriously r------d,” a phrase rancid with cruelty and long rejected by civilized society. 😡
America’s Dangerous Delusion: Pretending Trump Is Fine
David Shuster exposes the fatigue, fury, and cognitive erosion the Trump team is desperately trying to hide.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In a Thanksgiving post on social media, Trump called a sitting governor “seriously r------d,” a phrase rancid with cruelty and long rejected by civilized society. 😡
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Why every era ruled by the morbidly rich ends the same way: corruption, collapse, and ordinary people paying the bill....
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How Many Times Will the Morbidly Rich Crash America Before We Learn?
Why every era ruled by the morbidly rich ends the same way: corruption, collapse, and ordinary people paying the bill....
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December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Why every era ruled by the morbidly rich ends the same way: corruption, collapse, and ordinary people paying the bill....
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Always an excellent plan, when you are running a corrupt and hated autocracy, to piss off the military and show the highest levels of command you’ll scapegoat them for your ineptitude and moral failings. Has worked out so well for dictators before: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout
As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Always an excellent plan, when you are running a corrupt and hated autocracy, to piss off the military and show the highest levels of command you’ll scapegoat them for your ineptitude and moral failings. Has worked out so well for dictators before: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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A Florida-based company is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the VA has said that may be illegal and the service should be free. But so far nobody's stopping the company and others like it. n.pr/4awb0jo
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December 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A Florida-based company is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the VA has said that may be illegal and the service should be free. But so far nobody's stopping the company and others like it. n.pr/4awb0jo
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In the continuing story of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s efforts to eliminate vaccines, we look at one of his useful idiots, CBER Director Dr. Vinay Prasad, and his email laying out how FDA will weaponize dead children to justify making vaccines harder to approve. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 5: VAERS and a useful idiot at the FDA
In the sadly continuing story of how Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. is working to eliminate vaccines, we look at a useful idiot, Dr. Vinay Prasad, and how he is weaponizing dead children
sciencebasedmedicine.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In the continuing story of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s efforts to eliminate vaccines, we look at one of his useful idiots, CBER Director Dr. Vinay Prasad, and his email laying out how FDA will weaponize dead children to justify making vaccines harder to approve. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
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Things Are Terrible But Not All The Things!
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Things Are Terrible But Not All The Things!
A Nice Times roundup.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Things Are Terrible But Not All The Things!
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😡 I could not despise the orange turd more.
The Trump administration is starving Americans.
In Georgia, a food bank is running out of food while demand has surged by over 40%.
Yes, Georgia is a red state, but before we go the FAFO route, remember Trump’s margin of victory in Georgia was 2.2%. So a lot of folks didn’t vote for this.
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In Georgia, a food bank is running out of food while demand has surged by over 40%.
Yes, Georgia is a red state, but before we go the FAFO route, remember Trump’s margin of victory in Georgia was 2.2%. So a lot of folks didn’t vote for this.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
😡 I could not despise the orange turd more.
🤢🤮Anyway what heart?
Melania Trump on Monday unveiled the holiday decorations for her family’s first Christmas back at the White House and her theme is “Home Is Where the Heart Is.”
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See photos of Melania Trump's White House Christmas decorations, including a LEGO Trump
In a change this year after the East Wing was torn down, the official White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room also honors Gold Star families that lost a member during active-duty military service.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
🤢🤮Anyway what heart?