Jay D Johnson
@refusenik.bsky.social
Former public school SPED teacher, former English teacher in juvenile detention, former magazine editor, former freelance journalist, former evangelical.
Interests: Theology, Genesis, Human evolution, Co-evolution of the brain, language and morality.
Interests: Theology, Genesis, Human evolution, Co-evolution of the brain, language and morality.
This is what needs to happen. The state can investigate and present a grand jury with evidence. Rogue agents won't exercise restraint until they see their peers indicted and arrested.
There's no immunity for cold-blooded murder.
There's no immunity for cold-blooded murder.
Walz: Minnesota's justice system will have the last word on this.
As I told the white house in no uncertain terms this morning, the federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The state will handle it. Period.
As I told the white house in no uncertain terms this morning, the federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The state will handle it. Period.
January 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This is what needs to happen. The state can investigate and present a grand jury with evidence. Rogue agents won't exercise restraint until they see their peers indicted and arrested.
There's no immunity for cold-blooded murder.
There's no immunity for cold-blooded murder.
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Russia is a terrorist state
This is how people live in Kyiv right now. They put up tents in their apartments to somehow keep warm. Many people don't have heating.
January 23, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Russia is a terrorist state
New Mexico is beautiful
January 18, 2026 at 3:46 PM
New Mexico is beautiful
Reposted by Jay D Johnson
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
The regime won't rest until Mexican food is stamped out from coast to coast!
Seriously, WTF is going on? It's like ICE is running out of ideas to meet the quota, so they go to the most obvious places they can find. Mexican restaurants, Home Depot, schools and neighborhoods with lots of "brown" folk
Seriously, WTF is going on? It's like ICE is running out of ideas to meet the quota, so they go to the most obvious places they can find. Mexican restaurants, Home Depot, schools and neighborhoods with lots of "brown" folk
ICE shut down the oldest Mexican restaurant in my hometown of Forest Lake, Minnesota -- a city that voted overwhelmingly for Trump (and Pete Hegseth's hometown too)
Feel safer yet?
Feel safer yet?
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The regime won't rest until Mexican food is stamped out from coast to coast!
Seriously, WTF is going on? It's like ICE is running out of ideas to meet the quota, so they go to the most obvious places they can find. Mexican restaurants, Home Depot, schools and neighborhoods with lots of "brown" folk
Seriously, WTF is going on? It's like ICE is running out of ideas to meet the quota, so they go to the most obvious places they can find. Mexican restaurants, Home Depot, schools and neighborhoods with lots of "brown" folk
I was pulling for the Euros during the Ryder Cup. The U-S-A chant turns my stomach right now.
I usually love to watch the Olympic Games, but this year, with the jingoism that’s taken over my country, I can’t bring myself to care about Team USA. I know the athletes aren’t responsible, but I just can’t cheer for the USA right now.
January 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I was pulling for the Euros during the Ryder Cup. The U-S-A chant turns my stomach right now.
One of my favorite places. New Mexico is beautiful.
At the Monastery of Christ in the Desert…
Abiquiu, New Mexico…
Abiquiu, New Mexico…
January 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
One of my favorite places. New Mexico is beautiful.
Russia is a terrorist state
A clinic in Obolon, Kyiv.
A place meant to save lives.
A russian drone hit it.
A man born in 1995 was inside.
A patient.
Receiving treatment.
He was killed.
At least four others were injured.
When hospitals are targets,
when patients are enemies,
this is not war.
This is GENOCIDE.
A place meant to save lives.
A russian drone hit it.
A man born in 1995 was inside.
A patient.
Receiving treatment.
He was killed.
At least four others were injured.
When hospitals are targets,
when patients are enemies,
this is not war.
This is GENOCIDE.
January 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Russia is a terrorist state
Venezuela? Really?
So we're just another Russia now, an aggressive military state that attacks our neighbors without provocation.
So we're just another Russia now, an aggressive military state that attacks our neighbors without provocation.
January 3, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Venezuela? Really?
So we're just another Russia now, an aggressive military state that attacks our neighbors without provocation.
So we're just another Russia now, an aggressive military state that attacks our neighbors without provocation.
Russia is a terrorist state
The moment of the missile strike on Kharkiv.
January 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Russia is a terrorist state
Evangelical embrace of Trump and MAGA caused millions to reject Christ.
Is there a word for the opposite of evangelism?
Is there a word for the opposite of evangelism?
Based on student feedback, there's no reading assignment I've ever given that resonates as much as Hout & Fischer's study showing the rise in "Unaffiliated" adults wasn't due to disbelief as much as it was backlash to religion being associated with right-wing politics.
www.jstor.org/stable/30888...
www.jstor.org/stable/30888...
December 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Evangelical embrace of Trump and MAGA caused millions to reject Christ.
Is there a word for the opposite of evangelism?
Is there a word for the opposite of evangelism?
The wife started hormone replacement therapy to counteract the hot flashes. So last night she cornered me in the kitchen to kiss and flirt. My reaction? "That's the patch talking."
Please clap. Lol
Please clap. Lol
December 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The wife started hormone replacement therapy to counteract the hot flashes. So last night she cornered me in the kitchen to kiss and flirt. My reaction? "That's the patch talking."
Please clap. Lol
Please clap. Lol
A song for @rlstollar.bsky.social
"A family tradition
The strength of this land
Where what's right and wrong
Is the back of a hand
Turns girls into women
And a boy to a man
The rights of the children
Have nowhere to stand"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaxV...
"A family tradition
The strength of this land
Where what's right and wrong
Is the back of a hand
Turns girls into women
And a boy to a man
The rights of the children
Have nowhere to stand"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaxV...
Nowhere to Stand
YouTube video by k.d. lang - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
A song for @rlstollar.bsky.social
"A family tradition
The strength of this land
Where what's right and wrong
Is the back of a hand
Turns girls into women
And a boy to a man
The rights of the children
Have nowhere to stand"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaxV...
"A family tradition
The strength of this land
Where what's right and wrong
Is the back of a hand
Turns girls into women
And a boy to a man
The rights of the children
Have nowhere to stand"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaxV...
Screw Home Depot
Home Depot is providing us with yet another reason to never shop at Home Depot.
Lowes invests in the local community and works with a wide variety of social support groups.
Home Depot's top execs and shareholders, in contrast, dump millions into Trump's campaigns and actively support ICE.
Lowes invests in the local community and works with a wide variety of social support groups.
Home Depot's top execs and shareholders, in contrast, dump millions into Trump's campaigns and actively support ICE.
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Screw Home Depot
Pro-life is a pro-death cult
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Pro-life is a pro-death cult
New Mexico is beautiful
Sandhill Cranes at New Mexico’s amazing Bosque del Apache preserve…
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Mexico is beautiful
Russia is a terrorist state
💥 A missile hit a sports school in Sumy while CHILDREN were training!
This is not war -this is terror. russia targets kids, dreams, Ukraine’s future.
World, wake up. These are children, not targets! 🤬🤬
This is not war -this is terror. russia targets kids, dreams, Ukraine’s future.
World, wake up. These are children, not targets! 🤬🤬
December 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Russia is a terrorist state
If New Mexico can afford universal childcare, so can New York City
New Yorkers kept telling me the same thing: they’re thinking of leaving because they can’t afford to raise their kids here. Universal childcare isn’t just a promise — it’s how we make this a city for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If New Mexico can afford universal childcare, so can New York City
RFK and his anti-vax cronies are a cult of child sacrifice
"Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough"
" The best way to prevent whooping cough is by receiving the Tdap or DTaP vaccine, which protects against three bacterial infections — diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, say public health experts." kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
" The best way to prevent whooping cough is by receiving the Tdap or DTaP vaccine, which protects against three bacterial infections — diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, say public health experts." kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
RFK and his anti-vax cronies are a cult of child sacrifice
Dishonorable and inhumane.
A perfect description of the Trump administration
A perfect description of the Trump administration
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Dishonorable and inhumane.
A perfect description of the Trump administration
A perfect description of the Trump administration
Pro-life is a scam
When Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old from Texas, asked doctors about terminating her high-risk pregnancy to save her life, they assured her she had nothing to worry about.
Then she died of preeclampsia.
Then she died of preeclampsia.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Pro-life is a scam
Seconded
In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Seconded
Trump's peace plan for Ukraine is obscene. Russia is a terrorist state.
I was honored to speak at a conference “Intent to Destroy: Confronting Russia’s Campaign to Erase Ukraine & Its People” at Georgetown. The mere suggestion of amnesty for Russia's war crimes and genocidal actions against Ukrainians, contained in Trump's 28-point plan, is an unconscionable obscenity.
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Trump's peace plan for Ukraine is obscene. Russia is a terrorist state.
I gave Luca a Christmas chicken before Thanksgiving. He correctly decided to destroy it.
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I gave Luca a Christmas chicken before Thanksgiving. He correctly decided to destroy it.