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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Just saw #OneBattleAfterAnother. I loved this movie! It’s as if The Dude was reactivated in Trump’s America. One part manifesto, two parts the importance of found family. Hilarious, thrilling, and very touching. I look forward to seeing it again.

Poster from One Battle After Another showing Leonardo DiCaprio in a bathrobe holding a rifle and framed by members of the resistance and Sean Penn as the military goon set on destroying him.

Title that says “One Battle After Another”

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, this is laughably false. But it speaks to a larger problem: the splintered and highly partisan news ecology. A hundred influencers are right now editing this quote into videos showing out-of-context riots to juice the algorithm. Hate and division are good for content creators and owners alike.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

And, obviously not the most serious issue, but the ICE goon’s unsecured sidearm falls from his holster and onto the street while he’s focused on being top dog. Incompetence combined with arrogance is going to get people killed.

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor

Roughly 70 percent of faculty are contingent. This exploitative hustle is driving dedicated teachers out of academia.

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

For the low, low price of $249, you too can be insufferable at parties!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Slate @slate.com · 7d

She fostered a way of being that has animated my entire adult life. slate.trib.al/qjmBOaD

I Learned So Many of My Most Important Life Lessons from Jane Goodall

You may have heard of Horse Girls, but I’m a Primate Girl for life.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8d

this is good youtu.be/hJXEezyF2Rw?...

Kimmel and the New Era of Corporate Capitulation | The Backdrop

YouTube video by Second Wind

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 8d

a man wearing 3d glasses is holding a bag of popcorn

Alt: Stephen Colbert, wearing 3d glasses, is eating from a giant bag of popcorn.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 9d

A documentary set to premiere on APTN takes viewers behind the curtain into the corridors of systemic inequity – from the Indian Act to residential schools to modern-day family separation.

APTN News spoke with co-directors Leena Minifie and David Paperny.

‘The Good Canadian’ documentary looks behind the curtain of systemic inequity | APTN News

YouTube video by APTN News

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 8d

I attended a special screening of @goodcanadianfilm.bsky.social last week, which airs tonight at 8pm on CBC, @cbcgem.bsky.social, and at 9pm on @aptnnews.bsky.social. It does an excellent job showing the systemic policies that have resulted in genocide for First Nations people. Highly recommended.

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YouTube video by Stories First Productions

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 8d

Your history lesson for today. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 10d

"Let's see what's out there..." It was 38 years ago today (Sept 28, 1987) that "Encounter at Farpoint" had its premiere broadcast, introducing Capt Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D. I'm proud to have been a member of the team who made the show at Paramount.

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve been to live performances in front of the screen in Chico, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, and Amsterdam. Here’s to 50 more years of antici…… pation!

NPR @npr.org · 10d

Rocky Horror aficionados used to attend screenings of the film over and over to take notes on the details. Accurately mirroring every line and dance move has gotten easier over time.

'Rocky Horror' is 50! We propose a toast. (You know what to do)

Rocky Horror aficionados used to attend screenings of the film over and over to take notes on the details. Accurately mirroring every line and dance move has gotten easier over time.

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

The future owner of TikTok dreams of being “Princess Alice.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10d

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Wp EXCLUSIVE
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

I will admit that my own theory of political change has been informed by historical examples where direct action operated in-person to interrupt the status quo. This makes a persuasive case that Internet politics needs to be taken seriously.

Citarella noted that he's been warning, for more than half a decade, that too many people remain under the mistaken impression that "what happens or the internet isn't real." He added that "the professional commentary class" has been particularly insulated from the power of digital discourse, because "they pay attention to the legacy sources of information, and they're just not having the same media-environment experience as most people in the country.

What is needed, Citarella's strategy suggests, is an understanding of a kind of post-internet politics, where, like it or not, online life is embraced as part and parcel of how modern belief systems are formed.

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

This AP photo shows the truck that rammed into a Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan before a gunman opened fire.

The truck is draped in American flags. If it carried the flag of any other country, the coverage would scream “terrorism.” Instead, the narrative is: motive unknown.

A fireman carries a fire hose while, behind them, a truck with American flags is seen crashed into a Mormon church.

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

Now I really want to know the name of the university Elfin’s algorithm initially placed on top.

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

When I hear pundits claim that Democrats need to sacrifice core values in order to win, I’m reminded of Romanian writer Panait Istrati who toured the USSR in the 1930s. When told “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs,” he replied: “Yes, I see the broken eggs. But where is the omelette?”

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

Ta-Nehisi Coates comes away with the stronger, moral position. Klein takes the position that the ends justify the means, and that is simply not true for people living on the margins.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

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Eric Michael Johnson @ericmjohnson.bsky.social · 12d

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

Texas Tech’s limits on gender identity discussion deepen fears of politics breaching academic freedom

Professors are afraid to publicly speak out, system leaders left key questions unanswered and advocates worry for LGBTQ+ students’ mental health.

www.texastribune.org

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