@stevejohnson1949.bsky.social
Longtime journalist, now retired. Ex-Associated Press, Court TV, AOL Patch, MSNBC.com, Atlanta Constitution, Chattanooga Times-Free Press. Taught multi-media journalism at Montclair State. Collects old books, plays upright bass.
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Me in the National Security group chat.
March 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Me in the National Security group chat.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
So when are we talking about the State of the Union? Are the Dems going to ALL boycott? All walk out? Call for massive demonstrations all day long outside the Capitol? Or sit on their hands and politely boo 2-3 times? Time to ask our reps...
February 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
So when are we talking about the State of the Union? Are the Dems going to ALL boycott? All walk out? Call for massive demonstrations all day long outside the Capitol? Or sit on their hands and politely boo 2-3 times? Time to ask our reps...
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TWILIGHT WINGS
A short-eared owl glides silently through Washington's golden marshland light. These grassland raptors hunt mainly at twilight, using exceptional hearing to locate prey.
📹 Mukul Soman
A short-eared owl glides silently through Washington's golden marshland light. These grassland raptors hunt mainly at twilight, using exceptional hearing to locate prey.
📹 Mukul Soman
January 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
TWILIGHT WINGS
A short-eared owl glides silently through Washington's golden marshland light. These grassland raptors hunt mainly at twilight, using exceptional hearing to locate prey.
📹 Mukul Soman
A short-eared owl glides silently through Washington's golden marshland light. These grassland raptors hunt mainly at twilight, using exceptional hearing to locate prey.
📹 Mukul Soman
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Chuck Schumer, leaping into action
a cartoon sloth is looking at a tablet computer .
ALT: a cartoon sloth is looking at a tablet computer .
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Chuck Schumer, leaping into action
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When folks wake up…
Coming to a bar near you in about 6 months.
Coming to a bar near you in about 6 months.
January 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
When folks wake up…
Coming to a bar near you in about 6 months.
Coming to a bar near you in about 6 months.
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Musk is just that pathetic.
January 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Musk is just that pathetic.
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Yes yes yes.
Also, it helps unite the political resistance, which right now is feeling atomized, unsupported, and alone.
Also, it helps unite the political resistance, which right now is feeling atomized, unsupported, and alone.
New from me: Trump is a lame duck, an old, tired, easily manipulated one, whose vanity is a useful tool. Foreign leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum are right to mock him, and American elites should uncurl from the fetal position and get in on the fun.
Poke The Bear
Donald Trump is a lame duck (not a bear)—an unusually weak one, in some ways—and he knows it.
www.offmessage.net
January 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Yes yes yes.
Also, it helps unite the political resistance, which right now is feeling atomized, unsupported, and alone.
Also, it helps unite the political resistance, which right now is feeling atomized, unsupported, and alone.
From someone who knows a lot about the Georgia Supreme Court.
There's a good chance the Supreme Court of Georgia reverses the Court of Appeals on this. They don't create a new rule or clarify any standard for prosecutorial disqualification but only craft a remedy they'd prefer.
I don't think that can be correct. It's rather extraordinary.
I don't think that can be correct. It's rather extraordinary.
December 20, 2024 at 2:45 AM
From someone who knows a lot about the Georgia Supreme Court.
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December 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Anyone else expecting Elon Musk to announce soon he’s running for president in 2028 and will ask the Supreme Court to hold that the Constitutional provision requiring candidates to be born in the US is unconstitutional?
December 6, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Anyone else expecting Elon Musk to announce soon he’s running for president in 2028 and will ask the Supreme Court to hold that the Constitutional provision requiring candidates to be born in the US is unconstitutional?
Trump admin’s floundering even before taking office w/3 nominees for key positions out or going & 3 more under fire. Business groups realizing his tariff & deportation plans wud be disastrous & he keeps picking folks w/ no job skills who look good on TV but don’t know how to do what he wants done.
December 6, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Trump admin’s floundering even before taking office w/3 nominees for key positions out or going & 3 more under fire. Business groups realizing his tariff & deportation plans wud be disastrous & he keeps picking folks w/ no job skills who look good on TV but don’t know how to do what he wants done.
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December 5, 2024 at 3:08 PM
It’s as though Jabba the Hutt picked Porky Pig, Donald Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Cookie Monster to rule the Empire. Seriously?
December 1, 2024 at 5:17 PM
It’s as though Jabba the Hutt picked Porky Pig, Donald Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Cookie Monster to rule the Empire. Seriously?
Playing up Musk, denigrates Trump. And Musk is fundamentally weird w/his multiple mommies in their compound. Portray him as someone who saved Trump but now wants to push Mars & climate change & electric cars & he is turning a declining Trump into a woke liberal. And then there’s RFK. jr.
November 28, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Playing up Musk, denigrates Trump. And Musk is fundamentally weird w/his multiple mommies in their compound. Portray him as someone who saved Trump but now wants to push Mars & climate change & electric cars & he is turning a declining Trump into a woke liberal. And then there’s RFK. jr.
The more I think about it, the more I think the Dems should be blaming Musk for losing the election. Simple message: weird rich guy buys Trump the White House. W/o Elon, Don loses. So what does Elon get in return? He’s the real co-president.
November 28, 2024 at 10:22 PM
The more I think about it, the more I think the Dems should be blaming Musk for losing the election. Simple message: weird rich guy buys Trump the White House. W/o Elon, Don loses. So what does Elon get in return? He’s the real co-president.
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Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.
November 28, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.
Is this the least sophisticated administration since maybe Andrew Jackson? In terms of the experience of the cabinet members (and president and vice president)?
November 27, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Is this the least sophisticated administration since maybe Andrew Jackson? In terms of the experience of the cabinet members (and president and vice president)?
So how long before we see the first news story refer to the Trump administration as “floundering”? His tariff move is like putting both feet into quicksand cuz now Mexico and Canada can respond w/their counter tariffs and companies in all 3 countries lose business and start layoffs.
November 26, 2024 at 2:32 PM
So how long before we see the first news story refer to the Trump administration as “floundering”? His tariff move is like putting both feet into quicksand cuz now Mexico and Canada can respond w/their counter tariffs and companies in all 3 countries lose business and start layoffs.
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It’s all in the telling.
November 23, 2024 at 10:09 PM
It’s all in the telling.
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The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
November 23, 2024 at 2:06 PM
The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s