Alison Johnson
aljwriter.bsky.social
Alison Johnson
@aljwriter.bsky.social

Can't cook, so I feed folks with words. Taste: Democracy. Bearing witness. Art. Tea. Trees. Feminism. Oh, and movies. #PublicPolicy #FairElections

Communication & Media Studies 18%
Philosophy 13%

It’s heartbreaking and infuriating..

Thank you for all that you are doing - proud to call you my Senator!
Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Am currently on my 3rd listen of the Bright Sessions- love it!

Are you ever in a situation where you find yourself thinking about how a character from the Bright Sessions universe would respond? ☺️

Thank you for bringing your creative gifts to the world! 🌷
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

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We have evidence now going back to 2018 that when Trump isn't on the ballot, it's grim scenes for Republicans.

And he'll never (lawfully) be on the ballot again.

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I'm really tired of searching for an item I want to buy and Amazon and Etsy being the only links that show up for pages & pages 🙄. I found a couple Black business directories and Indigenous business directories that I've been using to search and shop instead 👏🏾. If you have some links please share! ⬇️

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GOOD MORNING AMERICA

🚨ELECTION DAY🚨

Please take a moment to listen & share
YOUR VOTE MATTERS
YOUR VOTE IS PRECIOUS

POLLS NOW OPEN
USE YOUR POWER

VOTE YES PROP 50 CALIFORNIA
VOTE Spanberger VA
Sherrill NJ
Mamdani NYC
SCOTUS PA
VOTE NO on 1 ME

I THANK YOU
THE GREAT JOHN LEWIS
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Ay me! I see the ruin of my house
Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
OPERATION INFLATION
www.operationinflation.com

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SALT LAKE CITY!

#NOKINGS
In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
If going forward we ever fulfill the actual promise of our Constitution, the dissents from this era of #SCOTUS are going to be very important and influential.
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Great phrasing!! I recently had this experience with some rando guy who wanted me to audience for him, including the expectation that I would take time to look at a picture on his phone on the subject he was talking at me about. Nope. 🙄
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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They do not have enough popular support.

So they are trying to outlaw / silence opposition.

And that’s where we are.

Pushing back has never mattered more.