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Caitlin Johnson
@caitlincleve.bsky.social
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Perpetually optimistic...with a few fits of rage sprinkled in here and there to keep it interesting.
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Overheard: my 7yo telling his ukulele teacher about John Brown during a lesson
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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labuzamovies.com Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 6d
Trump telling Zorhan it's okay to just call him a fascist is incredible content
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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meidastouch.com
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
This man? Not actually related to the Tanners at all, yet they call him "Uncle Joey"
Uncle Joey from Full House
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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justinmbibb.bsky.social
Cleveland's Fair Wage Board was dormant for two decades. But now working people need all the protection they can get. Proud to work with labor, faith leaders, and City Council to bring this board back to life.

#FairWages #UnionStrong
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
caitlincleve.bsky.social
Jesus Christ. Don't make me be in solidarity with war criminal John Bolton.
August 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
caitlincleve.bsky.social
While Donald Trump tries to stoke race-based fear to justify his authoritarian takeover, may I remind you that CRIME IS DOWN!! Like significantly! Especially in big cities led by Black mayors like @justinmbibb.bsky.social.
justinmbibb.bsky.social Justin M. Bibb @justinmbibb.bsky.social · Aug 15
Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

Mayors have been taking "all of the above" approaches to safety... and it's working.

Don't give into fear mongering.
August 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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justinmbibb.bsky.social
Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

Mayors have been taking "all of the above" approaches to safety... and it's working.

Don't give into fear mongering.
August 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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justinmbibb.bsky.social
Want to know how to build safe communities? Ask Democratic mayors:

‪@randallwoodfin.bsky.social‬ used technology and grassroots outreach

‪@wutrain.bsky.social‬ created a guaranteed youth jobs program

Here in Cleveland, the RISE Initiative has cut homicides by 26%.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
The crime rate is falling in spite of Trump — and because of Democratic mayors like me
Instead of working to reduce crime, Trump and Republicans in Washington have pushed unprecedented cuts to important programs.
www.msnbc.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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justinmbibb.bsky.social
Homicides & felonious assaults are down almost 30%.Cleveland is safer not only because we recruited more officers & raised their pay, but also because we’re funding programs that build safer, stronger communities from the ground up.
Text over images of Mayor Bibb holding a child, talking to a woman, on a safety walk, shooting hoops. Test says: "A Strong Foundation for a Safer Cleveland New measures to keep cyclists and pedestrians safe on the streets Expanded rec center hours & programs like “Hoops After Dark” A “Care response” that sends trained mental health professionals to appropriate calls Cleveland Safety Fund to support mentorship, afterschool, & youth outreach programs"
July 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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justinmbibb.bsky.social
Gun violence is still too high, but we’re bringing it down by building strong communities from the ground up, with extended rec center hours, youth outreach, hoops after dark, care response & more. Grateful to be named a "gun sense candidate" by @everytown.bsky.social‬ & @momsdemand.bsky.social‬.
Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate 2025 seal with Mayor Bibb's picture.
July 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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justinmbibb.bsky.social
As president of the @democraticmayors.bsky.social, I’m proud to bring mayors to Cleveland who are focused on results. While Washington stalls, cities are solving problems. This summit is about leading with solutions—community over chaos.
www.cleveland.com/open/2025/07...
Nation’s Democratic mayors flock to Cleveland to tackle ‘Community Over Chaos’
Democratic mayors from across the country will gather in Cleveland this week for a summit highlighting local leadership amid Washington’s political turmoil.
www.cleveland.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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nbcnews.com
A red sculpture of President Trump emerging from a manhole was installed in Midtown Manhattan.
July 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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justinmbibb.bsky.social
Nearly half of Cleveland residents get health care through Medicaid. SNAP helps 1/3 put food on the table. Today’s budget harms the many & gives handouts to the wealthy few. I won’t be deterred. I’ll keep fighting for affordable housing, safe neighborhoods, & healthy communities.
July 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
caitlincleve.bsky.social
Have to hand it to Chris Ronayne. He's showing real guts and leadership. 👏

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07...
Chris Ronayne: No on a sin tax increase state budget permits & no on county help for a new Cleveland Browns stadium
Cuyahoga County council could still take up Browns bonding request
www.cleveland.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
caitlincleve.bsky.social
The universe is funny. My college study buddy Drew Warshaw is running to give New Yorkers back their unclaimed funds...I'm here in Ohio fighting Republican lawmakers who just voted to give ours to billionaires 🤷‍♀️
drewforny.bsky.social Drew Warshaw @drewforny.bsky.social · May 7
My name is Drew Warshaw, and I’m running for State Comptroller. With the urgency that this moment demands. To give New Yorkers a real choice—and a chance for badly needed change. Join our fight.
July 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city. His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation. That Trump included praise for Eric Adams in his authoritarian threats is unsurprising, but highlights the urgency of bringing an end to this Mayor’s time in City Hall. At the very moment when MAGA Republicans are attempting to destroy the social safety net, kick millions of New Yorkers off of healthcare and enrich their billionaire donors at the expense of working families, it is a scandal that Eric Adams echoes this President’s division, distraction and hate. Voters will resoundingly reject it in November.
July 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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harlowsmusings.bsky.social
The rich are partying on yachts and building bunkers while the poor are drowning in floods, fleeing bombs, working three jobs to survive. they flaunt their wealth like it’s harmless. but in a world on fire, luxury is violence. no one should live like a god while others can’t drink clean
June 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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drewforny.bsky.social
My name is Drew Warshaw, and I’m running for State Comptroller. With the urgency that this moment demands. To give New Yorkers a real choice—and a chance for badly needed change. Join our fight.
May 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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iwantyoustudio.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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radosh.bsky.social
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM