Jarod Johnson
@jarodjohnson.bsky.social
Screaming into the void
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“The juvenile actions and accusatory language spouting from every orifice of government may be among the most superficial features of our current crisis, but it is symptomatic of a larger disrespect for professionalism and professional competence.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
The War on Professionalism and Professional Competence
Incompetence and sloppiness are the self-conscious ethos of the administration.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“The juvenile actions and accusatory language spouting from every orifice of government may be among the most superficial features of our current crisis, but it is symptomatic of a larger disrespect for professionalism and professional competence.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
On the way out from voting tonight, there was a woman collecting signatures for a petition to "keep boys out of girls' sports." I understand that's an issue that many people may find reasonable, but the reality is, it's a bigoted attempt to attack trans and intersex students. 1/4
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
On the way out from voting tonight, there was a woman collecting signatures for a petition to "keep boys out of girls' sports." I understand that's an issue that many people may find reasonable, but the reality is, it's a bigoted attempt to attack trans and intersex students. 1/4
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"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."
--Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
--Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."
--Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
--Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
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The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
The only check-and-balance that actually matters
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
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This did so much damage to the exact sort of message we desperately need right now and candidates who can convey it who do NOT have a Nazi death's head tattoo on their chest. God Fucking Damn it.
October 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This did so much damage to the exact sort of message we desperately need right now and candidates who can convey it who do NOT have a Nazi death's head tattoo on their chest. God Fucking Damn it.
The redemption story of a disillusioned veteran who shitposted some pretty abhorrent views on the internet to a man who found community, renounced those views, and worked hard to bring together the people of his state could have been inspirational. But a Nazi tattoo is disqualifying for a US Senator
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The redemption story of a disillusioned veteran who shitposted some pretty abhorrent views on the internet to a man who found community, renounced those views, and worked hard to bring together the people of his state could have been inspirational. But a Nazi tattoo is disqualifying for a US Senator
That's not an oxygen mask he's wearing in the poop jet video. It's a direct line to the verbal diarrhea that's dropping out the bottom.
October 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
That's not an oxygen mask he's wearing in the poop jet video. It's a direct line to the verbal diarrhea that's dropping out the bottom.
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Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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Ahh, the Good Old Days. When people also yearned for the Giod Old Days.
A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days
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October 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Ahh, the Good Old Days. When people also yearned for the Giod Old Days.
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Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.
Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.
Me, in @msnbc.com:
Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.
Me, in @msnbc.com:
Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal
If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.
www.msnbc.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.
Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.
Me, in @msnbc.com:
Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.
Me, in @msnbc.com:
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You cannot torch your own home and then demand applause for watering the neighbor’s lawn.
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Peace Doesn’t Belong to Tyrants
It belongs to the survivors, not the men who funded the bombs.
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
You cannot torch your own home and then demand applause for watering the neighbor’s lawn.
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open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.
“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”
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October 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.
"Masked, secret police, profiling people and now targeting entire apartment buildings, making everyone prove they're not guilty of something, is the province of tyrants. It is the opposite of America."
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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October 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"Masked, secret police, profiling people and now targeting entire apartment buildings, making everyone prove they're not guilty of something, is the province of tyrants. It is the opposite of America."
This is the gulf of America that truly matters
There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.
The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
October 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This is the gulf of America that truly matters
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.
September 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.
@dadchats.bsky.social may not know how to order Munchkins, but his On Law & Littles newsletter is a great source for keeping up with how the administration is running roughshod over the Constitution
open.substack.com/pub/dadchats...
open.substack.com/pub/dadchats...
September 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
@dadchats.bsky.social may not know how to order Munchkins, but his On Law & Littles newsletter is a great source for keeping up with how the administration is running roughshod over the Constitution
open.substack.com/pub/dadchats...
open.substack.com/pub/dadchats...
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There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!
Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!
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Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."
September 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."
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The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.
September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.
"No, I do not think tweaking the wording of some New York Times headlines would single-handedly change millions of disengaged voters’ minds, thereby transforming American politics. I think tons of headlines, framing choices, points of emphasis, uncritical repetition of lies, and...
Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise.
That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.
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That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.
My latest
Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump
The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA
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September 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"No, I do not think tweaking the wording of some New York Times headlines would single-handedly change millions of disengaged voters’ minds, thereby transforming American politics. I think tons of headlines, framing choices, points of emphasis, uncritical repetition of lies, and...