Dan Johnsen
@loonspeak.bsky.social
Hanging at home talking to the plants and taking calls from the robots.
@magaziner.house.gov concludes his floor speech by calling Trump and Musk murderers. He is not wrong.
@magaziner.house.gov hails restoration of @edesianutrition.bsky.social food aid on House floor, saying, "After nine months of delay, I rise today to recognize an important victory for Edesia nutrition and for children around the world who now have a new chance at life.”
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Magaziner Celebrates Restoration of Edesia Food Aid on House Floor
YouTube video by Rep. Seth Magaziner
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November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
@magaziner.house.gov concludes his floor speech by calling Trump and Musk murderers. He is not wrong.
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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Both parties should support this. Using AI to generate a video of a candidate saying something he didn’t say should be illegal. Especially since many voters think it is real. I will condemn any candidate from either party who does this.
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Both parties should support this. Using AI to generate a video of a candidate saying something he didn’t say should be illegal. Especially since many voters think it is real. I will condemn any candidate from either party who does this.
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
"Shibboleth for douchebaggery" is a very fine phrase.
Honestly believe that using 'alpha' like this is a foolproof Shibboleth for douchebaggery.
Normal human beings in finance (all three of them) do not do this.
Normal human beings in finance (all three of them) do not do this.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Shibboleth for douchebaggery" is a very fine phrase.
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"Behind every airstrike, every surveillance drone, and every AI-powered kill list, there’s a tech company cashing a fat check.
Palantir, Google, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft as well as the entire backbone of Silicon Valley are the silent contractors of empire."
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Palantir, Google, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft as well as the entire backbone of Silicon Valley are the silent contractors of empire."
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November 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"Behind every airstrike, every surveillance drone, and every AI-powered kill list, there’s a tech company cashing a fat check.
Palantir, Google, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft as well as the entire backbone of Silicon Valley are the silent contractors of empire."
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Palantir, Google, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft as well as the entire backbone of Silicon Valley are the silent contractors of empire."
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When your name is Dwayne Hoover
1. You're automatically a dufus
2. You're going to suck up all available mind poison
1. You're automatically a dufus
2. You're going to suck up all available mind poison
I have somehow never read Breakfast of Champions and holy hell in three pages Vonnegut sums it all up - colonialism, racism, income inequality, and a guy who owns a car dealership who reads a scifi novel and takes away the wrong idea
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
When your name is Dwayne Hoover
1. You're automatically a dufus
2. You're going to suck up all available mind poison
1. You're automatically a dufus
2. You're going to suck up all available mind poison
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Here's to dads and the moms who get them.
Here's to dads and the moms who get them.
Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for November 9, 2025 | GoComics
Read Wallace the Brave—a comic strip by creator Will Henry—for today, November 9, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
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November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Here's to dads and the moms who get them.
Here's to dads and the moms who get them.
A recent post by @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social linked to a story on the PVD city council further limiting police cooperation with ICE. It was met with a torrent of ugly comments, the link disabled, and finally David's post taken down. Here's the good news in today's Providence Journal:
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A recent post by @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social linked to a story on the PVD city council further limiting police cooperation with ICE. It was met with a torrent of ugly comments, the link disabled, and finally David's post taken down. Here's the good news in today's Providence Journal:
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So much I could say, but I’ll just say she convinced her caucus to vote for something they hated and knew they’d lose their jobs over, on the promise that it’d be amended in some unknown way later through reconciliation. Nearly 40 million people have health insurance because of her. 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
So much I could say, but I’ll just say she convinced her caucus to vote for something they hated and knew they’d lose their jobs over, on the promise that it’d be amended in some unknown way later through reconciliation. Nearly 40 million people have health insurance because of her. 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
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The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania resulted in the remains of 17 students being repatriated to ...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
Good news!
1. JD Vance dismissed Tuesday's election as “a couple of elections in blue states.”
But there were significant contests around the country, including in purple and red states.
From coast to coast, voters rejected the MAGA agenda.
Let's review.
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But there were significant contests around the country, including in purple and red states.
From coast to coast, voters rejected the MAGA agenda.
Let's review.
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Six election results that didn’t make the headlines
Although Democratic victories in New York, Virginia, New Jersey, and California dominated the headlines, significant contests were held across the nation.
popular.info
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Good news!
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Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters | Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the Blue Wave that washed away local GOP office holders, writes Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social.
Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters on Election Night - Bucks County Beacon
Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the “Blue Wave” that washed away local Republican office holders.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters | Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the Blue Wave that washed away local GOP office holders, writes Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social.
It's all women running St. Paul, MN now. Kaohly Her makes history as first woman and Hmong American elected St. Paul mayor www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Her makes history as first woman and Hmong American elected St. Paul mayor
DFLer Kaohly Her, who worked for Mayor Melvin Carter’s office in his first term, was a late addition to the St. Paul mayor’s race. She beat Carter Tuesday and made history.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's all women running St. Paul, MN now. Kaohly Her makes history as first woman and Hmong American elected St. Paul mayor www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Surprisingly, Dick Cheney gets exactly the obituary he deserves.
"The current iteration of the Republican Party is a direct consequence of a political environment that was already in decay because of what Dick Cheney forcefully and intentionally normalized."
Donald Trump is Dick Cheney's Legacy
Stating the obvious.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Surprisingly, Dick Cheney gets exactly the obituary he deserves.
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Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors
Police in Israel have arrested and detained the military’s top legal officer after she admitted leaking footage of soldiers allegedly attacking a Palestinian detainee and then in effect lying about her actions to Israel’s high court.
The military advocate general, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, said in a resignation letter last week that she had authorised publication of the video to defuse attacks on military investigators and prosecutors working on the case. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
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New at Media Nation: Three shining examples of enterprise reporting from the @bostonglobe.com that you should know about. dankennedy.net/2025/11/03/t...
Three shining examples of enterprise reporting from The Boston Globe that you should know about
This morning I’d like to call your attention to three outstanding recent examples of enterprise journalism in The Boston Globe. On Friday I shared my last gift links for the month to The New …
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November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New at Media Nation: Three shining examples of enterprise reporting from the @bostonglobe.com that you should know about. dankennedy.net/2025/11/03/t...
Translation: Trump's doctor thinks he has dementia because they sent him twice for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
Also no one gets the MoCA twice in six months if their GP doesn’t think dementia is present.
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Translation: Trump's doctor thinks he has dementia because they sent him twice for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
"Kids are so much more than test scores."
Amen!
Amen!
Fun story from Ben Berke -->>> www.oceanstatemedia.org/education/me...
Meet the Providence 5th-graders running their own newsroom
At Alfred Lima Elementary School, a student-run news crew is flipping the narrative on Providence’s public schools — interviewing state leaders, reporting in two languages, and sharing their stories w...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Kids are so much more than test scores."
Amen!
Amen!
The effect in the US is likely to be the same as it has been overseas: donors, candidates, and campaign workers will wonder whether the benefit of participation outweigh the risk of harassment and persecution. When voting starts, the opposition party will already be at a steep disadvantage.
David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic about the various ways Trump could rig the midterms. He notes that modern autocrats don’t cancel elections. They hold unfair elections to fool people into thinking they’re not living in a dictatorship. It’s called “competitive authoritarianism.” (Gift link)
Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The effect in the US is likely to be the same as it has been overseas: donors, candidates, and campaign workers will wonder whether the benefit of participation outweigh the risk of harassment and persecution. When voting starts, the opposition party will already be at a steep disadvantage.
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Get to know the goons invading our streets.
Gift link. (I object to the New York Times calling this a "crime crackdown." The Trump regime is bringing violence to my city, Chicago, not fighting violence.)
Who Are the Federal Forces Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations and Crime Crackdown? (Gift Article)
As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Get to know the goons invading our streets.
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“Stories themselves are like seeds in our lives; so much can grow from them," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1380 of The Slowdown.
Read "Like Apple from Seed" by Molly Johnsen and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/43pkHMd
📖: @greenwriterspress.bsky.social
Read "Like Apple from Seed" by Molly Johnsen and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/43pkHMd
📖: @greenwriterspress.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“Stories themselves are like seeds in our lives; so much can grow from them," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1380 of The Slowdown.
Read "Like Apple from Seed" by Molly Johnsen and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/43pkHMd
📖: @greenwriterspress.bsky.social
Read "Like Apple from Seed" by Molly Johnsen and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/43pkHMd
📖: @greenwriterspress.bsky.social
Best post ever. 👇
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Best post ever. 👇
A loving rejection of Chip Roy's use of Jesus.
October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A loving rejection of Chip Roy's use of Jesus.