Shelley Johansson
@shelleyjo.bsky.social
I like to sew and write things. Liberal. Nashville native living in western PA. Married to a Swede, talar flytande svenska. Lover of live music, cats, and bright colors. I want all the fabric.
Dressed for the day.
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Dressed for the day.
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Who's ready to topple another confederate monument?
CSPAN2 running a chyron on when Booker will break the record like when LeBron was three buckets away from the all-time points mark.
April 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Who's ready to topple another confederate monument?
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I think this conduct is genuinely impeachable.
Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
March 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I think this conduct is genuinely impeachable.
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the difference between a domestic terrorist and a domestic freedom fighter is a presidential pardon.
According to MAGA, if you hit a car with a baseball bat because you don’t like the company’s owner you’re a “terrorist”, but if you hit a Capitol police officer with a baseball bat because you don’t like the results of an election, you’re a “patriot.”
Do I have that just about right?
Do I have that just about right?
March 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
the difference between a domestic terrorist and a domestic freedom fighter is a presidential pardon.
Watching news in urgent care waiting room in red western PA. Story about Tesla backlash included Trump saying those protestors violent, unlike Jan 6 protestors. I snorted (involuntarily). A dude in the waiting room met my eye and shook his head. /scene
March 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Watching news in urgent care waiting room in red western PA. Story about Tesla backlash included Trump saying those protestors violent, unlike Jan 6 protestors. I snorted (involuntarily). A dude in the waiting room met my eye and shook his head. /scene
Most news coverage of the astronauts’ return noted that they “splashed down off the coast of Florida,” thus neatly avoiding having to mention THE GULF OF MEXICO.
March 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Most news coverage of the astronauts’ return noted that they “splashed down off the coast of Florida,” thus neatly avoiding having to mention THE GULF OF MEXICO.
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
Yeah, no as my friend @mba-therapist.bsky.social would say.
After JD Vance is booed, the Kennedy Center issued a statement crying for “diversity and inclusion” of those with different political opinions.
“We must welcome EVERYONE. We will not allow the Kennedy Center to be an intolerant place.”
#3E #EndOligarchy
youtu.be/l_8HQwJnYao?...
“We must welcome EVERYONE. We will not allow the Kennedy Center to be an intolerant place.”
#3E #EndOligarchy
youtu.be/l_8HQwJnYao?...
Watch J.D. Vance Get Booed By Crowds At Kennedy Center After Donald Trump’s Takeover
YouTube video by Access Hollywood
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March 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Yeah, no as my friend @mba-therapist.bsky.social would say.
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Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.
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Musk has bought the presidency.
Haberman: Teddy Schleifer and I reported that Elon Musk has signaled to Trump’s advisers that he wants to direct $100 million into trump controlled political entities..
March 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Musk has bought the presidency.
OMFG.
“.. In at least a dozen videos filmed in her OPM office, political appointee McLaurine Pinover modeled her outfit choices for the day, while directing followers from her Instagram account to a website that could earn her commissions on clothing sales.”
@cnn.com #DOGE
www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...
@cnn.com #DOGE
www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...
Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office | CNN Politics
As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for ...
www.cnn.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
OMFG.
This level of chaos isn’t sustainable. It just isn’t.
March 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This level of chaos isn’t sustainable. It just isn’t.
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I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
Guess nobody still pearl-clutching over Biden’s pardons, huh.
March 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Guess nobody still pearl-clutching over Biden’s pardons, huh.
Uh
So @propublica.org has a blockbuster story about Jodi Ernst, who cast a critical vote on Hegseth and has great sway over defense matters, being in an 'inappropriate relationship' w/ a top general
The story has responses from both -- and they aren't exactly denials
www.propublica.org/article/joni...
The story has responses from both -- and they aren't exactly denials
www.propublica.org/article/joni...
March 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Uh
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The Clinton emails team at NYT seems awful quiet about Musk's cyber security protocols
March 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Clinton emails team at NYT seems awful quiet about Musk's cyber security protocols
Get a load of this asshole in his campaign ball cap.
Elon Musk at Trump's first Cabinet meeting: "I think this is the best Cabinet ever. Literally. So, uh, and I do not give false praise... I think it‘s literally the best Cabinet that the country has ever had."
February 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Get a load of this asshole in his campaign ball cap.
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This treasonous piece of shit needs to be shut down.
February 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This treasonous piece of shit needs to be shut down.
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
If any conservative person I ever talk to in any context brings up the deficit I will be hard pressed to not kick them in the shins.
February 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If any conservative person I ever talk to in any context brings up the deficit I will be hard pressed to not kick them in the shins.
Deep red Blair County, PA.
February 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Deep red Blair County, PA.
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… what are we doing here @thedailybeast.bsky.social
I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.
February 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
… what are we doing here @thedailybeast.bsky.social
Just turned my mom onto @5calls.org and she’s going to alert all her friends in the retirement community she lives in, too. I call EVERY weekday. Every single one.
February 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Just turned my mom onto @5calls.org and she’s going to alert all her friends in the retirement community she lives in, too. I call EVERY weekday. Every single one.
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This is re: Trump's EO to ban trans persons from the military. Reyes is a federal judge. If I got this etherized in court I'd walk into the fucking sea. bsky.app/profile/mike...
![REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmtjkssv6jeneahkgfdxuy7p/bafkreicmr3wybkn6acxmmdf4vuqnzxho2nk7kp3v7tx7vkclg2cjmwvixm@jpeg)
February 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This is re: Trump's EO to ban trans persons from the military. Reyes is a federal judge. If I got this etherized in court I'd walk into the fucking sea. bsky.app/profile/mike...