j.j. johnson, unruly Quaker & author
@unrulyquaker.bsky.social
Restorative justice facilitator. Prison & ICE abolitionist. Roller skater.
Harsh on systems, soft on living things.
“Notes from an Unruly Quaker” on Substack.
I write y.a. novels too: Believarexic, The Theory of Everything, This Girl is Different.
Harsh on systems, soft on living things.
“Notes from an Unruly Quaker” on Substack.
I write y.a. novels too: Believarexic, The Theory of Everything, This Girl is Different.
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In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:
An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
April 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:
An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
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All, most of you know by now what happened to me in February.
I've written an essay about this for @harpersbazaar.uol.com.br.web.brid.gy, and I hope you'll give it a read:
I've written an essay about this for @harpersbazaar.uol.com.br.web.brid.gy, and I hope you'll give it a read:
All The Women I Met in Jail
A law meant to help victims of domestic violence often results in their arrest. One woman details surviving abuse and the system that claimed to protect her.
www.harpersbazaar.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
All, most of you know by now what happened to me in February.
I've written an essay about this for @harpersbazaar.uol.com.br.web.brid.gy, and I hope you'll give it a read:
I've written an essay about this for @harpersbazaar.uol.com.br.web.brid.gy, and I hope you'll give it a read:
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Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have…
propub.li
April 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
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BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.
April 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.
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Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸
April 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸
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Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
April 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
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Me to @digidaymedia.bsky.social: “I have to say that it felt really good, when I was bringing in all this new revenue, that I wasn’t having to share 10 percent of every subscription with Substack.”
Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms that offer larger shares of subscription revenue
Former Substack writers who exited the platform in early 2024 are making more money on Beehiiv and Ghost thanks to their fixed pricing models.
digiday.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Me to @digidaymedia.bsky.social: “I have to say that it felt really good, when I was bringing in all this new revenue, that I wasn’t having to share 10 percent of every subscription with Substack.”
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"The answer to antisemitism will never be authoritarianism."
Thank you Sen. @edmarkey.bsky.social for this powerful statement at last week's cynical, GOP-led hearing on antisemitism.
Thank you Sen. @edmarkey.bsky.social for this powerful statement at last week's cynical, GOP-led hearing on antisemitism.
April 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"The answer to antisemitism will never be authoritarianism."
Thank you Sen. @edmarkey.bsky.social for this powerful statement at last week's cynical, GOP-led hearing on antisemitism.
Thank you Sen. @edmarkey.bsky.social for this powerful statement at last week's cynical, GOP-led hearing on antisemitism.
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It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story
April 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
Y’all. 30+ police stormed a Quaker Meetinghouse to arrest members of “Youth Demand”. Phones & laptops confiscated. 6 arrested.
Youth Demand is a youth-led nonviolent resistance campaign focused on gen0cide & climate.
“No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.”
Youth Demand is a youth-led nonviolent resistance campaign focused on gen0cide & climate.
“No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.”
March 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Y’all. 30+ police stormed a Quaker Meetinghouse to arrest members of “Youth Demand”. Phones & laptops confiscated. 6 arrested.
Youth Demand is a youth-led nonviolent resistance campaign focused on gen0cide & climate.
“No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.”
Youth Demand is a youth-led nonviolent resistance campaign focused on gen0cide & climate.
“No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.”
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A different angle showing the kidnapping of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
March 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A different angle showing the kidnapping of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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This is catastrophic on so many levels. Archived link: archive.ph/tmra3
March 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is catastrophic on so many levels. Archived link: archive.ph/tmra3
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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ICYMI: Turnout from people detained in jail in Colorado soared by roughly 900% between 2022 and 2024.
900%!
How? The reform is obvious — and yet Colorado is the first & so far only state in the nation to do it. Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
900%!
How? The reform is obvious — and yet Colorado is the first & so far only state in the nation to do it. Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups - Bolts
Local officials had claimed they were already giving detained people ballot access, but Colorado's first-in-the-nation mandate forced their hands and increased turnout across the state.
boltsmag.org
March 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
ICYMI: Turnout from people detained in jail in Colorado soared by roughly 900% between 2022 and 2024.
900%!
How? The reform is obvious — and yet Colorado is the first & so far only state in the nation to do it. Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
900%!
How? The reform is obvious — and yet Colorado is the first & so far only state in the nation to do it. Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
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My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient
Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.
www.teenvogue.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
Unserious question: when did the tags of Levi’s 501s become as unnecessarily lengthy as CVS receipts?
I buy second-hand, so idk the vintage. But/and these aren’t the tags of my youth. I old.
I buy second-hand, so idk the vintage. But/and these aren’t the tags of my youth. I old.
March 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Unserious question: when did the tags of Levi’s 501s become as unnecessarily lengthy as CVS receipts?
I buy second-hand, so idk the vintage. But/and these aren’t the tags of my youth. I old.
I buy second-hand, so idk the vintage. But/and these aren’t the tags of my youth. I old.
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The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
February 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
Department of Education has debuted its new snitch portal to snitch on teachers who “indoctrinate” students by teaching DEI - say the words, every time: diversity, equity, and inclusion. Definitely don’t spam it mercilessly.
enddei.ed.gov
enddei.ed.gov
Department of Education FormLock
enddei.ed.gov
February 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Department of Education has debuted its new snitch portal to snitch on teachers who “indoctrinate” students by teaching DEI - say the words, every time: diversity, equity, and inclusion. Definitely don’t spam it mercilessly.
enddei.ed.gov
enddei.ed.gov