Aaron Johnson
@aefjohnson.bsky.social
I believe; help my unbelief. Housing | Faith | Justice | Curiosity
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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
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Chicago isn’t a “hellhole.” And funds Trump might use to deploy National Guard troops here would be better spent investing in long-term social-safety-net programs already helping reduce the city’s violent crime, experts say. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/05/s... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Sorry, Trump: Chicago Is Not The 'Murder Capital Of The World' — Not Even Close, Data Shows
Chicago has been a political punching bag for decades, and while there is crime here, statements about it being a "hellhole" are just plain false. “There are just a lot of cities that have higher homi...
blockclubchicago.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Chicago isn’t a “hellhole.” And funds Trump might use to deploy National Guard troops here would be better spent investing in long-term social-safety-net programs already helping reduce the city’s violent crime, experts say. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/05/s... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social
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Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill.
It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in t
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June 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill.
It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
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Troubled by student visas being revoked and deportations like Rumeysa Ozturk? I find an eleven year old conversation between Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsberg as the right way forward. Read more in my latest piece in @rns.org religionnews.com/2025/04/10/t...
The US is enduring a constitutional stress test. Will we break?
(RNS) — We can be a country that remembers its founding promises. Or we can slide quietly into an unknown American age where speech is punished, dissent is surveilled and fear replaces freedom.
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April 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Troubled by student visas being revoked and deportations like Rumeysa Ozturk? I find an eleven year old conversation between Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsberg as the right way forward. Read more in my latest piece in @rns.org religionnews.com/2025/04/10/t...
"There is both a market opportunity and a moral imperative for expanding direct home improvement and repair services, financing tools, and counseling programs that help to preserve the affordable housing stock and ensure that all households live in safe and adequate housing."
New report out today: The US remodeling market soared above $600 billion in the wake of the pandemic but inflation and a shortage of skilled labor jeopardize the ability of the industry to meet current and future home improvement demand.
Livestream @ 2pm ET.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/improving-am...
Livestream @ 2pm ET.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/improving-am...
March 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"There is both a market opportunity and a moral imperative for expanding direct home improvement and repair services, financing tools, and counseling programs that help to preserve the affordable housing stock and ensure that all households live in safe and adequate housing."
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You GUYYYYSSSSSSS
The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
2025 Governors Ball US Army - "Do You Hear the People Sing" BRILLIANT TRUMP TROLLING!
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February 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
You GUYYYYSSSSSSS
The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
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February 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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NEW: Faith-based orgs that partner with the govt to resettle refugees are instituting mass furloughs.
Why so soon?
Because Trump all but shut down the refugee program AND, per one org, is *refusing to reimburse them for work done before he assumed office.* religionnews.com/2025/02/04/f...
Why so soon?
Because Trump all but shut down the refugee program AND, per one org, is *refusing to reimburse them for work done before he assumed office.* religionnews.com/2025/02/04/f...
Refugee aid groups face furloughs after Trump halts program, refuses to reimburse work
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We’ve been unable to access federal reimbursements for critical program costs, and that includes costs that were incurred prior to the issuance of the executive order,’ said a spok...
religionnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
NEW: Faith-based orgs that partner with the govt to resettle refugees are instituting mass furloughs.
Why so soon?
Because Trump all but shut down the refugee program AND, per one org, is *refusing to reimburse them for work done before he assumed office.* religionnews.com/2025/02/04/f...
Why so soon?
Because Trump all but shut down the refugee program AND, per one org, is *refusing to reimburse them for work done before he assumed office.* religionnews.com/2025/02/04/f...
He’s lost.
You’re worried about tomato prices.
Wait till Trump’s Mexico tariffs raise your tomato prices.
Wait till Trump’s Mexico tariffs raise your tomato prices.
February 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
He’s lost.
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"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
The story behind Dylan Thomas's beloved poem and a rare recording of the poet himself reading it
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
The story behind Dylan Thomas's beloved poem and a rare recording of the poet himself reading it
The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
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February 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
The story behind Dylan Thomas's beloved poem and a rare recording of the poet himself reading it
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
The story behind Dylan Thomas's beloved poem and a rare recording of the poet himself reading it
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