Alison Johnson
@aljwriter.bsky.social
Can't cook, so I feed folks with words. Taste: Democracy. Bearing witness. Art. Tea. Trees. Feminism. Oh, and movies. #PublicPolicy #FairElections
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Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
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He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
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I'm really tired of searching for an item I want to buy and Amazon and Etsy being the only links that show up for pages & pages 🙄. I found a couple Black business directories and Indigenous business directories that I've been using to search and shop instead 👏🏾. If you have some links please share! ⬇️
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I'm really tired of searching for an item I want to buy and Amazon and Etsy being the only links that show up for pages & pages 🙄. I found a couple Black business directories and Indigenous business directories that I've been using to search and shop instead 👏🏾. If you have some links please share! ⬇️
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GOOD MORNING AMERICA
🚨ELECTION DAY🚨
Please take a moment to listen & share
YOUR VOTE MATTERS
YOUR VOTE IS PRECIOUS
POLLS NOW OPEN
USE YOUR POWER
VOTE YES PROP 50 CALIFORNIA
VOTE Spanberger VA
Sherrill NJ
Mamdani NYC
SCOTUS PA
VOTE NO on 1 ME
I THANK YOU
THE GREAT JOHN LEWIS
🚨ELECTION DAY🚨
Please take a moment to listen & share
YOUR VOTE MATTERS
YOUR VOTE IS PRECIOUS
POLLS NOW OPEN
USE YOUR POWER
VOTE YES PROP 50 CALIFORNIA
VOTE Spanberger VA
Sherrill NJ
Mamdani NYC
SCOTUS PA
VOTE NO on 1 ME
I THANK YOU
THE GREAT JOHN LEWIS
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
GOOD MORNING AMERICA
🚨ELECTION DAY🚨
Please take a moment to listen & share
YOUR VOTE MATTERS
YOUR VOTE IS PRECIOUS
POLLS NOW OPEN
USE YOUR POWER
VOTE YES PROP 50 CALIFORNIA
VOTE Spanberger VA
Sherrill NJ
Mamdani NYC
SCOTUS PA
VOTE NO on 1 ME
I THANK YOU
THE GREAT JOHN LEWIS
🚨ELECTION DAY🚨
Please take a moment to listen & share
YOUR VOTE MATTERS
YOUR VOTE IS PRECIOUS
POLLS NOW OPEN
USE YOUR POWER
VOTE YES PROP 50 CALIFORNIA
VOTE Spanberger VA
Sherrill NJ
Mamdani NYC
SCOTUS PA
VOTE NO on 1 ME
I THANK YOU
THE GREAT JOHN LEWIS
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We have evidence now going back to 2018 that when Trump isn't on the ballot, it's grim scenes for Republicans.
And he'll never (lawfully) be on the ballot again.
And he'll never (lawfully) be on the ballot again.
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We have evidence now going back to 2018 that when Trump isn't on the ballot, it's grim scenes for Republicans.
And he'll never (lawfully) be on the ballot again.
And he'll never (lawfully) be on the ballot again.
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
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Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
October 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.
October 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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Ay me! I see the ruin of my house
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Ay me! I see the ruin of my house
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omg!
"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...
"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...
"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
omg!
"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...
"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...
"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
OPERATION INFLATION
www.operationinflation.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
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October 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason
I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.
I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.
If going forward we ever fulfill the actual promise of our Constitution, the dissents from this era of #SCOTUS are going to be very important and influential.
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason
I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.
I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.
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I wrote about what happens when Trump is gone, and how remembering that he *will* be gone before you might help shape what kind of actions to think about taking today.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/when-trump...
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/when-trump...
August 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I wrote about what happens when Trump is gone, and how remembering that he *will* be gone before you might help shape what kind of actions to think about taking today.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/when-trump...
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/when-trump...
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Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
October 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane