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CKJohnsonBK 🇺🇦🇬🇱
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Brooklyn-based pest. Longtime volunteer with Sister District, a direct action organization working to create and maintain progressive majorities in state legislative houses. No automatic followbacks.
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Yesterday was a gorgeous day to be out, especially in our fantastic parks. Prospect Park here.
View of people picnicking in a meadow in Prospect Park, with photographer’s long shadow and aqua wagon foregrounded. Top 1/3 is beautiful blue sky with puffy clouds Sun shines through autumn leaves, looking up. Ruby red leaves in a can-can row through several trees.
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Boro Hall!
Wearing my Halloween Voter 2025 sticker on a dress with a magic jar print.
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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If you are in “Brownstone Brooklyn,“ CHIPS on 4th Avenue has directions for making toiletry packs to donate. Also, there’s a period pantry on Bond & Wyckoff. It always needs pads (tampons not that popular). Chipsonline.org sites.google.com/view/periodd...
Flyer describing how to make a toiletry kit for chipsonline.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Figure walking on Pacific Northwest beach, reflected in large tide pool. Conifirs rise in the misty background.
October 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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A few great signs from today’s No Kings March in Manhattan. #nokings #nokingsnyc @50501movement.bsky.social @50501nyc.bsky.social
Neon green sign says “They’re eating the checks. They’re eating the balances.” Black & white drawing shows protestors with hands cuffed in red lines behind their backs. The word SHAME is on top. Black & white painting showing masked men holding a semi-automatic weapon with NO in the foreground. Sign with black & white drawings of two men holding yellow signs. One says “Careful now” and the other says “Down with this sort of thing.” Art by Chris Ellis.
October 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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NO KINGS BABY! 42nd & 7th Avenue, Manhattan, noon, October 18, 2025. #nokings #nokingsnyc @50501movement.bsky.social @50501nyc.bsky.social THron
Throngs of protestors in front of a neon American flag in Times Square.
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Trillionaires for Trump & Billionaires Against Mamdani making common cause in Manhattan. #nokings #nokingsnyc @50501movement.bsky.social @50501nyc.bsky.social
Parody protestors dressed in Monopoly costumes with signs that say “We paid for three terms” and “Raise the Rent.” Two men are wearing top hats and one is smoking a cigar. Parody protestors dressed in billionaire bling holding signs that say “Weathcare not Healthcare,” “The cost of caviar is the real crime,” “Slow & Expensive Buses,” “Whose oil? Our oil!” And “We paid for three terms.” Parody protestors dressed in faux fur and top hats holding signs that say “It’s a class war. And we’re winning” and “We paid for Three Terms.” Their group is Trillionaires for Trump.
October 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Rutland, VT. #nokings #nokingsvt @50501movement.bsky.social
A group of No Kings protestors line the street of Rutland, VT.
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Gap’s flower denim horseshoe jeans, super soft with extra large elastic waste.
October 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Loved this! I particularly LOL’d at this section:
That said, for my money, the biggest offenders when it comes to the prevalence of wank are, in fact, the reactionary centre: the Ezra Kleins and suchlike of this world. The core emotional attachment for them is of being above the political struggle and effortlessly able to synthesise the ideas of the left and right into something better, that always mysteriously appears to be the status quo. In better times, this may well have worked for them and been sensible. However, we are not in better times: we are in a time of division, of lines being drawn, and of having to fight unambiguously for the liberal, institutional order that we believe in (apologies to my anarchist readers: I do think we need strong institutions, though I think the average person needs to learn a lot of lessons from you guys). To assert ideas about "coming together" and "the truth being in the middle" in such a situation, and then to claim that any probes at that are a sign of extremism and the probers being the enemy, is prototypical wank.
September 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Share your favorite black and white movie.
Film still from Roma, showing the family surrounding their beloved maid after she has saved one of the children from drowning.
September 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Dunes north of Kijkduin, near The Hague, Netherlands, taken the last week of August, 2025.
September 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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See also:
Still from the masterpiece Italian film The Great Beauty, with an impeccably dressed Tony Servillo lounging in front of a lounging statue of Poseidon.
August 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Article from April 2021 talking about Glenn Youngkin and his wife, now the current owners of the former Camp Arrowhead in Hunt, Texas.
July 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Received this text just now. WTF? #NYCMayor
Fundraising text from “an independent candidate running for Mayor of the City of New York” Abbey Laurel-Smith, who is apparently a Black man? Mentions public safety, so running in the same lane as Cuomo.
June 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Spouse made a sign.
Captain America re-imagined as Captain Democracy with the no kings logo on his shield.
June 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Spouse made a sign for NYC #nokings march today.
In foreground sign with Captain American on it and the No Kings logo on his shield.
June 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Kid me 100% imagined her turned into the cylindrical Morton’s salt container.
Picture of the cylindrical Morton Salt container.
June 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Done! I would like to donate my style-related question to those in need.
Chewy receipt showing purchase of two bags of cat food and a case of kitten food for the Wabash County Animal Shelter.
June 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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What about these three?
The Hanson triplets from Slap Shot, sporting their trademark glasses and bloodied faces.
April 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Hugely oversized black handbag on model.
April 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Adam Tooze had something on population replacement rate that suggests it could be a somewhat self-correcting problem after a few generations of economic stability.
Countries with the most rapid growth acceleration have also tended to see spectacular declines in fertility. Countries with “lowest low” fertility rates today experienced rapid growth in GNP per capita after a long period of stagnation or decline. They were catapulted into modernity, but the beliefs, values, and traditions of their citizens changed more slowly. Thus, swift economic change may lead to both generational and gendered conflicts that result in a rapid decrease in the total fertility rate.
April 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Report and block this nasty little troll.
Account “boomer666” calls for driving into protestors. Spamming a lot of posts today. Report & block.
April 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Big red “no” circle, with the slanting line jagged like a stock market fall. On graph paper. Over an image of the Orange Menace
April 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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More stair rail porn for you.
Parallel ramps on the side of a staircase, with a stair rail barrier between the ramps and the rest of the staircase. Outdoor staircase with single ramps on either side, allowing bicyclists to ramp their bikes up one side and down the other, with plenty of room in the middle for plain old pedestrians. Parallel ramps on the side of a staircase, with a stair rail barrier between the ramps and the rest of the staircase.
March 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM