Derek Johnson
@derekjesq.bsky.social
Chaos Muppet, Order Rising. Managing Director, ResearchCollaborative.org. Young(ish) Leader, Munich Security Conference + Friends of Europe. Former CEO of Global Zero. Radicalized by basic decency. Made in #Iowa with parts from #Iran. he/him 🇦🇲
Hello, is this The Hague? I’d like to report a crime against humanity.
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Hello, is this The Hague? I’d like to report a crime against humanity.
“I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
—Charlie Kirk, April 2023
—Charlie Kirk, April 2023
September 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
—Charlie Kirk, April 2023
—Charlie Kirk, April 2023
Now that’s a hero roll
August 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Now that’s a hero roll
Full house for RC’s #NN25 panel on refusal, resistance and ridicule — strategies to fuel movements & topple autocrats. Featuring @anatosaurus.bsky.social, @celindalake.bsky.social, @womensmarch.com’s Tamika Middleton, @siembranc.bsky.social’s Kelly Morales + surprise guest @keithellison.bsky.social.
August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Full house for RC’s #NN25 panel on refusal, resistance and ridicule — strategies to fuel movements & topple autocrats. Featuring @anatosaurus.bsky.social, @celindalake.bsky.social, @womensmarch.com’s Tamika Middleton, @siembranc.bsky.social’s Kelly Morales + surprise guest @keithellison.bsky.social.
Texas Democrats just showed what it looks like to be a real opposition party in the face of a fascist power grab. No procedural handwringing. No pretense of business as usual. Just bold, unequivocal refusal to comply.
Democrats in Congress: Are you paying attention?
Democrats in Congress: Are you paying attention?
August 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Texas Democrats just showed what it looks like to be a real opposition party in the face of a fascist power grab. No procedural handwringing. No pretense of business as usual. Just bold, unequivocal refusal to comply.
Democrats in Congress: Are you paying attention?
Democrats in Congress: Are you paying attention?
This is what my cousin just got from her kid’s public school in Texas. What part of “freedom of religion” includes forcing the Ten Commandments into every classroom?
My family fled theocracy in Iran. This is what we came to America to *escape.*
My family fled theocracy in Iran. This is what we came to America to *escape.*
July 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is what my cousin just got from her kid’s public school in Texas. What part of “freedom of religion” includes forcing the Ten Commandments into every classroom?
My family fled theocracy in Iran. This is what we came to America to *escape.*
My family fled theocracy in Iran. This is what we came to America to *escape.*
I expected collapse to be terrifying. I didn’t expect it to also be this dumb.
From Trump’s new EPA chief:
From Trump’s new EPA chief:
July 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I expected collapse to be terrifying. I didn’t expect it to also be this dumb.
From Trump’s new EPA chief:
From Trump’s new EPA chief:
I don’t mean to brag, but…
July 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I don’t mean to brag, but…
I'm sure the Iranian people are absolutely yearning for leadership from the dude who spent his childhood riding ponies around Niavaran Palace while his dad’s secret police tortured dissidents in the basement — and who hasn't set foot in the country in almost 50 years.
Democracy at last!
Democracy at last!
June 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm sure the Iranian people are absolutely yearning for leadership from the dude who spent his childhood riding ponies around Niavaran Palace while his dad’s secret police tortured dissidents in the basement — and who hasn't set foot in the country in almost 50 years.
Democracy at last!
Democracy at last!
*screams into a jar*
June 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
*screams into a jar*
jk jk it’s all good now u guys 🫠
June 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
jk jk it’s all good now u guys 🫠
Never in the history of the world has someone so devastatingly stupid held so much unchecked power.
Netanyahu played Trump like a fiddle. And mark my words: it won’t just be Iranians who pay the price.
Netanyahu played Trump like a fiddle. And mark my words: it won’t just be Iranians who pay the price.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Never in the history of the world has someone so devastatingly stupid held so much unchecked power.
Netanyahu played Trump like a fiddle. And mark my words: it won’t just be Iranians who pay the price.
Netanyahu played Trump like a fiddle. And mark my words: it won’t just be Iranians who pay the price.
People keep asking me about the nuclear launch process and the President's power to use nuclear weapons, so I put everything you need to know in this helpful chart.
June 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
People keep asking me about the nuclear launch process and the President's power to use nuclear weapons, so I put everything you need to know in this helpful chart.
New messaging guidance just dropped
June 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
New messaging guidance just dropped
Me too, Monkey. Me too.
June 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Me too, Monkey. Me too.
Tear gas is a chemical weapon dating back to WWI. It causes tearing obviously, but also chemical burns, nerve damage, blindness, and hemorrhaging. Its use in war has been banned since 1997. Yet here it is in the streets of LA, unleashed against brave Angelenos demanding dignity, safety, and freedom.
June 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Tear gas is a chemical weapon dating back to WWI. It causes tearing obviously, but also chemical burns, nerve damage, blindness, and hemorrhaging. Its use in war has been banned since 1997. Yet here it is in the streets of LA, unleashed against brave Angelenos demanding dignity, safety, and freedom.
“Is this heaven?”
“No, but we’re all gonna die.”
“No, but we’re all gonna die.”
June 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Is this heaven?”
“No, but we’re all gonna die.”
“No, but we’re all gonna die.”
Bred to hunt lions, allegedly.
May 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Bred to hunt lions, allegedly.
They call it “deportation” to whitewash their crimes. But anyone can see that’s not what this is.
An American citizen was abducted by the MAGA regime and expelled from her own country.
In Trump’s America, no one is safe from being stripped of their rights — without warning, process, or recourse.
An American citizen was abducted by the MAGA regime and expelled from her own country.
In Trump’s America, no one is safe from being stripped of their rights — without warning, process, or recourse.
April 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
They call it “deportation” to whitewash their crimes. But anyone can see that’s not what this is.
An American citizen was abducted by the MAGA regime and expelled from her own country.
In Trump’s America, no one is safe from being stripped of their rights — without warning, process, or recourse.
An American citizen was abducted by the MAGA regime and expelled from her own country.
In Trump’s America, no one is safe from being stripped of their rights — without warning, process, or recourse.
Did Substack write this article?
April 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Did Substack write this article?