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Carrie Johnson
@johnsocl.bsky.social
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MN IP lawyer. Wife. Parent. Political junkie. Baseball fanatic. Aspiring (lay) economist. Consumer of audiobooks. Owned by my Bernedoodle. she/her

Any comments are my own and are not legal advice.
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nickknudsenus.bsky.social
Damn, Denver. 🔥🔥🔥
March 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
johnsocl.bsky.social
Hootie hooooo 7-0! #unrivaled #lunarowls
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
johnsocl.bsky.social
Oh FFS this is petty.
February 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: President Trump said he would revoke Joe Biden’s security clearances in retaliation for having his own pulled after the Jan. 6 riot.
Trump Says He’s Revoking Biden’s Security Clearance
The president made clear that he was acting in retaliation for his predecessor’s pulling of his security clearance shortly after the Jan. 6 riot.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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sarahspain.com
We tried to print the bracket on the @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social site but the background was super dark, so you won't be able to see what you filled in.

Thankfully super slice Joey Maldonado is here to save the day. Better version to print and share!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
February 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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ellenlweintraub.bsky.social
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor www.vox.com/politics/398...
All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
There are a lot of them.
www.vox.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
Well played, President Claudia Sheinbaum, for committing troops already at the border since 2021, knowing perfectly well President Man Baby would have no idea and take it as a win.
February 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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ag.state.mn.us
I urge Minnesotans who work for the federal government to be extremely cautious when it comes to Trump's buyout offer. The benefits being offered are not guaranteed.

I recommend federal employees listen to the guidance of their unions on this matter.

www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Commu...
www.ag.state.mn.us
February 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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erininthemorning.com
California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order:

"It does nothing"

"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"

Will not comply.
January 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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jessedjenkins.com
Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵
January 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
I am begging Democratic lawmakers to stop solely pointing out the obvious problems and start publicly talking about how to address them.

We know our democracy is unstable and unhealthy. What are you gonna do about it?

Cease the platitudes and broad statements. Get specific and talk about actions.
January 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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emkultra64.com
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
January 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
johnsocl.bsky.social
So what’s the over under on the number of days before TFG gets bored and shuts down?
January 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
johnsocl.bsky.social
Boom. That’s my Senator!
nikkimcr.bsky.social Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Jan 29
Sen. Smith: "I can respect people with different views than mine on [abortion] but it's hard for me to respect people who won't give a straight answer to what they think."
January 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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smith.senate.gov
“Do you think people who take anti-depressants are dangerous?"

The answer is no. Another of RFK Jr’s fringe ideas.

The HHS Secretary should be fighting the stigma around mental health not fanning the flames of conspiracy theories.
January 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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npr.org
Trump will sign an executive order on Monday that says it's the policy of the United States to recognize two biologically distinct sexes, one of many executive actions the incoming administration plan to take, an incoming White House official told reporters on a preview conference call.
Trump will sign orders today defining sex and ending DEI programs, official says
www.npr.org
January 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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ladylawyerdiary.bsky.social
This is so powerful.
jerrylevine.com Jerry Levine @jerrylevine.com · Nov 17
The guest essay that everyone is talking about:

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The New Lork Cimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women- girls.html GUEST ESSAY I'm 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft. Nov. 16, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET By Naomi Beinart Ms. Beinart is a 16-year-old high school junior. On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back. I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes. There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were breathing freely. We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven't fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday. What made my skin burn most wasn't that over 75 million people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election didn't seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me, whether their parents supported Mr. Trump or not. Many of them didn't seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair. We don't even share the same future. I am scared that the Trump administration will take away or restrict birth control and Plan B - the same way they did abortion. I am scared that the boys I know will see in a triumphant, boastful Mr. Trump the epitome of a manly man and model themselves after him. I was 8 years old the first time he was elected. Now I am 16. I am still unable to vote, but I am so much more aware of what I have to lose. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Get it sent to your inbox. I have seen the ways in which many of the boys in my generation can be different from their fathers. The #MeToo movement went mainstream when they were still wearing Superman pajamas. On Tuesdays in health class, they learn about the dangers of inebriated consent. They don't pretend to gag when a girl mentions her period or a tampon falls out of her backpack. They don't find sexist jokes all that funny and don't often make them in public. I've heard they even use new language in the locker room about getting rejected by a girl, one where no means no and don't try again. I love and care for many of these boys and have always felt they were on my side. I'm grateful to my school for taking gender equality as seriously as it does trigonometry. But most of the guys I saw that Wednesday appeared nonchalant. A smiling student shook his friend's hand and said sarcastically, "Good election" in the same hallway where I saw a female teacher clutching a damp tissue. Why did it seem these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy friends might only care about women until it conflicts with other, more pressing, priorities. That morning, I spoke with a male classmate. He asked if I was OK. I nearly melted with relief. See, I knew not all guys were ignorant! Then, before I responded, he continued. Why, he wondered, are so many girls crying? I stared. I swallowed that familiar lump. And I had one thought: I pray that my older brother never asks that question. How could my classmate not know why girls in his grade were biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom? It seemed like our future was sliding down the sides of our faces, and he asked me why we were crying? I have never felt that disconnected from men. I have never felt more like a girl. Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton's loss. Now at 16, I've had the wind knocked out of me. On Wednesday, I was flush with anger - but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher. In a terrible way, I've never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been inhaling since Nov. 5. I can't predict how well I'm going to do on an English test tomorrow and I definitely can't predict the future for me and my fellow young women. For now, all I can do is tell you how I feel. Naomi Beinart is a 16-year-old girl and a junior in high school.
November 17, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Investigating people for polls you don't like doesn't seem particularly free speechy.
Donald Trump truth social post: "A totally Fake poll that caused great distrust and uncertainty at a very critical time. She knew exactly what she was doing. Thank you to the GREAT PEOPLE OF IOWA for giving me such a record breaking vote, despite possible ELECTION FRAUD by Ann Selzer and the now discredited “newspaper” for which she works. An investigation is fully called for!"
November 17, 2024 at 10:15 PM
johnsocl.bsky.social
This is fantastic…

www.cbsnews.com/news/south-c...
"Feral and not trained" emus Thelma and Louise on the loose in South Carolina as state's monkey search continues
Police in Horry County, South Carolina, said this week that they are searching for two missing emus that have been evading capture for months: "We are not emu-sed."
www.cbsnews.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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amandalitman.bsky.social
Starting to seem like the best case scenario is RFK gets the entire Trump White House exclusively drinking raw milk, and we see what happens.
November 16, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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johnfugelsang.bsky.social
We've now reached the "cover for child rape in exchange for earthly power" phase of Mike Johnson's Christianity.
November 16, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Just because he isn't subject to their jurisdiction doesn't mean the House cannot release the Gaetz report. Don't let the GOP play the helpless victim here.

Tell Johnson to release the report!
November 14, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs
November 13, 2024 at 2:15 AM