Kara Johnson
@karajohnson7.bsky.social
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This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
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The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
n.pr
September 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
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Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
July 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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By me: A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference jeopardizing the future of US enterprise.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts
Political interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
By me: A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference jeopardizing the future of US enterprise.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The Big Bad Ugly Bill is a dream killer for students pursuing a higher education. College is already unaffordable for many students, and this legislation rips away federal support for student loan borrowers and grad students. I’m voting no.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
How the Senate reconciliation bill could impact Oregon college students
Oregon’s graduate students and student loan borrowers have the most to lose in the Senate’s version of the federal reconciliation bill.
www.opb.org
July 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Big Bad Ugly Bill is a dream killer for students pursuing a higher education. College is already unaffordable for many students, and this legislation rips away federal support for student loan borrowers and grad students. I’m voting no.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Even Republicans in Congress are pointing out Trump doesn't seem to realize the bill slashes hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid which he says is a taboo. Why are they doing this? No one can say.
July 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Even Republicans in Congress are pointing out Trump doesn't seem to realize the bill slashes hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid which he says is a taboo. Why are they doing this? No one can say.
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Secretary Kennedy ended a program that literally keeps the heat on for folks struggling to make ends meet. I asked him why.
Here's his response:
Here's his response:
May 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Secretary Kennedy ended a program that literally keeps the heat on for folks struggling to make ends meet. I asked him why.
Here's his response:
Here's his response:
So much information information provided here
May 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So much information information provided here
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NEW: White House’s Stephen Miller: ‘We are actively looking at’ suspending habeas corpus
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
White House’s Stephen Miller: ‘We are actively looking at’ suspending habeas corpus
Miller claimed the U.S. can suspend the right to challenge the legality of a person’s detention “in time of invasion.”
www.msnbc.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEW: White House’s Stephen Miller: ‘We are actively looking at’ suspending habeas corpus
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Americans who serve in the military are the best of us. It takes courage, bravery, and sacrifice.
Banning transgender servicemembers has nothing to do with national defense. They love this country and contribute just like every soldier — and they are not alone in this fight.
Banning transgender servicemembers has nothing to do with national defense. They love this country and contribute just like every soldier — and they are not alone in this fight.
Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban
The blanket ban, expanding on a similar policy Trump proposed in his first term, has been blocked nationwide by lower courts.
www.nbcnews.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Americans who serve in the military are the best of us. It takes courage, bravery, and sacrifice.
Banning transgender servicemembers has nothing to do with national defense. They love this country and contribute just like every soldier — and they are not alone in this fight.
Banning transgender servicemembers has nothing to do with national defense. They love this country and contribute just like every soldier — and they are not alone in this fight.
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Why did so many MAGA folks skip civics and government in school?
April 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Why did so many MAGA folks skip civics and government in school?
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OPINION:
'Every client should fire them': Law firms that took Trump's deals find themselves at his mercy
@nicollewallace.bsky.social and panel discuss the new NYT reporting on law firms who have accepted Trump's demands in order to avoid being targeted.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSp_...
'Every client should fire them': Law firms that took Trump's deals find themselves at his mercy
@nicollewallace.bsky.social and panel discuss the new NYT reporting on law firms who have accepted Trump's demands in order to avoid being targeted.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSp_...
'Every client should fire them': Law firms that took Trump's deals find themselves at his mercy
YouTube video by MSNBC
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April 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
OPINION:
'Every client should fire them': Law firms that took Trump's deals find themselves at his mercy
@nicollewallace.bsky.social and panel discuss the new NYT reporting on law firms who have accepted Trump's demands in order to avoid being targeted.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSp_...
'Every client should fire them': Law firms that took Trump's deals find themselves at his mercy
@nicollewallace.bsky.social and panel discuss the new NYT reporting on law firms who have accepted Trump's demands in order to avoid being targeted.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSp_...
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Space adventure and exploration should be for the benefit of all humankind, not the whimsy of a few.
April 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Space adventure and exploration should be for the benefit of all humankind, not the whimsy of a few.
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It’s Tax Day.
While working folks are doing everything right to file on time, Republicans are out here pushing a $7 trillion tax cut for billionaires like Trump and Elon.
Let’s be clear: their tax plan isn’t about helping you—it’s about keeping the rich rich while the rest of us foot the bill.
While working folks are doing everything right to file on time, Republicans are out here pushing a $7 trillion tax cut for billionaires like Trump and Elon.
Let’s be clear: their tax plan isn’t about helping you—it’s about keeping the rich rich while the rest of us foot the bill.
April 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It’s Tax Day.
While working folks are doing everything right to file on time, Republicans are out here pushing a $7 trillion tax cut for billionaires like Trump and Elon.
Let’s be clear: their tax plan isn’t about helping you—it’s about keeping the rich rich while the rest of us foot the bill.
While working folks are doing everything right to file on time, Republicans are out here pushing a $7 trillion tax cut for billionaires like Trump and Elon.
Let’s be clear: their tax plan isn’t about helping you—it’s about keeping the rich rich while the rest of us foot the bill.
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Elon Musk now admits his Department of Government Efficiency will produce only 15% of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
April 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Elon Musk now admits his Department of Government Efficiency will produce only 15% of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
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The so-called Defense Secretary has ordered 400 books removed from the Naval Academy library.
This outrageous ban includes works about Slavery and the Holocaust, but not a book written by Adolf Hitler.
The effort to whitewash our history must be reversed and Pete Hegseth fired IMMEDIATELY.
This outrageous ban includes works about Slavery and the Holocaust, but not a book written by Adolf Hitler.
The effort to whitewash our history must be reversed and Pete Hegseth fired IMMEDIATELY.
April 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The so-called Defense Secretary has ordered 400 books removed from the Naval Academy library.
This outrageous ban includes works about Slavery and the Holocaust, but not a book written by Adolf Hitler.
The effort to whitewash our history must be reversed and Pete Hegseth fired IMMEDIATELY.
This outrageous ban includes works about Slavery and the Holocaust, but not a book written by Adolf Hitler.
The effort to whitewash our history must be reversed and Pete Hegseth fired IMMEDIATELY.
Who do you know who receives social security and also is on Twitter (x)?
Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.
April 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Who do you know who receives social security and also is on Twitter (x)?
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Thanks, Fox “News.”
April 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Thanks, Fox “News.”
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The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name, your bank account number, the student debt you hold and more. President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to connect these records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before.
How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
nyti.ms
April 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name, your bank account number, the student debt you hold and more. President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to connect these records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before.
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Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
Why are antibiotics and steroids “good”, yet he says vaccines are “bad”?!
Why trust some medical treatment and science, but not others?!
Why trust some medical treatment and science, but not others?!
he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl.
he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
April 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Why are antibiotics and steroids “good”, yet he says vaccines are “bad”?!
Why trust some medical treatment and science, but not others?!
Why trust some medical treatment and science, but not others?!
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Here's how you end a Hands Off! demonstration, Santa Barbara style. Thanks to the Society of Fearless Grandmothers, who organized the human alphabet and took the drone shots! #indivisible #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Here's how you end a Hands Off! demonstration, Santa Barbara style. Thanks to the Society of Fearless Grandmothers, who organized the human alphabet and took the drone shots! #indivisible #handsoff