Gary Johansen
@mrnafan.bsky.social
Love and Judgment are opposites
“Every cricket’s chirp is significant. Every small thing you can do for goodness is big. Do not despair. You are not here to win. You are here to make beauty, and that is something you can do”
Martin Prechtel
“Every cricket’s chirp is significant. Every small thing you can do for goodness is big. Do not despair. You are not here to win. You are here to make beauty, and that is something you can do”
Martin Prechtel
News: 4.5% unemployment rate
Me: Alexa, when is the last time the unemployment rate went up in the 4th quarter?
Alexa: 2023, .2%
Me: Before that?
Alexa: 2007, 2008, the Great Recession
Me: Alexa, when is the last time the unemployment rate went up in the 4th quarter?
Alexa: 2023, .2%
Me: Before that?
Alexa: 2007, 2008, the Great Recession
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
News: 4.5% unemployment rate
Me: Alexa, when is the last time the unemployment rate went up in the 4th quarter?
Alexa: 2023, .2%
Me: Before that?
Alexa: 2007, 2008, the Great Recession
Me: Alexa, when is the last time the unemployment rate went up in the 4th quarter?
Alexa: 2023, .2%
Me: Before that?
Alexa: 2007, 2008, the Great Recession
Malcom X and Charlie Kirk: both were young men messaging young men with incendiary radical theology, both had militarized organizations, widespread radicalized militia, both had recently turned on their leadership and both were murdered in public in front of wife and children.
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Malcom X and Charlie Kirk: both were young men messaging young men with incendiary radical theology, both had militarized organizations, widespread radicalized militia, both had recently turned on their leadership and both were murdered in public in front of wife and children.
The primary reason the young man ignored continued political violence against people and institutions in his rhetoric was the fact that to do so would negatively impact his ratings, donations and influence. He didn’t deserve to die, but he was a fascist tool and an asshole.
Thoughts and Prayers
Thoughts and Prayers
September 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The primary reason the young man ignored continued political violence against people and institutions in his rhetoric was the fact that to do so would negatively impact his ratings, donations and influence. He didn’t deserve to die, but he was a fascist tool and an asshole.
Thoughts and Prayers
Thoughts and Prayers
When the world around me is irredeemable, I am a righteous man.
malcolm-jamal warner
malcolm-jamal warner
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
When the world around me is irredeemable, I am a righteous man.
malcolm-jamal warner
malcolm-jamal warner
It would seem there is a bright line from Lavender Carpets and Tons of Gold from the Saudi Royals last month and our sudden shift to bombing Iran this month. Possibly a 747 involved in the payoff.
June 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It would seem there is a bright line from Lavender Carpets and Tons of Gold from the Saudi Royals last month and our sudden shift to bombing Iran this month. Possibly a 747 involved in the payoff.
Can California accept reality and send a representative to the G7 summit? Possibly they would have interest enough to not leave early??
June 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Can California accept reality and send a representative to the G7 summit? Possibly they would have interest enough to not leave early??
I’m taking bets on how long it takes for Kim Reynolds to send Iowa National Guard to Los Angeles to support and protect ICE agents from Angelenos…
June 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I’m taking bets on how long it takes for Kim Reynolds to send Iowa National Guard to Los Angeles to support and protect ICE agents from Angelenos…
Sesame Street: Grouch Apprentice with Donald Grump (Song)
YouTube video by RageHole
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May 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students.
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Crosby, Stills Nash & Young - Ohio | Lyrics
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May 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students.
youtu.be/XYOz12OG8mI?...
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Who hid Americans during the 1979 hostage crisis? Canada. 🇨🇦 👊🏻
April 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Who hid Americans during the 1979 hostage crisis? Canada. 🇨🇦 👊🏻
I hate to be the one to ask….
Did Vance kill the pope?
Did Vance kill the pope?
April 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I hate to be the one to ask….
Did Vance kill the pope?
Did Vance kill the pope?
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Enter “Crybullyism”, a very useful word to describe those who feign harm from all those liberal whack jobs like me.
Enter “Crybullyism”, a very useful word to describe those who feign harm from all those liberal whack jobs like me.
We Live in a Golden Age of Crybullyism — The Nation
Those in power, promoting austerity and war, no longer want us to fear them. They demand something much more sinister: that we feel sorry for them.
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April 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Enter “Crybullyism”, a very useful word to describe those who feign harm from all those liberal whack jobs like me.
Enter “Crybullyism”, a very useful word to describe those who feign harm from all those liberal whack jobs like me.
Watch as they start to sweat
Republicans Debate Hiking Top Tax Rate to 40% for Millionaires
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Republicans Debate Hiking Top Tax Rate to 40% for Millionaires
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Republicans Debate Hiking Top Tax Rate to 40% for Millionaires
Republicans are weighing the creation of a new bracket for those earning $1 million or more to offset some of the costs of their tax bill, a stark departure from decades of GOP opposition to tax incre...
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April 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Watch as they start to sweat
Republicans Debate Hiking Top Tax Rate to 40% for Millionaires
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Republicans Debate Hiking Top Tax Rate to 40% for Millionaires
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump’s Reciprocal Tariff Equation Doesn’t Add Up
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Trump’s Reciprocal Tariff Equation Doesn’t Add Up
Trump’s reciprocal tariff equation is nonsense, explains Bloomberg Opinion columnist John Authers. Here’s what it actually tells you. (Source: Bloomberg)
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April 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Trump’s Reciprocal Tariff Equation Doesn’t Add Up
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Similar words for "tariff" include "tax," "duty," "levy," "impost," and "customs duty," all referring to a government tax on imports or exports as in “the United Stated just announced tariff’s representing the LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN UNITED STATES HISTORY!
April 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Similar words for "tariff" include "tax," "duty," "levy," "impost," and "customs duty," all referring to a government tax on imports or exports as in “the United Stated just announced tariff’s representing the LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN UNITED STATES HISTORY!
Yesterday on BBC a Danish minister was talking about the Inuit Autonomy in Greenland 🇬🇱 being the envy of indigenous nations, saying “if Vance wants to free indigenous peoples he might want to start by talking about to the Inuit in Alaska” then something like, they’ve been waiting for a while…
March 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yesterday on BBC a Danish minister was talking about the Inuit Autonomy in Greenland 🇬🇱 being the envy of indigenous nations, saying “if Vance wants to free indigenous peoples he might want to start by talking about to the Inuit in Alaska” then something like, they’ve been waiting for a while…
WITNESS by Kronos Quartet & Mary Kouyoumdjian on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 7 Songs
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March 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Where is this bright line connecting rise of “alternative” spirituality to conspiracy and Q-anon, RFJj being their patron saint. There is a community of searchers, naive, susceptible to gurus and cults. This podcast caught me; “wellness to Q-anon pipeline”
Where is this bright line connecting rise of “alternative” spirituality to conspiracy and Q-anon, RFJj being their patron saint. There is a community of searchers, naive, susceptible to gurus and cults. This podcast caught me; “wellness to Q-anon pipeline”
The Wellness to Qanon Pipeline | The Takeaway | WNYC Studios
How have health and wellness communities become hotbeds of right-wing conspiracy theories?
www.wnycstudios.org
March 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tak...
Where is this bright line connecting rise of “alternative” spirituality to conspiracy and Q-anon, RFJj being their patron saint. There is a community of searchers, naive, susceptible to gurus and cults. This podcast caught me; “wellness to Q-anon pipeline”
Where is this bright line connecting rise of “alternative” spirituality to conspiracy and Q-anon, RFJj being their patron saint. There is a community of searchers, naive, susceptible to gurus and cults. This podcast caught me; “wellness to Q-anon pipeline”
I don’t ask for much, I only want to see our voting rights restored.
March 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I don’t ask for much, I only want to see our voting rights restored.