A. Rafael Johnson
@therafaeljohnson.bsky.social
Dad. Coffee lover. Author of The Through (Jaded Ibis Press), Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse (LiveJournal), and UNOFFICIAL. Co-author of Creative Evaluation and Engagement: Essentials. Supported by the MN Heritage Fund and viewers like you.
How has James Carville made a career by being wrong, on every issue, for decades?
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
How has James Carville made a career by being wrong, on every issue, for decades?
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In case I wasn’t clear…
July 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
In case I wasn’t clear…
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A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible
June 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible
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ICE crossed a line in LA
June 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ICE crossed a line in LA
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Tesla Takedown in Boston.
June 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Tesla Takedown in Boston.
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I keep getting asked if it’s legal to spend our campaign funds on food drives or our high school public service grants and the answer is YES. It is.
Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.
Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.
if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.
May 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I keep getting asked if it’s legal to spend our campaign funds on food drives or our high school public service grants and the answer is YES. It is.
Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.
Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.
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You do know none of this stops unless we stop it right? No institution is coming to save us. No cavelry is coming
We have to stand up together and stop this. We cannot wait for a future date
We cannot wait until 26 to vote.
We cannot wait and hope someone will save us.
We must save each other.
We have to stand up together and stop this. We cannot wait for a future date
We cannot wait until 26 to vote.
We cannot wait and hope someone will save us.
We must save each other.
April 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
You do know none of this stops unless we stop it right? No institution is coming to save us. No cavelry is coming
We have to stand up together and stop this. We cannot wait for a future date
We cannot wait until 26 to vote.
We cannot wait and hope someone will save us.
We must save each other.
We have to stand up together and stop this. We cannot wait for a future date
We cannot wait until 26 to vote.
We cannot wait and hope someone will save us.
We must save each other.
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I know I'm not the only one thinking about the fugitive slave act in these times of street-snatching and disappearing..
March 31, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I know I'm not the only one thinking about the fugitive slave act in these times of street-snatching and disappearing..
Thrilled to announce that the English Department at The University of Denver has offered me the position of Assistant Professor of Creative Writing - Prose. I’ll start there in September.
March 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Thrilled to announce that the English Department at The University of Denver has offered me the position of Assistant Professor of Creative Writing - Prose. I’ll start there in September.
Twin Cities! Come see me a week from tonight, Feb 27. I'll be the featured speaker at ReVerb Open Mic, hosted by TruArt Speaks. We'll be at the Flava Coffee & Cafe in St. Paul from 6-8 pm. I'll read from my forthcoming collection.
#ReVerbOpenMic #truartspeaks #FLAVACAFE
#ReVerbOpenMic #truartspeaks #FLAVACAFE
February 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Twin Cities! Come see me a week from tonight, Feb 27. I'll be the featured speaker at ReVerb Open Mic, hosted by TruArt Speaks. We'll be at the Flava Coffee & Cafe in St. Paul from 6-8 pm. I'll read from my forthcoming collection.
#ReVerbOpenMic #truartspeaks #FLAVACAFE
#ReVerbOpenMic #truartspeaks #FLAVACAFE
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I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.
February 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.
AirBnB drives up rents and creates homelessness while creating nothing of value.
Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.
Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE
Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media
www.independent.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
AirBnB drives up rents and creates homelessness while creating nothing of value.
Thrilled to announce that my new collection For You, Why Should I Cry: Stories will be published in the Innovative Prose Series at Texas Review Press.
Huge thanks to the team at TRP and everyone who’s supported me over the years.
#TexasReviewPress #innovativeproseseries #samhoustonstateuniversity
Huge thanks to the team at TRP and everyone who’s supported me over the years.
#TexasReviewPress #innovativeproseseries #samhoustonstateuniversity
February 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Thrilled to announce that my new collection For You, Why Should I Cry: Stories will be published in the Innovative Prose Series at Texas Review Press.
Huge thanks to the team at TRP and everyone who’s supported me over the years.
#TexasReviewPress #innovativeproseseries #samhoustonstateuniversity
Huge thanks to the team at TRP and everyone who’s supported me over the years.
#TexasReviewPress #innovativeproseseries #samhoustonstateuniversity
Surprised by Musk’s salute? Laura Ingraham did the same in 2016. Do we really need to have the same “did he mean it” debate?
January 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Surprised by Musk’s salute? Laura Ingraham did the same in 2016. Do we really need to have the same “did he mean it” debate?
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"An Alabama teenager was asleep in his childhood bedroom moments before a police S.W.A.T. team 'rammed down' the front door of his family's home and fatally shot him, according to a new federal lawsuit."
miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
16-year-old with hands up shot to death by cops during ‘no-knock’ raid in AL, suit says
Officers left the teen bleeding out in the hallway for more than four minutes, body camera footage shows, according to the suit.
amp.miamiherald.com
December 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM
"An Alabama teenager was asleep in his childhood bedroom moments before a police S.W.A.T. team 'rammed down' the front door of his family's home and fatally shot him, according to a new federal lawsuit."
miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 25, 2024 at 12:15 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
I keep hearing sentiments like “we just have to get through the next four years” as if Trump and his cronies will just step down or respect the outcome of a future election they don’t win. It won’t be that easy. It will not be that easy.
December 19, 2024 at 1:26 AM
I keep hearing sentiments like “we just have to get through the next four years” as if Trump and his cronies will just step down or respect the outcome of a future election they don’t win. It won’t be that easy. It will not be that easy.
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I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
December 16, 2024 at 9:39 PM
I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
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As a Buddhist, I believe in non-violence to solve our problems.
I have yet to see those condemning the left for lionizing Luigi Mangione even once criticize the right’s vile embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse, or Trump and Vance inviting Daniel Penny to be their political prop at a football game.
I have yet to see those condemning the left for lionizing Luigi Mangione even once criticize the right’s vile embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse, or Trump and Vance inviting Daniel Penny to be their political prop at a football game.
December 15, 2024 at 7:57 AM
As a Buddhist, I believe in non-violence to solve our problems.
I have yet to see those condemning the left for lionizing Luigi Mangione even once criticize the right’s vile embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse, or Trump and Vance inviting Daniel Penny to be their political prop at a football game.
I have yet to see those condemning the left for lionizing Luigi Mangione even once criticize the right’s vile embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse, or Trump and Vance inviting Daniel Penny to be their political prop at a football game.
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Luigi got them shook.
North Carolina’s Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the company has aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.
'Like a miracle': N.C. couple free of nearly $100,000 medical debt after 15 years
The lien on Donna and Gary Lindabury's home for a 2009 heart surgery debt was among 11,500 wiped away by Atrium Health after an NBC News report.
www.nbcnews.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Luigi got them shook.
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The fact that Disney bought Star Wars and bought the Muppets and haven’t done a Muppets Star Wars is a crime.
December 6, 2024 at 3:39 PM
The fact that Disney bought Star Wars and bought the Muppets and haven’t done a Muppets Star Wars is a crime.
I can criticize Biden for a number of things (Gaza) but I never cared what Hunter Biden did before and I don’t care now.
December 2, 2024 at 7:56 PM
I can criticize Biden for a number of things (Gaza) but I never cared what Hunter Biden did before and I don’t care now.
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"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"