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Annie Johansen

@annieijay.bsky.social
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Harsh reality is better than false hope. 🩵 Defending the North ❌👑

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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 4h
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity
A handful of multibillionaires hope to dictate our future.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic, childlike devotion to Donald Trump.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That's the problem, Mike. It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your Congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online, it's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/10/2026
"Voters heard Trump’s pitch and thought, What do all those pointy-headed experts know? They wanted tariffs and lower prices and the guy who fucked up the pandemic response and attempted a coup. And they got what they wanted." We got what they wanted, too.
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The Experts Were Right: Trump’s an Economic Moron
Plus: The Triad Mailbag of your nightmares.
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Trump’s Team of Mercenaries
People around the president are using their roles to cash in. They learned it by watching him.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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New NYT Poll Shows a Blue Wave Coming to Red America
Democrats are tied in Kansas, and that's not even the worst news for Republicans
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s wasn’t me
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have read a lot of Triads and this one is a banger. www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
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What Dems Should Do With 54 Senate Seats
An eight-point agenda for turning a Senate majority into a mandate for action.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is being done in the name of keeping Americans "safe." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say
Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Federal rule change may pressure Minnesota’s historic Pipestone quarry, advocates warn  www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Federal rule change may pressure Minnesota’s historic Pipestone quarry, advocates warn
Preservation advocates are lining up against a proposed federal rule change that could affect how the nation cares for historic places, including the Pipestone quarry, a southwestern Minnesota site sa...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My fellow Americans, this is being done in our name. wapo.st/4h1hNmT
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Alligator Alcatraz detainees were put in small cages, DHS watchdog report finds
The Florida facility’s staff referred to the enclosures as “calming areas.” Investigators said their use violated federal standards and did not align with “standards for humane treatment.”
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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STOP Trump’s 250-foot-tall Arch
Veterans, Gold Star families, and preservationists are speaking out against the administration’s plans for a 250-foot arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/09/2026
"This is what happens when you put somebody who is manifestly unfit for office into the presidency." JVL on Trump's latest $5,000 check promise.
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Federal investigators interview key witness to Alex Pretti shooting, attorneys say www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Federal investigators interview key witness to Alex Pretti shooting, attorneys say
Wynnie Savageford gave federal investigators an account of what she saw during the Jan. 24 confrontation that ended in Pretti’s death, her attorneys said.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"The share of Americans who associate themselves with the Democratic Party has grown significantly over the past year...The shift signals the party’s largest advantage since 2008. The data shows Democrats with a 10-point advantage over Republicans..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
nytimes.com
Gallup Polls Show Democrats Outnumber Republicans Ahead of 2026 Midterm Elections
Data from Gallup shows that Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have their largest advantage over Republicans since 2008.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"One Trump voter issued a tear-filled video regretting his decision to vote for the president after his brother, who served with U.S. special forces, died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement." www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
themirror.com
Teary Trump voters regret after brother dies in ICE custody
A former voter of President Donald Trump is expressing his remorse for voting for the president after his brother, a member of U.S special forces, died in an ICE facility
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The Meaning of the Lindsay Clancy Mistrial
Everyone has a theory. But what if this case means nothing at all?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Apple: Think Different is now Apple: Think Compliant
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Back on @thebulwark.com!! Will be wild!!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Poll shows nearly 90% of Americans believe government corruption is widespread www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Poll shows nearly 90% of Americans believe government corruption is widespread
Americans have the highest level of distrust in their government in two decades, voicing bipartisan frustration with the country's institutions and the people who run them.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yesterday’s bond market selloff is a a ringing alarm bell about the future of the economy under Trump’s mismanagement. Treasury bonds are the pillars of America’s economy. When they shake, the whole thing shakes.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...
tampabay.com
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
ICE sent them away under a controversial policy without knowing where they were going or what would happen next.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If Nancy Pelosi had repeatedly told reporters she had no idea what was going on around her, the coverage would have been unsparing and vicious.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Flock cameras have no place in Texas. They can piece together an exact map of your behavior — the places you went and how long you were there. Flock calls this “pattern-of-life” mapping. Texans call it something else: government overreach.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Beat the machine. NEW AD.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
More of this, please.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Walmart Shares Slump on Weakest Sales Growth in Over Six Years www.wsj.com/business/ear...
wsj.com
Walmart Shares Slump on Weakest Sales Growth in Over Six Years
E-commerce, membership and advertising are driving the retailer’s growth. Walmart’s stock fell 9%.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
we are tariffing the EU, Canada, + 80 other countries for not doing enough to block imports made with forced labor - while carving out exemptions for Trump donors who actually practice forced labor www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/b...
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Sugar Importer With Trump Ties Said to Maintain Abusive Labor Practices
A watchdog group said the Dominican company continued to violate labor standards after President Trump lifted an import ban last year.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/08/2026
Jon Ossoff: "I don't think anything illustrates the times more aptly than that the draft-dodging crook president, who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man who embodies American heroism."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/08/2026
A three-time Trump voter, who backed him in large part because of immigration, just watched his wife get arrested by ICE, shackled, and sent to a detention camp in the Mojave Desert. @timmiller.bsky.social on what happens when the cruelty you voted for lands at your own front door.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Crazy idea: Spend money on supplies for our well-trained and modestly paid sailors, not on electric shock gloves for poorly trained and overpaid ICE agents.
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Trump’s America Is Really Hulk Hogan’s America
The lies, the grievance, the spectacle—and the political movement built from all three.
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Sabreena Merchant @sabreenajm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
All 10 of KMac's history-making 3s
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@citizensforethics.org is suing Trump and White House officials over sale of early access to Truth Social posts, on constitutional grounds www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
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Truth Social's $100,000-per-month subscription for early access to Trump posts is unconstitutional - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
President Trump's scheme to charge $100,000 per month for advance access to official government announcements on Truth Social violates the First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thoughtful commentary on the WNBA tensions podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Rivals Weekend Heat: Techs, Ejections & Tensions
Podcast Episode · No Offseason: The Athletic Women's Basketball Show · August 11 · 53m
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/08/2026
Boebert family values. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/08/10/u...
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US Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son faces charges of sexual exploitation of child
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son Tyler Boebert has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
gets incredible air here
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Annie Johansen @annieijay.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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theatlantic.com
The Dishonesty of True Crime
The hit Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct tidies a far more complicated story.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cassidy caves. So only GOP senators voting No are Murkowski and Collins. Never send a man to do a woman's job.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
amazing. no notes www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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Britt Robson @brittrobson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Liv with the behind-the-back mustard and you knew McBride wouldn't miss
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Trump admin has quietly drafted new rules governing the census expected to recategorize millions of immigrants (both unauthorized and legal) as not actually living here in the United States This would allow the GOP to steal congressional seats & redirect hundreds of billions of federal dollars
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Inside Trump’s Stealth Trick to Rig the Census—and Congress
The administration’s latest power grab is disguised as boring technical guidance.
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