Reposted by Jim Johnsonceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193219014419
Reposted by Jim JohnsonDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026Making everyone feel like there's a fixed pie of resources and their slice is shrinking and everyone is out to fuck everyone else creates fertile ground for conservatism & eventually authoritarianism. The absolute core conviction of online leftists to the contrary is endlessly baffling. 1668176
Reposted by Jim JohnsonAaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I don't know anything about Nixon, maybe she's too far left for the district, I don't know, but she won the Dem primary and so the only thing I want to hear from David Fucking Frum is "Vote Nixon in November." Shouldn't be hard for him if he closes his eyes. 55311
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026What a weird thing to need a law to have to allow. I mean, good for Walz and Minnesota, but... hmm. Odd. 000
Reposted by Jim JohnsonNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP. 393249624
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Explosive diarrhea outbreak map. My thoughts are with @whwoolhat.bsky.social. 120
Reposted by Jim Johnsonmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026What no one ever considers is: What if "investing in Red America" is just politically hopeless? Can we maybe, for once, invest in blue America instead? 822995453
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Hoo boy, either Jeffries does not understand the power dynamic of this relationship... Or he very, very much does and is grasping.static.klipy.comBane Asks Batman: Do You Feel In Charge?ALT: Bane Asks Batman: Do You Feel In Charge? 020
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026@dicknixon.bsky.social A Syracuse NY sighting: I went out to pick up lunch and I pulled up to a light behind a pretty rusty white mid-to-late 60s Chrysler Newport convertible with a Nixon, Now More Than Ever bumper sticker. 5513
Reposted by Jim JohnsonDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/06/2026One thing I always come back to is that reactionary politics (nationalism, racism, patriarchy, hierarchical thinking) & liberal universalism really are fundamentally incompatible. And every democracy basically contains two nations, adherents to the former & adherents to the latter, and ... 923040
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026@pattonoswalt.bsky.social Now that the era of peak streaming is over, I have to ask: Was there ever a discussion about Remy (and Linguini, I GUESS) hosting a kids' cooking show on Disney+? It seems like such a no-brainer, surely someone must have kicked that idea around at some point. 000
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026My number one disappointment with Bluesky is that we don't have a J. Jonah Jameson account with the quality and prolificity of @dicknixon.bsky.social. 010
Reposted by Jim JohnsonBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Damnatio Memoriae Trumpi! It turns out this necessary task didn’t have to wait until January 20, 2029. It began at the Kennedy Center today. 20845107
Reposted by Jim JohnsonChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/06/2026IF YOU ARE STILL IN LINE TO BOO TRUMP, PLEASE STAY IN LINE 143303435
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Boy, I sure do miss when Bluesky wasn't All-Platner-All-The-Time. I'm looking forward to hearing about other things occasionally. 000
Reposted by Jim JohnsonDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The entire Republican midterm campaign strategy is to say that Dems want to cut your son's dick off, not just metaphorically but literally, and that either works or it doesn't. 082
Reposted by Jim JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The Voting Rights Act was built on an assumption by its authors (primarily Abe Fortas and Nicholas Katzenbach) that the South would only act in racist ways if allowed to and so had to be stopped from doing so at all times forever, and holy shit was that assumption dead on. -OS 213048
Reposted by Jim JohnsonOutbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 30/05/2025The Evansville Press, April 10,1916 9182272325
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026There are bigger problems with the world, however, today my child factory reset my Nintendo Switch and I lost my Animal Crossing island. 010
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I would have zero visibility into whatever passes for a dark underbelly of Bluesky if it wasn't for Tom raising it to our attention. This is like the Piker debate. If it wasn't for The Bulwark constantly arguing over how much attention to give him, I would have still never heard of him. 010
Reposted by Jim JohnsonMz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 26/04/2026When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers. 6243491498
Reposted by Jim JohnsonMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 24/04/2026this just such a boring rehash of 2006 politics. we need leaders who put criminals and traitors in prison. there is no unity without accountability. 8348269
Reposted by Jim JohnsonThe Alberta Socialist @voxsocialism.bsky.social · 17/04/2026You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed. 22089223124
Reposted by Jim JohnsonLum @brokentoys.social · 07/04/2026after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign 8775022188
Reposted by Jim JohnsonDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/04/2026... the more that social infrastructure will be degraded, and eventually everything will fall apart, and we'll start the slow process of rebuilding. That's all reactionaries do: spend down the legacy other, better people build. 618119
Reposted by Jim JohnsonDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/04/2026All of that -- every bit of it -- is counter to the worldview & temperament of MAGA. None of it would have happened if these fuckers had been running things. Reactionaries are parasites. They depend entirely on social infrastructure other, better people build. The longer they're in charge ... 523923
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Markets: Surely, this time, he's not full of shit! 010
Reposted by Jim JohnsonDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.theguardian.comRecord deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failuresFamilies, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained 22274843437
Reposted by Jim JohnsonGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026It’s other people’s introspection that built the world that allows psychopaths like this to thrive and I think it’s gonna take some introspection to figure out how to fix it 2050555
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026THE LOWDOWN was a delight amid a sea of horrors in 2025. I am very much looking forward to season 2. One question, though: @dallasgoldtooth.bsky.social joining the regular cast when? I'd be happy to see that guy in every one of my favorite shows. 011
Reposted by Jim JohnsonDane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now 216256706911
Reposted by Jim JohnsonI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel. 594500943
Reposted by Jim JohnsonAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026hey gen z welcome to republican governance 465689981
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Hey @iwriteok.bsky.social, can you recommend a pocast to learn about the lore of Warhammer 40K, starting from absolute zero? I am in dire need of something non-real-world-related and I think I want to learn about this world instead. 020
Reposted by Jim JohnsonAri Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they’re all like D+40 5598142
Reposted by Jim Johnsonjxxmxx.bsky.social @jxxmxx.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Rothkopf's Dark Woke manifesto: • We will fight for what we believe in • Winning means ending the threat to our country, our values, our institutions • Structural changes & big ideas must drive the agenda • Going back to the “good old days” is not the answer • Do not apologize for being Democrats 26518
Reposted by Jim JohnsonA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...the-reframe.comHating the GameThe cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith. 4543051019
Reposted by Jim JohnsonDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/02/2026And of course, if you stumble across a voter who actually does know anything about anything, chances are extremely high they are already voting Democrat! Mountains of evidence on this. 621919
Reposted by Jim JohnsonElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026MAGA Man tries to beat up high school kids. Emphasis on *tries*. :) 2082598631
Reposted by Jim JohnsonBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that 2494182447
Reposted by Jim JohnsonEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid. 6171921819
Reposted by Jim Johnsonceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy 249128383579
Reposted by Jim JohnsonPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2026The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1 7083432860
Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026One thing the business world could do is agree that a stint in ICE makes a candidate unhireable. Make it so that these guys need to spend the rest of their lives lying about their past. Make "Can you explain this gap in your resume?," a cultural joke. It's the least they can do. 000
Reposted by Jim JohnsonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The people of Minneapolis are going to be out there icing up sidewalks and streets like Macauley Culkin. 1364072449
Reposted by Jim JohnsonComrade Jingle Pants ☭🔻Organize Against Oligarchs! @cptjinglepants.bsky.social · 10/01/2026No notes. ✅ 0205
Reposted by Jim JohnsonDevin @devincf.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Thoughts and prayers for the families of all the people who will have to be hanged when this all over. 1282
