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Kari Johnson

@karijohn.bsky.social
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Animal lover, bleeding heart liberal, wife of USAF retired husband, grandma, aging services non-profit strategic director. karij at Daily Kos. 💙Stronger Together 💙Resist 💙Revolution

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 5h
"Trump and Blanche built this scheme to keep any judge from getting a look at it. Now one has; she doesn’t like what she sees; and she’s just getting started." My latest:
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Eleventh Circuit Smacks Down Trump’s Bid to Block Sanctions in IRS Case
They're now stuck in the last place they wanted: Judge Williams's court.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 3h
Pathological liar: Someone who lies constantly, often elaborately and with a disconnect from reality.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 5h
This seems a bit fishy. I do not buy the "watching infrastructure" trope. #USPS gizmodo.com/usps-is-putt...
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USPS Is Putting Dashcams in Mail Trucks to Keep an Eye on 'Community Safety'
The number of roving surveillance machines is growing by the day.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Editor Sophia Dasser and reporter Cereese Qusba of the Cornell Daily Sun are the reason we now know about the gang rape case at Cornell and the university’s shameful under-reaction. Nice work, ladies. (📸 Heather Ainsworth)
Two young women, one in a hijab, huddled over lap tops in a newsroom.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 7h
NEW: The Trump administration’s reported use of DHS funds to finance a set of pro-Trump propaganda ads likely violated multiple federal laws. We just filed a complaint urging the DHS OIG to investigate and hold anyone involved accountable.
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Trump’s taxpayer-funded propaganda ads violate multiple federal laws - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The Trump admin's reported use of DHS funds to finance a set of pro-Trump propaganda advertisements likely violated multiple federal laws.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 7h
Last week, a federal judge ruled that the former acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Russell Vought violated federal law and the Constitution's separation of powers clause by trying to defund the agency.
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Attorney General Brown Announces Win in CFPB Funding Lawsuit - News - Office of the Attorney General of Maryland
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h
Donald Trump isn't just the stupidest person to ever become president, he's one of the stupidest people to ever become famous.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h
I really think Jon Ossoff, James Talarico, and a few others are in the process of creating a new kind of language, a new politics, for the era of Late Stage Trumpism. As I argue in the piece, the banal cruelties of sunsetting Trumpism are all around us, and some Dems are pointing to a way out.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 7h
A hurricane of freaking lies...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h
In case Americans getting ready to vote forgot about Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration killing people, and all of the other governmental lawlessness, Todd Blanche wants you to remember.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 7h
There are NEW updates in the case of the Cornell 7 as more details are revealed, including how the alleged victim stated “with 100% confidence [she] was raped”. So why did the local DA only present certain parts of her written statement? I've got the latest reporting: youtu.be/tcsZBeeJk9k?...
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New DETAILS In Cornell ASSAULT CASE Revealed In BOMBSHELL Transcript!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 7h
Racist much...jeebus.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You’ll notice that the same American state media who attacked President Biden relentlessly over his age refuse to report on the orange felon illegally stealing millions of taxpayer dollars to fund campaign ads. They continue to deliberately fail democracy.
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These 'justices' have more than earned our contempt.
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The Supreme Court as weapon of injustice
For the umpteenth time, a diseased Roberts Court sides with violence for the sake of government convenience.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 29/09/2026
Dec 2025: Republicans summon Jack Smith to Capitol Hill, embarrass themselves Jan 2026: Republicans summon Jack Smith to Capitol Hill, embarrass themselves Sept 2026: Republicans summon Jack Smith to Capitol Hill, embarrass themselves The pattern isn’t exactly subtle www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Republicans are slow to learn a simple lesson: They can’t get the better of Jack Smith
Three times, Republicans have summoned the former special counsel to Capitol Hill. Each time, they have left humiliated.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wish someone would wipe that smirk of Johnson's face. (Sorry, not sorry...)
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026
📣📣 As promised, I've once again addressed the tired "35% never file a claim!" anti-ACA talking point which the Trump Regime has been pushing all year: acasignups.net/26/09/29/add...
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Addressing the 35% "Phantom Enrollee" Zombie Lie...again
"In other words, Republicans’ insistence that they have a superior alternative to Obamacare is a zombie lie — a claim that should be dead after having been proved false again and again, but it is stil...
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you Jack, it is inconceivable to most of us.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pot let me introduce you to kettle.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😱Oh Darlene you make us all sick.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is no sugar coating this, speaking truth to power.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
About time someone said this out loud.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Highly resonant piece from @charoshane.bsky.social, particularly in the wake of Cornell's nonpunishment for rape:
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This Season on Epstein Island
While predators run the world, all we can do is gawk.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morally spineless and professionally foolish, the WH pool capitulated and returned with CNN still excluded. Given how inept Trump are lackeys like Blanche (the AG in the business of vouching for suppression?!?)in defending exclusion of press on phony national security grounds, no reason to relent.
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The Supreme Court Gets It Half Right
The White House press corps caves, and Trump’s horror show continues.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Katie Phang breaks down one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence in the new Cornell sex assault lawsuit: an alleged fraternity Snapchat message referring to the plaintiff as “free p***y upstairs.” Phang zeroes in on another detail: someone apparently photographed the Snapchat from another phone
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Insane and a jerk.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Delusional and insane.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 28/09/2026
What does JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force have in common with Musk’s DOGE gambit? Both created online resources, ostensibly to show their purported successes, only to see their claims unravel under scrutiny. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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The embarrassing thing Vance’s fraud task force has in common with Musk’s DOGE gambit
Both initiatives created online resources that invited scrutiny. Both were unprepared for what happened next.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Actual headline in today's WaPo.
Headline: At every turn, Trump's ideas for aiding US consumers run into resistance.
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Again I'm gonna point out that you don't stumble into this many of Nazi Germany's specific atrocities 'accidentally.'
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh come on. So desperate he just keeps threatening demolish, close, destroy or rename everything. 😠
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A bit of a day brightener.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Abortion Access Front is live from a living room on Capitol grounds for 24 hours on International Safe Abortion Day—because people who have abortions deserve more airtime than the politicians trying to control them. Hope you check out my friend Lizz Winstead and more www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3V...
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Medication Abortion Stories: The Science, Policy & People | 24-Hour Livestream Part 1
YouTube video by Abortion Access Front
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
TODAY: Covering the Cornell 7 as a survivor proves difficult, the Supreme Court helps Trump cheat at elections, and I chat with @markhamillofficial.bsky.social about our chances in the midterms. Free news, cited and sourced, with swearing. substack.com/@muellershew...
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Headlines for September 28, 2026
The Daily Beans podcast headlines sourced and cited
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Welp 😂. Anyhoo Thune, Americans are pissed about more than just the war.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Resignation will be more common as the midterms approach.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026
Democrats vs. Republicans in a nutshell. This absolutely nails it.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My latest piece on Substack about punching bullies back in the nose by kicking them out of office: substack.com/@katiephang/...
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The Better Part of Valor is Discretion...But The Trump Regime Has Neither
Brazen, in-your-face grift has a cost...and the GOP is about to justifiably pay the price
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026
I’d rather be annoying than oblivious. These days, neutrality looks more like surrender.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I get where Marc is going with this but we must not be discouraged from voting. Check you registration, help others check theirs, vote early, help others vote early. Our lives literally depend on it.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Major good news update!! We have so much good news today from puppies to shooting preventions, and so much more. We are using our platform to make sure thousands are registered, and reaching millions of Americans who don't normally get the news. Read some good news. Share, and subscribe:
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Major Sunday Updates!! So Much Good News!!
Good morning, everyone.
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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is an outright lie.
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