BJ Johnson

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The next Congress could shape AI oversight. Ahead of Nov. 3, we're tracking the money flowing to lawmakers developing AI policy. Start with our investigation: www.levernews.com/big-ais-favo...

RFK Jr. at a Mike Rogers rally in Michigan: "500 million Arabs... don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize." Ahmed Zewail, Chemistry, 1999. Naguib Mahfouz, Literature, 1988. Tawakkol Karman, Peace, 2011. Queer folks know this move: erase a whole people first, then legislate. 🏳️‍🌈

Hard agree.

Today, U.S. forces are back in the Philippines — and expanding their presence. You may, however, be taken aback by their new ally there: private capital. theintercept.com/2026/10/26/p...

Charlie Brown out here speaking more economic sense than any Wall Street analyst I've ever heard.

This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.

www.corruptionland.org This will be available tomorrow online for free.

After banning CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the White House, he installs State-Run television, just like they have in so many other countries... Sieg Heil, ya'll. #38Days 🌊

This is the grave of Technical Sergeant Leonard Maltovich. It does not bear his name because he intended it to be a monument to all gay veterans.

Hey Alaska, how do you feel about this deal? Trump sold you out! American CEO resigns over a $25 billion scandal in Alaska involving Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and the sanctioned Russian energy company Novatek, who was secretly financing the Gas venture. united24media.com/world/sancti...

"Lord, we pray that you lift up Ken Paxton, a serial adulterer who constantly bears false witness, covets material things-- like houses--and disgraces your holy name with his shameless corruption, so that we may continue not to pay taxes and hate all the same people he does. Glory!"

Think about this

Word! 👀

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

With the midterms days away, Rahm Emanuel wants Democrats to chase wealthy, moderate Republicans. But new polling suggests the real swing voters are angry, working-class Americans who distrust BOTH parties.

Serious question: Literally what is the point of blue states being blue if their Democratic tycoons-turn-governors shield billionaires from tax hikes as millions are thrown off healthcare? Isn't the point of voting blue supposed to be electing Dem leaders who don't just do what Republicans do?

NEW: @rahmemanuel.bsky.social's new plan is a way for his fellow millionaires to win, and for Dems to keep losing forever. To justify their donors' agenda, Corporate Dems punch left and pretend key swing voters are a handful of rich country-club Republicans rather than the enraged working class.

See where I'm going with this?

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"Isn't it interesting that Republicans in Congress want everyone to register as a foreign agent except AIPAC?" @zeteo.com's new documentary about AIPAC's role in U.S. politics is out now: https://zeteo.com/p/watch-our-new-aipac-documentary-zeteo

The new documentary "Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence" goes behind the scenes into AIPAC and the pro-Israel lobby's role in the United States.

www.corruptionland.org

The Music Vault 📼 One of Dolly Parton’s most beautiful cross-cultural collaborations was Peace Train / Isitimela Sokuthula, her 1996 recording with Mzansi’s own Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Today, we listen and remember

Some corporate Democrats and pundits think the party has gone too far "left" and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

Leo is the operative who ran the campaign to confirm Alito to the Court and who has spent his career connecting wealthy conservative donors to conservative judges. https://gavelgrab.org/2026/05/samuel-alito-has-exposed-himself/

Good question…

Penisburg zuckerlican had meta shut off the no kings account. www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/5K...

This is what it looks like when billionaires and their lapdogs order journalists to capitulate to power, rather than hold it to account.

Christian nationalists' wish list, abridged: 📖⚖️ • end marriage equality • ban trans healthcare • ban drag • pull queer books from schools • never answer "allegiance" questions themselves Our wish list: be left alone, and keep their church out of our government.

John Roberts’ greatest hits: 2010: votes to let unlimited corporate money flood our elections 2013: guts the Voting Rights Act 2024: hands presidents immunity for official acts That’s not a judge. That’s a demolition crew with a lifetime contract.

What John Roberts wrote: “The President is not above the law.” What John Roberts did, in the same ruling: gave presidents immunity from prosecution for official acts. Most people don’t know Congress can impeach a chief justice. Spread it.

Pop quiz: who can remove the chief justice of the United States? A) The president B) Nobody, it’s for life C) Congress Most people say B. It’s C. And John Roberts is counting on you never finding out.

Seems like Josh Hawley needs to be answering a lot of questions about disavowing many “X-tian” nationalist groups. Time to get disavowing Josh!

This election is not really a choice between two parties. Nor will it be a choice between the “left” and the “right.” The real choice is between ever more concentrated wealth and power at the top VS. more wealth and power in what used to be the American working middle class. Some thoughts 👇

All part of “project 2025” ! People said that Project 2025 was fake news! Well who’s crying now

🚨BREAKING: Trump DOJ Threatens to PROSECUTE Election Officials for Counting Votes youtu.be/ZSbtmNnSRYI?...

THIS 👇 TOO......

A Trump crony at the Justice Department ordered the FBI to investigate protestors standing up against ICE in LA. That crony was Emil Bove, who now sits as a lifetime judge on the federal court right below SCOTUS. Trump's henchmen must be investigated, not rewarded to control our lives.