Steve Johnson

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus — Right now, you’re in a ‘winter’ of illness and exhaustion, but your strength is still there, waiting. Trust it.

#CancelParamount

If he ever seeks what is good, it is because his interest requires it, for he is without moral sense. Goodness, like hate or anger, is for him a matter of calculation. #StopTrump #Resist

It’s getting tougher to find a job! Initial Jobless Claims: Fell by 10k to 236k, below expectations (243k), but the 4-week average remains elevated at 245k—near August 2023 highs. Continuing Claims: Rose to 1.974 million, a new cycle high and highest since Nov 2021. #stagflation

Six former CDC vaccine advisory committee chairs warn: U.S. risks losing access to life-saving immunizations www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/a...

🇨🇦 Canada dumped $57.8B in U.S. Treasuries in April — 13.5% of its total holdings. 📉 Biggest single-month liquidation since at least 2000. Message received: allies are rethinking exposure. #Canada #Treasuries #BondMarket

Authoritarian consolidation is never subtle. • Assassinations signal the shift from repression to elimination. • Parades and pageantry are theater — power dressing up to mask decay. #Authoritarianism #DemocracyWatch #Resistance #Dictatorship #HumanRights #TruthMatters

The storm is here. Will California be a lighthouse—or just another coastline? #RefugeState #HarborPolitics #FreeStateMilitia

Not just a blue state. Not just a progressive state. A harbor state. A place where people under threat from their own governments, families, or states can land, breathe, and rebuild. #RefugeState

The real question for California isn’t just about immigration. It’s whether the state will become a true refuge—for LGBTQ+ people, for trans youth, for those fleeing political persecution within the United States. #SanctuaryState

The Holocaust didn’t start with death camps. It started with silence, laws, indifference. Trump only has the power we give him. History warns. Will we listen? #NeverAgain

June 12, 1943: The Nazis liquidated the Brzeżany Ghetto (now Berezhany, Ukraine), executing ~1,180 Jews at the old Jewish cemetery. Never forget. Memory is resistance. Silence is complicity. #Holocaust #OnThisDay #HistoryMatters

Thousands of immigrants, like Mahmoud Khalil, are trapped in ICE custody, where abuse and cruelty is common. Tell Congress: Reject any bills that would expand ICE detention.

B of A: names that benefit from higher nominal rates. 💰

Trump's official schedule today: 8 AM - 3:30 PM Absolutely nothing (well except to shiv Tim Apple and the market) 3:30 PM Fuck off to Bedminster for 4 days of golf on our dime that's it folks

Leerink's Whit Mayo says GOP Medicaid cuts are "materially less bad" as they grandfather state provider taxes which boost fed funding, but 6-month redeterminations could lead to adverse selection, with sicker beneficiaries "more proactive in preserving their coverage." #CNC #MOH seeing most pressure

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” —Marcus Aurelius Notice each judgment. Let it float by like a cloud. Label it gently: “Not mine.” Peace begins when you stop identifying with the noise. #Mindfulness #MarcusAurelius #StoicWisdom #InnerPeace

Remember the Hometown Deli? www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/n...

Was today still Biden's stock market?

Dear God, it's over 🖖

Word of the Day: Equanimity Mental calm in chaos. Stillness in the storm. Marcus Aurelius called it power over the mind. Today, claim that power. #Stoicism #WordOfTheDay #Mindfulness #MarcusAurelius

Imagine that. A CEO telling an anti-DEI proponent: "Our commitment to inclusion furthers our strategic priorities and generates shareholder value." $BMY

Tyranny must always be opposed, but the people must be the ultimate check on power, not just the courts. Public engagement, debate, and electoral participation are more powerful than endless legal battles. If Trump’s actions are truly harmful, the people should reject him through democratic means.

*tarrified

DXY over 100. No wonder no one is chatting about it any more

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A daily intention is here. Don’t forget to love you- Every chance you get♥️ -J

Trump says next quarter's numbers are also Biden's. All my bad trades are Biden's too.

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release our client Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student unlawfully detained for advocating for Palestinian human rights. This is the first order mandating the release of a student arrested by Trump in retaliation for their speech.

Yeesh.

It will take a while because he is screwing it up.

SPX -35 handles since the ZBT

Wait, so tariffs are not so beautiful after all?

“.. a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls ‘improper ideology’ from Smithsonian museums.” @dcnewsnow.bsky.social @wutangforchildren.bsky.social www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

he’s right and he’s right to say it

Lol “strategic uncertainty” 🤡

"Conservatives should consider a counterfactual. Should the federal government be able to withhold all federal funding from a private Christian college (including, say, tuition dollars from the G.I. Bill or Pell Grants) unless it hires more Muslim faculty or admits more atheist students?"

Thousands of Buddhist believers and festival-goers filled downtown Seoul for Yeon Deung Hoe, or the Lotus Lantern Festival.

Sometimes I struggle with reading comprehension (despite being an avid reader!). I'm struggling here. Can someone explain this interaction to me please? I'm lost.

Two things I found interesting in this podcast. 1) Everyone is buying TP (fighting the last war) when in fact it may be your HVAC that can't be fixed this summer. 2) I think she called it 'web scrubbing', watching how many items are left on amzn. (bet we see that become a thing). 1/2

For the second week in a row folks are playing it tight. Often--not always--when the spread is so tight is when we tend to get big moves (see last week). Direction unknown. Thanks for voting!

#TheIdesofMarch: a reminder that even the most powerful can fall… usually with a little help from their ‘friends.’ #resist

The FBI arrested Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly instructing an immigrant man who appeared in court to walk into a public area when ICE agents showed up to her courtroom looking to apprehend him.