Tara Johnson

Seen at the Springfield, Missouri NO Kings march & protest today. Hundreds of people showed their love of community and country! ❤️🇺🇲❤️

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

You gotta give ‘em hop.

Nevermind, that's not correct. It was the Sawyer Glacier.

The Mendenhall?

A photo of a striped, blue-eyed cat.

A farm cat I have known. #Caturday

A photo of a gray striped cat sleeping in a chair.

"There is no sitting here for you". - Pepper, back in her day. #Caturday

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) MIKE JOHNSON: We have to ensure that the rule of law applies to everyone TAPPER: Does the rule of law apply to people who stormed the Capitol on January 6? JOHNSON: Apparently there were 274 FBI…

Video: buff.ly/kyKy5cQ

It will never cease to amaze me that a third of the country thinks the guy who lies constantly about literally everything is the only person they can count on to tell them the truth.

Oh, be careful! One time, my kitty thought my rectangular suitcase was a litter box and peed in it before I could start packing.🤦🏻😕😺

Some kittens I have known. #Caturday

One of the hallmarks of this administration is firing people. Don't be fooled: shutdown or not they will happily, gleefully fire people. #Shutdown

Hegseth is 💯 a disgrace.

Absolutely. Hegseth is a jerk and a misogynist.

YouTube video by Robert Reich Why Corporate Media is Bending the Knee

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives.

He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

Seattle Sues Glock for Pistols Converted to Machine Guns The city alleges that Glock knowingly allowed its pistols to be modified into machine guns, fueling violent crime in Seattle.

Seattle became the fifth locality to file suit against Glock alleging their semi-automatic pistols can be easily converted into illegal, fully automatic machine guns using small, inexpensive devices known as “Glock switches.”

We are remembering two different Charlie Kirks The way we see Charlie Kirk, his life and death, and indeed, nearly everything, is determined less by the facts than by our personal paradigms. Less by the truth than by our algorithms. This past w…

This shows how what we see and hear about something is different from what others see and hear - influenced by algorithms and our consumption preferences.

wildernessdispatch.com/2025/09/15/w...

The problem I have with the "expand the tent" discourse is that we already have enough people in the tent to beat them at the ballot box EVERY SINGLE TIME, but the party doesn't actually want to represent the tent we've got.

They want to represent more white men.

Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for
A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women
B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence.

It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.

Don't Bring Us Into This My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...

They can direct their “cooler heads” rhetoric to their people.

Tell them, not me. I don’t want to be brought into their mess. I am not violent and have never been violent, but I have frequently been the target of violent messages.

This is not our problem. jesspiper.substack.com/p/dont-bring...

We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.

Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.

We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.

My latest piece.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

When do we get a retraction from The Wall Street Journal for erroneously claiming the assassination was related to trans people? When do we get apologies from every journalist who spread that disinformation?

Nearly 48 hours of relentless anti-trans propaganda and news reports over the murder of Charlie Kirk, and all of that for not a single shred of evidence that trans people or trans rights had anything to do with it.

President Trump is vile. He possesses not a shred of morality or leadership. He is stomping on our country for his insatiable need for money and power. He cares not for anyone or anything but himself. It's so despicable how he enjoys dividing our country. He spreads hatred and revenge. So gross.

The American Dictator Tonight, we have the specter of an American president trying to take control of an American city for thinly veiled political reasons.

The line Trump referenced today from Apocalypse Now, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," is about the absurdity of war and the profound psychological damage it inflicts on everyone involved. Seems like Trump was, unintentionally, right on target. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Sugar, back in her day, posing with a water dish and a plant. #Caturday