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Kjerstin Johnson

@kajerstin.bsky.social

writer living in Portland, OR. Formerly: Bitch, Rethinking Schools, The Nib, The Ringer. Now at YES! Magazine.

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03.07.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The meme from Euphoria where a character says โ€œWait, is this fucking play about us?โ€

The meme from Euphoria where a character says โ€œWait, is this fucking play about us?โ€

Me watching the Slanted! Enchanted! footage in the PAVEMENTS movie

28.06.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really enjoyed Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by @amandahess.bsky.social.

The final chapter was like a mini-millennial-mom version of Naomi Kleinโ€™s Doppelgรคnger.

25.06.2025 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.

21.06.2025 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10259    ๐Ÿ” 1638    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 122
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Book Review: Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History Youโ€™ve probably seen Rupert Kinnardโ€™s smile if youโ€™ve passed the downtown Portland mural on NW Couch at Broadway. A wheelchair user since a car accident in 1996, Kinnard sits between Kathleen Saadat a...

Portland: Rupert Kinnard will be at @floatingworld.bsky.social tomorrow (Saturday) 5-7!

We're lucky to have a alt-comics legend in town. I wrote about why I think his new book is important here: www.portlandmercury.com/Comics/2025/...

20.06.2025 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Asylum seekerโ€™s courthouse arrest illustrates Trump administrationโ€™s latest immigration enforcement tactic Legal experts say some asylum seekers are being moved from a process with legal protections into expedited removal, which has "almost none."

An inside look at the Catch-22 the federal attorneys and immigration agencies are working to deport people legally seeking asylum in the U.S.

Essentially, requiring people to show up to court, dropping the court case and then having immigration officers grab that person for deportation.

20.06.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Book Review: Rediscover Portland Cartoonist Rupert Kinnard and 50 Years of Black, Gay Comic History Youโ€™ve probably seen Rupert Kinnardโ€™s smile if youโ€™ve passed the downtown Portland mural on NW Couch at Broadway. A wheelchair user since a car accident in 1996, Kinnard sits between Kathleen Saadat a...

Kinnard's new book from @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social is the first available since a hard-to-find 1992 book. I hope it can introduce more people to his work and legacy as a Black, queer comics artist. Please order a copy and/or ask your local public library or academic library to order one too!

17.06.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A lot going on today, as there is everyday, but also I wrote about Portland comics artist Rupert Kinnard's new book! He'll be at @floatingworld.bsky.social this Saturday.

17.06.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Evil

13.06.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

give me a sec... i just learned "Utahn" is a word www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/u...

12.06.2025 21:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I found this whole interview very edifying after seeing MOUNTAINHEAD (2025) !

06.06.2025 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Isnโ€™t David Lynch saying (if he said it at all) that AI is bad? We all have sharp knives, but we use them to chop vegetables and not murder people.

04.06.2025 17:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

horrified and saddened by murder of Jonathan Joss ๐Ÿ’”

03.06.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Loved every line of this great, bittersweet recollection about making an independent magazine when the economics of mediaโ€”and really, the very concept of โ€œmediaโ€โ€”was upended

31.05.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 134    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The US Is Storing Migrant Childrenโ€™s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant childrenโ€”including a 4-year-oldโ€”and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals.

www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

29.05.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 440    ๐Ÿ” 304    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 59
A text message from someone else. It reads: โ€œThis concesh line is bananas. Almost entirely one type of dude.โ€

A text message from someone else. It reads: โ€œThis concesh line is bananas. Almost entirely one type of dude.โ€

PAVEMENTS (2025) premiere in Portland tonight

23.05.2025 02:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Marine life's latest hotspot could be an underwater volcano primed to erupt off Oregon A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the year is over.

A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the year is over.

15.05.2025 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 378    ๐Ÿ” 104    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
'How come I can't breathe?: Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company's turbines-enough to power 280,000 homes- run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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An aerial view of the xAI, data center. | Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for SELC
By ARIEL WITTENBERG 05 /06/2025 10:32 AM EDT

'How come I can't breathe?: Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company's turbines-enough to power 280,000 homes- run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations. A An aerial view of the xAI, data center. | Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for SELC By ARIEL WITTENBERG 05 /06/2025 10:32 AM EDT

States chase OpenAl's $100 billion AI American Dream
Local and state officials are vying nost , parts of a massive artificial inteligence project called Stargate, backed by OpenAI, even as some communities turn against data center development.
Today at 8:05 a.m. EDT
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States chase OpenAl's $100 billion AI American Dream Local and state officials are vying nost , parts of a massive artificial inteligence project called Stargate, backed by OpenAI, even as some communities turn against data center development. Today at 8:05 a.m. EDT 10 min

Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones

10.05.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1654    ๐Ÿ” 784    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 49

Everyone went bananas for CONCLAVE (2024) when HBOโ€™s THE YOUNG POPE (dir. Sorrentino) was right there. With a new American pope I can be silent no longer. Please watch this zany tour de force!!

08.05.2025 19:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Fiona Apple - Pretrial (Let Her Go Home) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by fionaappleVEVO Fiona Apple - Pretrial (Let Her Go Home) (Official Music Video)

Fiona Apple says fetch the bolt cutters and let pretrial detainees go home. youtu.be/ki1nvcNbYH8?...

07.05.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza
06.05.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just finished ch. 35 in Careless People (the Facebook tell-all) detailing how the company basically handed the 2016 election to Trump. Sick stuff! Canโ€™t imagine what awaits in the final quarter of the book.

06.05.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oregon State student sues Trump administration for revoking visa Aaron Ortega Gonzalez says heโ€™s never committed a crime despite ICE officialsโ€™ claims.

"Aaron Ortega Gonzalez is a Mexican citizen and a PhD student at Oregon State, where heโ€™s been researching the impact of wildfires on ranchlands. Ortega Gonzalez has reportedly been given no reason why the federal government ended his visa."

17.04.2025 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Trump Adminโ€™s $9 Billion Review of Harvardโ€™s Grants Could Hit Bostonโ€™s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson The Trump administrationโ€™s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University โ€” but the brunt of the planned cuts...

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

15.04.2025 12:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5495    ๐Ÿ” 2432    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 106    ๐Ÿ“Œ 114

Read Mahmoud Khalil's words at the end of today's hearing:

11.04.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 601    ๐Ÿ” 289    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
10.04.2025 18:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screenshot from the final episode of season three of The White Lotus. Two panels of Carrie Coon at the dinner table with her two friends delivering her monologue about friendship. In the first panel, she says โ€œI donโ€™t need religion or God to give my life meaning.โ€ In the second panel, she says โ€œbecause time gives it meaning.โ€

A screenshot from the final episode of season three of The White Lotus. Two panels of Carrie Coon at the dinner table with her two friends delivering her monologue about friendship. In the first panel, she says โ€œI donโ€™t need religion or God to give my life meaning.โ€ In the second panel, she says โ€œbecause time gives it meaning.โ€

Your friend who is reading Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals and wonโ€™t shut up about it

10.04.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This billboard has long polarized drivers; now it's being sold The infamous Lewis County billboard is about to get a new owner after the property it sits on went up for sale.

The Uncle Sam Billboard is likely to come down. Is it weird that Iโ€™ll miss it? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

01.04.2025 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a legend!

My favorite bit of trivia about the iconic Goonies poster is that he created 7 different versions that could be swapped in for the promotion of the film.

27.03.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 925    ๐Ÿ” 280    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

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