A. Rafael Johnson

Unrelated: Lane Kiffin is the Ja Rule of football.

How has James Carville made a career by being wrong, on every issue, for decades?

In case I wasn’t clear…

A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible

ICE crossed a line in LA

Tesla Takedown in Boston.

I keep getting asked if it’s legal to spend our campaign funds on food drives or our high school public service grants and the answer is YES. It is.

Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.

You do know none of this stops unless we stop it right? No institution is coming to save us. No cavelry is coming
We have to stand up together and stop this. We cannot wait for a future date
We cannot wait until 26 to vote.
We cannot wait and hope someone will save us.
We must save each other.

I know I'm not the only one thinking about the fugitive slave act in these times of street-snatching and disappearing..

Thrilled to announce that the English Department at The University of Denver has offered me the position of Assistant Professor of Creative Writing - Prose. I’ll start there in September.

Twin Cities! Come see me a week from tonight, Feb 27. I'll be the featured speaker at ReVerb Open Mic, hosted by TruArt Speaks. We'll be at the Flava Coffee & Cafe in St. Paul from 6-8 pm. I'll read from my forthcoming collection.

#ReVerbOpenMic #truartspeaks #FLAVACAFE

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

AirBnB drives up rents and creates homelessness while creating nothing of value.

I spent years warning people about Trump. Years.

Thrilled to announce that my new collection For You, Why Should I Cry: Stories will be published in the Innovative Prose Series at Texas Review Press.

Huge thanks to the team at TRP and everyone who’s supported me over the years.

#TexasReviewPress #innovativeproseseries #samhoustonstateuniversity

I blame you.

F’n DO SOMETHING!

Surprised by Musk’s salute? Laura Ingraham did the same in 2016. Do we really need to have the same “did he mean it” debate?

The cheater’s favorite. That way, they’ll remember my vengeance every time they order.

I might have unresolved issues.

16-year-old with hands up shot to death by cops during ‘no-knock’ raid in AL, suit says Officers left the teen bleeding out in the hallway for more than four minutes, body camera footage shows, according to the suit.

"An Alabama teenager was asleep in his childhood bedroom moments before a police S.W.A.T. team 'rammed down' the front door of his family's home and fatally shot him, according to a new federal lawsuit."
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:

I keep hearing sentiments like “we just have to get through the next four years” as if Trump and his cronies will just step down or respect the outcome of a future election they don’t win. It won’t be that easy. It will not be that easy.

Trump’s issue is with nonwhite everybody.

There’s something very comforting about that pen. It’s nothing special. It’s reliable and sturdy: a workhorse.

Just the humble Pilot G2.

There has never been a time when this was true. There was a time when you didn’t pay attention.