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Michael J Johnson

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Musician, songwriter, producer, Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Lead guitarist for Parlour Bells. Cat/dog person, ADHD, liberal, Union member, UU, sober. I don’t answer DM’s from people I don’t know IRL. He/him.

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truthout.org Critics Warn TrumpRx Will Further Enrich Big Pharma, Not Reduce Drug Prices

Critics Warn TrumpRx Will Further Enrich Big Pharma, Not Reduce Drug Prices

06.02.2026 16:05 — 👍 18    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 2

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

29.01.2026 21:34 — 👍 42226    🔁 6068    💬 621    📌 316
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President Trump says he wants to drive housing prices up, not down Amid growing affordability concerns across the nation, President Trump said he is looking to drive housing prices further up, not down.

Trump is purposely working towards RAISING living costs even higher.
Everything this man does hurts the American people.
Everything.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

30.01.2026 18:07 — 👍 234    🔁 155    💬 24    📌 7

Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?

30.01.2026 18:49 — 👍 14189    🔁 3759    💬 446    📌 151

IT Help Desk: “Have you tried turning it off and back on?”

Academics: “It’s in the syllabus.”

Same energy
#AcademicSky

30.01.2026 18:22 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There’s too much time between now and the midterms. Either the military needs to not follow his illegal, unconstitutional, international law violating actions OR Congress needs to STOP him.We are at a breaking point.
#impeach #military #coup #endthis

Military leaders, please stop this madman!

20.01.2026 09:22 — 👍 5135    🔁 1491    💬 0    📌 91

Seeing Gestapo in Minnesota ought to be quite enough for people to realize that we cannot wait for midterms.

15.01.2026 14:37 — 👍 21    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

Seriously, what are we going to do if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act?

15.01.2026 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

23.09.2025 17:45 — 👍 12190    🔁 3465    💬 345    📌 198
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Dear media and all who listen, read and see what the media puts out there.

People who are interested in self-preservation will find it in #truthseeking_truthspeaking and calling out lies and inflates divisive propaganda.

#Speak_Truth
#Fact_Check
#Truth_Bombs
#BEthe_changemakers

15.09.2025 23:12 — 👍 57    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 0
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FDA approves new Covid shots with limits on who can get them under RFK Jr. It's unclear how easily patients without high risk factors will be able to get a Covid shot, and whether insurance plans will still cover them.

This is a nightmare : www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...

27.08.2025 18:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

I have moved away from Iowa and I am back in the beautiful Blue state of Massachusetts. I am back teaching at Berklee College of Music.

29.07.2025 02:02 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Please follow my Union @berkleefacunion.bsky.social

29.07.2025 01:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Every Senator Voted on the G.O.P. Megabill The Senate voted 51 to 50 to pass President Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package.

How each Senator voted.

#Pinks

#GiftArticle

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

01.07.2025 17:40 — 👍 73    🔁 65    💬 11    📌 5
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Certainly close enough to the real truth!

25.06.2025 13:52 — 👍 15766    🔁 3388    💬 286    📌 162
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Who did this? 😂

22.06.2025 12:14 — 👍 14608    🔁 4204    💬 1139    📌 548
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2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility

And here in NYC today another shocking escalation by Trump.

The law *explicitly allows* unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities.

This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.

09.06.2025 02:57 — 👍 1602    🔁 561    💬 36    📌 25

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody."

But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies.

Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

27.05.2025 18:30 — 👍 23607    🔁 6470    💬 854    📌 234
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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

15.05.2025 00:11 — 👍 15502    🔁 5052    💬 588    📌 300
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The Machines Are Learning — and They’re Learning to Be Fascists AI is not just another tech revolution. It’s the perfect storm of surveillance, manipulation, and digital obedience — and the far right already has a head start…

AI is not just another tech revolution. It’s the perfect storm of surveillance, manipulation, and digital obedience — and the far right already has a head start…

hartmannreport.com/p/the-machin...

12.05.2025 14:03 — 👍 218    🔁 121    💬 13    📌 26
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White House fires Copyright Office leaders as controversial AI report surfaces Did a report on artificial intelligence and copyright law lead to firings at the Library of Congress?

mashable.com/article/copy...

13.05.2025 05:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, shared photos of himself and his grandchildren frolicking in waters filled with sewer overflow.

Swimming in sewage. Spewing garbage. Sowing cynicism. That’s RFK Jr. alright.

13.05.2025 00:58 — 👍 6316    🔁 1595    💬 753    📌 208

this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"

12.05.2025 01:33 — 👍 21226    🔁 5218    💬 622    📌 235

You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.

05.05.2025 16:29 — 👍 23731    🔁 3466    💬 956    📌 241
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Pretty much sums it up.

25.04.2025 13:50 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Social Security isn't just a benefit; it's a lifeline for millions of Americans.

It's our earned right after years of hard work.
Project 2025 plans to GUT social security, and Trump & his MAGA allies are following the blueprint to the letter. #HandsOffMySocialSecurity
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

24.04.2025 18:19 — 👍 160    🔁 78    💬 5    📌 0
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‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’ The Trump administration is manipulating government-sponsored research to get the answers it wants.

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Trump and RFK Jr. are hoping to use the facade of science to falsely legitimize their lies and quackery.

Their plan looks something like this:

Garbage Questions + Garbage Methods = Pre-Conceived Hypotheses

But that's not how science works!

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

24.04.2025 21:46 — 👍 154    🔁 85    💬 5    📌 5
Pere Ubu  Street Waves Live CBGBs 1978
YouTube video by thelyran Pere Ubu Street Waves Live CBGBs 1978

RIP DAVID THOMAS. a large and ornery man who created lots of great music, and knew how to fall over as well as anyone i've ever seen. when robbie carey asked him if his choice of musette was "jarry-esque." he replied, "beefheart=esque is more like it." abd he meant it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQP7...

24.04.2025 13:17 — 👍 227    🔁 49    💬 6    📌 4
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Breathing Is Now a Political Act: The GOP Has Made Clean Air a Partisan Weapon If you want your children to grow up with lungs that work, you better start voting like your life—and theirs—depends on it…

If you want your children to grow up with lungs that work, you better start working and voting like your life—and theirs—depends on it…

hartmannreport.com/p/breathing-...

24.04.2025 13:51 — 👍 226    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 4

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