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Angus Johnston

@angus.bsky.social

CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.

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That’d be great, AJ!

In the meantime, is there anyway we could interest you in #hr4125?

It would @uncapthehouse.bsky.social to ~660 reps, which would be really close to the #CubeRootRule!

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12.08.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We could see it out the window of our apartment!

12.08.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right on.

12.08.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bro as long as some of it features Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, let 'er rip.

11.08.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant Film: 200 (1975 Original Colored Animation)
YouTube video by REVELATION(E) Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant Film: 200 (1975 Original Colored Animation)

Gonna need someone to animate
"200 2: 250"

youtu.be/tWK99Vm0wu4

11.08.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was seven for the bicentennial, so... yeah.

11.08.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

NEXT YEAR IS THE 250TH! WE'RE GONNA SEE SO MUCH PATRIOTIC RESISTANCE KITSCH!

11.08.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

If Andrew Cuomo knew any working or middle class person, he would know that many, many landlords require you to make as an annual salary 40 times the monthly rent. In this example of his dumb law, someone would have to make exactly $100,000 to get that apartmentβ€”not one dollar more or less

11.08.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 301    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

I do like that. Okay.

11.08.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Very seventies red-white-and-blue "Spirit of 76" logo.

Very seventies red-white-and-blue "Spirit of 76" logo.

I recently bought myself a corny-ass tee shirt with this logo on it to wear to protests, for manifesting purposes.

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The thing about my timeline is that if we win democracy back in this country it's going to be incredibly beautiful and incredibly corny. We've been slogging through shit so long it's important to remember what stupid cool shit feels like.

11.08.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Then give the California Union the Bear Flag and each member state can have it on the top left of their new flag like AU/NZ do with the Union Jack on theirs.

Boom, three new states while not ditching the state identity.

11.08.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

"The California Union (California for short) will be rejoining the United States as four independent states: San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego."

11.08.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

bsky.app/profile/schr...

11.08.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a blue shirt is holding a glass with a yellow liquid in it Alt: Bones approves of drinking beer.
11.08.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone talks about media/optics/spectacle but I haven’t had a recent government that knew how to do it right imagine the distracting nonsense you could up with for a Five New States campaign, why those are the points of a star! 55 to thrive! Pageant style introductions of new reps like c’mon

11.08.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't done the math, but my strong suspicion that if you pull out all the places you list, the Upstatelvania that remains winds up being a Republican state.

11.08.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The whole point of the project is to put more Dems in the senate, tho.

11.08.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You really want to see who the rest of Georgia picks as their senators?

11.08.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Real heads know.

11.08.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LOOPERS!

11.08.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Folks like Coons and Warner have no interest in taking on a Manchima roleβ€”they'll vote with the party majority if the pressure gets heavy enough.

And I think that's true of Gillibrand as well.

11.08.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Possibly because making the senate bigger solves exactly zero problems.

11.08.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, we need you to help the rest of the state voting for Dems. You'll be the Lower Peninsula.

11.08.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

There was no bottom-up pressure for change in the Democratic Party at the grassroots in 2020, and Biden won the nomination. Warren or Bernie would have had an uphill battle, but with Biden there was no battle at all.

11.08.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've advocated for 1200 member house because it's a big round number, divisible by three, that would give Wyoming (the smallest population state) 2-3 representatives.

11.08.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Freaking FDR was commissioning paintings and touring shows and pop songs to promote the four freedoms plan get on that grind set

11.08.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hell you can get to 100 with just the current ones

11.08.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Hard to see how we get to 60 without breaking some up, but once we get to 53 I'd be happy to start organizing for NYC to be the 54th.

11.08.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

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