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Debra Johnson

@debj11.bsky.social

Reader, writer, democrat, and advocate for marginalized people. Lived during segregation in the South. Saw Civil Rights passed & the renewal of deadly Abortion bans. Watching rights eroded. Politics matter. Read Books about BIPOC by BIPOC. No msgs.

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It has everything to do with that. Swear in Adelita!

05.10.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯THIS !!!πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯

05.10.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is excellent.

05.10.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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05.10.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed.
Scary stuff. I'm hoping people will see how serious this is soon and begin organizing mass demonstrations and strikes.

05.10.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @msnbc.com your Democratic guest on Sunday is misrepresenting information on the Israeli war in Gaza. Please stop. The truth is easy to find. The U.N. is not responsible for the starvation in Gaza, the Israeli blockade is. If I want lies, I can watch Fox.

05.10.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two.

Two.

They mounted a helicopter assault and destroyed an entire apartment building and zip tied all of its residents to arrest two guys for maybe being in a gang.

04.10.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

04.10.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 17384    πŸ” 7343    πŸ’¬ 466    πŸ“Œ 304

It is a cascade of inhumanity unconsidered by its authors and truly monstrous in its details and breadth, and I hope everyone will consider that EVERY SINGLE DETENTION is a repetition of this complicated, terrible torture of innocents.

05.10.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 546    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

the teenage children worried and distracted from studies and work, the community putting aside daily duties to organize rallies, raise money, and call elected officials, the four of us who spent three hours in the car on a Saturday...

05.10.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 373    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is to understand in a very visceral, very human way the profound cruelty of a policy that seems to interrupt and complicate and brutalize the lives of ordinary people for the sheer sadistic pleasure of it. Each detention radiates out in its harm and disruption: the two-year-old traumatized, ...

05.10.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 467    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

to listen to this gentle man recount the details of his detention - vomiting and dizziness from getting the wrong side of his medication, being scolded by medical staff, having no idea what would happen or when, worrying about his kids and his wife and his business's clients -

05.10.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 404    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

05.10.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1843    πŸ” 578    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 39

Good reminder. I keep forgetting that. πŸ™ƒ
Most worried about what SCOTUS will do next. I think we can recover from the rest, again.

05.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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the first amendment reads that the congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press Alt: the first amendment reads that the congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press

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04.10.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Fee Draws Rare Rebuke From US Business In a letter sent Friday to Trump, roughly a dozen industry organizations representing chipmakers, software companies and retailers said the new fee threatens to crimp a crucial talent pipeline of fore...

In the U.S. when business complains, things are going really really wrong. Trump policies hurt everyone.
finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-1...

04.10.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Note About the Comey Case In the wake of the Comey indictment, The Washington Post is reporting tonight that β€œLawyers inside the high-profile U.S.

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

04.10.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is not democracy.

04.10.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Texas megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts of lewd and indecent a...

Religions obssessed with sex, often have pedophiles in their hierarchy.
They forgive the adult men & blame the abused child.
"The abuse began in 1982 when the victim was 12 and Morris was a traveling evangelist staying in Hominy, Oklahoma, with her family..."
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

04.10.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump's cuts are always aimed at the working poor & the middle-class. This one in particular will kill women with medical complications and the elderly who depend on those clinics.
Did you really vote for this?
Are you ready to fix it?

04.10.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Freeze on Medicaid Payments Is Forcing Cuts to Rural Health Care

The Trump WH "cut off Medicaid payments to reproductive health care clinics that offer abortions and receive more than $800,000 per year in Medicaid funding....The fallout will soon be felt by thousands of patients across the country, particularly in rural areas." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

04.10.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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California's home insurer of last resort seeks 36% rate hike following January fires The California FAIR Plan Assn., which covers homeowners denied insurance, is seeking a 35.8% rate increase, though some policyholders could pay more or less depending on fire risk.

Isn’t the plan of β€œLast Resort” run by the same insurance companies that won’t write policies for home owner?

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

04.10.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

No respectable philosopher past or present, to my knowledge, has ever thought it a good thing for a single person to be so rich as to mandate the policies of nine universities simultaneously.

04.10.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists race to make 'living' computers powered by human cells BBC News goes inside the lab powering computers with 'mini brains' grown from human cells.

Meanwhile…somewhere else on planet earth 🌍
#Science
#Switzerland
#Biocomputing
#wetware

www.bbc.com/news/article...

04.10.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the moment Republicans have been dreaming aboutβ€¦πŸ€’

03.10.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 720    πŸ” 318    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 21

Sure, the President of the United States of America posted a video of the Grim Reaper taking out prominent Democrats, but it’s not like he called them fascists, so it’s fine.

03.10.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2045    πŸ” 432    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 16
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If Joe Biden’s β€œspiritual advisor” had pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12 year old girl, Fox would be playing that shit on a loop 24/7.

03.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2912    πŸ” 1009    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 41
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Another string of days without a single public appearanceβ€” not flying to Jersey or FL.
β€œGolfing” in VA.
Not suspicious at all.

04.10.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1200    πŸ” 214    πŸ’¬ 168    πŸ“Œ 16
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God, Greed and Groomers The party that preaches "family values" has become a sanctuary for pedophiles.

How do these men and women look their children in the eye. How do they hug their daughters knowing they are protecting men who raped girls their age?
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

04.10.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1843    πŸ” 512    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 36
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A Candidate Vanished at Sea. His Opponents Insist He Stay on the Ballot.

Free read. This is a travesty & an abuse of power.
This is who Republicans have chosen to be.
This is not democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

04.10.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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