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Angus Johnston

@angus.bsky.social

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

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Angus Johnston·Jan 18

The risk of malfeasance in the November election is real, and serious. But the Trump administration doesn't have a magic wand. It has tools of repression. And we have tools of resistance.

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Angus Johnston·Sep 10

Charlie Kirk was shot during an audience Q&A. I swear that the following transcript is real. Question: "Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last ten years?" Charlie Kirk: "Counting or not counting gang violence?" He was shot a split second later.

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Angus Johnston·Aug 30

One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead. They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).

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Angus Johnston·Sep 5

“When you look at the factors weighing down Democrats, it’s not crime or trans rights or wokeness. It’s the deep-seated belief among independents and Democratic voters that Democrats are weak and feckless.”

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DO NOT WANT

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This is not the Lev. 24 passage that Kevin was referencing most pointedly, but hell, let's throw it in, too: "Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God."

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BREAKING: @grammar-girl.bsky.social and I have invented another cocktail. It's not in the same class as the Sullivan, sadly, but it's a tasty one. I give you... The Geoffrey.

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Oh my goodness a Jim Thompson Echo McGuire.

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I am certain—though I cannot even begin to articulate why—that an Echo McGuire written by Chandler would be a woman, and a Hammett Echo McGuire would be a man.

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Gotta love a name that Jack Kirby, Raymond Chandler, and Donald J. Sobol would have been equally thrilled to have come up with.

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I just learned that Buddy Holly's high school girlfriend was named Echo McGuire. Good lord. I'm in love.

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Lil' ainjil.

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A lot of institutions and companies need to be printing out this post and pinning it up in their executive suites for future reference.

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This is extremely my shit, Ron Wyden.

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