Robert Johnston

@robertj1088.bsky.social

Some days, older than Methuselah. 💙 🌊🌊🌊 I voted for Kamala 🇺🇦 LGBTQ+ ally, #postie https://robertj1088.substack.com/ https://spoutible.com/RobertJ1088 tiktok.com/@robertj1088 Began posting on Bluesky September 2023

CNN: Measles in the US is at 35-year high, the 2nd record-breaking year in a row. 93% of these cases are among unvaccinated. This is happening on your watch. For years, you denied the efficacy of vaccines. Do you accept some responsibility for this outbreak? RFK: Absolutely not.

This Week: 1,300 employees say AI companies don't have a brake pedal… & don't really understand the tech they're building Fmr OpenAI board member Helen Toner says AI companies "have trouble controlling” emerging tech after Anthropic models hack an organization during tests x.com/ThisWeekABC/...

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“Just this past week, we saw 1,300 employees of top AI companies saying that they don't think they have a brake pedal … They don't really understand the technology that they're building.” Former Ope...

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Here is the good news: DOJ is now 0-20 in lawsuits to gain access to voter files and tomorrow is the 90th day before the election which means states can't purge voters -- even if DOJ wants them to. The bad news: Trump won't give up trying to use DOJ to undermine the elections.

The linked Politico article (below) re election results is a bs take rightly skewered in this post by @juliusgoat.bsky.social. But *this* part bears repeating so DNC can hear it: "when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate."

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15h ago

Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.

According to “fair & balanced” Fox News, communists and Islamists wants to take away your Christmas & thanksgiving while starting sharia law. This is the level of brainwashing we are up against. This is the primary source of news for the majority of republicans in the US.

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According to “fair and balanced” Fox News, communists and Islamists wants to take away your Christmas and thanksgiving while starting sharia law. This is the level of brainwashing we are up against....

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Todd Blanche promising two old men my daughters’ reproductive rights in order to get confirmed while simultaneously defying the Epstein laws is core Republican and THIS is why they will ultimately crash. REPUBLICANS HATE WOMEN AND ALWAYS HAVE PERIOD END OF STORY FOREVER AMEN THE END

Whitehouse on Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell: "It was to get exculpatory information about Donald Trump and then reward her ... How often does a prisoner allegedly facing threats or danger get moved to a less secure facility? Think about it. It doesn't pass the test of common sense."

Even one of tRump’s former White House aides is calling it out. Sarah Matthews says the administration is gaslighting its own supporters on the economy. Lower prices and peace were the pitch. Self-inflicted chaos is what they delivered. www.huffpost.com/entry/sarah-...

Ex-Trump Aide Spells Out How White House Is ‘Gaslighting’ Its Own Supporters Right Now

People “feel bamboozled,” said Sarah Matthews, also calling it “a slap in the face.”

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A really powerful WWII era "don't be a sucker" piece, that explains how authoritarians have to separate and destroy groups of people so they can take power. I don't usually watch anything this long (22 min) but couldn't stop watching once I started this.

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Please watch and rewatch this movie, in the U.S. Archives from the @usarmy.bsky.social #DontBeASucker a reminder of how the Nazis conned their country into becoming the cause of mass murder and all the other horrors that Nazis unleash. The lessons are true for the USA🇺🇸 , in 2025 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

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Roughly $700 billion in federal taxes went uncollected last year, mostly because Trump and Elon Musk gutted IRS enforcement. The richest ten percent of Americans own nearly 88 percent of all corporate stock and mutual funds.