This is blackout poetry to me

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You’re the bees’ knees (threat)

Happy Valentines Day to all who celebrate the emergence of Phil Collins from the egg

Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.

The three Democrats vying for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat agree that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has grown increasingly brutal under President Donald Trump, but they are sharply divided over how to fix it.

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com me mentioning you on the timeline like

We have to make our own joy in this world. Always have. The difference is that now you might know how valuable that process is, and it is a process. Joy comes out of sustained attention. What you give your precious attention to is going to dictate your joy.

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com poptart tango 52 Delco — you have your mission now go

Maybe we could not for a while

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants" No you don't. If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

The Border Patrol agents lied. They always lie. And they lie to destroy other people's lives for fun. www.huffpost.com/entry/border...

Dreamt @maureenjohnsonbooks.com fulfilled a side hustle gig doing the Amy Carter’s Shoe voice for bachelorette parties where a JBL speaker attached to an iPad on a pair of roller skates would roll around the venue playing the role of a party starter. It was the most money she’s ever made in an hour.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

The main reason I don’t tweet about the Moon anymore is it got litigious and I don’t have that kind of time or money. How many of us are silenced?

Ideally, the Internet would be us all filling @maureenjohnsonbooks.com’s notifications with updates like “I’m eating lasagna right now what should I name him”, or, “I found a dead body when I was twelve and I never reported it to the authorities never do their work for them.”

The correct way to use social media is to not be popular. It’s to remain obscure and act as a spoke to a hub, ideally sending updates directly to @maureenjohnsonbooks.com’s phone. It’s free to send her INFORMATION.

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com new ride let’s goooo

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

The urge to just die because you’re going through medication withdrawal and your credit card is getting declined because six hundred dollars is too much and your backup credit card is getting declined because of something with the chip that the card’s phone service person can’t explain

Dreamt @maureenjohnsonbooks.com had a large stockpile of rubber frogs she was giving away online to the first 500 callers. She refused to answer how or why she had these, only suggesting and repeatedly insisting that the rubber frogs were of high quality and not wiretapped.

Interesting detail: In trying to frame Leqaa Kordia sending money to her family in Palestine as supporting Hamas, DHS claims she's financially aided "individuals living in nations hostile to the US." Are they conflating Hamas with Palestine — and also inadvertently recognizing Palestine as a state?

*looks at the Trump administration* Found the 30 to 50 feral hogs

The pillars of the deportation machine aren't new; they were built over decades, by bipartisan consensus. A powerful piece by a political scientist who's been analyzing the growth of the US prison/carceral state for a long time. @bostonreview.bsky.socia www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Weenie Agency Safest in Weenie World

The CEO of Chuck E. Cheese has stepped down after being revealed to be associated with Epstein. This isn’t a shitpost. It’s just our world.

I've heard directly from hundreds of children at Dilley. One young girl who shared her story with me grew up in the United States and her stepfather is a U.S. citizen. She said that the guards are mean to her, she is afraid, and that she is worried she will die in detention.

i urgently need a lawyer/group of lawyers who can write up a risk assessment for people of various citizenship/visa/asylum statuses to get on a plane home to minnesota from detention

@migueldeicaza.bsky.social Hi Miguel! Random question, if you don’t mind and have a moment, else no worries. You post in jest about token limits sometimes. This may be an obvious or dumb Q, but have agents made your work genuinely more productive? How would you describe your work style now v before?

Remembering the time I was walking through Central Park and met someone’s pet chicken in a pink tutu named Lady Gaga. I could see why @maureenjohnsonbooks.com has lived in NYC for nearly three decades. How may Lady Gaga’s has she been privileged to meet? We’ll never know a factual number. Maybe 12.

Philadelphia freedom to read

I haven’t seen @maureenjohnsonbooks.com on Bluesky in a while. This means she is either having an amazing or truly terrible time, which in either case is at least somewhat different than the truly terrible time we’re having on the timeline.

Think Geologically(tm)

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

Remember: Fuck ‘em.

Vibes

And they're building more concentration camps. They're doing ethnic cleansing.

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

It’s almost as if Neil Gaiman is kind of an asshole.

ME BABYSITTING YOUR CHILDREN: I just think it’s time the out classes band together and destroy the world built for their subjugation. You could be the generation that does it. YOUR KID: Non ducor, duco.

I’ve always been nothing more than a fucked up Muppet and so it goes.

Trying to hold your love and keep it alive in 2026 like

ten years ago today no one clapped

*blows whistle* today is not just Monday. It is a multilevel marketing scam. Be different.

I honestly believe that the Declaration of Independence should be treated like Flat Stanley and lent out from one group of middle school students to the next in the pursuit of giving them something to do in civics class: take it to McDonald’s and the park and take pictures of it visiting America.