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johnkohlstrand.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Former newspaper journalist. Former Ohio Statehouse staff. Born and raised in South Detroit. Ay ziggy zoomba.
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Mike Lee is a bad person.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A jaw-dropping story by @cleveland.com. The federal government is thought-policing at national parks.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Colorado Springs showed up. #NoKings

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A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

submitted 7 days ago • 166 comments

When you throw yourself a fantasy league championship parade

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

#NoKings in our Colorado Springs neighborhood.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Woah boy. (Fire all. Find out.)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I suspected there was more to this. I’m glad to see that @repbeatty.bsky.social is doing okay.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

As I noted in today’s post, this really was the most egregious thing that happened in LA yesterday and that’s saying an awful lot

submitted 8 days ago • 92 comments

I LOL'd imagining the conversation that led to this particular branding choice. A lot of "yes, I totally agree, you know that. I just think that in this case we need to . . ." bsky.app/profile/will...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety. It's our job.

submitted 9 days ago • 443 comments

She has a point.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“If you can make @padilla.senate.gov forcibly kneel before this executive, when does it stop?” —@booker.senate.gov

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Sen. Padilla's manhandling is going to get a lot of attention today, and rightfully so. But we cannot lose sight of what Noem said here. She pledged to "liberate" Los Angeles from its democratically elected mayor and governor. This is profoundly authoritarian.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files... It's grotesque

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

Goodness. 🙃

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This Ohio state budget is bad in so many ways. Giant tax cuts for the wealthy! Funding reductions for libraries! A $600M giveaway for the Browns and their billionaire owner! Pretty awful stuff. But sunsetting this tax credit is defensible. 1/4

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

submitted 12 days ago • 105 comments

Tech innovators built a government product that people loved. So DOGE killed it www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

She wouldn’t be the first Ohio House Democratic leader to step down before seeking another office, if that’s what this is.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The basic rule of thumb for the federal budget is that the government should spend heavily during crises and then get its fiscal house in order. The GOP bill turns that rule on its head, meaning fighting the next crisis may be harder www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b... @bencasselman.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 32 days ago • 304 comments

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno on Wednesday urged passage of legislation requiring a 20-year sentence for attacking police officers, exhorting Democrats to stop focusing on President Donald Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters who attacked police and instead focus on the future.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Here be dragons.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment