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Angus Johnston

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Angus Johnston

@studentactivism

Historian of, and advocate for, American student activism. CUNY prof. Former yacht chef. angus.bsky.social

New York City

studentactivism.net

Born December 30

Joined February 2009

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Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Nov 9, 2024
Not deactivating my Twitter account, but since the election I just can't bring myself to post here, or even lurk much. You can find me where the sky is clear.
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Oct 30, 2024
A note for tomorrow: ANYONE WHO IS TRICK-OR-TREATING AT FIFTEEN IS PRESUMPTIVELY CLINGING TO THE RITUALS OF CHILDHOOD AT THE MOST DISCOMBOBULATING MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES. THROW CANDY AND KINDNESS AT THEM
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
May 27, 2017
Taliesin Meche, 2016 graduate of Reed College, was murdered yesterday while defending strangers from racist abuse. A role model and a hero.
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Jun 29, 2018
Milo Yiannopoulos is now threatening to sue people who say he encouraged vigilantes to start gunning journalists down. Speaking of which, Milo Yiannopoulos recently encouraged vigilantes to start gunning journalists down.
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Jul 22, 2024
"Step-parents aren't real parents" is a hell of a campaign pitch.
Will Chamberlain
@willchamberlain
Jul 21, 2024
Really simple, underdiscussed reason why Kamala Harris shouldn’t be President No children
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Jun 12, 2021
Anne Frank would have turned 92 today. If the United States had approved her father's visa application, she could be an old lady in Brooklyn, celebrating with her family and showing her great-grandkids the diary that told the story of how she got here.
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Jul 18, 2020
John Lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington—where MLK gave the "I have a dream" speech—and the speech Lewis wrote that day was so incendiary that the march organizers wouldn't let him deliver it as written.
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Sep 9, 2019
The United States is already turning away climate refugees who are attempting to enter the country under longstanding international agreements, in case you were wondering how far along we were.
Brian Entin
@BrianEntin
Sep 8, 2019
Big problems on the ferry from Freeport to Florida — announcement just made that any Bahamian without a visa must now get off. This is not normal. Nornally Bahamians can travel to USA with passport and a printout of their police record. This is a mess.
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Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Oct 28, 2019
Note to pundits: If you don't understand that "lock him up" was a sardonic reference to the chants at Trump's own rallies, and thus simultaneously an act of collective defiance against his authoritarianism and an expression of schadenfreude at his current predicament, be quiet.
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Jul 22, 2024
"Vote for Kamala and you never have to think about Donald Trump ever again, for the rest of your life." There are worse campaign themes.
Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
Jul 21, 2024
Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) just now to @CBSNews - “Donald Trump is yesterday’s news. Kamala Harris is today’s and tomorrow’s news”
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Jul 29, 2019
Statutory rape laws don't make it illegal for 15-year-olds to have sex. They make it illegal for adults to have sex with 15-year-olds. How are you confused by this?
Alan Dershowitz
@AlanDersh
Jul 29, 2019
I stand by the constitutional (not moral) argument I offered in my controversial oped: if a 16 year old has the constitutional right to have an abortion without state or parental interference, how could she not have the constitutional right to engage in consensual sex? 1/
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Jun 17, 2019
Ben Shapiro says Harvard's "don't use the n-word" admissions stance is "an insane, cruel standard no one can possibly meet."
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
Jun 17, 2019
Regardless of what you think of @KyleKashuv -- and for the record, I think he, like many other Parkland survivors, has handled the public limelight with grace and strength -- Harvard's auto-da-fe sets up an insane, cruel standard no one can possibly meet. dailywire.com/news/47971/hol…
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Sep 3, 2022
In this article “wokeness” literally just means “black people.”
When ‘wokeness’ comes to Middle-earth: Why some say diverse casting ruins the new ‘Lord of the...
From cnn.com
Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Apr 13, 2023
Elon: “I’m gonna take away the blue checks on 4/20!” Twitter employee: “Okay.” Elon: “Get it? 4/20?” Suddenly about to be fired Twitter employee: “Hitler’s birthday, yeah.”