John D. Johnson
@jdjmke
Research fellow at the Marquette Law School Lubar Center -- @MuLawPoll, WI politics, demographics & housing. ☧
Our website, mulawpoll.org, contains graphics and interactive tables showing of every Wisconsin county and municipality has voted in November elections from 2000 through 2024.
They'll lie about what happened to a U.S. Senator on video we can all see. They're lying about what's happening in LA - that's what Padilla was interrupting. They've been caught in so many lies about the disappearances to El Salvador. What wouldn't they lie about? What wouldn't…
Senator Padilla chose disrespectful political theatre and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged toward Secretary Noem. Mr. Padilla was told repeatedly to back away and did not comply with officers’…
A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is three paragraphs from a report. It comes days after we learned that detainees in…
To put some specific numbers on this widespread belief: 35% of Harris votes came from Milwaukee & Dane counties vs 13% of Trump votes & 25% of the state's population. Lopsided, yes. 'Vast majority,' not even close.
One of the problems with Democrats is that they can’t figure out that the vast majority of Democrats live in two places.
The idea that people here by the accident of birth are more American than those who chose this country is profoundly anti-American. I'd call it a betrayal of our values, but this guy is just some Australian.
I think if your family has hundreds of years of history in America you are frankly more American than somebody who migrated to America in 2015.
The Trump administration's DOT gave Milwaukee $21 million to upgrade one of our most popular bus routes through a BUILD grant. In Jan. the administration announced they'd prioritize places with high birth rates for these grants. Milwaukee's is about 18% higher than the nat'l avg.
I spend a lot of time in small upper midwestern towns & it's a relief to find anywhere that actually takes obvious pride in making quality food. Such places exist, but they aren't the norm.
As someone who is from a culture where people dont like food i see the memes like “every culture likes food” and its like… i can tell youre not from rural small town america.
While reading Wikipedia on a recent Wisconsin road trip, I learned that Charlie Berens was born and raised in Waukesha County, whereas Matt Christman grew up in Manitowoc. So, arguably, Chapo Trap House is the real Manitowoc Minute.
I've seen more fireflies this season than I have for years, maybe since I was a kid.
Judging by the many amateur fireworks shows I enjoyed last night, the economy is doing just fine.
- no cell phone until high school - dial-up internet as a kid - learned how to code by being bullied on stack overflow I'm gonna turn into a huge boomer, I can feel it already
Younger millennials really timed it perfect. Graduated just in time to get established in their careers before they killed off the entry level job market and flooded the young talent pipeline with a technology that makes them dumber
Musk claimed 40% of calls to Social Security came from scammers. It was a lie. Leland Dudek — plucked from a midlevel job to run SS -- got an angry call from the WH. “The number is 40 percent,” Katie Miller told him. “Do not contradict the president" nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/…
the response to this piece is combining two potent forms of sexist misreading: assuming everything a woman does is an extension of her husband and not being able to tell when a woman is making a joke
This isn't satire.
Great thread. In general, I think the Left, composed as it is mostly of humanities & arts grads, suffers from a debilitating lack of interest in technical problems.
1/ NEW from me & @Matthuber78 from the new @damagemag print issue, Responsibility: WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE GRID? Now online for all to read. 🧵
The Homeland Security Secretary is talking about "liberating" an American city from its own duly elected government. If you were waiting for a sign these people are wannabe fascists, you've got it now.
Everyone's rightly sharing the Padilla handcuffing footage, but can we pause for a second and read this quote from Noem's presser?
What would you say if you saw it in another country? A senator from a coequal branch of government dragged away by security to prevent him from asking a question of a Cabinet official and arrested
this is from Padilla's staff, it's of them cuffing the Senator out in the hall