Brendan Johnson

I flipped my county commission seat for the first time in a generation, then out-ran the top of the ticket to win re-election in 2024.

I’m proud to have support from unions, leaders, and Michiganders across the district. I hope I'll earn yours too: let’s win, together.

Support Brendan's campaign for Michigan State Senate Brendan is running to flip a Biden-won district that was decided by 700 votes out of nearly 120k cast in 2022.

It’s official: I’m running for Michigan State Senate!

Republicans won the Ninth by just 700 votes out of 120k cast in 2022. It's the top flip opportunity in Michigan, and absolutely vital for Democrats to retake a trifecta in Lansing.

Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package approved by Tesla shareholders The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.

Just want to be very clear here, no human on this entire planet should ever be considered for a TRILLION dollar pay package.

Not to get lost in the shuffle, locally:

Auburn Hills
Dems flipped another seat, ousting the oldest elected official in Michigan, and bringing their majority to 5-2. (Up from 2-5 just a few years ago!)

Rochester Hills
Dems flipped an at-large seat, cracking the complete GOP hold on the council.

Doesn’t matter if it’s Qatar or Quebec, you don’t attack your friends.

Other free suggestions:
- base it on a Shakespeare play like the other Lion King films
-not use Lin-Manuel Miranda
-use hand-drawn animation
-not use Lin-Manuel Miranda
-maybe not British voice actors!
-NOT USE LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

Finally watched the Mufasa prequel, and… it just could have been so much better if only Disney had gotten Elton John to do the songs instead of Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Join us this Saturday at OU!

It physically pains me that Trump and Musk are laying off our expert public servants and replacing them with unreliable MAGAcrats who will absolutely be feeding us economic, security, health, and even frickin weather lies to satisfy his majesty’s fragile whims.

So um.. Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jonathan Bailey in an Aida film??

…..thanks, I hate it.

Here is what we did today

McElroy: Mass deportations ‘incompatible with Catholic doctrine’ “The Catholic Church teaches that a country has the right to control its borders. And our nation’s desire to do that is a legitimate effort,” McElroy said Monday.

Mass deportations ‘incompatible with Catholic doctrine,’ Cardinal McElroy says in DC debut
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261415/...

Put on for the City 😤

#OnePride  | #DefendTheDen

Yes! Lions! Yes!

I so badly wish all bowls took this kind of care for branding.

A post Lame Duck 2024🧵:

An open letter to the IrREParable Karen Quitsett (Whitsett):

Cue the slow clap.
👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

Congratulations on being the individual who (by your dereliction of duty) prevented the people of Michigan from having the following things sooner rather than later:
(1/17)

Michigan House ends session in boycotts, acrimony and dead legislation The Michigan House adjourned Thursday until the end of the year following a days-long boycott of session that ended with an hour-long call of the House

Over 15 years of working in state legislatures across the country, I've never seen a session this bad. The autopsy of what happened this lame duck will not be kind to Dems (except you Senate, you're great)

SML Brinks skewers the House: “Legislators are tasked with the responsibility of using every tool available to advocate for their constituents and communities, and ‘frustrated’ is too light of a word to describe my dismay that the House failed to meet its obligations in this historic moment.” #MILeg

Priests are pictured in a wide-angle photo standing around an altar with parishioners in pews of the Notre-Dame cathedral. Headline reads: "Notre-Dame Holds First Public Mass in Years." Photo credit: Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times.

Worshipers returned to the Notre-Dame on Sunday evening as its first regular Mass was celebrated below the soaring stone arches. “Fire has not conquered stone, despair has not conquered life,” the rector of the cathedral declared in his opening remarks. nyti.ms/3VuEaqW

“Frequency is freedom” quote from @humantransit.bsky.social’s book Human Transit used in public engagement in Burlington, Ontario

Think public transit “doesn’t work” in your city or suburb? If that’s true, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion— it’s because of choices made. Land-use, funding, infrastructure & operational decisions. If u do fundamentals like frequency wrong, it fails.

Make good choices.

(@humantransit.bsky.social)

Tear down half the RenCen? And force the B1G to redo this commercial again?! Absolutely not.

Let’s goooo!!!! #OnePride 🦁

Good. More of this. The generation of leaders that got us to this point will not be able to get us to the next one.

Love seeing the Detroit People Mover make this list… as for SMART, let’s keep our head down and focus on increasing frequency and reliability this tear!

Opinion | Note to Democrats: It’s Time to Take Up Your Hammers There is a straight line from homeless schoolchildren to Donald Trump’s election victory.

I don’t have too many hard lines but building more housing ASAP is both a political and moral imperative and any state or local Democrat who gets in the way of it is in the wrong. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...

Catch me on the couch all day bingeing season 7 of Chef’s Table.

For a new generation of Democrats to step up, more of the older generation of Dems will have to step aside — and I think we need to be more aggressive about forcing that convo earlier moving forward.

Can’t wait for Spotify to tell me next week that “Pink Noise for Good Sleep: Ten Hours” was my top song in 2024

Grateful to have friends also eager to go all-out with for this film. 🩷💚