CLJohnson
@cjenergy.bsky.social
Economist and expert witness. 40 years in energy regulation. AEA member. Long time consumer advocate, and interested in civil rights, environment, government. Also, an Astros baseball fan.
Oh cool. DOGE allowed Russian and China access to federal personnel documents. They must have been real whizzes at cyber security.
@nationalsecuritylaw.org: Check this out. Whocouldanode?
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February 20, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Oh cool. DOGE allowed Russian and China access to federal personnel documents. They must have been real whizzes at cyber security.
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In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.
February 19, 2026 at 2:20 AM
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
WaPo building momentum for war with Iran. I guess a war would be big fun for reporters.
Each of three major newspapers has a story on "Iran, will he or won't he" today.
WaPo has a 3-byline plus 7 contributing piece w/pictures. It talks about his top NatSec advisors w/o noting how unqualified many are.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
WaPo has a 3-byline plus 7 contributing piece w/pictures. It talks about his top NatSec advisors w/o noting how unqualified many are.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
![President Donald Trump, speaking Thursday morning at an event in Washington, was ambiguous about what he might do. “Maybe we’re going to make a deal. Maybe not,” he said at the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace. “You’re going to be finding out over the next, maybe, 10 days.” Later in the day, he framed the timeline as “10 to 15 days, pretty much, maximum.”
Trump’s top national security advisers met in the Situation Room on Wednesday to discuss the Iran situation, and they were told that the U.S. forces that have been deployed to region will all be in place by mid-March, a U.S. official familiar with the issue said.
The administration wants it known, officials said, that they are building combat power in the region. The president also has publicly raised the possibility of toppling Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a longtime U.S. adversary, suggesting last week that it would be “the best thing that could happen,” if Iran ends up with new leaders.
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February 20, 2026 at 2:55 PM
WaPo building momentum for war with Iran. I guess a war would be big fun for reporters.
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Trump now bringing the criminals he pardons to M-a-L to better network with them.
But then, I guess he already did that with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon.
Hell, Stone got him to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
But then, I guess he already did that with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon.
Hell, Stone got him to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Pardoned Binance Founder Hobnobs With Trump Sons, Administration Officials at Mar-a-Lago Crypto Fest
Changpeng Zhao made his first return to the U.S. since his release from federal prison in 2024.
www.wsj.com
February 19, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Trump now bringing the criminals he pardons to M-a-L to better network with them.
But then, I guess he already did that with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon.
Hell, Stone got him to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
But then, I guess he already did that with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon.
Hell, Stone got him to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
U.S. State Dept. loves authoritarian third world countries. Dark tale of deportations to a country that beats up and detains reporters trying to investigate. Deportees threatened with indefinite detention. Reporters' cameras and laptops destroyed. What kind of deal was made with Cameroon?
"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)
Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
U.S. State Dept. loves authoritarian third world countries. Dark tale of deportations to a country that beats up and detains reporters trying to investigate. Deportees threatened with indefinite detention. Reporters' cameras and laptops destroyed. What kind of deal was made with Cameroon?
Big Balls is designing the State Department portal that will spread Nazi speech into Europe.
Sarah Rogers is putting Ed "Big Balls" in charge of her Nazi and terrorism website.
www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...
www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...
February 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Big Balls is designing the State Department portal that will spread Nazi speech into Europe.
More of this, please.
JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.
February 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
More of this, please.
Tesla's Robotaxi service has had 14 crashes in Austin since taking to streets last year (12 of the crashes were in Dec/Jan. when Tesla lifted safety monitors.) www.statesman.com/business/art...
Tesla racks up 14 Robotaxi crashes in Austin since launching last year
Waymo, which operates more than five times as many fully driverless vehicles in the city, reported a dozen incidents from December to mid-January.
www.statesman.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Tesla's Robotaxi service has had 14 crashes in Austin since taking to streets last year (12 of the crashes were in Dec/Jan. when Tesla lifted safety monitors.) www.statesman.com/business/art...
Off with the economists' heads! Trump chief economist Hassett says Fed research economists should be personally punished because their paper found that foreigners don't bear tariff costs. The economics profession needs to wake up. Trump will destroy America's base of knowledge.
February 18, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Off with the economists' heads! Trump chief economist Hassett says Fed research economists should be personally punished because their paper found that foreigners don't bear tariff costs. The economics profession needs to wake up. Trump will destroy America's base of knowledge.
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This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Jesse Jackson's 1984 Democratic Convention speech is historic and profound. Very inspiring. It is still relevant as ever, perhaps more so, to the nation's current political predicament. Rest in peace, Jesse Jackson.
youtu.be/nGJ7btYJPPA?...
youtu.be/nGJ7btYJPPA?...
From the archives: Jesse Jackson's speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention
YouTube video by CBS News
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February 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Jesse Jackson's 1984 Democratic Convention speech is historic and profound. Very inspiring. It is still relevant as ever, perhaps more so, to the nation's current political predicament. Rest in peace, Jesse Jackson.
youtu.be/nGJ7btYJPPA?...
youtu.be/nGJ7btYJPPA?...
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Federal judge begins opinion with a passage from Orwell's 1984. Trump tried to erase history.
read that first paragraph if nothing else:
Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.
Happy Presidents Day.
Happy Presidents Day.
February 16, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Federal judge begins opinion with a passage from Orwell's 1984. Trump tried to erase history.
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"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances.
reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...
reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...
February 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances.
reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...
reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...
Oh cool. Since the Trump administration is using AI to determine voter eligibility and whether you are in the country legally, I'm sure nothing will go wrong.
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Oh cool. Since the Trump administration is using AI to determine voter eligibility and whether you are in the country legally, I'm sure nothing will go wrong.
Watched the HBO documentary , "The Dark Money Game." Highly recommend it. Two episodes "Ohio Confidential," and "Wealth of the Wicked." Relevant to how we got to where we are. But also quite disturbing and makes me wonder how we reverse the billionaire control.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dykZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dykZ...
The Dark Money Game | Official Trailer | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
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February 15, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Watched the HBO documentary , "The Dark Money Game." Highly recommend it. Two episodes "Ohio Confidential," and "Wealth of the Wicked." Relevant to how we got to where we are. But also quite disturbing and makes me wonder how we reverse the billionaire control.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dykZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dykZ...
In November an Austin college student was whisked by ICE to Honduras as she entered Boston's airport to fly home for Thanksgiving. Still in Honduras, a federal judge has ordered her return. DOJ admits that her deportation was a mistake but would not return her.
www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
Judge orders U.S. to bring deported Austin student home
Any Lucía López Belloza, 20, was deported to Honduras after her arrest at Boston’s Logan airport. A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to bring her back.
www.statesman.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
In November an Austin college student was whisked by ICE to Honduras as she entered Boston's airport to fly home for Thanksgiving. Still in Honduras, a federal judge has ordered her return. DOJ admits that her deportation was a mistake but would not return her.
www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
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In 13 months of unremitting democratic backsliding, no one in the Trump administration has said anything nearly as chilling as this.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
In 13 months of unremitting democratic backsliding, no one in the Trump administration has said anything nearly as chilling as this.
OpenAI president says he gives Trump lots of money in order to save humanity. I'm sorry, this is not a rational thought.
OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/openai...
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:48 PM
OpenAI president says he gives Trump lots of money in order to save humanity. I'm sorry, this is not a rational thought.
Trump appointed Judge: DHS forgot to plan for providing constitutional rights to Minnesota detainees.
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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February 13, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Trump appointed Judge: DHS forgot to plan for providing constitutional rights to Minnesota detainees.
The cause for closure of airspace in El Paso just gets worse and worse. DHS tried to use laser weapons, given to them by Hegseth, without telling anybody. A party balloon is dead, a major city's air traffic is shut down, and the military is mad.
February 13, 2026 at 3:47 AM
The cause for closure of airspace in El Paso just gets worse and worse. DHS tried to use laser weapons, given to them by Hegseth, without telling anybody. A party balloon is dead, a major city's air traffic is shut down, and the military is mad.
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Richard Leon's opinion ruling against Whiskey Pete Hegseth in Mark Kelly's lawsuit is a 14-exclamation point opinion.
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February 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Richard Leon's opinion ruling against Whiskey Pete Hegseth in Mark Kelly's lawsuit is a 14-exclamation point opinion.
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Your American health chief, folks! 🙃🇺🇸
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Your American health chief, folks! 🙃🇺🇸
Hillary's reference to a "basket of deplorables" is like sunshiney optimism compared to the actual RW infuencers.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Hillary's reference to a "basket of deplorables" is like sunshiney optimism compared to the actual RW infuencers.
The FBI's Fulton County raid is relying on a "special employee" in the WH who appears to be genuinely insane. He believes the deep state controls elections The " ‘deep state,’ it’s deep and it’s everywhere,” If you are ready for the rants of paranoia, read the article.
I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
February 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The FBI's Fulton County raid is relying on a "special employee" in the WH who appears to be genuinely insane. He believes the deep state controls elections The " ‘deep state,’ it’s deep and it’s everywhere,” If you are ready for the rants of paranoia, read the article.
