bjjohnston58.bsky.social
@bjjohnston58.bsky.social
Reposted
May 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reposted
This is such an excellent point and media should be reporting it this way. (This is in reference to Miller’s preposterous but still dangerous claim earlier today about the executive branch considering suspending the writ)
The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.
May 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Reposted
Are WE Fking Great Yet!?
May 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reposted
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
May 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted
May 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Reposted
Waltz must go. Hegseth must go.

Accountability now.
April 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.

It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Reposted
The White House is saying the information shared in the Signal group chat was “not classified.”

They’re lying. Those who’ve served in uniform know it would’ve been classified. We’re calling for an investigation and accountability.
March 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Reposted
We knew right from the start this “Administration” would at best be incompetent, corrupt, heartless, dumb, dishonest and dangerous but what we have here is a next level of uncharted territory of incompetent, corrupt, heartless, dumb, dishonest and dangerous.
It is painfully exhausting.
March 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Reposted
March 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reposted
Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.
March 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Reposted
According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reposted
Meiselas: Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat. Do you believe the Russians now have all of that information and potentially more?

Rice: Well, yes—the Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone. The Russians undoubtedly have it.
March 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Reposted
JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Reposted
Oh, the irony of the Supreme Court granting presidents almost unlimited immunity only to see it get turned against them weeks into a new presidency... Thanks and welcome to what you have wrought.
March 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted
President Biden used to just go home on the weekends, and maga had fucking conniptions about it.

trump golfs every weekend and even some weekdays to a tune of $3M taxpayer dollars per trip, and MAGAts are quiet as church rats.
March 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Reposted
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reposted
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reposted
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Reposted
"I'm burning America down and making it illegal for you to complain about it."
March 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Reposted
The US has become a lawless Country Governed by a Crime Syndicate.
March 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reposted
Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi just received a huge standing ovation in a Trump +5 Congressional District at Hofstra University after talking about how despicable Trump‘s behavior was in the Oval Office with Zelensky. Americans are furious.
March 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reposted
They have no answer for what the oligarchs are doing to America.
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Reposted
HERO vs ZERO
I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore.
#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
March 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Reposted
Dear President Zelensky,

As it is likely that our paths will never cross in person, I could not let this day go by without trying to reach you here.

I come to you humbly as an American citizen who is thoroughly and completely embarrassed of our leaders.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...
To President Zelensky, From an Embarrassed American
Dear President Zelensky,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM