John Hudson
@johnphudson.bsky.social
I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further (Gift Article)
Donald J. Trump and Dick Cheney became adversaries, but the former vice president set the stage for Mr. Trump’s bid to expand his executive authority.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Trump administration tells Congress it can continue its lethal strikes against boaters in Latin America and is not bound by a decades-old legislation requiring Congress to give approval for ongoing hostilities
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November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Trump administration tells Congress it can continue its lethal strikes against boaters in Latin America and is not bound by a decades-old legislation requiring Congress to give approval for ongoing hostilities
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New: Obama called Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future. Shane Goldmacher scoops on the private 30-minute phone call www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...
Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign, Offers to Be Sounding Board
Former President Barack Obama told Zohran Mamdani “your campaign has been impressive to watch,” and suggested that he was invested in Mr. Mamdani’s success beyond the election.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New: Obama called Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future. Shane Goldmacher scoops on the private 30-minute phone call www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...
Scoop: Venezuela's president has made multiple requests to Moscow this month, including "overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs and potentially missiles," according to U.S. government documents obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Scoop: Venezuela's president has made multiple requests to Moscow this month, including "overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs and potentially missiles," according to U.S. government documents obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
SCOOP: A classified U.S. report finds a backlog of "hundreds" of possible Israeli human rights violations in Gaza that will take "years" to review, raising doubts about future accountability.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
SCOOP: A classified U.S. report finds a backlog of "hundreds" of possible Israeli human rights violations in Gaza that will take "years" to review, raising doubts about future accountability.
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Yep. And if they go full Star Wars, it'll cost many, many trillions of dollars.
Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense project is likely to take at least a decade to complete and cost *** a trillion dollars or more ***
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October 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Yep. And if they go full Star Wars, it'll cost many, many trillions of dollars.
Trump's pick, who was scheduled to face the Senate tomorrow, spent most of the last decade as a senior executive at a Swiss subsidiary of Evraz PLC, a Russian steel group co-owned by billionaire Roman Abramovich, per a disclosures obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Trump's pick, who was scheduled to face the Senate tomorrow, spent most of the last decade as a senior executive at a Swiss subsidiary of Evraz PLC, a Russian steel group co-owned by billionaire Roman Abramovich, per a disclosures obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense project is likely to take at least a decade to complete and cost *** a trillion dollars or more ***
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October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense project is likely to take at least a decade to complete and cost *** a trillion dollars or more ***
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Ted Cruz & Dave McCormick have effectively torpedoed Trump's pick for ambassador to Kuwait. Amer Ghalib, the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, the first Arab American & Muslim to hold that job, endorsed Trump amid deep anger at Biden over the war in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Ted Cruz & Dave McCormick have effectively torpedoed Trump's pick for ambassador to Kuwait. Amer Ghalib, the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, the first Arab American & Muslim to hold that job, endorsed Trump amid deep anger at Biden over the war in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Netanyahu orders ‘forceful’ strikes on Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Netanyahu orders ‘forceful’ strikes on Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
"Trump is poised to end Washington’s decade of the China Hawks," writes @semaforben. Smart column, including a sneaky jab at members of the China pundit class who have never been to China www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
October 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Trump is poised to end Washington’s decade of the China Hawks," writes @semaforben. Smart column, including a sneaky jab at members of the China pundit class who have never been to China www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
Dallas Morning News: "A Washington Post investigation confirmed what this Editorial Board feared: The deal between the Trump administration and the Bukele government to house deportees in a Salvadoran prison compromised a high-profile federal case into the murderous MS-13 gang"
October 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Dallas Morning News: "A Washington Post investigation confirmed what this Editorial Board feared: The deal between the Trump administration and the Bukele government to house deportees in a Salvadoran prison compromised a high-profile federal case into the murderous MS-13 gang"
Smart questions from @NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about our new investigative piece on Trump's deal to use El Salvador's mega prison www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
Why the State Department handed U.S. informants over to El Salvador
The Washington Post reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio agreed to return MS-13 informants who were in U.S. custody to El Salvador — to secure access to El Salvador's most notorious prison.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Smart questions from @NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about our new investigative piece on Trump's deal to use El Salvador's mega prison www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
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“Rubio assured Bukele he would get his men and stressed that the American public cared little about the fate of Salvadoran gang members.” AKA criminal informants working for the US government. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Helluva story from @johnphudson.bsky.social and colleagues.
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“Rubio assured Bukele he would get his men and stressed that the American public cared little about the fate of Salvadoran gang members.” AKA criminal informants working for the US government. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Helluva story from @johnphudson.bsky.social and colleagues.
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Extraordinary story: the Trump administration was so eager to get a media splash by deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador it was willing to sabotage Justice Department investigations of MS-13 members and the Salvadoran regime. By @johnphudson.bsky.social & colleagues. [gift link] wapo.st/4nbNiM4
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Extraordinary story: the Trump administration was so eager to get a media splash by deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador it was willing to sabotage Justice Department investigations of MS-13 members and the Salvadoran regime. By @johnphudson.bsky.social & colleagues. [gift link] wapo.st/4nbNiM4
New: U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
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October 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New: U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
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This type of statement from a moderate Democrat in Congress would’ve been unthinkable just a few years ago
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This type of statement from a moderate Democrat in Congress would’ve been unthinkable just a few years ago
One of those odd moments where Trump offers highly specific & totally inaccurate info about something no one asked him about: "Literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar, you can walk it in 1 second. You go, boom, boom & now you're in Qatar” (they don't share a border)
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
One of those odd moments where Trump offers highly specific & totally inaccurate info about something no one asked him about: "Literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar, you can walk it in 1 second. You go, boom, boom & now you're in Qatar” (they don't share a border)
Diane Keaton, dead at 79, reports People people.com/diane-keaton...
Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)
Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give'...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Diane Keaton, dead at 79, reports People people.com/diane-keaton...
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As a U.S. senator last year, Marco Rubio supported María Corina Machado's Nobel Prize nomination @schmidtsam.bsky.social and Steve Hendrix report
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María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader, wins Nobel Peace Prize
The prize honored Machado, who is in hiding, for keeping “the flame of democracy burning,” but the White House accused the Nobel jury of “placing politics over peace.”
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October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
As a U.S. senator last year, Marco Rubio supported María Corina Machado's Nobel Prize nomination @schmidtsam.bsky.social and Steve Hendrix report
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The United States government currently employs an admiral named Brad Cooper and a DHS official named Chris Pratt
October 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The United States government currently employs an admiral named Brad Cooper and a DHS official named Chris Pratt
The Washington Post obtained recordings of tech billionaire Peter Thiel's private lectures and it included more musings on one of his favorite topics: The Antichrist and Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Washington Post obtained recordings of tech billionaire Peter Thiel's private lectures and it included more musings on one of his favorite topics: The Antichrist and Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Hamas now has 72 hours to release the hostages, says Witkoff
October 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Hamas now has 72 hours to release the hostages, says Witkoff
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM