David Johnson
@whodan2.bsky.social
Maybe some photography, politics, economics, mildly humorous or witty remarks, etc.
For the third time now, I'm still the one honest man in this city.
(avatar credit to the inimitable Kelly)
For the third time now, I'm still the one honest man in this city.
(avatar credit to the inimitable Kelly)
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In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing.
At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!
At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!
January 21, 2026 at 10:29 PM
In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing.
At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!
At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!
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"This is wrong. And every American whose capacity for moral judgment has not been addled by partisan derangement should recognize it....Probable cause, rights of accused, the need for search warrants, due process of any kind—ICE is proceeding as if such restrictions on gov't power no longer exist."
ICE Is Imposing Autocracy in Minnesota
The state has become Trump's most radical experiment with militarized government.
www.persuasion.community
January 20, 2026 at 4:15 AM
"This is wrong. And every American whose capacity for moral judgment has not been addled by partisan derangement should recognize it....Probable cause, rights of accused, the need for search warrants, due process of any kind—ICE is proceeding as if such restrictions on gov't power no longer exist."
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wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:28 PM
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
This, more than anything yet, is the end of trust between Europe and the US. Sanctions for opposing US conquest of territory governed by a European ally. apnews.com/article/denm...
Trump says 8 European countries will be charged a 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
President Donald Trump says he'll charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European countries because of opposition to U.S. control of Greenland.
apnews.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
This, more than anything yet, is the end of trust between Europe and the US. Sanctions for opposing US conquest of territory governed by a European ally. apnews.com/article/denm...
And when this is the sort of obvious idiocy that they program into Grok, how can you ever trust that there are not also more subtle efforts to color the responses that it gives? No one should ever trust any response it provides.
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
And when this is the sort of obvious idiocy that they program into Grok, how can you ever trust that there are not also more subtle efforts to color the responses that it gives? No one should ever trust any response it provides.
Mandatory repost of anything with The Thick of It
Senate Dems: he's the right man...for the moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVQ3...
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Mandatory repost of anything with The Thick of It
The most important issue.
October 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The most important issue.
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Yo dog, I heard you like hallucinated citations, so we put hallucinated citations in your response regarding hallucinated citations so you can show cause while you show cause.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Yo dog, I heard you like hallucinated citations, so we put hallucinated citations in your response regarding hallucinated citations so you can show cause while you show cause.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
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How does this standard apply to Justices Alito and Thomas and their spouses?
JUST IN: DOJ suggests Judge Simon recuse from the Oregon National Guard case because he's married to @RepBonamici, who has vocally opposed the deployment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
How does this standard apply to Justices Alito and Thomas and their spouses?
So glad that peace is restored
The Albanian Prime Minister picked up on the theme of "ending the war between 'Aber-Baijan' and Albania." Edi Rama joked while greeting French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
October 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So glad that peace is restored
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at this rate I estimate that by next March we will be getting six hundred page judicial opinions that resemble House of Leaves
the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![I hope you found this
helpful. Thanks for writing.
It shows you care. You
should.
Sincerely & respectfully,
Bill Young
P.S. The next time you’re in
Boston [the postmark on the card
is from the Philadelphia area]
stop in at the Courthouse and
watch your fellow citizens, sitting
as jurors, reach out for justice.
It is here, and in courthouses
just like this one, both state and
federal, spread throughout our land
that our Constitution is most vibrantly
alive, for it is well said that “Where a
jury sits, there burns the lamp of
liberty.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:maiw2rfujepnphhrejytvuu5/bafkreidbrekbkq3duu4ev7w4wmiamoiupplzgmu5nj5np4yyjze2svfyoy@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
at this rate I estimate that by next March we will be getting six hundred page judicial opinions that resemble House of Leaves
Levels of strategic ignorance and blindness not commonly encountered in a Secretary of State.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you standing by your comment that no one has died because of the aid cuts? Are all those aid organizations lying?
RUBIO: They died because England didn't give enough money or Canada didn't give more or China didn't. Let's blame the other countries that don't do any foreign aid.
RUBIO: They died because England didn't give enough money or Canada didn't give more or China didn't. Let's blame the other countries that don't do any foreign aid.
September 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Levels of strategic ignorance and blindness not commonly encountered in a Secretary of State.
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This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.
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Traditional political violence is only committed by extremists grown in the political culture of the old confederacy. Everything else is just sparkling stochastic terrorism.
Sen. Graham: "This is viewed by many people in the MAGA movement, conservatives like myself, as an attack on the movement and not just traditional political violence, and I really believe that."
September 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Traditional political violence is only committed by extremists grown in the political culture of the old confederacy. Everything else is just sparkling stochastic terrorism.
Always another excuse to wait. Almost like he doesn't actually want to do it...
Trump tells NATO members they need to cut off Russia energy purchases before he will take bigger steps to isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine.
Trump tells NATO members they must move first on Russia sanctions over Ukraine
Trump tells NATO members they need to cut off Russia energy purchases before he will take bigger steps to isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine.
n.pr
September 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Always another excuse to wait. Almost like he doesn't actually want to do it...
Seems to strike about the right tone in all of this. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Seems to strike about the right tone in all of this. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
I don't know that avoiding embarrassment qualifies as a legal justification...
Trump cabinet officials told a federal appeals court that ruling president’s global tariffs illegal would seriously harm US foreign policy, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning of “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment.”
Bessent Warns of US ‘Embarrassment’ If Tariffs Ruled Illegal
Trump cabinet officials told a federal appeals court that ruling president’s global tariffs illegal would seriously harm US foreign policy, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning of “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment.”
bloom.bg
August 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I don't know that avoiding embarrassment qualifies as a legal justification...
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[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
“Lacking legitimacy”: Sen. Bill Cassidy breaks with RFK Jr. after CDC leadership exodus www.notus.org/health-scien...
‘Lacking Legitimacy’: Sen. Bill Cassidy Breaks With RFK Jr. After CDC Leadership Exodus
He called on a key government vaccine panel to postpone its upcoming meeting.
www.notus.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
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The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-to-peer evaluation of a country's rights record. All 193 UN member states are expected to participate, and even states like Russia and China do.
Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US withdraws from key UN human rights report, draws criticism from rights advocates
The United States will not participate in a U.N. review of its human rights record, officials said, a move that rights advocates called a worrying retreat from Washington's global engagement on rights and justice issues.
www.reuters.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-to-peer evaluation of a country's rights record. All 193 UN member states are expected to participate, and even states like Russia and China do.
Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Ladies and gentlemen, after many years of waiting, we have arrived at the natural endpoint of the modern Republican Party and "conservative" movement writ large:
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
August 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, after many years of waiting, we have arrived at the natural endpoint of the modern Republican Party and "conservative" movement writ large:
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An excellent & extremely relevant piece in @theatlantic.com by former CIA Director and State Department Foreign Service Officer William Burns.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants
You all deserved better.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
An excellent & extremely relevant piece in @theatlantic.com by former CIA Director and State Department Foreign Service Officer William Burns.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Children. Injured children. Blocked from getting treatment and care here because a nutjob grifter who once got banned from Uber for harassing Muslim cab drivers is now arguably more powerful than the Secretary of State.
August 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Children. Injured children. Blocked from getting treatment and care here because a nutjob grifter who once got banned from Uber for harassing Muslim cab drivers is now arguably more powerful than the Secretary of State.
Between the outrages, there's just the everyday, garden-variety, amateur incompetence of the administration.
Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
www.npr.org
August 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Between the outrages, there's just the everyday, garden-variety, amateur incompetence of the administration.
Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
And no one was the least surprised, except those foolish enough to imagine Trump actually being prepared to take action. Everything with Russia is to happen in an eternal 2 weeks from now...
Trump has backed off threats of new sanctions or “severe consequences” for Russia after saying his meeting with Putin went “very well,” CNN reports. He told Fox News there’s no need for further measures now, but may reconsider in a few weeks.
edition.cnn.com/politics/liv...
edition.cnn.com/politics/liv...
August 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
And no one was the least surprised, except those foolish enough to imagine Trump actually being prepared to take action. Everything with Russia is to happen in an eternal 2 weeks from now...
Augur of further leadership shift?
Proud of the members of my synagogue that are part of the group that pushed Katherine Clark to finally do this. The next step is to get her to act on this understanding.
www.axios.com/2025/08/15/i...
www.axios.com/2025/08/15/i...
No. 2 House Democrat Katherine Clark calls Gaza war a "genocide"
Clark is one of just over a dozen House members who have used the word to describe the conflict in Gaza.
www.axios.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Augur of further leadership shift?