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John H Richardson

@jhr54.bsky.social
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Third-culture kid. Wrote a lot of stories for Esquire, some for other magazines, and a few books - here's the latest: tinyurl.com/53a446pe

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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 1h
Mike Lawler opposes a data center moratorium, has voted for $80 billion in tax breaks for data centers AND voted to make it easier to build them, and has allowed five data centers to open in Rockland County on his watch (with three more on the way).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CNN is granted access inside an immigration court hearing where dozens of children facing deportation, some as young as three years old, appealed to stay in the United States. Many of them facing the judge without an attorney representing them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Mike Lawler upholds his 100% voting record with Donald Trump! Last night, Mike Lawler rubberstamped Donald Trump’s reckless war with Iran for a sixth time. He cast his vote in the wake of 18 American service member deaths, and as costs soar at home
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's been reported the U.S. is paying other governments to accept immigrants, it can't "legally" deport. The U.S. detention centers are privatized for profit business. ICE is a deportation trade for human trafficking and no-one is talking about this. Vote accordingly. #AbolishICE #SheShed
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Walmart is making headlines for receiving a $2.9 billion tariff refund. But there aren’t any headlines about Walmart’s biggest secret…
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/08/2026
BIg Beautiful Bill
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Absolutely right on every point! Thank you Bernie!
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
North Korea is, in short, arguably the worst regime on the planet. South Korea is, by contrast, one of the happiest stories in history. Obviously it’s not utopia, because no nation is. But it is a functioning democracy, which beat back a former
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump To Order Redesign of Aircraft Carriers Because They Don’t Look Right talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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Trump To Order Redesign of Aircraft Carriers Because They Don’t Look Right
This probably won’t get the attention or, frankly, outrage that it deserves...
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
On Putin's orders, no doubt.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Corporate owners of ICE detention centers report another revenue surge: CoreCivic and GEO Group "The growth in these companies’ bottom lines is happening as deaths of detainees reach record levels and amid persistent reports of inadequate medical care." www.scrippsnews.com/investigatio...
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Corporate owners of ICE detention centers report another revenue surge
The two main companies with government contracts to operate ICE detention centers are seeing significant revenue growth they expect will last all year.
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Finally, a rational explanation for Trump's tariff's - bribery! "The tariffs ... strengthened the administration politically by allowing it to grant special favors to donors and close allies."
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Opinion | Trump Is Trapped in a Maelstrom of His Own Making (Gift Article)
The president’s zero-sum mind-set is turning us all into losers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Love this!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.
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The Enshittification of Everything (Part 2)
And how to disempower the oligarchy
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Tariff Transfer Scam Walmart, the company that pays its workers so poorly that many rely on federal welfare programs, just received a $10.2 billion tariff refund cheque for Pedolf's illegal tariffs, which YOU the American consumer paid & which pushed up inflation
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In a country with a president who is such a destructive sore loser, politicians who are both helpful and gracious in defeat is a greatly appreciated novelty.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bernie's Correct, We Need Some Form Of Universal Healthcare, Free, Like Every Other, High Income,Wealthy Nation.......
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Josh Marshall's idea that lots of what Trump does is "self-soothing" is so right. In this case, "Canada is becoming the abused wife that Trump is lashing out at because things are going so badly at work." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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Trump Is an Angry, Violent Man … And Canada Is His Battered Wife
Donald Trump has announced that he will impose in 30 days a...
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1,000 times yes to this. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
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Suing Stephen Miller
It's time to put everyone from Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to the most recent ICE hire on notice: a reckoning is coming
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. Thanks. demdock.com/4w6emld
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hell of a decision from the Hawaii Supreme Court: "The Roberts Court sees only white ... The Court calls the Constitution colorblind while engineering the dilution of Black votes, the unraveling of hard-fought civil rights remedies, and the erasure of Black history ..."
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I visited the small town of Marfa, TX. A local mariachi band greeted us with a song they wrote for our campaign! Our Frontera Tour has been full of special moments — but this was a highlight. 🎶
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
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Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
OSSOFF: Are you aware that Gabbard was present at the Fulton County raid? CLAYTON: ... O: What is going on here? C: ... ... O: Are you aware that members of this committee are probing Gabbard's potential misconduct? CLAYTON: .... Uh uh .... COTTON: Senator Ossoff your time is expired!
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is what you say to your kid when they get a C on a test, not to masked thugs who murdered a man in front of his three-year old.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Scarborough to Spineless Speaker Johnson: “I’m not gonna mock you, Mike, I’m just gonna call you a liar. Because that’s what you are. You know EXACTLY what happened in Maine.” #AbolishICE
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Joan Sebastian Guerrero Ruben Ray Martinez Alex Pretti Renee Good Dozens of other innocent lives. These deaths aren’t mistakes. They’re the result of choices. Policy choices. Funding choices. Choices to not hold this Administration accountable. It’s time to SHUT. IT. DOWN!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@ejeancarroll.bsky.social: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains”
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Fossil fuel giants knew the catastrophic reality of climate change since the 70s, but chose to fund massive denial campaigns instead. They must be held financially accountable. They need to be charged for retrofitting our infrastructure to survive the crisis they actively created. @lbc.co.uk #LBC
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BBC Two - Big Oil v the World
2022 is set to be a year of unprecedented climate chaos - but how did we get here?
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Scientists who worked for the biggest oil company in the world, Exxon, reveal the warnings they sounded in the 1970s and early 1980s about how fossil fuels would cause climate change – with potentially catastrophic effects. #LBC
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Big Oil v the World episode 1
Dailymotion video by 8huy8
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Are all corporations sociopathic?
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The eBay Scandal Gets a Thriller-Like Documentary (Gift Article)
A newly available documentary, ‘Whatever It Takes,’ examines eBay workers’ plot to cyberstalk journalists and critics.
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So much for freedom of speech … www.clearwater.org/press-releas...
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PRESS RELEASE: Protecting Clean Water Is Not Political: Clearwater Statement on Removal from Sail4th 250 Parade of Sail - Hudson River Sloop Clearwater %
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 6, 2026 Protecting Clean Water Is [...]
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Good piece, some hope. newrepublic.com/article/2129... via @newrepublic.com
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Texas ICE Killing Takes Damning Turn as Even MAGA Judges Abandon Trump
As Trump’s deportation agenda results in another killing and his losses mount in court, the author of a piece on ICE’s horrors explains why we’re facing a fraught and dangerous crossroads moment.
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
@monicapotts.bsky.social Loved your piece on AIs stealing your work. They stole mine too. Weird how AI theft doesn't seem to matter. If someone broke into my house and stole my hardcover books and laptop, how would that be different?
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“There’s a petulance, a vindictiveness that is endemic in DHS people, reminiscent of the anti-communist paranoia of the McCarthy era. It’s no different,” said Rosenberg, former senior executive service leader USCIS who spent more than 26 years in federal service www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Six-hour polygraphs, forced reassignments: inside homeland security’s campaign of fear
The ruthless gutting and reforming of the Department of Homeland Security has traumatized both workers and the most vulnerable immigrants
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE wants to build one of its concentration camps in Newburgh, NY, my neighborhood. Decent Americans came out to protest, as decent Americans must.
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE wants to build one of its concentration camps in Newburgh, NY, my neighborhood. Decent Americans came out to protest, as decent Americans must.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal… division is the oldest trick in politics.” Zohran rings in America’s birthday by reminding us our story is one of welcoming immigrants, not excluding everyone who doesn’t look like us. 🇺🇸 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DaVzyL0...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/07/2026
If you're an FBI analyst surging to Atlanta to review records, reach out to me. I'll keep you anonymous. Signal in bio. Please share this post widely.
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just clicked on a “lost” Big Mama Thornton song on youtube and it was a fake AI impersonation. Talk about stolen valor! Man, I hate this. bluesbeats.com/2025/05/12/a...
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AI BOT Blues are HERE and They are Deceiving!! - Blues Beats by Blues Music Fan Radio
AI BOT Blues are here and they are deceiving! "Fictional" artists are appearing on both Youtube and Spotify without being labeled.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 30/06/2026
🚨BLUESKY FUNDRAISER FOR CAIT CONLEY🚨 June 30th is the Q2 fundraising deadline, and Cait needs a big $$$ haul to combat Mike Lawler's millions in #NY17. So I'll donate $1 to @caitfornewyork.bsky.social for every repost this post/link gets over the next 24 hours. secure.actblue.com/donate/conle...
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Anchored Living @ligopefolo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Odd, puzzling public performance ... for a person with his particular ... sexual proclivities. 😮😱
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John H Richardson @jhr54.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Cops Warn CEO Bodyguards That Luigi Mangione Fever Could Spark Class War by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/06/25/p...
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Cops Warn CEO Bodyguards That Luigi Mangione Fever Could Spark Class War
A police intel document warned corporate bodyguards that “challenges faced by the middle and lower classes” might spur attacks on wealthy CEOS.
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