Sign in

David Johnson

@whodan2.bsky.social
63 followers 75 following 169 posts

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)

PostsRepliesMedia
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Interesting to see what public opinion is at large here. Almost impossible to imagine a high school student protest movement of equivalent scale in the US, but I'd guess public opinion would be more negative if it did.
000
Reposted by David Johnson
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Some genuinely interesting ballot measures that are getting so little attention! Like these public banks. Check out our guide!
216866
Reposted by David Johnson
deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And people are obeying? Why? Because the AI can change some codes and turn out the lights?
0286
Reposted by David Johnson
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename.
1054267796
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Surely Congress will act to maintain its authority over issuing letters of marque and reprisal on the high cyber-seas!
000
Reposted by David Johnson
NPR @npr.org · 15/08/2026
The White House memorandum is thin on details, but it aims to give private businesses the ability to sabotage or spy on certain foreign actors. n.pr/4wFY0iY
n.pr
Trump administration wants to allow companies to hack foreign cybercriminals
The White House memorandum is thin on details, but it aims to give private businesses the ability to sabotage or spy on certain foreign actors.
1611238
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Still what I consider the best game ever made.
000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This is an absolute absurdity of a speech even given his usual standard.
000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Good job, Canada.
000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This continues a terribly dangerous line of thinking we've heard before: "Something bad happened, and there's no evidence - we just know it." Laying the groundwork to deny results later.
000
Reposted by David Johnson
Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I agree with this. Hearing UHNW folks complaining about personal taxes is maddening. Just STFU and pay your taxes. <Gift article>
giftarticle.ft.com
Just stop moaning and pay your taxes
Fetishising tax avoidance in the US must end if the republic is to survive
46713
Reposted by David Johnson
deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your hands.
0147
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Roberts Court respects no principle that it is unwilling to abandon if such abandonment advances the interests of the Republican Party.
000
Reposted by David Johnson
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.
471789525
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It is actually not possible for RFK to be more completely wrong. This is the most wrong you can be.
000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is a world-historical level of ignorance from Moreno.
021
Reposted by David Johnson
Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
222103432249
Reposted by David Johnson
👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
84138963540
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Filing this one away.
000
Reposted by David Johnson
The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The downfall of so many libertarian efforts - cyber- and otherwise - can be summed up by their failure to understand the fundamental truth of the first line of a John Donne poem: No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe
518026
Reposted by David Johnson
deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is strange...
194
Reposted by David Johnson
Scott Aukerman @scottaukerman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
SHE’S ALIVE????
1665657
Reposted by David Johnson
cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Watch as a massive crack forms in the ice on Lake Erie. An impressive view captured by GOES-19 earlier on Sunday.
9476186
Reposted by David Johnson
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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!
Consciousness of Guilt: An Opaque and Secret Memorandum with Threats of Reprisal 13. Despite the May 12 Memo being addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the memorandum has only been distributed to select DHS and ICE officials. Furthermore, our clients have been told that the May 12 Memo must be treated with unusually strict access control for a document without any confidentiality markings. 14. To wit: one of our clients was allowed to view the memorandum only in the presence of their supervisor. They were handed the Memorandum, allowed a few minutes to review it without the ability to take notes, and were directed to hand it back. They were also informed that another employee had been reassigned for contradicting a supervisor about a different ICE policy. Our client understood their supervisor shared this piece of information as a warning that expressing disagreement with the new arrest policy could result in adverse career consequences. 15. Together, our clients are aware of multiple DHS employees who faced retaliation for expressing their concerns and/or disagreement with the May 12 Memo’s policy change, likely constituting prohibited personnel practices. One client is aware of a seasoned government instructor, tasked with teaching this new doctrine, who chose to resign rather than be forced to teach what they understood to be unlawful.
4946301718
Reposted by David Johnson
Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"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."
persuasion.community
ICE Is Imposing Autocracy in Minnesota
The state has become Trump's most radical experiment with militarized government.
517176
Reposted by David Johnson
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/01/2026
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.
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
12262011539
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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...
apnews.com
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.
000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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.
010
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Mandatory repost of anything with The Thick of It
020
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The most important issue.
010
Reposted by David Johnson
Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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...
1654697
Reposted by David Johnson
graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
How does this standard apply to Justices Alito and Thomas and their spouses?
06813
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
So glad that peace is restored
010
Reposted by David Johnson
Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
at this rate I estimate that by next March we will be getting six hundred page judicial opinions that resemble House of Leaves
312116
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Levels of strategic ignorance and blindness not commonly encountered in a Secretary of State.
010
Reposted by David Johnson
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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.
986151283995
Reposted by David Johnson
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Traditional political violence is only committed by extremists grown in the political culture of the old confederacy. Everything else is just sparkling stochastic terrorism.
1052791
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Always another excuse to wait. Almost like he doesn't actually want to do it...
000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Seems to strike about the right tone in all of this. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
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
000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I don't know that avoiding embarrassment qualifies as a legal justification...
010
Reposted by David Johnson
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
1494628784
Reposted by David Johnson
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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...
reuters.com
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.
24633
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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:
000
Reposted by David Johnson
Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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...
theatlantic.com
A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants
You all deserved better.
6521165
Reposted by David Johnson
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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.
24658224
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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...
npr.org
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.
020
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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...
000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Augur of further leadership shift?
000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Clown car administration apnews.com/article/bill...
apnews.com
Trump removes Billy Long as IRS commisioner less than 2 months after his confirmation
President Donald Trump has removed former U.S. Rep. Billy Long as IRS commissioner less than two months after his confirmation.
000