David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Interesting 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 JohnsonTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Some genuinely interesting ballot measures that are getting so little attention! Like these public banks. Check out our guide! 216866
Reposted by David Johnsondeus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026And people are obeying? Why? Because the AI can change some codes and turn out the lights? 0286
Reposted by David JohnsonSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A 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 · 15/08/2026Surely Congress will act to maintain its authority over issuing letters of marque and reprisal on the high cyber-seas! 000
Reposted by David JohnsonNPR @npr.org · 15/08/2026The 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/4wFY0iYn.prTrump administration wants to allow companies to hack foreign cybercriminalsThe 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 · 17/06/2026This is an absolute absurdity of a speech even given his usual standard. 000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This 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 JohnsonIvan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I agree with this. Hearing UHNW folks complaining about personal taxes is maddening. Just STFU and pay your taxes. <Gift article>giftarticle.ft.comJust stop moaning and pay your taxesFetishising tax avoidance in the US must end if the republic is to survive 46713
Reposted by David Johnsondeus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026See 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 · 12/05/2026The 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 JohnsonNate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026In 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 · 23/04/2026It 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 · 14/04/2026This is a world-historical level of ignorance from Moreno. 021
Reposted by David JohnsonWes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026BREAKING: 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 · 08/04/2026all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant 84138963540
Reposted by David JohnsonThe Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The 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 JohnsonScott Aukerman @scottaukerman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026SHE’S ALIVE???? 1665657
Reposted by David Johnsoncira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Watch 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 JohnsonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026In 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! 4946301718
Reposted by David JohnsonWalter 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.communityICE Is Imposing Autocracy in MinnesotaThe state has become Trump's most radical experiment with militarized government. 517176
Reposted by David Johnsonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/01/2026wrote 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.comOpinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play 12262011539
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 17/01/2026This, 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.comTrump says 8 European countries will be charged a 10% tariff for opposing US control of GreenlandPresident 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 · 21/11/2025And 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
Reposted by David JohnsonRhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Yo 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 Johnsongraham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 02/10/2025How does this standard apply to Justices Alito and Thomas and their spouses? 06813
Reposted by David JohnsonTsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025at 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 · 23/09/2025Levels of strategic ignorance and blindness not commonly encountered in a Secretary of State. 010
Reposted by David JohnsonDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 23/09/2025This 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 Johnsonsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Traditional 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 · 13/09/2025Always another excuse to wait. Almost like he doesn't actually want to do it... 000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Seems to strike about the right tone in all of this. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comCharlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No MourningThe white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division 000
David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 30/08/2025I don't know that avoiding embarrassment qualifies as a legal justification... 010
Reposted by David JohnsonPopehat @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 JohnsonMai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 28/08/2025The 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.comUS withdraws from key UN human rights report, draws criticism from rights advocatesThe 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 · 27/08/2025Ladies 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 JohnsonMark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 22/08/2025An 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.comA Letter to America’s Discarded Public ServantsYou all deserved better. 6521165
Reposted by David JohnsonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Children. 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 · 16/08/2025Between 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.orgGovernment papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summitDocuments 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 · 16/08/2025And 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 · 08/08/2025Clown car administration apnews.com/article/bill...apnews.comTrump removes Billy Long as IRS commisioner less than 2 months after his confirmationPresident Donald Trump has removed former U.S. Rep. Billy Long as IRS commissioner less than two months after his confirmation. 000