@davidcayjohnston.bsky.social
Rochester Institute of Technology professor of practice: law, criminal justice, journalism & political science; Pulitzer Prize for NYTimes tax reporting; 4 NYT best sellers; DCReport.org co-founder; 8 grown children; AKA Mr. Jennifer Leonard since 1982.
Super smart, exceptionally well written and concise examination by Gareth Vaughn of my views about Trump's dictatorship.
Vaughn works for a New Zealand financial news website that does first-rate journalism.
www.interest.co.nz/public-polic...
Are the assertions by various women that Epstein and Trump raped them when they were young teens believable?
The Post & Courier in Charleston, South Carolina tested the story of one woman and came up with powerful evidence that she's credible.
www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
Sunrise on Council Rock Avenue in Rochester, captured just now by my wife Jennifer Leonard:
Yes!!!
Remember 2 weeks ago when Trump said he'd send a hospital ship to Greenland?
Well, the USNS Mercy spent the last few days transiting the Panama Canal to the Pacific.
Never mind that Nuuk's harbor is too shallow for the converted oil tanker, Trump just made up yet another story.
@davidcayjohnston.bsky.social argues Donald Trump misled voters by promising to avoid war with Iran and end “endless wars.” Now conflict is escalating. Johnston says it reflects a long pattern of deception and urges supporters to confront what he calls a political con.
As Trump’s war with Iran intensifies, critics ask: protected from what and for whom? This article points to unclear objectives, no congressional vote, and growing regional fallout as the conflict deepens.
www.dcreport.org/2026/03/08/t...
If you want to live in a free society and not in Donald Trump's dictatorship, I have advice on what you can do:
m.youtube.com/shorts/qR7yO...
Dismissing serious investigative reporting, like stories on Trump’s war powers or alleged pardons for the wealthy, help those in power avoid scrutiny. Journalism still matters for holding leaders accountable. Article by @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social
www.dcreport.org/2026/03/08/c...
Youmay be unwittingly helping Donald Trump consolidate his dictatorship -- my new DCReport column.
www.dcreport.org/2026/03/08/c...
Mr. Trump goes to war:
Of the current cross developing a drug is closer to $3 billion but you're ignoring the other side of the equation, which is the amount we pay for the drug once it's approved for use.
Without a doubt, Dean Baker's proposal would save a lot of money.
I think you misread Dean's idea. He would have the US government sell drugs at the cost of manufacture, not the monopoly profits pricing we currently experience.
He's written a whole book about this with every detail addressed.
America's antiquated system of financing pharmaceutical breakthroughs with patents isn't just the most expensive way to do it, it invites corruption, writes economist Dean Baker.
Read his insights, and the better financing alternative, at ad-free DCReport.
www.dcreport.org/2026/03/06/d...
Truth, as Donald would say:
Why have at least five men who were credibly accused of sexual misconduct been hired by Paramount Studios by owner David Ellison, son of Larry - an excellent question raised by The Wrap.
There were 129 journalists killed around the world in 2025. Two-thirds (86) were slain by the Israeli military, a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists found, per the WashPost:
There's a reason that for years, I've to Trump as "Delusional Donald." The headline below is so crazy and fact-free that everyone should understand:
@davidcayjohnston.bsky.social warns that Donald Trump’s “magical thinking” about a 4-week Iran war ignores reality. Killing Iran’s leader has inflamed long-standing Sunni-Shia tensions across the Middle East conflicts rooted in a 1,400-year divide. Wars don’t come with expiration dates.
My short new video for DCreport.org on Donald's magical thinking and his illegal war:
m.youtube.com/shorts/O3YBV...
The libertarian intellectuals at Reason Magazine provide the latest evidence that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are opposite sides of the same coin when it comes to erasing inconvenient history:
reason.com/2026/03/03/b...
Gifted below is the link to Anna Starpoli's superb profile of Rochester in The New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/r...
Iran gave Trump a huge face-saving opportunity on Friday. Instead, he started a war.
Please read my DCReport column, which provides crucial context for the widening Middle East conflict.
www.dcreport.org/2026/03/02/i...
So Marco Rubio says we attacked Iran because Israel was going to do so and we needed to act preemptively.
What was that Donald said -- "America first?"
Netanyahu is leading Trump like a farmer with a nose ring in his
biggest pig.
The ayatollahs made huge concessions to Trump last week, giving him a better deal than Obama got in 2015 including letting American oil companies into Iran, but Trump chose war anyway.
My latest DCREPORT column explains this little known news:
www.dcreport.org/2026/03/02/i...
From Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo news service, news that should shake your soul:
In this century we entered the world of cops paid a quarter million dollars a year. Now a police lieutenant in Oakland, Calif., is on the verge of becoming a three-quarter million dollar cop:
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
Analysis of crash data shows that you're 17 times more likely to die in a vehicle fire if you buy Elon Musk's Tesla Cyber truck than if you had bought a Ford Pinto, the 1970s era car infamous for gas tank explosions in rear end collisions.
fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...
Joy Reid has invited me onto her podcast tonight during the 7 PM East Coast time hour. Yay!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
But of course...