@richardgjohnson.bsky.social
"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
21.11.2025 15:59 — 👍 595 🔁 156 💬 18 📌 7Thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
21.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 2344 🔁 779 💬 83 📌 28
File photo shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attending a joint press conference with Turkey's president (unseen) following their meeting in Ankara on November 19, 2025
#UPDATE Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday he will not "betray" his country as he pushed back on a US plan to end the war on terms favourable to Moscow, acknowledging he risked losing Washington as an ally ➡️ u.afp.com/ShoL
21.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 280 🔁 92 💬 13 📌 8
I think if you need to read one piece about the unpleasant last week in elite journalism and why it matters, read this by @marisakabas.bsky.social (and subscribe, she regularly breaks government and politics news you get elsewhere two weeks later)
21.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 171 🔁 45 💬 9 📌 4
It's @keribla.bsky.social's first story for @propublica.org! But it won't be her last on the Bureau of Prisons.
Do you work for BOP and have tips, documents, or data you can share to paint a fuller picture of what’s going on inside? You should contact Keri.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
The basic truths that escape “both sides.”
21.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 485 🔁 178 💬 6 📌 6
SPECIAL: We got this conversation up as fast as possible because Tim Snyder's analysis of the Trump administration's agenda and methods is so important. Also: Why No Kings matters, and what’s at stake in Ukraine. This is, if I may say so, a must-watch.
youtu.be/qq-V_k3HPLY?...
Trump gets: $5 billion in crypto deals, a $400 million plane, a $300 million ballroom, millions in deals from Facebook, Amazon, CBS.
Everyone else gets: higher prices for health care, electricity, and groceries.
Corruption, plain and simple.
Multiple times a day, documents land on this docket that contain new inanities, new abominations in the sight of the law, new factual revelations, new reasons to wonder not whether this case will collapse but only how," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org in The Situation.
21.11.2025 15:54 — 👍 230 🔁 74 💬 5 📌 4
The record in this case, including many of the amicus briefs filed, makes clear that there are strong views on both sides about whether these deployments represent good policy. But the Court is only tasked with deciding whether Defendants' actions are lawful. In this opinion, the Court addresses two of the District's statutory arguments under the APA and finds that it is likely to succeed on the merits of both. First, the DOD Defendants have exceeded the bounds of their authority under Title 49 of the D.C. Code, and thus acted contrary to law, in deploying the DCNG for non-military, crime-deterrence missions in the absence of a request from the city's civil authorities. Second, these Defendants lack statutory authority under 32 U.S.C. § 502 to support their request for assistance from out-of-state National Guards and their actions in calling those Guards to the District. The Court finds that the District's exercise of sovereign powers within its jurisdiction is irreparably harmed by Defendants' actions in deploying the Guards, and that the balance of equities and public interest weigh in the District's favor. As such, the Court will GRANT the District's motion for preliminary relief and partially DENY Defendants' motion to dismiss on those claims. The Court finds, however, that the public interest weighs in favor of an administrative stay in this case, and that a stay is needed to permit orderly proceedings on appeal. Accordingly, the Court will STAY its order for 21 days, until December 11, 2025?
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Trump's DC troop deployment is likely illegal — both as to D.C. National Guard and and out-of-state National Guard units — granting DC's request to block the use of the troops in this way.
The preliminary injunction is stayed until Dec. 11.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Senate Democrats Investigate Kennedy Center Deals With Trump Allies
NEW: @whitehouse.senate.gov launches investigation into cronyism and corruption at the Kennedy Center.
Documents obtained by EPW reveal millions in lost revenue, luxury spending, and preferential treatment for Trump allies at the Center.
⚡️ European leaders push back on surprise Ukraine peace deal, affirm support for Kyiv.
European leaders pushed back on Nov. 21 against parts of a new and controversial U.S. plan for peace in Ukraine.
The swastikas were too much
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Millions risk losing lifesaving care as rural hospitals collapse under Medicaid cuts, turning vast Republican heartland counties into health deserts where every minute now decides who lives and who dies.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/rural-hosp...
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
21.11.2025 15:09 — 👍 4552 🔁 1161 💬 80 📌 27
🚨 Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) is the subject of a newly reported account alleging that he was seen with sex workers during a 2021 stop while traveling with a privately organized group he has said was en route to help evacuate Americans stranded in Afghanistan.
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Rep Chrissy Houlahan also forcefully points out that virtually no Republicans have condemned Trump's call for Democrats' execution. How is that not a bigger story?
I also asked her if Dems should file impeachment articles. Here's the key exchange on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
This is insane...
"KYIV, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to the framework of a U.S.-brokered peace deal, two people familiar with the matter said." www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump has reportedly been in conversation with Paramount and his billionaire ally Larry Ellison about a potential takeover of CNN that would include firing journalists he dislikes.
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
A member of Congress just filled out a threat report with the Capitol Police naming the President of the United States as the person making the threat.
Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened.
And think of where we are now.
Good for them for standing with #Ukraine. US appeasement plan is obscene on its face, but especcially so coming for the #Dayton 30th. There is no bottom w/ Trump and Co. But can't say I am shocked.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
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Even the text of the alleged "peace agreement" between Russia and Ukraine being touted by the Trump administration betrays its Kremlin origins. They were in such a such a rush they didn't even have it properly translated.
21.11.2025 13:27 — 👍 365 🔁 170 💬 12 📌 19
⚡️ Europe’s biggest leaders say any deal on Ukraine must reflect EU and NATO positions, and Ukraine’s army must retain the ability to defend its sovereignty.
That’s what Merz, Macron, Starmer and Zelenskyy agreed in a phone call, according to the German Chancellor’s office.
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This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
But we are supposed to believe that the administration’s attack on higher education is about fighting anti-semitism.
OK
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
Trump has found a terrifyingly effective way to eliminate bad news: delete the data.
From hunger and poverty stats to foreign investment numbers, federal agencies are being gutted—making it harder to measure the impact of his policies.
@crampell.bsky.social reports:
