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Noah M. Johnson
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Minnesota lawyer for liberty and justice for all in the North Star State 🗽⚖️
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 1
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 11h
🙏 ☮️

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/a...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 1d
"Observing and recording what my government does — which is what I was doing when I got arrested — is my business."

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Opinion | A jury of my peers agreed that the feds wrongly charged me for watching ICE
I believe that filming what federal agents were doing that day counted as basic human decency.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 1d
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We're Norman Rockwell's family. Trump's DHS has shamefully misused his work. | Opinion
As Norman Rockwell's family, we know he'd be devastated to see the Department of Homeland Security's unauthorized misuse of his work.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations to the champion LA Dodgers, as well as to the Toronto Blue Jays for making it nearly all the way for the first time since 1993. It was a great World Series! ⚾🏆

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/w...
Canadians Mourn a Loss by Underdogs Who Brought a Nation Together
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 3d
Whence shall we expect the approach of danger? 🇺🇸

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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 4d
"The next month, several senior prosecutors who had worked on Jan. 6 cases involving far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were demoted from supervisory positions to low-level jobs handling misdemeanors."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Prosecutors Who Called Jan. 6 Attackers a ‘Mob of Rioters’ Are Punished
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 6d
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Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns
In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 7d
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The fate of this family of 8 is in ICE's hands. Will they get 'mercy'?
Their application to legalize her husband's immigration status is unfolding against the backdrop of President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.
www.usatoday.com
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 8d
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Takeaways: Timberwolves edge Pacers in home opener after Anthony Edwards departs early with an injury
Edwards was pulled in the first quarter because of right hamstring tightness, but Julius Randle stepped up in his absence with 31 points for the Wolves.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 8d
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Takeaways: Wild rally to force overtime but still lose to lowly Sharks
San Jose’s Macklin Celebrini scored on a breakaway to end an extra period that the home team had dominated, leaving the Wild with one victory in their past seven games.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d
While the Clintons concern themselves with renovations to a mansion, our People go without pay as innocents are rounded up by a gestapo. Let's get our priorities straight.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 10d
Smart move 🇺🇸 🌹

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...
Hakeem Jeffries Gives Mamdani Last-Minute Endorsement for N.Y.C. Mayor
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 11d
"Mr. Trump has taken an aggressive stance toward Canada, which is the second largest trading partner for the United States. He has imposed double-digit tariffs on many Canadian exports and repeatedly suggested Canada should be the 51st U.S. state."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
Trump Says He’s Cutting Off Trade Negotiations With Canada
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 11d
Police are happy to arrest you for 5th degree drugs or DWI, but are embarrassingly incompetent in the face of something important.

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Olson: Hope Hoffman’s 911 call raises questions about police response to lawmaker shootings
From columnist Rochelle Olson: "The haunting question: Why weren’t the Hortmans warned?"
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 11d
A corrupt bargain between two wrongdoing Trump stooges can't stop the People's candidate 🇺🇸 🌹

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/n...
Eric Adams Will Endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 12d
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants the American People to Pay Him $230 Million
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 12d
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At Nuremberg, World War II’s Battle Turned to the Courtroom, and an Eloquent Lawyer Helped Lead the Allies to Victory
Robert H. Jackson, an American Supreme Court justice who thought of himself as "anything but a warrior," was drafted by FDR to prosecute leading Nazis
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 13d
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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 15d
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The Red Scare Is American Past and Present
If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 16d
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
‘No More Trump!’: Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 16d
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DHS Accused of ‘Propaganda’ for Shifting Story in Shooting
The DHS is facing questions over differing accounts of the shooting of a U.S. citizen in Chicago, as protests continue.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 16d
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'No Kings' Protest Organizers Aren't Afraid of Trump's Court Jesters
Republicans are attempting to brand the 'No Kings' protests as part of a left-wing terror movement ahead of planned peaceful demonstrations.
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 16d
No gods, no kings, no masters 🇺🇸
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Noah M. Johnson @nmjohnson.bsky.social · 17d
I guess compulsive liars stick together

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George Santos' prison sentence commuted, to be released 'immediately': Trump
Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison earlier this year after being convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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