Dave Johnson
@dcjohnson.bsky.social
Former Sr Fellow, Campaign for America's Future
Silicon Valley, Atari, Imagic, Working Software, Be
US expat living in the UK
seeingtheforest.com
wecanhavenicethings.com
democracyandcommunity.org
governmentcheese.co.uk
Silicon Valley, Atari, Imagic, Working Software, Be
US expat living in the UK
seeingtheforest.com
wecanhavenicethings.com
democracyandcommunity.org
governmentcheese.co.uk
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Dave Johnson
@dcjohnson.bsky.social
· Nov 19
I post on UK issues because I spent much time & effort trying to warn people about the rightward shift of US "conservatives" and what it would lead to.
I moved here and see the same forces now working to capture the UK govt and impose what has been imposed on the US. I give a shit so I post & warn.
I moved here and see the same forces now working to capture the UK govt and impose what has been imposed on the US. I give a shit so I post & warn.
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www.courthousenews.com/judge-demand...
Filing deadline for this brief from DoJ is due tomorrow. Judge Engelmayer said response should include if court has the authority to rule on the Trump administration’s compliance with the Transparency Act.
Filing deadline for this brief from DoJ is due tomorrow. Judge Engelmayer said response should include if court has the authority to rule on the Trump administration’s compliance with the Transparency Act.
Judge demands response after lawmakers accuse DOJ of dragging feet with Epstein files
Meanwhile, another federal judge is urging prosecutors to prioritize more pressing cases. “Epstein is dead,” she said Tuesday.
www.courthousenews.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:16 AM
www.courthousenews.com/judge-demand...
Filing deadline for this brief from DoJ is due tomorrow. Judge Engelmayer said response should include if court has the authority to rule on the Trump administration’s compliance with the Transparency Act.
Filing deadline for this brief from DoJ is due tomorrow. Judge Engelmayer said response should include if court has the authority to rule on the Trump administration’s compliance with the Transparency Act.
Reform voters will respect this because it projects strength.
January 16, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Reform voters will respect this because it projects strength.
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Interesting. In response to Raskin asking DOJ whether any J6ers are being recruited by ICE, Tricia McLaughlin accuses Raskin of painting law enforcement as villains. Does she agree that J6ers are villains?
I asked the US Dept of Homeland Security about Rep. Jamie Raskin's inquiry into whether pardoned Jan 6 rioters are now working for ICE
Below is Tricia McLaughlin's response.
The statement does not specifically answer if any Jan 6 rioters are... working for ICE ===>
Below is Tricia McLaughlin's response.
The statement does not specifically answer if any Jan 6 rioters are... working for ICE ===>
January 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Interesting. In response to Raskin asking DOJ whether any J6ers are being recruited by ICE, Tricia McLaughlin accuses Raskin of painting law enforcement as villains. Does she agree that J6ers are villains?
Congress ordered Trump to release all the Epstein files ...
... and they just didn't.
And I guess that was that.
... and they just didn't.
And I guess that was that.
January 16, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Congress ordered Trump to release all the Epstein files ...
... and they just didn't.
And I guess that was that.
... and they just didn't.
And I guess that was that.
This from November keeps coming back to me. American negotiators threatening the diplomats and their family members.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 AM
This from November keeps coming back to me. American negotiators threatening the diplomats and their family members.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
This Is America Now
This post first appeared at Government Cheese - Chronicling the collapse of democracy This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a…
This post first appeared at Government Cheese - Chronicling the collapse of democracy This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a…
This Is America Now
This post first appeared at Government Cheese - Chronicling the collapse of democracy This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a residential neighborhood after shooting a man nearby. As the gas spread, a family got into their vehicle to escape the tear gas.
seeingtheforest.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:06 AM
This Is America Now
This post first appeared at Government Cheese - Chronicling the collapse of democracy This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a…
This post first appeared at Government Cheese - Chronicling the collapse of democracy This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a…
This Is America Now
This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a residential neighborhood after shooting a man nearby. As the gas spread, a family got into…
This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a residential neighborhood after shooting a man nearby. As the gas spread, a family got into…
This Is America Now
This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a residential neighborhood after shooting a man nearby. As the gas spread, a family got into their vehicle to escape the tear gas. In the video, a man is seen standing in front of a car with airbags deployed on all sides, explaining that he told the agents he was trying to leave his house, with his family because of the tear gas.
governmentcheese.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 7:41 AM
This Is America Now
This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a residential neighborhood after shooting a man nearby. As the gas spread, a family got into…
This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE 'throw flash-bang at family car' as 6 kids hospitalized including a 6-month-old baby, She further explained: “ICE agents began tear-gassing a residential neighborhood after shooting a man nearby. As the gas spread, a family got into…
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I hope and pray that journalists with good Treasury or whatever sources are getting to the bottom of the Qatar angle, because that is going to be a crazy Pandora's Box when it finally opens
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:12 PM
I hope and pray that journalists with good Treasury or whatever sources are getting to the bottom of the Qatar angle, because that is going to be a crazy Pandora's Box when it finally opens
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The more info we get about this raid, the worse it becomes. ICE had NO valid warrant (administrative warrants do not authorize forceful entry into a home), the guy's sole prior conviction was a since-dismissed drug charge from 2008, AND he had checked in with ICE just days earlier.
Immigration attorney: The arrest "during a Minnesota immigration crackdown that the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever, was a “blatant constitutional violation,” since the agents did not have a proper warrant..." www.minnpost.com/public-safet...
Attorney: No proper warrant for Minneapolis man's arrest in home
The arrest of Garrison Gibson came in a city increasingly on edge after an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good last week.
www.minnpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
The more info we get about this raid, the worse it becomes. ICE had NO valid warrant (administrative warrants do not authorize forceful entry into a home), the guy's sole prior conviction was a since-dismissed drug charge from 2008, AND he had checked in with ICE just days earlier.
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Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Constitution Journal
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Constitution Journal
It feels like something shifted. So many people are seeing the fascism. Even "moderate" types. Hearing about this everywhere.
January 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM
It feels like something shifted. So many people are seeing the fascism. Even "moderate" types. Hearing about this everywhere.
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As @whatashrinkthinks.com notes in this insightful thread, it can be challenging to grasp fully the nature of the truly psychopathic unless you have had personal experience with someone with that nature.
As I said once years ago in a viral thread on Twitter:
“Real monsters always have human skin.”
As I said once years ago in a viral thread on Twitter:
“Real monsters always have human skin.”
I think people really continuously underestimate the depth of Trump’s sociopathy.
Really, think about how much of Roy Cohn’s strategies were secret, personal, familial executable threats of murder.
These fuckers will kill your children slowly to own you.
Really, think about how much of Roy Cohn’s strategies were secret, personal, familial executable threats of murder.
These fuckers will kill your children slowly to own you.
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
As @whatashrinkthinks.com notes in this insightful thread, it can be challenging to grasp fully the nature of the truly psychopathic unless you have had personal experience with someone with that nature.
As I said once years ago in a viral thread on Twitter:
“Real monsters always have human skin.”
As I said once years ago in a viral thread on Twitter:
“Real monsters always have human skin.”
Read this thread.
I think people really continuously underestimate the depth of Trump’s sociopathy.
Really, think about how much of Roy Cohn’s strategies were secret, personal, familial executable threats of murder.
These fuckers will kill your children slowly to own you.
Really, think about how much of Roy Cohn’s strategies were secret, personal, familial executable threats of murder.
These fuckers will kill your children slowly to own you.
January 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Read this thread.
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No more compromising with obvious bad faith actors who want fascism.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
January 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
No more compromising with obvious bad faith actors who want fascism.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
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Are Europeans finally waking up?
A survey published today finds that the proportion of Europeans who view the US as an ally or an adversary are approaching the same levels as how they feel about China.
But European leaders haven't gotten the memo.
A survey published today finds that the proportion of Europeans who view the US as an ally or an adversary are approaching the same levels as how they feel about China.
But European leaders haven't gotten the memo.
Only 16% of Europeans still see the US as an ally, new survey finds
An ECFR survey published today finds a dramatic shift in how Europeans view America. More now see the US as a rival or enemy than as a friend. Conversely, Russians no longer see the US as an enemy.
davekeating.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Are Europeans finally waking up?
A survey published today finds that the proportion of Europeans who view the US as an ally or an adversary are approaching the same levels as how they feel about China.
But European leaders haven't gotten the memo.
A survey published today finds that the proportion of Europeans who view the US as an ally or an adversary are approaching the same levels as how they feel about China.
But European leaders haven't gotten the memo.
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Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
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While Ambassador to the OECD, former DCCC chair Sean Patrick Maloney promised to not accept any employment or compensation from the crypto industry. He's now the head of a trade group called the Coalition for Prediction Markets. Members include crypto companies.
Ah well, nevertheless.
Ah well, nevertheless.
Sean Patrick Maloney’s Vanishing Ethics Pledge - The American Prospect
The former member of Congress and DCCC chair is now head of the Coalition for Prediction Markets, funded by the crypto firms he promised not to work for.
prospect.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
While Ambassador to the OECD, former DCCC chair Sean Patrick Maloney promised to not accept any employment or compensation from the crypto industry. He's now the head of a trade group called the Coalition for Prediction Markets. Members include crypto companies.
Ah well, nevertheless.
Ah well, nevertheless.
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Tribal leaders and members who live in the greater Minneapolis area say Indigenous family members, friends and neighbors have been stopped, questioned, harassed and, in some cases, detained solely on the basis of their skin color or their names.
Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say
Tribal leaders say Indigenous people have been stopped, questioned, harassed and, in some cases, detained solely on the basis of their skin color or names.
wapo.st
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Tribal leaders and members who live in the greater Minneapolis area say Indigenous family members, friends and neighbors have been stopped, questioned, harassed and, in some cases, detained solely on the basis of their skin color or their names.
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Failing to make a public villain out of Stephen Miller is very high on my list of dispiriting Dem party fuckups. An easy layup, too.
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Failing to make a public villain out of Stephen Miller is very high on my list of dispiriting Dem party fuckups. An easy layup, too.
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More Dems need to think about skating to where the puck will be not where it is.
All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses.
He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.
All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses.
He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
More Dems need to think about skating to where the puck will be not where it is.
All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses.
He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.
All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses.
He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.
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Literally, the stupidest people doing the stupidest stuff and systematically dismantling our democratic norms and institutions
January 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Literally, the stupidest people doing the stupidest stuff and systematically dismantling our democratic norms and institutions