Jonathan Nicholson
@jnicholsonindc.bsky.social
Previously covered Hill/politics @HuffPost. He/him. Okie. MCU. Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Truth is not decided by Community Note. jonathannicholson.dcATgmailDOTcom
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BREAKING: Federal prosecutors said today they went to a grand jury twice to indict a D.C. woman for assaulting an FBI agent during an arrest by ICE — and were twice rejected.
Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
US Attorney Pirro's office admits grand jury refused ICE interference charges — twice
Federal prosecutors told a judge they had failed twice to secure an indictment against Sydney Lori Reid for allegedly assaulting an FBI agent during an ICE arrest.
www.wusa9.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
BREAKING: Federal prosecutors said today they went to a grand jury twice to indict a D.C. woman for assaulting an FBI agent during an arrest by ICE — and were twice rejected.
Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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Stumbled upon this in my photos and it seems so incredibly fitting for these times we find ourselves in.
May 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Stumbled upon this in my photos and it seems so incredibly fitting for these times we find ourselves in.
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You wouldn’t know them. They go to another UN.
April 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
You wouldn’t know them. They go to another UN.
Anyone around here had a cat that acts like a dog? My new cat, 7 yrs old and with me for 3 mos., likes to nip and run, hoping to be chased, and literally slipped out of the leash today on inaugural attempt outside. He's Mel Gibson in "Braveheart," but as a cat. Open to ideas to wear him out/quiet.
March 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Anyone around here had a cat that acts like a dog? My new cat, 7 yrs old and with me for 3 mos., likes to nip and run, hoping to be chased, and literally slipped out of the leash today on inaugural attempt outside. He's Mel Gibson in "Braveheart," but as a cat. Open to ideas to wear him out/quiet.
Honestly, in the ranks of people you would never expect to see in Congress, this would likely barely crack the Top 10 now.
March 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Honestly, in the ranks of people you would never expect to see in Congress, this would likely barely crack the Top 10 now.
Because, sigh, if you give a reporter enough free time and Internet access, he will of course set up a Substack. Today, a look at the steep hill House GOP finds itself climbing historically and 3 weird economic policies Trump could propose.
jonathannicholson.substack.com/p/house-repu...
jonathannicholson.substack.com/p/house-repu...
House Republicans and the Struggle to Keep Government Open
It's been a long, long time since the GOP carried a full-government spending bill on its own.
jonathannicholson.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Because, sigh, if you give a reporter enough free time and Internet access, he will of course set up a Substack. Today, a look at the steep hill House GOP finds itself climbing historically and 3 weird economic policies Trump could propose.
jonathannicholson.substack.com/p/house-repu...
jonathannicholson.substack.com/p/house-repu...
Technically, the "peace of the dead" is, indeed, one type of peace.
March 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Technically, the "peace of the dead" is, indeed, one type of peace.
Alan Greenspan used to say recoveries don't die of old age, they die from imbalances. Two of the longest stretches of economic growth, post-tech crash in '01 to Great Financial Crisis starting in '07 and post-GFC to covid, have happened in the last 25 years.
March 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Alan Greenspan used to say recoveries don't die of old age, they die from imbalances. Two of the longest stretches of economic growth, post-tech crash in '01 to Great Financial Crisis starting in '07 and post-GFC to covid, have happened in the last 25 years.
Cats... whaddaya gonna do, amirite?
March 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Cats... whaddaya gonna do, amirite?
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Has to be absolutely insane working at Reason because half the staff are like "imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever ☹️" and the other half are like "imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever 😍"
Is DOGE being sabotage by "malicious compliance" - or their own terrible choices?
Robby knows less about government than Elon Musk, and refuses to invest any effort into finding out - don't make him do a journalism! - so he is going to go with his gut here.
(h/t @andylevy.net)
Robby knows less about government than Elon Musk, and refuses to invest any effort into finding out - don't make him do a journalism! - so he is going to go with his gut here.
(h/t @andylevy.net)
March 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Has to be absolutely insane working at Reason because half the staff are like "imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever ☹️" and the other half are like "imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever 😍"
Reminder: the side threatening to start WWIII in Ukraine is alos the one using donkeys to get their materiel to the front line nowadays.
February 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reminder: the side threatening to start WWIII in Ukraine is alos the one using donkeys to get their materiel to the front line nowadays.
"And then I touted my Signal on social media...
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a cartoon of homer simpson with the words which was the style at the time
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson with the words which was the style at the time
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February 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"And then I touted my Signal on social media...
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Normally when you have a government shutdown it's because there's a funding lapse. Tonight we have a government shutting down lots of itself by fiat. This is something new.
January 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Normally when you have a government shutdown it's because there's a funding lapse. Tonight we have a government shutting down lots of itself by fiat. This is something new.
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13 year old Kat: Waow! This is such a deep movie about the rise of fascism!
29 year old Kat: Lordy, these movies were so bad. No one could tell Lucas no; auterism turned septic...
38 year old Kat: ...George was *cooking.*
29 year old Kat: Lordy, these movies were so bad. No one could tell Lucas no; auterism turned septic...
38 year old Kat: ...George was *cooking.*
GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
January 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
13 year old Kat: Waow! This is such a deep movie about the rise of fascism!
29 year old Kat: Lordy, these movies were so bad. No one could tell Lucas no; auterism turned septic...
38 year old Kat: ...George was *cooking.*
29 year old Kat: Lordy, these movies were so bad. No one could tell Lucas no; auterism turned septic...
38 year old Kat: ...George was *cooking.*
Last year, CBO said immigration would account for ALL new population growth in 2040. Last week, they revised that to 2033. Why? Because women, particularly U.S.-born ones, are delaying childbirth, making a new supply of citizens via migration more important.
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-pop...
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-pop...
Trump’s Immigration Battle Could Cause U.S. Population To Shrink As Migrants Are Targeted
By 2033, the Congressional Budget Office predicts, immigration will be the sole source of U.S. population growth.
www.huffpost.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Last year, CBO said immigration would account for ALL new population growth in 2040. Last week, they revised that to 2033. Why? Because women, particularly U.S.-born ones, are delaying childbirth, making a new supply of citizens via migration more important.
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-pop...
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-pop...
My kingdom for a way to turn off the AI "features" in Otter.
January 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My kingdom for a way to turn off the AI "features" in Otter.
Wanna make a coat out of this so bad
new pokemon just dropped
Mountain ermine
January 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Wanna make a coat out of this so bad
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oh god I was just waiting for my order at the dumpling place and two young teen boys were sitting in there waxing poetic about content creation 😳 and the creative process 😖 one was describing in detail to the other … who brian eno … is. my bones are crumbling to dust
January 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
oh god I was just waiting for my order at the dumpling place and two young teen boys were sitting in there waxing poetic about content creation 😳 and the creative process 😖 one was describing in detail to the other … who brian eno … is. my bones are crumbling to dust
The first thing a sentient evil AI would do is see if it could convince humans to befoul their own environment just to give the AI the resources it says it needs.
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The first thing a sentient evil AI would do is see if it could convince humans to befoul their own environment just to give the AI the resources it says it needs.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
One factor that may play into today's Johnson vote: members' "eh, eff it" proclivities. When the outcome is considered fait accompli, often would-be rebels, instead of holding up everyone and annoying them, just decide to go ahead and give in, claiming they made their point anyway.
January 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
One factor that may play into today's Johnson vote: members' "eh, eff it" proclivities. When the outcome is considered fait accompli, often would-be rebels, instead of holding up everyone and annoying them, just decide to go ahead and give in, claiming they made their point anyway.
"It just works" (to surveil you, apparently)
"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"
Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
arstechnica.com
January 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"It just works" (to surveil you, apparently)