John Hudson
@johnphudson.bsky.social
I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or lose support. Kyiv is under "extraordinary pressure" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or lose support. Kyiv is under "extraordinary pressure" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
NYT: Ambassador Mike Huckabee met with Jonathan J. Pollard, an American who spent 30 years in prison for betraying the U.S. and spying for Israel.
“It was a friendly meeting,” Mr. Pollard said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...
“It was a friendly meeting,” Mr. Pollard said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...
Ambassador Huckabee Held Meeting With Jonathan Pollard, Ex-Spy, at U.S. Embassy in Israel
Jonathan J. Pollard, who was convicted of espionage, said in an interview that the meeting, which was highly unusual for a U.S. diplomat to attend, had been friendly.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
NYT: Ambassador Mike Huckabee met with Jonathan J. Pollard, an American who spent 30 years in prison for betraying the U.S. and spying for Israel.
“It was a friendly meeting,” Mr. Pollard said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...
“It was a friendly meeting,” Mr. Pollard said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...
House votes overwhelmingly to compel release of Jeffrey Epstein files
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
House votes overwhelmingly to compel release of Jeffrey Epstein files
Catholic Bishops Issue Rare Statement Objecting to U.S. Immigration Tactics: “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Catholic Bishops Rebuke Trump’s Immigration Tactics in Rare Statement
“We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,” they said in the statement.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Catholic Bishops Issue Rare Statement Objecting to U.S. Immigration Tactics: “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
NEW: The classified opinion by Trump's Office of Legal Counsel says the US personnel taking part in lethal strikes on boats would not be exposed to future prosecution, per sources. “It sounds like an admission that there is no legal basis for these strikes” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
NEW: The classified opinion by Trump's Office of Legal Counsel says the US personnel taking part in lethal strikes on boats would not be exposed to future prosecution, per sources. “It sounds like an admission that there is no legal basis for these strikes” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"it made no lasting dent in Afghan opium production" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"it made no lasting dent in Afghan opium production" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“The Justice Department’s Gulfstream G550 took nine trips to Las Vegas—where Kash Patel lived before running the FBI—and seven others to Nashville, according to a WSJ review of flight records.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“The Justice Department’s Gulfstream G550 took nine trips to Las Vegas—where Kash Patel lived before running the FBI—and seven others to Nashville, according to a WSJ review of flight records.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further (Gift Article)
Donald J. Trump and Dick Cheney became adversaries, but the former vice president set the stage for Mr. Trump’s bid to expand his executive authority.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Trump administration tells Congress it can continue its lethal strikes against boaters in Latin America and is not bound by a decades-old legislation requiring Congress to give approval for ongoing hostilities
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November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Trump administration tells Congress it can continue its lethal strikes against boaters in Latin America and is not bound by a decades-old legislation requiring Congress to give approval for ongoing hostilities
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New: Obama called Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future. Shane Goldmacher scoops on the private 30-minute phone call www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...
Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign, Offers to Be Sounding Board
Former President Barack Obama told Zohran Mamdani “your campaign has been impressive to watch,” and suggested that he was invested in Mr. Mamdani’s success beyond the election.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New: Obama called Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future. Shane Goldmacher scoops on the private 30-minute phone call www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...
Scoop: Venezuela's president has made multiple requests to Moscow this month, including "overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs and potentially missiles," according to U.S. government documents obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Scoop: Venezuela's president has made multiple requests to Moscow this month, including "overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs and potentially missiles," according to U.S. government documents obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
SCOOP: A classified U.S. report finds a backlog of "hundreds" of possible Israeli human rights violations in Gaza that will take "years" to review, raising doubts about future accountability.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
SCOOP: A classified U.S. report finds a backlog of "hundreds" of possible Israeli human rights violations in Gaza that will take "years" to review, raising doubts about future accountability.
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Yep. And if they go full Star Wars, it'll cost many, many trillions of dollars.
Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense project is likely to take at least a decade to complete and cost *** a trillion dollars or more ***
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October 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Yep. And if they go full Star Wars, it'll cost many, many trillions of dollars.
Trump's pick, who was scheduled to face the Senate tomorrow, spent most of the last decade as a senior executive at a Swiss subsidiary of Evraz PLC, a Russian steel group co-owned by billionaire Roman Abramovich, per a disclosures obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Trump's pick, who was scheduled to face the Senate tomorrow, spent most of the last decade as a senior executive at a Swiss subsidiary of Evraz PLC, a Russian steel group co-owned by billionaire Roman Abramovich, per a disclosures obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense project is likely to take at least a decade to complete and cost *** a trillion dollars or more ***
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October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense project is likely to take at least a decade to complete and cost *** a trillion dollars or more ***
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Ted Cruz & Dave McCormick have effectively torpedoed Trump's pick for ambassador to Kuwait. Amer Ghalib, the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, the first Arab American & Muslim to hold that job, endorsed Trump amid deep anger at Biden over the war in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Ted Cruz & Dave McCormick have effectively torpedoed Trump's pick for ambassador to Kuwait. Amer Ghalib, the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, the first Arab American & Muslim to hold that job, endorsed Trump amid deep anger at Biden over the war in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Netanyahu orders ‘forceful’ strikes on Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Netanyahu orders ‘forceful’ strikes on Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
"Trump is poised to end Washington’s decade of the China Hawks," writes @semaforben. Smart column, including a sneaky jab at members of the China pundit class who have never been to China www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
October 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Trump is poised to end Washington’s decade of the China Hawks," writes @semaforben. Smart column, including a sneaky jab at members of the China pundit class who have never been to China www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
Dallas Morning News: "A Washington Post investigation confirmed what this Editorial Board feared: The deal between the Trump administration and the Bukele government to house deportees in a Salvadoran prison compromised a high-profile federal case into the murderous MS-13 gang"
October 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Dallas Morning News: "A Washington Post investigation confirmed what this Editorial Board feared: The deal between the Trump administration and the Bukele government to house deportees in a Salvadoran prison compromised a high-profile federal case into the murderous MS-13 gang"
Smart questions from @NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about our new investigative piece on Trump's deal to use El Salvador's mega prison www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
Why the State Department handed U.S. informants over to El Salvador
The Washington Post reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio agreed to return MS-13 informants who were in U.S. custody to El Salvador — to secure access to El Salvador's most notorious prison.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Smart questions from @NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about our new investigative piece on Trump's deal to use El Salvador's mega prison www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
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“Rubio assured Bukele he would get his men and stressed that the American public cared little about the fate of Salvadoran gang members.” AKA criminal informants working for the US government. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Helluva story from @johnphudson.bsky.social and colleagues.
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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October 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“Rubio assured Bukele he would get his men and stressed that the American public cared little about the fate of Salvadoran gang members.” AKA criminal informants working for the US government. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Helluva story from @johnphudson.bsky.social and colleagues.
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Extraordinary story: the Trump administration was so eager to get a media splash by deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador it was willing to sabotage Justice Department investigations of MS-13 members and the Salvadoran regime. By @johnphudson.bsky.social & colleagues. [gift link] wapo.st/4nbNiM4
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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October 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Extraordinary story: the Trump administration was so eager to get a media splash by deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador it was willing to sabotage Justice Department investigations of MS-13 members and the Salvadoran regime. By @johnphudson.bsky.social & colleagues. [gift link] wapo.st/4nbNiM4
New: U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
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October 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New: U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
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This type of statement from a moderate Democrat in Congress would’ve been unthinkable just a few years ago
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This type of statement from a moderate Democrat in Congress would’ve been unthinkable just a few years ago