John Stokes
@jstokes.bsky.social
Organic gardener. Progressive. 12+ years Sobriety. Environmentalist. Houston sports fan. Union supporter. Beauty seeker. Reproductive rights. Human rights. Liberal Christian.
Amen 🥺 and 😡✊✊✊ ICE Out!
“Thursday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at yesterday's ICE Out of Lindenwold, NJ protest is a must watch”
“Thursday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at yesterday's ICE Out of Lindenwold, NJ protest is a must watch”
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Amen 🥺 and 😡✊✊✊ ICE Out!
“Thursday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at yesterday's ICE Out of Lindenwold, NJ protest is a must watch”
“Thursday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at yesterday's ICE Out of Lindenwold, NJ protest is a must watch”
AMEN 🥺 and 😡✊✊✊
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
AMEN 🥺 and 😡✊✊✊
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I'm pretty sure the redactions were legally supposed to protect victims, not the head of Medicare.
Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein.
Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.
Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.
Senior US health official Oz invited Epstein to Valentine's Day party, documents show
Mehmet Oz sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein's first sex crime charges became public.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I'm pretty sure the redactions were legally supposed to protect victims, not the head of Medicare.
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When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.
When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.
FLASH: ICE says 2 of its officers are under investigation for apparently lying about Jan. 14 incident in Minneapolis where officer shot immigrant. DOJ abruptly dropped charges yday w/@kyledcheney
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting
Officers claimed they were attacked, prompting one to open fire.
www.politico.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.
When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.
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This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court.
And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
February 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court.
And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
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it's really, really nuts that our scrappy lil' non-profit media website employs more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Also follow @lapatina.bsky.social she is awesome and smart and so brave
Also follow @lapatina.bsky.social she is awesome and smart and so brave
The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
February 6, 2026 at 9:41 PM
it's really, really nuts that our scrappy lil' non-profit media website employs more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Also follow @lapatina.bsky.social she is awesome and smart and so brave
Also follow @lapatina.bsky.social she is awesome and smart and so brave
These Gen Z high school student ICE Out protests are very widespread in Texas and across the country.The majority of Gen Z will be voting in both the midterms and the next presidential election. Politicians failing to listen to them are doing so at their own peril.
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
These Gen Z high school student ICE Out protests are very widespread in Texas and across the country.The majority of Gen Z will be voting in both the midterms and the next presidential election. Politicians failing to listen to them are doing so at their own peril.
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#WITAOD IS SO BACK, BABY!!!
NEWS
Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.
Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."
Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.
Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."
Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
February 4, 2026 at 10:28 PM
#WITAOD IS SO BACK, BABY!!!
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👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 30, 2026 at 11:05 PM
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
Fascism has fully arrived in America.
January 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Fascism has fully arrived in America.
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Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.
December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.
December 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Let’s goooo!!!!! 🇺🇦👀🙌
Russia's navy has surrendered the Black Sea to Ukraine. Ukraine has officially won the battle for the Black Sea.
December 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Let’s goooo!!!!! 🇺🇦👀🙌
Get a load of this bullshit right here 😂😂😂 Donald Trump appears ZERO times in the Epstein Files! BULLSHIT!
December 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Get a load of this bullshit right here 😂😂😂 Donald Trump appears ZERO times in the Epstein Files! BULLSHIT!
Replied to Donald Trump from my TrumpPresidentialPenitentiary “Truth” Social account
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Replied to Donald Trump from my TrumpPresidentialPenitentiary “Truth” Social account
LETS GOOOOOO!!!!!!
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
LETS GOOOOOO!!!!!!
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
As part of my civic trolling duties, I made a new account on Truth Social 🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
As part of my civic trolling duties, I made a new account on Truth Social 🇺🇸
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A veto-proof House requires 290 votes. If we get this, or more in the House (and the momentum is certainly building) – the Republican Senators will feel dramatic pressure to do the same (67 votes). Release the Epstein files!
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A veto-proof House requires 290 votes. If we get this, or more in the House (and the momentum is certainly building) – the Republican Senators will feel dramatic pressure to do the same (67 votes). Release the Epstein files!
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Defining picture of this president.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Defining picture of this president.
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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“Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order,” according to the account. “Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room.”
June 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order,” according to the account. “Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room.”