Melissa Johnson

@moolissap.bsky.social

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

I had the absolute pleasure of joining @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a conversation yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...

American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Himes: "What worries me is what causes a man of real integrity & w/ a storied professional history like the admiral to order this strike? My guess is it has something to do w/ the secretary of defense who writes a book about how we need a lot less ethics and lawyers involved & a lot more lethality."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Himes: "The end result was two individuals without any weaponry, without any tools of any kind, clinging to a wrecked boat ... the decision was taken to kill them and that is in fact what happened. And that was pretty hard to watch."

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 8h

I didn't expect to see this Jon Stewart conversation with historians @jbf1755.bsky.social and Allen Guelzo. Well worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=isBC...

American “Heritage” vs. American History | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Mark Warner: "I hope it would remind folks that J6 was an ugly, awful day, and this administration and president basically pardoned all the perpetrators. It's that kind of picking and choosing of facts from this crowd that makes me a little bit crazy."

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 16h

New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”

@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com

Here’s How Much Eric Trump Is Worth

Crypto took the real estate heir’s fortune and supersized it, briefly making the president’s second-oldest son a billionaire in early September.

www.forbes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Sean Duffy: "I hear President Trump talk publicly and privately -- he cares about affordability for the American consumer." (Trump literally called affordability a "hoax" just yesterday!)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

New in PN: Costco demands a refund from Trump

"One of the biggest importers in the country has entered the fray, at the risk of finding itself crosswise with the Trump administration. This is what happens when you let the president break the law for a little while."

Costco demands a refund from Trump

The mega-retailer is suing to get its tariff money back.

www.publicnotice.co

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

December 3, 2025

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-3...

December 3, 2025

Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 1d

My message to Trump: Your message of bigotry won’t work. Somali Americans are here to stay. 💅🏾

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

The original White House--like the Capitol--was deliberately NOT garish.They were supposed to reflect republican governance: not monarchies, not aristocracies.They were supposed to show a commitment to We the People.

The current decorations are the precise opposite.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

We Asked Interior Designers To Explain Trump's 'Garish' White House Redesign — And They Had THOUGHTS

Experts weigh in on the president's gold-soaked makeover of the Oval Office and more.

www.huffpost.com

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d

"Fractures have emerged in the Maga coalition," writes Guardian columnist Moira Donegan. "Republicans are beginning to imagine what the country – and more importantly, their own careers – will look like without him."

Cracks have emerged in the Maga coalition | Moira Donegan

www.theguardian.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

December 2, 2025

The news of last Friday, November 28, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Joint Special Operations commander overseeing an attack on a small vessel carrying 11 people on September 2 to “kill ev...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 2d

New: "Nasdaq Tells Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma It ‘No Longer Meets’ Listing Requirements After Missed Report"

me, for @forbes.com

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Alt5 Sigma Told It’s ’Noncompliant’ by Nasdaq After Failing To File Earnings Report

A fintech firm that routed $500 million to an entity affiliated with President Trump is yet to file its report for the third quarter, which ended in September.

www.forbes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

images of Trump dozing during today's cabinet meeting

(Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)

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Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social · 2d

What's Trump gaining by blowing up boats in the Caribbean?

It's the same as the deportations: first criminals, then undocumented, next revoke documentation, then naturalization, now anyone "not compatible"... Next?

He's preparing Americans to accept using the military to blow up domestic targets

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for President Trump, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, are expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Moscow on Tuesday, as the White House pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine. Follow live.

Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Envoy to Meet With Putin in Moscow

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

December 1, 2025

President Donald J.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

November 30, 2025

On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5d

November 29, 2025

In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 5d

This week’s “History Matters,”

…with a surprise reference to the first day of Thanksgiving under the Constitution (giving thanks for our ability to create a new government—for learning—and for science. Really.)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=7x4E...

History Matters (...and so does coffee!)

YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, so this is why the Department of Labor decided to deploy the term bizarre term "Americanism" in its winking neo-Nazi post today

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Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 5d

#ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them.

#DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it.

#Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them.

#PamBondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.
#CivilRights
@aclu.org #FuckICE

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 5d

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Critical Thinking with AI Mode #51: Titanic cyclists

YouTube video by Mike Caulfield

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5d

November 28, 2025

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: As part of his contempt inquiry, Judge Boasberg orders DHS Sec Kristi Noem and other officials to submit declarations by 12/5 attesting to their actions relating to the decision not to turn around March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights.

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
J.G.G., et al.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 25-766 (JEB)
ORDER
At the hearing on November 19, 2025, the Court offered both sides an opportunity to propose next steps in its inquiry into whether a criminal-contempt referral is appropriate. The
Government, now for the first time, has identified who purportedly made the decision not to
recall planes containing Alien Enemies Act detainees on March 15, 2025: Homeland Security
Secretary Kristi Noem. See ECF No. 195 (Def. Resp.) at 2. Defendants nonetheless maintain, relying heavily on Judge Katsas's concurring opinion for the D.C. Circuit panel, that her decision
was proper and not contumacious. Id. at 3-4 (citing J.G.G. v. Trump, 147 F.4th 1044, 1052
(D.C. Cir. 2025) (Katsas, J., concurring)). As a result, the Government posits that "no further steps are warranted" because "Defendants did not violate this Court's order." Id. at 1. Given that the other two panel members (plus the majority of the en banc court) did not agree with J.
Katsas, the Court is not prepared at this juncture to terminate its inquiry. Instead, it must
determine whether Secretary Noem or anyone else should be referred for potential contempt
prosecution. In other words, the Court must decide if: (1) the court order was "clear and
reasonably specific"; (2) "the defendant violated the order"; and (3) "the violation was willful."

United States v. Young, 107 F.3d 903, 907 (D.C. Cir. 1997) (quoting United States v. NYNEX
Corp., 8 F.3d 52, 54 (D.C. Cir. 1993)).
In conducting such inquiry, Plaintiffs submit that the Court should "require the
government to promptly file declarations) identifying all individuals involved in the decision not
to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025." ECF No. 193 (Pl. Resp.) at 1. "[O]nce these declarations are filed and depending on what
information they disclose, the Court should then determine the appropriate sequence of witness
testimony, and the manner in which that testimony should be provided." Id. The Government
similarly notes: "If the Court believes any further information is needed for [its inquiry],
Defendants respectfully request an opportunity to provide that information to the Court by way
of declarations in the first instance (as even Plaintiffs agree is appropriate)." Def. Resp. at 1.
The Court will adopt the parties' agreement on starting with declarations; it will then
assess the need for witness testimony. It therefore ORDERS that by December 5, 2025, the
Government shall submit declarations from all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the
transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025. Such
declarations shall detail their roles in such decision.
/s/ James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
Chief Judge

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 6d

I worked these issues with Todd.

He knows what he’s talking about.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign.
Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight “would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,” said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.

Melissa Johnson @moolissap.bsky.social · 6d

Gravity by Reese Knightley

a.co/d/crY3WT4

Power. Loyalty. Love. The only weapons left when the bullets run out.

#NowReading #RomanticSuspense #LGBTQRomance #LoveIsLove #MMRomance #ReadWithPride #BookLove #bookstagram #bookish #GenesisSavageWarriors #ReeseKnightley

“Stone had held him like he was the only thing that mattered, and kissed him like a promise.
And against all his better instincts, Dave finally let himself believe.”

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow on my live webcast “History Matters:”

There ARE Things To Give Thanks For!

Join us!

We’ll be using the link below!

m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

Dr. Joanne Freeman

Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...

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