CLJohnson
@cjenergy.bsky.social
Economist and expert witness. 40 years in energy regulation. AEA member. Long time consumer advocate, and interested in civil rights, environment, government. Also, an Astros baseball fan.
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"Our sweat, ingenuity, and toil created all that Oil."
Stephen Miller, chief prevaricator and fabulous fabricator
Stephen Miller, chief prevaricator and fabulous fabricator
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"Our sweat, ingenuity, and toil created all that Oil."
Stephen Miller, chief prevaricator and fabulous fabricator
Stephen Miller, chief prevaricator and fabulous fabricator
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Trump administration is by, for, and of Vladimir Putin. Instead of America First, Trump stands for Russia First.
US government is going to extreme lengths to help Putin and hurt Ukraine.
Now threatening European states that if they use Russian assets to help Ukraine, they will have to pay it all back.
Trump is desperate to give Putin his money back.
Now threatening European states that if they use Russian assets to help Ukraine, they will have to pay it all back.
Trump is desperate to give Putin his money back.
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Trump administration is by, for, and of Vladimir Putin. Instead of America First, Trump stands for Russia First.
Monsters. How could officials hear the presentation and then turn around to eat a breakfast buffet like they were at Mar a Lago? Where is the conscience?
NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Monsters. How could officials hear the presentation and then turn around to eat a breakfast buffet like they were at Mar a Lago? Where is the conscience?
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"Mr. Kast is the son of German immigrants. His brother Miguel was a former minister during Chile’s military dictatorship under Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Mr. Kast has expressed admiration for General Pinochet, who ruled the country for nearly two decades"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...
Conservative Wins Resoundingly in Chile’s Presidential Election
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"Mr. Kast is the son of German immigrants. His brother Miguel was a former minister during Chile’s military dictatorship under Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Mr. Kast has expressed admiration for General Pinochet, who ruled the country for nearly two decades"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...
Fascist says what?
War Crimes videos are classified Top Secret. Despite Trump telling us the video of the second strike would be released.
War Crimes videos are classified Top Secret. Despite Trump telling us the video of the second strike would be released.
December 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Fascist says what?
War Crimes videos are classified Top Secret. Despite Trump telling us the video of the second strike would be released.
War Crimes videos are classified Top Secret. Despite Trump telling us the video of the second strike would be released.
The absurdity. Administration hates Abrega Garcia so much that IHE claims that failing to issue a deportation order several years ago was a scrivener's error...and chief immigration judge "corrects" the error with a nunc pro tunc order.
"The jury verdict from 10 years ago contains a scrivener's error insofar as it states that the defendant was not guilty. We are changing that, nunc pro tunc, to guilty."
Yeah, no.
Yeah, no.
It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!
December 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The absurdity. Administration hates Abrega Garcia so much that IHE claims that failing to issue a deportation order several years ago was a scrivener's error...and chief immigration judge "corrects" the error with a nunc pro tunc order.
"They are all in on AI. And they are all in on Trump. And both of those things right now are very unpopular."
The backlash couldn't happen to a more unsympathetic group of oligarchs.
The backlash couldn't happen to a more unsympathetic group of oligarchs.
Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...
Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel?
Today, I want to share some additional thoughts with you on this...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"They are all in on AI. And they are all in on Trump. And both of those things right now are very unpopular."
The backlash couldn't happen to a more unsympathetic group of oligarchs.
The backlash couldn't happen to a more unsympathetic group of oligarchs.
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
The new normal. Go out to eat and get locked in the restaurant until you prove that you are a citizen. To anyone who voted for Trump: Is this what you wanted?
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The new normal. Go out to eat and get locked in the restaurant until you prove that you are a citizen. To anyone who voted for Trump: Is this what you wanted?
Wow. Who would have guessed?
All of the investigations into universities are shams reflecting MAGA's deep hostility to rational thought.
All of the investigations into universities are shams reflecting MAGA's deep hostility to rational thought.
NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process.
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their invetigati...
www.latimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Wow. Who would have guessed?
All of the investigations into universities are shams reflecting MAGA's deep hostility to rational thought.
All of the investigations into universities are shams reflecting MAGA's deep hostility to rational thought.
What a hyoocrite. All Graham can do is bloviate about Trump and blame everything on Biden and Obama. A reminder that the Graham of the past called Biden as good as man as God can make. youtu.be/kLMYW8jFPHg?...
December 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What a hyoocrite. All Graham can do is bloviate about Trump and blame everything on Biden and Obama. A reminder that the Graham of the past called Biden as good as man as God can make. youtu.be/kLMYW8jFPHg?...
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The once respected FBI now cannot even provide the most basic answers to congress about "terrorism." A typical response: "It's fluid." Good questions by Rep. Thompson. Thompson: I know you wouldn't come here and try to make up stuff. But you did!
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The once respected FBI now cannot even provide the most basic answers to congress about "terrorism." A typical response: "It's fluid." Good questions by Rep. Thompson. Thompson: I know you wouldn't come here and try to make up stuff. But you did!
Important thread. Argentina shows us what Trump and the techbros have in store for U.S. democracy. Meta, Tik Tok, and X are all in on the psychological operation aimed at creating fear and panic in the population.
1/6 Argentina just showed Americans how an unpopular authoritarian can still win. Milei wrecked the economy, scared the country, and then used that fear to flip the election. It was not a comeback. It was a psychological operation. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Important thread. Argentina shows us what Trump and the techbros have in store for U.S. democracy. Meta, Tik Tok, and X are all in on the psychological operation aimed at creating fear and panic in the population.
This is ridiculous. A Turning Point chapter in every Texas high school? What would Patrick and Abbott say if someone said every high school should have a Young Democrat club, a LULAC or NAACP youth council or Black Muslim youth group? I think we know the answer to that question.
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is ridiculous. A Turning Point chapter in every Texas high school? What would Patrick and Abbott say if someone said every high school should have a Young Democrat club, a LULAC or NAACP youth council or Black Muslim youth group? I think we know the answer to that question.
This is new breed of hyper-corrupt facism. The purpose of tariffs is to leverage power over foreign countries to drain their technology. AI technology is built on fed land and owned by the federal government...and branded as Trump industries. Trump likes it but needs to get his beek wetter.
Trump-branded industrial parks...
Built on federal lands...
And owned by the federal government?
Yikes. www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...
Built on federal lands...
And owned by the federal government?
Yikes. www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is new breed of hyper-corrupt facism. The purpose of tariffs is to leverage power over foreign countries to drain their technology. AI technology is built on fed land and owned by the federal government...and branded as Trump industries. Trump likes it but needs to get his beek wetter.
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Frank Sinatra loathed Donald Trump.
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Frank Sinatra loathed Donald Trump.
Trump is incapable of concealing his true motives for anything. And in this case, the pardon was motivated by a desire to grab another House seat for the GOP. Cuellar is running as a Dem....and that enraged DT's mafia mindeset.
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Trump is incapable of concealing his true motives for anything. And in this case, the pardon was motivated by a desire to grab another House seat for the GOP. Cuellar is running as a Dem....and that enraged DT's mafia mindeset.
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
These MAGA voters like Hegseth's second strike against the shipwrecked. "If you are caught up in something detrimental to society, I think you should die." They would be quite at home with stoning people.
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
These MAGA voters like Hegseth's second strike against the shipwrecked. "If you are caught up in something detrimental to society, I think you should die." They would be quite at home with stoning people.
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This is all true but my friend who works with the National Parks says it’s important to remember that most National parks are free every day. It’s only some parks that charve to control capacity.
A true sign of autocracy. Let's hail Dear Leader over Martin Luther King Jr.
www.ms.now/news/trumps-...
www.ms.now/news/trumps-...
Trump’s birthday replaces MLK Day as a free National Parks day
U.S. residents will be able to enter the parks free of charge on what the Trump administration refers to as “patriotic” days, which will now include Trump’s birthday.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is all true but my friend who works with the National Parks says it’s important to remember that most National parks are free every day. It’s only some parks that charve to control capacity.
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A 27 year old man in end stage kidney failure was told if he wanted his dialysis he has to sign self deportation papers.
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
Family says critically ill man was pressured into deportation order after 'Charlotte's Web' sweep
Relatives of a 27-year-old Honduran man say he was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during "Operation Charlotte's Web." ICE denies the alle...
www.wfae.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A 27 year old man in end stage kidney failure was told if he wanted his dialysis he has to sign self deportation papers.
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
Facts matter. But the media is broken in many ways.
I'm going to sound like a broken record by the way I keep mentioning how 95% of Somalis in the Twin Cities metro area are US citizens, but very few mainstream outlets are pointing this out.
This should be very basic stuff for any news organization.
This should be very basic stuff for any news organization.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Facts matter. But the media is broken in many ways.