Jon Walker
@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social
Former Journalist. Now government regulator. Author: After Legalization: Understanding the Future of Marijuana Policy.
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Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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Trump posts an image of him holding a sign that reads, “Trump 2028, yes!”
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Trump posts an image of him holding a sign that reads, “Trump 2028, yes!”
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oh they are WORRIED worried about this one huh
(this seat was Trump +22)
(this seat was Trump +22)
Trump and Mike Johnson plan to hold a Monday evening tele-rally to boost Matt Van Epps in the #TN07 special election. www.axios.com/2025/11/28/t...
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
oh they are WORRIED worried about this one huh
(this seat was Trump +22)
(this seat was Trump +22)
This is illegal and of course invalidates every Pardon Trump gave to the Jan 6 coup members since that was all autopen.
Trump asserts he can reverse/void hundreds of executive actions by Biden, which may include pardons.
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is illegal and of course invalidates every Pardon Trump gave to the Jan 6 coup members since that was all autopen.
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Part of why this stuff keeps getting underreported is that our media class can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not a weightless debate over political ideology, but a declaration of war on over 100 million Americans, which DHS is announcing an intent to eliminate
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Part of why this stuff keeps getting underreported is that our media class can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not a weightless debate over political ideology, but a declaration of war on over 100 million Americans, which DHS is announcing an intent to eliminate
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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DHS and a Canadian neo-Nazi group.
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
DHS and a Canadian neo-Nazi group.
I understand why people say "send him to the Hague" but it can comes across unintentionally racist and first world chauvinists. The ICC is for when normal national judicial systems are broken. Hegseth is murdering Colombians and Colombia has a judicial system fully capable of holding him accountable
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I understand why people say "send him to the Hague" but it can comes across unintentionally racist and first world chauvinists. The ICC is for when normal national judicial systems are broken. Hegseth is murdering Colombians and Colombia has a judicial system fully capable of holding him accountable
Democrats (and everyone following Hegseth's orders) need to remember that while Trump can pardon Hegseth or make some "official acts" argument there is nothing stopping the next Dem president from sending Hegseth to Colombia to stand trial there for murder.
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Democrats (and everyone following Hegseth's orders) need to remember that while Trump can pardon Hegseth or make some "official acts" argument there is nothing stopping the next Dem president from sending Hegseth to Colombia to stand trial there for murder.
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We literally executed Germans after the war for doing what Bradley and everyone else involved did, and the Germans had a better justification (u-boat plausibly being targeted based on info provided by survivors vs.......whatever the hell pete was worried about here)
Given the justification was in part because they might communicate with someone, pete could ask Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and his XO what the law of armed conflict says about that, except oops, the allies shot them dead in 1945 after a trial
WaPo with reporting that Pete gave an explicit order to JSOC during the first strike post impact to immediately follow up in order to, and I quote, "kill them all"
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We literally executed Germans after the war for doing what Bradley and everyone else involved did, and the Germans had a better justification (u-boat plausibly being targeted based on info provided by survivors vs.......whatever the hell pete was worried about here)
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Look at this incredible data. Republicans have bailed on Mike Johnson. His Speakership is in trouble, and there is a reason why @aftynbehn.bsky.social has made a +22 Trump district competitive. 3/
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Look at this incredible data. Republicans have bailed on Mike Johnson. His Speakership is in trouble, and there is a reason why @aftynbehn.bsky.social has made a +22 Trump district competitive. 3/
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the authors kind of hint at this in the paper but the implications of this are really bad for inclusionary zoning policy. basically: there’s not really any level of market rate housing that you can replace with affordable housing and get better market outcomes
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
the authors kind of hint at this in the paper but the implications of this are really bad for inclusionary zoning policy. basically: there’s not really any level of market rate housing that you can replace with affordable housing and get better market outcomes
People understand that if you want a cheap car you don't try to get car companies to build brand new very cheap cars, you buy a 5 year old car with 40,000 miles that will still run for another 100,000.
Yet somehow people refuse to believe the same logic applies to housing.
Yet somehow people refuse to believe the same logic applies to housing.
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
People understand that if you want a cheap car you don't try to get car companies to build brand new very cheap cars, you buy a 5 year old car with 40,000 miles that will still run for another 100,000.
Yet somehow people refuse to believe the same logic applies to housing.
Yet somehow people refuse to believe the same logic applies to housing.
People are going to debate whether their candidates' message should be affordability or abundance or corruption BUT the only thing voters will care about in 2026 is how much you hate Trump and want to screw him over.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
People are going to debate whether their candidates' message should be affordability or abundance or corruption BUT the only thing voters will care about in 2026 is how much you hate Trump and want to screw him over.
Now that Trump's job approval rating is in the 30s they are turning the racism dial up to 11.
Things are going to get way uglier as Trump admin gets more and more unpopular. His teams is literally incapable of self reflection. We are in a tight downward spiral now.
Things are going to get way uglier as Trump admin gets more and more unpopular. His teams is literally incapable of self reflection. We are in a tight downward spiral now.
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Now that Trump's job approval rating is in the 30s they are turning the racism dial up to 11.
Things are going to get way uglier as Trump admin gets more and more unpopular. His teams is literally incapable of self reflection. We are in a tight downward spiral now.
Things are going to get way uglier as Trump admin gets more and more unpopular. His teams is literally incapable of self reflection. We are in a tight downward spiral now.
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Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
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Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
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Recession indicator. Tomorrow they're gonna tell you the best way to fix the suspenders on the big barrel you're wearing instead of clothes
"Never eating instant ramen any other way again," said a reader who tried this simple recipe. nyti.ms/4oVswSM
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Recession indicator. Tomorrow they're gonna tell you the best way to fix the suspenders on the big barrel you're wearing instead of clothes
Seriously, Trump is declaring a new illegal war on Thanksgiving!
Fresh U.S. efforts to stop suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers will take place on land "very soon," President Trump said today.
U.S. will stop alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on land "very soon," Trump says
"You probably noticed that people aren't wanting to be delivering by sea, and we'll be starting to stop them by land also."
www.axios.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Seriously, Trump is declaring a new illegal war on Thanksgiving!
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If I'm spending $100k on a personal vehicle, it better guarantee favorable treatment from the Supreme Court for years to come.
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If I'm spending $100k on a personal vehicle, it better guarantee favorable treatment from the Supreme Court for years to come.
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“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
Vaccines are the single greatest human achievement ever. Basically nothing is even close.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Vaccines are the single greatest human achievement ever. Basically nothing is even close.