Russell L. Johnson
@rlj003.bsky.social
Formerly a professor, not formerly The Professor.
Author of _Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City_ (Fordham UP) and various articles.
Author of _Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City_ (Fordham UP) and various articles.
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Russell L. Johnson
@rlj003.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Somewhere in Northeast Wisconsin
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Rather than turn former Honduran President Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison just four years into a 45-year sentence for allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S, the Trump administration paid to transport him to a posh NYC hotel.
Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment
After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.
www.propublica.org
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Rather than turn former Honduran President Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison just four years into a 45-year sentence for allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S, the Trump administration paid to transport him to a posh NYC hotel.
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"A new ruling from the Trump administration says that when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes. All remaining top scientists have been taken from their positions and tasked with getting to the bottom of this."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night
After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
"A new ruling from the Trump administration says that when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes. All remaining top scientists have been taken from their positions and tasked with getting to the bottom of this."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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George Zoley was on a conference call just a few hours ago talking about GEO's outstanding 2025. For fiscal year 2025, the company clocked an 800% increase in profit, thanks to our tax dollars. Just a massive wealth distribution upwards to this guy and his fellow profiteers. 800%.
February 13, 2026 at 12:15 AM
George Zoley was on a conference call just a few hours ago talking about GEO's outstanding 2025. For fiscal year 2025, the company clocked an 800% increase in profit, thanks to our tax dollars. Just a massive wealth distribution upwards to this guy and his fellow profiteers. 800%.
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The Trump administration this week delivers a 1-2 punch to science. This is the triumph of irrationality and conspiracy mongering.
February 11, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The Trump administration this week delivers a 1-2 punch to science. This is the triumph of irrationality and conspiracy mongering.
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social said it best…
February 9, 2026 at 4:35 AM
@radiofreetom.bsky.social said it best…
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Well when you put it that way...
February 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Well when you put it that way...
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Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers.
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers.
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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“Do your own research” sounds empowering ... until people fall victim to disinformation.
On the other hand, turning to a consensus of experts gives you guidance based on rigorous group decision-making, where trained people take common evidence and systematically weigh it.
On the other hand, turning to a consensus of experts gives you guidance based on rigorous group decision-making, where trained people take common evidence and systematically weigh it.
‘Expertise’ shouldn’t be a bad word – expert consensus guides science and society
Expertise comes with training, experience and accreditation. And expert consensus is the best guide modern democracies have for making decisions about complicated challenges.
buff.ly
January 25, 2026 at 5:35 AM
“Do your own research” sounds empowering ... until people fall victim to disinformation.
On the other hand, turning to a consensus of experts gives you guidance based on rigorous group decision-making, where trained people take common evidence and systematically weigh it.
On the other hand, turning to a consensus of experts gives you guidance based on rigorous group decision-making, where trained people take common evidence and systematically weigh it.
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Is this who we are?
January 22, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Is this who we are?
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Anne Applebaum: "Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." I fully subscribe to this analysis.
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Anne Applebaum: "Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." I fully subscribe to this analysis.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
January 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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January 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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In 1993, Trump signed mortgages for 2 homes in Florida, claiming each as his principal residence.
He does not appear to have ever lived in either, let alone used them as a principal residence. They were investment properties & rented out.
Yet he accuses others of fraud?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
He does not appear to have ever lived in either, let alone used them as a principal residence. They were investment properties & rented out.
Yet he accuses others of fraud?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal — ProPublica
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
apple.news
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
In 1993, Trump signed mortgages for 2 homes in Florida, claiming each as his principal residence.
He does not appear to have ever lived in either, let alone used them as a principal residence. They were investment properties & rented out.
Yet he accuses others of fraud?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
He does not appear to have ever lived in either, let alone used them as a principal residence. They were investment properties & rented out.
Yet he accuses others of fraud?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
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The babies who will become infected as a result of this vote — and some will die prematurely of liver disease — will overwhelmingly be those born to marginalized, underserved families. This is a profound failure of evidence-based public health and a big step backwards. 2/2
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The babies who will become infected as a result of this vote — and some will die prematurely of liver disease — will overwhelmingly be those born to marginalized, underserved families. This is a profound failure of evidence-based public health and a big step backwards. 2/2
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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Trump, long an enthusiastic advocate of extrajudicial killings and war crimes, "has been lusting for this kind of violence for years, maybe decades. And he has made no secret of it. This is what he wanted, and this is what he is doing right now. Expect much more." [@sykescharlie.bsky.social]
"The Order Was to Kill Everybody."
Pete Hegseth's murders. And our War Crimes President.
charliesykes.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump, long an enthusiastic advocate of extrajudicial killings and war crimes, "has been lusting for this kind of violence for years, maybe decades. And he has made no secret of it. This is what he wanted, and this is what he is doing right now. Expect much more." [@sykescharlie.bsky.social]
It's Munich 1938 and Trump is Neville Chamberlain.
Shaheen: I have made it clear that I believe this is a Russian proposal. I hope that tomorrow’s negotiations in Geneva focus on a real framework that guarantees an outcome benefiting Ukraine rather than Russia.
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's Munich 1938 and Trump is Neville Chamberlain.
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Somewhere in Northeast Wisconsin
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November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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100% worth the read.
TLDR version: the ONE part of ONE study had a barely statistically significant correlation (which is NOT causality, google “does ice cream cause aggression“ to learn more), and this outcome couldn’t be replicated despite SEVERAL studies trying to find it. It was a fluke.
TLDR version: the ONE part of ONE study had a barely statistically significant correlation (which is NOT causality, google “does ice cream cause aggression“ to learn more), and this outcome couldn’t be replicated despite SEVERAL studies trying to find it. It was a fluke.
The corrupted CDC website refers to a Danish study (Andersson et al) and "a statistically significant 67% increased risk of Asperger's syndrome per 1 mg increase in aluminum exposure among children born between 2007 and 2018 (Supplement Figure 4)." It's worth putting this into context. Short 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 AM
100% worth the read.
TLDR version: the ONE part of ONE study had a barely statistically significant correlation (which is NOT causality, google “does ice cream cause aggression“ to learn more), and this outcome couldn’t be replicated despite SEVERAL studies trying to find it. It was a fluke.
TLDR version: the ONE part of ONE study had a barely statistically significant correlation (which is NOT causality, google “does ice cream cause aggression“ to learn more), and this outcome couldn’t be replicated despite SEVERAL studies trying to find it. It was a fluke.
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Ironically, it's difficult to talk about climate change when you're battling oppressive heat and torrential rain
Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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UN Orders Brazil to Improve Security, Poor Conditions at COP30
A top UN climate official demanded Brazilian authorities immediately develop a plan for addressing security lapses, soaring temperatures, flooding and other poor conditions at the COP30 conference in ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Ironically, it's difficult to talk about climate change when you're battling oppressive heat and torrential rain
Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Seriously, for their own good, Dems who voted for this need to not be saying “we did a good thing, this is why.”
The line needs to be “we fought like hell to get healthcare back, but Donald Trump was willing to burn the country to the ground.”
The line needs to be “we fought like hell to get healthcare back, but Donald Trump was willing to burn the country to the ground.”
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Seriously, for their own good, Dems who voted for this need to not be saying “we did a good thing, this is why.”
The line needs to be “we fought like hell to get healthcare back, but Donald Trump was willing to burn the country to the ground.”
The line needs to be “we fought like hell to get healthcare back, but Donald Trump was willing to burn the country to the ground.”