John Walson
@walsonbot.bsky.social
Neither a lawyer nor a political scientist. Even my sarcasm is sincere.
AtlUtd, Everton, Georgetown (it’s been a rough few years)
AtlUtd, Everton, Georgetown (it’s been a rough few years)
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Where we are as a country
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Where we are as a country
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The malicious compliance aspect of this is that students can apparently now submit a complaint against every professor in the university and shut the whole place down indefinitely.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The malicious compliance aspect of this is that students can apparently now submit a complaint against every professor in the university and shut the whole place down indefinitely.
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This is an impeachment offense, and if our press were worth half of a quarter of a shit, it would be all over every single channel, kind of like Joe Biden being a bit slow with a name now and then.
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This is an impeachment offense, and if our press were worth half of a quarter of a shit, it would be all over every single channel, kind of like Joe Biden being a bit slow with a name now and then.
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The University of Nebraska is closing their statistics department. Especially if you're all in on AI this is so short-sighted. It's like launching the first spacecraft into outer space and being like "welp time to close astrophysics and rocketry and only teach classes on buckling up your seat belts"
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The University of Nebraska is closing their statistics department. Especially if you're all in on AI this is so short-sighted. It's like launching the first spacecraft into outer space and being like "welp time to close astrophysics and rocketry and only teach classes on buckling up your seat belts"
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Given that the Fed Courts outside of SCOTUS and BabySCOTUS (the FUBAR 5th) are mostly holding the line these days, worth noting that courts generally require a nexus between threatened grant money and the reason it’s being threatened.
ie, you can’t say “no highway funds if you legalize abortion.”
ie, you can’t say “no highway funds if you legalize abortion.”
RIGHT NOW: Republican Senator Greg Goode, one of the key undecided senators (who actually voted to advance the gerrymander past committee on Tuesday) is giving a speech that makes it pretty clear he's going to vote no.
Says his constituents kept telling him to oppose it.
Says his constituents kept telling him to oppose it.
Happening this afternoon: the Indiana Senate votes on redistricting.
Since mid-decade gerrymandering began over the summer, this is the only actual vote that feels genuinely undecided going into the roll call.
Since mid-decade gerrymandering began over the summer, this is the only actual vote that feels genuinely undecided going into the roll call.
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Given that the Fed Courts outside of SCOTUS and BabySCOTUS (the FUBAR 5th) are mostly holding the line these days, worth noting that courts generally require a nexus between threatened grant money and the reason it’s being threatened.
ie, you can’t say “no highway funds if you legalize abortion.”
ie, you can’t say “no highway funds if you legalize abortion.”
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On Reddit, a post shows the ways in which 287(g) agreements, combined with ICE's mass deportation efforts are making a total hash of the the basic functioning of a fair system — a man in Florida was pulled over for a traffic stop on his way to an asylum interview and is now detained in Colorado!
December 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
On Reddit, a post shows the ways in which 287(g) agreements, combined with ICE's mass deportation efforts are making a total hash of the the basic functioning of a fair system — a man in Florida was pulled over for a traffic stop on his way to an asylum interview and is now detained in Colorado!
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“Nay, sir,” the golden-haired girl rejoined, pursing her plump lips in a fetching display of petulance. “If I cannot interview the Thane of Westmarch before the moon wanes, I fear it bodes ill for the fate of the Council itself”
December 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“Nay, sir,” the golden-haired girl rejoined, pursing her plump lips in a fetching display of petulance. “If I cannot interview the Thane of Westmarch before the moon wanes, I fear it bodes ill for the fate of the Council itself”
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Lane Kiffin has the chance to do the funniest thing of all time
December 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Lane Kiffin has the chance to do the funniest thing of all time
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Yup, they got the sanctioned tanker. THANK GOD, I was legit worried he just ordered the US Navy to commit actual piracy. Lololol. This is 100% defensible, even tho a lot of people are gonna really hate hearing that.
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Yup, they got the sanctioned tanker. THANK GOD, I was legit worried he just ordered the US Navy to commit actual piracy. Lololol. This is 100% defensible, even tho a lot of people are gonna really hate hearing that.
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For the rest of my life I will refer to him as “Justice Kavanaugh Stop”
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
For the rest of my life I will refer to him as “Justice Kavanaugh Stop”
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They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded...
www.justice.gov
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
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"The electoral requirement is that the [member of Congress] make pleasing judgmental statements, not that they make pleasing things happen." (Mayhew 1974)
RFK Jr. is a completely unqualified conspiracy theorist who is putting newborn babies at risk.
The reckless decision to end a proven vaccine recommendation has no scientific basis.
This guy has got to go.
The reckless decision to end a proven vaccine recommendation has no scientific basis.
This guy has got to go.
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"The electoral requirement is that the [member of Congress] make pleasing judgmental statements, not that they make pleasing things happen." (Mayhew 1974)
If there is one accusation I might actually believe is not a confession, it’s this one.
I can imagine Trump happily scrawling his name on things all day long.
I can imagine Trump happily scrawling his name on things all day long.
Trump: "I just heard it could be all four commissioners in the Fed signed by Biden including Too Late, I hear that the autopen may have signed those commissions. If they signed those commissions ... you can't use the autopen."
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
If there is one accusation I might actually believe is not a confession, it’s this one.
I can imagine Trump happily scrawling his name on things all day long.
I can imagine Trump happily scrawling his name on things all day long.
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After posing an extistential threat to the legal profession earlier in 2025, it is amazing watching DOJ slow walking into oblivion the the law firm executive orders appeals. The latest: A motion for a 45-day extension of time to file a motion regarding the appellate briefing format and schedule.
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
After posing an extistential threat to the legal profession earlier in 2025, it is amazing watching DOJ slow walking into oblivion the the law firm executive orders appeals. The latest: A motion for a 45-day extension of time to file a motion regarding the appellate briefing format and schedule.
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history of unitary executive theory, in one tweet
Step 1 - Formal logic requires you, a principled legal movement, to override centuries of tradition. Functionalism is irrelevant.
Step 2 - Functionalism requires you, a sensible legal movement, to create exceptions to the formal logic of Step 1.
Step 1 - Formal logic requires you, a principled legal movement, to override centuries of tradition. Functionalism is irrelevant.
Step 2 - Functionalism requires you, a sensible legal movement, to create exceptions to the formal logic of Step 1.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
history of unitary executive theory, in one tweet
Step 1 - Formal logic requires you, a principled legal movement, to override centuries of tradition. Functionalism is irrelevant.
Step 2 - Functionalism requires you, a sensible legal movement, to create exceptions to the formal logic of Step 1.
Step 1 - Formal logic requires you, a principled legal movement, to override centuries of tradition. Functionalism is irrelevant.
Step 2 - Functionalism requires you, a sensible legal movement, to create exceptions to the formal logic of Step 1.
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I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
Some Red Dead Redemption stuff here. He’ll get a better gun as soon as he levels up by robbing more stores.
Man arrested, accused of robbing Tulsa liquor store with antique gun
Man arrested, accused of robbing liquor store with antique gun
The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.
www.fox23.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Some Red Dead Redemption stuff here. He’ll get a better gun as soon as he levels up by robbing more stores.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually
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Cats (of all sizes) are apex predators and the average house cat doesn't try to eat you because they've decided that you're too large to kill.
December 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Cats (of all sizes) are apex predators and the average house cat doesn't try to eat you because they've decided that you're too large to kill.
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"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
A national treasure…
Oh, I mean Alexandra Petri. Not Trump. Just so we’re all clear here.
Oh, I mean Alexandra Petri. Not Trump. Just so we’re all clear here.
Donald Trump’s dream of hosting the Kennedy Center Honors came true last night—in an evening that had the characteristics “of a wish made on a monkey’s paw,” @petridishes.bsky.social writes:
Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors
The president and I both got our heart’s desire. But something felt wrong.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A national treasure…
Oh, I mean Alexandra Petri. Not Trump. Just so we’re all clear here.
Oh, I mean Alexandra Petri. Not Trump. Just so we’re all clear here.
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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Ok but I was born in the 1980s and social media still broke my brain lol.
But at least I’m aware of it and am actively working to change that. No longer being on Twitter has helped a lot. No algorithm is huge.
But at least I’m aware of it and am actively working to change that. No longer being on Twitter has helped a lot. No algorithm is huge.
Basically the only people that are capable of safely consuming online content are those born in the 1980s
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ok but I was born in the 1980s and social media still broke my brain lol.
But at least I’m aware of it and am actively working to change that. No longer being on Twitter has helped a lot. No algorithm is huge.
But at least I’m aware of it and am actively working to change that. No longer being on Twitter has helped a lot. No algorithm is huge.