Eric Johnson

@erictjohnson.bsky.social

Retired metal head. No, I'm not from Texas and don't play the guitar. ✌️😎

Seeing people confused about Fauci taking the Fifth even though he was pre-emptively pardoned by Biden. Pardons only cover past conduct; they don't immunize future lawbreaking. Fauci's claim is Trump II DOJ would gin up a perjury investigation into him based on anything he says today.

David Barton is a fake historian who wrote a book on Thomas Jefferson that was so inaccurate his publisher was forced to pull it from the shelves. Now Barton, and his son Tim, are advising Trump on his anti-Smithsonian crusade.

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“By Monday evening, the story had hit CBS News New York. ‘Thousands of 9/11 victims' families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year's solemn remembrance ceremony,’ the network reported. After Popular Information reached out for comment, that line was removed.”

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

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1. ICE is lying about body cams and I have the documents that prove it. On July 14, Tom Homan, who oversees ICE's immigration crackdown at the White House, said that ICE purchased body cams as soon as Democrats approved funding for DHS in April. That is a lie.

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🚨BIG news! Fifth Circuit says undocumented immigrants with no criminal records, specifically those who came across the border at some point long in the past, MUST be given a bond hearing within 90 days of arrest, at which the government must be able to justify continued jailing.

Given the absence of any categorical justification for detention, unlike 
in Zadvydas (aliens who have been found to be removable) and Demore (aliens 
who were convicted of criminal offenses), there is no reason to lengthen the 
period of time during which the validity of detention can be presumed.13  We 
conclude that the Government may detain aliens under Section 
1225(b)(2)(A) for ninety days but no longer without a bond hearing.  We 
described earlier the manner in which, by regulations, the Government hadWe are not ordering any particular 
process, and it is for the defendants to determine in what manner to provide 
such a hearing within those 90 days.  Failure to provide timely hearings might 
again lead to the involvement of district courts.  Our only requirement is that 
a hearing must be held within 90 days of the commencement of detention and 
that at the hearing, the Government must articulate an individualized 
justification for further detention without bond.  Two such justifications 
already have judicial imprimatur — dangerousness and flight risk — but we 
do not reject the possibility that the Government may be able to assert 
another justification why an unadmitted alien must be detained.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled 2-1 that ICE cannot detain people under the Trump administration's massive new detention policy for more than 90 days without affording them a bond hearing. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

To underscore: the 1910 law in question wasn't passed by the elected local government of DC - because DC had no elected local government between 1874 and 1975. It was passed by *Congress.* And it doesn't contain any language exempting federal buildings, or suggesting it doesn't apply to them.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo ago

The Trump administration is arguing that new federal construction projects — including President Trump’s controversial 250-foot arch — are not subject to a federal law that restricts most construction in D.C. to a maximum height of 130 feet.