Debra Johnson

#STAYWOKE:ALERT&AWAKE There are armed, masked men running around drunk on power.

The NYT — having been shamed for years for not posting court opinions — now does so, but only with its enraging workaround of posting a link to a page that has individual images of each page of any opinion. So, here, you load a page of 55 images that are completely unworkable for any future use.

Breaking: Ninth Circuit on 2-1 Vote Rejects DOJ’s Attempt to Get an Injunction Pending Appeal for California to Segregate Ballots [Now Updated with Analysis of What Happens Next] electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...

Federal Court Speeds Up Considering Mary Peltola and LWV’s Motion to Dismiss the DOJ’s Complaint to Block Certification in Alaska Senate Race electionlawblog.org/2026/federal...

Lol. This is from the per curiam order:

NEW: As expected, on a 2-1 vote, the Ninth Circuit dismisses DOJ's appeal in the US v. California case over DOJ's claims relating to "likely noncitizen" voting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: In the golf course case, Judge Reyes will hold a hearing Friday or Monday, ordering Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward to attend. In addition to the show-cause order raised in her Monday opinion, Reyes now wants answers regarding Trump's Truth social post issued later Monday as well.

BREAKING: In a blistering order, Judge Hinderaker details how the Trump admin only has done anything in the case of Ahmed Soliman when ordered to do so. As such, he now orders DOJ to address each of the 11 steps he sees as being needed to bring Soliman back to the U.S.

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"The biggest divide I found in Congress wasn't Democrat versus Republican, it was safe seats versus competitive seats," Nickel said. " www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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It shows you how bad the Vivek thing is. Staffer for one of the slimiest guys in congress, who literally made jokes about Dems pols getting murdered in Minnesota, gets the fully story and issues an abject apology.

NEW: Justice Elena Kagan blasted the Supreme Court's conservative majority for undermining democracy in various rulings that have turbocharged partisan redistricting, eviscerated the Voting Rights Act & eliminated campaign finance restrictions. She didn't hold back: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

ICYMI: Kagan weighs in on the Supreme Court’s role in political parties’ race to the bottom, making an already polarized country more so & the justices blinding themselves to the consequences of their actions

Here’s my breaking news report at Law Dork on today’s SCOTUS order: www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

Just going to be straight here — no pun intended: I am the only journalist who has been covering this issue in depth, was often the only journalist at hearings, and was the only one explaining what DOJ was actually arguing here. Support my work if you can: www.lawdork.com/subscribe

Harassment. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” — Frank Zappa

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I recently was asked about “a new world order,” to which I invited us to consider not only who a “new world order” is benefiting, but also push for a reordered world order, one that includes things like a cessation of genocide in Gaza. (1/2)

Politics aside, let's just say the writing is not very good in these dispatches. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4440/

Interesting fact about John Steinbeck (probably the author I've read the most, given I grew up in California): despite his reputation as a populist and leftist, his last writing was a series of dispatches from the war in Viet Nam. He was pro-America and pro-war.

Israel says killing 20 civilians to get one Hamas fighter is legal. If one American civilian was killed to get one American soldier, Americans would call that a war crime. "Proportionality" is racist, colonial, imperialist self-justifying garbage, because it never works in reverse.

A note about radical solidarity during these times – and why it is so important. More thoughts can be found in my latest interview with Chapter House Journal. Hope you'll check it out. Full interview link: chjournal.com/chapter-hous... Full interview link is also in bio.

Link for tickets: www.symphonyspace.org/events/selec... (3/3)

I had the honor and pleasure of editing this year’s BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. If you’re in New York, please come to the celebration of this volume, which has twenty great short stories and a list of a hundred more fine stories published last year. (1/3)

INSIDE GAZA is about the Palestinian journalists who worked in Gaza for Agence France Presse and what they saw on October 7 and the months afterwards. Come and see the film at USC and then stay for the conversation with director Hélène Lam Trong, Mai Yaghi, one of the journalists, and me. Nov 5.

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Politics is where culture wars masquerade as religious convictions for the benefit of the wealthy, immoral & power-hungry people. Texans aren't voting for or against their religious beliefs. They are free to practice them. Culture wars are for controlling others. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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Great book. I hope the film does it justice. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

I believe in mercy. I just wish the justice system distributed it to all races equally. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Musk is corrupt. Trump is corrupt. The GOP is corrupt. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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Hindsight is 20/20. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

There should have been many more. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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Ultra-wealthy donors are spending a staggering $430 million to fight state efforts to raise their taxes. If they can afford to drop millions of dollars to keep their taxes low, they can afford to pay slightly higher taxes. They’re making the case for taxing the rich better than anyone else could.

Alaskans want a senator who invests in Alaska, not overseas wars that make life more expensive for everyone. Dan Sullivan has voted for this price-hiking Iran war 14 times while gutting critical services Alaskans rely on.

"No one knows how many veterans who protected us while serving in the United States military have been deported, often to countries they haven't seen since they were babies." On paper, they are eligible for benefits from the VA, but there are many obstacles. www.dailyjournal.com/articles/377...

What kind of superannuated screaming toddler picks fights with Canada? Yeah, I know. Rhetorical question. And most actual toddlers grow up fine if they have adult supervision.

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

For anyone still confused: No one wants to keep police from arresting suspects at a crime scene or with a warrant. We DON'T want ICE to run loose in the streets abducting people, or shooting people whose kids are in their cars. ICE, despite the "E", is a piss-poor excuse for law enforcement.

If anyone who voted MAGA is sad about what they got for their vote, they shouldn’t be They wanted the global economy to be a bank robbery and now that’s what it is They wanted to halt their country’s liberal progress and injure and insult innocent people all over the world and that’s what they did

Bernie's Right, Tax The Billionaires

Eight people are presumed dead in the B-52 crash in California today. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is removing portraits of Black generals and spending millions of dollars on ribeye steaks and lobster tails.