Joshua Holland

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Burned out political writer and podcast/radio talker.

I was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and The Nation and a staff writer for Bill Moyers, among others.

Scuba diver and dog guy.

https://weve-got-issues.simplecast.com/

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It’s a smart piece if you understand it as affording them plausible deniability for running a call for fascism.

The NYT editors who greenlit a "Why I don't vote" essay (no link deserved) by a fascism-jealous theocrat to run on July 4th should be fired. That piece, which I immediately felt stupider for having read, made no useful points and only flaunted a privileged author's indifference from circumstances.

Trip was cut short cuz Hurricane Beryl is headed this way. But I had some really good dives, avoided reading news for a bit and am happy to get back to my dogs a coupla days early.

The boat next to the boat that I’m gonna spend the next week on just sank.

By not fact-checking in real time, that debate was in fact completely rigged against Biden but Dems haven’t spent years developing an all encompassing persecution narrative to break out any time something goes poorly.

The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

It’s Peewee’s world and we’re just living in it.

I have to respect the rotund, middle-aged white gentleman sitting in first class with a t-shirt reading, “smoke fat doobies and smack fat booties.”

Seems to be a consensus that Biden’s doing poorly and the moderators are letting Trump spew absolutely ludicrous lies without any pushback whatsoever. Glad I’m not watching.

A bunch of well intentioned people on Xitter are trying to fact-check the debate (which appears to be an utter shitshow). Someone has to do it but I’m not sure it matters.

The moment I take out the suitcase the dogs get weird. They know the deal. Anyway, enjoy the post-debate punditry. I’m going scuba diving.

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Speaking of the 10 Commandments, people often think "taking the Lord's name in vain" means using curse words. But, ironically, what it really means is doing shit like this.

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)

This actually gives me some hope since Nate Silver is usually wrong these days.

Elections Guru Nate Silver Gives Trump a 66% Chance of Winning the Election: Not a ‘Toss-Up’www.mediaite.com Nate Silver's model for the 2024 presidential election suggests that Donald Trump has a 66% chance of retaking the White House.

SCOTUS's social media decision may be a win for reality. It’s not a win for Biden. And the fact that the 5th Circuit embraced that idiotic right-wing conspiracy theory just shows how fucked the federal courts are.

It's all about hyping up some drama. Informing the public is an afterthought at best.

Compare the headline with the finding that 60% of adults say they're "likely to watch the debate live or in clips, or read about or listen to commentary about the performance of the candidates in the news or social media." Could you even avoid that if you tried? apnews.com/article/poll...

Most Americans plan to watch the Biden-Trump debate, and many see high stakes, an AP-NORC poll findsapnews.com A new poll finds most U.S. adults plan to watch or listen to some element of Thursday's presidential debate.

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The media isn't interested in the biggest technology story of the 2020s, the rapid transition to clean energy, because 1) it will destroy a bunch of oil based wealth and is a boring, competirive low margin business 2) it makes Democrats look good for helping it and they want Republicans to win

THERE’S A QUIET NEW DEAL GOING ON The antidote to Project 2025 is happening now and will die if Trump seizes power. So let’s make some noise.

Why is The Quiet New Deal so quiet? | the earlyworm societywww.patreon.com Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

Study of the top 5 newspapers found "144 articles focused on either or both Biden’s and Trump’s ages or mental acuities in the period studied, with 67% focused just on Biden’s age or mental acuity and only 7% on just Trump’s." It's clear bias, but we haven't been beating that drum for generations.

Top newspapers fixate on Biden's agewww.mediamatters.org

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The Cybertruck was released on Nov. 30. Today, Tesla announced it was recalling the vehicle for the fourth time, an impressive rough average of one recall every seven weeks. apnews.com/article/tesl...

For Tesla's futuristic new Cybertruck, a fourth recallapnews.com Tesla is recalling its futuristic new Cybertruck pickup for the fourth time in the U.S. to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose, and failing front windshield wipers.

The first presidential debate I watched was Carter-Reagan when I was 9 years old. This will be the first one I’ve skipped since then.

The election will be but I think the debates may well be the least consequential in history. The candidates are known quantities, few voters are up for grabs and I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets low ratings given how burned out most of us are.

Somehow theocratic forced-birthers still get away with calling themselves "pro-life" www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Texas abortion ban linked to rise in infant and newborn deaths. Is it a 'foreshadow' for other states?www.nbcnews.com “This might foreshadow what is happening in other states,” said Johns Hopkins public health researcher Alison Gemmill. “Texas is basically a year ahead.”

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Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of

My dogs called the cops and reported an attempted murder and now I have to go down to the station for an interview :( #dogsofbluesky

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Scorching heat across five continents set 1,400 records this week and showed how human-caused global warming has made catastrophic temperatures commonplace.

Billions of people just felt the deadly intensity of climate-fueled heat waveswapo.st Scorching heat across five continents set 1,400 records this week and showed how human-caused global warming has made catastrophic temperatures commonplace.

Yes, this entirely organic surge in popular support, which must be related to Trump's convictions because that's what the RW press says, is indeed shocking.

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“Frisk’s campaign said that he was exercising rights under the Second Amendment, which allows armed home defense, and the Third Amendment, which prohibits forcible quartering of soldiers in your home, the penumbras of which right clearly extend to allowing you to expel aggressive strippers.”

Neil Frisk is one of our MAGA Republican state lawmakers here in Michigan. Last night he solicited a local stripper and brought her home where they had a fight and he fired a gun at her. Friske campaign said he is "always exercising his 2nd Amendment right." www.fox2detroit.com/news/michiga...

Michigan lawmaker arrested for 'felony-level offense' in Lansing Thursday morningwww.fox2detroit.com State lawmaker Neil Friske, who is a Republican that represents Charlevoix and Emmet counties in northern Michigan, was taken into custody by Lansing Police.

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District Judge Cannon kept the Trump case against her chief’s advice, NYT reports. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/u... 🎁

Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Asidewww.nytimes.com Two federal judges in South Florida privately urged Aileen M. Cannon to decline the case when it was assigned to her last year, according to two people briefed on the matter. She chose to keep it.

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LMAO Elon's brand is so closely associated with abject failure and a cult following that people are rethinking their healthcare decisions

got a cybertruck question for the ladies

Snyder playing the role of David Pecker in ‘24…. www.thedailybeast.com/how-dan-snyd...

How the NFL’s ‘Worst-Ever’ Owner is Blocking Movie Showing ‘Rapist’ Trumpwww.thedailybeast.com Former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder might be able to stop “The Apprentice” from hitting screens thanks to a bizarre twist: He helped finance the movie.

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i want to throw a brick through this column

I’m not fond of this heat but it’s much harder on my dogs. And we’re not even allowed to walk shelter dogs in this soup.