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Joshua Holland@joshuaholland.bsky.social |
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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As president, I won’t offer an opinion as to whether jet fuel can melt steel or weigh in on the possibility that the Jews blew up the World Trade Center with thermite charges to start a conflagration in the Middle East because I’m a courageous free thinker.
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Joshua Holland
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The GOP’s nominee to run the 9th most populous state just called for killing people who disagree with the far-right and that sentiment was echoed by the head of Heritage and the man behind Project 2025. But like 90% of all political news is about Democratic hand-wringing over Biden’s debate flop.
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Joshua Holland
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And given the current polling and the conventional wisdom at present, staying in there undermines the (accurate) message that Trump poses an existential threat to American democracy.
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Joshua Holland
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I’m pretty sure that Biden could beat Trump. Seems unlikely that he can beat Trump, the legacy media and an increasingly large swath of the Dem donor class.
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Joshua Holland
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It’s a smart piece if you understand it as affording them plausible deniability for running a call for fascism.
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Joshua Holland
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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(Don’t tell my mom)
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Joshua Holland
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The boat next to the boat that I’m gonna spend the next week on just sank.
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Joshua Holland
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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It’s Peewee’s world and we’re just living in it.
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Joshua Holland
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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.”
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Joshua Holland
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What a clusterfuck.
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Joshua Holland
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This is by design. The right’s been working these refs for weeks and CNN’s political director is a lightweight who’s obsessed with social media.
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Joshua Holland
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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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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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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It's all about hyping up some drama. Informing the public is an afterthought at best.
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Joshua Holland
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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...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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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
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Joshua Holland
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The tone of the coverage is a bigger problem than the disproportionality. If they ran a zillion stories about how he walks stiffly and has always been famous for his gaffes but there's no evidence that he's suffering from dementia, they'd be doing their jobs.
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Joshua Holland
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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.
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Charles C. Mann
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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...
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Joshua Holland
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Media coverage is always more important anyway. I’ll follow that closely.
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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Somehow theocratic forced-birthers still get away with calling themselves "pro-life"
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Adam Serwer
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Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of
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Joshua Holland
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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As usual, no mention of any of this in the breathless "reporting" on Trump's fundraising.
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Joshua Holland
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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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Popehat
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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.”
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southpaw
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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... 🎁
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Coach Finstock
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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
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Joshua Holland
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Snyder playing the role of David Pecker in ‘24….
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Justin Ling
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i want to throw a brick through this column
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Joshua Holland
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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.
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Joshua Holland
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"...across three states,' but yeah. It's all about sustaining 18 months of drama.
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Joshua Holland
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Access journalism will always get you some useful scoops among the lame clicky “scoops.”
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Joshua Holland
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Nothing inherently wrong with using that kind of sourcing but the piece regurgitates conventional wisdom about early polling and offers zero useful context. Just a bit of anxiety bait that they wanted to publish and built a story around.
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Joshua Holland
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This piece quotes critiques by "a Dem strategist in touch with the campaign"; "a person in Biden's orbit"; "Dem strategist Howard Wolfson, who worked for former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the 2020 primary against Biden" and "a Dem operative who worked on several close races in the midterms."
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Joshua Holland
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We'll see how effective stirring them up proves to be as a political strategy.
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Joshua Holland
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"Dumb bigot" is redundant. These people both buy into the far-right's racist conspiracy theories and also always believe that they'll get away with this shit. There are a lot of stupid, gullible people with anger control issues in this country so this shit is happening every day.
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Chris Geidner
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NEW: A mandamus order from the Fifth Circuit and a “notice of compliance” in Alabama show how far removed reality is from the ideal of “equal justice under law” engraved above the U.S. Supreme Court’s doors.
Tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/two-courts...
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Joshua J. Friedman
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DOJ unseals indictment against doctor accused of stealing private health records from Texas Children's Hospital to leak to Chris Rufo to attack gender-affirming care
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Joshua Holland
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Everyone’s been checking in on me today, which is sweet.
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Joshua Holland
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My dad died 6 months ago and all kinds of random things can trigger a wave of grief but Father’s Day has been fine. I’d always take him out to dinner but we both thought of it as a Hallmark holiday and didn’t make a big thing of it.
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