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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A little professional news: I'm thrilled to announce I'm joining @politico.com as Politics Editor with an eye on the midterms and '28. This is gonna be so much fun. www.politico.com/blogs/politi...

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POLITICO Names Cameron Joseph Politics Editor

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Bill Press @billpress.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Another wild week really got the going panel today: Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief of CQ-Roll Call, @svdate.bsky.social, Sr. White House Correspondent @huffpost.com and @cameronjoseph.bsky.social, Senior Washington Reporter for the Christian Science Monitor. bit.ly/Click-2-Listen youtu.be/9Q7peudRywk

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Shutdown dealmaking Dem @shaheen.senate.gov on OMB threat not to give federal workers back pay: "Would be a lot easier to resolve the situation if Russ Vought would stop talking."

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Trump is threatening more mass gov't layoffs now that we're in the shutdown. He & Vought may have more to say on that today. But they don't have any more power to fire employees than they did yesterday—and actually may face some restrictions. Here come the lawsuits! www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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Trump threatens mass layoffs as shutdown begins. Can he do that?

A government shutdown is underway amid partisan spending disputes. What’s different this time: President Donald Trump is pledging to further reduce the federal workforce.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Quite a line from @duckworth.senate.gov when I asked her earlier about Trump's pocket rescissions and what Democrats' shutdown position should be: "Frankly, I don't know why we keep playing by the rules when Republicans are shooting referees in the face."

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I spent time over the recess talking to Latino voters in New Jersey about Trump & the upcoming gov race. Some are feeling buyer's remorse after Hispanic areas swung hard to Trump in '24. Even Trump supporters worried about deporting longtime residents. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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Are Trump’s gains among Latino voters fading? New Jersey is the first big test.

Were Donald Trump’s gains among Hispanic voters an anomaly – or the beginning of a more permanent realignment? The New Jersey governor’s race this year will provide an early test.

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Bill Press @billpress.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Another wild week in Trump 2.0. TX Dems Stand-up. CA-NY-IL Dems Fight Back. Selling the BBB. GOP Town Hall Problems. Trump: Obama Committed Treason. Treason Claims=Epstein Distraction. Tariff Price Hikes are Here. YouTube youtu.be/kD-hH7m6URA Audio bit.ly/Click-2-Listen

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Scoop: @commoncause.org, the preeminent anti-gerrymandering org, is in the midst of a tense internal fight over whether to change its stance in light of California Dems' push to fire back at Trump/Texas/etc. Would be a big shift—and telling. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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Top gerrymandering foe faces internal crisis as Trump pushes to redraw the maps

Common Cause has long argued against partisan redistricting. Now the group faces internal pressure to relax its stance in California, amid concerns that democracy confronts bigger challenges.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

NEW: The metadata of the "full raw" video from the prison nearby Jeffrey Epstein's cell that DOJ released this week appears to have been modified—but nobody would say how, exactly, which will likely further fuel conspiracy theories. @dmehro.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/metada...

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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified

There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Steve Bannon took aim at Fox News and hawkish Republicans and warned Trump against heavy US involvement in Iran. "The Israelis have to finish what they started. They started this. They should finish it." More from this morning's @csmonitor.bsky.social breakfast: www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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Steve Bannon warns Trump against heavy US involvement in Iran

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon is warning against the Trump administration getting involved in a lengthy conflict in Iran, lighting into Republicans and conservative talking heads who he describes as be...

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Local lawmakers in both parties have been facing a huge increase in death threats. In the wake of the Minnesota assassinations, they're scrambling with how to respond to keep themselves safer. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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As political violence hits home, local lawmakers struggle with how to stay safe

Attacks on Minnesota lawmakers are part of a wave of political violence that has local officeholders grappling with how to increase their security.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Found out while reporting this that @pelosi.house.gov knew JB Pritkzer's mom "very well"—they were both senior officials in the Northern CA Dem Party at the same time and shared an office. Called her a "lovely woman" who instilled in JB his "commitment to public service."

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

@jbpritzker.bsky.social spent a decade working with Holocaust survivors. That experience is fueling his alarm about Trump. I sat down with him at the museum he helped build to discuss how that and his family story of surviving the pogroms shapes his worldview. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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How JB Pritzker’s faith and Holocaust work are powering his dire warnings about Trump

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has long invested in helping Americans understand the ongoing relevance of Nazi-era lessons. He says it’s never been more important.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

RIP, Brian Wilson. Losing him and Sly Stone in quick succession hurts.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show. ICE does *not* have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself. www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

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ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows

Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

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Henry Gass @henrygass.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Poignant grafs at the start of this @cameronjoseph.bsky.social interview with Ben Crump, the lawyer for George Floyd's family, on the five-year anniversary of his death. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/...

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's murder. I talked to civil rights lawyer @attorneybencrump.bsky.social, who reps Floyd's family. "It’s getting more daunting than ever to hold police accountable for excessive force and police brutality." www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/...

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George Floyd’s family lawyer thinks the path to justice is ‘more daunting than ever’

Five years ago, the murder of George Floyd by police sparked a nationwide protest movement. Today, Ben Crump, the lawyer who represented Mr. Floyd’s family, says it’s “more daunting than ever to hold ...

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 13/05/2025

The @trygveolson.bsky.social Seven Rules for Dealing with Autocrats, Pt. 1 Rule #1: Play the game you are in, not the one you wish you were w/ @reedgalen.bsky.social www.24sight.news/p/seven-rule...

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Seven Rules for Dealing with Autocrats, Pt. 1

Rule #1: Play the game you are in, not the one you wish you were

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 11/05/2025

"The U.S. is currently moving faster toward autocracy than any other fully democratic government that has backslid in the 21st century besides El Salvador – faster even than Hungary, Poland, or Venezuela, says Steven Levitsky, [...] co-author of the book 'How Democracies Die.'"

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Well worth a read.

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Steve Rosenzweig @scrosenzweig.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This was the first semester I taught Democratic Erosion where I taught cases from elsewhere in the world and thought to myself - “that doesn’t actually sound that bad” in comparison to the U.S.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Bright Line Watch is a survey of polysci profs on US democracy. They were pretty positive all through the first Trump administration. Now? @brendannyhan.bsky.social: "Political scientists are in a state of alarm I've never seen before. What we’re seeing is right out of the authoritarian playbook."

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@kimlanelaw.bsky.social, who worked with Halmai on Hungary's constitutional court: “There’s this new way of taking over a state... All these new autocrats got elected in free and fair elections the first time. Then what they do is they attack all of the constraints on executive power."

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@represent.us CEO Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno grew up under Fujimori in Peru. She's worked throughout Latin America & the Middle East on democracy issues. She sees a familiar pattern "of democracy being hollowed out from within."

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They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump.

As Donald Trump fights the courts over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, targets law firms, and tests the rule of law, democracy experts warn they’ve seen this before.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Experts who work in countries where democracy has been gutted are alarmed about what's happening in the US. Hungarian Prof. Gabor Halmai (who used to work for its constitutional court): “I don’t see, anymore, such big differences between the U.S. and Hungary." www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump.

As Donald Trump fights the courts over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, targets law firms, and tests the rule of law, democracy experts warn they’ve seen this before.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

With Trump pushing Rob Manfred to posthumously reinstate Pete Rose, a fun fact: The man who led the investigation that got Rose permanently banned from the MLB in '89 was none other than John Dowd, Trump's first-term personal attorney.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 24/04/2025

It's here! The Downballot is so stoked to share our calculations of the results of the 2024 presidential election for all 435 congressional districts! Bookmark this must-have data set, generously sponsored by Grassroots Analytics, right here: the-db.co/presbycd And much more in this 🧵 below!

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The Downballot's calculations of presidential election results by congressional district, sponsored by Grassroots Analytics

Our one-of-a-kind collection spans from 2008 to the present

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

45min after this was sent to staff, Deputy Secretary of State sends out ANOTHER org chart. Nearly identical... but it doesn't include the office of the chief economist (nestled under undersecretary for economic growth on the earlier one):

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: “We have not done a forensic of what just went wrong, period, full stop... To the extent that I’m marginally part of this party, I represent the state larger than 21 state populations combined, and I can assure you there’s not been a party discussion"

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

On top of the announced bureau eliminations, the letter sent to State Department employes says that undersecretaries "will also submit a path to reducitg staff in domestic offices by 15%" — so sounds like more cuts coming after these.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

New State Department org chart just sent widely to employees. Rubio in email: "Non-statutory offices that do not align with the Administration’s priorities, have overlapping functions, or represent radical causes will be eliminated."

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it: www.404media.co/this-college...

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

There's been a lot of stories lumping in Elon Musk and George Soros for "balance." They're both rich and both spend a lot on politics. But as the new Forbes list shows, Elon is nearly 50x wealthier than Soros. Musk is #1 in the world with an estimated $342B. Soros is #453 with an estimated $7.2B.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I once got trapped in a broken Capitol elevator with Jim Banks for a half hour AMA

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

With 5%ish of the vote still out, and 2.25 million votes have been tallied in Wisconsin. In the '23 WI Supreme Court race, which at the time was the most expensive and had sky-high turnout for a judicial race, TOTAL turnout was 1.85 million. Conservatives and liberals both have about 200K more.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Newly nominated US Ambassador to South Africa Brent Bozell had some interesting things to say about Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress back in the day. An '89 press release from his group the Media Research Center described the ANC as a "pro-communist, terrorist organization."

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Can't remember a more upset-free first round of the tourney. Only seven higher seeds won outta 32 games... And that counts two 9-seeds. McNeese and CO State (12 seeds) the highest seeds left.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Big ten a perfect 8-0 in the tourney. All but one win by double digits.

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Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Dem voters' rage at their own leaders, building for months, is breaking out at town halls following Schumer's shutdown fold. Unclear if this is Dems' "Tea Party moment." But while fury drove that movement, fear is animating this one—fear of a rising dictatorship. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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Panicked Democratic voters are turning on their own leaders

Democratic voters reeling from Mr. Trump’s sweeping cuts and head-spinning policies are growing more incensed at their own party’s lack of response.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Meta's strategy of "anything goes" on Instagram is simply not going to work. We've found dozens of accounts where people are stealing videos of women, face swapping AI images of women with Down Syndrome onto them, and creating OnlyFans to sell AI nudes of them www.404media.co/people-are-u...

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People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes

Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.

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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

SCOOP: Before the IRS fired nearly 7,000 probationary employees, a senior lawyer raised the alarm that: - the terminations contained "false" information - they amounted to a "fraud" on the US judicial system Don't miss this @propublica.org exclusive: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts

The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had n...

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