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Joseph O'Neill

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Tommaso Pincio @tommasopincio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW YORK, LA CITTÀ INVINCIBILE Una conversazione sull'11 settembre e Netherland di Joseph O'Neill
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NEW YORK, LA CITTÀ INVINCIBILE
Una conversazione sull’11 settembre e Netherland di Joseph O’Neill
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A year later--and the garden is again an impenetrable paradise teeming with bees, butterflies, and God knows what else.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What Schumer & Warner should be saying is: A war of aggression against Denmark, Colombia, or Mexico would be insane and illegal. Democrats will cooperate with any arrest warrants issued by the ICC in respect of such crimes of war, including warrants against the current president.
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Kent Priore @kentpriore.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Just an award-winning book and its ambitious sequel hanging out on a shelf together at Oblong Books.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The options: (1) quickly expand SCOTUS, nullify the corrupt Trump Court jurisprudence (doable); (2) pass several constitutional amendments (not doable); (3) let SCOTUS indefinitely operate as an instrument of the Republican Party. Option (3) is favored by current Dem leadership.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 16/06/2026
“If powerful liberals don’t hold Republicans accountable, what chance do ordinary citizens and officials have if they are maliciously accused of being Chinese agents or election fraudsters or domestic terrorists?” —@josephoneill.bsky.social
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If I Were Chuck Schumer | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake
With about four months still to go until the midterm elections, the Trump administration remains largely unchecked by Congress in its exercises and abuses
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/06/2026
Joseph O’Neill reflects on a polylingual childhood, full of intimacies, disappointments, and forgivenesses: “We kept moving—to Tripoli, in Lebanon; to Amanzimtoti, in South Africa; and to Matola, in colonial Mozambique.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Ow3TLe
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Forward Into Foreignness
That’s how we did things in my family. Tabbouleh, hurling, helva, “Inshallah,” “godverdomme”—all of it was our culture.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
People moan about the rise of leftwing Dems, but always remember that this is the alternative.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"Progressive policies are gaining ground in the Democratic Party. But progressive politicians aren’t advancing as quickly. The cryptocurrency industry, AIPAC, and other groups are spending heavily to keep left-wingers out of Congress. And they are often succeeding." newrepublic.com/article/2079...
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The Party of AOC or AIPAC? In Illinois, Neither Bloc Could Dominate
AIPAC won two and lost two. Progressives took the biggest prize—the Senate nomination. But this battle is a long way from over.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
So important to celebrate wins, loudly. Progress cannot happen without a culture of embracing progress.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The American president is out of his mind.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
CONAN: “For the first time since 2012 no British people are nominated for Best actor or best Actress… a British spokesperson commented, ‘Yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.’" #Oscars
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Hey Democrats: (1) Trump is ignorant, idiotic, and malign (2) war is bad (3) US military adventures in the Middle East have been uniformly catastrophic ergo (4) a Middle East war started by Trump is presumptively disastrous. That easy enough for you?
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
7 out of 10 Americans did not support attacking Iran. Are you seeing their voices reflected in the news coverage much?
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donnayoungdc @donnayoungdc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"The FBI interviewed this woman — who claimed that Trump forced her to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens, then punched her in the head after she bit his penis and kicked her out — at least four times." - @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
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DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows
The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Always remember that this is the leader of the Republican Party who owes his power exclusively to Republican Party voters and Republican officials.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Project 2028: 1. Undoing the damage. 2. Undoing the causes of the damage. Number 2 might be doable faster.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.
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Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In case you needed more evidence that billionaires tend to be idiotic degenerates...
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Horrific comments by Ratcliffe today right when United appeared to making a charge. His comments stand against everything Manchester is about & its fanbase across the world. It’s also a disgraceful insult to our players and everything the United DNA stands for. I am appalled as a #mufc shareholder.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Yep. It's bad news for everyone who wants to believe or sell the idea that elections reward policy arguments, but presidential mass appeal is about brand. Brand strength implicates policy, sure, but especially for swing voters it's mostly about identity, looks, authenticity, charisma.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Resign, retire, repent.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:
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In Criminal Justice Elections This Year, ICE Contracts Are on the Hot Seat - Bolts
With roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff this year, Bolts reviews the map and early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices.
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The Drake Motel @drakemotel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Wrote to @josephoneill.bsky.social to talk about authoritarianism, the horrors in Minneapolis, and what to do about useless Democrats
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The Politics of Raw Power | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake
On Wednesday a group of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis pinned a man to the ground and, while he was immobilized, blasted pepper spray into his face
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Unclear why Elon Musk isn't wanted by Interpol for sexual crimes against children.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I'll be in Hartford, CT, on February 12, talking with Omar Acevedo. Could be interesting.
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Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Holy smokes - he opened with a reference to Vaclav Havel's "The Power of the Powerless," among the all-time greats of underground revolutionary literature (Havel spent years in jail for it, then became Czech's president after his release). Momentous speech. Read the whole thing.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
You can picture how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community www.welcometohellworld.com/we-must-love...
Clearly there's no shortage of horrors to choose from of late but for some reason this one in particular has really chilled me to the fucking bone. Last week a group of pigs had lunch at a Mexican restaurant called El Tapatio in Willmar, Minnesota. "Staff at the restaurant were frightened," an eye witness told the Star Tribune. You can surely imagine that they were. You can picture exactly how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community. There's one like it where you live too. In almost every town in the country. We love Mexican food here so much.

They forced these people to prepare their food and to serve them all the while knowing that they were going to ruin their lives after. With full bellies. The threat hanging in the air. Of course they did ruin them. They arrested a dishwasher and the two owners a few hours later after the restaurant closed.

Can you imagine being made to wash the dishes used to feed the men who are waiting to kidnap you or worse? Cooking and plating their meals? I wonder if they put the same care they usually do into it or if their shaking hands made the work suffer?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/01/2026
“Who knows. Who cares. Human society suddenly feels overwhelmingly trivial and stupid and not worth the trouble,” Joseph O’Neill writes in his short story “Light Secrets.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“Light Secrets,” by Joseph O’Neill
Everyone’s done something good that’s hidden—the opposite of a dark secret.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Clearly the US, indeed the planet, may not survive three more years of an insane Republican president + nihilistic Republican Party + Vichy Democratic leadership. We in the opposition cannot do much, yet, about the first two elements. We can do something about the last element.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Why are Senate Dems embarking on a *bipartisan* mission????
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Wayne Denno @dennowayne.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Why can’t journalists at least say this out loud: “Many experts, commentators & political leaders are saying that Trump is clearly spiraling into madness & needs to be removed.”
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?
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Only federal officers are upholding the law. Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The president of the United States is insane, in the medical sense. It's beyond argument.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/01/2026
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally. Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I have a new story in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“Light Secrets,” by Joseph O’Neill
Everyone’s done something good that’s hidden—the opposite of a dark secret.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
For EU officials wondering what they can do: they can actively (if informally) align their countries with the Democratic Party in opposition to the Republican Party. Inform, incentivize, influence. It could make a real difference in the electoral-cultural war now unfolding in the US.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17/01/2026
Last week I reported on the 35 people ICE has killed in the last year. www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-your-d... Today Washington Post reports that on January 3, ICE killed another person, by choking him to death in prison. You don’t reform this. You don’t fix this by training. You ABOLISH this fascism.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
participation trophy nypost.com/2026/01/16/u...
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado reveals why she gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado had a simple explanation for why she gifted President Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal at the White House Thursday.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
How can any senate Democrat, in light of a pronouncement like this, vote in favor of a budget to take effect just in time for Trump to wipe his ass with it?
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Rowan Prose Publishing @rowanprosepub.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The highly anticipated second book in Kent Priore's epic dark fantasy series is dropping this year. Check out IN THE WAKE OF GODS now! books2read.com/u/mZDjxl @kentpriore.bsky.social #darkfantasy #booktrailer #2026books #booksky #readersky #rowanprosepub
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Of course it is exactly for this scenario--tyrannical government trampling over the rights to life and liberty--that Second Amendment proponents argue gives Americans the right to bear arms.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Trump administration is threatening to frame the Federal Reserve Chair unless he does its bidding.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“Sometimes public service requires standing firm in the face of threats, which is what this unambiguously is” How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress
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