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Josh Young

@josh17.bsky.social
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Middle School Vice Principal. Jr Football & Rugby Dad, Coach & Board Member. Happy husband. Cultivator of kindness, confidence, & character. Do No Harm. #GoCats #GoCougs #GoHawks Western Washington Born & Raised. Tax the Rich.

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WHO @who.int · 17/07/2025
#Measles is preventable with two doses of vaccine. Yet in 2024, 30+ million children remained under-protected, leading to more large or disruptive outbreaks. Only 76% of children got the second dose, far below the 95% coverage needed to stop outbreaks 👉 bit.ly/4kFzSGW
Illustration of a young child sitting against a pink textured background with playful shapes. Text reads: 'Measles protection requires two vaccine doses.' Below, a water drop icon is followed by: 'In 2024, only 84% of children got the 1st dose and just 76% received the 2nd dose.'
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Honestly it’s good to know that when a guy who spent decades hanging out with a famous pedophile and is accused of being a pedophile himself spends years hyping up the existence of pedophile files and doesn’t release them, people will only elect him president twice before they get suspicious.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
You know what works better than thoughts and prayers? A functioning government.
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/07/2025
Forcing people to have a job in order to get health insurance is just another form of indentured servitude.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2025
Ask yourself why Rolling Stone is the only outlet performing this obvious public service.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A majority in the United States Senate voted to kill many of their own citizens today in order to make rich people richer. Sometimes you have to type it out to fully grasp what has just happened.
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Working class - are we paying attention?
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
When Nazis have Twitter.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 26/06/2025
I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/06/2025
you're better informed taking LSD and playing super nintendo than you are watching cable news
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Because the last time US engaged in a reckless war in the Middle East it worked out so well...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I’m sure this notorious psychopath who just unilaterally started a war because he was bored will wind this down with great care.
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This reporter on @CNN is carrying the water so hard you’d think it’s Fox News. Incredibly disappointing. Shame on corporate media.
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 19/06/2025
Peace be upon us.
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 15/06/2025
I'm begging folks to not compliment themselves too much on their "non-violent" marches & rallies. Instead, try to understand that violence at protests is generally a result of law enforcement escalation. Then, the galaxy brain move is to ask yourself "which protests do police tend to attack?"
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
More than 1 million in Boston! www.wcvb.com/article/more...
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More than 1M descend on Boston Common for Pride, No Kings rallies
The Boston Pride Parade and No Kings march converged Saturday in downtown Boston.
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Indivisible Palo Alto Plus @indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org · 11/06/2025
The peaceable assemblies will be everywhere on June 14. Nokings.org
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Was this headline written at gun point?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Yup.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
NEW: This opinion piece in today’s Washington Post is one of the most important it has ever published. Shadi Hamid on the urgency of calling the Gaza crimes what they so patently are: a genocide. I don’t like violating paywalls, but make no apology for doing so for this. It’s essential.
The screenshot of the top of the article with an avatar of Shani Hamid under the Post Opinion section.

The headline reads: 
A genocide is happening in Gaza. We should say so.
We can no longer avoid these uncomfortable truths.

Underneath is a photo of Palestinians travelling through Jabalia as they flee the northern Gaza Strip toward Gaza City on May 19, amid Israeli evacuation orders and strikes. The opening of the story.

It reads:

Throughout history, atrocities have usually been committed under cover of darkness. The perpetrators know that what they are doing is wrong. They hide it. They deny it. They speak in euphemisms. But what happens when they no longer feel the need to hide? What happens when they say the quiet part out loud?
This is what is happening in Gaza today. The mask has come off.
Ethnic cleansing has become the official policy of Israel. The nation's leaders are admitting it, without apology. There was barely a pretense before. But now there's not even that. And these admissions, combined with mass killing on the ground, point to something even more horrific: genocide.The end of the article which reads:

Words matter because they determine action.
When we avoid naming a genocide for what it is, we become complicit in allowing it to continue. Terms like "humanitarian crisis" or even "war crimes" can function as euphemisms that fall short of triggering the moral and legal imperatives that genocide demands. The power of naming isn't some academic exercise; it's practical. It determines whether the international community mobilizes to stop atrocities or simply manages their aftermath.
There was a time when I would have cautioned against using a word like "genocide" too freely, worried about diluting its meaning. But we are well past that now. Shielding people from uncomfortable truths is self-defeating. Words have meaning, and they should be used when they describe reality. Otherwise, we're in denial, and atrocities at this scale shouldn't be denied.
Israel's brutalization of the Palestinian population in Gaza has gone on too long. These are unspeakable - and, more important, indefensible - crimes. We cannot be complicit in minimizing them or pretending that they are not happening. Because they are. Enough.
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Traveling by subway last summer in London and Paris, and by train through England, France, and Belgium was one of the best experiences of my life.
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ceej @ceej.online · 28/05/2025
LEFTIST: Dude, you need to grow up and get a hobby. Start treating women like people and find a useful role in society. RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp. YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Children and pregnant women are going to die, but that's the point.
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This to infinity. Nobody has to starve. Nobody has to suffer. We allow the pain to happen.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
No.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This is HUGE. For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this iconic photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...
Photo by Richard Lasher. Horizontal and vintage photo of a road in a mountain forest. Red car with a motorbike on the road. In the distance a huge ash cloud from the eruption of Mt St. Helens on May 18th, 1980.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/05/2025
but seashells!
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Scathing new op-ed from the Wall Street Journal editorial board torches Trump’s economic failure: “Rarely has an economic policy been repudiated as soundly, and as quickly, as President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs.” www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-...
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Political polls @politicalpolls.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Trump has the lowest approval rating into the first hundred days besides his first term (Gallup)
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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 11/05/2025
I'm so fucking over these articles. I don't care what those "centrists" think. There are no centrists. There's fascists and there's anti-fascists. There's no middle ground. Pick your damned side.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/05/2025
ICE Deports Mariner Moose Back to Canada: tinyurl.com/vswvxhrr
ICE agents escorting Mariner Moose out of T-Mobile Park with hooves behind his back
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Horrifying.
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'd consider one if they weren't $70,000+ here in the states.
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
i think we should not only kill the voucher program and wipe charter schools off the face of the earth, but should also go after the non-profit status of churches while we’re at it
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
10/10 no notes
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Josh Young @josh17.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We're smoked as a country. Stupidity wins.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Meanwhile, in Canada…
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
You literally sound like a communist
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
More from the “pro-life” contingent. RFK Jr. and Bhattacharya have killed an NIH-funded program to reduce the number of babies who die in their sleep.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 01/05/2025
I appreciate that you don't ever want to hear the sound of his voice, and I know that you already know that he's a deranged idiot, but: This really needs to be heard to be believed.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump’s first 100 days in office have been nothing short of hellish for the media industry. Nine media execs and top industry vets give @status.news their unfiltered thoughts about this precarious moment www.status.news/p/donald-tru...
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100 Days of Hell
Donald Trump’s first 100 days have shaken the media world—so we asked top industry executives to share their unfiltered, anonymous takes on the political pressure and economic fallout.
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