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Josh Stokes

@joshuachstokes.bsky.social
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Business litigator, dad of a bunch of kids, second smartest person in my marriage, king of the grill. In the City of Angels.

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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pete Hesgeth -- a man committed to finding new ways every day to display to the world that he is a bad person.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, even more than most, is another example of how Trump has made the GOP just insufferably stupid.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is very good. Raise your kids to be interesting, not just successful.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the way. www.cnn.com/2026/09/21/p...
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue Trump administration over White House access | CNN Politics
The three national news outlets President Donald Trump banned from the White House — CNN, MS NOW, and Politico — filed a critical First Amendment lawsuit to restore their access.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A whole column of "not all Evangelicals." wapo.st/46LP0hn
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Opinion | I’m an evangelical. My faith isn’t ‘a cancer.’
The stereotypes don’t line up with reality.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Without saying your age, what's your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Col Nathan R Jessep: Are We Clear?
ALT: Col Nathan R Jessep: Are We Clear?
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The problem with the White House ballroom issue is that the entity that has the most direct standing is Congress. And Congress won't act because the GOP won't act. And so we have the toddler-in-chief doing whatever he wants to--including literally destroying parts of the White House--with impunity.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Neighborhood WhatsApp convo: Neighbor 1: Would anyone like my used backyard jungle gym. It's in pretty good shape but it is probably missing a few bolts here and there. Neighbor 2: I'll take it and put it in my front yard so that anyone can play on it! Me (lawyer): No, no, no, do not do that.
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Jack Nicholson aplaudiendo
Alt: Jack Nicholson waiving no.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It is often so hard to figure out which one is stupider: Trump or Vance. Nice breakdown by @noahpinion.bsky.social
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JD Vance's crusade against GDP is wrong and bad
Making Americans poorer won't make our society better.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Who could have possibly foreseen that more unflattering things would likely come out about Platner after the primary? Total surprise.
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Man Reacts: I Feel Shocked!
Alt: Man Reacts: I Feel Shocked!
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Excellent.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.
The image shows the lead character from an 80s tv show called "The Powers of Matthew Star" and the text says "The Powers of Matthew Star."
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It is astounding that this Administration is so untrustworthy that it is more reasonable to trust the Iranian regime than the American one.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I cannot wait for all of this to be over.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It is amazing that after all of the destruction that Musk did last year, and all the lives that have been and will be lost through his recklessness, we made him the richest person ever. The US is so broken.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Your periodic reminder that this Administration is both cruel and deeply immoral. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
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Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Man, MAGA is going to have a full crash out day tomorrow.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
He is such an unrepentant liar. I don't know why anyone ever thought this guy should be president. It continues to baffle me to my bones.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
70s - Star Wars 80s - Silverado 90s - Matrix 00s - Snatch 10s - Endgame 20s - Deadpool & Wolverine
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Sleepy Joe Biden" It's always projection with these guys.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"How did we get stuck with this candidate," ask all of the people who didn't listen to the rest of us saying "don't vote for that guy, a bunch of stuff is going to come out after the primary is over."
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is the same stupid reasoning that got us Trump. A vote for Pratt is a vote for idiocy.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
You really have to hand it to Trump and his crew. It is almost impossible to suck at international relations this badly. And yet somehow they figured out a way to completely cave to Iran after launching an unprovoked military attack.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
January 20, 2029, falls on a Saturday. The number of parties and celebrations that night will be epic.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
My friend, Sean, is going straight for the heart today. www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/202...
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Look, this Administration does things on the regular that are so egregiously horrible that decent people should be reduced to sputtering expletives and gesticulating wildly. This is in the top 5 of those moments. www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/p...
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Trump administration creates $1.776 billion fund for allies of the president after he drops lawsuit against IRS | CNN Politics
It’s an unprecedented move that would allow the president’s administration to pay his supporters from a government agency he controls with taxpayer money.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We did what we called a "no thank you bite." Basically, the kids were offered what was on the table for dinner, which was a healthy set of options (protein, veggies, carbs, etc.). And all they had to do was take one bite of each thing and if they didn't like it, they could say "no thank you" to more
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
So, this is common to the developed world. Once you get to a certain wealth level and you get to a certain civil rights level where women are free to work, divorce, get birth control, procure abortions, etc., the birth rate falls because it turns out that most people don't want 9 kids.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Musk is the biggest mass murderer of the 21st Century.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A man is wiping sweat from his brow trying to choose between two red buttons to push on a console. The first button says "Vote for a guy with a Nazi tattoo," and the second one says "Vote against a party courting Nazis."
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Listen, if you're having trouble connecting to that certain energy field created by all living things that surrounds us and binds the galaxy together, just remember that it was a pair of non-Force using rebels that stole the plans to the Death Star and brought hope to the Galaxy.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Game of Thrones 30 Rock Scrubs Ted Lasso My Name is Earl The West Wing Watchmen Andor MASH Battlestar Galactica (reboot) The Expanse Severance The Magicians The Simpsons Seinfeld
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I can't figure out why know one has figured out a way to get him to stop bragging about the cognitive tests. It must make his staff cringe every time he says it.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
There is a certain awkward tension created by him saying this.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I can give you 86 reasons why 47 is the worst president in the history of the country.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It sure seems like the reason the US attacked Iran was because Trump and his advisors wanted to. That's it. There was no imminent threat or anything like that. They just wanted to. And that decision was certainly enhanced by Israel also wanting to for its own (though probably overlapping) reasons.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Narrator: He'll extend it again. www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/w...
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Live updates: Trump says ceasefire ends Wednesday evening and a further extension is ‘highly unlikely’ | CNN
Vice President JD Vance and top US officials are expected to depart tomorrow for Islamabad, but there are mixed signals on attendance from Iran. Meanwhile, oil prices rose sharply as the Strait of Hor...
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Interesting paragraph in the CNN article: "The breakup would be significant because it would allow competition — like SeatGeek and AXS — to come back into the fold in a meaningful way, according to former federal prosecutor and podcaster Alyse Adamson. More competition ultimately drives down costs."
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The hilarity of this comment is that the Republicans were saying last week that you couldn't take his statements about eradicating Iran's entire population seriously because it was just a negotiating tactic. (And a bad one at that because everyone was saying that no one should take it seriously.)
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ka-boom. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/a...
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Jury Finds Live Nation Acts as a Monopoly in a Victory for States
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Getting rid of the license plates is certainly Constitutional but revoking the tax exempt status seems like it violates the First Amendment. I find those groups odious, but they don't seem to fit into one of the narrow categories where they can have their tax exempt status yanked.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Ooof, it looks like Swalwell is going to have much to answer for, and some of it may be answered with jail time.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"But where they're in conflict, they're in conflict . . . I think it's a natural thing." So, just to be clear, after decades of saying that the US should be run as a Christian nation, and -- amazingly -- Trump and crew have tried to say that he is running the country as a Christian nation,
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Squid ink pasta is trash.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It's not ice. It has ice, but Greenland is land. That's why you want it (I think?), because it has minerals in the land, not the ice. And also, NATO isn't there for you to call up to attack Middle Eastern countries. It's a collective security defensive alliance. Why is he so stupid?
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
He is such a bad negotiator. Just comically bad.
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Josh Stokes @joshuachstokes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The stupid part of this Republican response is that the whole concept of using this hyperbole or threat as a negotiation tactic is that they must be credible. If they aren't credible, they aren't effective. So saying that he clearly doesn't mean it just demonstrates that he's a bad negotiator.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 07/04/2026
in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive
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