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Joshua Holland

@joshuaholland.bsky.social
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Burned out political writer and podcast/radio host. 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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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 3h
“Causes stir”
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 3h
If you say “super intelligence” you should immediately get a purple nurple and be stuffed into a locker
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h
substack executives gave him a big cash advance to post on the platform
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 11h
Senate Republicans scuttled ratification of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea despite support from George W Bush, all of our top military brass and business lobbies so this isn’t new.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 17h
As night follows day
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 14h
Haven’t smoked meth, heard “Choosing Texas” or voluntarily interacted with an AI.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 15h
It’s a societal failure that this guy can leave the house without getting punched in the face.
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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 15h
American media: time to come up with the dumbest possible discourse about a Billboard hit British media: You are like a little baby. Watch this
Opinion - UK politics

What ‘Choosin’ Texas’ tells us about Burngam’s social care obstacles

Stephen Bush
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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 15h
This meth analogy resonates on multiple levels.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 15h
It’s not the AI company and its leadership that pose an existential risk to humanity, it’s their model.
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Inanimate Carbon Rod
Alt: Inanimate Carbon Rod celebration from The Simpsons.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He was elected fraudulently
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ANTIFAbeardad💚🏳️‍🌈 @stonrbeardad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#RescueSky #DogSky
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users emptywheel.net/2026/09/27/d...
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DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users - emptywheel
DOJ is now colluding with Elon Musk in fraud, all to export far right extremism into the EU.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Zero evidence that the number of people going mo contact is increasing, much less becoming an epidemic. And the self-proclaimed “experts” in the story seem like old people whining about the kids these days or have businesses coaching cut off boomers.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you look closely you can see my kimchi fermenting.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whatever you may think of the quality of its content, there’s no doubt that Meidas Touch is one of the most impactful outlets for Dems. It has a huge reach, they break things down in plain language and unlike most of the tiny number of actual liberal/progressive media outlets that’s also partisan.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meh, it’s 4% of his net worth. These oligarchs are so rich that $9 billion isn’t at all painful.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have a question that I’m hoping someone with real knowledge might answer. I need to draw up a will and I’m wondering if there’s any reason to pay however much it would cost to use a lawyer rather than doing it for $39 on Rocket Lawyer. Anyone?
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bluesky is still fun if you just listen to your elders and block trolls
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Overly racist
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The establishment Dems are feckless and complacent and then the outsidery rebel-types are all milkshake ducks.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All free speech absolutists
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Republicans say the Dems’ position on transgender rights is bonkers but I’ve no clue what their position is. If they aren’t validating the GOP’s transphobic nonsense they’re saying it’s a distraction from kitchen table issues. The latter is fine and true but that’s a pivot, not pushback.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Says the guy whose company enabled a genocide.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone responded to this by saying that I’ve never been to an Ohio fish fry or read the comments on local news stories and am totally out of touch with public opinion. But that’s the point. That’s what happens when nobody’s challenging the right’s dishonest narratives about a tiny minority.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wonder what these numbers would look like if most of the tech press weren’t so credulous/ servile
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most guys who were supposedly “cancelled” during #MeToo came out of it just fine. But some of you know that I had a boss who was so bad that they made an entire episode of This American Life about him and he was pretty much forced to retire. I worked with all the women featured in the episode and…
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Like all wingnuts, Bibi is so very online. Piker, who most normal people have never heard of, must be pretty happy about being called out by a head of state at the UN. bsky.app/profile/josh...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it also looks like he stole his mustache off the guy behind him
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Multiple outlets reporting one of grandpa’s offhand remarks as if it’s news
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is Oakley, a long-time resident of the Ulster Cty SPCA. We entered him into this year’s Dress Your Pet Like Bret Michaels and he won. Got $2k for the shelter! #dogsofbluesky
A tan hound-pit mix Ina bandana and long blond wig.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICE agents chasing him in a car ran this guy over a week ago, horribly injuring him. Needs some media attention beyond this: www.walb.com/2026/09/23/i...
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ICE releases statement after man run over in Dougherty County operation
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now releasing more information about an incident that happened in Dougherty County on Sept. 17 when a man was run over by an ICE vehicle.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is emblematic of the short-term, election-by-election thinking that hobbles the Dems. It’s awful advertising for the party as a whole and validating the right’s bigoted bullshit is just a huge gift to the GOP.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Guatemalan man dies in crash during attempted ICE traffic stop
Police in Michigan are investigating what led to the crash that killed Mario David Coronado Juárez, who was not the person ICE officers were originally looking to arrest, DHS says.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think about stuff like this whenever I hear someone say, “it’s a free country” or words to that effect.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Eventually we have to talk about the police themselves when discussing what’s happening.
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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is SO 2026 that "new lawyer jumping up to defend Trump at the Department of Justice said Hitler's book about himself is his favourite book that he has read this year" is a thing. It's just... you only see this kind of evil in Hollywood comedies, people.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Probably not helpful to Florida's novel attack on free speech that the AG behind it thinks the public and the courts are incredibly stupid
As a publicly traded company, Uthmeier said, the Times bears legal duties to its shareholders.

“And we saw some very dangerous trends that appeared to call into credibility the sound business sense of what that company is doing,” he said. “We counted 72 recent errors where the company admitted in its own correction column in a very single coverage area in just eight months.  All pro-Hamas-style reporting that had to be clawed back as incorrect.”

Uthmeier added at one point that the Times had “retracted” the Kristof column, but there are no reports of the paper having done that. On May 21, Kathleen Kingsbury, the opinion editor of the Times, declared that the paper stood by the column.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I had plenty of uncertainty about what was to come when Trump won a second term but I had no doubt at all that he’d be wildly unpopular as soon as he reminded the American people who he was.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People really need to go back to the original Jurassic Park and look at the rather disturbing ways in which InGen's management of it now looks prescient
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026
Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/
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DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 23/09/2026
The Last Ditch lesbian bar mask requirement story was the topic of Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog's terf ass podcast on September 17th last week. Seems likely this is where the Globe is getting the content for the "viral story". Nice work everyone, great media literacy skills.
Screenshot of a podcast episode from the show Blocked and Reported on substack, a platform for Nazis:

Premium: Last Ditch Bar And The Never-Ending Accountability Session
Plus, mouthy women get kicked out of an “inclusive” sports bar
Sept 17
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Poor William the Conqueror
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
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