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Joshua Leach

@joshualeach.bsky.social
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Former policy & comms strategist @UUSC, now independent consultant. Blogging at propensity4selfsubversion.substack.…. Views my own.

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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
From the horse's mouth: this looks like a classic case of blood for oil. Examining the various proposed rationales for Trump's flagrantly illegal act of aggression in Venezuela: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-bubble...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/a-very-her...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/trump-the-...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The Roberts Court is using the contradictions inherent in its own prior decisions as an excuse to bestow kingly powers upon Trump: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/will-the-c...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Trump's goons have been committing war crimes in the Caribbean for months. I'm glad Congress is finally paying attention—but why did it take so long? propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-belate...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Trump's Thanksgiving Day demands for "reverse migration" have a very specific—and very sinister—meaning in white nationalist circles. In essence, the White House just issued a call for ethnic cleansing: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/trump-call...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Despite Trump's bellicose rhetoric about defending religious minorities in Nigeria, he has single-handedly torpedoed the single most obvious way to protect people facing religious persecution: namely, asylum. propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/if-trump-a...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My thoughts on the obscenely overreaching indictment unveiled yesterday against protesters for defending their community in Broadview, Illinois: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/conscienti...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
^Thanks to @lilianasegura.bsky.social for reporting this story
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:
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The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A recent story in the Intercept suggests that a Tennessee sheriff blatantly disregarded the First Amendment in order to jail a man for peacefully expressing his views on social media propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/trampling-...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My response to Trump's extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and his trading of allegations over the weekend with the president of Colombia: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/even-fishi...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
My response to Trump's unlawful campaign of retaliation against federal prisoners who received clemency under Biden: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/to-build-a...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
My thoughts on the perils of media consolidation in America and what it means for freedom of the press propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-not-so...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If there’s one position on asylum that I would consider “unreasonable,” it’s the one the White House has adopted: namely, that any person, no matter what danger they have fled, can be summarily returned to the hands of their persecutors propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/most-reaso...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gratitude to @radleybalko.bsky.social for the inspiration for this post
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I am astounded that anyone could defend Trump’s immigration policies, while simultaneously claiming that they support the right of asylum seekers to “be heard” in principle. But that is what one tech bro appears to have done: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/most-reaso...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Earlier this year, SCOTUS rightly stopped Trump from renditioning more people to CECOT. But now, they are letting him get away with sending people to a similar fate in Africa. Thoughts on our increasingly compromised judiciary: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/bad-judgment
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My thoughts on Trump's UN speech yesterday: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/fragments-...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
My thoughts on the Jimmy Kimmel suspension and related threats to free speech: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-specte...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"The administration is layering on a second incarceration to which these men have never been sentenced in court. [...] Trump really has created the 'legal abyss' that some observers feared when he first started deporting people to CECOT" propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/kidnapped-...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
New reporting from NYT gives the first glimpse into the fate of people Trump is sending to forever-prisons in Eswatini: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/kidnapped-...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Labor Day thoughts from my personal blog: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-sleep-...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The fate of Lesotho is a parable for the Trump administration's whole foreign policy open.substack.com/pub/propensi...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The release of 250 Venezuelan hostages that the U.S. wrongfully held captive in CECOT is "good news"—but what does it say about what our country has become? And what justice or redress will these men ever receive for what was done to them? propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-united...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#FreeAndry & the other 230+ people Trump kidnapped and disappeared to a forever prison in El Salvador. Now a government whistleblower is speaking out to confirm the lawlessness of these abductions. Support @immdef.bsky.social to fight for justice. Free them all! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
What a week for K to be so proud of the Court's shadow docket rulings 🤢 www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
politico.com
Supreme Court eases rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties
The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its ruling.
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Note: Kavanaugh is arguing this point the same week the Court issued its completely unreasoned decision in the third country deportations case—stripping Convention Against Torture protections from potentially thousands, without ever offering a rationale. Not seeing a lot of "clarity" there
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Kavanaugh's bizarre concurrence in today's birthright citizenship case essentially reads as a proposal for the entire judicial function to be swallowed up in the Court's shadow docket. "Don't worry about nationwide injunctions—we can do everything through unreasoned emergency stay applications"
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Supreme Court is effectively nullifying people's legal rights—and thus the rule of law. They did it with asylum; then the Convention Against Torture; and now birthright citizenship. Asylum really was the canary in the coal mine propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/asylum-rea...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
No to war. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 17/06/2025
Iowa Democrat Christina Bohannan launches campaign to take on Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a familiar opponent. Bohannan lost to MMM 53-47 in 2022, then held the incumbent to 50.0-49.8 win as Trump was carrying #IA01 54-45 www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downba...
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Christina Bohannan launches campaign for Iowa's 1st Congressional District
Christina Bohannan has announced her candidacy for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, once again challenging incumbent Mariannette Miller-Meeks.Bohannan, who l
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The government wrongfully deports someone to a tropical gulag, then lies about the evidence to cover up for their own miscarriage of justice. It happened in the 19th century, and it's happening again today. Reflections from my personal blog: propensity4selfsubversion.substack.com/p/the-prison...
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Joshua Leach @joshualeach.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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