JoshuaHolland

JoshuaHolland, 21 days ago to acab

“I have been reporting on political dissent and violent policing for 15 years, particularly in New York City. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place.”

#fascism #acab #gazaprotests

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

JoshuaHolland, 7 months ago to Israel

The Israeli gov is not only starving and denying medical care to 2 million Gazans, it’s announced openly and explicitly that it intends to target civilians and because of the savagery of Hamas’s attack, most of the world is supporting them unconditionally. They’ve been given carte blanche to commit war crimes. #israel #hamas #warcrimes

JoshuaHolland, 6 months ago to random

Just take note of how little national coverage thousands of Jews shutting down Grand Central Station to demand a ceasefire gets tomorrow.

JoshuaHolland, 6 months ago to random

Pretty clear that a lot of people thought it’d be a slam dunk to conflate support for the Palestinians and outrage over civilian deaths in #Gaza with support for Hamas and they’re becoming unhinged discovering that so many people, especially younger people, aren’t buying that bullshit.

JoshuaHolland, 5 months ago to random

More of this please

https://www.universalhub.com/2023/massachusetts-sues-nazis-being-violent-goons

#fascism

JoshuaHolland, 4 months ago to random

Xitter suspended, without explanation, Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippenstein, Rob Rousseau, the TrueAnon podcast and almost certainly others. And I’d still bet my last dollar that I’ll soon read an article that describes Musk as devoted to free speech. #elonmusk #fascism

JoshuaHolland, 7 months ago to Israel

It's a small thing given the scale of violence in #Israel and #Gaza but I'd just note that this is the kind of thing that #Twitter used to be incredibly valuable for tracking and when I took a peek over there today it was just a cesspool of conspiracy garbage and religious bigotry.

JoshuaHolland, 1 month ago to random

Took some figuring out, but I bought my first put option on Donnie's meme stock, which is trading at $74 a share, which means its valuation is approaching Xitter's.

JoshuaHolland, 7 months ago to Israel

I wonder how different the conversation around this week's attacks might be if people who don't follow ME politics knew that #Israel helped establish and funded #Hamas to be a religious fundie counterweight to the more liberal and secular Fatah before realizing they fucked up and trying to crush them.

JoshuaHolland, 6 months ago to Israel

Biden deserves all the criticism he's getting for rhetorically "standing with #Israel" without conditions but it's also pretty clear that they're working to constrain Israel and at least mitigate the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in #Gaza. A GOP POTUS wouldn't be doing any of that.

George H Bush was the last Republican who would have.

JoshuaHolland, 6 months ago to Israel

Two things are true:

There's been an explosion of really vile #antisemitism, some coming from pro-Palestinian protesters. It's terrifying.

Calls for a ceasefire and condemnation of Palestinian civilian deaths are being labeled antisemitism, even when they come from Jews. It's slanderous.

These things feed into each other.

It's a terrible time to be a pro-Palestinian, anti-occupation Jew. We're really getting hit from all sides right now.

#israel #gaza

JoshuaHolland, 9 months ago to journalism

NPR led this am with Biden’s 36% approval rating on the economy and then mentioned at the end that he’s at 42% overall.

The real story is why so many think the economy’s bad with historically low unemployment and incomes rising for the bottom half. But that’d require some introspection. #media #biden

JoshuaHolland, 2 months ago to random

I’m not sure that weakening Biden any way you can is the smart way to go if you fear that he can’t beat Trump.

I blame the media for obsessing over his age and rarely mentioning that by all accounts he’s sharp and well prepared, and also the West Wing for convincing people there’s a chance someone else will swoop in.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/washington-states-largest-labor-union-endorses-uncommitted-biden-rcna141139

JoshuaHolland, 4 months ago to random

The polling industry's probs get far more attention than sloppy reporting on and analysis of the polls.

The DMR says #Trump's support "dipped" by 3 in IA since their last poll, #Haley's taken 2nd , #DeSantis has "fallen" by 3, etc. But the poll has a MOE of +/- 3.7, so these aren't factual statements!

The incentive here is obvious. 'Everything looks pretty much the same as it did in out previous poll' doesn't make for an interesting horse race.

#polling #election2024
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/caucus/2024/01/13/iowa-poll-nikki-haley-leads-ron-desantis-ahead-of-republican-caucus-night-big-lead-for-donald-trump/72216523007/

JoshuaHolland, 7 months ago to random

#RFKJr is gonna speak at CPAC. The deep-pocketed wingnuts bankrolling that guy to ratfuck #Biden really screwed the pooch.

JoshuaHolland, 8 months ago to journalism

This is such egregious journalistic malpractice. Biden saying on the campaign trail that his son hadn’t made money in China is in no way grounds for impeachment and Thompson and whoever edited this shit know it—and should know what is fueling this charade.

View from nowhere just makes readers dumber.

#media #GOP

JoshuaHolland, 6 months ago to Israel

A friend of mine is having a hard time wrapping his head around the fact that a lot of white Evangelicals are both personally antisemitic and also staunch supporters of #Israel.

JoshuaHolland, 6 months ago to Israel

It was good that people called out those who tried to justify Hamas's savagery but there are exponentially more people getting a pass for excusing #Israel killing 1000s of civilians--or encouraging it--and it's not just college kids or activists, it's people in power.

This dude's explicitly calling for war crimes...

https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-graham-there-should-be-no-limit-to-civilian-casualties-in-gaza

#gaza

JoshuaHolland, 6 months ago to journalism

The press could tell an accurate story about how Biden's 50 yrs of legislative experience helped him pass huge infra & green energy bills through a 50-50 Senate that contributed to a robust recovery. The feedback loop of a million stories about his age leading to a million stories about polls showing that voters to worry about his age was an editorial choice.

#media #biden

JoshuaHolland, 6 months ago to Guns

Robert Evans on Twitter:

“the Lewiston mass shooter was obsessed with conspiracy theories about trans mass shooters, he fantasized about running down protesters with his car, and seems to have been a COVID truther too.

“Also a big fan of Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson etc”

https://x.com/IwriteOK/status/1717387535234502945?s=20

#lewiston #guns

JoshuaHolland, 7 months ago to random

When you say, ‘there are no Black women in the Senate and maybe we should do something about that,’ bigots insist that you want to prioritize identity over skill and qualifications because they just can’t grasp that equally skilled and qualified people with different lived experiences exist.

JoshuaHolland, 23 days ago to Israel

A minor point but they're driving me batty with that "threatening environment for our Jewish students and faculty" shit.

What about the many Jewish students and faculty who support these protests?

It's antisemitic AF to assume that American Jews are loyal to #israel and its far-right government.

#gazaprotests

https://communications.news.columbia.edu/news/campus-updates

JoshuaHolland, 5 months ago to workersrights

WaPo workers are striking on Thursday. They're asking that we show solidarity and respect their digital picket line by not engaging with any Washington Post content on Dec 7. #labor #media

JoshuaHolland, 2 months ago to random

They worry that boys might become violent if they lost to some girls. So of course they kicked the girls out of the tournament. Pathetic.

"What we have worried about is a boys team losing to a girls team (especially in the year end tourney), they may get frustrated and retaliate against a girl."

https://www.wvxu.org/sports/2024-03-04/kentucky-girls-basketball-team-banned-southwestern-ohio

JoshuaHolland, 1 month ago to Florida

Nothing says "freedom" quite like armed agents of the state abusing citizens with impunity.

#florida #desantis #fascism #acab

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/12/desantis-signs-controversial-bill-banning-civilian-boards-from-investigating-police-misconduct/