JoshuaHolland

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, 5 months ago to LGBTQ

On another site, some chud demanded that someone "define a woman" and she replied, "it's a person who covers their drink when they see you in a bar."

Just the perfect response.

#lgbtq

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 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, 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, 4 months ago to random

American cops set a new record for killing people in 2023, with 1,329.

The number of people they've killed has increased in every year since the racial justice movement of 2020.

There were only 14 days without a police killing last year.

#police#acab

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

JoshuaHolland, 10 months ago to random

CT state troopers entered up to 60K fake tickets, issued to imaginary white people, to game a database designed to ferret out racial profiling. (And didn't enter real tickets issued to Black people.) One in 4 troopers were doing it. And it seems like nobody is being punished for this crime.

https://archive.ph/jTv5E

#police #racism

JoshuaHolland, 2 months ago to Florida

I had no idea from the coverage that this was such a resounding win.

"The settlement was a resounding victory for the parents and LGBTQ advocacy groups who filed the lawsuit. It dramatically limits the law's application to a narrow set of circumstances that seldom occur in K-12 public schools."

#florida #fasscism #lgbtq #desantis

https://popular.info/p/update-say-gay-florida

JoshuaHolland, 9 months ago to journalism

This AP story about the arrest of a Texas woman who threatened Judge Chutkan omitted the fact that she called the judge, who is Black, a “dumb slave” and the N-word. They seem really invested in downplaying this belligerent extremism that’s so pervasive on the right—even in a story about someone making death threats. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-tanya-chutkan-judge-threats-texas-7d90ad3c8b552b49e269a3f842a6700c

#media #racism #maga #fascism

JoshuaHolland, 8 months ago to journalism

Every claim #Trump makes should be reported like this:

“Former President Donald Trump, who made 30,573 false or misleading statements in his 1,460 days in office, according to The Washington Post, said…”

#media

JoshuaHolland, 9 months ago to LGBTQ

A 66-year-old mother of 9 was murdered by a deranged wingnut who was incensed that she had a pride flag outside her store. Her blood is on the hands of every right-winger who hasn't condemned their movement's relentless attacks on the #LGBTQ community.

https://abc7.com/lake-arrowhead-store-owner-killed-mag-pi-clothing-laura-ann-carleton/13673754/

#fascism #maga #gop

JoshuaHolland, 1 month ago to TeslaMotors

Someone dubbed the #cybertruck the "WankPanzer" and now that's its name.

I don't make the rules.

JoshuaHolland, 3 months ago to random

The big story should be that a Republican prosecutor didn’t find grounds to charge Biden and inserted gratuitous commentary that aligns with GOP talking-points during an election year in an attempt to influence the outcome. That should really be a huge scandal. #Election2024 #biden #trump

JoshuaHolland, 7 months ago to Israel

Poll finds 86% of Israeli Jews "said the surprise attack from Gaza is a failure of the country's leadership" and 56% think Bibi should resign after the conflict ends.

Guessing that's not quite the rally-around-the-flag effect he was hoping for.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-767880

#israel #hamas #gaza #Netanyahu

JoshuaHolland, 3 months ago to random

These outlets all have editors who are old enough to remember Biden being famously “gaff-prone” in his 30s and 40s. There’s no excuse for this. It’s her emails all over again.

They’re making it a profound issue by choice. They’re choosing to make it rise to the center of the campaign.

They could choose to make Trump’s consistent incoherence a profound and rising issue in the campaign but they choose to ignore or even edit his blather into linear form.

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, 6 months ago to random

Massive anti-war protests being largely ignored by the legacy media is giving me a really powerful sense of deja vu.

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

One can forcefully denounce the horrific attacks on civilians and reject claims that this was "completely unprovoked."

Relentless settler violence, attacks on Al Aqsa and hundreds of dead Palestinians don't get much coverage but all of that's put pressure on Hamas to act.

More to the point, bringing parties that represent the most extreme, violent and messianic factions of Israeli society into the governing coalition was all-but-guaranteed to result in a lot of bloodshed on both sides.

JoshuaHolland, 4 months ago to random

But don’t call them fascists because that would be partisan and rude.

"Trump’s most fanatical followers have created a situation where...elected officials who dare defy the former president face serious threats...

"As a result, the threat of violence is now a part of the American political system, to the point where Republican officials are — by their own admissions — changing the way they behave because they fear it." #fascism #maga #trump

https://www.vox.com/23899688/2024-election-republican-primary-death-threats-trump

JoshuaHolland, 25 days ago to acab

"The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts...

"At least 94 people died after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through 2021, nearly 10% of the more than 1,000 deaths of people subdued by police in ways that are not supposed to be fatal. About half of the 94 who died were Black" #acab
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https://apnews.com/article/investigation-police-use-of-force-sedation-injections-demetrio-jackson-621909ba7491abc2af8ad2e33ba3415b

JoshuaHolland, 27 days ago to random

Alito turned the whole idea of deterrence on its head, arguing that giving a #POTUS immunity for attempting a coup will make future coups less likely.

Hard to overstate how utterly bonkers this is.

#trump #fascism #scotus

JoshuaHolland, 4 months ago to journalism

It’s been 17 years since Mitch McConnell started filibustering everything and like 15 or 16 years since political reporters began treating that as totally normal and writing that routine legislation did or didn’t have the 60 votes necessary to pass. #media #uspol #gop

JoshuaHolland, 3 months ago to random

“A 44-year-old man accused of violently attacking and killing his father Sunday night was deemed by a longtime family friend as a "delusional conspiracy theorist”…[who] recently learned his father had received the vaccine.”
Someone should tally up the #QAnon/#antivaxx death toll during the Trump era. It’s high, with a number of cases involving people murdering family members.

https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/region-c-palm-beach-county/stop-you-are-killing-me-dad-pleas-during-sons-fatal-attack-deputies-say

JoshuaHolland, 18 days ago to journalism

This is a well reported piece but the framing is bizarre.

When a mob attacks a group of protesters under cover of darkness, they are not counter-protesting.

And as the reporting makes clear, they didn’t “provoke” violence, they perpetrated it as the cops and campus security stood by. #media #fascism #gazaprotests

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk0.8a5s.Gbpmtf9KMaWY&smid=url-share