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JoshuaHolland

@JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social

I used to write for Moyers & Company, The Nation, Rolling Stone & elsewhere.

Now a dedicated dog dad, scuba diver and the host of We've Got Issues.

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JoshuaHolland, to random
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Another long-sought item on the progressive wishlist that will promptly disappear down the memory hole.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-administration-plans-reclassify-marijuana-easing-restrictions-na-rcna149424

JoshuaHolland, to random
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I wonder if would have jumped through all these hoops to kill Stormy Daniels' story if she hadn't said he was the worst lay she's ever had.

JoshuaHolland, to random
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Missing from this piece is the fact that it’s virtually impossible to find a provider to perform an after 24 wks absent significant fetal abnormalities or a threat to the health/life of the pregnant person.

I get opposing a referendum that only guarantees access through 13 wks, but not one that guarantees access through viability and has appropriate exceptions beyond.

Plus it blunts the crazy propaganda about “abortion on demand until birth.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-some-abortion-rights-groups-not-backing-pro-choice-amendments_n_662fe875e4b0c9bc875862d4

JoshuaHolland, to Israel
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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 and its far-right government.

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

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@richard_merren First, I don't take anything that an administration that's handled these protests terribly from the beginning says.

And I think it's worth noting that while they justify their heavy-handed response by saying that Jewish students and faculty feeling threatened, they called in the NYPD to arrest a bunch of Jewish student protesters and are currently directly threatening to expel them. I'm sure those students feel threatened too!

They held a seder at the encampment.

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They called in NYPD to arrest a bunch of Jewish protesters and are now directly threatening the remaining Jewish protesters with expulsion.

I'm guessing they feel like campus is a pretty threatening environment at present.

JoshuaHolland, to random
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Many of those caught in the grip of this moral panic over pro-ceasefire protesters were once young people who protested Vietnam or Iraq.

And unlike what we’re seeing today, the Vietnam anti-war movement featured quite a bit of actual radicalism.

JoshuaHolland, to mtg
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Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate without triggering a vote on it 5 weeks ago and since then she's been followed around wherever she goes by a phalanx of journos and leveraged the massive attention she's been getting for fundraising.

I don't know that anything can be done about it but the perverse incentives here are just so obvious.

JoshuaHolland, to Ukraine
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It's good that aid finally passed but six months of dithering in an attempt to appease MTG and other pro-Kremlin figures allowed Russia to regain the initiative and make significant progress--and killed a lot of Ukrainians.

JoshuaHolland, to acab
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Free speech is alive and well on American campuses as students are welcome to protest injustice as long as their slogans are perfectly calibrated to offend noone and can withstand the scrutiny of bad-faith actors and no individual among them is a hothead who's said some offensive shit either during the protest or previously on social media. #gazaprotests #censorship #acab

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Despite the legacy media’s relentlessly hostile coverage, is absolutely walloping among people who get their news from real news outlets.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-biden-trump-supporters-sharply-divided-media-consume-rcna149497

JoshuaHolland, to random
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It says a lot about today’s that so many of us have been surprised to see that a wingnut saying she murdered a happy, energetic puppy comes with political consequences.

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These protests are obviously newsworthy but there's no reason why college kids setting up camps and calling for a ceasefire should be anywhere near the proverbial front page or leading cable newscasts. And they certainly aren't a matter that should concern members of Congress.

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The quantity, prominence and tone of the reporting are creating the perception that a series of not-exceptional or unprecedented campus anti-war protests represent a crisis that requires intervention by administrators, police and politicians.

JoshuaHolland, to random
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I’m just as proud of killing a bunch of constituents by rejecting Covid mitigation measures as I am of murdering my kid’s puppy!

JoshuaHolland, to LGBTQ
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I’ve been friends with this gay couple for a couple of years. We have each other over for dinner pretty regularly. A while back, they gave me the exciting news that they’re having a baby and I asked about the surrogate.

Friends, there is no surrogate. So yes, men can get pregnant. Dudes you know.

JoshuaHolland,
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I was entirely responsible for that awkward moment because he'd told me long ago that he was trans and I'd forgotten cuz he reads twink and I'm not some weird freak who spends time thinking about what's happening in other people's pants.

Anyway, they had an adorable baby girl today.

JoshuaHolland, to acab
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"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"
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https://apnews.com/article/investigation-police-use-of-force-sedation-injections-demetrio-jackson-621909ba7491abc2af8ad2e33ba3415b

JoshuaHolland, to journalism
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We are witnessing a picture-perfect example of a moral panic.

"D.C. police rejected pleas from George Washington University officials to clear pro-Palestinian demonstrators out of an on-campus encampment early Friday morning, saying they worried about the optics of moving against a small number of peaceful protesters, according to two officials familiar with the talks."
The Independent's Richard Hall responds to a twoot by Jake Sherman characterizing some antisemitic nutter as being "at the Columbia protest": "Bad reporting like this convinced people that the Columbia protesters are anti-Semitic crazies. "This person has nothing to do with Columbia, is a well-known agitator. "And yet a journo snaps a pic outside the gates and uses it to smear the students inside"
Headline: "Richie Torres, Mike Lawler introduce bill to create campus antisemitism monitors" Dek: "The lawmakers named the bill the COLUMBIA (College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability) Act."

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All the elements are there: The marginalized folk devil (Palestinians & their supporters); the stereotype (don't care about Palestine, just want to kill Jews); the threat amplification by institutions, media & pols; and efforts to leverage that exaggerated threat to exert greater social control.

JoshuaHolland, to random
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So weird. Most criminal defendants have a blast in court.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pal-says-he-is-miserable-in-court

JoshuaHolland, to journalism
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Are independents cool with murdering happy puppies or is Politico incapable of framing a story without a partisan lens?

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“Northeastern University had around 100 peaceful protesters arrested on Saturday at its Boston campus’ pro-Palestine encampment, claiming that there had been reports of protesters using antisemitic slurs; but according to witnesses, the protester who spewed hate speech was a pro-Israel counter protester.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-israel-agitator-shouts-kill-the-jews-gets-everyone-else-arrested

JoshuaHolland, to random
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When you’re too fascistic for the cops...

“D.C. police rejected pleas from George Washington University officials to clear pro-Palestinian demonstrators out of an on-campus encampment early Friday morning, saying they worried about the optics of moving against a small number of peaceful protesters”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/26/dc-police-george-washington-university-protests/

JoshuaHolland, to random
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If these college kids were protesting an American war the media would barely even mention it.

I know that because I marched through LA with 30,000 people in 2003 and it merited a small story in the Metro section.

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