Joshua Holland

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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2025-04-15 16:05:29 CEST

“The #DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks…”
“The employees grew concerned that the NLRB's confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in #Russia”
#fascism #elonmusk #trump
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

2025-04-02 04:29:00 CEST

I bought some dried fruit which looks like and is packaged like my dogs’ favorite treats.
This is what happened when I tried to eat them.
#dogsofmastodon
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/266/007/844/119/342/original/d5a7401a5c18f81a.jpeg

2025-03-06 18:48:19 CET

It would be good if the press mentioned that fentanyl deaths are declining "in large part due to concerted efforts to curb trafficking by the Joe Biden administration in cooperation with other countries, namely China and Mexico." And that Canada is responsible for almost none of the US supply.
#media #trump #tariffs #canada #mexico #china #trumprecession https://www.cfr.org/article/how-does-fentanyl-reach-united-states

2025-02-07 15:54:55 CET

Local NPR station is referring to Musk’s administrative coup as a “government overhaul.”
We’re so fucked.
#media #elonmusk #trump

2025-02-03 14:56:11 CET

Two headlines this am:
"Dow futures drop more than 650 points after #Trump hits U.S. trading partners with tariffs"
"Trump's meme coin made nearly $100 million in trading fees, as small traders lost money"
#tariffs #stock #crypto #grifters #maga #corruption
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/dow-futures-drop-more-than-650-points-after-trump-hits-u-s-trading-partners-with-tariffs-230929989700
https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/trumps-meme-coin-made-nearly-100-million-trading-fees-small-traders-lost-money-2025-02-03/

2025-01-26 16:15:04 CET

Damn backseat drivers.
#dogsofmastodon
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/895/307/721/373/151/original/d0bd487242eccbdb.jpeg

2024-12-29 22:26:25 CET

When #JimmyCarter was in the Navy, his submarine was once docked in Bermuda. Some British officers invited only the white crew members to a cocktail party or something like that, and Carter said that if the crewmen of color weren’t invited then nobody was going. This was in the 1950s.

2024-12-25 03:43:06 CET

If #Texas wants to secede we should let them do it via referendum this time. They can then make #GregAbbott king or emperor or führer if they want.
But Texas voters should know that they’ll need their Texas passports to enter the US and that we will secure our borders.
#fascism
https://www.kltv.com/2024/12/24/texas-sovereignty-act-would-allow-texas-declare-federal-actions-unconstitutional/

2024-12-23 18:40:02 CET

Say what you will about the Resistance movement during Trump’s first term but at least there was a palpable feeling that people wanted to fight back.
Maybe that’ll re-emerge once Trump’s sworn in and starts breaking stuff but at present I sense that a lotta people have been beaten into submission.
#maga #trump #fascism #corruption

2024-12-23 16:30:48 CET

“It’s giving away the game: It has been about, all this time, men controlling women, and they’re not even pretending anymore.”
#fascism #abortion #misogyny #paxton #texas https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/paxton-abortion-texas

2024-12-05 15:20:09 CET

"It is a very ominous thing if our leading forums for discussion of public affairs are already feeling the chill of intimidation and responding with efforts to appease."
#media #fascism #trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/appeasement-new-age-trump/680871/?gift=W_-nGbJV_0kHcca2VTXz0iyQHBpiqC2lyq6QM7uXjOc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&fbclid=IwY2xjawG-lLZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHR4RQ7Jj6oKOJVfyqbgzzshfGhBpGgRLCUBUrVj2cGkmUl2rMxdnhqbOmQ_aem_Nc3yVRrnXECgPxH99by-fQ

2024-11-30 15:45:46 CET

Yes, but could he not? Is he even capable of not being corrupt if he tried really hard?
#elonmusk #corruption
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/30/elon-musk-government-efficiency-self-enrichment

2024-11-27 14:18:33 CET

“Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of #X users flocking to Bluesky” because after sucking up to #elonmusk by letting him sell Teslas in their market, they invested bigly in building a #disinfo network on #Twitter only to see it become Truth Social.
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2024/bluesky-boom-worries-chinese-media

2024-11-26 02:28:58 CET

Welp
#trump #tariffs
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/546/658/659/483/285/original/cbe35378a9988d6a.jpeg

2024-11-18 16:09:56 CET

No guardrails...
#trump #fascism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/18/trump-administration-transition/

2024-10-27 17:35:38 CET

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Finally, as I've mentioned before, our social media-driven obsession with polling obscures the fact that a bunch of non-polling indicators look good for Harris.
Notably, if the race really is as tight as we're led to believe, the disparity in the campaigns' ground games should have a big impact. /7
https://mastodon.social/@JoshuaHolland/113124982932234481

2024-10-27 17:34:26 CET

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(Sorry for the Xitter thread but Rosenberg called '22 right... https://x.com/SimonWDC/status/1844887796235825372) 6/

2024-10-27 17:34:09 CET

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Secondly, we always say you should ignore individual polls and focus on the averages, and there's just been an explosion of partisan GOP polls since the frenzy over Nate Silver in 2016.
Important to note that they aren't all junk polls, but even good partisan polls tend to have a house effect.
The averages compensate for these house effects to varying degrees but they work their way into what we're told the race is looking like either directly or indirectly via the punditry. 5/

2024-10-16 23:31:18 CEST

Best argument I’ve seen for supporting Harris —>
“MAGA host says friends are 'moving to foreign countries' if Kamala Harris beats Trump”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fans-moving-if-harris-wins/
#Election2024

2024-09-11 03:40:19 CEST

This is the best Trump can get. This ugly, angry, rambling performance is more disciplined than most. He isn’t interrupting (with the dead mic). Every word out of his mouth is bullshit but this is his A game.
#Election2024 #trump #HarrisWalz2024 #debate

2024-08-30 20:32:18 CEST

Jesus fucking Christ, NYT, was the Holocaust also an affordable housing plan?
These people have lost their damn minds.
#media #Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #fascism #immigration #trump
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/052/396/744/787/913/original/7c0f7ac356ab5d4e.jpeg

2024-08-29 03:29:17 CEST

They’re not sending their best people
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4852659-mccormick-philadelphia-mississippi-mistake/
#Election2024

2024-08-26 19:23:09 CEST

I wish they had the courage to just say “Jews.” We get it, but somehow not everybody does even in 2024.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-host-trump-and-rfk-jr-are-fighting-against-globalist-ticket-these-mystery-puppet
#antisemitism #maga #foxnews #media

2024-08-18 16:33:10 CEST

Great job pushing back on that whole weird thing guys.
#maga #weird #Childlesscatladies #Election2024
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