Craig Joseph
@craigjoseph.bsky.social
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Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago
Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago
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if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe
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As usual, Miss Rachel said it better than me.
July 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As usual, Miss Rachel said it better than me.
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Snatched from immigration court as he tries to follow the rules.
Sent to who knows where, for who knows how long.
While Trump and Stephen Miller’s private prison friends and ICE rake in billions.
Sent to who knows where, for who knows how long.
While Trump and Stephen Miller’s private prison friends and ICE rake in billions.
July 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Snatched from immigration court as he tries to follow the rules.
Sent to who knows where, for who knows how long.
While Trump and Stephen Miller’s private prison friends and ICE rake in billions.
Sent to who knows where, for who knows how long.
While Trump and Stephen Miller’s private prison friends and ICE rake in billions.
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i'm often accused of being uncivil for my willingness to go at people's character but it is not my fault i live in an age where some of our most prominent commentators clearly believe in nothing
July 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
i'm often accused of being uncivil for my willingness to go at people's character but it is not my fault i live in an age where some of our most prominent commentators clearly believe in nothing
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Savoring every last drop of my summer hiatus ☀️🍹 before I’m back with something new for you 🎬✨ In the meantime, here’s a throwback that still sparkles 💫
July 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Savoring every last drop of my summer hiatus ☀️🍹 before I’m back with something new for you 🎬✨ In the meantime, here’s a throwback that still sparkles 💫
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The Epstein birthday card is now public. (Trump can continue to pretend it's not real, but that's not the point.)
The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the Epstein files public?
Conclusion: There are worse things for Trump in the files.
The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the Epstein files public?
Conclusion: There are worse things for Trump in the files.
July 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Epstein birthday card is now public. (Trump can continue to pretend it's not real, but that's not the point.)
The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the Epstein files public?
Conclusion: There are worse things for Trump in the files.
The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the Epstein files public?
Conclusion: There are worse things for Trump in the files.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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if you can't find joy in PS5s, cheeseburgers, performance fabrics, birth control, & 24 hour gyms, you're not going to find it in horseshoes, moonshine, malaria, tent revivals, & chicken fricassee, even if it comes with the "delight" of slavery
I'd say the end of human slavery was "worth it," but what the fuck do I know?
July 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
if you can't find joy in PS5s, cheeseburgers, performance fabrics, birth control, & 24 hour gyms, you're not going to find it in horseshoes, moonshine, malaria, tent revivals, & chicken fricassee, even if it comes with the "delight" of slavery
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What Frederick Douglass said of slaveholders applies to today’s authoritarians.
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
The Slaveholders’ Rebellion
teachingamericanhistory.org
July 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What Frederick Douglass said of slaveholders applies to today’s authoritarians.
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
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If you think the people in a state that went for Trump deserves whatever happens to them but you are exempt from this as a citizen of a country that went for Trump you gotta break that down for me
July 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If you think the people in a state that went for Trump deserves whatever happens to them but you are exempt from this as a citizen of a country that went for Trump you gotta break that down for me
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Every authoritarian movement attracts wackos obsessed with various crackpot theories, because the social psychology of kooky conspiracism is adjacent to that of authoritarianism.
But the bizarre tangents shouldn’t obscure the core threat: They fear and hate free men and women.
But the bizarre tangents shouldn’t obscure the core threat: They fear and hate free men and women.
July 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Every authoritarian movement attracts wackos obsessed with various crackpot theories, because the social psychology of kooky conspiracism is adjacent to that of authoritarianism.
But the bizarre tangents shouldn’t obscure the core threat: They fear and hate free men and women.
But the bizarre tangents shouldn’t obscure the core threat: They fear and hate free men and women.
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I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.
July 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.
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The evil that men do lives after them
July 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The evil that men do lives after them
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And for the life of me, I can't convince my mom, aunt & uncle and siblings of this 👇👇👇 no matter how hard I try.
July 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
And for the life of me, I can't convince my mom, aunt & uncle and siblings of this 👇👇👇 no matter how hard I try.
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‘Vote shaming’ is/was the dumbest concept ever. The only reason I know how you voted is because you fuckin’ told me, yeah of course I’m going to form judgements based on that. If you didn’t want me to do that shouldn’t have told people! You made a statement to get a reaction and you’re getting it.
July 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
‘Vote shaming’ is/was the dumbest concept ever. The only reason I know how you voted is because you fuckin’ told me, yeah of course I’m going to form judgements based on that. If you didn’t want me to do that shouldn’t have told people! You made a statement to get a reaction and you’re getting it.
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The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.
July 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
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To be clear, this is what actual antisemitism looks like.
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner says she "100%" questions the faith of Jewish politicians who endorse Zohran Mamdani.
"The same way I would question Chuck Schumer, who works against the interests of his own people at times for the politics."
Emily Compagno then accuses Mamdani of Holocaust denial!
"The same way I would question Chuck Schumer, who works against the interests of his own people at times for the politics."
Emily Compagno then accuses Mamdani of Holocaust denial!
June 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
To be clear, this is what actual antisemitism looks like.
Recall NOW
Here's John Fetterman complaining to CBS News' Alan He that the votes on the "One Big, Beautiful Bill" are eating into his vacation time.
"Oh my God, I just want to go home. I've already my I've missed our entire trip to to the beach!"
"Oh my God, I just want to go home. I've already my I've missed our entire trip to to the beach!"
June 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Recall NOW
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Trump's political super-power is that he appears to many people as a truth teller. He is, of course, someone who lies all of the time...but the important thing is that he does not APPEAR to be lying because Trump's narcissism is such that he authentically believes whatever he's saying in the moment.
June 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump's political super-power is that he appears to many people as a truth teller. He is, of course, someone who lies all of the time...but the important thing is that he does not APPEAR to be lying because Trump's narcissism is such that he authentically believes whatever he's saying in the moment.
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the catholic church choosing to pick a side is going to continue to be one of the more interesting developments of this administration
Fear and Faith: El Paso church leaders sound the alarm amid ICE crackdown
As federal immigration enforcement intensifies, the Catholic Diocese of El Paso emerges as a frontline defender of immigrant rights.
www.ktep.org
June 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
the catholic church choosing to pick a side is going to continue to be one of the more interesting developments of this administration
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No refuge for the persecuted.
ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution - Christianity Today
On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers were detained in Los Angeles, adding to the count of church members taken despite lawful status.
www.christianitytoday.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
No refuge for the persecuted.
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Happy 50th anniversary to the movie Jaws. This is probably the greatest line in cinema history:
June 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Happy 50th anniversary to the movie Jaws. This is probably the greatest line in cinema history: