Wilderness of Mirrors
@jonjosephlive.bsky.social
It’s complicated…anti-fascist, attorney, third wave coffee aficionado and social / political observer. Was on twitter but no more.
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Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
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That privilege--the privilege to speak of your religious beliefs as certainties that are incontestable--is given to Christians alone in America. And anyone else knows this and tiptoes around it, reflexively.
But what if we stopped doing that, like this guy did in North Dakota?
But what if we stopped doing that, like this guy did in North Dakota?
December 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
That privilege--the privilege to speak of your religious beliefs as certainties that are incontestable--is given to Christians alone in America. And anyone else knows this and tiptoes around it, reflexively.
But what if we stopped doing that, like this guy did in North Dakota?
But what if we stopped doing that, like this guy did in North Dakota?
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I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
December 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.
Mitt Romney said the quiet part out loud: the rich should pay more in taxes.
The Wall Street Journal attacked him for it.
But he’s right—and ignoring the math is how democracies crack.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
The Wall Street Journal attacked him for it.
But he’s right—and ignoring the math is how democracies crack.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
The One Percent’s Problem Isn’t Envy. It’s Math.
open.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Wishing you all a happy holidays, Illinois.
December 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Wishing you all a happy holidays, Illinois.
Lutnick is a liar like all the other sycophants surrounding T:
Lutnick: "Donald Trump's economy grew 4.3%. That means that Americans overall, all of us, are going to earn 4.3% more money. We're making a raise, it's a simple way to do it."
December 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Lutnick is a liar like all the other sycophants surrounding T:
Excellent idea…and can’t happen fast enough (among others):
This is critically important. Democrats need to pass it if they retake Congress. Trump will veto it. So pass it again. Campaign on it. Given current polling, corruption of the FBI, and the brutality of ICE and BP, there’s no better time to say, “Federal police are not above the law.”
Restoring Bivens rights: one bill "would allow citizens to sue for damages resulting from constitutional violations committed by federal officers," while the other "would create a cause of action against federal law enforcement agencies and police depts for constitutional violations."
December 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Excellent idea…and can’t happen fast enough (among others):
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The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
The person charged with enforcing the laws is himself a law breaker. In such a state, do laws even have any legitimacy?
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
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I do believe the USA is redeemable and I absolutely don’t think we’re doomed -
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
December 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I do believe the USA is redeemable and I absolutely don’t think we’re doomed -
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
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nothing condemns Our Times more than the fact we appear to have *mostly democratically* elevated to power some of the most stupid assholes who have ever lived.
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
December 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
nothing condemns Our Times more than the fact we appear to have *mostly democratically* elevated to power some of the most stupid assholes who have ever lived.
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
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Just a reminder: These eugenic vibes are not about genetics or health or fitness but wealth — the people born on third base do not care if the people born on second base die.
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
December 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Just a reminder: These eugenic vibes are not about genetics or health or fitness but wealth — the people born on third base do not care if the people born on second base die.
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There are things you can say right now without any real evidence. This is one of those things 👇👇.
I’m 💯 sure.
Who agrees?
I’m 💯 sure.
Who agrees?
December 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
There are things you can say right now without any real evidence. This is one of those things 👇👇.
I’m 💯 sure.
Who agrees?
I’m 💯 sure.
Who agrees?
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Impeach her, NOW!!!!!!!!
December 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Impeach her, NOW!!!!!!!!
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Let me help you out. Yes, you are.
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Let me help you out. Yes, you are.
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Reminder that if you are white and american, your family did not come from here, and has not been here long.
JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
December 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reminder that if you are white and american, your family did not come from here, and has not been here long.
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Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
Trump on his farm bailout: "This money would not be possible without tariffs ... because of tariffs, this is possible."
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
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Watch the whole thing. Absolutely chilling.
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Watch the whole thing. Absolutely chilling.
This is an illustration of a mass civic uprising rejecting a cruel authoritarian regime. Citizens, are you watching?
The Bulgarian people have spoken loud and clear against a corrupt regime. The government has resigned.
December 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is an illustration of a mass civic uprising rejecting a cruel authoritarian regime. Citizens, are you watching?
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American Gestapo.
This is appalling. Again, Trump and ICE have had the option to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica for weeks and weeks. They won't explain why they refuse to do this. But we know why: Because they've decided it isn't dehumanizing or cruel enough.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
American Gestapo.
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These people really can’t take a hint, can they? There is no there there! Bravo to these ordinary citizens serving as grand jurors with integrity!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
These people really can’t take a hint, can they? There is no there there! Bravo to these ordinary citizens serving as grand jurors with integrity!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
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Gift link to great piece by former federal prosecutors on the damage caused by Trump’s pardon of Rep. Cuellar and demand that he switch parties in exchange.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Degrading the Justice System. Democrats Are Helping.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Gift link to great piece by former federal prosecutors on the damage caused by Trump’s pardon of Rep. Cuellar and demand that he switch parties in exchange.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...
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Looks like the convicted felon Maxwell is going to extort the convicted felon Trump into a pardon.
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social @velshi.com
Epstein
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social @velshi.com
Epstein
Pardon-seeking Ghislaine Maxwell poised to drop damaging leaks to 'send a message': expert
Disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has gotten a sweetheart upgrade in prison in return for an interview with the Justice Department in which...
www.rawstory.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Looks like the convicted felon Maxwell is going to extort the convicted felon Trump into a pardon.
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social @velshi.com
Epstein
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social @velshi.com
Epstein