Josh Marcley
@joshmarcley.bsky.social
Trying to make my kids proud
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“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
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Write it down. Tell the story of this time in your own words. All too soon, people will try to re-write history, their own complicity in these horrors will be scrubbed away. But take a pen, take to the keyboard. And write. Remember for the rest of us.
February 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Write it down. Tell the story of this time in your own words. All too soon, people will try to re-write history, their own complicity in these horrors will be scrubbed away. But take a pen, take to the keyboard. And write. Remember for the rest of us.
Yeah, obviously. Be provocative, break rules, do porn, these have been recipes for success in silicon valley forever. Why would elon do any different?
February 6, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Yeah, obviously. Be provocative, break rules, do porn, these have been recipes for success in silicon valley forever. Why would elon do any different?
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Anyway, I wrote about a whole slew of reports saying that DHS is using abusive administrative subpoenas to track down Trump's online critics, show up at their door, and intimidate them...
And the "free speech warriors" who insisted Biden was censoring people online are somehow silent.
And the "free speech warriors" who insisted Biden was censoring people online are somehow silent.
DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet.
For years, we've been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration's supposed "censorship industrial complex." We were told, over and over again, that the government was…
For years, we've been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration's supposed "censorship industrial complex." We were told, over and over again, that the government was…
DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet.
For years, we've been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration's supposed "censorship industrial complex." We were told, over and over again, that the government was weaponizing its power to silence conservative speech. The evidence for this? Some angry emails from White House staffers that Facebook ignored. That was basically it. The Supreme Court looked at it and said there was no standing because there was…
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February 5, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Anyway, I wrote about a whole slew of reports saying that DHS is using abusive administrative subpoenas to track down Trump's online critics, show up at their door, and intimidate them...
And the "free speech warriors" who insisted Biden was censoring people online are somehow silent.
And the "free speech warriors" who insisted Biden was censoring people online are somehow silent.
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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
Remember kids: don't be a narc
January 31, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Remember kids: don't be a narc
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So, the "Board of Peace" [sic] not only doesn't mention Gaza in particular; it proposes to make Donald Trump in particular (not the president of the United States) king of the world.
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The Charter of the Board of Peace
The Times of Israel published the text of the Charter of the Board of Peace. As I suspected, this is...
reason.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:21 PM
So, the "Board of Peace" [sic] not only doesn't mention Gaza in particular; it proposes to make Donald Trump in particular (not the president of the United States) king of the world.
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Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
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Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
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Whoever you are in the coming days, don’t be this man, who has not learned a single fucking thing over the past year.
I love you all and am holding your hand as I say this:
Dems wield zero hard power levers
Dems wield zero hard power levers
it's kind of crazy that there's even any question that democrats are going to do anything about this
January 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Whoever you are in the coming days, don’t be this man, who has not learned a single fucking thing over the past year.
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Stop the presses! Onion guy is pro impeachment!
Suggested headline: Dems again vote against impeachment, would rather focus on losing in other important policy areas.
Dem leadership all says the same thing: we can’t win impeachment right now, gonna focus on healthcare. Good job guys.
Suggested headline: Dems again vote against impeachment, would rather focus on losing in other important policy areas.
Dem leadership all says the same thing: we can’t win impeachment right now, gonna focus on healthcare. Good job guys.
You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
January 3, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Stop the presses! Onion guy is pro impeachment!
Suggested headline: Dems again vote against impeachment, would rather focus on losing in other important policy areas.
Dem leadership all says the same thing: we can’t win impeachment right now, gonna focus on healthcare. Good job guys.
Suggested headline: Dems again vote against impeachment, would rather focus on losing in other important policy areas.
Dem leadership all says the same thing: we can’t win impeachment right now, gonna focus on healthcare. Good job guys.
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You and your Democratic colleagues have not been doing what you need to do to force them to step up. Your fecklessness gives them cover.
It seems like Dem leadership is so afraid of GOP doing something right and getting political praise for it that you're making sure they don't get the opportunity.
It seems like Dem leadership is so afraid of GOP doing something right and getting political praise for it that you're making sure they don't get the opportunity.
If Congress is to survive as an institution, the Republican majority must join us exercising our power to hold this administration accountable for this flagrant violation of the constitution.
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
You and your Democratic colleagues have not been doing what you need to do to force them to step up. Your fecklessness gives them cover.
It seems like Dem leadership is so afraid of GOP doing something right and getting political praise for it that you're making sure they don't get the opportunity.
It seems like Dem leadership is so afraid of GOP doing something right and getting political praise for it that you're making sure they don't get the opportunity.
If you (electeds) weren't out there consistently calling for impeachment. This one's on you.
January 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
If you (electeds) weren't out there consistently calling for impeachment. This one's on you.
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The Dem leadership has failed to react with conviction any time the outrage-meter against Trump was high enough to get R defections for impeachment. But never more than in the immediate after math of Jan. 6.
@raskin.house.gov @beyer.house.gov @schumer.senate.gov
Primaries are coming.
@raskin.house.gov @beyer.house.gov @schumer.senate.gov
Primaries are coming.
Underlying this was that Pelosi / Dem leadership immediately gave up on pursuing Jan 6 impeachment as a serious attempt to obtain conviction. No Republican managers was another aspect of that. Delaying the Senate trial was another.
Maybe would have failed anyway, but they decided not to really try.
Maybe would have failed anyway, but they decided not to really try.
I’m sorry, this is just not correct. There were members that wanted to impeach Trump on Jan. 6.
Many people said if you waited, GOP outrage would fade. It did.
Pelosi spent days only cautiously committing to impeach, and fussing around with absurd stuff like 25th Amendment remedies.
Many people said if you waited, GOP outrage would fade. It did.
Pelosi spent days only cautiously committing to impeach, and fussing around with absurd stuff like 25th Amendment remedies.
December 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The Dem leadership has failed to react with conviction any time the outrage-meter against Trump was high enough to get R defections for impeachment. But never more than in the immediate after math of Jan. 6.
@raskin.house.gov @beyer.house.gov @schumer.senate.gov
Primaries are coming.
@raskin.house.gov @beyer.house.gov @schumer.senate.gov
Primaries are coming.
I feel like ALL of the "important" intellectuals of the past 20 years are racing to destroy their legacies.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I feel like ALL of the "important" intellectuals of the past 20 years are racing to destroy their legacies.
I may have to start a regular reminder that Scott McCaffrey is a reactionary clown.
Lyon Park residents demand answers after iconic tree removed from median
Lyon Park residents demand answers after iconic tree removed from median | ARLnow.com
County Board members are promising a detailed written response after Lyon Park residents accused the local government of cutting down and carting off a "gateway" tree without cause. The removal came despite...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I may have to start a regular reminder that Scott McCaffrey is a reactionary clown.
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This Is so prevalent on BlueSky. Everything is a corporate exploitation story. There are so many productive observations that get stuck in the mental queue behind corporate exploitation. So much waste.
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This Is so prevalent on BlueSky. Everything is a corporate exploitation story. There are so many productive observations that get stuck in the mental queue behind corporate exploitation. So much waste.
This is like predicting the rise of Trump halfway through his first term.
Bari Weiss’s The Free Press (now part of corporate media) is pushing this Ad on Musk’s X. It portrays Peter Thiel as some sort of savant.
This is the same guy, you know, who has been giving lectures about the AntiChrist.
The “Free” Press is more like The Billionaire Press.
This is the same guy, you know, who has been giving lectures about the AntiChrist.
The “Free” Press is more like The Billionaire Press.
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is like predicting the rise of Trump halfway through his first term.
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You do it how you think you need to comply with the law, up until a judge tells you how to do it to comply with the law.
Otherwise you are breaking the law.
Otherwise you are breaking the law.
The Trump administration is doing everything in its power to deny food assistance to Americans.
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
You do it how you think you need to comply with the law, up until a judge tells you how to do it to comply with the law.
Otherwise you are breaking the law.
Otherwise you are breaking the law.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second?
I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit
I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second?
I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit
I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit
So very easily manipulable. Abuse this weakness if you believe in defending the constitution.
Last month, playing tape of Charlie Kirk's words was enough to get people fired for the new category of anti-Kirkist hate speech.
This month, playing tape of Ronald Reagan's words is enough to spark a presidential tantrum and diplomatic breakdown.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
This month, playing tape of Ronald Reagan's words is enough to spark a presidential tantrum and diplomatic breakdown.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: Trump Cuts Off Trade Talks With Canada
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October 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So very easily manipulable. Abuse this weakness if you believe in defending the constitution.
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ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them
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My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.
This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
October 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.
This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.