Joseph O'Neill
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Joseph O'Neill
@josephoneill.bsky.social
Writer
Publication day (paperback @pantheonbooks.bsky.social):
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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So, this crucially important state race in Georgia that I told you about? Let me offer you a frustrating update. (cc @hankgreen.bsky.social)

With 14 days to go, Dems are up by a decent margin in early voting, but Kemp -- GA's loathsome governor -- has just dumped *$500K* into TV ads on the race.
Today on Volts: hey listen up! The most important election of the year is happening in Georgia next month. Two seats on the (currently all-GOP) Public Service Commission are up & rising electricity prices are on everyone's mind. This is a bellwether for next year's governor & midterm elections!
Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025
With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.
www.volts.wtf
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The NYT covered the No Kings rally at p. 23.
The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.
October 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:
October 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
October 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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This Saturday the American community in Ireland will be protesting against the fascist Trump regime at the US Embassy in #Dublin, in solidarity with the millions of Americans protesting on the same day across the United States #NoKings

For more information:
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS DUBLIN, Ireland · No Kings
###SOLIDARITY PROTEST Saturday October 18th, 12pm GMT US Embassy, Dublin, Ireland 42 Elgin Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, D04 TP03 **In America (and Ireland!), we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Ou...
www.mobilize.us
October 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Here's where we are:

Republicans have shut down the government.

Why?

They won't negotiate. They want to pass a bill that will allow the Trump administration to throw 15 million Americans off their health care & double premiums for 20 million Americans.

We won't let them.
Where We Are With The Government Shutdown | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Democratic Party messaging about the need to take on the Trump Court is NOWHERE near strong enough.
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
September 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Whoa--a surprise September flower riot
September 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This never happened. Dems cowered, appeased, waited for it to blow over. Now hysterical Nazi rallies are part of the U.S. political culture.
Persons identified as the 'left' and held responsible for the Kirk shooting have every right to be outraged that they have been defamed and endangered by the false statements made by the president. Democratic leaders should demand a retraction and an apology.
September 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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If anyone in the Democratic Party had a brain they’d be pulling out all the stops to spin up some offensive litigation to blow up or delay any sale. Everything Trump has done here is egregiously illegal, and TikTok has major US competitors who would surely like to see it die. What are you doing??
I'd start informing your friends and loved ones they're going to need to get off of TikTok

it's indisputably going to be converted into yet another right wing surveillance and propaganda machine
Trump says Murdochs are potential TikTok deal partners
President Donald Trump also said that Larry Ellison and Michael Dell are also likely to be involved in the TikTok deal.
www.cnbc.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The truly, truly strange thing about Kirk is that I have not seen his supporters quote one statement by him that illustrates his supposed nobility of character.
September 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Persons identified as the 'left' and held responsible for the Kirk shooting have every right to be outraged that they have been defamed and endangered by the false statements made by the president. Democratic leaders should demand a retraction and an apology.
September 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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X, the political violence app
Law enforcement should shut down Twitter, which has become a hub for extremely frightening incitement of violence. Huge, explicitly violent neo-Nazi accounts are posting the information of prominent liberals in an attempt to get folks killed by their large, violent followings
Sorry to hear this. I cannot help by contrast this with the cynical calls to censor Bluesky as a website encouraging political violence while Twitter is flooded with major accounts trying to whip up threats and violence and minor ones actively organizing it. Real up is down black is white situation.
September 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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UPDATE: JeffCo Sheriff's Office says three students have been shot at Evergreen High School. St A's Hospital says all are in critical condition. Our live coverage here: www.9news.com/article/news...
www.9news.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I'm officially a PUBLISHED AUTHOR! 🎉🎉🎉 And so, SO ready for all my book signings. 😁

My debut fantasy horror novel, THE MONSTERS AMONG US, is available NOW.

Snag your copy here:
books2read.com/u/m27rzr
#books #fantasybooks #horrorbooks #RowanProsePublishing @rowanprosepub.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Dem consultants out there saying "voters won't care unless it affects their daily life" even as we are living through an extended nationwide hysteria about trans girls in high school sports, an issue which affects literally maybe a dozen Americans.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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In another defeat for the material interests theory of politics, young trump voters ranked "owning their own home" more important than young harris voters and then voted against the candidate promising to give them $25k towards their downpayment
Fascinating new results on Gen Z from the
@nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
September 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Update: Gorgeous September mayhem.
September 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BREAKING: Trump's Fed Nominee just confirmed to @reed.senate.gov that he will NOT resign from the White House while serving at the Fed.

President Trump is trying to take over the Fed and install his lackeys.

Trump's takeover would make life far more expensive for American families.
September 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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From the U.S., Kier Starmer really does come across as a perfect example of you cannot successfully try to ape reactionary conservative politics in the long term. Labour got a single win and Starmer proceeded to drive the party into its worst polling in generations by courting the right.
NEW: Keir Starmer has said he hangs the English flag in his home and 'always sits front of a Union Jack'

He told the BBC: 'I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and a great symbol of our nation.'
September 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM