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Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

From best app ever Daily Art @meditatedaily.bsky.social :Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day… the US… celebrates & honors Indigenous American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures… a beautiful hide painting created by Cotsiogo (c. 1866–1912), a/k/a Codsiogo, Katsikodi, or Cadzi Cody.

October 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

Reviews are coming in. From Vivian Varela: This is a fascinating queer interview with... Joel Freedman... Besides his personal story he also makes recommendations for other books... by Mike Player [Utopia, a queer comedy western] and Caro De Robertis…. gay history and insight. Local LA stuff! No BS!

October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

To no one's surprise, I confess. I am a book nerd. Whereas, reading saved me from ignorance. This queer book saved my life, and I got to share it on my favorite podcast. For a good time 😂, have a listen:

thisqueerbook.com/good-times-b...

#books #reading #queerbooks #lgbtqia+

@thisqueerbook.com

This Queer Book Saved My Life podcast episode announcement: Good Times/Bad Times by James Kirkwood with Joel Freedman

October 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

Took a step back for soul cleansing. Then just stepped right back in it. Yech. From Pat Bagley | Goon Squad: #Resist #lbgTqia+rights #HandsOff

Pat Bagley Goon Squad comic. How it started on Capital steps; how it’s going on our liberty; from MAGA to ICE.

October 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

How I Spent My Summer Vacation... episode to be released tomorrow, Tuesday. With @thisqueerbook.com

This Queer Book Saved My Life episode announcement: Good Times/Bad Times by James Kirkwood w/Joel Freedman.

October 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

Most mornings, lately, I'll sit outside and read queer poetry, Isherwood's Diaries, Boswell's Johnson... This a.m. I read the clouds. #reading

September 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

#ResistTrump #HandsOff #FightBack #lgbTqia+Rights #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeJuanAbregoGarcia #FreeAndryHernández #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #TakeDownTesla #GoHarvard #HoldTheLine

June 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

Rubio complains that Germany - like we are, really - is giving “its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy — it's tyranny in disguise.” German Foreign Officer said, “This is democracy. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped."

Sec. of State Marco Rubio drinking (the Kool-Aid) from a water bottle.

May 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

If, according to Justice Brown Jackson, “judges are facing increased threats of… physical violence… professional retaliation…,” MAGAots, like AfD, are “proven right-wing extremist” and should be declared so.

#ResistTrump #HandsOff #FightBack #lgbTqia+Rights #TakeDownTesla #GoHarvard #HoldTheLine

May 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

#ResistTrump #HandsOff #FightBack #lgbTqia+Rights #TakeDownTesla #GoHarvard #HoldTheLine

Non Sequitur, comic strip by Wiley labeled "Free-Market Gambling." Man outside "Deregulation Diner" with signs that read, :"Today's Special: Luncheon Roulette" and "Feelin' lucky?"

May 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

Teᛋᛋla needs to go the way of the Edᛋᛋel. Somewhat ashamed, I secretly hope this off-key warbler drives one.

#ResistTrump #HandsOff #FightBack #lgbTqia+Rights #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeJuanAbregoGarcia #FreeAndryHernández #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #TakeDownTesla #GoHarvard #HoldTheLine

Tesla following an autopilot fiery crash.

April 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

There's been multiple, credible studies.

April 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

Teᛋᛋla needs to go the way of the Edᛋᛋel.

#ResistTrump #HandsOff #FightBack #lgbTqia+Rights #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeJuanAbregoGarcia #FreeAndryHernández #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #TakeDownTesla #GoHarvard #HoldTheLine

April 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

Teᛋᛋla needs to go the way of the Edᛋᛋel.

#ResistTrump #HandsOff #FightBack #lgbTqia+Rights #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeJuanAbregoGarcia #FreeAndryHernández #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #TakeDownTesla #GoHarvard #HoldTheLine

April 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

April 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

#ResistTrump #HandsOff #FightBack #lgbTqia+Rights #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeJuanAbregoGarcia #FreeAndryHernández #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #TakeDownTesla #GoHarvard #HoldTheLine

April 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

Yep. Just me. Typical.

April 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Joel Freedman

@joelmfreewriter.bsky.social

86 academic institutions & assoc's support AAUP’s motion for prelim injunction to safeguard academic freedom and halt arrests, detentions, deportations of students & faculty engaged in constitutionally–protected activities. ✊

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeJuanAbregoGarcia #FreeAndryHernández #FreeGaza