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Joe VanHoose
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Florida Man living in Georgia. Writer and promoter. Trestle Collective partner. Pusher of American rugby. Not ashamed of the gospel of short track racing.
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Hey, it’s my birfday today. It would mean the world to me if you’d consider throwing a couple of dollars to NETworks - a local org that provides food and housing assistance to people in my community here in East Atlanta. www.networkscoop.org/donate
Donate Today — NETWorks Cooperative Ministry
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January 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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Tim Cook on January 6, 2021: "Today marks a sad and shameful chapter in our nation's history. Those responsible for this insurrection should be held to account, and we must complete the transition to President-elect Biden's administration. It's especially when they are challenged that our ideals matter most." Tim Cook genuflecting before Trump in the Oval Office as he hands him the bespoke golden tablet that he crafted for him.
January 6, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Fuck it, TikTok thread
January 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Friday TikTok thread lets go
December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I demand justice for Ty Majeski.
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Back in the pod and trying to figure out which city is the Wendy’s City (it’s Daytona Beach). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Off The Trestle - 11.13.25
Podcast Episode · Trestle Collective Productions · 11/13/2025 · 42m
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November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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We're back in the pod, and Johnathan McGinty has a story and a pop culture item. Plus, I talk about taking showers in RVs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Off The Trestle -- 10.30.25
Podcast Episode · Trestle Collective Productions · 10/30/2025 · 45m
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October 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Ate a few pieces of Great American Cookie Cake and made a podcast. Results are predictable. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Off The Trestle -- 10.9.25
Podcast Episode · Trestle Collective Productions · 10/09/2025 · 42m
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October 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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a small ask, if you’re able to help out a local artist:

my friend Portia has broken her ankle in spectacular fashion; her second surgery is today and a few of us are trying to help raise money for what is going to be a nasty array of medical bills: www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...
Donate to Help with Ankle Surgery & Recovery Support, organized by Portia Hunter
Hello, my name is Portia Hunter and I'm a visual artist from Atlanta, GA. I l… Portia Hunter needs your support for Help with Ankle Surgery & Recovery Support
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October 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Johnathan McGinty and I are back in the pod after some sick leave, and you can tell in this ep that one of us may still be on cold medication. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Off The Trestle - 10.2.25
Podcast Episode · Trestle Collective Productions · 10/02/2025 · 36m
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October 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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We let this imbecile be his own OC again we are cooked.
September 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Watching the Florida game
September 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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If you’ve always wanted to see someone drive stick shift for the first time while drinking an open cup of the hottest coffee you’ve ever seen, Florida football may be for you
September 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Go Gators
a man is sitting in a bathtub with a toaster oven behind him
ALT: a man is sitting in a bathtub with a toaster oven behind him
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September 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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What Thursday is complete without listening to Johnathan McGinty and me loosely talk about college football? Off The Trestle Week 2 is out now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Off The Trestle - 9.4.25
Podcast Episode · Trestle Collective Productions · 09/04/2025 · 39m
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September 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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College football isn’t for being a fan of a team, it’s for hating several teams for inscrutable reasons
August 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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New @drivebytruckers.bsky.social song coming?
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · Aug 30
Tennessee authorities say a cold-case investigation reveals that a sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about an organized crime-busting law enforcement officer actually killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was murdered by his enemies.
Late crime-busting sheriff Buford Pusser inspired Hollywood. Investigators say he killed his wife
Tennessee authorities say a cold-case investigation reveals that a sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about an organized crime-busting law enforcement officer actually killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was murdered by his enemies.
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August 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Y'all, just in time for the new CFB season, Johnathan McGinty and I are back in the POD. Off the Trestle season 3 kicks off now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Off The Trestle - 8.28.25
Podcast Episode · Trestle Collective Productions · 08/28/2025 · 41m
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August 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Why watch pre-season NFL when the 1990 Pepsi 400 just dropped on YouTube?
August 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Anybody have an extra Todd Snider ticket for tonight in Winterville?
August 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM