Joshua Keiter
@joshmaker.bsky.social
father, reader, writer, teacher, blather, actor, singer, rhythm guitar.
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Joshua Keiter
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· Apr 30
The fifth volume of my Autobiography in ReVerse is out now!
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November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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November 26, 2025
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
November 26, 2025
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Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?
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November 25, 2025
November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
November 25, 2025
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Before DOGE, systems meant to serve millions of people were being run by a few harried employees using outdated systems. And now, after DOGE, they are being run by even fewer, even more harried employees on those same outdated systems!
So, DOGE, What Would You Say You Did Here?
An exit interview
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Before DOGE, systems meant to serve millions of people were being run by a few harried employees using outdated systems. And now, after DOGE, they are being run by even fewer, even more harried employees on those same outdated systems!
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If you had told me Mamdani and MTG would both be in the news today, and gave me eleventy thousand guesses as to why, I’d … still be guessing.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
If you had told me Mamdani and MTG would both be in the news today, and gave me eleventy thousand guesses as to why, I’d … still be guessing.
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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I think this clip is the key to understanding why Trump acted the way he did with Mamdani. His world revolves around TV ratings.
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I think this clip is the key to understanding why Trump acted the way he did with Mamdani. His world revolves around TV ratings.
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
I think what we need now is a sort of reverse Pop Up Video for The American Revolution showing which musical number in Hamilton is being referenced with the relevant rhymes and characters popping up onscreen from time to time.
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I think what we need now is a sort of reverse Pop Up Video for The American Revolution showing which musical number in Hamilton is being referenced with the relevant rhymes and characters popping up onscreen from time to time.
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Remember a few weeks ago when Trump brought in a couple bulldozers and demolished about a third of the White House? That was weird.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Remember a few weeks ago when Trump brought in a couple bulldozers and demolished about a third of the White House? That was weird.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
“Don’t Give Up the Ship!”
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Don’t Give Up the Ship!”
Beautiful interview.
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Opinion | Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
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November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Beautiful interview.
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
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Question for XKCD’s What If?: “What’s the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving, assuming you’re obeying the speed limit and driving on paved roads?” The answer is surprising. [kottke.org]
Can You Drive West to Lengthen the Sunset?
Two reasons why XKCD’s What If? series is so compelling:
Even when an answer seems straightforward, the devil is in the details.
And with respect to the details, Munroe does his due diligence.
In this case, the answ
kottke.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Question for XKCD’s What If?: “What’s the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving, assuming you’re obeying the speed limit and driving on paved roads?” The answer is surprising. [kottke.org]
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If you’re a conservative who’s triggered by the new Ken Burns documentary on The American Revolution, you’re a fragile punk-ass weakling. Go run home to your momma and cry on her knee. Don’t bother the rest of us with your insecurity.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If you’re a conservative who’s triggered by the new Ken Burns documentary on The American Revolution, you’re a fragile punk-ass weakling. Go run home to your momma and cry on her knee. Don’t bother the rest of us with your insecurity.
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love how this reads like a farewell speech
He knows his time is up
He knows his time is up
“I don't care when the Senate passes the House Bill, whether tonight, or at some other time in the near future, I just don't want Republicans to take their eyes off all of the Victories that we've had…”
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
love how this reads like a farewell speech
He knows his time is up
He knows his time is up
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What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
Midday today, as new revelations from the Epstein documents were hitting social media every few minutes, Representative Swalwell posted: “This is the beginning of the end.”
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Midday today, as new revelations from the Epstein documents were hitting social media every few minutes, Representative Swalwell posted: “This is the beginning of the end.”
Reads like the liner notes to a dystopic Radiohead album
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reads like the liner notes to a dystopic Radiohead album
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November 11, 2025
November 11, 2025
In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
November 11, 2025