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Joshua B. Hoe
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Sr. Policy Manager at Dream.Org, Host of the Decarceration Nation Podcast (on hiatus). Formerly Incarcerated. Registrant
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Thread 🧵 Bail Reform

Trump went on another rant about "cashless bail" yesterday....so let me remind you why he is WRONG about this topic

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It's a revealing moment...

J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.

The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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ICE deports 'patriot' Purple Heart recipient to Mexico after two tours of duty
ICE deports 'patriot' Purple Heart recipient to Mexico after two tours of duty
Jose Barco-Chirino, who served two tours of duty, was deported to Mexico on Friday, according to ICE, after he allegedly misplaces citizenship paperwork
www.themirror.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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👇👇
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Air travel is going to get worse, fast, with the introduction of dynamic pricing. Difficult to imagine the status quo being worse but the corporations will deliver hls.harvard.edu/today/how-de...
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I can’t even
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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It’s kinda wild the President is openly corrupt, Nazi sympathizing, and very likely a pedophile—and most Republicans in Congress are still willing to ignore the Constitution whenever he asks.
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
And the Vikings somehow start to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It still seems clear to me that the President of the United States believes that applying for "asylum" means you came from an Asylum
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
As much as I hate to admit it (Go Blue), Mr. McCarthy, at times, suffers from a lack of touch
inside JJ McCarthy's brain
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Alice Wong reminded us that community space matters;

"Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance."

May Alice’s memory live on in our shared work, our collective flourishing, and our commitment to freedom and dignity for all.

www.thrivingautistic.org/solidarity/
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Chicago baby
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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This makes me sad...back in the good old days when Twitter wasn't owned by Elon Musk, we interacted a few times

What a loss...an amazing human being and activist
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Guards at the Rankin County jail beat people behind closed doors and encouraged some inmates to join in on the brutality, former inmates and guards said. The violence created a culture of fear, widely accepted by officials to keep order, a New York Times and Mississippi Today investigation found.
In a Brutal Mississippi Jail, Inmates Say They Were Enlisted as Enforcers
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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yes, and: there is an entire generation of voters out there that don't know what politics is like without Donald Trump
When I chose to study politics for a living I had no idea that politics would get this dumb.
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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I’ve been saying this privately for a while. 2026 is going to be an anti-incumbent election.

If you’re not going to show up for the fight, don’t run. Change is coming…
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This makes me sad...back in the good old days when Twitter wasn't owned by Elon Musk, we interacted a few times

What a loss...an amazing human being and activist
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Pam Bondi has posted rants and videos saying that there’ll be no mercy for those who threaten federal agents.

But she and her boss just pardoned a woman who threatened to shoot federal agents.

Why did this Florida woman get a pass? She’s MAGA.

Trump doesn’t care about federal agents. Never did.
Trump Pardons Two for Crimes Related to Jan. 6
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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i believe one Childish Gambino may have had a song that says something about this shit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOj...
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.

But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 28, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.

ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.

We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.

But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
ROFLOL
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM