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Joshua B. Hoe
@joshuabhoe.bsky.social
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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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Trump seems incapable of understanding that the people he is punishing and alienating with his brutal policies are exactly the people he needs to maintain control

Great stuff, as usual, from @gelliottmorris.com

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/podcast-wi...
Second, the movement to Democrats was concentrated among the voters who powered Trump’s win in 2024: Latinos, Gen Z, and lower-income voters. Hispanic-heavy precincts shifted 60 points to the left. People who rank the economy as their top issue also broke decisively in the Democrats’ favor, a big reversal from 2024.
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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If only the insurance companies had asked for a tax cut instead....

Arguably the dumbest GOP talking point ever
GOP talking point tweet about how ACA subsidies are a gift to insurance companies
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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FACTS from @johnpfaff.bsky.social

Even judges are starting to understand that "testilying" is real

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
I also hope the public takes the right lesson from Judge Ellis’ justifiable anger at what she saw as Bovino’s lies: not that this reflects some sort of unique cultural failure in the CBP — notorious for its cowboy culture — but that she is shedding light on a much more persistent, deeper problem with policing. Police dishonesty, even on the stand and under oath, is so common that it has its own name (“testilying”), and it has forced prosecutor offices to create what are called “Brady Lists” of officers they will not put on the stand out of fear they’ll commit perjury. If there is any silver lining to what ICE and CBP are doing in Chicago, it is that it may make the public more aware of just how common this practice is. The feds keep insisting on giving implausible excuses despite ample cellphone and body-worn camera evidence disproving their accounts — to the point that even usually staid federal court hearings result in judges berating federal officials in open court for their dishonesty. The extremeness of the behavior in which ICE, CBP and Bovino himself engage in may be uniquely shocking, but the ways they attempt to spin and disavow it are not.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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"On Thursday, the administration won again. And, trans and nonbinary people — and all of those who care for the rule of law — lost."

Sad day, but great work by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...
Ultimately, Jackson concluded by pulling these two failings of the majority’s order together. “In my view, the Court’s failure to acknowledge the basic norms of equity jurisdiction is more than merely regrettable,” she wrote. “It is an abdication of the Court’s duty to ensure that equitable standards apply equally to all litigants—to transgender people and the Government alike.” But, on Thursday, as in August and many other times before and since on the shadow docket, the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees instead applied their “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist,” as Jackson wrote then: “There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.” On Thursday, the administration won again. And, trans and nonbinary people — and all of those who care for the rule of law — lost.
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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1. Tariffs are a tax...that $600 billion was paid BY US

This person is literally cheering a tax increase

2. Next, do how much debt was caused by extending the tax cuts...I'll wait
Leavitt talking about how much was raised by tariffs
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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According to the polling firm of "nonsense and total bullshit" (they are his favorite firm)

Dude constantly wants everything to be about him, until....
Trump claiming the losses were because he wasn't on the ballot
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Nobody cares more about the American people than our POTUS
Trump truth suggesting that he will not fund SNAP until the Democrats vote to end the shutdown
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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People cheering on the racism, but if you say anything about Israel...no ethics, only rabid ugliness
tweet calling for Mamdani to be deported
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Facts!

👇🏻

I will do a longer thread on this soon...but, there is important work being done on why "Moderation" is NOT the answer for the Democrats (and is self-serving and literally the same solution they have been trying since Clinton)

@gelliottmorris.com

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...
I like Drutman’s piece because it takes the long view of how Democrats ended up where they are, and why recent debates about the overperformance of moderate Democratic candidates fall short. We are squabbling over how to juice 1 percentage point of vote margin out of an electorate, diagnosing these small differences as the big story of politics today, when the real question for the party is why the average difference between vote margins for presidential and congressional candidates has decreased bvy 80% over the last 25 years. The big question for Democrats in trying to win the Senate is how candidates can differentiate themselves from the national party brand.
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Ted Cruz argues Judge Boasberg is a partisan and therefore should be removed from office

....cool, next do Samuel Alito
Cruz tweet asking to impeach Judge Boasberg for being partisan
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Classy as ever

No matter how often he wins, no matter how much corrupt money he piles up, he is always a mean and miserable SOB

He even requires constant ass-kissing from everyone in his circle, and NONE OF IT EVER FILLS THE HOLE

<also, Biden has cancer right now>
Trump skeet attacking Biden
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Cuomo's team is so dumb that they called the video "just a shill" after including CHAR F'N GPT as a character in the video

Offensive and ridiculous for a million other reasons, but come on
Coumo's "just a shill video"
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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"He spent his life fighting for this city????"

ROFLOL

He loathed NYC
Cuomo's final ad
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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FACTS

So well distilled

Great stuff from @gelliottmorris.com (if you don't subscribe to his Substack and care about these issues, subscribe)

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-strate...
The Strategist’s Fallacy, simply put, is the incorrect belief that voters think like strategists — i.e., that they hold concrete issue positions and ideological labels and match them up to candidates, like a customer picking an entree off a dinner menu — so the way to win is for a candidate to tweak their individual positions on policy. This mental model does not hold in reality, leading individuals to provide poor assessments of voters’ decisions and organizations to give candidates poor advice.
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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More from @austinkocher.com, very important IMHO (and remember, the top four contributors to the Trump ballroom are:

Meta
Apple
Google
Amazon
But as I argue in my latest article for Dialogues on Digital Society, I believe we should see ICE’s use of technology as part of a broader global trend toward what scholars call “digital authoritarianism.” If authoritarianism is characterized by a concentration of power exercised by increasingly unaccountable leaders, then digital authoritarianism is the use of technology to facilitate both the exercise of undemocratic power and the insulation of leaders from democratic accountability.
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Nothing to worry about here, folks.

I am sure all of the involved parties will STOP using these surveillance tools and move on after they finish with deportations (which are obviously also deeply offensive)

Great work by @austinkocher.com

austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
ICE is working with Peter Thiel’s company Palantir to develop and deploy ImmigrationOS, an AI-powered platform that scoops up massive amounts of data that ICE can use to expedite deportation. Over the summer, ICE began using Graphite, a phone-hacking platform similar to Pegasus. And just this week, The Verge reported that ICE has also contracted with Zignal Labs to provide expansive social media monitoring of immigrants.
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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#IYKYK
Black Mirror, Men Against Fire
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I hope they primary Fetterman to the moon...the ongoing betrayal this guy has become...He is repeating GOP talking points and Trump messaging again
Fetterman saying he supports Trump on immigration....good lord
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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"From China" is doing a huge amount of work here

China was buying soybeans like gangbusters until a certain POTUS decided to levy MASSIVE tariffs
Scott Bessent says he 'felth this pain' from China b/c I'm actually a soybean farmer
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Well, I have shared a picture before from a formerly incarcerated friend (I included it in an article I wrote in the Federal Sentencing Reporter many years ago)...The artist's name is Alan Campo

But, I always thought his picture showed the inner-life of how vulnerable you feel
A pitcure of a man on a prison bunk looking sad/scared
October 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Trump to donors....

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Monopoly "Get out of jail free" card
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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What do donors stand to gain????

I mean....total impunity

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-b...
Monopoly "Get out of jail free" card What donors to Trump's White House ballroom stand to gain from the federal government By October 24, 2025 / 8:17 PM EDT / CBS News Dozens of executives and companies have donated to fund the construction of President Trump's $300 million ballroom, as many of them eye favorable policy, reduced scrutiny or approval for major deals from the White House. Donors to the ballroom — which will take the place of the White House's East Wing — include Big Tech companies, defense contractors and other large corporations. The White House has not disclosed how much money each company donated. Mr. Trump has said construction will be funded through private donations and his own money — not taxpayer funds.
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Brought to you by the same voters who started losing faith in the government when government forces attacked the Branch Davidian complex in Waco in 1993

....sigh
Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The word "JOURNALISTS" is doing Herculean work in that sentence
. @PressSecDOW “We are so proud to have Human Events and SIXTY OTHER JOURNALISTS joining us here at the Pentagon.”
October 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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President Trump vowed via Twitter on Tuesday morning that anyone who vandalizes "any monument, statue or other such federal property" will be arrested and face up to 10 years in prison, citing a little-known 2003 piece of legislation.
October 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM