Joshua Sebold
@joshuasebold.bsky.social
I used to be a reporter covering litigation. A skateboarding accident derailed my career. I'm finally getting stronger after years of physical therapy. Now I'm learning to surf at my parents' new house in Kona. I feel incredibly fortunate to live here.
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Joshua Sebold
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· Dec 13
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“.. Since 2022, retirement-plan participation rates, total contributions and overall savings rates have decreased for those making less than $150,000 a year ..”
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@marketwatch.com
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December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“.. Since 2022, retirement-plan participation rates, total contributions and overall savings rates have decreased for those making less than $150,000 a year ..”
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/a-tale...
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/a-tale...
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First, Lindsey Halligan. Now, Alina Habba.
This DOJ is breathtakingly incompetent, not just because it appoints idiots to cases, but because it is willing to break laws to appoint idiots to cases.
This DOJ is breathtakingly incompetent, not just because it appoints idiots to cases, but because it is willing to break laws to appoint idiots to cases.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
First, Lindsey Halligan. Now, Alina Habba.
This DOJ is breathtakingly incompetent, not just because it appoints idiots to cases, but because it is willing to break laws to appoint idiots to cases.
This DOJ is breathtakingly incompetent, not just because it appoints idiots to cases, but because it is willing to break laws to appoint idiots to cases.
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Opinion | The state of Louisiana owes $172 million to three men who coached or will coach the LSU football team. Here's my scolding op-ed about a blue state's investment in a middle school math tutoring program.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Opinion | The state of Louisiana owes $172 million to three men who coached or will coach the LSU football team. Here's my scolding op-ed about a blue state's investment in a middle school math tutoring program.
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You won't commission an Etsy witch cause "it's silly", but you'll decorate a dead tree inside your house with lights and ornamental animals? Okay. Guess you hate women in the workforce.
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
You won't commission an Etsy witch cause "it's silly", but you'll decorate a dead tree inside your house with lights and ornamental animals? Okay. Guess you hate women in the workforce.
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I'm a liberal now because I … {checks notes} … oppose cold-blooded murder
www.mrctv.org/videos/after...
www.mrctv.org/videos/after...
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I'm a liberal now because I … {checks notes} … oppose cold-blooded murder
www.mrctv.org/videos/after...
www.mrctv.org/videos/after...
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This is an absolute horror story for any writer trying to get their work published. Kudos to Tom, who rode out the storm, and came out the other side with a hit on his hands. #nevergiveup
THREAD.
How my best book almost died.
I finished my latest novel in late summer last year.
It was my 15th book: most ambitious and enjoyable thing I’d ever written.
Shortly after that, my then publishers, Unbound, decided they would not pay me the money they owed me for it...
How my best book almost died.
I finished my latest novel in late summer last year.
It was my 15th book: most ambitious and enjoyable thing I’d ever written.
Shortly after that, my then publishers, Unbound, decided they would not pay me the money they owed me for it...
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is an absolute horror story for any writer trying to get their work published. Kudos to Tom, who rode out the storm, and came out the other side with a hit on his hands. #nevergiveup
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.
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Something that has struck me as interesting about how unfailingly obsequious AI chatbots seem to provoke mental health crises in many people in pretty short order is that this is the kind of relationship that the ultra-wealthy routinely have with real people in every part of their lives
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Something that has struck me as interesting about how unfailingly obsequious AI chatbots seem to provoke mental health crises in many people in pretty short order is that this is the kind of relationship that the ultra-wealthy routinely have with real people in every part of their lives
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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"Every dog has his day," they used to say. Still, no one was prepared that morning Emperor Mister Pickles marched his army into town.
December 23, 2023 at 6:26 PM
"Every dog has his day," they used to say. Still, no one was prepared that morning Emperor Mister Pickles marched his army into town.
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Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.
NYT isn’t worth reading because they are in the bag for Trump
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.
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Two countries have to abandon their megacity capitals because they have too much (Jakarta) or too little (Tehran) water.
It feels like we've been fighting nature for some time - and we're starting to lose
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...
It feels like we've been fighting nature for some time - and we're starting to lose
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Two countries have to abandon their megacity capitals because they have too much (Jakarta) or too little (Tehran) water.
It feels like we've been fighting nature for some time - and we're starting to lose
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...
It feels like we've been fighting nature for some time - and we're starting to lose
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...
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Trump's CBP chief is a fabulist psychopath who openly takes pleasure in brutal acts of violence against civilians and freely lies under oath about the atrocities he commits and orchestrates. These are the tactics of terrorists, unleashed on our cities by our own government. slate.com/news-and-pol...
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Trump's CBP chief is a fabulist psychopath who openly takes pleasure in brutal acts of violence against civilians and freely lies under oath about the atrocities he commits and orchestrates. These are the tactics of terrorists, unleashed on our cities by our own government. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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lol this is awesome
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
lol this is awesome
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chat did this "100%" happen
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
chat did this "100%" happen
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Saw this guy on my way home and felt the sacred light erupt from me with immense power
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Saw this guy on my way home and felt the sacred light erupt from me with immense power
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.