Jonathan
@jonathanjoshua.com
Husband, father of two, lawyer. 2x Fintech GC now running a solo law practice with a focus on US consumer fintech and lending.
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The thing to understand about "papers please" fascism is that they don't actually care if you have your papers. They abduct whoever they please and do whatever they want with them.
April 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The thing to understand about "papers please" fascism is that they don't actually care if you have your papers. They abduct whoever they please and do whatever they want with them.
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Read to the end. It's not a typical Epstein essay.
"What the Epstein class understands is that the more accessible information becomes, the more precious nonpublic information is."
If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... [email protected] [gift link]
If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... [email protected] [gift link]
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Read to the end. It's not a typical Epstein essay.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged. n.pr/4puzyhb
Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children
Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged. n.pr/4puzyhb
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Koko Kondo, one of the few surviving victims of the Hiroshima nuclear blast, has spent her life providing a firsthand account of the destruction that obliterated her community.
Suddenly, in the era of Trump, those values and that peace are under threat.
Suddenly, in the era of Trump, those values and that peace are under threat.
A Hiroshima survivor reflects as Trump considers unleashing a new nuclear age
Koko Kondo was 8 months old when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on her city. Her lifelong journey to forgive but never forget just got more complicated.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Koko Kondo, one of the few surviving victims of the Hiroshima nuclear blast, has spent her life providing a firsthand account of the destruction that obliterated her community.
Suddenly, in the era of Trump, those values and that peace are under threat.
Suddenly, in the era of Trump, those values and that peace are under threat.
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Tens of thousands of Israelis have left the country over the past two years, amid tumultuous protests against the policies of the right-wing government and even before the Hamas attack and subsequent Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Israelis are moving abroad in record numbers due to fear and discontent
Tens of thousands of Israelis have left over the past two years, and many are young and well-educated, raising concerns over economic and social consequences.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Tens of thousands of Israelis have left the country over the past two years, amid tumultuous protests against the policies of the right-wing government and even before the Hamas attack and subsequent Israeli offensive in Gaza.
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This isn't what they actually said of course, but even if they had, it's entirely protected by the First Amendment to say you think the military should disobey the president, even if you concede the orders in question are lawful. Advocating that people should break the law is still protected speech.
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This isn't what they actually said of course, but even if they had, it's entirely protected by the First Amendment to say you think the military should disobey the president, even if you concede the orders in question are lawful. Advocating that people should break the law is still protected speech.
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
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Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
Brooklyn lightscape at the botanic garden was pretty cool. The kids loved and didn't even complain about the walking.
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Brooklyn lightscape at the botanic garden was pretty cool. The kids loved and didn't even complain about the walking.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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IDK who needs to hear this, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's a synagogue is absolutely wrong, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's hosting an info session about how U.S. Jews can buy real estate in Palestinian territories is absolutely fine and good.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
IDK who needs to hear this, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's a synagogue is absolutely wrong, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's hosting an info session about how U.S. Jews can buy real estate in Palestinian territories is absolutely fine and good.
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Wonder if the US officials giving away Ukraine right now have heard about this?
Russia has sent over 120 military trainers to venezuela to train venezuelan forces around air defence and guerrilla warfare.
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Wonder if the US officials giving away Ukraine right now have heard about this?
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.
ED Reaches Consensus On Loan Caps
A very limited number of degree programs would have access to the highest level of loans under a new set of regulations that the Department of Education and its negotiating committee signed off on Thu...
www.insidehighered.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.
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For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
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Immigration lawyers say those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war, contrary to international laws that prohibit deportations to places where people could face violence.
U.S. deports dozens of migrants to Ukraine amid war
Immigration lawyers say those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war, contrary to international laws that prohibit deportations to places where people could face violence.
n.pr
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Immigration lawyers say those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war, contrary to international laws that prohibit deportations to places where people could face violence.
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Let’s be honest: nothing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have done in the last 56 years justifies the tremendous cost of bringing them back from the moon. NASA should’ve spared the long-suffering taxpayer and left them up there
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Let’s be honest: nothing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have done in the last 56 years justifies the tremendous cost of bringing them back from the moon. NASA should’ve spared the long-suffering taxpayer and left them up there
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A lot of people say the god of the New Testament isn’t vengeful, but Janis Joplin just asked for a color TV and look what happened to her.
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
A lot of people say the god of the New Testament isn’t vengeful, but Janis Joplin just asked for a color TV and look what happened to her.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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"Trump has just spent this whole year royally screwing tens of millions of Americans"
Never forget where Sawant was a year ago...
bsky.app/profile/coac... (too lazy to dig up the original video but I did confirm it last year)
Never forget where Sawant was a year ago...
bsky.app/profile/coac... (too lazy to dig up the original video but I did confirm it last year)
Here's Kshama Sawant introducing Jill Stein and admitting "we can't win the election but we can stop Kamala Harris from winning Michigan and she needs it to win the WH."
So. There you have it.
So. There you have it.
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"Trump has just spent this whole year royally screwing tens of millions of Americans"
Never forget where Sawant was a year ago...
bsky.app/profile/coac... (too lazy to dig up the original video but I did confirm it last year)
Never forget where Sawant was a year ago...
bsky.app/profile/coac... (too lazy to dig up the original video but I did confirm it last year)
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I don't think any of the Very Serious People in our society who helped Trump become President understand how dangerous he and his incompetent people will be to the entire world in an actual war
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I don't think any of the Very Serious People in our society who helped Trump become President understand how dangerous he and his incompetent people will be to the entire world in an actual war
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
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It is tragic to see what figures like Mamdani are doing to a once great Democratic Party.
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It is tragic to see what figures like Mamdani are doing to a once great Democratic Party.
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
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If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.
Border agents are set to target communities in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana in a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep.”
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Border Agents Target Mississippi Communities in ‘Swamp Sweep’
Border agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep,” targeting immigrants in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.