Joseph Riddle
@josriddle.bsky.social
What matters: #globalhealth, #education, #sustainability for #environment and planet
The rest is noise 🌎
“Follow the one who seeks truth, doubt the one who finds it” — André Gide
https://rebalancetheworld.substack.com/
The rest is noise 🌎
“Follow the one who seeks truth, doubt the one who finds it” — André Gide
https://rebalancetheworld.substack.com/
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Joseph Riddle
@josriddle.bsky.social
· Nov 21
A lot of Trump supporters don’t seem to understand what the word #Kleptocracy means.
But they will soon
But they will soon
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The Fulton County search warrant & its implications for the 2026 & future elections is critically important news & not getting the coverage it merits. Read my most recent piece to get the download & understand why this is such a significant development. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Today Fulton County, Tomorrow???
On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant on the Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Operation Center.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:15 AM
The Fulton County search warrant & its implications for the 2026 & future elections is critically important news & not getting the coverage it merits. Read my most recent piece to get the download & understand why this is such a significant development. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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A reminder that Liam Ramos, the son of legal residents in Minnesota, is still being held in a Texas prison.
A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life.
(📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)
A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life.
(📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)
January 27, 2026 at 1:19 PM
A reminder that Liam Ramos, the son of legal residents in Minnesota, is still being held in a Texas prison.
A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life.
(📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)
A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life.
(📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
God help us all if this is true
January 27, 2026 at 1:39 PM
God help us all if this is true
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This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
January 26, 2026 at 5:22 AM
This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
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I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop.
It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities.
I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.
It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities.
I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.
January 25, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop.
It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities.
I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.
It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities.
I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.
@timmiller.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social — I asked Prof G for his take and he ignored it. One of you have a take?
@profgalloway.com Given Trump’s assaults on various fronts (dismantling DOJ independence, gutting renewable energy & funding for cancer research, messing with Fed independence), I’d love to hear your pessimist/baseline/optimist take on how long it might take to repair some of these harms
January 23, 2026 at 9:55 PM
@timmiller.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social — I asked Prof G for his take and he ignored it. One of you have a take?
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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.
January 19, 2026 at 3:18 PM
“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.
@profgalloway.com Given Trump’s assaults on various fronts (dismantling DOJ independence, gutting renewable energy & funding for cancer research, messing with Fed independence), I’d love to hear your pessimist/baseline/optimist take on how long it might take to repair some of these harms
January 18, 2026 at 9:16 PM
@profgalloway.com Given Trump’s assaults on various fronts (dismantling DOJ independence, gutting renewable energy & funding for cancer research, messing with Fed independence), I’d love to hear your pessimist/baseline/optimist take on how long it might take to repair some of these harms
I can’t explain, but in my mind Elle Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen are the same person
January 7, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I can’t explain, but in my mind Elle Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen are the same person
How can we get rid of @schumer.senate.gov Schumer before he fucks up Dems chances in the midterms? This seems like a code red, no?
December 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
How can we get rid of @schumer.senate.gov Schumer before he fucks up Dems chances in the midterms? This seems like a code red, no?
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con.
Please.
Please.
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con.
Please.
Please.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
The words “One nation, under God, Indivisible” just sound like an ironic footnote now — or an accusation
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The words “One nation, under God, Indivisible” just sound like an ironic footnote now — or an accusation
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October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
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Good morning and happy Friday to everyone. The thing about the James Comey indictment and yamtit's retribution campaign against his political adversaries is he's still in the Epstein files.
September 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Good morning and happy Friday to everyone. The thing about the James Comey indictment and yamtit's retribution campaign against his political adversaries is he's still in the Epstein files.
Won’t someone spare a thought for Jill Stein’s poor supporters?
They’ve had a tough week: realizing that Kamala might not, after all, be “even worse”
They’ve had a tough week: realizing that Kamala might not, after all, be “even worse”
July 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Won’t someone spare a thought for Jill Stein’s poor supporters?
They’ve had a tough week: realizing that Kamala might not, after all, be “even worse”
They’ve had a tough week: realizing that Kamala might not, after all, be “even worse”
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Taylor Fritz has hit 33 winners and 5 unforced errors today.
Taylor Fritz is down two sets to none.
Mpetshi Perricard leads 7-6(6), 7-6(8).
#Wimbledon
Taylor Fritz is down two sets to none.
Mpetshi Perricard leads 7-6(6), 7-6(8).
#Wimbledon
June 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Taylor Fritz has hit 33 winners and 5 unforced errors today.
Taylor Fritz is down two sets to none.
Mpetshi Perricard leads 7-6(6), 7-6(8).
#Wimbledon
Taylor Fritz is down two sets to none.
Mpetshi Perricard leads 7-6(6), 7-6(8).
#Wimbledon