Joseph S Furey
@tempus-fukit.bsky.social
Writer, freelance features journalist, arts critic and travel hack, devout Gooner. News UK, editorial and commercial. Non-fiction book in the works
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Joseph S Furey
@tempus-fukit.bsky.social
· Apr 23
No Forwarding Address | Joseph S Furey | Substack
Field notes from a 50,000-mile drive across the US. Book is on the way. Consider this the trailer. Click to read No Forwarding Address, by Joseph S Furey, a Substack publication. Launched 3 days ago.
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A trailer of sorts for the book I’m writing. It’s free, for now. But once I’m back on the road, there might be a tip jar. And maybe I’ll take requests - but only if they’re morally indefensible.
Do subscribe. It should be fun.
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Do subscribe. It should be fun.
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“Launched in 2018, the U.S. Civil Rights Trail stands as a breakwater against this tide of whitewash, propaganda and historical vandalism – because it can be seen, touched, walked. In these days of state-sanctioned amnesia, visibility is resistance.”
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Necessary Ghosts
The American dream is a narcotic, but unevenly dispensed. Liberty was once rationed by race – and now the hard-won advances of the Sixties are being gleefully trashed
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November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
“Launched in 2018, the U.S. Civil Rights Trail stands as a breakwater against this tide of whitewash, propaganda and historical vandalism – because it can be seen, touched, walked. In these days of state-sanctioned amnesia, visibility is resistance.”
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No wonder Border Control has gone after Charlotte, which is home to St Matthew, one of the largest Catholic parishes in the US. The Church is one of the last institutions in US life with a large, multi-ethnic congregational base and a social teaching on migration that fundamentally contradicts MAGA
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
No wonder Border Control has gone after Charlotte, which is home to St Matthew, one of the largest Catholic parishes in the US. The Church is one of the last institutions in US life with a large, multi-ethnic congregational base and a social teaching on migration that fundamentally contradicts MAGA
Stephen Miller has endorsed Andrew Cuomo. Black mould, bedbugs and the BQE at rush hour have all issued statements of support. Unpaid internships have released a joint letter praising his “leadership style” and the smell of summer garbage on Canal Street has wished him “good luck”.
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Stephen Miller has endorsed Andrew Cuomo. Black mould, bedbugs and the BQE at rush hour have all issued statements of support. Unpaid internships have released a joint letter praising his “leadership style” and the smell of summer garbage on Canal Street has wished him “good luck”.
The Land of the Free has been free – for all, in law – for just 60 years.
America’s road to racial justice has been long, tortuous and bloody – and we’re nowhere near a rest stop, let alone a scenic overlook.
@prisonculture.bsky.social @prisonpolicy.org
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America’s road to racial justice has been long, tortuous and bloody – and we’re nowhere near a rest stop, let alone a scenic overlook.
@prisonculture.bsky.social @prisonpolicy.org
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Necessary Ghosts
The American dream is a narcotic, but unevenly dispensed. Liberty was once rationed by race – and now the hard-won advances of the Sixties are being gleefully trashed
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November 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The Land of the Free has been free – for all, in law – for just 60 years.
America’s road to racial justice has been long, tortuous and bloody – and we’re nowhere near a rest stop, let alone a scenic overlook.
@prisonculture.bsky.social @prisonpolicy.org
josephsfurey.substack.com/p/necessary-...
America’s road to racial justice has been long, tortuous and bloody – and we’re nowhere near a rest stop, let alone a scenic overlook.
@prisonculture.bsky.social @prisonpolicy.org
josephsfurey.substack.com/p/necessary-...
Feels a little strange being away from New Orleans for Halloween, which takes up most of October there.
As my Vodou-practising neighbour told me the day we met, “It’s a season here, not a day. We know it takes time to raise the dead.”
As my Vodou-practising neighbour told me the day we met, “It’s a season here, not a day. We know it takes time to raise the dead.”
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Feels a little strange being away from New Orleans for Halloween, which takes up most of October there.
As my Vodou-practising neighbour told me the day we met, “It’s a season here, not a day. We know it takes time to raise the dead.”
As my Vodou-practising neighbour told me the day we met, “It’s a season here, not a day. We know it takes time to raise the dead.”
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I had such a meaningful night in Chicago with Eve Ewing at the National Public Housing Museum, and I'm grateful to @katieprout.bsky.social for this piece on the event and THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—about housing, state violence, political imagination, and refusing the myth of dispassionate journalism.
Profiting off precarity - Chicago Reader
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I had such a meaningful night in Chicago with Eve Ewing at the National Public Housing Museum, and I'm grateful to @katieprout.bsky.social for this piece on the event and THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—about housing, state violence, political imagination, and refusing the myth of dispassionate journalism.
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social
White return replaced white flight. Streets were reclaimed like lost property, and the people who made them – in districts rich in art, music and memory – were shown the door, priced out of the very picture they had painted.
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White return replaced white flight. Streets were reclaimed like lost property, and the people who made them – in districts rich in art, music and memory – were shown the door, priced out of the very picture they had painted.
josephsfurey.substack.com/p/necessary-...
Necessary Ghosts
The American dream is a narcotic, but unevenly dispensed. Liberty was once rationed by race – and now the hard-won advances of the Sixties are being gleefully trashed
josephsfurey.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social
White return replaced white flight. Streets were reclaimed like lost property, and the people who made them – in districts rich in art, music and memory – were shown the door, priced out of the very picture they had painted.
josephsfurey.substack.com/p/necessary-...
White return replaced white flight. Streets were reclaimed like lost property, and the people who made them – in districts rich in art, music and memory – were shown the door, priced out of the very picture they had painted.
josephsfurey.substack.com/p/necessary-...
SNAP
If only that were the sound of Mike Davis’s neck. It sustains working poor families, children, the elderly and the disabled. Every major study - by the CBO, Brookings and USDA - finds that every dollar spent generates about $1.50–$1.80 in economic activity through grocery stores and suppliers
If only that were the sound of Mike Davis’s neck. It sustains working poor families, children, the elderly and the disabled. Every major study - by the CBO, Brookings and USDA - finds that every dollar spent generates about $1.50–$1.80 in economic activity through grocery stores and suppliers
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
SNAP
If only that were the sound of Mike Davis’s neck. It sustains working poor families, children, the elderly and the disabled. Every major study - by the CBO, Brookings and USDA - finds that every dollar spent generates about $1.50–$1.80 in economic activity through grocery stores and suppliers
If only that were the sound of Mike Davis’s neck. It sustains working poor families, children, the elderly and the disabled. Every major study - by the CBO, Brookings and USDA - finds that every dollar spent generates about $1.50–$1.80 in economic activity through grocery stores and suppliers
New Orleans Saints are not marching in - they’re crawling toward a No 1 draft pick
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
New Orleans Saints are not marching in - they’re crawling toward a No 1 draft pick
At last, a Trump nominee too toxic for Republican senators. Paul Ingrassia, whose Nazi-curious texts were leaked to Politico, has withdrawn from the running to lead the Office of Special Counsel - leaving him to gaze deep into his own eyes in the funhouse mirror of power.
October 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
At last, a Trump nominee too toxic for Republican senators. Paul Ingrassia, whose Nazi-curious texts were leaked to Politico, has withdrawn from the running to lead the Office of Special Counsel - leaving him to gaze deep into his own eyes in the funhouse mirror of power.
October 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Alex Jones has the energy of a televangelist possessed by an army surplus store. Every morning he wakes up and fights the air until it confesses to being part of the Deep State. It’s not often I wish the worst of their imagination on someone. Consider it done
October 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Alex Jones has the energy of a televangelist possessed by an army surplus store. Every morning he wakes up and fights the air until it confesses to being part of the Deep State. It’s not often I wish the worst of their imagination on someone. Consider it done
Back to therapy.
My shrink and I joke about what she could put on her business card, if she had one.
Because nothing in this life is new.
For when Mercury in retrograde is not to blame.
Emotional baggage unpacked. Hold only - no carry-ons.
My shrink and I joke about what she could put on her business card, if she had one.
Because nothing in this life is new.
For when Mercury in retrograde is not to blame.
Emotional baggage unpacked. Hold only - no carry-ons.
October 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Back to therapy.
My shrink and I joke about what she could put on her business card, if she had one.
Because nothing in this life is new.
For when Mercury in retrograde is not to blame.
Emotional baggage unpacked. Hold only - no carry-ons.
My shrink and I joke about what she could put on her business card, if she had one.
Because nothing in this life is new.
For when Mercury in retrograde is not to blame.
Emotional baggage unpacked. Hold only - no carry-ons.
Woke up to the news of Diane Keaton’s death. I’ll put on some coffee and Alan Parker’s Shoot the Moon. She’s on the screen for about 90 minutes in that, second only to Reds, which is a longer movie.
October 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Woke up to the news of Diane Keaton’s death. I’ll put on some coffee and Alan Parker’s Shoot the Moon. She’s on the screen for about 90 minutes in that, second only to Reds, which is a longer movie.
Yes, Machado came with Rubio’s recommendation, but that was his shameless projection of American self-image; an attempt to outsource virtue while the US’s own institutions corrode.
#nobelpeaceprize
#nobelpeaceprize
October 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Yes, Machado came with Rubio’s recommendation, but that was his shameless projection of American self-image; an attempt to outsource virtue while the US’s own institutions corrode.
#nobelpeaceprize
#nobelpeaceprize
Vincent Battiloro, NJ, killed two teenage girls in a road-rage attack. Had livestreamed about one victim mocking Charlie Kirk.
Self-described fan of Kirk & Andrew Tate. Families say police ignored stalking reports.
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Self-described fan of Kirk & Andrew Tate. Families say police ignored stalking reports.
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NJ 'stalker, killer' Vincent Battiloro is a Charlie Kirk fan, ranted against two girls on livestream before killing them in road rage - The Times of India
US News: Social media is on fire over the silence from the Republicans on 17-year-old Vincent Battiloro, a MAGA and Charlie Kirk fan, who has been charged with.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Vincent Battiloro, NJ, killed two teenage girls in a road-rage attack. Had livestreamed about one victim mocking Charlie Kirk.
Self-described fan of Kirk & Andrew Tate. Families say police ignored stalking reports.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/nj-...
Self-described fan of Kirk & Andrew Tate. Families say police ignored stalking reports.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/nj-...
A win! But it’s been a while since the Saints were any use. The twilight of the Drew Brees era. Four straight NFC South titles, 2017-2020. I’m still bemoaning the no-call in the 2018 NFC Championship, when a ref swallowed his whistle on what may be the most blatant pass interference in NFL history
October 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A win! But it’s been a while since the Saints were any use. The twilight of the Drew Brees era. Four straight NFC South titles, 2017-2020. I’m still bemoaning the no-call in the 2018 NFC Championship, when a ref swallowed his whistle on what may be the most blatant pass interference in NFL history
@searchlightmag.bsky.social
Me, writing for Sam Bright, on the poisonous politics behind Kent’s newly revived “blitz spirit”
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Me, writing for Sam Bright, on the poisonous politics behind Kent’s newly revived “blitz spirit”
writesbright.substack.com/p/the-global...
The global far-right is brainwashing a town near you
📝 A guest essay...
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October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
@searchlightmag.bsky.social
Me, writing for Sam Bright, on the poisonous politics behind Kent’s newly revived “blitz spirit”
writesbright.substack.com/p/the-global...
Me, writing for Sam Bright, on the poisonous politics behind Kent’s newly revived “blitz spirit”
writesbright.substack.com/p/the-global...
Here’s me writing something a little closer to home for @writesbright.bsky.social’s Substack.
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#raisethecolours #unitethekingdom #globalfarright
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#raisethecolours #unitethekingdom #globalfarright
The global far-right is brainwashing a town near you
📝 A guest essay...
writesbright.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Here’s me writing something a little closer to home for @writesbright.bsky.social’s Substack.
writesbright.substack.com/p/the-global...
#raisethecolours #unitethekingdom #globalfarright
writesbright.substack.com/p/the-global...
#raisethecolours #unitethekingdom #globalfarright
World Cup 2026. If Trump continues to menace host cities and keep qualified teams in visa limbo, I can foresee trouble, boycotts maybe. The usually gutless FIFA has said the cup is bigger than any country, any leader
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World Cup 2026: Entry Pending
The tournament that claimed to unite the world now answers to a host that governs by blacklist – and to a governing body so compromised it can’t even pretend to object
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October 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
World Cup 2026. If Trump continues to menace host cities and keep qualified teams in visa limbo, I can foresee trouble, boycotts maybe. The usually gutless FIFA has said the cup is bigger than any country, any leader
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Is there no aspect of popular culture that this admin doesn’t hate? ICE will be enforcing immigration laws at the Super Bowl in Santa Clara. Noem calls the NFL “weak” for handing halftime to Bad Bunny, saying it “won’t be able to sleep at night” following its move
October 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Is there no aspect of popular culture that this admin doesn’t hate? ICE will be enforcing immigration laws at the Super Bowl in Santa Clara. Noem calls the NFL “weak” for handing halftime to Bad Bunny, saying it “won’t be able to sleep at night” following its move
Hegseth. In recent years, more active-duty service members have died by suicide than in combat. The Department of War reported 492 suicides in 2022 alone, and the rates among younger enlisted soldiers - the rank and file Hegseth wants to subject to harsher “discipline” - are among the highest
October 1, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Hegseth. In recent years, more active-duty service members have died by suicide than in combat. The Department of War reported 492 suicides in 2022 alone, and the rates among younger enlisted soldiers - the rank and file Hegseth wants to subject to harsher “discipline” - are among the highest