Uncommon Sense with Josh Colletta
@joshcolletta.bsky.social's weekly podcast about whatever there is to talk about... but mostly politics. Greetings, fellow patient!
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- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaWOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThis was SB99 from 2023. I spoke against this bill on 3 different occasions on the house floor, including the "blood on your hands" speech. I am glad this bill has been permanently defeated. And that Montana's constitution continues to protect trans people from government overreach and animus.
- ...as opposed to a Boeing 747-8 that *wasn't* made in the United States of America? Yeah, sure, it's been outfitted elsewhere, but it was made here FIRST, then sent over there. Hawley, in addition to being a Nazi terrorist and coward, is a fucking idiot.
- It is, indeed, good, right, and salutary that we should, at all times and in all places, mock and laugh at Beanie Boy.
- Probably best not to be *taking* advice from a man who spent the weekend swimming in a literal shit-filled creek with his grandchildren.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh Collettaremember those 3 weeks last year when they were loudly called weird creeps and the weird creeps lost their fucking minds and melted down, the whole thing was funny & it was *working* then of course the Dem leadership/consultant class put a STOP to all that because they have a public failure kink
- the centrist “identity politics is bad” argument, sneering at leftists over pronouns - like we’re fixated on arcane academic concepts and you need a PhD in gender studies just to express an opinion - falls apart pretty fast when you reframe this as Normal Humans vs. Creeps Spying On Strangers Peeing
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaNearly 2 years of live-streamed & documented genocide versus victimhood & white grievance of apartheidists. There is no ‘white genocide’ in SA but there is real genocide in Gaza. US taxpayer $ is wasted on privileged & wealthy apartheidists, while continuing to bomb actual refugees starving in tents
- Well THAT'S a blatant and demonstrable lie.
- Rejection of racism is is not intolerance, it is mandatory to being a good person. Afrikaners are violent, racist subjugators by definition. It is their history and it is their reason for being. Bill's post is not intolerant, it is morally and factually correct.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaSeparate is never equal.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaWe're playing all of America's greatest hits baby🙃
- WRONG. Corruption does NOT require explicit quid pro quo. The Emoluments Clause does'nt even imply quid prop quo. It's not only about selling out the country, it's about personal enrichment via public office. That's still corruption. Terms DO matter, so learn them before you lecture.
- That's not a national security risk at all. </sarcasm>
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaToday I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaIf you want the brutal truth, they didn't start with extermination They started with sterilisation (so those 'things' couldn't be passed on) Pay attention. Given the assault on women's reproductive rights, EXPECT something like this to rear its ugly head It's coming
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaIt’s not that they don’t know what the constitution says. They know what it says. Just like they knew what it said when they asked Pence to ignore it. They just don’t care. They believe it can be rewritten by bending it to their will, if enough of them decide to do it.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaNo badges on lanyards. Civilian mixed flashlights. Pistols worn openly. All the RAV4s were black, the amber lights were cheap add-ons that you might see on cars working private security.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaTonight in Milwaukee we had rental RAV4s (complete with rental car no smoking window stickers) with amber lights searching all cars parked near the traditionally Black beach (because we're still that segregated.) The "officers" were plainclothes. They were zip-tying people and hauling them off.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThe way progressive White folks keep ignoring that most Black folks lived under authoritarianism HERE from the early 1500s to the 1970s in parts of this country & instead reach to Germany to describe our current situation is deep— Do y’all not know the Nazis modeled their system on Jim Crow HERE?
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh Colletta"I've trained 1000s of soldiers..." Trans man says, stunned, at being let go in the military. Nick, a transgender man on Tiktok, is going viral today after his video shows the impact of the trans military ban on his 18 year career. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
- I say we strap Elno to a rooftop mast in the path of a Category 5 storm and see if he comes out of it still thinking those illegal firings were justified.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThe first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.
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- HE'S lucky that SHE wasn't armed. Where I grew up, you'd get shot for doing what he did, regardless of gender.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaI've seen a lot of posts incorrectly say you have to call your reps about the SCREEN Act. while the Screen Act is definitely worth calling about, that is not what is being brought before the Senate on thursday What you need to call your reps about is the "S.5260 Interstate Obscenity Definition Act"
- Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography. The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards. dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
- What "campaign?"
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaI’m not sure people realize that ICE can take ANYONE. They need to have “reasonable suspicion” but guess who defines and monitors if they have it? ICE. ICE is in charge of ICE. They can take ANYONE. Of course courts are supposed to oversee this but yeah. Not so much. They can take anyone.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThis is honestly hilarious
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaBREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThere is literally nothing that triggers MAGA Christians like the teachings of Jesus.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaPizzaballa can still win if Mike Pence can find the courage
- Tim Walberg (my "representative," and I use the term as loosely as possible): "I am not on the witness stand." Oh, Timmy, Timmy, Timmy... you are ALWAYS on the witness stand. 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJi...
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThis is how you know the tape is legit: “What are they doing illegal now? What if this was after a game or something? This many people [are] out … after a basketball game. We do this after the Aggie games?”
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh Colletta92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaHaving Trump as president during a hot war between India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, is a nightmare.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThis is a good time to learn the history of Reconstruction and in particular how the KKK worked with the "Redeemer" movement to roll back Reconstruction in the Deep South using a combination of extreme violence, intimidation, and judicial/legalistic maneuvering.
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- screaming @joolia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaMy full analysis on the case can be found here, just written and released minutes ago: bsky.app/profile/erin...
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaTo people saying “it’s a temporary ruling,” those people are missing the point. This stay allows the military to IMMEDIATELY begin to let go of soldiers. Those soldiers will need jobs, pay, shelter. And it clearly indicates where SCOTUS is on trans people.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaIn an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaOkay Luigi absolutely didn't do it and this is a pin job
- Haven't Fox's OWN POLLS shown him tanking? I mean, I have no doubt they're going to "fix" that moving forward, but still... one poll is an outlier. Two is a trend. ALL OF THEM is definitive.
- This is wild. Fox News is telling viewers the polls showing Trump tanking can't be right because he's a world-historical success. But even some callers to right wing media are saying the tariffs are a huge problem for them. Exchange w @mattgertz.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1948...
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- Nowadays, they don't bother shooting, they just kidnap you and disappear you to the El Salvador torture prison.
- #ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1970: Four dead in Ohio. Members of the Ohio National Guard open fire on more than 300 anti-Vietnam War demonstrators at Kent State University, killing four students, wounding eight and paralyzing another. /1
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThe significance of the photo in this graphic I made
- "MY LIFE HAS BEEN THREATENED!" -- Nancy Mace after a gay man offers to shake her hand
- ...he's a Presbyterian. Or at least identified as such for most of his life.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaIt’s a pretty rare feat for a sitting US president to dramatically lose two elections in a week.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThere’s a looooooong history of legacy media casually yoinking scoops/ideas without credit, sometimes veering into straight plagiarism, and @marisakabas.bsky.social is right to call it out. It’s fucking bullshit, it’s disrespectful, & it cuts directly into the livelihood of independent journalists.
- And @aaron.bsky.team will continue to run interference for him here on Bluesky because "trust and safety" means letting polite Nazis get away with their Nazi fuckery.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaA/P [3 May 25] -- Trump admin retreats in dispute with Maine over cuts to child nutrition program suspending in dispute over Maine's continued support for trans athletes. In issuing an injunction, a judge had previously found that Maine was like to prevail on the merits. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
- It's always "I feared for my life!" and never "I'm hopped up on adrenaline because I live for stomping my boot."
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaSTV [cont] -- Said the ONE active player affected, 5th tier Jasmine Angove: “I like being challenged & with these girls that we play I am not the strongest, not the tallest, not the fastest & not the best. But we have a great bond. The club is shocked & saddened as well." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThere's something missing from discussions of Mike Waltz' continued use of Signal, along with his use of an Israeli archiving tool. When Trump was asked abt SignalGate, he said, "maybe stay off Signal." Everyone--Marco, Waltz, and JD--are still on there. www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
- Let's not forget: the SBC was founded to uphold slavery as the northern Baptists increasingly favored abolition. They have to at least APPEAR to be keeping up with the times to some degree, but it is still inherently an organization that supports racism, misogyny, and hatred of the "other."
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaMay 2, 1945: The U.S. celebrates the collapse of Germany's far-right government. May 2, 2025: The U.S. is chastised by Germany for supporting a return to power of Germany's far-right government.
- Here's your usual reminder that Ashli Babbitt was a Nazi terrorist engaged in a violent attack on the Capitol and deserved to die, as did everyone on her side.
- NEW: The Trump administration has reached a "settlement in principle" for a financial payout to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a Jan. 6 rioter who was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer while trying to enter the House chamber. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh Collettait is very clear, which is how we know that when any entity doesn't resist, it's because they don't want to
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaBREAKING: The USDA has dropped their lawsuit against Maine over its transgender student athletic policies. “I told him I’d see him in court. Well we did see him in court, and we won,” Gov. Janet Mills said. www.pressherald.com/2025/05/02/m...
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaCongrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...
- Remember a couple weeks ago when Elno sold Twitter to xAI (who was practically already running it anyway)? I pointed out back then exactly what was going on. 🧵
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaIf you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaShot Chaser
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaThis is absolutely terrible. People constantly say that they want to support "alternatives" to policing but they absolutely DO NOT WANT TO RESOURCE THEM. EVER. Cahoots is a gold-standard for non-police community response. 30 YEARS OF PROVEN SUCCESS. www.registerguard.com/story/news/l...
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaFfs, "what if we had just thrown in with the Nazis" is not an acceptable answer to what the lesson of the Holocaust was
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaIt is freaking batshit that so many Jewish institutions, at the inflection point in history analogous to what we've been chanting "never again" about for decades, apparently are taking the position that the lesson from the Shoah is the Association for German National Jews was onto something.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaPuberty blockers for trans kids were literally already a middle of the line compromise with a transphobic society, but the Overton window has shifted so much that puberty blockers are seen as like, the Most Radical choice lol
- The DOJ is wrong, and will go fuck themselves.
- And in future news, Pride flags were worked into literally every contestant's outfit at Eurovision.
- Eurovision bans Pride flags from the very queer contest’s stage - buff.ly/zYEFXgy
- Read this whole thread. Canada is not in the clear. And we can tell exactly how badly it could go by looking at what Labour is doing over in the U.K. right now. They've completely thrown trans people under the bus across the pond. They were supposedly the left-of-center party. This is not over.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaI mean, yeah.
- I'm not old enough to remember it, but I know from old news clips that this country went batshit insane when Jimmy Carter told everyone to wear sweaters instead of turning the heat up during the energy crisis. We don't take kindly to being told to do with less.
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaAAP immediately rejects the HHS report: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
- Reposted by Uncommon Sense with Josh CollettaLol, Media covering this exactly how we said they would.
