Joshua Essoe

Editor/Writer. Full-time and freelance.
Bleed it until the poison is out!

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

@JoJoFromJerz There really hasn't been. At least that's what it feels like in this pre-Idiocracy moment we've all found ourselves stuck in.

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

Soooooo . . . Senate Republicans voted to let the IRS drop all investigations into Trump and his family. It's effing shocking, but it's not effing shocking.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family.

That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know.

I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

If a former congressman, now in charge of a paramilitary group, does not understand one of the most foundational and basic tenants of our country, or worse, he purposefully intends to undermine it, does he belong in that job?

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.

He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”

Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.

Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.

That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.

So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…

It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

They're not done. They're warming up.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Chicago, ICE agents were filmed hitting the car of a U.S. citizen, assaulting a bystander who was filming, pointing a taser at innocent people, and driving away before local police could even verify their identities.

And we’re supposed to believe they’re making our communities safer.

The video shows ICE agents chasing a man through Albany Park.

Two agents grab him and rip his shirt off during the chase, while one of the agents drops a fully loaded magazine… and leaves it there.

The man manages to get away and runs across a street, where cars are stopped at a red light.

An ICE agent then drive a black SUV into a U.S. citizen’s vehicle in an attempt to cut off the man running.

The man is eventually surrounded by agents, when one agent suddenly grabs the man and aggressively throws him to the ground, as multiple agents immediately pile on top of him as he screams for help.

As this is happening, residents begin recording what they are witnessing.

That’s when another agent enters the scene with his taser already drawn.

Despite another agent already standing next to a person filming, he walks directly toward the bystander, shoves them backward, and screams, “Back the fuck up.”

The person filming isn’t attacking anyone… or interfering with the arrest.

In fact, you can see them nodding and saying “okay.”

Yet, the agent continues advancing toward them with a taser.

Which all raises some serious first and fourth amendment concerns.

And let’s talk about the woman whose car was hit…

Her vehicle gets run into, during a federal operation… and then they threatened to arrest HER.

And afterward, local police told her they were not given proof of the agents’ identity at the scene.

One officer reportedly said, “[The agents] didn’t want to show us proof of that,” when speaking to the woman whose car was hit.

AND THEN, according to reporting from the scene, one of the ICE agents had a Jerusalem cross sticker on the back of his phone.

The Jerusalem cross is a Christian symbol dating back to the Crusades that has more recently gained popularity among some far-right and white supremacist groups.

Maybe that’s something DHS would like to explain.

So, if federal agents can crash into civilian vehicles, leave loaded ammunition in public streets, point tasers at bystanders, and aggressively confront, and assault, people exercising their constitutional rights…

Then the people holding the cameras aren’t the problem.

The cameras are documenting the problem.

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

LOVE these obvious Chinese operatives working out of Utah. A++, Kev.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

Remember 2 years ago when Biden was doing everything he could to cancel student debt and Republicans were fighting him every step of the way?

Those same Republicans are now fighting for a $400 million taxpayer funded ballroom.

But yeah..both parties are the same.🤦‍♂️

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

I’m so glad Trump gave us an update today on the very best granite, onyx and marble he procured from around the world for his ballroom. He cares so much about us. God saved his life for this. For us.

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

Holy crap dude, c'mon, get your shit together. They're all so embarrassing.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The president's son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon. This is absurd corruption that Republicans in congress will say nothing about and do no oversight. https://t.co/jTwVHzmJAz

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

@JoJoFromJerz There are no words for how awful he is.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

LMAOOOO, Iran COOKED Kash Patel mercilessly

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

Just a reminder that the grift is ongoing. The grift is all there is.

[Michelle Thibodeaux @MicThib512]

@ImBreckWorsham Staged you say??? 🤔

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump announces plan to allow corporations to dump coal ash – which is TWICE as radioactive as *nuclear fuel* – into our drinking water!

Yes, you read that right. Trump’s EPA is proposing to weaken rules for the safe disposal of super-mega-toxic ash produced by burning coal that contains hazardous heavy metals and contaminates groundwater.

“The Trump administration proposed easing standards for monitoring and protecting groundwater near some coal ash sites, and rolling back rules that require the cleanup of entire coal properties rather than just the sites where ash was dumped. The revisions would also make it easier to reuse coal ash for other purposes,” reports the Associated Press.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the proposal reflects the agency’s “commitment to restoring American energy dominance, strengthening cooperative federalism, and accommodating unique circumstances at certain (coal) facilities.”

The rules were strengthened by – you guessed it – the Biden administration a few years ago, and now Trump is trying to gut them on behalf of his cronies in Big Coal.

It is shocking to see just how eagerly the Trump administration is gutting all the regulations that keep us safe.

“The Trump administration just took a sledgehammer to the health protections in place for toxic coal pollution,” said Lisa Evans, senior counsel at environmental group Earthjustice. “This is yet another handout to the coal power industry at the expense of our health, water, and wallets.”

He is more than willing to make us drink poison and develop terrible cancers, all so his donors can save a little bit of money on cleaning up the toxic byproducts of their carbon pollution.

There is nothing sacred to these nihilistic scumbags, no respect for anything but their own bottom lines. Trump is willing to burn everything to the ground just so he can be king of the ashes – with not a care in the world for the millions of people who will suffer and die because of his decisions.

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

At any other time, in any other America, this would be obvious and immediate grounds for impeachment and hopefully prison.

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal.

"Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it.

The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations.

Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time.

The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules.

Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation.

When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design."

He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. https://t.co/eYb5g4g9bR

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

At Superstars Writing Seminar last month, John Goodwin & I sat down for a fun conversation about my origin story, if I thought certain writers needed more editing, approaching agents & editors & publishers (oh my), and about the editing process more broadly. Go have a listen!

[Writers & Illustrators of the Future @WotFContest]

🎙 Episode 372: Joshua Essoe — The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make ✍️📚

Veteran editor Joshua Essoe shares the biggest issues he sees in fiction—and how to fix them.

With over a decade of experience editing bestselling authors and indie writers alike, Joshua breaks down what holds stories back and how to elevate your work to its strongest form.

🎧 Listen now → https://t.co/4T8eKqLetT

#WritersOfTheFuture #JoshuaEssoe #WOTFPodcast #WritingTips

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[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

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[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I’m sorry what

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: New York's superstar AG Letitia James hits Trump with a MASSIVE lawsuit along with a powerful coalition of states, counties, and cities to stop him from destroying crucial climate change regulations.

This woman knows how to wield the law like a battle axe...

“The Trump administration has chosen denial, repealing critical protections that are foundational to the federal government’s response to climate change. We will not let the federal government abandon its responsibility to the people," James stated in a press release.

Jame's legal coalition is composed of 40 states as well as other, smaller groups. They're aiming to overturn the disastrous decision by Trump's EPA to repeal the 2009 endangerment finding, which formed the foundation of much of our climate regulation legal architecture.

The repeal of that finding — which held that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and the environment — has long been an objective of the oil companies who helped foist Trump into power. They'll deny science and gladly burn the world to the ground if it means increased profits for them in the short term.

James filed her legal petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. as well as in California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Her coalition is arguing that the repeal is clearly in defiance of the science, ignores evidences, and violates the Clean Air Act.

This is the kind of bold action we need from our political leaders right now. We have to fight the Trump administration at every turn if there's going to be any chance of a livable world for future generations.

Please ❤️ and share to thank Letitia James!

[starheal @starheal]

Every American needs to watch this. It’s jaw dropping

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

Your battles matter. Even if nobody else understands. Even if nobody else knows. Even if someone else doesn't think it is a big deal.

You can do it. You are awesome, and you have strength even you do not know about.

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

We can work to stop this rule by writing comments stating our objections. To make your voice heard, go to the comment portal here: https://t.co/PHGfCFy1sA and click the “comment” box.

[Joshua Essoe @JoshuaEssoe]

Via Liz Oyer, the former pardon attorney for the DoJ: Today Pam Bondi announced a new rule that would stop state bar associations from investigating misconduct by lawyers.
https://t.co/3DrckXhKtE