Joshua Leach

policy & comms strategist @UUSC, now consultant. Blogging at Views my own.

[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

The only living Christ I see this Easter morning is not in this administration's performative Christianity coupled with obscene brutality, but in the innocent people our government is confining without charge or trial in El Salvador. He is risen.
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[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

These Alien Enemies Act deportations are quite possibly the most evil thing I've seen our government do in my lifetime. And the Supreme Court just annihilated the most practical and efficient way to stop them. Thoughts from my blog:
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[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Doesn't ICE's policy of targeting people for body art violate the First Amendment?

[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Our government is deporting innocent people with no process to be tortured in a forever prison at the hands of a dictatorial regime. And they're paying the dictator to do it. This is not a drill. This is actually happening. Reporting by @JonathanBlitzer:
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[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

"without due process rights, anybody — yes, that means you — could be swept up in a raid and dumped in some hellhole and then the government could say, 'Well, too late.' [...] What we are deciding now is if we still have a Constitution" — @lionel_trolling
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[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

This administration just completely does not understand or care about our constitutional tradition, common law, or principles of basic justice—not to mention Blackstone's ratio
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[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Amen. @David_J_Bier sums up well the complete atrocity of what our government is doing in El Salvador
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[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Our culture has been so brutalized after just 2 months of Trump 2.0 that we have barely begun to register the full scale of the atrocity our govt inflicted on the people they deported to El Salvador...
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[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Trump now openly says that his goal in imposing tariffs is to destroy the Canadian economy, break their will to resist, & forcibly incorporate them into the US.
Such is the madness of our times that this didn't even register as the biggest news of the day.
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[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

A reminder that millions saw their retirement accounts crater this week for the sake of Trump's attention games.
Our allies and neighbors have to face the specter of widespread unemployment due to a deliberately-engineered recession.
The cruelty and stupidity are breathtaking.

[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Trump's own team privately sees his whipsawing on tariffs as the game of a demented attention-seeking toddler.
He is toying with the life-savings of millions—and the fates of people around the globe... just so people will talk about him?
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[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Trump's speech to Congress was an extraordinary tissue of lies. But it was the rare moments when he said the *truth* about his administration's policies that were actually the most damning. Thoughts from my blog:
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[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Contrary to media narratives, Zelensky had nothing to lose and everything to gain by taking his argument for security guarantees to the American people. And more power to him. Thoughts from my personal blog:
https://t.co/p8nsC6qNDt

[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Trump is a terrible negotiator
contrary to the reality TV mythology about him
because he blew up a deal even before Zelensky arrived at the White House
by refusing to meet Ukraine's legitimate demands for meaningful security guarantees...

[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

... he could create that pretext.
Why does Vance hate Zelensky so much?
Probably because Zelensky has genuine courage and strength, which Vance despises,
because it reminds him of what a pathetic coward and opportunistic creep he is by comparison.

[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Is the timing of Trump's tariff threat designed to chill Mexico's lawsuit challenging the U.S. gun industry? Maybe it's coincidence, but the optics are damning. Thoughts from my personal blog:
https://t.co/ZXPpgrvbMQ

[Joshua Leach @JoshuaFLeach]

Good God
The incredible bad faith of JD Vance
The extraordinary phoniness
The self-righteous, aggrieved tone
Even as he is the one twisting the knife in an ally's back
The fake play-acting
The pseudo-confidence that fails to mask his childish insecurity
Just an absolute disgrace