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Dennis Goldstein
@densox.bsky.social
Retired. UCLA alumnus, University of MD grad school, Peace corps Volunteer (1965 - 1967, served in Nigeria). Political junkie and liberal. Go Red Sox.
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NEWS: The United States committed a war crime by killing individuals who clung onto the side of a boat in the Caribbean, posing no threat to the United States. As someone who studied international law, Hegseth’s order to ‘Kill Them All’ was a denial of quarter. Subscribe to support:
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The Trump surrender of Ukraine descends into utter chaos. But “chaos” is too mellow a word: What we have here is a rich bouillabaisse of incompetence, mendacity, tragedy, farce, and diplomatic blunder. Words have a hard time keeping up with the story. But we’ll try. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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To the Coast Guard leadership signing off on this: You are trading your honor for political favor. By bowing to an administration that flirts with neo-Nazis, you are destroying the integrity of the service. If you can't define a swastika as hate, you aren’t fit to command. Period.
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released emails suggesting that President Trump knew more about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than he has acknowledged. And Republicans on the committee then released 23,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate after months of delays.
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The aging president raged about Illinois' “Miracle Mile,” threatening to deploy troops to Chicago over a shopping center that does not exist.
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While I don't like that a writer as great as Sarah Kendzior is needed, I'm glad she's doing what she does. Always spot-on, and this one even a bit more than her usual bullseye.
New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
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"The story of Trump’s authoritarian takeover is primarily a story of what Trump and his executive branch apparatchiks have done. But it wouldn’t be happening without an extraordinary degree of complicity, collaboration, and cowardice of congressional Republicans." www.thebulwark.com/p/regular-am...
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The media treated Biden's poll numbers, which were better than Trump's, as a major storyline that merited constant coverage and analysis.
Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."
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Beautiful and necessary writing, as always…
"I have seen a lot of wonders in that park, but none matches the reliability of solitude. I've learned that what leaves you alone is better than anything you could find. It is safe to cast your burdens down because no one can throw them back in your face." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
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In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters. Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
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"There are no fixed definitions in a mafia state. Law is a plaything, evidence is an illusion, and as an Uzbek dissident explained to me twenty years ago in a way I now understand far better, 'Suspicious is the same as guilty.'" @sarahkendzior.bsky.social sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...
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U.N. official says President Trump’s own team was responsible for the “broken” escalator and teleprompter he complained about incessantly. trib.al/SRN68XP
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Sarah speaks the truth
Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.