Gary Goldberg

THIS. Where’s The Music? open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

When I was a young person I worked at a Jerry's Subs/Pizza place for only a Zacharia. The manager and I agreed I was too perfectionist & slow at making pizzas at the same time I realized I'd begin to hate pizza if I stayed there. Forty years later, still love pizza.

The question is not "why has Donald betrayed Ukraine?" The question is "how big a cut of unfrozen Russian assets will Donald get for betraying Ukraine?"

AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.

From @petridishes.bsky.social: "Just call me Vote by Mail, because my delivery is raising a lot of questions in the White House." Bawahahahaha.

Powerful. All We Can Do Is Tell the Truth open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Just gonna leave this here. Vote the Republicans out anntelnaes.substack.com/p/vote-the-r...

R's use the win to do what they want. (From G. Elliott Morris today: Charlie Cook says there’s no “blue wave.” I think he’s wrong. open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Ruin a book by adding a word. Fiddler Crab on the Roof.

Must-read: If we (D's) win the midterms. The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House newrepublic.com/article/2161... via @newrepublic.com

Insane man with a statuary/military fetish at least makes things fun for cartoonists.

Its under-appreciated how good dropping a Hershey's chocolate nugget in your your hot coffee in the morning is. Coffee hack.

I'm just happy/sad/thankful/angry that the Strait is open/closed/partially open/mostly closed so that the tankers can/can't traverse through it I'm really tired of/happy about all the winning/mostly winning/some winning we're doing every day/week/month in the war/not war/conflict in Iran

Mainline it, right into my veins. From Josh Marshall yesterday: Who Knows What the Midterms Will Bring: But You Can Enjoy the GOP’s Sweet Agony Today! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-k...

I could use some perspective on what our world would look and function like if the R's got everything they either profess to want or allow to happen under the Trump regime, and afterward he's gone. Specifically analysis if they'd like to live in the world they're trying to create. Any clues?

I try not to swear here but, fuck these guys. A few years ago when my family was on Obamacare, my income turned out to be more than expected, thereby reducing my subsidy, which I repaid (painfully) at tax time. According to these assholes, I'm a fraudster. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...

Huh, I guess the whole strategy of cable news outlets not asking the Trump White House hard questions and failing to push back on weak answers in order to preserve their access to the Trump White House wasn't much of a great strategy.

Are there efforts underway to collate all of the Trump regime outrages and follow-on effects since January 2025 in some kind of mind map or database tool, with embedded links to the sources and collecting all the mentions, discussions and analysis together into some kind of heat map? Wud be useful.

This is right from @creynoldsnc.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have a big opening to point out that Trump's trade war with Canada was purely the result of his own deranged choice. The message: Donald Trump did this to you. And Republicans won't stop him. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2147...

I don’t know, man. At this point if you don’t know betrayal is the dude’s M.O. we can’t help you.

Spotted at a NASHVILLE art crawl… IYKYK… @justinjpearson.bsky.social The artist: www.instagram.com/p/DbWiArgH6o...

The problem for all the people trying to fearmonger about @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social exists. Y’all tried it with him too, and now NYC loves him and he’s delivering — Which is what you were really afraid of.

There's a lot of wisdom in this analysis. Adding it to my list of "keep" articles. Democracies and mutual tolerance open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

Really psyched to see that the @liberalcurrents.com Reconstruction Papers have just been released! Congrats to @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and this whole team of great writers and thinkers for imagining how to rebuild post-Trump with ambition: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pdf-of-t...

We all know who the better hang is

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

Just here to say ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good as she was driving away. Sue me.

Apparently, you're not allowed to post: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

ALGAEBTQ+ has anyone done this yet?

Based on the way the AI's were/are being trained on the whole of the Internet, doesn't the Internet Archive represent the LLM source code and it must be protected if we will ever be able to trace their hallucinations back to their source?

The Black Mold Of Republican Lies open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

The name went up in hours. Workers on scissor lifts, done overnight. Taking it down required scaffolding, took all day, and still missed the court deadline. That asymmetry is structural. Capture moves at the speed of power. Accountability moves at the speed of law. One is always faster.

When the Democrats have the power, they should have the US pay 100% to purchase and nationalize SpaceX, move it under NASA, and then charge a 100% capital gains tax on all the money paid to the owners to acquire it.

I had no idea how intertwined Trump, Dana White and the UFC are -- and how massively corrupt the whole UFC fight on the White House lawn is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Welcome to ‘the Claw’: the White House fighting cage captures Trump era rot | Sidney Blumenthal

Tonight marks the first time Trump has sat in front of a court while not facing charges.

tell them there’s a sex criminal in the building

And all those "how DARE the people in the Biden administration not be forthright and honest with us about Biden's real mental state???" seem pretty quiet about asking the same of the people in the Trump administration, no?

Could someone offer an analysis of "why data centers are bad" if they are specifically legislated to be "bring your own 100% power, water and CO2 mitigation resources", are the first to be pushed strategically offline during climate/energy events and are pre-planned for reuse when decommisioned?

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

Interesting. Now tell us who attacked the school in Minab on February 28th. Seems like that ought to be easy for CENTCOM to figure out.