Goldy
Goldy
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David Goldstein • Sr. Fellow at Civic Ventures • Economic storyteller • Co-host PitchforkEconomics.com • Recovering blogger/journalist • Truth is the best defense against prosecution for libel… but rhetorical hyperbole is more fun.
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Trump regime expands its new eleventh hour voter suppression campaign to Washington, following its debut in California With voting already underway, Trump’s Department of Justice is demanding that Washington set aside hundreds of voters’ ballots based on allegations Secretary of State Steve Hobbs…
I’m old enough to remember when a Democratic president was impeached for lying about a consensual blowjob, a scandal that was above the fold for months.
Beatrice Keul, testified that she was introduced by Jeffrey Epstein to Donald J Trump, who then brutally raped her in a hotel room in Atlantic City, NJ, and her claims were deemed credible by a panel of the House Judiciary Committee today. The NYT has decided that this is not reportable news.
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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
The abundance crowd who looks to land use and regulatory reform as the main tools necessary to create more affordable housing love to point to anything goes Houston as an example of a city that does it right. And yet at the median, high-priced Seattle is *more* affordable than Houston. Hmm.
Median rent as a share of median income of renter households in major U.S. metros, 2010 vs. 2024. Minneapolis is lowest on the list, at 29%, down from 30.4% in 2010. www.artio.so/dataviz/page...
If folks are interested, I've previously shared my thoughts at length here:
The abundance crowd who looks to land use and regulatory reform as the main tools necessary to create more affordable housing love to point to anything goes Houston as an example of a city that does it right. And yet at the median, high-priced Seattle is *more* affordable than Houston. Hmm.
Median rent as a share of median income of renter households in major U.S. metros, 2010 vs. 2024. Minneapolis is lowest on the list, at 29%, down from 30.4% in 2010. www.artio.so/dataviz/page...
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Replying to @chanda.blacksky.app
I really don't, and that's part of what I have tried to get at in my writing (because folks always start from "well, always platforms are bad!"). The platform was _created_ with a goal approximately like "Get Bari to be running CBS" and... well. If I saw folks at least *admit* that, we could talk.
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If the league is "furious" at Eagles for mismanagement of Hurts' blood clot, but has no issues with Hurts' timeline and treatment, then it's hard not to conclude that this fury is largely on behalf of the sports gambling industry, not the health of players.
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Replying to @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
The increase in fuel prices isn't what makes the US stand out though: price increases there are similar to other market economies. The reason that per capita costs in the US are so high is the high consumption of fuels per person and lack of progress in reducing reliance on oil.
Once we depose the king it would be fun to rebrand it “No Heads”
Leaders of the No Kings movement are already gearing up for the next major grassroots campaign: Making sure congressional Democrats don’t wimp out. My first piece at @newrepublic.com! (Reposted to update link card) newrepublic.com/article/2168...
The whole point is the fear. Trump's "immigration" policies are working exactly as intended.
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NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...
A yearly reminder that The War on Christmas is an explicitly antisemitic dog whistle originally promoted by Henry Ford in his explicitly antisemitic "news" weekly The International Jew. When Trump raises its specter he is explicitly inciting hatred and violence against Jewish Americans.
Trump's closing message: Remember when I started the war on preserving Christmas? Remember that? The stores were afraid to put up Christmas trees x.com/factpostnews...
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I dunno. You'd think a truly strong, smart, and competent U.S. president would have *successfully* interfered in a Latin American election. Sad.
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please please vote before election day, and tell your circles to. Republican mayors and governors are watching this unfold and getting ideas.
Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
One thing that El-Sayed and I have in common is that we're both Semites and deep down Trump hates both of us equally.
Trump on El-Sayed: "Any Jewish person that supports this guy should be ashamed of themselves. I'll tell you right now, you should never speak to them again. I'm polling at 99% in Israel. I cannot understand how anybody who's Jewish can even think about voting for this guy."
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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
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If we won't prosecute them, send them to the Hague. WAY overdue for US to re-embrase international law for everyone, the principle it first enunciated & pretended to stand for.
Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
As the article makes clear, the answer is indisputably "No," and they could've just put that in the headline like we were taught to do in high school, but why inform readers when you can turn journalism into clickbait?
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WA Governor Bob Ferguson is offering National Guard to watch over ballot boxes. No uniforms or weapons. Just watching for bad actors and calling in any needed help. We had an arson last time around, and election officials have received threats. 😔 komonews.com/news/local/w...
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This is such a garbage way to report on anothet ludicrous, outrageous, illegal, actually criminal attempt by DOJ to disenfranchise voters and/or cast doubt on election results. Eight lazy paragraphs full of lies before the truth, attributed to “critics“. You know better, @shawnhubler.bsky.social.
Every DOJ attorney involved in this should be disbarred.
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Um... the U.S.'s gun death rate is literally *twice* that of Somalia's. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
Trump says of Somalia that "all they have is people that shoot you all the time ... it's a shit house country"
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Kudos to the reporter here, who does something we almost never see: she interrupts Trump to try to make him and answer the question she asked, not allowing him to bloviate.
😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?