Edward Goldstick
@ejgoldstick.bsky.social
Occam's Razor cuts both ways...
... and Zeno's Paradox is a rounding problem for anyone but purists.
... and Zeno's Paradox is a rounding problem for anyone but purists.
💯😠...
Nobody would have predicted this, ten years ago...
... and now, five years later, where will we be, ten years from now?
Thank you, @jamiedupree.bsky.social et al, for reporting the reality of this moment.
Nobody would have predicted this, ten years ago...
... and now, five years later, where will we be, ten years from now?
Thank you, @jamiedupree.bsky.social et al, for reporting the reality of this moment.
5 years ago today on Jan. 5, 2021, two Trump allies took fake elector documents to Capitol Hill, giving them to aides for Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA. Those aides tried to get the papers to Vice President Pence. It was all part of the plot to keep Trump in power.
jamiedupree.substack.com/p/video-surp...
jamiedupree.substack.com/p/video-surp...
Video surprise - Capitol security tapes show fake GOP electors scheme
Tapes detail Jan. 5 effort to get bogus documents to Pence
jamiedupree.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:54 AM
💯😠...
Nobody would have predicted this, ten years ago...
... and now, five years later, where will we be, ten years from now?
Thank you, @jamiedupree.bsky.social et al, for reporting the reality of this moment.
Nobody would have predicted this, ten years ago...
... and now, five years later, where will we be, ten years from now?
Thank you, @jamiedupree.bsky.social et al, for reporting the reality of this moment.
This is not surprising as much as totally dissonant and deeply disturbing when compared to the Robert Court as currently constituted and the unconstitutional behavior they have sanctioned...
... but then again, Coolidge was followed by Hoover and the Great Depression.
😠
www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
... but then again, Coolidge was followed by Hoover and the Great Depression.
😠
www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
January 6, 2026 at 12:59 AM
This is not surprising as much as totally dissonant and deeply disturbing when compared to the Robert Court as currently constituted and the unconstitutional behavior they have sanctioned...
... but then again, Coolidge was followed by Hoover and the Great Depression.
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www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
... but then again, Coolidge was followed by Hoover and the Great Depression.
😠
www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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NEWS: Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Mark and Melissa Hortman, released statements after Trump reposted false claims about their parents’ deaths. Sophie Hortman urged Trump to remove the post, saying, “I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced.”
January 5, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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"Shameless"
"Depraved"
"Sociopath"
What normal person does this from a position of power and responsibility?
"Shameless"
"Depraved"
"Sociopath"
What normal person does this from a position of power and responsibility?
President Trump is amplifying baseless social media posts that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was part of a conspiracy to kill Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman last year over a day care fraud scandal that’s been spotlighted by right-wing influencers.
Trump amplifies conspiracies on killing of Minnesota lawmaker
Trump shared a video baselessly linking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to conspiracies over brazen political killings in the state this summer.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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"Shameless"
"Depraved"
"Sociopath"
What normal person does this from a position of power and responsibility?
"Shameless"
"Depraved"
"Sociopath"
What normal person does this from a position of power and responsibility?
~💯✊... 🤔
Agreed but for these two rhetorical/historical conjectures:
- The absence/removal/disappearance of King George III would not have been consequential...
- The Declaration of Independence was a claim of separation and not reunification...
Agreed but for these two rhetorical/historical conjectures:
- The absence/removal/disappearance of King George III would not have been consequential...
- The Declaration of Independence was a claim of separation and not reunification...
“Let’s send a 250th birthday card to the diminished but still-beating heart of the true America and sign it with two words: No kings.”
-Will Bunch
-Will Bunch
We need to be honest with ourselves and our leaders about Venezuela
We are a rogue state, a global pariah
Trump is ruling as a dictator, period
An axis of evil wants to carve up small, resource-rich nations
The message for 2026 is clear: No kings!
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
We are a rogue state, a global pariah
Trump is ruling as a dictator, period
An axis of evil wants to carve up small, resource-rich nations
The message for 2026 is clear: No kings!
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
January 4, 2026 at 9:26 PM
~💯✊... 🤔
Agreed but for these two rhetorical/historical conjectures:
- The absence/removal/disappearance of King George III would not have been consequential...
- The Declaration of Independence was a claim of separation and not reunification...
Agreed but for these two rhetorical/historical conjectures:
- The absence/removal/disappearance of King George III would not have been consequential...
- The Declaration of Independence was a claim of separation and not reunification...
💯😠...🧐
Maybe they will claim a right to restore the hotel casinos and sugar production originally controlled by the Mafia and large plantation owners?
Thank you, @sethabramson.bsky.social
Attn: @katz.theracket.news
Maybe they will claim a right to restore the hotel casinos and sugar production originally controlled by the Mafia and large plantation owners?
Thank you, @sethabramson.bsky.social
Attn: @katz.theracket.news
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Agent Marco Rubio Strongly Suggests Trump's Lawless Adventurism Will Soon Move to An Illegal Invasion of Cuba; "America First" Appears to Be Dead As Trump—Betraying His Base—Adopts Foreign Policy Identical to the 2000s Neocons He Long Said He Hated
January 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Maybe they will claim a right to restore the hotel casinos and sugar production originally controlled by the Mafia and large plantation owners?
Thank you, @sethabramson.bsky.social
Attn: @katz.theracket.news
Maybe they will claim a right to restore the hotel casinos and sugar production originally controlled by the Mafia and large plantation owners?
Thank you, @sethabramson.bsky.social
Attn: @katz.theracket.news
💯🤔... 🫢... 👍
Don't get why you deleted that post, but this is even more to the point... Bravo!
Are we experiencing a "McLuhan Maximum"?
(for lack of a better description)
bsky.app/profile/ejgo...
PS: I should have put "Everything Is Television" next to last.
Thank you again, @pbump.com
Don't get why you deleted that post, but this is even more to the point... Bravo!
Are we experiencing a "McLuhan Maximum"?
(for lack of a better description)
bsky.app/profile/ejgo...
PS: I should have put "Everything Is Television" next to last.
Thank you again, @pbump.com
Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics).
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
Opinion | How the internet fractured the information ago — and drove down regard for actual facts and education
Philip Bump: We have reverted from acting on what we know to acting on what we think.
www.ms.now
January 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
💯🤔... 🫢... 👍
Don't get why you deleted that post, but this is even more to the point... Bravo!
Are we experiencing a "McLuhan Maximum"?
(for lack of a better description)
bsky.app/profile/ejgo...
PS: I should have put "Everything Is Television" next to last.
Thank you again, @pbump.com
Don't get why you deleted that post, but this is even more to the point... Bravo!
Are we experiencing a "McLuhan Maximum"?
(for lack of a better description)
bsky.app/profile/ejgo...
PS: I should have put "Everything Is Television" next to last.
Thank you again, @pbump.com
💯🤔 Have we reached a "McCluhan Maximum"?
MM: "The medium *is* the message."
JM: "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television"
NP: "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
JF: "Breaking the News"
DT: "Everything Is Television"
NC: "The Shallows"
??: "Too much screen time?"
Thanks @pbump.com et al.
1/2
MM: "The medium *is* the message."
JM: "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television"
NP: "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
JF: "Breaking the News"
DT: "Everything Is Television"
NC: "The Shallows"
??: "Too much screen time?"
Thanks @pbump.com et al.
1/2
January 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
💯🤔 Have we reached a "McCluhan Maximum"?
MM: "The medium *is* the message."
JM: "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television"
NP: "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
JF: "Breaking the News"
DT: "Everything Is Television"
NC: "The Shallows"
??: "Too much screen time?"
Thanks @pbump.com et al.
1/2
MM: "The medium *is* the message."
JM: "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television"
NP: "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
JF: "Breaking the News"
DT: "Everything Is Television"
NC: "The Shallows"
??: "Too much screen time?"
Thanks @pbump.com et al.
1/2
Or maybe Rubio will show his residual smarts by asking Trump to appoint her as his public defender
Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him
January 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Or maybe Rubio will show his residual smarts by asking Trump to appoint her as his public defender
The indictment against Maduro is about cocaine. If we had an honest White House Press Corps, every press interview Trump did would start with why he pardoned a narco terrorist president who imported 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
January 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Reposted by Edward Goldstick
The indictment against Maduro is about cocaine. If we had an honest White House Press Corps, every press interview Trump did would start with why he pardoned a narco terrorist president who imported 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
The indictment against Maduro is about cocaine. If we had an honest White House Press Corps, every press interview Trump did would start with why he pardoned a narco terrorist president who imported 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
Nope, Trump's invasion/regime change/occupation of Venezuela isn't an extension of the Monroe Doctrine. That's just a bull crap rationale. This is straight up imperialism. They can sugar coat it all they want but we're not falling for it.
January 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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DJT's military action and regime change in Venezuela is very dubious and unauthorized.
It is also an offer to Putin looking for a deal with the abandonment of Ukraine in trade.
It's ultimately a diversion... especially re Epstein.
Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social
DJT's military action and regime change in Venezuela is very dubious and unauthorized.
It is also an offer to Putin looking for a deal with the abandonment of Ukraine in trade.
It's ultimately a diversion... especially re Epstein.
Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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DJT's military action and regime change in Venezuela is very dubious and unauthorized.
It is also an offer to Putin looking for a deal with the abandonment of Ukraine in trade.
It's ultimately a diversion... especially re Epstein.
Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social
DJT's military action and regime change in Venezuela is very dubious and unauthorized.
It is also an offer to Putin looking for a deal with the abandonment of Ukraine in trade.
It's ultimately a diversion... especially re Epstein.
Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social
💯😠
The GOP leadership and members of Congress are letting DJT go to war without authorization and are avoiding legislative action to help him delay facing his personal crimes (esp. re Epstein but also corruption).
Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social
The GOP leadership and members of Congress are letting DJT go to war without authorization and are avoiding legislative action to help him delay facing his personal crimes (esp. re Epstein but also corruption).
Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social
Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.
President Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 3, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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The GOP leadership and members of Congress are letting DJT go to war without authorization and are avoiding legislative action to help him delay facing his personal crimes (esp. re Epstein but also corruption).
Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social
The GOP leadership and members of Congress are letting DJT go to war without authorization and are avoiding legislative action to help him delay facing his personal crimes (esp. re Epstein but also corruption).
Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
h/t @cherylrofer.bsky.social
re Venuzuela: “The President has not been clear and he has not certainly been communicating with Congress,”...
Very recent comments about NATO and the overnight news on Jan 2-3 makes a followup imperative...
Thank you, @jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.daytondailynews.com/local/rep-tu...
Very recent comments about NATO and the overnight news on Jan 2-3 makes a followup imperative...
Thank you, @jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.daytondailynews.com/local/rep-tu...
Thanks to the Dayton Daily News for running my story on the front page. Great way to kick off 2026!
January 3, 2026 at 12:01 PM
re Venuzuela: “The President has not been clear and he has not certainly been communicating with Congress,”...
Very recent comments about NATO and the overnight news on Jan 2-3 makes a followup imperative...
Thank you, @jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.daytondailynews.com/local/rep-tu...
Very recent comments about NATO and the overnight news on Jan 2-3 makes a followup imperative...
Thank you, @jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.daytondailynews.com/local/rep-tu...
Major legislation expected on the U.S. House floor next week
January 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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The GOP leadership and members of Congress are letting DJT go to war without due process and are avoiding legislative action to help him delay facing his personal crimes (esp. re Epstein but also corruption).
... or was that a rhetorical question?
Thank you, @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
The GOP leadership and members of Congress are letting DJT go to war without due process and are avoiding legislative action to help him delay facing his personal crimes (esp. re Epstein but also corruption).
... or was that a rhetorical question?
Thank you, @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Where’s Congress?
January 3, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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The GOP leadership and members of Congress are letting DJT go to war without due process and are avoiding legislative action to help him delay facing his personal crimes (esp. re Epstein but also corruption).
... or was that a rhetorical question?
Thank you, @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
The GOP leadership and members of Congress are letting DJT go to war without due process and are avoiding legislative action to help him delay facing his personal crimes (esp. re Epstein but also corruption).
... or was that a rhetorical question?
Thank you, @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
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DJT's military action and regime change in Venezuela is very dubiously based on many precedents.
It is also an offer to Putin looking for a deal with the abandonment of Ukraine in trade.
It's ultimately a diversion from his many personal crimes... especially Epstein.
h/t @joshtpm.bsky.social
DJT's military action and regime change in Venezuela is very dubiously based on many precedents.
It is also an offer to Putin looking for a deal with the abandonment of Ukraine in trade.
It's ultimately a diversion from his many personal crimes... especially Epstein.
h/t @joshtpm.bsky.social
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:55 AM
💯😠
DJT's military action and regime change in Venezuela is very dubiously based on many precedents.
It is also an offer to Putin looking for a deal with the abandonment of Ukraine in trade.
It's ultimately a diversion from his many personal crimes... especially Epstein.
h/t @joshtpm.bsky.social
DJT's military action and regime change in Venezuela is very dubiously based on many precedents.
It is also an offer to Putin looking for a deal with the abandonment of Ukraine in trade.
It's ultimately a diversion from his many personal crimes... especially Epstein.
h/t @joshtpm.bsky.social
"Old" news, perhaps (here condensed):
In remarks to military leaders at Quantino in late September, Donald Trump told the military leaders and generals in attendance that they will play a "major part" in the "war from within,"...
How can this be constitutionally ok? 😠
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
In remarks to military leaders at Quantino in late September, Donald Trump told the military leaders and generals in attendance that they will play a "major part" in the "war from within,"...
How can this be constitutionally ok? 😠
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
MSN
www.msn.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:12 AM
"Old" news, perhaps (here condensed):
In remarks to military leaders at Quantino in late September, Donald Trump told the military leaders and generals in attendance that they will play a "major part" in the "war from within,"...
How can this be constitutionally ok? 😠
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
In remarks to military leaders at Quantino in late September, Donald Trump told the military leaders and generals in attendance that they will play a "major part" in the "war from within,"...
How can this be constitutionally ok? 😠
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
💯😠... 😅...🤔
Would it be objectionable if the "no apologies" line was not there?
Then thought of Mike Wallace -v- Peter Jennings in "BREAKING THE NEWS" by @jfallows.bsky.social ...
Would it be objectionable if the "no apologies" line was not there?
Then thought of Mike Wallace -v- Peter Jennings in "BREAKING THE NEWS" by @jfallows.bsky.social ...
January 3, 2026 at 1:03 AM
💯😠... 😅...🤔
Would it be objectionable if the "no apologies" line was not there?
Then thought of Mike Wallace -v- Peter Jennings in "BREAKING THE NEWS" by @jfallows.bsky.social ...
Would it be objectionable if the "no apologies" line was not there?
Then thought of Mike Wallace -v- Peter Jennings in "BREAKING THE NEWS" by @jfallows.bsky.social ...
This is how 2026 begins...
... and just read the clip if you don't want to suffer all the details.
The grifting is one thing, but this is just unconscionable stupidity...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/p...
... and just read the clip if you don't want to suffer all the details.
The grifting is one thing, but this is just unconscionable stupidity...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/p...
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 AM
This is how 2026 begins...
... and just read the clip if you don't want to suffer all the details.
The grifting is one thing, but this is just unconscionable stupidity...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/p...
... and just read the clip if you don't want to suffer all the details.
The grifting is one thing, but this is just unconscionable stupidity...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/p...
💯🧐...
Is "The more things change, the more they stay the same" appropriate?
Not any more than evolution and vaccination are "radical ideas" or "lacking evidence of their efficacy"... 🙄
Terrific find, @larryglickman.bsky.social, super h/t and thank you for substantive extracts in the thread...
Is "The more things change, the more they stay the same" appropriate?
Not any more than evolution and vaccination are "radical ideas" or "lacking evidence of their efficacy"... 🙄
Terrific find, @larryglickman.bsky.social, super h/t and thank you for substantive extracts in the thread...
OTD in 1863, James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald had this to say about Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which was to take effect that day. Bennett espouses a kind of popularism, worrying that Lincoln might have gotten dangerously ahead of public opinion and might enrage the Confederacy.
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 PM
💯🧐...
Is "The more things change, the more they stay the same" appropriate?
Not any more than evolution and vaccination are "radical ideas" or "lacking evidence of their efficacy"... 🙄
Terrific find, @larryglickman.bsky.social, super h/t and thank you for substantive extracts in the thread...
Is "The more things change, the more they stay the same" appropriate?
Not any more than evolution and vaccination are "radical ideas" or "lacking evidence of their efficacy"... 🙄
Terrific find, @larryglickman.bsky.social, super h/t and thank you for substantive extracts in the thread...
💯✊🇺🇸
This is an important post (see what follows...)
Sad this is the first thing seen in the new year...
Your endeavor, @steadystatevets.bsky.social, is important.
Thanks to all involved.
This is an important post (see what follows...)
Sad this is the first thing seen in the new year...
Your endeavor, @steadystatevets.bsky.social, is important.
Thanks to all involved.
1/ This advertisement is dangerous. ICE agents are shown in full paramilitary gear (helmets, rifles, tactical vests) despite ICE being a civil immigration enforcement agency, not a military force.
January 1, 2026 at 1:50 PM
💯✊🇺🇸
This is an important post (see what follows...)
Sad this is the first thing seen in the new year...
Your endeavor, @steadystatevets.bsky.social, is important.
Thanks to all involved.
This is an important post (see what follows...)
Sad this is the first thing seen in the new year...
Your endeavor, @steadystatevets.bsky.social, is important.
Thanks to all involved.
💯😠
"Taking all that experience, when you finished your investigation of Special Counsel's Office, you believed that you had sufficient evidence in this case to prove Donald Trump committed those crimes after the 2020 election?
A I did."
thank you, Jack Smith...
... and @jfallows.bsky.social
"Taking all that experience, when you finished your investigation of Special Counsel's Office, you believed that you had sufficient evidence in this case to prove Donald Trump committed those crimes after the 2020 election?
A I did."
thank you, Jack Smith...
... and @jfallows.bsky.social
3/
And here is illustration number three million of why the GOP refused to allow Jack Smith's deposition to be carried live, on TV.
And here is illustration number three million of why the GOP refused to allow Jack Smith's deposition to be carried live, on TV.
January 1, 2026 at 12:23 AM
💯😠
"Taking all that experience, when you finished your investigation of Special Counsel's Office, you believed that you had sufficient evidence in this case to prove Donald Trump committed those crimes after the 2020 election?
A I did."
thank you, Jack Smith...
... and @jfallows.bsky.social
"Taking all that experience, when you finished your investigation of Special Counsel's Office, you believed that you had sufficient evidence in this case to prove Donald Trump committed those crimes after the 2020 election?
A I did."
thank you, Jack Smith...
... and @jfallows.bsky.social
💯😠... 🧐
How many years (or months?) it will take for the next slide that will show the increase in childhood infection, serious sickness and death from measles in these same geo-located groups?
Thank you, @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
How many years (or months?) it will take for the next slide that will show the increase in childhood infection, serious sickness and death from measles in these same geo-located groups?
Thank you, @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.
December 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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How many years (or months?) it will take for the next slide that will show the increase in childhood infection, serious sickness and death from measles in these same geo-located groups?
Thank you, @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
How many years (or months?) it will take for the next slide that will show the increase in childhood infection, serious sickness and death from measles in these same geo-located groups?
Thank you, @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.