Goldy
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David Goldstein • Sr. Fellow at Civic Ventures • Economic storyteller • Co-host PitchforkEconomics.com • Truth is the best defense against prosecution for libel, but rhetorical hyperbole is more fun.
We've always been at war with Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
We've always been at war with Venezuela.
The U.S. is a rogue state. The United Nations should move its operations from NYC to a stable democracy where its diplomats and other employees can work in safety.
January 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
The U.S. is a rogue state. The United Nations should move its operations from NYC to a stable democracy where its diplomats and other employees can work in safety.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 AM
The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
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If kidnapping and arresting presidents is just a thing that is done now, then I have a suggestion…
January 3, 2026 at 11:13 AM
If kidnapping and arresting presidents is just a thing that is done now, then I have a suggestion…
“Happy New Year” seems way too optimistic to me, but I think we can all join together tonight in celebrating the moment 2025 finally comes to an end.
January 1, 2026 at 4:35 AM
“Happy New Year” seems way too optimistic to me, but I think we can all join together tonight in celebrating the moment 2025 finally comes to an end.
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What if economics needs a wider lens — one that leads with humility, centers communities, and plans for uncertainty instead of pretending the future is predictable?
This week, economist George DeMartino lays out what a more honest economics could look like.
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This week, economist George DeMartino lays out what a more honest economics could look like.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
What if economics needs a wider lens — one that leads with humility, centers communities, and plans for uncertainty instead of pretending the future is predictable?
This week, economist George DeMartino lays out what a more honest economics could look like.
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This week, economist George DeMartino lays out what a more honest economics could look like.
🎧 buff.ly/pvMmAd1
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Recessions hit economically vulnerable groups first.
🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating.
Please read + share:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating.
Please read + share:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Recessions hit economically vulnerable groups first.
🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating.
Please read + share:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating.
Please read + share:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Look up the word "credulous" in the dictionary and you will find an etching of Danny Westneat. And yet even HE isn't buying all this if you tax the rich they'll move out of state bullshit.
Will WA’s rich flee? Doubtful, but they’ll sure talk about it
The prospect of a state income tax on millionaires has already got some of the state's richer residents talking about leaving. History says it's mostly just talk.
www.seattletimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Look up the word "credulous" in the dictionary and you will find an etching of Danny Westneat. And yet even HE isn't buying all this if you tax the rich they'll move out of state bullshit.
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AS IF WE DIDN’T WARN THEM IT WOULD HAPPEN.
A TRUMP GESTAPO ("Customs & Border Patrol") THUG was charged with RAPING MULTIPLE WOMEN, using his BADGE as pretext to enter their premises.
HE’D DONE IT BEFORE in 2022.
They had his DNA.
It’s how they caught him.
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
A TRUMP GESTAPO ("Customs & Border Patrol") THUG was charged with RAPING MULTIPLE WOMEN, using his BADGE as pretext to enter their premises.
HE’D DONE IT BEFORE in 2022.
They had his DNA.
It’s how they caught him.
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
Border Protection officer to be held in custody while awaiting trial on sexual assault claims
U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling peppered a defense attorney for Officer Luis Uribe with questions, telling her, “It seems that the evidence is strong."
chicago.suntimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
AS IF WE DIDN’T WARN THEM IT WOULD HAPPEN.
A TRUMP GESTAPO ("Customs & Border Patrol") THUG was charged with RAPING MULTIPLE WOMEN, using his BADGE as pretext to enter their premises.
HE’D DONE IT BEFORE in 2022.
They had his DNA.
It’s how they caught him.
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
A TRUMP GESTAPO ("Customs & Border Patrol") THUG was charged with RAPING MULTIPLE WOMEN, using his BADGE as pretext to enter their premises.
HE’D DONE IT BEFORE in 2022.
They had his DNA.
It’s how they caught him.
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
Empty threats aside, Dems should run in 2026 and 2028 on imposing a federal wealth tax much of the proceeds from which be returned to the states. The federal government essentially serving as the wealth tax collector for the states is far harder to evade.
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Empty threats aside, Dems should run in 2026 and 2028 on imposing a federal wealth tax much of the proceeds from which be returned to the states. The federal government essentially serving as the wealth tax collector for the states is far harder to evade.
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
WTF is this Netflix half time show?
December 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
WTF is this Netflix half time show?
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
To all my gentile friends I hope that Santa brought you lots of toys, but no more than the 3-doll/5-pencil limit imposed by President Trump.
December 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
To all my gentile friends I hope that Santa brought you lots of toys, but no more than the 3-doll/5-pencil limit imposed by President Trump.
Good on Chuck Redd for taking a stand against authoritarianism. Every artist and performer with an ounce of self-respect should follow his lead and boycott the Kennedy Center until its name and legacy is fully restored.
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled.
www.seattletimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Good on Chuck Redd for taking a stand against authoritarianism. Every artist and performer with an ounce of self-respect should follow his lead and boycott the Kennedy Center until its name and legacy is fully restored.
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“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”
Latest Epstein files name Trump multiple times
In the more than 10,000 files released Tuesday, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, said the sex trafficker was killed because he was going to name co-conspirators.
www.miamiherald.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”
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I'm not saying something that people don't already know. But it's worth making the issue explicit. We have an elaborate jurisprudence of probable cause, rooted in explicit strictures in the constitution that places big limits on what police can do to you. Those limits may be honored in the breach...
only a bit above the paywall but you get the horrible gist www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Body cam footage shows feds threatening U.S. citizen detained in Key Largo
The woman, dressed in medical scrubs, was on her way to work when she was forcibly removed from her car and cuffed before being let go.
www.miamiherald.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I'm not saying something that people don't already know. But it's worth making the issue explicit. We have an elaborate jurisprudence of probable cause, rooted in explicit strictures in the constitution that places big limits on what police can do to you. Those limits may be honored in the breach...
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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Bari Weiss and DHS don't want you to watch this.
December 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Bari Weiss and DHS don't want you to watch this.
My daughter is in an Uber on her way to LAX and she's having me track her location because her driver keeps talking about how Trump messages him privately.
December 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
My daughter is in an Uber on her way to LAX and she's having me track her location because her driver keeps talking about how Trump messages him privately.
This is why I do not use X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, or YouTube.
The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
December 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This is why I do not use X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, or YouTube.
That headline is misleading. Mitt doesn't actually want to "tax the rich, like me." He advocates for taxing his heirs. But mostly it's just fear-mongering about "entitlements" and the "debt cliff" to make the case for means testing future retirees.
Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
That headline is misleading. Mitt doesn't actually want to "tax the rich, like me." He advocates for taxing his heirs. But mostly it's just fear-mongering about "entitlements" and the "debt cliff" to make the case for means testing future retirees.