Ian Goldstein
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Ian Goldstein
@iangoldstein.bsky.social
👀 writer/performer featured in the NYTimes and ABC News talking about Healthcare
✍️ humor featured in the New Yorker and McSweeney's
💊 crohn's disease haver
🐍 not a fan of U.S. Healthcare

https://outofnetworknetwork.substack.com/
Pinned
Spoke alongside @debtcollective.bsky.social on @abcnews.go.com.web.brid.gy about how American healthcare sucks and hey nobody in power is doing anything about it.
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Prices since Trump took office:

-Groceries: ⬆️ 2.7%
-Utilities: ⬆️ 11%
-ACA premiums: ⬆️ 26%
-Overall consumer prices: ⬆️ 3%

Trump: “I don't want to hear about the affordability.”
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
No universal healthcare, but first trillionaire. yay.
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If only Bach were alive to see this.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC

I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.

I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
uhhh what?
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
"The Medicaid coverage gap is the sort of health insurance limbo clown rule that could only exist in our uniquely evil, rapidly un-developing nation." - Roger Miller-Kim

outofnetworknetwork.substack.com/p/mind-the-g...
Mind the Gap (In Our Medicaid Coverage)
Written and Illustrated by Roger Miller-Kim
outofnetworknetwork.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
this sucks
October 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost
Trump raises the price of the ballroom to $350 million

(It changed from $200 million, then $300 million, now $350 million within the course of a few days)
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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My storytelling and onstage therapy show, Relationshit, is this Saturday at 5 at QED in Astoria!

Featuring:
Erin Rose Chan
@iangoldstein.bsky.social
Hattie Hayes
@caitlinreese.bsky.social

Come if you want to have perfect mental health!
(Or just like, enjoy a show)
qedastoria.com/products/rel...?
Relationsh*t!
Hosted by Lynn Bixenspan and Morgan Pielli, Relationshit features a mix of stories about all kinds of relationships and good old-fashioned new-fangled advice from REAL-LIFE THERAPISTS ONSTAGE. Featuri...
qedastoria.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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the INVISIBLE MAN is imho probably the best of the OG universal horror films. it is delightfully unhinged and the invisibility effect is still astonishing all of these years later
got a hankering to watch one of the best movies ever made
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
October 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal
October 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.

Block on sight.

Protect your digital space.

Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.

The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
October 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Hoff's Horrorfest is TONIGHT! Live comedy and THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) at @caveatnyc.bsky.social! 🫥🕶️ Produced by me, @coolandnice.bsky.social, @timbarnes.bsky.social, @iangoldstein.bsky.social and Mary Bess Pritchett! www.caveat.nyc/events/hoffs...
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"
October 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Does anyone want to split this with me?
October 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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got a nice email from someone in austria asking me to rotate a Leberkässemmel, an austere meatloaf and mustard sandwich on kaiser roll i was previously unfamiliar with. i figured what the hell, let's rotate it and rotate it fast
October 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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It’s wild America thinks it’s a country where criminals are treated with a cushy lax attitude with law enforcement prevented from doing their jobs when every piece of evidence is that it’s the opposite except for rich people who don’t commit crimes because why would they have money if they did that
October 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There’s a tiktok channel called pepper spray central where it’s just different people getting pepper sprayed. I have no point to make just letting you know this is where we’re at.
October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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It's totally okay to not have kids. You don't have to. It's fine.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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a respected senior CDC official telling the public that the federal agency has undergone a hostile takeover and it barely makes the news because that’s the state of the world today
October 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM