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MGEmancipation
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Host, FRDH podcast www.goldfarbpod.com RU listening? MichaelGoldfarb.substack.com R U reading? Been doing this forever: BBC, NPR, NYTimes, WashPo, Guardian etc
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New free link:

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January 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Watching that Trump Venezuela presser reminded me of this story Gore Vidal told me just after 9/11 for a radio doc I made called Pax Americana
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January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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miketanier.bsky.social
Mobilize is a useful app for finding political action, demonstrations and such near you. Don't just get mad and sad on line. Get organized! Get involved!

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Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Mobilize
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January 3, 2026 at 12:58 PM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
"Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him / Do call it valiant fury,"
Caithness, Macbeth, Act V, Sc 2
January 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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"He is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts."
TRUMP v. UNITED STATES
Violate War Powers Act? Impeachable? He don't have to give a shit
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 AM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
This explains why he pulled Natl Guard out of Chicago, LA & Portland. He's deploying to Iran AND Venezuela!! Just what long-suffering Iranians need: a TACO promise from Dr. Demento. And serious journopundits are acting like it might happen. Meet the New Year/Same as the Old Year
January 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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The 90s?!?!?!?! What's the address of the funeral home where I should send flowers?
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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December 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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December 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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It's a Christmas tradition. Every year I repost this link to piece I did 25 years ago. Odd to think the boys in it are now approaching middle age. Enjoy.
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FRDH podcast, Episode 7: King's College Choir
A Christmas treat from the FRDH archive. A musical feature about the boy choristers of King's College Choir at Cambridge University. The piece is a backstage look at the boys' daily schedule of acade
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December 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
A Christmas story:
"Late adolescent happiness is almost always tied to regular sexual fulfilment ... but frozen sex?!?"
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A COLD COMING
A Christmas Memory From Before Climate Change
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December 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
You do know how to stop this coup, right? It takes more than posting in social media
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13d
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
December 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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What @globalnewswire.bsky.social is talking about
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December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This week's FRDH, First Rough Draft of History: "As Ukraine is maneuvered towards peace negotiations does Zelensky have anything to learn — or be on guard about — from the Dayton process."
Listen to interview here for answer - and a lot else:
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DAYTON AGREEMENT @30: LESSONS FROM BOSNIA FOR UKRAINE
Thirty years ago this month, December 1995, The Dayton Agreement — The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina to give it its full name — was signed in Paris.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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The intersection where it’s about Jew-hatred not Israel.
Where is the intersection where anti-Zionism edges into antisemitism?
The best example is today’s massacre at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach.
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/the-inters... By @mgemancipation.bsky.social
Since the October 7th 2023 Hamas outrage in southern Israel there has been endless argument and explanation,about the difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Where is the intersection where the former edges into the latter? The best example is today's massacre at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney. It is legitimate to criticize the Israeli government's ongoing revenge campaign against all Gazans (you think it has stopped because of Trump's "peace" plan? Have you looked at the body count for the last week?) In fact many Israelis do just that. The criticisms of Israel — especially when couched in immature campus rhetoric - can be difficult for global Jewry to endure. But: When it leads to two random people murdering Jews at a Jewish celebration in a different hemisphere 8800 miles away from Tel Aviv that is the intersection. Nothing to do with Israel, everything to do with just killing Jews because of what "their" country is doing in Gaza — and now the West Bank.
December 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
Since I was a kid (60 yrs ago), when it comes to arts reporting the NYT has always been at least a decade behind the news. But this current piece is about 30 years behind the reality
December 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
shit, we have to go through one more whole Louis before we can be rid of the lot of them
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
In Emancipation, I wrote that anti-Semitism is a subset of stupidity. Today’s attack in Bondi is the proof of that assertion.
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THE INTERSECTION WHERE IT'S ABOUT JEW-HATRED NOT ISRAEL
Since the October 7th 2023 Hamas outrage in southern Israel there has been endless argument and explanation,about the difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
Your struggle to summarize the shit-uation is appreciated @jowolff.bsky.social
jowolff.bsky.social Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21d
The US Constitution has the feel of a fine colonial mansion now owned by a slum landlord who now rents it out room by room to wild-eyed misanthropic fanatics each with a messiah complex.

Ok, that is a VERY strained figure of speech. But I believe it to be accurate.
December 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
A reminder from a friend in Odesa: while Trump openly sides with Putin and European leaders avoid the issue and discuss what to do about frozen Russian assets and fail to make a decision, the war is still going on
December 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
I thought this was the @nytimespitchbot. Everybody knows FIFA has no ethics.
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
posting especially for the Macron, Merz & Downing St staffers. Please share with your bosses
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
I hope that Starmer, Macron & Merz are screwing their courage to the sticking place in their meeting with Zelenskyy today and not following Trump's advice and just screwing him full stop.
mgemancipation.bsky.social MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 28d
A rock and roll infused FRDH, First Rough Draft of History this week, With a little added S & M:
"Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory." National Security Strategy 2025
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December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
mgemancipation.bsky.social
A rock and roll infused FRDH, First Rough Draft of History this week, With a little added S & M:
"Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory." National Security Strategy 2025
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/time-is-on...
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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The latest FRDH, First Rough Draft of History, anticipated this development and is all about Europe's "learned helplessness" before America and what it can do to "unlearn" it. With the FT's Martin Wolf and Martin Sandbu
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December 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM