David Gotwald
@soundingbway.bsky.social
Sound Mixer of Broadway Musicals for 40 years. Now retired gentleman.
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Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
August 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
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This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.
April 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.
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Rebecca Luker somehow seems to find the camera while singing "My White Knight" (perhaps the finest rendition we've ever known) during a performance of The Music Man.
That final ethereal A-flat was a formative moment for me (I saw the show on March 15, 2001, as an early HS graduation gift)
That final ethereal A-flat was a formative moment for me (I saw the show on March 15, 2001, as an early HS graduation gift)
March 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Rebecca Luker somehow seems to find the camera while singing "My White Knight" (perhaps the finest rendition we've ever known) during a performance of The Music Man.
That final ethereal A-flat was a formative moment for me (I saw the show on March 15, 2001, as an early HS graduation gift)
That final ethereal A-flat was a formative moment for me (I saw the show on March 15, 2001, as an early HS graduation gift)
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So, uh, yesterday the market cap of our stunt memecoin, Bwainwuhm, was $3700. Today it spiked to $1.2 million, and seems to be around $400k now. I need to go lie down. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
We Made a Memecoin
Diving into the shady, unregulated world of memecoins.
slate.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
So, uh, yesterday the market cap of our stunt memecoin, Bwainwuhm, was $3700. Today it spiked to $1.2 million, and seems to be around $400k now. I need to go lie down. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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I wrote for MSNBC about the grotesque irony of Trump stripping due process from innocent people while he himself gleefully exploits it to evade criminal accountability. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The grim irony of a convicted felon denying immigrants their right to due process
President Trump was afforded due process under the law. Many immigrants caught in his deportation blitz are being denied those same rights.
www.msnbc.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I wrote for MSNBC about the grotesque irony of Trump stripping due process from innocent people while he himself gleefully exploits it to evade criminal accountability. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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I’m not sure how many times this has to happen for people to get it.
Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.
I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
Trump drops the demeaning "governor" stuff and calls Carney by his correct title
March 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’m not sure how many times this has to happen for people to get it.
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Seriously: arrest him. The governor should have state police arrest him and charge him with election fraud. Then immediately hold a press conference explaining you arrested someone for committing election fraud and will continue to do so. Just fucking arrest him already. You can actually do this
March 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Seriously: arrest him. The governor should have state police arrest him and charge him with election fraud. Then immediately hold a press conference explaining you arrested someone for committing election fraud and will continue to do so. Just fucking arrest him already. You can actually do this
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Also, vehicle speeds: up
In the context of congestion pricing, this is not just good; it's the stated rationale for the tax & the one that appeals to the self interest of motorists, who *self-promo klaxon* I argue should be understood as major beneficiaries of CP: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In the context of congestion pricing, this is not just good; it's the stated rationale for the tax & the one that appeals to the self interest of motorists, who *self-promo klaxon* I argue should be understood as major beneficiaries of CP: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
March 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Also, vehicle speeds: up
In the context of congestion pricing, this is not just good; it's the stated rationale for the tax & the one that appeals to the self interest of motorists, who *self-promo klaxon* I argue should be understood as major beneficiaries of CP: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In the context of congestion pricing, this is not just good; it's the stated rationale for the tax & the one that appeals to the self interest of motorists, who *self-promo klaxon* I argue should be understood as major beneficiaries of CP: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Et tu Brute
March 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Et tu Brute
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Schumer and Gillibrand are abdicating Dems' last point of leverage hoping that Trump/Musk will self-implode and voters will punish the GOP in the midterms.
They fail to grasp that if they don't stop Elon's impoundment crimes now, there likely won't be free and fair elections in 2026.
They fail to grasp that if they don't stop Elon's impoundment crimes now, there likely won't be free and fair elections in 2026.
March 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Schumer and Gillibrand are abdicating Dems' last point of leverage hoping that Trump/Musk will self-implode and voters will punish the GOP in the midterms.
They fail to grasp that if they don't stop Elon's impoundment crimes now, there likely won't be free and fair elections in 2026.
They fail to grasp that if they don't stop Elon's impoundment crimes now, there likely won't be free and fair elections in 2026.
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
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They look like they accidentally wore each others’ suits
The body language could not be more different and is exactly why I despise each of them.
February 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
They look like they accidentally wore each others’ suits
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Public shaming is a form of violence & violation of human rights. In the coming months (& years), the threat of public shaming will increase. We must decide how we will respond when this type of thing happens to us, our colleagues & our neighbours—beyond the context of likes, hashtags & reposts.
February 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Public shaming is a form of violence & violation of human rights. In the coming months (& years), the threat of public shaming will increase. We must decide how we will respond when this type of thing happens to us, our colleagues & our neighbours—beyond the context of likes, hashtags & reposts.
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Memo to Democrats: If EVERY ONE of you would do what Janet Mills did yesterday EVERY TIME, Trump would unravel entirely. He relies on you being bullied. Refuse to be.
February 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Memo to Democrats: If EVERY ONE of you would do what Janet Mills did yesterday EVERY TIME, Trump would unravel entirely. He relies on you being bullied. Refuse to be.
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Meanwhile, the world’s richest dipshit is swinging a chainsaw at CPAC and laughing at the lives he’s destroying.
February 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Meanwhile, the world’s richest dipshit is swinging a chainsaw at CPAC and laughing at the lives he’s destroying.
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if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist
Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.
January 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist
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it's absolutely wild to shitpost about yourself being a king of a country whose entire foundational story of itself is centered on overthrowing the last person who deigned to call himself king on these shores
February 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
it's absolutely wild to shitpost about yourself being a king of a country whose entire foundational story of itself is centered on overthrowing the last person who deigned to call himself king on these shores
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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
February 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
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A good, workhorse building we should build more of: Either 12 units for singles or 6 family-sized units. Everyone gets a balcony. Easily fits on a standard 5,000 square-foot lot. Fits around six parking spaces in the back. And yet, illegal to build in the typical US residential neighborhood.
February 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A good, workhorse building we should build more of: Either 12 units for singles or 6 family-sized units. Everyone gets a balcony. Easily fits on a standard 5,000 square-foot lot. Fits around six parking spaces in the back. And yet, illegal to build in the typical US residential neighborhood.
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the right seized on a small group of people they thought couldn’t fight back, who they could scapegoat for any and everything, and then likened those people’s freedom to the collapse of the nation—and those in power who said they opposed such things failed to stop them
I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.
January 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
the right seized on a small group of people they thought couldn’t fight back, who they could scapegoat for any and everything, and then likened those people’s freedom to the collapse of the nation—and those in power who said they opposed such things failed to stop them
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Feel deep in my bones that the backlash to all of this is going to be enormous. Not sure how it will manifest and when it will explode into view, but confident it’s coming.
January 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Feel deep in my bones that the backlash to all of this is going to be enormous. Not sure how it will manifest and when it will explode into view, but confident it’s coming.
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Look at these people, sitting in a church pew, hearing about the notions of grace and compassion, and pouting.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Look at these people, sitting in a church pew, hearing about the notions of grace and compassion, and pouting.
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
January 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.