Arthur Goldwag
@arthurgoldwag.bsky.social
Author of CULTS, CONSPIRACIES & SECRET SOCIETIES, THE NEW HATE, ISMS & OLOGIES, and most recently, THE POLITICS OF FEAR.
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Arthur Goldwag
@arthurgoldwag.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Not that anyone will miss me there or see this here, but I just deactivated my account at the other place.
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A must-read and clear-eyed thread re: Maga-on-Maga violence. Cc: @stephaniemiller.bsky.social @johnfugelsang.bsky.social @bobcesca.bsky.social @meiselasb.bsky.social @bmeiselas.bsky.social @meidasjordy.bsky.social @msignorile.bsky.social @halsparks.com @muellershewrote.com
Does the right know the real danger is to their right?
Looks like Charlie Kirk’s killer spoke groyper.
A THREAD.
Looks like Charlie Kirk’s killer spoke groyper.
A THREAD.
1. A few hours before this morning’s presser, in which law enforcement authorities announced they had taken into custody Charlie Kirk’s killer, Meghan McCain, daughter of the late John McCain, weighed in on “the fundamental difference between the right and the left in this country.”
September 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A must-read and clear-eyed thread re: Maga-on-Maga violence. Cc: @stephaniemiller.bsky.social @johnfugelsang.bsky.social @bobcesca.bsky.social @meiselasb.bsky.social @bmeiselas.bsky.social @meidasjordy.bsky.social @msignorile.bsky.social @halsparks.com @muellershewrote.com
I looked up what I wrote about QAnon, Epstein and Trump a few years ago and opine about why Trump has suddenly gone bonkers on the subject.
What I Wrote About Epstein
Not surprisingly, I wrote about Epstein, Trump, and the Protocols in The Politics of Fear.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I looked up what I wrote about QAnon, Epstein and Trump a few years ago and opine about why Trump has suddenly gone bonkers on the subject.
What I wrote about Trump, Epstein, and QAnon last year. I don't think Trump's side of the equation is particularly complicated. MAGA's is another story.
What I Wrote About Epstein
Not surprisingly, I wrote about Epstein, Trump, and the Protocols in The Politics of Fear.
open.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What I wrote about Trump, Epstein, and QAnon last year. I don't think Trump's side of the equation is particularly complicated. MAGA's is another story.
Congress Throws More Money at Removing Immigrants than Most Countries Spend on Their Armies talkingpointsmemo.com/news/congres...
Congress Throws More Money at Removing Immigrants than Most Countries Spend on Their Armies
It’s hard to convey just how big the new budget makes the...
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July 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Congress Throws More Money at Removing Immigrants than Most Countries Spend on Their Armies talkingpointsmemo.com/news/congres...
Trump Goes Off the Deep End
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Trump Goes Off the Deep End
Unlike most of Trump’s more bonkers claims, this post rightly got a lot of attention in the MSM.
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June 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Trump Goes Off the Deep End
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I grew up feeling different, because I was. There weren't many Jews where I grew up and I wore thick glasses, which made me irresistible to bullies. 50, 60 years later and 100-plus days into Trump 2, I'm starting to wonder if the mismatch wasn't between me and my town but me and my country.
May 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I grew up feeling different, because I was. There weren't many Jews where I grew up and I wore thick glasses, which made me irresistible to bullies. 50, 60 years later and 100-plus days into Trump 2, I'm starting to wonder if the mismatch wasn't between me and my town but me and my country.
"Perhaps the most surprising aspect of these claims," the article says, "is that they are being streamed on a service owned by the president of the United States." In other news, I read this morning that RFK Jr. is talking about chem trails.
President Trump’s Media Company Is Offering Movies About ‘Lizard People’ And Other Wild Conspiracy Theories
Less than two minutes into the movie, the narrator makes a shocking...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Perhaps the most surprising aspect of these claims," the article says, "is that they are being streamed on a service owned by the president of the United States." In other news, I read this morning that RFK Jr. is talking about chem trails.
Me on substack, rambling about Victorian pornography and the sex fantasies of older male Fox News watchers.
Botox and the Pornography of Power
Back in the 1970s, when I was still in college, I read John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman for fun and then, by a happy coincidence, was assigned Walter Houghton’s magisterial The Victorian Fra...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Me on substack, rambling about Victorian pornography and the sex fantasies of older male Fox News watchers.
If, say, Pinochet's or Duterte's government had disappeared the wrong person, an accident would have been arranged to prevent them from telling their story. Extrajudicial murder will be Trump's--and America's--Rubicon.
Every day without proof of life brings us closer--if we're not there already.
Every day without proof of life brings us closer--if we're not there already.
April 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If, say, Pinochet's or Duterte's government had disappeared the wrong person, an accident would have been arranged to prevent them from telling their story. Extrajudicial murder will be Trump's--and America's--Rubicon.
Every day without proof of life brings us closer--if we're not there already.
Every day without proof of life brings us closer--if we're not there already.
What’s Really in the White House Law Firm Agreements? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
What’s Really in the White House Law Firm Agreements?
Last week I asked some questions about the law firm “agreements” with...
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April 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
What’s Really in the White House Law Firm Agreements? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.
March 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.
Has anyone else noticed that their Discovery feed has filled up with sports content? I follow no one sports-related and I never click on any of the skeets. And yet they keep proliferating. Is this a glitch or a new algorithm?
March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Has anyone else noticed that their Discovery feed has filled up with sports content? I follow no one sports-related and I never click on any of the skeets. And yet they keep proliferating. Is this a glitch or a new algorithm?
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Liberal Currents has very kindly given me space to yell about the same thing I yell at you all about all the time to a larger audience.
“We need a new message, one that can project confidence (. . .) I think we could do a lot worse than, “There will be a reckoning for this someday”, especially if it’s combined with specific actions” www.liberalcurrents.com/je-me-souvie...
Je me Souviens!
There will be a reckoning.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Liberal Currents has very kindly given me space to yell about the same thing I yell at you all about all the time to a larger audience.
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"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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March 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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It’s not just the tariffs that are going to wreck the US economy. There will be product boycotts as well as a decline in tourism and conferences held in the US because people have other options and won’t risk this stuff. The US is internationally viewed as a dysfunctional country (as it is).
"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It’s not just the tariffs that are going to wreck the US economy. There will be product boycotts as well as a decline in tourism and conferences held in the US because people have other options and won’t risk this stuff. The US is internationally viewed as a dysfunctional country (as it is).
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The deep state is real. It’s called DOGE.
A THREAD
A THREAD
1. I think it’s time to say that *the deep state is real*, and that it’s trying to make us sicker, poorer and easier to control.
March 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The deep state is real. It’s called DOGE.
A THREAD
A THREAD
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Bribery in public.
SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…
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March 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Bribery in public.
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1. I think it’s time to say that *the deep state is real*, and that it’s trying to make us sicker, poorer and easier to control.
March 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
1. I think it’s time to say that *the deep state is real*, and that it’s trying to make us sicker, poorer and easier to control.
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1. Tuesday night, the Republican majority of the House passed a budget resolution that would, if it later becomes law, take nearly a trillion dollars away from Medicaid over 10 years in order to cut taxes for the very obscenely rich.
February 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
1. Tuesday night, the Republican majority of the House passed a budget resolution that would, if it later becomes law, take nearly a trillion dollars away from Medicaid over 10 years in order to cut taxes for the very obscenely rich.
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If Trump and Musk and MAGA thought there would ever be free and fair elections again in the US they would not pursue the anti-people, anti-American, dangerous, destructive policies they pursue.
February 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If Trump and Musk and MAGA thought there would ever be free and fair elections again in the US they would not pursue the anti-people, anti-American, dangerous, destructive policies they pursue.
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1. This week, the White House barred an Associated Press reporter from covering an event at the Oval Office. Why? The global news agency was not using “correct speech.”
February 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
1. This week, the White House barred an Associated Press reporter from covering an event at the Oval Office. Why? The global news agency was not using “correct speech.”
I wonder how many people are waiting for the Musk/Trump administration to go too far, in the hope that some higher authority will step in to check them. Who, I wonder, do they see as that higher authority? Daily tracking polls? The Supreme Court? The military? Non-MAGA billionaires? The media?
February 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I wonder how many people are waiting for the Musk/Trump administration to go too far, in the hope that some higher authority will step in to check them. Who, I wonder, do they see as that higher authority? Daily tracking polls? The Supreme Court? The military? Non-MAGA billionaires? The media?