David Goldstein
@david-goldstein.bsky.social
Recovering attorney, serial entrepreneur, techie, flight instructor, tour planner; now retired. News junkie, critical thinker, democracy fan. Full-time RVer for 8 years, seeing the beauty of North America. Live large, love fiercely, and leap without fear.
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It’s time to “stop arguing about when the crisis begins and start marshaling the will to end it.” @jenrubin.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org
April 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It’s time to “stop arguing about when the crisis begins and start marshaling the will to end it.” @jenrubin.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org
April 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Just...wow. This is one for the ages. Get ready to be inspired by @hcrichardson.bsky.social ’s powerful keynote address last night at the Lantern Service commemorating the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride. (She is introduced at about 1:15:00 into the video.) vimeo.com/1074289056?s...
Lantern Service
The Old North Church is offering a traditional Lantern Service on Friday, April 18, 2025 at 7:00pm in honor of the 250th anniversary of the “two if by sea”…
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April 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Just...wow. This is one for the ages. Get ready to be inspired by @hcrichardson.bsky.social ’s powerful keynote address last night at the Lantern Service commemorating the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride. (She is introduced at about 1:15:00 into the video.) vimeo.com/1074289056?s...
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Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?
April 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?
“There seems to be a change in the air.”
This is the most optimistic (or maybe least pessimistic?) letter from @hcrichardson.bsky.social in a few weeks.
This is the most optimistic (or maybe least pessimistic?) letter from @hcrichardson.bsky.social in a few weeks.
April 17, 2025
Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...
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April 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
“There seems to be a change in the air.”
This is the most optimistic (or maybe least pessimistic?) letter from @hcrichardson.bsky.social in a few weeks.
This is the most optimistic (or maybe least pessimistic?) letter from @hcrichardson.bsky.social in a few weeks.
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Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,
Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.
~ All of Us
Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.
~ All of Us
April 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,
Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.
~ All of Us
Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.
~ All of Us
I have wondered this myself. It would certainly explain the stubborn refusal of both governments to even provide any information about him.
Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
April 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I have wondered this myself. It would certainly explain the stubborn refusal of both governments to even provide any information about him.
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Stock markets down badly today on the shocking revelation from Jerome Powell that tariffs might be bad for the US economy
April 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Stock markets down badly today on the shocking revelation from Jerome Powell that tariffs might be bad for the US economy
WTAF?? Watch the entire video. This was a warrantless state-sponsored kidnapping without cause and without a warrant or even a semblance of due process.
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
WTAF?? Watch the entire video. This was a warrantless state-sponsored kidnapping without cause and without a warrant or even a semblance of due process.
Putting this marker down.
On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador
April 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Putting this marker down.
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Kilmar Abrego García, a lawful U.S. resident, was detained by ICE—then deported to El Salvador. Despite the Trump administration’s admission of error, little is being done to secure his return to the States. As Brian O’Neill explains, the authority to bring him home exists. The refusal is political.
'Out of our hands': The most dangerous lie in Trump’s deportation doctrine
The stalling—thinly disguised as deliberation—only reinforces the truth. The refusal is political.
contrarian.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Kilmar Abrego García, a lawful U.S. resident, was detained by ICE—then deported to El Salvador. Despite the Trump administration’s admission of error, little is being done to secure his return to the States. As Brian O’Neill explains, the authority to bring him home exists. The refusal is political.
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If what Trump said in the Oval Office today doesn’t send a chill up your spine, then you’ve forgotten what America is.
April 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
If what Trump said in the Oval Office today doesn’t send a chill up your spine, then you’ve forgotten what America is.
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By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.
April 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.
Yes!
At this point, Judge Xinis should order the immediate return under threat of contempt and let the Supreme Court tell the Administration otherwise.
April 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Yes!
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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
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This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.
Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.
April 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.
“Homegrowns” = US citizens.
CECOT can hold 40k prisoners. So 47 is planning to remove 200k CITIZENS that he doesn’t like.
This is truly Nazi Germany once again. Why isn’t there panic in the streets, in the media, and in the financial markets?
It CAN happen here, y’all. It already is.
CECOT can hold 40k prisoners. So 47 is planning to remove 200k CITIZENS that he doesn’t like.
This is truly Nazi Germany once again. Why isn’t there panic in the streets, in the media, and in the financial markets?
It CAN happen here, y’all. It already is.
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“Homegrowns” = US citizens.
CECOT can hold 40k prisoners. So 47 is planning to remove 200k CITIZENS that he doesn’t like.
This is truly Nazi Germany once again. Why isn’t there panic in the streets, in the media, and in the financial markets?
It CAN happen here, y’all. It already is.
CECOT can hold 40k prisoners. So 47 is planning to remove 200k CITIZENS that he doesn’t like.
This is truly Nazi Germany once again. Why isn’t there panic in the streets, in the media, and in the financial markets?
It CAN happen here, y’all. It already is.
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Presidents Trump of the U.S. and Bukele of El Salvador said Monday they had “no basis” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.
No basis?
Trump is treating federal law and federal court orders as mere trash.
apnews.com/live/donald-...
No basis?
Trump is treating federal law and federal court orders as mere trash.
apnews.com/live/donald-...
Live updates: El Salvador’s president says he won’t release wrongly deported man back to US
President Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House. The nation is holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the U.S.
apnews.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Presidents Trump of the U.S. and Bukele of El Salvador said Monday they had “no basis” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.
No basis?
Trump is treating federal law and federal court orders as mere trash.
apnews.com/live/donald-...
No basis?
Trump is treating federal law and federal court orders as mere trash.
apnews.com/live/donald-...
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What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.
April 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.
🚨THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS HERE🚨
Last night, the authoritarian administration formally said it would not comply with a unanimous Supreme Court order. By even the most conservative definition, that's a constitutional crisis.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social explains:
Last night, the authoritarian administration formally said it would not comply with a unanimous Supreme Court order. By even the most conservative definition, that's a constitutional crisis.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social explains:
April 13, 2025
This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...
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April 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🚨THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS HERE🚨
Last night, the authoritarian administration formally said it would not comply with a unanimous Supreme Court order. By even the most conservative definition, that's a constitutional crisis.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social explains:
Last night, the authoritarian administration formally said it would not comply with a unanimous Supreme Court order. By even the most conservative definition, that's a constitutional crisis.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social explains:
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I wonder how the Supreme Court feels about granting Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and fuck the fuck off.
April 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I wonder how the Supreme Court feels about granting Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and fuck the fuck off.
How do you know when it’s time to leave?
Yale fascism expert Jason Stanley says we are already there.
Yale fascism expert Jason Stanley says we are already there.
The Fascism Expert at Yale Who’s Fleeing America
Philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the US for Canada, “the Ukraine of North America,” because he believes Trump’s America is “pretty far along” in the grips of fascism.
www.vanityfair.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
How do you know when it’s time to leave?
Yale fascism expert Jason Stanley says we are already there.
Yale fascism expert Jason Stanley says we are already there.
🧵 IT IS HAPPENING HERE. The removal of Jews and other “undesirables” from German-occupied countries in the 1930s started slowly and gradually before the Nazis built a military-industrial machine to efficiently accomplish the task at scale.
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April 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🧵 IT IS HAPPENING HERE. The removal of Jews and other “undesirables” from German-occupied countries in the 1930s started slowly and gradually before the Nazis built a military-industrial machine to efficiently accomplish the task at scale.
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