Michael Goldsmith
@miklgoldsmith.bsky.social
Continuously curious. Attorney, Health law, dad, baseball and Dodgers. Opinions are my own.
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"It’s my turn to bring a snack for my son’s preschool class. My snack will be simultaneously nutritious, allergen-free, and appealing to three-year-olds—like dinosaur-shaped muffins that taste like rainbows but are made of steamed arugula."
A Parent’s Typical Day, as Envisioned by My Child’s Preschool
I get up at 4:30 a.m. for some pre-dawn food prep. Today, it’s my turn to bring a snack and read a story for my son Ash’s preschool class. The scho...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"It’s my turn to bring a snack for my son’s preschool class. My snack will be simultaneously nutritious, allergen-free, and appealing to three-year-olds—like dinosaur-shaped muffins that taste like rainbows but are made of steamed arugula."
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NEW: Baseball is thriving. Now please, MLB, don’t blow it
A classic World Series shows again that the sport is back. But a long work stoppage looms after next year - and risks enraging fans and undoing all of the game’s momentum
Make a deal. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A classic World Series shows again that the sport is back. But a long work stoppage looms after next year - and risks enraging fans and undoing all of the game’s momentum
Make a deal. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Blow This, Baseball
The thrilling World Series shows that baseball is truly back—just in time for its next crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
NEW: Baseball is thriving. Now please, MLB, don’t blow it
A classic World Series shows again that the sport is back. But a long work stoppage looms after next year - and risks enraging fans and undoing all of the game’s momentum
Make a deal. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A classic World Series shows again that the sport is back. But a long work stoppage looms after next year - and risks enraging fans and undoing all of the game’s momentum
Make a deal. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Everyone's gushing about Ohtani's performance, but 6IP/4ER isn't great (he should've been pulled after 6 IP). Yet mid-2010s Kershaw had similar lines on short rest with a worse bullpen & manager, but the narrative was he choked in playoffs. Interesting double standard. #Dodgers
October 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Everyone's gushing about Ohtani's performance, but 6IP/4ER isn't great (he should've been pulled after 6 IP). Yet mid-2010s Kershaw had similar lines on short rest with a worse bullpen & manager, but the narrative was he choked in playoffs. Interesting double standard. #Dodgers
Ironic that passengers are unable to watch any playoff game of America's past time, on flights where America is in the name of the airline. (@americanair).
October 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ironic that passengers are unable to watch any playoff game of America's past time, on flights where America is in the name of the airline. (@americanair).
The process of installing solar panels is unbearable. Countless delays, incompetence with paperwork. It should be seamless for the net good of clean energy being produced. Yeesh.
September 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The process of installing solar panels is unbearable. Countless delays, incompetence with paperwork. It should be seamless for the net good of clean energy being produced. Yeesh.
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I always come away from Israel impressed by the resilience of its people, the richness of its culture, and the astonishing success it has enjoyed. Now I am struggling to reconcile the Israel that I know and love with the country that is inflicting so much suffering in Gaza. wapo.st/47lR0OS
Opinion | I hate the war in Gaza. But I still love Israel.
It’s still possible to love the country and condemn this war. But it’s getting difficult.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I always come away from Israel impressed by the resilience of its people, the richness of its culture, and the astonishing success it has enjoyed. Now I am struggling to reconcile the Israel that I know and love with the country that is inflicting so much suffering in Gaza. wapo.st/47lR0OS
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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”
Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
August 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”
Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
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Dry humor in this footnote from @citizencohn.bsky.social: "The surest way to avoid this kind of duplication would be to blow up the U.S. system and create the kind of seamless, universal coverage system they have in peer countries. But that’s not something advocates for Medicaid cuts would support."
The Trump admin complained last week that 2.8 million people are supposedly "double-dipping" in different kinds of government-provided medical coverage.
But duplication is not necessarily duplicity: Some of this messiness is inevitable in a patchwork health care system like the United States has.
But duplication is not necessarily duplicity: Some of this messiness is inevitable in a patchwork health care system like the United States has.
Trump Isn’t Done Cutting Your Health Care
Now it’s low-income kids that Republicans are targeting.
www.thebulwark.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Dry humor in this footnote from @citizencohn.bsky.social: "The surest way to avoid this kind of duplication would be to blow up the U.S. system and create the kind of seamless, universal coverage system they have in peer countries. But that’s not something advocates for Medicaid cuts would support."
The soccer game I went to had a Kaiser Permanente First Aid...would I have been charged out of network if I went?
July 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The soccer game I went to had a Kaiser Permanente First Aid...would I have been charged out of network if I went?
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NYT Editorial Board on antisemitism in the U.S.: “The response from much of the rest of American society has been insufficient. The upswing in antisemitism deserves outright condemnation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...
Opinion | Antisemitism Is an Urgent Problem. Too Many People Are Making Excuses.
www.nytimes.com
June 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
NYT Editorial Board on antisemitism in the U.S.: “The response from much of the rest of American society has been insufficient. The upswing in antisemitism deserves outright condemnation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...
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BREAKING: The Trump admin is scrapping Biden admin guidance that hospitals in states with abortion bans can't turn away pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies. The move comes amid court battles over the guidance in Idaho, Tennessee and Texas. www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre...
CMS Statement on Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) | CMS
The Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) are rescinding July 2022 guidance from CMS with the subject “Reinforcement of EMTALA Obligations specif...
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June 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
BREAKING: The Trump admin is scrapping Biden admin guidance that hospitals in states with abortion bans can't turn away pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies. The move comes amid court battles over the guidance in Idaho, Tennessee and Texas. www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre...
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A Michigan man was planning to shoot up a Jewish daycare, according to federal agents:
Hassan Chokr of Michigan drove into the parking lot of Temple Beth El, where he proceeded to scream antisemitic slurs and threats at the parents dropping their children off for daycare.
Hassan Chokr of Michigan drove into the parking lot of Temple Beth El, where he proceeded to scream antisemitic slurs and threats at the parents dropping their children off for daycare.
June 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A Michigan man was planning to shoot up a Jewish daycare, according to federal agents:
Hassan Chokr of Michigan drove into the parking lot of Temple Beth El, where he proceeded to scream antisemitic slurs and threats at the parents dropping their children off for daycare.
Hassan Chokr of Michigan drove into the parking lot of Temple Beth El, where he proceeded to scream antisemitic slurs and threats at the parents dropping their children off for daycare.
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“Democrats would be well within their rights to describe this administration and Congress as carrying out the biggest assault ever on American health care.”
My @thebulwark.com colleagues on last night’s vote — and, really, this whole Trump term www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...
My @thebulwark.com colleagues on last night’s vote — and, really, this whole Trump term www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...
The Republican Party’s Populist Betrayal
The GOP’s budget bill exposes Trump’s ‘working-class party’ rhetoric as phony. It also gives Democrats a massive health care opportunity.
www.thebulwark.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“Democrats would be well within their rights to describe this administration and Congress as carrying out the biggest assault ever on American health care.”
My @thebulwark.com colleagues on last night’s vote — and, really, this whole Trump term www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...
My @thebulwark.com colleagues on last night’s vote — and, really, this whole Trump term www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...
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The Trump administration wants to talk about baby-making
Uh oh
My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/can-donald...
Uh oh
My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/can-donald...
Can Donald Trump Get Americans to Make More Babies?
There’s an important conversation to have about fertility rates. It doesn’t look like this.
www.thebulwark.com
April 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Trump administration wants to talk about baby-making
Uh oh
My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/can-donald...
Uh oh
My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/can-donald...
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New, from me: The Trump administration is killing Direct File, the free IRS e-filing tool.
Users love it, and it creates incredible value for the public.
It's the clearest sign that DOGE wants a government that serves private and not public interests. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
Users love it, and it creates incredible value for the public.
It's the clearest sign that DOGE wants a government that serves private and not public interests. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of Direct File
Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration
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April 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
New, from me: The Trump administration is killing Direct File, the free IRS e-filing tool.
Users love it, and it creates incredible value for the public.
It's the clearest sign that DOGE wants a government that serves private and not public interests. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
Users love it, and it creates incredible value for the public.
It's the clearest sign that DOGE wants a government that serves private and not public interests. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
Parking and getting food at a Dodgers game are tests of patience. (It's a fan experience that can use massive improvement).
April 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Parking and getting food at a Dodgers game are tests of patience. (It's a fan experience that can use massive improvement).
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NEW: For months, @juliaangwin.com and I have been interviewing foreign dissidents and opposition leaders.
Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear.
If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:
Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear.
If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:
So You Want to Be a Dissident?
A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.
www.newyorker.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
NEW: For months, @juliaangwin.com and I have been interviewing foreign dissidents and opposition leaders.
Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear.
If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:
Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear.
If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:
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“Diseases will not be cured and treatments will not be found”
“Generations of expertise … so hard to replace”
“Americans will suffer, and people will die”
What I heard yesterday about the Trump administration’s mass firings at HHS www.thebulwark.com/p/people-wil...
“Generations of expertise … so hard to replace”
“Americans will suffer, and people will die”
What I heard yesterday about the Trump administration’s mass firings at HHS www.thebulwark.com/p/people-wil...
‘People Will Die’—RFK Jr. Guts America’s Health Bureaucracy
Stunned experts fear major damage to U.S. health, science, and expertise.
www.thebulwark.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“Diseases will not be cured and treatments will not be found”
“Generations of expertise … so hard to replace”
“Americans will suffer, and people will die”
What I heard yesterday about the Trump administration’s mass firings at HHS www.thebulwark.com/p/people-wil...
“Generations of expertise … so hard to replace”
“Americans will suffer, and people will die”
What I heard yesterday about the Trump administration’s mass firings at HHS www.thebulwark.com/p/people-wil...
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California vs. Trump: What it’s like to be the attorneys on the front lines
Although critics have bemoaned the Democratic response to Trump as inept, attorneys for Calif. AG Rob Bonta and other Dem AG’s have been sprinting hard for months, with some success.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Although critics have bemoaned the Democratic response to Trump as inept, attorneys for Calif. AG Rob Bonta and other Dem AG’s have been sprinting hard for months, with some success.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
California vs. Trump: What it’s like to be the attorneys on the front lines
A behind-the-scenes look at the months-long effort to resist President Trump's agenda inside California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta's office.
www.latimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
California vs. Trump: What it’s like to be the attorneys on the front lines
Although critics have bemoaned the Democratic response to Trump as inept, attorneys for Calif. AG Rob Bonta and other Dem AG’s have been sprinting hard for months, with some success.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Although critics have bemoaned the Democratic response to Trump as inept, attorneys for Calif. AG Rob Bonta and other Dem AG’s have been sprinting hard for months, with some success.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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As a candidate last year, Trump promised “to unleash the power of American innovation” to super-charge U.S. scientific research.
He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.
Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.
Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.
NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As a candidate last year, Trump promised “to unleash the power of American innovation” to super-charge U.S. scientific research.
He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.
Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.
Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
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a functioning opposition party would have this disabled veteran on every talk show and podcast for weeks
Musk & Trump fired a disabled Army vet, Luke Graziani, who is a father of four, working at the Bronx Veterans Affairs hospital.
"[Writing to the VA secretary], he asked for his job back: 'This can’t be how my service to my country ends.' As of Monday, Collins had not replied."
"[Writing to the VA secretary], he asked for his job back: 'This can’t be how my service to my country ends.' As of Monday, Collins had not replied."
February 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
a functioning opposition party would have this disabled veteran on every talk show and podcast for weeks
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🧵 Over the last decade, #HolocaustRemembranceDay has taken on a different tone.
As the granddaughter of survivors, it was always a day of note. My grandparents somehow survived, through an unlikely combination of courage, luck, and the goodwill of non-Jews. Their families weren't as fortunate. 1/
As the granddaughter of survivors, it was always a day of note. My grandparents somehow survived, through an unlikely combination of courage, luck, and the goodwill of non-Jews. Their families weren't as fortunate. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🧵 Over the last decade, #HolocaustRemembranceDay has taken on a different tone.
As the granddaughter of survivors, it was always a day of note. My grandparents somehow survived, through an unlikely combination of courage, luck, and the goodwill of non-Jews. Their families weren't as fortunate. 1/
As the granddaughter of survivors, it was always a day of note. My grandparents somehow survived, through an unlikely combination of courage, luck, and the goodwill of non-Jews. Their families weren't as fortunate. 1/