Michael Goodwin

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

The most enjoyable movie review in a long time:

OMG “Introducing the Enlightenment” is on the list.

How To Stop Trump From Blowing Up The World Legislation to prevent any president from unilaterally causing a nuclear apocalypse is just sitting there in Congress. Seems like now is a good time to pass it.

Everyone should call their lawmakers to tell them to pass this bill. Right now.

Obviously, I’m under no illusion that this bill has an easy path — but I’m also under no illusion that trying to pass it is pointless. We’re talking about the prospect of a nuclear apocalypse.

So pass this on.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

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Because Iran's being bombed right now, I figured I'd share a thread of home videos of Iran (20+ years old) recorded by members of my family, just so people can see what Iran looks like without smoke/fire everywhere and to preserve those memories

January 2006, Tehran (I think)

"surely the third democratic presidency to come to power after a norm-breaking and warcrime-cheering Republican administration will pursue justice against their predecessors," I repeat like a mantra til I collapse

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

There were 129 journalists killed around the world in 2025. Two-thirds (86) were slain by the Israeli military, a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists found, per the WashPost:

Kristi Noem gave her political operative a no-bid contract worth $143,000,000 of taxpayer money to make Fox News ads starring her at Mt. Rushmore. We will be following this story on a daily basis if it turns out that Hunter Biden was involved.

Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel

what fresh hell

From a pandemic-era piece I never finished:

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Friends: if you've been meaning to contribute to one or more NYS Assembly or Senate candidates but haven't yet, please do so ✨by the end of Thursday, Mar 12✨

This is the first date used by NYS to decide if a candidate qualifies for public matching funds—and then actually receives them by April 15.

This Day in Labor History: March 5, 1972. The workers at General Motors’ plant in Lordstown, Ohio went on strike after authorizing it two days prior. They weren't on strike for traditional reasons, not really. They just hated their jobs. Let's talk about this unique moment in labor history!

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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• Check your polling location before you leave, Texas loves last minute changes
• Stay in line, if you are in line by closing time, you have the right to vote

Do not let confusion do the work of suppression.
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I voted today but it was the strangest experience… went to my normal place to vote and was told I now have to vote at another location. Cool. Went to that location and they “couldn’t find me”. I pulled up my voter registration online and then they asked for my drivers license….then further proof

C’mon who could have foreseen any of that.

reading over Malliotakis v. Williams and lowkey think New York courts/the NY Redistricting Commission should be like...since the Supreme Court clearly lacked jurisdiction to intervene in the case at this time, we are treating it as the nonbinding advisory opinion that it is, thanks for the input tho

Just paid the monthly health insurance bill for myself, spouse & 24 yr old son - it’s $2390.00.

I have to go to hospital later to drop off payment for son’s outpatient surgery last year - we owe $2500.00 as ins only covered small portion.

But, hey - let’s all pay to bomb the hell out of Iran.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Starting to see the argument of "Platner has to visit right wing shows and spaces to win votes" arguments and...you realize this is the exact argument that Third Way makes, right? It's literally the exact same thing Gavin Newsom is doing just with different production quality.

And he wasn't able to put in his bet on Polymarket.

The last of these, which would have been an insult in previous eras, is part of the Buttigieg value proposition. Buttigieg is technocracy made flesh. Who could be safer than a politician who has had his card punched at all the great meritocratic institutions, and who has followed the modern cursus honorum from local office to national? And who could be less Trumpian? He is unashamed of technical competence, even when it makes him sound dweebish. Without embarrassment, he bragged to me that during his days as a management consultant, he’d worked with data sets “too big for Excel to handle.”

lol oh god no. 2028 is going to be about inspiration to action not more west wing fantasy delusion. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...