Michelle Goldberg

Anyone else old enough to remember "South Park Conservatives"?

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Am I wrong or is the discourse around this entirely manufactured? I keep seeing claims that "the left is melting down" and the evidence is two people on tiktok. It's like they need wokeness so bad they have to invent it

Longshot but if anyone has tix for Well, I'll Let You Go this week and wants to either sell them or trade for the ones I have later in August please let me know!

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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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My hunch had been that there wasn't much in the Epstein docs and Pam Bondi was simply lying when she said the files were on her desk because she thinks MAGA voters are rubes. But this kind of makes me think otherwise?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...

Peace demonstrators have been beaten, foreign students have been disappeared, and educational institutions have been broken and tarred for being "antisemitic" through a series of tortured jingoistic inferences, while Donald Trump constantly and explicitly tells us what he thinks of Jews

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Trump’s pick to lead whistleblower office shared 9/11 truther video | CNN Politics He’s 30, loyal to Trump and pushed election lies. It’s a role designed to be politically independent.

NEW: The nominee to run the Office of Special Counsel shared a 911 truther video last year on *911*, has ties to a holocaust denier, and said in a video we uncovered that straight white men are the smartest group and should be prioritized. He’s 30.

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I keep thinking about how Trump, during his first term, talked about building an alligator-filled moat to use against immigrants, and few really took him seriously, and now he talks about sending Americans to CECOT and it gets brushed off the same way

This is a concentration camp

Opinion | At Glastonbury, Left-Wing Politics Are Shocking Again

Pretty thought-provoking op-ed by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social on the politics of censorship, outrage, and intentional provocation in MAGA and Israel-Palestine.

Banger of a final line: “Sometimes, however, radicalization is born in the gap between what people feel and what they feel they can say.”

Opinion | At Glastonbury, Left-Wing Politics Are Shocking Again

Remember when people insisted that conservatism was punk rock?

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Opinion | Mission Not Accomplished

Really enjoyed talking with @michellegoldberg.bsky.social even if prognosis on Iran is depressing. Important to understand how bombing has fallen short and where this leaves Iran. The answer is closer to a bomb in more ways than one. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

@scientistsorg.bsky.social

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What to know about the MOP and the B-2, the bunker-buster bomb and plane that could be used to strike Iran Israel's best chance at destroying the facility at Fordo could lie with a U.S.-produced bomb that's so heavy that it can only be dropped by a U.S. plane.

Does anyone know how many of those MOB bombs America has? This CBS story suggests the number is about 20. If Trump dropped 14 and still failed to stop Iran's nuclear program don't we have a lot less deterrence then we used to?
www.cbsnews.com/news/massive...

Sort of feel like it might be good that Trump is watching this, if he thinks it's mission accomplished he won't want to do anything else

This Fucking Guy I lived in New York City for twenty-five years and I don’t live there anymore.

Exceptional piece from @rtraister.bsky.social on Cuomo.

Covers his terrible governance, his selfishness, his lying, his harassment.

There is nothing in this man that anyone should want near power. 1/2

What does Turkey do if Iran's ~10 million Kurds try to establish their own statelet? It's surreal how little political discussion there is of this stuff!

Has anyone written about what happens to Iran's nuclear material if the regime falls and there's some sort of free-for-all?

Opinion | Brad Lander Doesn’t Belong in Jail. Does He Belong in City Hall?

I agree with almost every word of this, especially the kicker: "Lander sure looked like the kind of guy you’d want in charge at a time like this."

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I'm not in editorial board meetings! But fwiw I'm ranking Mamdani and definitely not ranking Cuomo

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

Real world:
- Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment.
- Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals"
- Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up

PUNDIT world:
- Is it smart politics?
- Is Gavin running?
- Doesn't Trump look strong!

Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines.

This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive.

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