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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

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linda.mary @linda-mary108.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I swear, history will look back on these times and refer to it as the “make shit up as you go along and see if you can get away with it” era. Either that or the “Age of Grandpas Who Needed to Have Retired Way, Way Sooner.”

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The worse thing is that this doesn't seem to be Trump but a trusted surrogate, judging by the clean punctuation and the lack of misspellings and solecisms. This isn't just our mad king--it's his whole administration. It's us.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We've come to the part of the story where the mad king installs his horse in the Senate. So far, the other senators seem to believe it belongs there. Trump Derangement Syndrome is very real.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

With the Epstein files, the aim isn't to disprove or disarm the conspiracy theories; it's to expose the real conspiracy, which is/was to cover up a lot of high-status high-net worth individuals' sleezy behavior (or at the least, their bad taste in friends). Is this how elites have always behaved?

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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.

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What I Wrote About Epstein

Not surprisingly, I wrote about Epstein, Trump, and the Protocols in The Politics of Fear.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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.

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What I Wrote About Epstein

Not surprisingly, I wrote about Epstein, Trump, and the Protocols in The Politics of Fear.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"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.

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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...

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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...

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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

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

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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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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 Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The deep state is real. It’s called DOGE. A THREAD

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Bribery in public.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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.”

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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?

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We are “on the precipice,” Maddow said, “looking over the edge.” We’re not, though. We’re already over the edge, and we will never find our way back to liberal democracy if we do not accept that reality.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

PHILIP DRU was a novel by the founder of the Council on Foreign Relations about a progressive who suspends the Constitution and becomes dictator of the US. In 2012, the right was as frightened about its implications for the Obama administration as they are complacent about Musk's power grab today.

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Remember When the Right Went Crazy About A Fictional Unelected Advisor Who Took Over the United States?

I'm Sure You Don't. Most of the Right Doesn't Either

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

People were shocked after 911 that there weren't anti-aircraft guns in DC. Now they're shocked that the Constitutional order had so few guardrails. But here we are.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I grew up on a steady diet of doomsday nightmares and dystopian fiction. None of them prepared me for the awful vacuity of this Fuhrer and his doddering Hindenburg.

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So what's going on here, really?

The Musk junta is going up the down staircase

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It almost feels like our 250 years of history were just the build up to this punchline, like the American Colossus is a character in an Aesop's tale--a fierce lion overthrown by a clever meerkat.

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Of course it’s a coup

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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Remember When the Right Went Crazy About A Fictional Unelected Advisor Who Took Over the United States?

I'm Sure You Don't. Most of the Right Doesn't Either

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Yes, Elon Musk is operating outside of any institutional or constitutional norms. That's what's called a coup. He is the police now. I'm waiting to see who steps up to lead the rebel alliance. Hint: it won't be any of the people asking you to send them $15.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Instead of taking grandpa's car keys away, we've given him a flamethrower. I don't see how this ends without economic catastrophe and the kind of violence that Trump and his followers insist had already been bleeding the nation. American carnage indeed.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

You think the trade war and Musk's takeover of the Treasury is scary? Wait till they default on our debt. Trump doesn't pay his bills. Why should the US? This is real.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

You can't put out a fire if you won't admit the building is burning. First acknowledge the crisis. Trump will be unpopular in 2026 and 2028, but if there are elections at all, they will change about as much as elections in other occupied countries do. Our leaders need to start screaming now.

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A Few Thoughts on Messages and Morale

Over the last few days, as I’ve struggled with everyone else to...

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I feel like I'm screaming into my pillow. Elon Musk has annexed the government. If this were a thriller, he'd have to remove Trump, but since this is real life, Trump can stay where he is, making big noises to distract the little people. The cavalry isn't coming. Musk owns them too.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The crazy thing is that people are still posting here about how this or that is illegal or un-American. Doge and X is America now. The law is what they say it is.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It's a bloodless coup. The president is not a figurehead, he's the plotters' tool. As he wanders around in a haze imposing tariffs, naming things after himself, and purging black people from the history books, they go about the serious business of deconstructing the state. It's happening.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is not just a coup and a Constitutional crisis. It is a national security catastrophe for the United States from which there is no assurance we will ever fully recover. Not hyperbole. If foreign enemies had landed troops on our shores it’s unlikely they would’ve done as much damage as fast.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I keep thinking how sad it is that Musk has pulled off a coup, and neither Trump, the media, or the public at large has even noticed.

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Arthur Goldwag @arthurgoldwag.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

When the king is the state and the only value that the king recognizes can be denominated in dollars or their crypto equivalents, the state prospers when the king prospers. And when you're a celebrity, the name of the game is being seen with winners.

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Snoop Dogg and TikTok

Feeling my age this morning as I scan through BlueSky and register the disappointment with Snoop Dogg’s decision to add his star power to Carrie Underwood’s and the Village People’s (not to mention Ki...

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