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Josh Gohlke

@gohlke.bsky.social
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Displaced journalist. gohlkeapparatus.substack.com

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Josh Gohlke @gohlke.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It’s difficult to make a more compelling case for additional taxation of billionaires than the billionaires themselves have.
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Won't somebody please think of the billionaires?
From California to New York, a ridiculous argument is being treated all too seriously.
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Josh Gohlke @gohlke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The day after the Trump administration’s second killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis this month, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce issued a statement lamenting that “recent challenges facing our state have created widespread disruption and tragic loss of life.” What a steaming crock of hotdish.
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Let's call this what it is
The least their fellow Americans can do for Alex Pretti, Renee Good and Minneapolis is acknowledge what the Trump administration has done.
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Josh Gohlke @gohlke.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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The impression is of a deeply unpopular Democratic establishment enforcing the very principles that helped it alienate voters and leave the country more vulnerable to authoritarianism.
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Romy Varghese @romyvarghese.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."
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Josh Gohlke @gohlke.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Why opinion journalists are in the crosshairs – and how their disappearance from legacy media is already enabling the Trump administration’s worst excesses. gohlkeapparatus.substack.com/p/why-opinio...
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Why opinion journalists are the first casualties of the war on the press
Donald Trump's media enablers and sycophants have used journalism's own confused conventions to suppress their most troublesome critics.
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Josh Gohlke @gohlke.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It’s great to see Gavin Newsom acknowledge that it’s “time to get serious” about producing housing. But why now? gohlkeapparatus.substack.com/p/gavin-news...
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Gavin Newsom wants to build housing and be president. Here's the problem
The California governor's latest push to produce homes and crack down on homeless people points to a broader difficulty for the Democratic Party.
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Josh Gohlke @gohlke.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Having covered my personal calamity last week, I got back to writing about our national ones. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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With friends like this: How Trump is ushering in a golden age of animosity
What unites some of the president's most baffling policies is a general disdain for the notion of mutually beneficial relationships.
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Josh Gohlke @gohlke.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In case you missed it, I recently became one of the last journalists in America to start a Substack! My first post considers the unfortunate events that led me to these dire circumstances. gohlkeapparatus.substack.com/p/i-was-an-l...
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I was an L.A. Times opinion editor. Here's why I'm not anymore
Owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is ingratiating himself with the Trump administration at the expense of the newspaper's independence and credibility.
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