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Leah McGrath Goodman

@lmg.bsky.social
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Investigative journalist, author, podcaster. Writing book No. 3. Just finished Master's in Corruption. Find my work at 'Column C' on Substack here: columnc.substack.com and my website here: leahmcgrathgoodman.com

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"To taunt the hostages, captors would loudly play video clips of October 7 on their iPads, and the noises would echo down the corridors into their room." Via @theatlantic.com: t.co/ApbMKgket2
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
GOLDMAN: Does Donald Trump appear in the Epstein files? PATEL: I'm sorry. Could you say that again? GOLDMAN: It's not a complication question. Does Donald Trump appear in the Epstein files?
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
If you think this is coarse or uncouth, kindly consider the alternative
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
'No one should be killed if they are not in the act of harming someone else.' That's from a Kirk fan. Then he reconsiders his statement and amends it (below). Interesting.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Never forget that 75 million voters did not vote for Trump (vs the 77.3 million who did). It is a deathly narrow, entirely surmountable margin. There are more than 340 million people in the U.S. and, as of the 2024 presidential election, 173.85 million were registered to vote.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This has been THE American story since the global economic crisis: www.wsj.com/economy/wsj-...
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Exclusive | Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds
Trump is contending with a disconnect between the nation’s sour outlook and traditional measures showing a robust economy.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Writer thoughts: I am not a morning person, but I am a morning writer. This has mostly to do with the fact I am closer to the dream state and my mind is in a unique state of flexibility and virtuosity (only very temporary) which is gone gone gone by 3 pm.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Putin is so jelly...https://www.wsj.com/world/putin-zelensky-meeting-challenges-ed44eb54?mod=world_lead_pos5
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Putin Calls Zelensky the West’s Illegitimate Puppet. Can He Talk Peace With Him?
President Trump seeks to broker a meeting of the two leaders to end Europe’s most destructive war in generations.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
LONG READ: Trump returned to the Oval Office on a groundswell of financial support from crypto investors, ushering in the most dramatic policy shifts since the dawn of crypto. A comprehensive look at Trump's new role as self-anointed "Crypto President." www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/how-...
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Since Trump’s return to Washington, barely a week has gone by without a barrage of crypto-friendly headlines. But how did Trump get into crypto in the first place? In my latest feature, I stumble onto his crypto origin story--and it's not what you think: www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/how-...
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How Wary Asset Managers Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Crypto
Hedge fund manager James Koutoulas remembers when U.S. President Donald J. Trump first awakened to crypto — and it had nothing to do with making a mint.“Trump got into cryptocurrency back in 2022,” he...
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Really you cannot ask for more from today. To the gods and humanity entire, thank you.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I know everyone is still circulating the details of that 'Original Sin' book by Jake Tapper et al, but is it wrong that what really stayed with me from the New Yorker piece is that George Clooney has a house in Lake Como AND the south of France? I mean, come ON... www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
What is corruption? (Since this topic keeps coming up...)
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Journalists celebrate 'Journalism' win ! Great metaphor for us right now. And possibly...sign of the times / things to come?
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. Astounding words from the judge about ripping U.S. residents off the streets and locking them up without due process. Pls RT. People need to know this. It's not going to stop with just a few scapegoats and everybody knows it.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A note to you all about authors and journalists -- and their Wikipedia entries. If you read an entry about anyone or anything and it is just filled with brags, it is VERY likely the person it applies to wrote a great deal of it and is treating their entry as a self-promotion (example):
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Currently enjoying
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
NEW: COLUMN C: If 'flooding the zone' is a cure for sanity, what is the antidote? columnc.substack.com/p/a-taste-fo...
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A Taste for Disinformation
Do you know the truth when you hear it?
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
NOW they all want to speak out? Craven. Absurd.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Before the U.S. plunges itself deeper into debt over Trump's planned tax cuts, it's worth noting that as recently as the 1990s, America had a balanced budget. Our tax system was designed for revenues to grow along with the U.S. economy. But that's no longer the case. So how did the country get here?
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A nonpartisan chart showing how Trump's devoted base is the last group of people he's thinking about.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trillions are flowing through Wall Street's obscure plumbing. Government agencies now being targeted by Trump and Musk have the power to turn the spigot off. Here's what happened when DOL had the chance to do that to 2 of the biggest criminal banks in the world. Story just out: shorturl.at/0CWDD
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Inside UBS’s Quiet Battle With the DOL to Manage Retirement Money
Trillions were at stake as the Department of Labor, which plays a role in protecting U.S. private pension assets, sifted through the bank’s checkered history before giving UBS the green light.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Ever work in a job where you didn't know who your 'real' boss was? Where you received unwelcome emails with unreasonable demands on the weekend? Where before you even responded, it was clear that no response would ever be enough? That's 2.3 million Americans, right now. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Federal Agencies Push Back on Elon Musk’s ‘What Did You Do Last Week?’ Email
Millions of federal employees are heading into their workweek caught between differing factions of the Trump administration.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
In other anti-corruption news: Guidance just issued re Trump's 'Restoring Accountability' order, explaining how to get rid of, or 'separate employees' in the federal government 'who cannot or will not meet required performance standards,' which are never defined.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
BREAKING: Corey Amundson, the U.S. Department of Justice's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption cases has resigned -- full story here: www.reuters.com/world/us/car...
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Career US Justice Department official in charge of public corruption cases resigns
Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump administration tried to re-assign him to a new role working on immigration issues, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
NEW Column C: If Trump had wanted to dispel any notion that his admin would be pay-to-play, flanking himself with the world's 3 richest men -- collectively worth $900 billion -- was not the way to do it. So, where does that leave his working class supporters? columnc.substack.com/p/trumpworld...
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Trumpworld Descends on America
President Trump wields the pen — and sword — to make clear his true priorities.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you're madly googling "pre-emptive pardons," the Minority Report-style precog get-out-of-jail free card that's all the rage this week for both the guilty and innocent, here's a short history that may be of use: verdict.justia.com/2025/01/20/b...
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Biden’s Preemptive Pardons Are an Unprecedented Vote of No Confidence in the New Administration
Amherst professor Austin Sarat discusses President Joe Biden’s issuance of preemptive pardons to various public figures including January 6 Committee members, General Mark Milley, and Dr. Anthony Fauc...
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Doing a roundup of the biggest corruption stories of 2024 -- what do you reckon they should be? From SBF to Trump & Co. to U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (gold bars, totally a normal thing to have) to the traders at Glencore (cash-filled jets, anyone?) there is a a lot to cover here.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello all -- as many of you are doing, I am moving over here from Twitter/X, as the wheels are coming off Planet E. I am also finishing my Master's in Corruption over the next 30 days.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
All I need right now is this Zen guy in slippers playing cello on a hillside in Davos
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Hello -- taking a sabbatical to write this winter and very much looking forward to being on here more frequently and sharing as I go. Hope this finds you starting out your New Year's right and ready for the Year of the Dragon! (Who be dragons among you? I am one...)
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Proper autumn foliage in Vermont has finally arrived. We are getting our colors closer and closer to Thanksgiving these days. It makes it harder to rake up all the leaves before it snows. But, for now, beauty surrounds us.
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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Well, well. Seems like I made it here by the inspiration and impetus of @bcdreyer.bsky.social & @liberallylv.bsky.social. Thank you. (And a view from my office in Vermont on the Connecticut River...we are still awaiting proper foliage.)
View from my Vermont office window today (Mt Wantastiquet)
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