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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Let us never forget the stories of the truly innocent caught in the crossfire -- on both sides -- and what they had to endure to make it. A reminder of the miracle of human hope. Thinking of them today. #Israel #Gaza

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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

A good time to remember that fear, hate, money can be fought with hope, love and generosity.

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

If those with more can succeed in getting enough of their fellow Americans to believe the real problem is 'out there' or across the border, or somewhere else -- instead of, right here, on our own highly un-level playing field, this will finish off the American dream.

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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 · 08/08/2025

Trump’s determined efforts to prop up crypto -- in ways that allow him to personally profit -- has enriched him to the tune of an estimated $3.3 billion of his reported $5.5 billion fortune. That means crypto, not real estate, now likely makes up the lion’s share of Trump’s riches.

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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-...

institutionalinvestor.com

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

Full decision here, dated April 17, 2025, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, with circuit judges King and Thacker joining in: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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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

Well then I guess we're both tight-ass New Englanders ... !

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I guess in California, being seen as a 'lifestyle guru' is still supposed to be...desirable? If I recall correctly, Ferriss said 'The Four-Hour Workweek" was originally titled 'Lifestyle Hustler.' Def more honest, and explains a lot.

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Should add: Whether people self-promote on Wikipedia or the entry is crowdsourced, researchers say that overall a Wikipedia entry is still more biased than a standard encyclopedia entry, which is more balanced and neutral: insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/can-...

insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu

Can Wikipedia Be Trusted?

Crowdsourced Wikipedia entries are more biased than Encyclopaedia Britannica articles.

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Yes, Wikipedia entries sometimes make mistakes & it is ok to fix them. But done right, it is a true reflection of the public opinion, even global opinion...and if you're a seeker, a lover of the truth, then letting Wikipedia write about you is a good way to come to terms with how you are being seen.

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I think the lesson is, online readers don't want promos...they don't want to hear you're a guru (according to you). They want the truth & they want it to have some integrity. They want to see what the highlights are, not according to you, but according to everyone else. And you should want that too.

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

After hearing this, I asked a close 'very online' friend (and supporter of my work) what he thought. And he said this, which I think was so wise: 'You should let your audience decide when you deserve a Wikipedia entry -- and you should trust them to write it.'

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I actually attended a conference where Ferriss strongly advised the audience of authors/writers/journalists to write their own Wikipedia entries. (To this day, you can actually see in the 'Talk' section of his entry that Ferriss's staffer is still asking for tiny things to be updated and added...)

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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 · 11/04/2025

Our ability to absorb masses of information, misinformation and disinformation has been pushed to the limit. And people are struggling just to differentiate between those types of information. Misinformation is getting the facts wrong, while disinformation is an attempt to deliberately mislead.

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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

Every man for himself is the prevailing worldview here. And if you're a billionaire, why not? You'll hoard it and pass it on to your kids. But if you're in the 99%, or in a younger generation who will have to contend with the rising masses of debt, you will be railroaded. And that is the point.

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Once the Trump tax cuts take effect, middle-class Americans and those with less will see very little change to their bottom line. That's because the lion's share of funds will flow to the nation's wealthiest, which will plunge the U.S. deeper into debt and damn generations to come.

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

For those cheering DOGE bc they think Elon's cuts will handily fund the next round of Trump tax cuts, the math shows they won't. The DOGE cuts will barely make a dent; they won't fund the Trump tax cuts. They will just accelerate the wealth transfer to the rich while crushing ordinary Americans.

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

"...It is societally unfair to give huge tax cuts that disproportionately favor the rich and then try to fund them by taking away programs from the people least able to lose them,” Kogan added. (Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan think tank, for the record.)

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Kogan also said (this is a 2-part quote): “If you do a cuts-only approach, then we would probably still see calls for more tax cuts. If you want to fix this, you should start with the cause: We got here in the first place because of tax cuts for the rich..."

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

"If not for the Bush tax cuts and their extensions, as well as the Trump tax cuts, revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely,” Bobby Kogan told me in 2023 -- a history lesson that's worth repeating. Kogan is a federal budget policy expert at the Center for American Progress.

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Leah McGrath Goodman @lmg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What changed since the Clinton administration balanced the budget? Back then, America reported surpluses for fiscal years 1998–2001 (the only years ever to have them from 1970 to 2023). It wasn't a massive increase in spending, but the huge decreases in taxes benefitting America’s most affluent.

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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

Why would Trump hire the most vocal celebrity billionaire in the world to take a torch to govt? He wants to claim that he funded all these tax cuts. But they won't be funded--the cuts will barely scratch the surface. America and Americans will go deeper into debt. The slash-and-burn is all pageant.

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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

It just goes to show U.S. government can do far more to rein in criminal banks -- but chooses not to. One of the toughest things about this story was repeatedly trying to talk to officials at the DOL (Dept of Labor). They refused to speak or could not get clearance to speak on this subject.

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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

Elon never mentioned the potential for termination in his weekend email to federal workers, which looked spammy and raised national security concerns. The note went unsigned, prompting one government employee to tell The Wall Street Journal it looked unprofessional and “just plain creepy.”

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