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Host, FRDH podcast www.goldfarbpod.com RU listening? MichaelGoldfarb.substack.com R U reading? Been doing this forever: BBC, NPR, NYTimes, WashPo, Guardian etc www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butto…

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 12h
obviously you don't care if the whole genre of campus novels disappear
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 12h
Have the architecture critics got over themselves yet?
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 13h
Could've gone hot take for this week's substack cause I'm boiling about traitor Trump throwing Putin a diesel purchase lifeline. But instead I had a great conversation with Paul Schrader the other day. So here is something to listen to: frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/paul-schra...
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com
Paul Schrader on His Prescient Masterpiece: Blue Collar
The 1970s is remembered as the last Golden Age of Hollywood — actually, one shouldn’t be too parochial about it: it was the last Golden Age of Cinema — everywhere.
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 13h
open and shut case
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yeah, if you're going full will to power dump Plato and go full on Nietzsche (as interpreted by his sister and her appalling proto-Nazi husband Bernie Fôrster.)
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"And all men kill the thing they love" Oscar Wilde, Ballad of Reading Gaol for @miketanier.bsky.social
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bro, I'd've bought you a beer
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A doleful anniversary this week. Oct 7th. Some thoughts on heroes: the ones we have and the ones we need. frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.co…
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last US troops leave Iraq. I was there when they first arrived frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/after-iraq...
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After Iraq: Who Will Save Them Now?
Final Thoughts on an American Failure
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
& now in the cold light of day? WTF happened? When does Jalen finally tell whoever is calling plays to go fuck himself and just run stuff that he can see will work from his position in the middle of the field? Also, when does qb 3 put himself in on 3rd and goal from 2 & do tushpush cause QB2 can't
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is yinzer for sure but I have seen columnists from Chicago use jagoff as well. I think it may be generic across Rust Belt
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Didn't think you'd learned it on the streets of Pittsburgh or Chicago
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Appreciate your use of jags
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lede national politics story in NYTimes today is an "exclusive" headlined: Alaska Dem Mary Peltola's Senate Campaign is in trouble. Headline: "Angry Outbursts, Slurs and Firings: Tumult Rocks a Key Senate Campaign" The nutgraf proof? Name calling!!! What about her emails!!!!
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The essence of the First Amendment has nothing to do with a White House press pass
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lede national politics story in NYTimes today is an "exclusive" headlined: Alaska Dem Mary Peltola's Senate Campaign is in trouble. Headline: "Angry Outbursts, Slurs and Firings: Tumult Rocks a Key Senate Campaign" The nutgraf proof? Name calling!!! What about her emails!!!!
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The essence of the First Amendment has nothing to do with a White House press pass
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
no mainstream institution is perfect, all are in decline but the Guardian's has been steepest and saddest
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Such an interesting juxtaposition in the former serious newspaper known as The Guardian. MAGA candidate over TV review about these maybe bros. I reported from Uvalde in 2018 midterms. Then it became infamous as site of terrible school shooting. Matt McConaughey was born there.
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All at once? That's called an orgy!
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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Eagles fans, Packers fans, Ravens fans, remember... At least you aren't Falcons fans.
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I thought you were talking about the wisdom of putting a little sugar in the tomato sauce.
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How the Outrage economy which thrives on Xitter and elsewhere stifles courage which ultimately leads to societies healing: in this case America. A Sunday sermon: frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/outragecou...
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If Dems do this it will break Trump's stranglehold on the white no longer working class that is the core of MAGA:
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Palantir said Watson had taken a leave of absence from the House of Lords ... " Doesn't say if he's taken leave of his senses. Another name for Mme DeFarge to knit.
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No, @nickforbrains.bsky.social it's because he's a bottom. Always has been, always will be
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When Liz Cheney told fellow GOP congresspeople "your dishonor will remain" she could not have imagined that history would move so quickly beyond appeals to honor. Many Idontbelieveit moments in Trump2 but GOP & senior military allowing this fiasco is near top of list.
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He's getting desperate
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ripples in still water ... 25 years later Where were you? What really changed? frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/911-this-c...
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9/11 “This Changes Everything”or Did It?
At the end of that day, the BBC World Service program Newshour caught up with me at my hotel in Boston.
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh great, James Orr has been suspended by Reform. Who gives a shit? Until Cambridge Unviersity fires him it means fucking nothing. "Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius"
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I dunno, they were pretty good when Paul Robeson played for them
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@jamesbarr.bsky.social suggest you contact Prof. Richard Rex head of divinity school and others here: www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/uto
divinity.cam.ac.uk
University Teaching Officers | Faculty of Divinity
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Also prof Richard Rex head of divinity school and all on this list: www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/uto
divinity.cam.ac.uk
University Teaching Officers | Faculty of Divinity
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As I say below, can't rely on media to follow up on Orr/Farage etc. To get Orr out, perhaps an email writing campaign: The head of the Divinity School is Professor Richard Rex. All email addresses for faculty at the Divinity School can be found here: www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/uto
divinity.cam.ac.uk
University Teaching Officers | Faculty of Divinity
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
he is devaluing my daughter's degree which is already devalued by the economy as it is
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
No surprise @adambienkov.bsky.social. It's on us alone. Clearest place to target is Cambridge admin. James Orr, religious hypocrite & allround public school & oxbridge PoS needs to be driven fromCantab & England all the way to Thiel's house in Buenos Aires. Argentina's rightplace for this cryptonazi
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And then there's Cambridge Divinity prof James Orr to reinforcce your initial impression
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@brockm.bsky.social writing abt MAGA y'day on Substack but useful in how to think abt Orr et al "We hate them. I am saying it plainly because I have watched too many essays flinch. We hate the men who go on television and lie ... we hate you. You reactionary pieces of shit. We are coming for you."
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I hope Prof. @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social is organising the campaign to get Orr fired from his position in the Divinity faculty @ Cambridge. The man has been caught on camera suborning bribery for the purpose of destabilising our elections.
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Watching sensational @c4news.bsky.social report on Reform funding and the role James Orr, Cambridge academic in it. Top b'cast journalism
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is not what Nietzsche meant by "eternal recurrence" (or maybe it is) but having spent many 1990s summers at Drumcree and interviewing nationalists along the Garvaghy road the phrase leaps to mind when I read about this shit
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The FT pulls no punches in today's leader. This is not some lefty bit of agitprop. This is an establishment publication speaking:
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Feel you, my man
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/kurdistan-...
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
War gaming is what the Pentagon does regularly and My man Terrence Goggin, my favourite West Point History Professor, has war-gamed a doozy. As he is not inclined recently to hysteria I suggest a thorough read of this possible scenario. thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com/p/a-plot-eme...
thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com
A PLOT EMERGES: A RUSSIAN BALTIC INCURSION ALLOWS TRUMP TO DECLARE A “PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY ACTION” DELAYING THE MIDTERMS. HE THEN QUICKLY DISABLES PREPLANNED U.S. SUPPORT TO EUROPE-A HYPOTHETICAL
A SPECIAL REPORT IN TWO PARTS
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Same thing would happen if you stopped reading the @theguardian.com And then you could listen here and get multiple ideas: soundcloud.com/michael-gold...
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
War gaming is what the Pentagon does regularly and My man Terrence Goggin, my favourite West Point History Professor, has war-gamed a doozy. As he is not inclined recently to hysteria I suggest a thorough read of this possible scenario. thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com/p/a-plot-eme...
thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com
A PLOT EMERGES: A RUSSIAN BALTIC INCURSION ALLOWS TRUMP TO DECLARE A “PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY ACTION” DELAYING THE MIDTERMS. HE THEN QUICKLY DISABLES PREPLANNED U.S. SUPPORT TO EUROPE-A HYPOTHETICAL
A SPECIAL REPORT IN TWO PARTS
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Maybe, in the queue for the porta-potty? it was long and disheartening.
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I stopped going to fests after that. Never been to Glasto, or Womad or even Cropreddy and I love Fairport
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