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Phil Goldstein

@philgoldstein.bsky.social
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Poet. Author of HOW TO BURY A BOY AT SEA. Copywriter and editor at Amazon Web Services. Cat and dog dad. Partner. Nice Jewish Boy. Dork. linktr.ee/philgoldstein

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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I'm so incredibly honored that "Beloved Marrow" was named as a finalist for @sundresspub.bsky.social' 2025 Open Reading Period. It's definitely one of those "just proud to be nominated" moments and is a huge sign of validation of my work from a publisher that I hold in extremely high regard. 🥳🥳🥳
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I'm delighted to finally be able to share my latest poem, "Apricity," in the 2025 issue of @poetrysouth.bsky.social. I'm honored to be among such excellent poets. This is from my second book, "Beloved Marrow." As we're now officially in winter, I hope this warms you as you read it. ❄️❤️
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
All of Bari Weiss' notes on the CECOT piece are on the order of "We spend a lot of time on the people that O.J. Simpson killed. This implies there are other people he didn't kill. We need to flesh that out." www.deseret.com/politics/202...
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Why Bari Weiss held a '60 Minutes' story
The CBS News editor said a report on El Salvador’s mega-prison failed to meet editorial standards. The correspondent behind it called the decision political.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is next week!! Sign up to see some superstar readers like @rika99.bsky.social @jaredharel.bsky.social @thefoxmother.bsky.social @philgoldstein.bsky.social @maudlavin.bsky.social @drsaephd.bsky.social @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social @hilaratzabi.bsky.social @vivakresh.bsky.social @mordecaimartin.net
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2025
it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Amid the dumpster fire that is the world right now, it was lovely to wake up to this acceptance from @poetrysouth.bsky.social. 🥳❤️
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
No, seriously: What's the argument against?
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Eric Schmitt's speech was cribbed from Samuel T. Francis.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-schmit...
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The Schmittian Enemy
What's up at the NatC Conference
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
@jamellebouie.net - I feel like this didn't work out so well in "Clear and Present Danger," am I remembering that right? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
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Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Maybe this was never the place I thought it was. That image is likely just the selective memory or the idealized version as filtered through a younger, more naive, less aware, more optimistic version of myself. Still, the sense of loss is the same. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/an-america...
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An American Lost in America
The disorientation of a rapidly changing homeland
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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious. Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
OMG, the portraits hanging in the WH on the South Park episode. 💀💀💀
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I will never tire of saying that Republicans in the Senate had the chance in 2021 to prevent this man from ever becoming president again, and they chose not to do so. We’re in the future they created.
From New York Times “"To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States," Mr. Trump wrote in an executive order, which is not a law but rather a memo to the executive branch. Yet the closest this nation has come to such a definition of rebellion was when Mr.
Trump's own supporters (whom he incited, then mostly pardoned) sacked the U.S.
Capitol in 2021.”
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
As @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social says, "The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that's a conservative estimate," but I have some joyous news: My second book of poems, "Beloved Marrow," is now done, and it'll hopefully find a good home soon (poets, am all ears on your favorite presses!).
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Happy 4th anniversary to my love 🌅❤️🥳
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
love this from @mollyjongfast.bsky.social (and doesn't hurt that she's smacking down chris matthews)
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The rest of the world understands what happened yesterday. Do Americans? www.ft.com/content/4c4b...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry. As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Gotta love this ridiculous attempt to put a gloss of rationality on Trump’s tariffs. It’s like: CHILD’S EFFORT TO RESTRAIN RESPIRATION AIMS TO BRING CURTAIN DOWN ON ERA OF VISUAL PERCEPTION Little Donnie thinks he can become invisible by holding his breath, but it won’t be easy
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Sometimes the best strategy in social media is to stop soiling yourself in public
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Trump news: This anti-DEI stuff is sounding a whole lot like something else! slate.com/news-and-pol...
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This Anti-DEI Stuff Is Sounding a Whole Lot Like Something Else!
This has got to be the most Hitler-curious administration in U.S. history.
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I loved having this @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social conversation with @patrycjasara.bsky.social about her gorgeous debut collection, WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES, which is out on Tuesday from @tinhouse.bsky.social. We talked about poetry, Poland, nature, immigration & more! ♥️ www.onlypoems.net/conversation...
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Navigating the Borders Between the Past, Nature, and Ourselves: An Interview with Patrycja Humienik — ONLY POEMS
In this exclusive interview, Patricia Humienik, author of "We Contain Landscapes," talks to Phil Goldstein about homelands, borders, and immigrant identities, and the way they get explored in writing ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025
i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I'm so truly honored to have a new poem out in the latest issue of the Sierra Nevada Review. Since I was a kid I've been fascinated by astronomy. We're specs and yet we are also each so very rare and precious. Many thanks to very helpful edits from @patrycjasara.bsky.social and Swati Sudarsan!
A poem called "Take Heart, Beloved, That You Can Still Hear the Ancient Universe," written by Phil Goldstein and published in the Sierra Nevada Review.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
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They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Trump has fired the chairman of the joint chiefs, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., five months into a four year term, per WSJ. Brown was the first black officer to serve as chairman of the joint chiefs. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Trump Fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
The nominee to replace Gen. CQ Brown, the first black officer, to serve as the Pentagon’s senior military post, is a retired Air Force general.
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Thin Mints should be classified as a Schedule I drug.
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Phil Goldstein @philgoldstein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Sitting with my dog and watching the gorgeous movie, "Flow," and there's something so perfect and tranquil about that. Truly a beautiful film.
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Its 2027. A group of ragged children is skipping rope. Dirty and ill-fed, they chant “one, two, three, four, five, how do you think that you might die? Measles, polio, Covid, flu. TB, strep throat, malaria, too”
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Valor Danielle Sassoon, Acting U.S. attorney for SDNY - refuses to drop Adams charges and resigns John Keller, Acting head of DOJ Public Integrity Section - refuses and resigns Kevin Driscoll, Acting head of DOJ Criminal Division - refuses and resigns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Top federal prosecutor in N.Y. resigns after refusing to drop Adams charges
Two top prosecutors in Washington also resigned over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
So….Hegseth has quit drinking yeah?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/02/2025
god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2025
Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt promises to tell the truth during briefings 🙃
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Karoline Leavitt was a Newsmax conspiracy theorist until last week and now because she has an Official job journalists repeat what she's saying as if it's true, giving her credibility. This is the main function of state media
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 28/01/2025
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on whether Trump’s federal aid freeze impacts Medicaid, which provides health insurance to 19% of the US population: "I’ll check back on that and get back to you."
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is insane: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is making it clear that Donald Trump is not a president but a king.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Trump administration's effort to "pause" billions in federal spending is not just cruel but blatantly illegal, a radical attempt to restructure our democracy into something more akin to a dictatorship. It rests on a bullshit legal theory that I think SCOTUS will reject. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Fallout From Trump’s Illegal Spending Freeze Is Just Beginning
Will SCOTUS follow the law and rule against the president?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2025
i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them
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❌👑 TIME TO FIGHT BACK @timetofixit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This time there are No adults in the room. Top USAID career staff placed on immediate leave - POLITICO apple.news/AXl4OxPXTSsm...
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Top USAID career staff placed on immediate leave — POLITICO
“This is like taking out all the generals,” said a former Trump administration official informed of the decision.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/01/2025
The Trump administration instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics.
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Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries
PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
SUBJECT:
Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs
'The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024. of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness" and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.
This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements. For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025).
Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan 20, 2025), Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements (Jan. 20, 2025). Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 20.
2025). Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Jan. 20.ent these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all jal assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that any of the President's executive orders. In the interian, to the extent applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency nay be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial
surice tot foreign nongovernmental organizations, DEL woke gender ideology, and the
pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the he temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00
rehensive analysis. Federal agencies must immediately deadlines for assistance programs arising while the les must report this information to OMB along with an directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated
conducting merit review panels
No later than Febrar
- 10. 2025, agencies shail submit to OMB detailed information on
any programs projects or activities subject to this pause. Each agency must pause. (i) issuance of disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards, and (il) other relevant
has reviewed provided guidance to your agency with respect to the information
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grant and ptions allowing Federal agencies to issue new awards or take other case basis.
To the extent required by law, Federal agencies may continue nistrative actions. such as closeout of Federal awards (2 CFR 200.344), or expressly required by law
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
And NSF and USAID and WHO today. Just taking a sledge hammer to load bearing pillars of American society.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/01/2025
Withdrawing US funding from the World Health Organization is a potential disaster for public health worldwide, due to the impact it will have on the important work the WHO does. Preventing the CDC from even *talking* with WHO personnel is a step much farther toward undermining global health & safety
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CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/01/2025
A memo leaked to the Associated Press reveals that the White House has told the U.S. CDC to stop working with the WHO immediately. This breaks protocol which requires the approval of Congress and a one-year notice to leave the WHO.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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