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Sam Wolfson

@samwolfson.bsky.social
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features editor at The Guardian US, hiiii

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Hoping to win back male voters, the Trump White House is pushing the regressive idea that one hormone could be a magic elixir of masculinity
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Are you man enough? Republicans bet on ‘virile, brawny’ testosterone to juice the midterms
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 24/06/2026
This is a gruesome read. The central figure comes across like a cross between Walter Freeman — the guy who popularized the lobotomy in the mid-20th century — and Fred Leuchter, the guy Errol Morris interviewed for his terrifying documentary, MR. DEATH: THE RISE AND FALL OF FRED A. LEUCHTER, JR.
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Sava Blue @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I am so fucking tired of courts allowing what is effectively experimental work stand up as real evidence. If it’s not consensus driven, it might as well be a complete fabrication.
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This was the result of many months of fantastic reporting - a fascinating piece about how brain science that many believe to be bogus has infected the US legal system
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/06/2026
Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza we punish the witness not the crime
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Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza we punish the witness not the crime
The UK has banned Piker and Cenk Uygur from entry – but the objectionable things they’ve said are not more dangerous than Israel itself
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwnT...
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SNL UK Promo Feat. Tina Fey | LIMMY REACTS
YouTube video by LimmyTwitchClipsPlus
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
maybe the world finally ready for my Amol Rajan/Bradley Walsh slash fiction
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
an alternative headline @joolia.bsky.social suggested was I ram what I ram
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
think about this every day www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKuA...
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Robbie Williams - Chaise Longue (Wet Leg cover) in the Radio 1 Anthems Live Lounge
YouTube video by BBCRadio1VEVO
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
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Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
mr goering some people say your behaviour is unbecoming but we’ve only seen you in clips
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@joolia.bsky.social very good on the silly billies (derogatory) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Silly inflatable costumes are taking over anti-Trump protests. What are they actually saying?
Whimsical frogs and unicorns have become mascots of the resistance – but it’s easy for tactical frivolity to devolve into entertainment
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I really have to pay attention in meetings to know if we're talking about shawn fain, sinn fein or shon faye
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Thank god for the wonderful @jonathanliew.bsky.social and this reasoned riposte to some of the cretinous, fact-free, violence baiting, far-right embracing discourse that has emerged on this issue in the last few days including in Parliament www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
took a screengrab to show people just in case i ever make it into one of the better timelines
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it. "I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me. Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."
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‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/09/2025
After the Turning Point USA CEO’s killing, Candace Owens and other far-right stars are trying to persuade listeners of unfounded theories about Israel and federal involvement.
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Rightwing podcasters run rampant with Charlie Kirk conspiracies: ‘It’s craven opportunism’
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
listened to Candace Owens for a week and it wasn't fun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Rightwing podcasters run rampant with Charlie Kirk conspiracies: ‘It’s craven opportunism’
After the Turning Point USA CEO’s killing, Candace Owens and other far-right stars are trying to persuade listeners of unfounded theories about Israel and federal involvement
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"Who I am has been skewed so much..." incredible interview with Mahmoud Khalil www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’
His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence him
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is a smart essay about the ways supposedly liberal media outlets mindlessly reify rightwing gender norms through bargain bin cultural commentary and people are getting mad because.... they didn't read it
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Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal
Americans are fretting over a type of man who drinks matcha and expresses alternative masculinity – but the ‘latte liberal’ stereotype has existed for decades
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
just filling in some forms with United Healthcare
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
my spam botfarm texts know me better than some of my closest friends
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
So so weird. "Chart analysts say that 2025 has produced the fewest new hit songs in US history...of the top 10 most listened to songs so far this year in the US, only one was released in 2025: Ordinary by Alex Warren. All the others are tracks from 2024 and 2023"
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The song of the summer is … nothing? Why 2025’s charts are so stale
Experts say this year has produced the fewest new hit songs in US history – and it might signal the end of a singular seasonal smash
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Democrats @democrats.org · 18/07/2025
Aerial view of the White House with multiple red map pointer icons above it.
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Here we go again, night of the long huggers www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
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Cuomo Enlists Bill Clinton as Part of Late-Stage Bid to Fend Off Mamdani
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Luring starving people out into the open with the promise of food and then gunning them down in cold blood. We have a word for this and we should start using it. The word is "evil".
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Ras J. Baraka @rasjbaraka.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I said it before and I’ll say it again. We are in a fight for the integrity of our constitution and protection of our democracy. theguardian.com/us-n...
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‘History will judge us as cowards or heroes’: Ras Baraka, the mayor arrested by Ice, won’t be intimidated | New Jersey | The Guardian
The politician, who’s been labeled ‘too progressive, too Black’ in the race for New Jersey governor, reflects on Trump, immigration and the power of poetry
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
What Hadley means here is that she is aware the genocide is making her previous wingnut enthusiasm for it look very bad, and she’d like it to wind down now while she can still retain 99% of her crankery archive.ph/E1vxH
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I wrote this
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JAVL @javl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"He spent much of his career being mislabelled as ideologically rightwing or misogynistic when in fact he’s more of a simpleton who agrees with almost everyone who comes on his show...He has been a staunch believer “in just asking questions” but not so much in listening to or processing the answers"
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
An article that makes you sick to your stomach.
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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
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Craig Prentiss @cprentiss.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
An insightful, somewhat devastating, and definitely worthwhile piece by Sam Wolfson. It provokes reflection on the difficulty in rendering the current Trump regime a collection of clowns (which they are) while simultaneously mourning the damage they cause. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘This is not comedy! Pay attention’: from Cabaret to Trump rallies, why does audience laughter feel so sinister?
Americans are struggling to reconcile Trump’s campness and cruelty – but comedy has always been a tool for authoritarians
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I wrote about the really horrid uncomfortable feeling of people laughing at something you think is cruel www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘This is not comedy! Pay attention’: from Cabaret to Trump rallies, why does audience laughter feel so sinister?
Americans are struggling to reconcile Trump’s campness and cruelty – but comedy has always been a tool for authoritarians
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/03/2025
Bushwick, Brooklyn: Rising rents, all-nighters and ‘crazy-ass outfits’ in the US’s most exciting neighborhood
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Bushwick, Brooklyn: Rising rents, all-nighters and ‘crazy-ass outfits’ in the US’s most exciting neighborhood
Bushwick is a dizzying, thrilling place to be. At Maria Hernandez park men pack into the volleyball courts, shouting over matches in Spanish, while children chase soccer balls around shirtless skateboarders. Reggaeton plays from passing cars and techno…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/03/2025
Two girls fell in love at a camp for ‘troubled teens’ and made an audacious escape. Their captors weren’t far behind
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Two girls fell in love at a camp for ‘troubled teens’ and made an audacious escape. Their captors weren’t far behind
Cassia and Ashley felt ‘dehumanized’ at the Re-Creation Retreat in Arizona, one of the many teen rehab facilities across the US. They knew they had to get out – but didn’t expect staff to come after them
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
bad bad times (to the tune of red red wine)
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Last week, a number of prominent UK feminists declared Donald Trump a "feminist hero" for banning trans women from playing sports. How did we get here? A new book by @reproutopia.bsky.social explores how reactionary tendencies have created Enemy Feminisms throughout the history of feminism
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‘I won’t cede the ground’: Sophie Lewis wants feminists to know their enemies – even if they’re other feminists
In a new book, Enemy Feminisms, the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists enabling the far right today
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AJ Thomas @zzypt.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I love a lot of the comedians that have come through SNL, but never found the show to be that good, not even the “best bits”. Much of that is not living in the US and watching it live, but most of it is just that it is not good. They may have great writers & performers, but not their best work.
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Saturday Night Live is bad, actually
The 50-year-old comedy sketch show lauded for underdog humor has a history of conservatism and a soft spot for powerful people – just ask former host Donald Trump
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.
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Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
i wrote this!
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Because Vichy France is kind of my Roman Empire, I wrote about its emergence as an insult in the era of Trump Deux and tried to think through our attraction to certain historical analogies.
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Capitulating to Trump: why people are warning about ‘Vichy’ America
As Trump creates unprecedented chaos, Democrats have offered little more than platitudes – sparking comparisons to France’s collaborationist second world war regime
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
vichy jimmy fallon yet to make a trump joke this week latenighter.com/features/jim...
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Jimmy Fallon and the Trump-Free Monologue - LateNighter
A late-night monologue with no mention of Donald Trump? That's what Jimmy Fallon delivered Monday night, in what may be a sign of the times. Bill Carter reports.
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
i made another connections: connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OHmnJ7...
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Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator
Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I wrote about the LA wildfires, the GoFundMes of rich people, and the long history of disaster relief reproducing inequality.
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GoFundMe, Mandy Moore and the unfairness of disaster relief: ‘If you were poor before, you should stay poor’
Aid was historically seen as a way to ‘restore the status quo’. Now the actor’s bid for help amid the LA fires raises a question: who deserves to crowdfund?
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Sam Wolfson @samwolfson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I am still making my own Connections: connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OGk1fQ...
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Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator
Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times
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