Goldy
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David Goldstein • Sr. Fellow at Civic Ventures • Economic storyteller • Co-host PitchforkEconomics.com • Truth is the best defense against prosecution for libel, but rhetorical hyperbole is more fun.
I cannot think of a worse punishment than moving from lush, green, temperate Seattle to the hot and dry hell hole of Sin City. Couldn't happen to nicer people.
(Also, anybody else think it weird the Seattle Times is running boosterism for Las Vegas while constantly shitting on their home town?)
(Also, anybody else think it weird the Seattle Times is running boosterism for Las Vegas while constantly shitting on their home town?)
‘Full-scale migration of wealth’: Rich Washington and California residents flocking to Las Vegas
Finances are driving high-net-worth individuals and families to seek out less regulated states and the Las Vegas Valley is one of the direct benefactors of this.
www.seattletimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I cannot think of a worse punishment than moving from lush, green, temperate Seattle to the hot and dry hell hole of Sin City. Couldn't happen to nicer people.
(Also, anybody else think it weird the Seattle Times is running boosterism for Las Vegas while constantly shitting on their home town?)
(Also, anybody else think it weird the Seattle Times is running boosterism for Las Vegas while constantly shitting on their home town?)
Yeah, sure, it’s probably the billionaire thing, but part of me thinks Trump wants to block this bridge in order to prevent Americans from escaping to Canada.
A billionaire family that owns a bridge crossing between Michigan and Canada has wanted Trump to stop a new bridge — and Trump is now threatening to block its opening (with authority he doesn’t have). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
Trump Threatens to Block Opening of New Bridge to Canada
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Yeah, sure, it’s probably the billionaire thing, but part of me thinks Trump wants to block this bridge in order to prevent Americans from escaping to Canada.
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"Since launch, more than a dog a day has been found and more than 27 dogs a day every day every year have been shot by the police using your Search Party by Ring cameras to hunt and kidnap your neighbors who they also shoot to the tune of about 4 a day every day every year, as well as the dogs."
February 9, 2026 at 9:18 PM
"Since launch, more than a dog a day has been found and more than 27 dogs a day every day every year have been shot by the police using your Search Party by Ring cameras to hunt and kidnap your neighbors who they also shoot to the tune of about 4 a day every day every year, as well as the dogs."
A decade from now Republicans will be VERY angry at Democrats for doing all the horrible things that Trump did.
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A decade from now Republicans will be VERY angry at Democrats for doing all the horrible things that Trump did.
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SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 AM
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
Maybe once the trazodone kicks in.
February 9, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Maybe once the trazodone kicks in.
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It's dope that it's an annual tradition now that the super bowl halftime show makes republicans extremely angry. We should just keep doing this
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
It's dope that it's an annual tradition now that the super bowl halftime show makes republicans extremely angry. We should just keep doing this
Rita and I are now sitting in a parked car atop Seward Park as far from the maddening noise as possible, blaring Beatles music on the speakers. Please somebody tell us when it’s safe to return.
It’s only halftime and the Seahawks are only up by 9 points and somebody in my neighborhood has already set off fire works and my dog says “THIS IS NOT RIGHT!!!!”
February 9, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Rita and I are now sitting in a parked car atop Seward Park as far from the maddening noise as possible, blaring Beatles music on the speakers. Please somebody tell us when it’s safe to return.
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
It’s only halftime and the Seahawks are only up by 9 points and somebody in my neighborhood has already set off fire works and my dog says “THIS IS NOT RIGHT!!!!”
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
It’s only halftime and the Seahawks are only up by 9 points and somebody in my neighborhood has already set off fire works and my dog says “THIS IS NOT RIGHT!!!!”
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I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 AM
I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
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I bet if the FBI wasn't run by morons Savannah Guthrie wouldn't be forced to go on TV and tell some two bit kidnappers she'll pay millions of dollars in bitcoin for her mother's safe return
February 8, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I bet if the FBI wasn't run by morons Savannah Guthrie wouldn't be forced to go on TV and tell some two bit kidnappers she'll pay millions of dollars in bitcoin for her mother's safe return
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they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:25 AM
they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
Rita says that when you make the choice to get a dog in Seattle you surrender the choice to stay dry inside when it rains.
February 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Rita says that when you make the choice to get a dog in Seattle you surrender the choice to stay dry inside when it rains.
I'm sure he appreciates that your "viable opposition, a counterpoint" to his paradigm "tends to make for better, saner" political commentary.
February 7, 2026 at 7:19 PM
I'm sure he appreciates that your "viable opposition, a counterpoint" to his paradigm "tends to make for better, saner" political commentary.
Say what you want about the horrors wreaked by Milton Friedman, but he was dead on right when it came to his theory of change:
“Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
“Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
February 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Say what you want about the horrors wreaked by Milton Friedman, but he was dead on right when it came to his theory of change:
“Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
“Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
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The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
And yet Danny still tries to bothsides this:
"This is what happens when one side’s not even in the game. You don’t have to worry about getting beat, so it calcifies political thinking — on the right and on the left."
There's no comparing Ds to the Rs because only one side believes in democracy.
"This is what happens when one side’s not even in the game. You don’t have to worry about getting beat, so it calcifies political thinking — on the right and on the left."
There's no comparing Ds to the Rs because only one side believes in democracy.
February 7, 2026 at 4:56 PM
And yet Danny still tries to bothsides this:
"This is what happens when one side’s not even in the game. You don’t have to worry about getting beat, so it calcifies political thinking — on the right and on the left."
There's no comparing Ds to the Rs because only one side believes in democracy.
"This is what happens when one side’s not even in the game. You don’t have to worry about getting beat, so it calcifies political thinking — on the right and on the left."
There's no comparing Ds to the Rs because only one side believes in democracy.
The truth is, the WA GOP isn't attempting to win state elections because it doesn't believe it has to (or should have to) win elections to wield power. They're counting on Trump subjecting blue cities and states to authoritarian rule, and then scooping up the spoils.
The humiliation of the WA GOP is not yet complete
Does the WA state GOP want to win elections in 2026? Because lately it's been sounding more like an internet troll than a serious political outfit.
www.seattletimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
The truth is, the WA GOP isn't attempting to win state elections because it doesn't believe it has to (or should have to) win elections to wield power. They're counting on Trump subjecting blue cities and states to authoritarian rule, and then scooping up the spoils.
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on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.
February 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.
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When a political party answers a charge of racism with a body‑shaming insult, they’re not rebutting the claim — they’re advertising their values. This is what it looks like when cruelty becomes the brand.
February 7, 2026 at 4:37 PM
When a political party answers a charge of racism with a body‑shaming insult, they’re not rebutting the claim — they’re advertising their values. This is what it looks like when cruelty becomes the brand.