Sami Gold
@souljagoyshmulik.bsky.social
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Writer/essayist @ Liberal Currents. Eventual Twitter refugee
@souljagoyteller on Twitter, for all who’ve abandoned hope
Writer/essayist @ Liberal Currents. Eventual Twitter refugee
@souljagoyteller on Twitter, for all who’ve abandoned hope
Happy birthday to me
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Happy birthday to me
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Tony Judt in 2011
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Tony Judt in 2011
I got Vanguard Wafdist! How about you?
November 4, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I got Vanguard Wafdist! How about you?
NEW from my Substack: Why I voted for Zohran Mamdani open.substack.com/pub/shmuliks...
Why I'm Voting for Zohran Mamdani
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mr. Cardamom
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
NEW from my Substack: Why I voted for Zohran Mamdani open.substack.com/pub/shmuliks...
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the worst chickenshit in American history www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes
The picture of a hesitant Justice Department runs contrary to the GOP allegation that the indictments of Trump were the product of a Democrat-led plot.
www.msnbc.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the worst chickenshit in American history www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Thinking about the time I was in a Sarajevo hostel this summer and I somehow mentioned I was Jewish to this Turkish guy there and he politely asked me for financial advice and to increase his credit score. Probably the most wholesome form of antisemitism I’ve ever experienced
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Thinking about the time I was in a Sarajevo hostel this summer and I somehow mentioned I was Jewish to this Turkish guy there and he politely asked me for financial advice and to increase his credit score. Probably the most wholesome form of antisemitism I’ve ever experienced
What the fuck is that hairdo bro
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What the fuck is that hairdo bro
Sorry, seeing the Yankees lose to the Jays was my own personal Afghanistan. Not going through this
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Sorry, seeing the Yankees lose to the Jays was my own personal Afghanistan. Not going through this
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this is completely inarguable to anyone who actually *looks* at the data we have
if anything, he left the race far too late and singularly more at fault than anyone else for trump’s win
October 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
this is completely inarguable to anyone who actually *looks* at the data we have
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Two main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview:
1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
Tucker Carlson's latest guest? White nationalist leader Nick Fuentes.
Carlson and Fuentes have been at loggerheads for years. Earlier this year, Carlson said Fuentes had an "angry gay kid thing going on."
I don't think this kind of episode would've happened prior to Charlie Kirk's death.
Carlson and Fuentes have been at loggerheads for years. Earlier this year, Carlson said Fuentes had an "angry gay kid thing going on."
I don't think this kind of episode would've happened prior to Charlie Kirk's death.
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Two main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview:
1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
I’m terrible at math. What’s the TLDR behind this being a facepalm
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I’m terrible at math. What’s the TLDR behind this being a facepalm
It’s especially aggravating because it acts as if the reaction to these policies would be the exact same if they were propagated by a president who could actually speak and talk and think
This nearly total retconning, by Dems themselves, of what the Democratic Party was actually doing between 2017 and 2024 is becoming really pervasive (esp in policy world) and I honestly don't have a good explanation for why the party is treating the babies (ARP, BIL, IRA) as if they're the bathwater
what the hell are you talking about man, biden's entire presidency was about the middle class. it was the entire political theory behind deliverism and the economy
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It’s especially aggravating because it acts as if the reaction to these policies would be the exact same if they were propagated by a president who could actually speak and talk and think
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This is a good example of what I mean when I talk about how discourse about Israel/Palestine in the US (and especially in Liberal Zionist circles) treats the Occupation itself and Israeli state policy as entirely incidental to the entire situation. It's very weird.
This is correct but to make this argument, Mamdani and his allies would have to abandon the BDS movement and its anti-normalization litmus test. They have not and will not, and so open themselves up to these critiques.
October 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is a good example of what I mean when I talk about how discourse about Israel/Palestine in the US (and especially in Liberal Zionist circles) treats the Occupation itself and Israeli state policy as entirely incidental to the entire situation. It's very weird.
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“When you drill down on the actual task of reforming the NYPD, the enormity—and complexity—of the task becomes apparent.”
Infernal Affairs | Ali Winston
The NYPD is ripe for top-to-bottom reform. Does Zohran Mamdani have it in him?
thebaffler.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“When you drill down on the actual task of reforming the NYPD, the enormity—and complexity—of the task becomes apparent.”
What the hell are you talking about
I do kinda think the notion that Biden was drawing dead in the counterfactual where the party doesn’t knife him has been agreed to by acclaim more than it has been argued
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
What the hell are you talking about
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“Well, this is getting nowhere fast.”
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“Well, this is getting nowhere fast.”
It also acts as if the Democratic Party is a stronger institution than it actually is
the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It also acts as if the Democratic Party is a stronger institution than it actually is
“Talk about popular policies, don’t talk about unpopular ones”
October 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“Talk about popular policies, don’t talk about unpopular ones”
Then they’ll just break the law. Who’s going to stop them? Who has the guns?
The Twelfth Amendment: "No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
It's not ambiguous. It's not hard to parse.
It's not ambiguous. It's not hard to parse.
That theory is wildly wrong (a VP candidate has to be eligible to become president) but why are you tossing him suggestions for how he can violate the Constitution?
Who asked this? Is this what we can expect from the new and improved White House press corps?
Who asked this? Is this what we can expect from the new and improved White House press corps?
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Then they’ll just break the law. Who’s going to stop them? Who has the guns?
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View and plan of Toledo https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-greco/view-and-plan-of-toledo
October 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
View and plan of Toledo https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-greco/view-and-plan-of-toledo
Tag yourself in Who You’d Be in 1917 Russia, I got Menshevik-Internationalist
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Tag yourself in Who You’d Be in 1917 Russia, I got Menshevik-Internationalist
If you took a shot every time an interwar dictator said they were “neither right or left”, you’d die of alcohol poisoning within 30 minutes
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you took a shot every time an interwar dictator said they were “neither right or left”, you’d die of alcohol poisoning within 30 minutes
Gotta be honest, as someone who prefers Twitter, the BlueSky haters are absolutely coping
October 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Gotta be honest, as someone who prefers Twitter, the BlueSky haters are absolutely coping