I always tell people this sentence by Linda Gordon's "The Second Coming of the KKK" is the best I read in grad school.

On Friday, December 19th, 2025, Chain Reaction, the all-ages “CBGBs of the West Coast,” hosted its last show. This week’s post is a little more personal than the others. But I hope everyone can gain something out of it. open.substack.com/pub/whatsgoo...

Trick question: none

To add to this, Parenti wrote an entire book in which he attempts to discredit: - The Time Magazine cover of Fikret Alić; - Mass r*pe committed by the VRS; - Srebrenica genocide (claims that there were fewer than 100 victims); - The Račak massacre (claims that the KLA staged it).

Whether it’s this or anarchists acting shocked, the whole thing reeks. If genocide denial isn’t a line in the sand then I don’t know what to do for you.

I didn’t become a better scholar because I summarized books. I became better by understanding an author’s methodology and their ability to display a knowledge of the previous historiography. Two factors among several that a summary could not help me with.

Highly likely you’re going to see some garbage in the following days. “All Muslims wants to kill us”; “the Jews deserved this cuz of Israel” It’s also highly likely that Ahmed al Ahmed was thinking neither of those things when he decided to act. We need more Ahmed al Ahmed’s and less garbage.

In my last story of the year, I participated in Antigravity Magazine's 2025 top 5. I wrote "Top 5 Reasons for Optimism in Scary Political Times" @antigravitymag.bsky.social antigravitymagazine.com/feature/one-...

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

I wrote this for the folks who are just as furious as I am. Who might feel hopeless. Who might only see darkness on the horizon. whatsgoodman.substack.com/p/on-plantin...

I bring this up all the time. I learned it from reading “White by Law” by Ian Haney López, and I encourage everyone to read it.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

The Great Barrington Declaration was a bloody disaster. One of the greatest human follies of the modern age. Sheer arrogance and cynicism.

It's a great essay in a great issue. A print thing, not an online thing...

Please take 1 minute out of your day to sign, send, and share.

I’m suggesting that this admin will take a lone wolf attack like this as an opportunity to oppress hundreds of thousands of people who have absolutely nothing to do with it.

“You can't fight fascism by mirroring it.”

Called it

We need fewer transhumanists and more Le Guins. A passage from “The Farthest Shore.”

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

This is made all the better once you remember who her cousin is.

In more exciting writing news, my piece “Friendly Far Right?” is featured in the latest Critical Muslim issue. criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu...

My latest piece is an informal review of “More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity” by @adambecker.bsky.social Check it out, and then read the book! open.substack.com/pub/whatsgoo...

Last night was the worst bombing I have experienced in Kyiv since the war began. 7 hours of non stop aerial attacks across the city.

One like, one opinion that's not on politics. I’ll start: IPA’s are delicious and I’m tired of everyone acting like they’re not.

Monthly reminder:

Some declare we shouldn't pay attention to the work of those with whom we disagree, from the center over to fascism--and that doing so is naive faith in dialogue. We must, & it's not. It's called reporting, it's called research. It's about knowing the size, shape, timing, intent of the attack.

I wrote a long essay about this. Hopefully the journal I submitted it to publishes soon so I can share it with the rest of you!

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

Marjorie Taylor Green is literally the Jewish space lasers lady She’s an anti-semite! That’s why she opposes Israel, not because she supports human rights Do not fucking circulate her saying “oh she’s being reasonable” jfc

Some photos from my first day in Sarejvo

"Those who think victory without regression has been declared in the name of truth, that fanaticism is kept at bay. . . look at my work as late and superfluous. . . one must take the time while the waters are low to work on the dykes." - Jean François Marmontel

Same shit here: think the protest is a waste of time? Ok, fine, join a community patrol. Make coffee and pass out care packages to the unhoused. Door knock for the local candidate that promises to do smthg about ICE. Help a frutero with an extra 200% tip. So on and so on

The biggest lesson I’ve learned from my time in the labor movement is this: solidarity is a *verb*—and that action takes many forms. Can’t hit the picket line? Pick up the phone and get a member off the couch. Can’t make the time to phone tree but have a half hour on the weekend? Help make signs.

New Post. I’m considering starting a new series titled, “Why You Should Read This Book.” If you enjoyed this essay or like this idea, please let me know! substack.com/@goodmanwrit...

A good friend of mine is working on a humanitarian aid project in Ukraine and they took this picture. It immediately made me think of two things. 1. My friend is awesome 2. Orthodox art remains undefeated 👊🏻

short thread on the Homeland Security Twitter’s use of literal fascist, accelerationist, and Neo-Nazi Telegram propaganda, aesthetics, and memes — incoming

I wrote this on my personal blog five years ago, and I am not happy that I still find it relevant. Indeed, there are many things Americans have accepted as abnormal, which I will likely write about in the future. WE CANNOT LET THE ABNORMAL BECOME NORMAL

🧵Here are 17 things the drone incursions into NATO airspace have taught me about B2B SaaS sales [1/36]

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Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

For the record, half of how Nick Fuentes gets spread around is that he works tirelessly to embody the “Worst person you know just made a great point” meme. All he needs is for enough people to spread it around and enough people not to know who he is for it to succeed. And it’s going quite well.

Happy 88th anniversary to the Hobbit, published on this day in 1937. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” #JRRTolkien #MiddleEarth #TheHobbit tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Hob...

It is literally a dark day in Yerevan. It is also, figuratively, a dark day for every Armenian throughout the diaspora. As an “odar,” it’s easy for me to ask, “What’s the point of it all?” But on this day, I also think of this paraphrased quote from one of my favorite TV shows:

Someone who's still on Twitter now that the fucking DIRECTOR OF THE CIA was on Greyzone's podcast and Max Blumenthal is on InfoWars with Alex Jones ask all of the tankies who harassed me for a decade for their fucking apologies Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

PSA: Take a Stop the Bleed Course. Learning how to tie a tourniquet, plug a gunshot wound, and properly assist injured people after a disaster are incredibly empowering skills to acquire. To quote someone else: “Holding death in my hands has never made me feel safer, but holding life in them does.”

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident” Every day this line feels more and more relevant.

Too many people have patronized me with the “were they being antisemitic or anti-Zionists?” response after I told them about the type of hateful rhetoric I’ve encountered IRL or via research.