Sam Goldman

4th Place 2020 Westgate Supercontest

[Sam Goldman @samg921]

Great energy in West Lafayette with a Wisconsin legend. #badgers

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

A reasonable assessment of the Iran deal as we understand it.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

The final two minutes below are extraordinary as interviewer Scott Pelley brings his own vulnerability into the final question. The entire forty minute interview is worth the time, very little politics, a lot of perspective on what it means to be human.

[Sam Goldman @samg921]

@ScottHanson @BenSasse @60Minutes We should have more of this in government. Thankful to have watched this start to finish

[Sam Goldman @samg921]

@casieri_alex @qing_yin19640 Did you get got

[Thomas Sullivan @Yfz84]

Not even the biggest robbery in favor of Sean Payton led teams I’m afraid

[Benjamin Solak @BenjaminSolak]

Cannot believe some people twisted themselves into anti-Kevin O’Connell takes this year. Couldn’t have been me. A lot of lesser coaches would have teams with a lot more quit in them at this stage of the season/with this much QB upheaval.

[Sam Goldman @samg921]

Does England make judges wear hats with fake hair? Objectively hilarious if true

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Former Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton has been given a six-month suspended sentence, after being found guilty of malicious communication over posts he made on X towards Eni Aluko, Jeremy Vine and Lucy Ward

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

[A.J. Manaseer @AJManaseer]

This is a five alarm fire and is nothing less than a catastrophe. The City of Chicago’s Treasurer is completely ignorant as to how financial markets work. Treasuries are the safest and most liquid place to park money so that it earns a return while not in use.

Conyears-Ervin suggesting we “divest from Treasuries” because of Trump is like suggesting we stop breathing air because Trump also breathes air.

This woman is a complete moron. I can’t believe this is the quality of people leading the 3rd largest American city. It is sad and pathetic.

[Sam Goldman @samg921]

@audavidb Big fan but did you see how the last 2 games went for darnold as a Viking? Easy decision…the Vikings made an offer to Daniel Jones but he wanted the chance to be a starter elsewhere (didn’t think he’d beat out JJ). Process sound imo, time for JJ to deliver

[Stuart Loren @StuLoren]

To be clear, this is an imaginary line, because for the 100th time... Federal tax rates (which haven't changed since 2018) and federal spending don't impact the city's corporate fund. You think Trump is bad for Chicago and your solution is proposing punitive taxes on Chicagoans?

How can you guys have been in office for two years and still not grasped that the city corporate fund (the "Budget") gets practically zero federal revenue - other than the Covid fund profligacy that you helped burn through…

If you all want to tackle the root cause of Chicago’s fiscal problems, start with:

1) our insolvent pensions (which you are proposing paying even less into, risking a downgrade?),

2) our high debt servicing costs (which you have added to irresponsibily),

3) and our miserable track record of economic growth (we rank last in the country for top-25 big cities over the last five years).

Want more funds for social services? Incentivize economic growth!! These insanely idiotic tax proposals will do the opposite leaving us net even worse off and under-resourced. And then who will he blame?…

The reality you guys have never understood is that generating growth benefits everyone and cities must have pro-growth policies to compete in an economy where capital, talent, businesses and jobs are increasingly mobile.

You can't engineer social changes via taxes at the city level - people will leave. Doing so even at the state level is tough. Take your fight up with the Federal government if that's what you want.

Your goal should be simple: to improve the quality of life for all residents by making this a more prosperous city. Fighting "corporations" and "big tech" - who we need to invest here - or castigating "the rich" - who spend lots of money on local goods and services which supports countless jobs - is not going to improve anything. Other than our odds of another few years of pathetic economic growth and financial strain.

[A.J. Manaseer @AJManaseer]

Imagine wanting to tax companies for creating jobs in your city.

Hopefully this insanity doesn’t pass but if it does, the single most important question to ask of the next Mayor (who will certainly not be Brandon Johnson) is “will you kill this tax?”

Brandon Johnson is the Worst Mayor in America™️ and the Worst Mayor in Chicago’s History™️. March 2027 cannot come soon enough.

[Joseph Carlson @joecarlsonshow]

Andy Jassy, the current CEO of Amazon, has been with the company for 28 years. In 2003, he played a pivotal role in creating and scaling AWS which is the most valuable part of Amazon. A significant portion of the modern internet is powered by AWS.

Amazon today is worth $2.4 Trillion and is one of the most critical companies to the US and the world. Yet the CEO makes less money than many YouTubers, comedians, podcasters, professional athletes, and actors, that don't manage or guide anything nearly as important or critical to the US or have millions of employees.

We need to stop pretending that the CEO of fortune 10 companies who helped build trillions of dollars worth of values for investors should have their salary compared with the delivery drivers working their way through college. This trope is old, and should be retired.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is a shocking moment. It really is. They haven't just been telling *us* these lies; they've been lying to themselves.

This deal is a perfect win for Gaza, the best-case end-of-war agreement. Gaza isn't annexed or settled by Israel. Everything everyone ever wanted for Gaza - not just an end to the war but actual rehabilitation and massive rebuilding - is all there, backed by an Israeli commitment to the US, wall-to-wall Arab support, infinite money and bottomless sympathy.

This deal is the best possible deal for Gaza.

And that's exactly what makes it the worst possible deal for Hamas. Only Hamas loses here, only Hamas is required to disarm - or pretend to for a while. To relinquish authority - or pretend to for a while.

It's no longer possible to pretend the interests of Hamas have anything to do with a better future for Gaza.

And so the "pro-Palestinians" mourn. And so they are silent.

It never was about Gaza, about the real people suffering in a terrible war, even if the activists managed to convince themselves that's what they were marching for.

Here we are at the end, and they are silent.

It was only ever a campaign for Hamas's religious forever war to destroy my people.

There was only one genocide being advocated over the past two years. And it wasn't for Gaza.

[Gill Alexander @beatingthebook]

I had the Rams. I had the Cardinals. This is a joke, right?

[Sam Goldman @samg921]

@LastMenPod Don’t forget the missed XP that put them down 3 instead of 2 in the first place. Sick to my stomach

[Christopher C. Cuomo @ChrisCuomo]

Charlie Kirk is dead. What does that mean to you? What does it mean about us?

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Rob Pizzola @robpizzola]

You can oppose someone’s views and still reject violence. What happened to Charlie Kirk is sickening.

[Sam Goldman @samg921]

@JuMosq Jokes on you he hasn’t hit on a single fourth rounder anyways

[Pitch Profiler @pitchprofiler]

Joe Pohlad and the Pohlad family aren’t just a disgrace to baseball, they’re a stain on the entire state of Minnesota.

Their story starts in the Great Depression, not as scrappy underdogs, but as profiteers who made their fortune foreclosing on homes of desperate families who had lost everything. From day one, they were taking from the poor to enrich the rich, and that ethos has never left them.

For decades, the Pohlads have been infamously cheap, demanding that Minnesota’s taxpayers and fans foot the bill for their every whim. They’re not savvy businesspeople, they’re parasites.

In the early 2000s, they nearly let the Twins die. Attendance was down, they refused to invest, and the team was on the chopping block to be contracted alongside the Expos. The only thing that saved the franchise was a court injunction forcing them to honor their Metrodome lease.

By 2006, they convinced Minnesota to cover seventy-five percent of Target Field’s cost. A billion-dollar family, holding out its hand to working-class Minnesotans and demanding payment.

Fast forward to 2016, Jim Pohlad hires Derek Falvey to modernize the organization. For a moment, there was hope. Player development technology, advanced analytics, and a revamped coaching staff started to pay off. By 2019, the Twins won 100 games. By 2023, they broke their playoff curse. The arrow was pointing up.

Then Joe Pohlad took over, and steered the ship straight into the iceberg. He “right-sized” the team, gutted investments in talent and infrastructure, and erased the analytical and developmental edge the Twins had built.

By July 31, 2025, the gut punch landed: an all-time pathetic trade deadline where they dumped eleven players in a payroll purge disguised as a “fresh start.” It wasn’t a reset, it was a surrender.

The final hope Twins fans clung to was the idea that the Pohlads might finally sell. Now we know they won’t.

Joe Pohlad, and the rest of your dynasty of leeches, you are nothing more than generational thieves. You take from people who make less than you, give back nothing, and expect them to be grateful. Minnesota doesn’t owe you thanks. Minnesota owes you the door.

Fuck you, Pohlad family.