Michael Gold
@migold
covering Congress for @nytimes. ex-New Yorker but trying not to talk about it all the time. i'm the rhoda. 🏳️🌈.
gay guys? empathetic and kind?
Barack Obama encourages young men to have more diverse friend groups: “I had a gay professor in college […] who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant. You need that to show empathy and…
How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era My analysis - for NPR. npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-…
New: I teamed up with @elenalingshao and @nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: nytimes.com/interactive/20… This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
House Republicans Dangle Possible Vote on Epstein Files, After Voter Backlash nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/…
Virginia Foxx seems to be suggesting that Trump's Truth Social post was motivated by the non-binding House resolution on Epstein that hasn't even passed out of Rules yet.
Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump. on.wsj.com/3TL8s7C
in case you were wondering how Capitol Hill feels this week, a meeting about rescissions just devolved into a shouting match over the Epstein files and child rapists
everyone is like “so how do you like DC” and I’m just going to show them this
This has been the second most humid summer in DC on record (since 1945) based on the number of hours with dew points over 70 degrees or the level considered GROSS.
i have a movie tweet ready to go if this vote lasts another 50 minutes
the House is looking like it’s going to break the record for the longest vote ever recorded … on a rule for crypto bills keep in mind they just set this record two weeks ago on a procedural vote for the majority of their domestic agenda
The Trump administration has promised to distribute food aid before it spoils. But 500 tons of emergency food in a U.S. warehouse are about to expire and are slated for the incinerator, @hanamkiros reports. theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Here's Trump essentially telling his supporters — and members of Congress, by extension — that if they care about Jeffrey Epstein, they aren't MAGA anymore and he doesn't need them.
Jeff Hiller had given up hope that he would get an Emmy nomination for ‘Somebody Somewhere’: ‘“Both my manager and my publicist wept. That’s how shocked they were. Jeremy Allen White’s team didn’t do that.” vulture.com/article/jeff-h…
My latest, from Camp Mystic: The story of one teenage counselor's extraordinary courage amid so much loss. Deeply grateful to Ainslie Bashara for sharing. wapo.st/44pck4q
Photo from a source: @andrewcuomo on the Upper East Side—93rd & 2nd—this morning with top campaign aide @melissadderosa shooting what looks like an ad—as he’s reportedly staying in the mayoral race. Hasn’t held a press conference since losing the Democratic primary.