Sam Trenholme’s blog
Diane Goodstein
October 6, 2025
My thoughts on the fire at Diane Goodstein’s place.The fire and the reaction
It would seem that this weekend, there was a fire at the house of one Diane Goodstein, a judge who Trump does not like. Reddit being Reddit, they immediately assumed the fire was arson and accused the right wing of violence; the linked story made the front page of Reddit. However, the investigation so far shows no evidence of arson: “At this time, there is no evidence to indicate the fire was intentionally set. SLED agents have preliminarily found there is no evidence to support a pre-fire explosion.
Point being, the radical left (i.e. Reddit) will say lie after lie after lie1 about how Charlie Kirk’s killer couldn’t have possibly done it because of his left-wing beliefs, even though the evidence overwhelmingly points that way, then they will turn around and accuse the right of right wing violence without any real evidence to back up their claims.
The truth matters. Objective fact matters. I have decried it when the radical right was telling lies, and will decry it as long as the radical left tells themselves lies.
Minor blog update
I have updated my blog to break words with the slash character in
them; this nicely breaks most long URLs, and breaks compound words
separated by the slash. I, for one, never understood why the
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1: The particular subreddits where these lies were spread do not matter because every single one of these stories made the front page of Reddit.
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