Steve Silberman

Award-winning science writer, author of "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," which became a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 25 languages. My TED talk, "The Forgotten History of Autism," has been viewed nearly two million times. My next book will be "The Taste of Salt," on cystic fibrosis.

#autism #neurodiversity #cysticfibrosis #science #GratefulDead #BeatGeneration #LGBTQ+

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Last Notes

2024-08-27 23:19:24

Freakshow: To get that grotesquely disrespectful thumb's-up photo opp at a veterans' grave, Trump campaign staff had a "physical altercation" with an Arlington Cemetery official. These people are TERRIFYING. https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery

2024-08-18 00:25:26

Best news I've heard in days: To fight inevitable GOP ratf*ckery at the polls and after, until the election results are certified, the Harris/Walz team have hired a crew of top election lawyers, including @marc.e.elias of @democracydocket, who are girding for a fight. [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/us/elections/democrats-election-legal-challenges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D04.wqCf.rjhG7YARurXJ&smid=url-share

2024-08-15 20:21:17

When you're an LGBTQ+ kid growing up in America, one book in which you see your life reflected can save you from self-harm. This mountain of books thrown in the trash by the GOP ideologues who have ruined New College of Florida is bone-chilling to see. https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/

2024-08-15 17:53:36

Urgent: With a blathering racist sociopath and a perpetually faceplanting buffoon at the helm, it's clear the GOP's Plan A for election 2024 is to rely on voter suppression and corrupt officials. Between now and November 5, *check the status of your voter registration* even if you think you're all set. It's easy. https://vote.gov/register/

2024-08-15 16:16:52

In latest freakshow revelation, JD Vance claimed Amazon funded Black Lives Matter to burn down its competitors. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/0815/jd-vance-speech-bezos-amazon-abortion

2024-08-15 02:23:15

Aw, *so cute*! Trump's rally in Asheville tonight is like a miniature doll's house version of one of Kamala's rallies. Don't worry, big guy. They'll love you in the prison chow line.
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2024-08-14 15:12:24

GOP family values! Trump-supporting (see https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/who-is-bobby-george-entrepreneur-restauranteur-accused-of-rape-attempted-murder/ar-AA1oJHoN) "Christian" restaurateur outraged by Olympics opening ceremony accused of rape, assault, attempted murder, shoving a towel down a woman's throat. https://nypost.com/2024/08/13/us-news/ohio-businessman-bobby-george-arrested-for-attempted-murder-rape-kidnapping/

2024-08-14 00:46:41

Top Trump trolls, cancelled comedians, Kid Rock fans, billionaires hated by their own children, "undecided" voters in 2024 - I'm just kinda waiting for our media to get bored of profiling these absolutely vile shits and start reporting on people good at their craft trying to make the world better.
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2024-08-13 22:32:57

- reply

Sorry, you're ignoring the fact that the GOP has installed election deniers as officials in multiple states and stacked the Supreme Court. Trump is much more dangerous to our democracy now.

2024-08-13 18:57:23

Imagine trusting this guy to build cities on Mars. "We've got a billion oxygen tanks left!"
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2024-08-13 13:47:47

Elon is the most excruciatingly cringey, aggressively uncool, "How do you do, fellow kids?," fake-ass, PLEASE CLAP phony "savants" on Earth, who paid $44 billion so he could show his whole ass daily to his cult of racist dorks.
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2024-08-12 18:36:26

Finally, @deanobeidallah.bsky.social puts Trump's rants about Harris' "fake crowds" in their proper context. It's not just "oh wow, he's such a narcissist." Trump, a traitor who should be in prison, is setting up his army of ignoramus fascists to wage another 1/6. https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/trumps-attacks-on-vp-harriss-crowd?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2024-08-11 17:43:48

It's crucially important that posts like this are not written off as the ravings of a blatantly demented sociopath, "Trump being Trump." This is a highly calculated GOP strategy to lay the groundwork for sending the certification of the election to Trump's fellow traitors in Congress and SCOTUS. We must BURY the zombie corpse of the Republican party in huge margins of votes.
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2024-08-10 22:45:14

The state of the Republican brain in 2024. You can't make this shit up. [via @brainnotonyet.bsky.social‬]
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2024-08-10 15:58:28

@nytimes' Maggie Haberman picks up on the stench of death emanating from the Trump camp as he huddles with his billionaire donors, but this is a dangerously wild assertion left totally unchallenged in her piece. Almost impossible to imagine that with any other candidate and reporter. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-campaign-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B04.zXyN.L6VY3eVfq_bw&smid=url-share
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2024-08-07 22:37:02

While the criminal Trump has absurdly tried to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation's nightmarish blueprint for American fascism, Project 2025, here he is on the foundation president's private jet on the way to their conference. https://wapo.st/4dbdIcX

2024-08-07 17:09:02

It's hard to put this into words, but I'd love young people to know how the excitement around the Harris/Walz campaign is not just some hype, it's a *glimpse of normality* - of how Americans can work for the common good, rather than the weird depressing national paralysis in the face of the GOP criminals, bigots, and sociopaths of the past decade. [photo by Jamie Kelter Davis]
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2024-08-06 21:06:41

THIS. @coketweet
Tim Walz is the dad an entire generation wish they had instead of the one they lost to Fox News.

2024-08-06 14:44:31

via @charlotte.clymer on Threads:
My favorite factoid about Tim Walz is that during his career as a high school teacher, in the same year, he coached the football team to a state title AND served as the faculty advisor for the school's first gay-straight alliance (GSA) club.

2024-08-06 13:25:25

It's Walz! Let's goooooooo!
HARRIS/WALZ 2024!
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2024-08-05 17:50:21

Usha Vance: Please don't pay any attention to the words my husband ACTUALLY SAYS, take care to understand that he was just trying to smear Democrats, single people, and gays as having no investment in the future. https://www.thedailybeast.com/usha-vance-defends-hubby-jd-over-his-childless-cat-ladies-comment

2024-08-04 18:45:27

10/10, no notes. [via @npub1ua0…t2qv]
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2024-08-02 15:16:38

To boost Trump, prominent racist, transphobe, and con-man Elon Musk has launched a PAC that harvests voter data through a deceptive "voter registration" app. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

2024-07-31 22:45:05

I'm beginning to think that making truly stupid, deeply nasty people rich and famous was not the optimal plan for our society.

2024-07-24 02:28:16

Prominent talentless sniveling twerp Ben Shapiro called the Kamala buzz "manufactured enthusiasm" today. For the record, I've never seen enthusiasm LESS manufactured than this feeling lifting us all now out of years of unutterable horror. It's legit AF.
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2024-07-21 02:34:01

This is an utterly crucial insight. 100%. We're losing our country because of this.
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2024-06-18 21:05:24

Prominent white supremacist, eugenicist, and fake savant Elon Musk uses his enormous platform to spread lies about Black people and murder. https://wapo.st/45xoqqQ

2024-06-10 16:42:40

Insurrectionist Samuel Alito vows to remake America into a Christian theocracy using his powers as a Supreme Court justice, and says no "compromise" is possible with people who don't want to live in a Christian theocracy. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/samuel-alito-supreme-court-justice-recording-tape-battle-1235036470/

2024-06-09 23:45:16

The best postscripts to an invitation I've ever seen. [via Scott Ruplin]
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2024-06-02 21:30:07

Here's Rupert Murdoch getting his usual fawning society-page coverage describing him as an "incorrigible romantic," rather than as "One of the most evil men alive, up to his neck in blood, responsible for the corrosion of democracies worldwide and the spread of medical misinformation that has killed millions." https://ca.style.yahoo.com/news/rupert-murdoch-marries-fifth-wife-121924735.html

2024-05-18 22:53:44

True fact: I forget what Bill Maher was ever good at. He's like a Kardashian to me by now.

2024-05-04 01:58:00

Very honored to see my history of #autism and #neurodiversity, "NeuroTribes," on this list. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/top-books-list.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

2024-04-27 18:17:51

Indeed. By @HelenKennedy on Threads.
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2024-04-27 17:17:19

John Roberts' legacy is being Chief Justice of the most freakishly corrupt and anti-American SCOTUS in history. Even if he lives to be 100, the first paragraph of Roberts' obituary has already been written. [cartoon by Bill Bramhall]
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2024-04-07 19:05:06

If you ever wished Hunter S. Thompson was still alive to skewer King Pig on a rotating spit from lips to anus, @noelcasler's thread on Threads delivers. https://www.threads.net/@noelcasler/post/C5ZMXU_xtku