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.

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2024-08-28 19:21:03

Today is the 179th birthday of Scientific American, the oldest continuous publication in America, according to editor Laura Helmuth. I'm so proud to be a columnist for SciAm. The late Oliver Sacks' assistant Kate Edgar told me it was his favorite magazine. Oliver not only read every issue, he saved them in his library in bound volumes.

2024-08-24 16:05:57

His guts roiling and seething with hatred, bigotry, and sadistic thoughts of revenge, Trump struggles with aides begging him to stay "on message." The aides might console themselves by remembering that hatred, bigotry, and sadistic thoughts of revenge are Trump's only message. He's got nothing else to offer. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/us/politics/trump-campaign-2024.html?smid=tw-share

2024-08-18 02:32:36

Gorgeous, haunting music from a musician from Valencia named Efrén Lopez who has also studied Indian and Turkish music. Thanks to my beautiful musician friend Abraham Rivas Pastor for the tip! https://youtu.be/vvxmZsFkPW4?si=WS01E5YRfAO8PMaG

2024-08-17 17:43:48

Yes, let's keep talking about "white guy tacos," because there's a demented rapist running for POTUS who sold our national secrets to our worst enemies, rigged the Supreme Court, led a murderous army in an attack on our elections, and is planning to usher in fascism so he doesn't die in prison, so LET'S KEEP FOCUSING ON THAT GROUND BEEF, PEOPLE - PRIORITIES!

2024-08-17 15:06:56

Don't worry MAGAs! Your hero may be a coddled rich kid who scammed his way out of military service while trying to avoid syphilis at Studio 54 and spent the rest of his life ridiculing vets who served as "suckers and losers," but you can still put on your little hats and act real angry and call yourself a "patriot." https://youtu.be/5KZsW0fLu70?si=auYcm8FjKs2CPZvF

2024-08-16 17:49:05

🚨🚨🚨A five-alarm fire: Georgia's Republican Secretary of State warns that even if Harris and Walz win, the Trump team will force election officials to lie about results with a barrage of lawsuits. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/us/politics/brad-raffensperger-2020-georgia-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU4.NCd6.Ue0uwKEjw-nJ&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 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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2024-08-13 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

2024-08-12 17:14:12

JD Vance is basically an *AI person.* Lacking any soul or convictions, he's scraped the trait data from a series of mentors to concoct what he thinks is a plausible personality.
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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 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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2024-08-08 18:50:39

Prominent sociopath, fraud, and bigot Elon Musk succeeds in shutting down the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, making the world less safe in the face of an onslaught of lies and disinformation from Musk's site X. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/technology/elon-musk-x-advertisers-boycott.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU4.rEt4.gqvdfhrYvbQ6&smid=url-share

2024-08-08 16:19:23

In bizarre, freaky, super-racist outburst on the fascist website X, Trump's chief campaign spokesman suggests that Kamala smells.
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2024-08-08 03:06:35

Hilarious for people of a certain age.
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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 15:45:06

Billy Strings sat in with Phish last night, and "Possum" was a perfect setting for him. https://youtu.be/cdxuQU2Ih0Y?si=x6qT1-4bmQHzCkPm

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 19:07:07

One thing I look forward to is Walz unleashing this fire on JD Vance who'll end up with streaks of eyeliner running down his face as he scampers back to the green room to share a reassuring moment with the couch. https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-Vq8VeBipb?xmt=AQGztewtHkdQZbmX4wUleguHJgz6UcWuvJ36oZPw001FIA

2024-08-06 17:39:54

What were the best concerts I ever saw? I talk with Cam Herdt of @osirispod.bsky.social's "Best Show Ever" podcast for an hour about the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Talking Heads and other bands, with lots of fun stories. Enjoy! https://www.osirispod.com/podcasts/best-show-ever-with-cam-herdt/best-show-ever-with-cam-herdt-steve-silberman-and-thats-the-way-we-live/

2024-08-06 17:31:24

What were the best concerts I ever saw? I talk with Cam Herdt of Osiris Media's "Best Show Ever" podcast for an hour about the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Talking Heads and other bands, with lots of fun stories. Enjoy! https://www.osirispod.com/podcasts/best-show-ever-with-cam-herdt/best-show-ever-with-cam-herdt-steve-silberman-and-thats-the-way-we-live/

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 17:59:18

Prominent racist Trump says Black journalist Rachel Scott should be fired for quoting his own freaky racist diatribes to his racist face. https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-TBj92tEbf?xmt=AQGzv3YNrm0A9wnv3wgl9U58sgPq_Qo_mb6UfjvmNWcPiA

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

2024-08-05 17:22:29

You know who thinks Trump is a dangerous, freakishly unstable, and mentally unhealthy man who must be prevented at all costs from retaking the White House?
His own aides. https://www.threads.net/@bluequeenresists/post/C-Q2IQyOAax?xmt=AQGzgYHcJ9jZhV1CQPcuYWaNa5SrZ5KMrHwad4--hUrJ9A

2024-08-05 15:50:15

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@npub19qv…0tmd The beat thing was being touted all over the place *because Kennedy released that video on the fascist cellpool X* to "get ahead" of the New Yorker story. Which gets into more depth.

2024-08-05 15:22:41

A classic dish devised by Italian chefs in Mexico, the Caesar salad is a tribute to immigrant chefs everywhere. [gift link] https://wapo.st/4d4LdgO

2024-08-05 00:45:16

What most people don't know about RFK Jr. - but I do, as an autism historian - is that this bear business isn't NEARLY as wacky and "off" as his descriptions of autistic people and his theories about vaccines, which are much more dangerous. And Trump not only shares those views, he offered RFK Jr. a job in the White House. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-bear-central-park.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU4.v_4C.6a8n_hnrMY7m&smid=url-share

2024-08-04 23:20:42

Even in a week with JD Vance in the news, this RFK Jr. story is bizarre. Love how he tries to get ahead of @newyorkermag by demanding to know how they'll "spin" the story. THEY DON'T HAVE TO SPIN IT, DUDE, IT'S A F*CKING FREAKSHOW AS IT IS. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-bear-central-park.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU4.v_4C.6a8n_hnrMY7m&smid=url-share

2024-08-04 18:45:27

10/10, no notes. [via @npub1d2h…e27n]
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2024-08-04 18:08:21

Former top Trump aides who know how dangerous he is flocking to endorse Harris as GOP campaign collapses. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-white-house-aide-stefanie-grisham-joins-kamala-in-republicans-for-harris-drive?ref=home%3Fref%3Dhome

2024-08-04 17:22:49

Joan Baez's new portrait of the next President of the United States, Kamala Harris. You can buy limited edition prints to benefit Kamala's campaign at https://joanbaezart.com/artist/1007 by clicking on "Kamala Harris: Change Gonna Come."⁣
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2024-08-04 16:36:01

A @nytimes article about Trump's "othering" of Kamala in which the most relevant word (which is not "othering") never appears. Someone should introduce this reporter to the term "racism," he might find it amazingly clarifying for his readers. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/us/trump-tactic-suspicion-harris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU4.4eRe.cKlI4PV6AkI5&smid=url-share

2024-08-04 15:59:07

Trump giving a shoutout to Putin for the "great deal we made" for the prisoner swap is one of the darkest, most horrific moments in American history. The GOP must be defeated up and down the ballot, drowned in a tsunami of votes, so that real investigations of Trump's treason can begin. https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-OXq88gr7N?xmt=AQGz675xiVafSe74SLWecU64V8LbZzzHTgQBzy77AJqdww

2024-08-04 00:27:31

I'm hardly a "dance mix" expert or EDM aficionado or whatever - I'm old! - but this 2005 Louis Vega remix of Curtis Mayfield's classic "Superfly" brings out fresh aspects of the genius original and puts a spring in your step for Brat Summer. I love it. https://youtu.be/_-RX3jBREMo?si=hevzpjvrwa2pXd_T

2024-08-03 23:21:45

I know it's the general opinion that these mentions of Lecter are manifestations of dementia or syphilis, but I think they're more like Freudian slips: some part of his brain he can no longer control is acknowledging that he's a hollowed-out monster, an evil freak. https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-OYXt1ocfH?xmt=AQGzBvVgXrEdSCdlCgocsKMp4w1Ocb8rclv1F1jItTUtkQ

2024-08-03 23:21:26

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@npub14e7…4v9k Yup, exactly. And we both went through it with our own parents.

2024-08-03 22:50:12

Med schools could show clips of Trump's rallies to gerontologists in training to demonstrate his language degenerating as the dementia accelerates, and all the coping strategies he uses to try to hide it. No wonder he's terrified to get on a debate stage with Kamala. https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-OXVbOPvKJ?xmt=AQGz5gI5qMMgjOc3qS9Yav9CKKlfT9Y1vrCOfgxb4Y-iEQ

2024-08-03 22:11:50

It's darkly hilarious to watch this perpetually face-planting buffoon, this absolutely clownish creep, turn himself into a ventriloquist's dummy to echo Trump's most demented brain farts. The man is a walking punch line. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C-ONCMQg43A?xmt=AQGzkc7unJG5bHClcLF_3h_4Jh2voxiTEikHQOod3uTQhg

2024-08-03 21:54:49

If he wasn't one of the figureheads of the most dangerous movement in American history, it would be hilarious to watch this perpetually face-planting buffoon, this absolutely clownish creep, turn himself into a ventriloquist's dummy to echo Trump's most demented brain farts. The man is a walking punch line. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C-ONCMQg43A?xmt=AQGzkc7unJG5bHClcLF_3h_4Jh2voxiTEikHQOod3uTQhg

2024-08-03 21:03:51

Bill Barr, filthy bagman for the GOP crime family, personally curtailed investigation of illegal $10 million contribution from Egypt during Trump's campaign. https://wapo.st/46AfgL6

2024-08-03 18:51:18

Memo to fellow racists from the desk of Donald Trump: If you really wish you could just screech the N-word over and over at Vice President Kamala Harris, simply substitute the more socially acceptable phrase "low-IQ individual." It gets the same point across <wink, wink> to your lynch-mob base.

2024-08-03 16:33:25

This post and headline are journalistic malpractice, misframing Trump's panicked withdrawal from his debate with Harris as a good-faith offer. Can someone like @sulliview or @craignewmark set up tables in the NYT lobby and offer a Journalism 101 clinic to the editors? Our democracy depends on it.
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2024-08-02 23:33:16

These creeps know exactly who Donald Trump is -- a terrible danger to this country. They just calculated that they could ride on his bully coattails, which makes them worse than he is. Trump belongs IN PRISON, not the White House. https://www.threads.net/@petebuttigiegwins/post/C-J1_GdtgfG?xmt=AQGzy9eGn6W4R_QV3AWj0Ilssa622_k7A7CVMKuE0ek-iA

2024-08-02 17:41:41

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@npub1n5w…2mgr My liberal mother Leslie died of dementia in December after years of soul-crushing decline. I only wish I could tell her about Kamala, she would be so happy.

2024-08-02 16:37:08

In his freaky super-racist meltdown, Trump claimed black journalists were too inept to know how to run a sound system. He was lying, desperately trying to prevent his litany of lies and demented nonsense from being exposed in real time. https://www.axios.com/2024/08/02/trump-nabj-fact-checking-black-journalists

2024-08-02 15:29:50

If you're wondering if Trump's steep cognitive decline has made him more racist, watch this clip from the '90s to understand that he's always been a vicious, smarmy bigot, even when he could still talk in sentences. The problem is not that Trump has changed. The problem is that Republican voters have become thoroughly comfortable supporting a pig. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-Jf159PdRz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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

2024-08-02 01:10:46

One thing that's going to shock the current generation of GOP politicians if Kamala wins: They may have to start working at their jobs for a change, instead of just making up racist nonsense and talking shit about trans people to @FoxNews all day. It may take a period of adjustment.

2024-08-02 00:59:17

Another sleazy GOP crook caught with his hand in the cookie jar - coal magnate W. Va. gov Jim Justice, now running for Senate - blames "the Democrat machine" for the bank foreclosing on his luxury hotel. https://www.rawstory.com/news/jim-justice-2668861577/

2024-08-01 22:27:51

How Kamala Harris' candidacy finally broke the dark trance in the electorate that American fascism was inevitable. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/harris-trump-2024-kamala-vibes-trumpism-loses.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=facebook_share&fbclid=IwY2xjawEY6cpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHU1XCmMW7XuF681FdeRsZ4xnOAgqbgM--MUgZTZT08tjln5jFPcb83j6tQ_aem_sQXn1CfeIyTi9RIDJvnzpQ

2024-08-01 21:32:05

I've never seen this before and it's absolutely brilliant. On Beyoncé "turning black." https://www.threads.net/@scottmonty/post/C-HGucrpzl7?xmt=AQGz_LGnd-P15oCbIc2IFrzu0v47uVrRNG78rkHjlvkTjA

2024-08-01 21:15:37

In his latest faceplant, pompous buffoon JD Vance - a lead weight around the GOP's neck already - claims Putin freed Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan because "Donald Trump is coming back into office." GOOOOOOD TRY, LITTLE BUDDY. NOW LEAVE THAT DAVENPORT ALONE. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/politics/chameleon-trump-vance-harris-ethnicity/index.html

2024-08-01 17:57:53

Inequities in access to vaccines and Paxlovid, and new laws against mask-wearing, are driving a huge COVID surge in the US. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/27/covid-vaccine-rates-paxlovid-data

2024-08-01 17:43:27

In which "senile" Joe Biden neatly snips Trump's balls off - <SNIP!> - and tosses them over his left shoulder as he ambles offstage. https://www.threads.net/@setiodkaiba/post/C-InTUGpM23?xmt=AQGzuAKnkWiWzNsb3lDzO02QW0u_9Jgk-adAc_mATjN3Og

2024-08-01 17:04:35

Grateful Dead co-founder Jerry Garcia was born on this day in 1942. Few people other than my husband and my family have given as much joy to my life, which is ongoing, though Jerry's no longer with us. I took this photo of Jerry and Phil Lesh at the Warfield Theater in SF in 1980.
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2024-08-01 16:23:42

Relix on the new Grateful Dead 19-CD live set, "Friend of the Devils: April 1978," that I wrote the liner notes essay for. You can pre-order it now. https://relix.com/news/detail/concerts-from-the-crypt-rhino-preps-eight-unreleased-grateful-dead-live-shows-for-new-box-set/

2024-08-01 15:12:55

Bizarre, creepy, woman-hating freak JD Vance compares abortion to slavery, says women having control over their bodies "just doesn't make sense anymore." https://www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/prompted-right-wing-radio-host-jd-vance-linked-roe-v-wade-dred-scott-decision-allowing

2024-08-01 14:49:35

Republicans allegedly perturbed over Trump's super-racist demented freakout in a roomful of Black journalists. In other news, the Republican Party and its allies are totally devoted to amplifying Trump's vicious racist attacks. https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-freak-out-over-donald-trumps-new-race-based-attack-on-kamala-harris

2024-08-01 04:13:14

Yes, notice this. Trump's ability to telegraph contempt by belaboring common words and names is pure Sith mind-f*ckery. Trump weaponizes phonemes to make the MAGA cult even more racist.
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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.

2024-07-31 21:49:21

A supercut of Trump's super-racist meltdown talking to Black journalists this morning, in one of the most grotesque episodes in the history of American presidential campaigns. I know who Trump has always been; that part isn't news. But I have one question for any Republican voters in my social network: What lies do you tell yourself to excuse the kind of person you've become? https://youtu.be/kJFmvXQp6F8?si=7h-945suoNoM23UO

2024-07-31 21:18:08

"[Harris is] a disaster. Her only qualifications are having a VAGINA and the right skin color. She's a DEI hire -- she's a woman, she's COLORED, she's got to be good!" - Trump aide Sebastian Gorka on Newsmax, July 21.

2024-07-31 19:29:58

Tomorrow's @nytimes.com headline: "Was Trump's Feisty Appearance at Black Journalists' Convention Enough to Set Rumors of Racial Bias to Rest?"
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2024-07-31 19:29:16

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@npub1wx7…n3a4 Enjoy!

2024-07-31 18:45:12

Trump is drowning in his own weird smarmy racist bullshit talking to Black journalists, claiming Kamala Harris "just turned Black." https://www.threads.net/@goldengateblond/post/C-GOkVaAriY?xmt=AQGzdHwJAc2f3QYcT8WNo7mupNEKgw__KyhmsNZdoRJSbA

2024-07-31 18:20:02

Weird, raving, deluded man on @FoxNews claims "a scientist" told him that "when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman." THIS MAN HAS FOUR CHILDREN. HAS ANYONE CHECKED IN ON THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE OK? https://www.threads.net/@republicansagainsttrump/post/C-ErtWjRUNC?xmt=AQGzzzAEwsg3nvu-3Mhsy9hLhtEf81o0J2DAtezp-eInrg

2024-07-31 17:45:43

In the latest corporate media faceplant, NBC News invites black "Atlanta voter" to spew racist MAGA lies about Harris. He turns out to be a paid GOP operative. https://meidasnews.com/news/exclusive-nbc-news-black-voter-segment-featured-maga-operative-who-dined-with-trump-at-mar-a-lago-in-june

2024-07-31 16:15:56

Happy to announce that I've written the liner notes essay for the new Grateful Dead 19-CD box set, "Friend of the Devils: April 1978," which you can preorder from RHINO now. Made from Betty Cantor-Jackson's source tapes, it captures the band in the weeks that "Drums" and "Space," aka the Rhythm Devils, became a permanent feature of the second set, and includes one of the best shows the Dead ever played, at Duke University. https://gd.lnk.to/FOTD478

2024-07-31 15:24:12

As the criminal Trump baits his racist cult with dog whistles that have become tornado sirens, he's days away from calling Kamala Harris the N-word out loud. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/30/trump-harris-play-toy-comment/

2024-07-30 23:35:42

A Friendica space for organizing for Kamala on Mastodon. https://friendica.opensocial.space/display/8ffdf77c-2666-a7fa-9972-db6306779017

2024-07-30 22:12:29

Ignore the BS about the director of Project 2025 stepping down. It's not going anywhere. I doubt Trump has read a page of Project 2025. You think he gives a f*ck about specific policies? He's a lazy dumbass in steep cognitive decline who wants to cheat at golf and fantasize about his daughter while farming the boring stuff out to Heritage goons to do all the heavy lifting and kiss his ass while the MAGA nudniks handle the nuts and bolts of voter suppression and election interference.

2024-07-30 21:54:14

Trump is gonna try to hang his VP *before* the election this time. https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-D5oAetUdx?xmt=AQGzp-Sj7jqx4Kh74t-KuQEYc9f7wRgqj3h871nA4SWgOA

2024-07-30 18:53:24

Trump's plan for people with disabilities: "Let them just die." https://www.threads.net/@yasharali/post/C-Dodiav8Ns?xmt=AQGzoP4e702pc5Dls2JlDSq7KubxxDfMFcT5smGpH7-W9A

2024-07-30 18:21:34

Creepy, freaky narcissist Trump wants to repaint Air Force Once to match his plane - at any cost. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/30/trump-air-force-one-00171453

2024-07-30 17:38:30

LOL, remember when @nytimes tried to convince us in 2022 that Elon Musk's political views were "elusive" and "don’t fit neatly into this country’s binary, left-right political framework?" Fun stuff!
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2024-07-30 14:31:28

Please pray that JD Vance finds the psychological help he so desperately needs, instead of trying to turn his trauma into brutal policies that will harm families like mine. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/kfile-jd-vance-history-disparaging-people-without-kids/index.html

2024-07-30 02:10:07

This is the most out of touch, off-base, staggeringly clueless "OK Boomer" thing I've ever read, and I'm almost a Boomer myself. It's worth noting that I'm a life-long @nytimes.com reader, and I'm starting to reflexively ignore anything in the NYT typeface as irrelevant to the real world.
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2024-07-29 23:16:49

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@npub14kr…mwnq You're right!

2024-07-29 21:41:32

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@npub1yf4…3jc8 What I will make of it is that I have no idea what your comment means.

2024-07-29 21:26:03

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@npub183e…hlvm The tracks were chosen by David Gans, Blair Jackson, and me with help from Dick Latvala, and I edited all the written materials and titled the box.

2024-07-29 21:18:47

It's hilarious to watch this Oxford graduate push his phony folksy Foghorn Leghorn act to the point it sounds like he's literally choking, strangling, on his own childish bullshit as even Fox's Neil Cavuto sound incredulous. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C-BTNo0At2V?xmt=AQGzjxEl04QVnjX1IyYRoX3NkcTvFhI9aO9K-3sPRS2u6Q

2024-07-29 20:40:20

Please spread this ad everywhere -- it's one of the most powerful political ads I've ever seen and gets right down to the essentials. https://youtu.be/lyPgIbNgOXc?si=0bKAl1Ms-WDycaXL

2024-07-29 19:11:00

Great news: the GOP mayor of Mesa AZ endorses Harris. "Now more than ever, we need leaders who will put country over party." [de-paywalled link from @npub17me…sjv3] http://archive.is/KC91o

2024-07-29 18:36:08

51 years ago this week, I saw my first @GratefulDead show at Watkins Glen. The previous day, the Dead played a gorgeous suite of totally improvised music as a soundcheck. When I grew up, I put this glorious music on their box set "So Many Roads (1965-1995)." It's one of the things I'm happiest about in my career as a fan. https://youtu.be/km2MlSothJc?si=OONIljxpH1cN3NvO

2024-07-29 18:27:44

This is a hell of an ad. It actually understates how creepy clammy-handed GOP freaks like Mike Johnson are, who hides the horror behind a boyish mask. https://youtu.be/vP5Gx18D4-c?si=ihncFCCVlRsp8No7

2024-07-29 16:12:08

The GOP slogan for 2024: "Don't call us weird or we'll use Project 2025 and our MAGA Supreme Court to put you in a f*cking concentration camp. Checkmate libs."
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2024-07-29 15:21:24

The three dynamics that have enabled Trump and the GOP to bring the US to the brink of fascism, turning major media like @nytimes.com into allies. Succinct, must-read column by @sulliview.bsky.social, former NYT public editor. https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-media-fails-to-take-trump-at

2024-07-28 21:04:57

Fox News' Shannon Bream tried to corner Pete Buttigieg with a "gotcha" question about Biden. Will they never learn? https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/07/fox-news-hit-pete-buttigieg-with-a-gotcha-question-on-trump-vs-harris-it-didnt-go-well-for-them.html

2024-07-28 19:54:52

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@npub1de2…8vdd I love the Siket disc!

2024-07-28 18:42:39

Well, that settles it. I'm not voting for the demented Nazi rapist and that weird couch guy after all. [it's a fake image, created with this tool: amala-holding-vinyls.glitch.me]
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2024-07-28 18:15:28

"Aw c'mon Ronny, can't you just shave off a little bit of the ear for my big rally? Just bloody it up a little?" - Trump to "doctor" Ronny Jackson, probably
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2024-07-28 18:12:36

2024-07-28 16:38:04

Blathering GOP chucklehead yuks it up while dismissing fascism as "classic Trumpism." "Hahahahahahaha." https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C9-BQd0Aw5i?xmt=AQGzM8h3ocKU8rKK-fKmUVUgY7xb5jNFs-UQjfkOuASi5g

2024-07-27 22:50:52

New study finds that Republican pushback on masks and vaccines murdered hundreds of thousands of Americans who didn't have to die of COVID-19. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-mask-vaccine-rules-study-b2586693.html

2024-07-27 21:41:32

There's more to the Kamala campaign's sassy brat responses to Trump than "what a burn." Her statements are re-normalizing human responses to these weird, hollowed-out, cringey creeps who should be in prison. The revulsion when seeing someone like Stephen Miller is instinctive. The snark is healing.

2024-07-27 17:12:30

Ouch.
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2024-07-27 16:01:12

THIS is the top story in the world today, even if it isn't on every front page as it should be: Trump calls for the suspension of national elections, assures his cult they'll "never have to vote again."
Our ancestors fought fascism on the beaches of Normandy. Now we have to do it here. Vote Blue.
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