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Seth Maxon

@methsaxon.bsky.social
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Editor/journalist most recently at @vox.com. Edited politics and sports at @slate.com for a long time. Friend of @flaminghydra.com. @seth.maxon on 🐦/🥚.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 06/10/2026
Buy the book -- it's out today!
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"The Last Temptation of Beck" by Josephine Riesman
From the New York Times-bestselling author of "Ringmaster," Josephine Riesman, comes a stylish and shocking account of the life of the musician Beck.
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Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey, I'm on Substack! If you enjoy my work, please subscribe and share. The first installment features an unrecognized country turning the Mideast's crisis into opportunity and an alarming new warning about military AI. joshuakeating.substack.com/p/coastlines...
Armed soldier standing on a beach.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pathetic www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This policy is one of the most evil that any administration has enacted since Jim Crow. The Supreme Court says it's ok—the latest sign the conservative justices actually hate this country. www.npr.org/2026/09/29/g...
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U.S. Supreme Court sides with Trump administration in third-country deportations
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries that are not identified in their removal orders. It also plans to hear full arguments on the case.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is so gripping. And if you're a longtime Beck fan (I am) or even just a follower of his career, it's stunning. So excited (and after reading the excerpt, a little terrified!) to read the book.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Great Jim piece. Been waiting for a measured, skeptical, well reported story like this on the race that says how/why Talarico really might do it but also why he still may not, and the implications of either outcome.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are also looking into Bigfoot
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Really glad Alex wrote this. This disconnect is completely untenable.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I reviewed Benjamin Moser’s ‘Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History,’ and Omer Bartov’s ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?’ for this week’s issue of The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?
Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When my actions have the consequences everybody warned me they would have: This is a vicious conspiracy by my enemies to bring about my downfall.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My face when an Iran war, tariffs, and mass deportations do exactly what experts have always said they would do to the economy and the American public's feelings about them
a meerkat with a blank look on its facethe blankfaced meerkat zoomed in closer extreme closeup of my blankfaced meerkat soulbrother
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really appreciated this conversation between @arielleangel.bsky.social and Yotam Marom about fighting against feeling powerless, the roots of intramovement divisions, and possible strategies against infighting that can hurt shared causes. jewishcurrents.org/fighting-the...
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Fighting the Politics of Powerlessness
Movement organizer Yotam Marom on the ways we turn on each other instead of playing to win
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Have loved Dolly Week @flaminghydra.com, including these first two bangers.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Would also be remiss to not point out that delineating the vast differences in influence and severity of antisemitism on the right vs. the left is a major theme of @emilyctamkin.bsky.social's career. Brian/everybody, read Emily and feel seen/sane.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Appreciate this @brianbeutler.bsky.social piece: "We can just evaluate the antisemitism question on neutral terms: which political faction is more solicitous of antisemites? Which is most tolerant of Jews?" www.offmessage.net/p/elon-musk-...
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I Am Going To Lose My F****** Mind
Can someone make the madness end? Or are we simply doomed to demented discourse and intolerable double standards and spineless opposition forever?
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
guh
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What does a corporation of Google's size and power possibly have to fear from not doing this. The guy is going to be out of power in two years, and he will forget he ever said this in two weeks if not sooner. He is playing pretend. Why is Google?
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This change from Google Maps is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in my life.
A screenshot of google maps showing Lake Ontario relabeled as "Lake America"
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Any editor worth their salt would have told Trump to go with Lake New York to preserve province:state parallelism. Amateur hour.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton. Years ago at Slate I edited an excerpt from @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social's acclaimed biography of Dolly, "She Come by It Natural," about the rural poverty she came out of, and how it inspired so much of her music. Worth your time. slate.com/culture/2020...
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Dolly Parton Was the Besequined and Bedazzled Queen of Country—but She Was Also a Wickedly Dark Realist
The beloved icon’s songs are imbued with the hell she lived through—and laughter about it.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Gutted about today's layoffs at Vox. @constancegrady.bsky.social is brilliant on books, gender, pop culture, and how culture and politics intersect. @joshuakeating.bsky.social is an indispensible analyst on geopolitics, diplomacy, national security, and global news. Hire them!!!
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's unconscionable to treat people who were here legally literally yesterday like this. It's not just that it's morally bankrupt to rescind the TPS order. It's fucking shameful to bait and switch other human beings who came here for refuge and have done nothing wrong other than existing.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You've gotta read @josie.zone's masterful essay about this. flaminghydra.com/issue-475/?a...
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Movie madness
Josephine Riesman on the thrill of revenge
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools." 👨🏻‍🍳😚👌🏼
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Horrifying story about the nightmare our country put one desperate guy through after he fled here. From @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social and New Yorker Radio Hour. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
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One Refugee’s Journey Through ICE Detention
In 2025, ICE began detaining people at immigration hearings, an unprecedented step. The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer shares the story of one detainee whose life was turned upside down.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
more gr8 things happening
Breaking news: US has recorded more measles cases in 2026 than in any other year since disease was declared eliminated in 2000
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Everything is going really great very dope very chill very cool.
Screenshot of 4 NYT news notifications:
1) Breaking News: The government said it would withdraw subpoenas of Times journalists
2) Breaking News: Trump administration drops request to subpoena list of Jewish people at University of Pennsylvania
3) Trump Jr. Cashes In: Donald Trump Jr's firm made staggering returns investing in businesses affected by President Trump's policies
4) Oil Hits $100/Barrel: Prices hit milestone for first time since May as war with Iran widens and stifles flow of energy
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
They are one of my favorites and I think very highly regarded pretty broadly, but I think slightly underrated in that they probably deserve to be in conversation as one of the best bands of the ’90s and aren't usually in the same breath as a couple of their indie contemporaries tend to be.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Pay the president and you can get paid too. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump Media to sell fast feed of 'market-moving' posts to Wall Street
Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Great one!
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This thoughtful piece from @c-cauterucci.bsky.social on the rumors about Graham's sexuality is really excellent. Insightful about a topic that the vast majority of writers would find impossible to address in a valuable way. slate.com/life/2026/07...
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There’s One Way to Get the Right to Accept You if You’re Gay. Maybe Lindsey Graham Knew Exactly What That Was.
Lindsey Graham’s death left his biggest “open secret” unresolved. It’ll be his legacy.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Stuff like this and the latest ICE killings in Houston and Maine really add to the feeling that this era demands a truth and reconciliation commission.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The latest TAL from Zoe Chace about a recent "antifa" trial in Texas is something. So chilling. pca.st/episode/c163...
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The Test Case
Some people in this country think Antifa is a dangerous domestic terror organization. Some think that’s a complete myth.  This week we go to the federal trial where, for the first time, the…
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Swiss coach looks like a secondary Bond villain who dies in the second act by falling/being shoved into a boat propeller.
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Jefferson-Pilot Pickles @jeffersonpilot.org · 12/07/2026
Handshake meme, one arm say Argentina, one says Switzerland, the hands say “1939-1945 resume gap”
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Gripping and deeply chilling. Worth your time in print or audio. (I listened): jewishcurrents.org/the-event-2
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The Event
A strange fire has consumed the land between the river and the sea.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Maybe the final score will be 9-8
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th. Read @imillhiser.bsky.social's bracing essay on how this Supreme Court majority has degraded the Declaration's core ideals. The justices should not be surprised if soon, their opponents gain power and decide to do something about it. Gift link: www.vox.com/politics/494...
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The Supreme Court can no longer explain itself
The justices don’t speak a common language, even with each other.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cabo Verde took the champions to the brink. They're heroes. Unforgettable team.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Maybe regime change really did happen already. www.vox.com/politics/493... | by @joshuakeating.bsky.social
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Who is actually ruling Iran right now?
The new supreme leader’s absence from public view has exposed a deeper problem: Iran’s old power structure may not work anymore.
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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Supreme Court just made Trump the most powerful president in generations www.vox.com/politics/493...
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The Supreme Court just made Trump the most powerful president in generations
The Republican justices just won a four-decade war against “independent” federal agencies.
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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Supreme Court lets Trump deport people back to war zones www.vox.com/politics/493...
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The Supreme Court lets Trump deport people back to war zones
Trump’s administration may ignore procedural rules governing many of the most endangered people in America.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Fascinating new piece from @annanorth.bsky.social: The MAHA-MAGA alliance is breaking. That means moving forward, MAHA voters are a new swing bloc that’s up for grabs. www.vox.com/politics/493...
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MAHA is breaking up with Trump. Now what?
A coalition of wellness-conscious activists is changing course, with big implications for 2028.
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Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ten years after Brexit, can Britain breturn to the brefore times? My latest for @vox.com www.vox.com/politics/492...
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Will Britain’s next prime minister reverse Brexit?
From Brexit to Breturn.
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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Neil and Brett Go to White Castle www.vox.com/politics/492...
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The Supreme Court has good news for people who like weed and guns
United States v. Hemani does not clarify the Court’s chaotic gun decisions, but it is good news if you like to get high and shoot.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pretty wild that after this speech the crowd stormed the waterfront, tore down the Statue of Liberty, and sailed it into the Atlantic with Brunson perched on the torch.
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Great piece. Big part of the story: 🐖💰
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“[Trump] may actually be gearing the US up for a version of Israel’s ‘mowing the grass’ strategy: periodic military interventions to keep its enemies off balance, with no real end in sight.” www.vox.com/politics/491...
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