Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 29/08/2024I preferred America before it was overrun with Republican goons and thugs. 491243175
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024I'm so proud to be a columnist for Scientific American. 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. 940844
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024"Nation's Republicans Admit They Were Totally Kidding About Electing Trump Again, 'Do You Think We're Nuts?'" #plausibleheadlines 2708
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024Fact check: "No, Trump Did Not 'Literally Dance' on a Veteran's Grave at Arlington Cemetery. At Worst, He Engaged in a Bit of Finger Puppetry, Which Children Find Amusing" - Politifact, probably 617227
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024The ever-astute Will Bunch on how the media is blowing the most important election of our lifetime. www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...inquirer.comHow the media blew 2024′s election | OpinionPlus, does America really need the world’s 'most lethal' military? 1328779
Reposted by Steve SilbermanErik Gunn @erikgunn.bsky.social · 28/08/2024How does French TV show "Astrid" (streaming on PBS app) land w/ #autistic folks? As someone who is not but learned a lot following folks who are over at 🐦, I've found the show really compelling. I hope I'm not missing something important. @ericmgarcia.bsky.social @stevesilberman.bsky.social 6263
Reposted by Steve SilbermanSteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024Freakshow: 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. www.npr.org/2024/08/27/n...npr.orgTrump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National CemeteryThe cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried, a source with knowledge of the event told NPR. 1322670
Reposted by Steve SilbermanSteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024The best hashtag I've seen yet for JD Vance: #HillbillyVanilli. 832368
Reposted by Steve SilbermanThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 23/08/2024"Mask bans are a threat not just to disabled people, but to all of us. It’s never too late to start masking again—to protect not just your health and the health of people around you, but also to protect our fundamental human rights." By @k8lin.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2024/08/20/m...statnews.comMask bans disenfranchise millions of Americans with disabilities“I have a kidney transplant and will take immunosuppressant medication for the rest of my life. I can’t return to your mask-free ‘normal,’” writes Kaitlin Costello. 59140
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024It's not just a meme. There's something seriously, seriously wrong with this dude and his unrelenting, obsessive, white-knuckling hyperfocus on whether women are having enough children. He's obviously making up for some profound, gnawing inadequacy about his masculinity. It's freakish!threads.netGhost of GC (@gtconway3dg) on ThreadsNew Vance Audio via @heartlandsignal - During a Center for Christian Virtue forum in 2021, JD Vance attacked American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten for "brainwashing" children... 1618728
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024Freakshow: 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. www.npr.org/2024/08/27/n...npr.orgTrump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National CemeteryThe cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried, a source with knowledge of the event told NPR. 1322670
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024Freakshow: 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. www.npr.org/2024/08/27/n...npr.orgTrump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National CemeteryThe cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried, a source with knowledge of the event told NPR. 1018144
Reposted by Steve SilbermanWard Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 27/08/2024Two statements that demonstrate when someone has no empathy and therefore assumes that nobody has empathy: "If you don't have children, you have no stake in the future." "If you don't believe in god, you have no motivation to be a good person." 818741
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024The best hashtag I've seen yet for JD Vance: #HillbillyVanilli. 832368
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024I have such a feeling of déja vu not caring about Oasis all over again. 1012311
Reposted by Steve SilbermanAaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 27/08/2024The very online right-wing ideologues of Silicon Valley are in model collapse: Like an AI trained on its own output, they're growing increasingly divorced from reality, and are reinforcing their own worst habits of thought. My latest: www.reimaginingliberty.com/silicon-vall...reimaginingliberty.comSilicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model CollapseThe dangers of talking only among yourselves. 11329105
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024Those headlines, translated: "Zuckerberg Regrets that His Tool to Enable Global Fascism Didn't Kill More People By Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation" 16415
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024Deeply thoughtful and fair piece by John Harwood on how our media is struggling to meet this dire historical moment. [via @jayrosen.bsky.social] niemanreports.org/articles/war...niemanreports.orgWarped | Nieman ReportsAs the U.S. presidential election draws closer between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, confusion over the news media’s role in American life has only deepened, writes John Harwood. 13711
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024It's amusing to watch all this legacy media try to pretend that Kamala not giving their publication an interview is some sort of "crisis." Instead, just hire the Goodyear blimp to fly over your HQ flashing WE GOT NUTHIN.' 1739
Reposted by Steve SilbermanSteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024This, with the caveat that it's also never too late to have NEVER STOPPED masking. #COVID19 9574243
Reposted by Steve Silberman🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/08/2024Want to make the most progress while we have the chance? Think Harris/Walz will have plenty of cash? CHECK OUT DOWNBALLOT FOR DEMOCRACY It's a hitlist of the best donations you can make to help win power up & down the ballot, especially in swing states. www.erlywrm.com/get-downerlywrm.comFind at least one thing you can do for democracy right now⬇Harris/Walz will have enough money⬇ While cash can still make a big difference, let’s give where our money will matter the most and can make the most difference. Just decide how down you want to ge... 8234162
Reposted by Steve SilbermanSteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024Say what you will about joy not being a strategy, we're all going to live a little longer after the DNC vaccine against despair. #HarrisWalz2024 410018
Reposted by Steve SilbermanEmily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 27/08/2024When others don’t realize that Project 2025 is already underway in the South. 3274117
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024One reason the wholesome Tim Walz jokes are so landing so well is that we need a huge dose of that good ol' Jimmy Stewart earnestness and goodheartedness after 9 years of being told that small, greedy, obviously unwell cheaters, bullies, and psychopaths are worthy of leadership. 1122827
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024It's hilarious that pompous buffoon Mike Johnson is trying to sell this jive while Trump is shitting his pants, in brown rivulets pooling around his golf shoes, at the thought of having to spend 90 minutes on a debate stage under Harris' withering gaze. 4442
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024Say what you will about joy not being a strategy, we're all going to live a little longer after the DNC vaccine against despair. #HarrisWalz2024 410018
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024This, with the caveat that it's also never too late to have NEVER STOPPED masking. #COVID19 9574243
Reposted by Steve SilbermanSteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024Excellent! Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young endorses #HarrisWalz2024. And I can tell you as a friend of the late David Crosby, Croz would have been jumping up and cheering watching the DNC and trying to write songs for Kamala. 615926
Reposted by Steve SilbermanLydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 26/08/2024To anyone who thinks the right wing war against trans people is a fringe issue, please follow this terrific series by The 19th. The core aims of this movement, if achieved, will have a profound impact on all of us. 19thnews.org/2024/08/the-...19thnews.orgThe toll of America's anti-trans warTo understand how the anti-trans agenda could reshape all of our lives, The 19th set out to examine how the laws and rhetoric behind it are impacting Americans. 22930459
Reposted by Steve SilbermanSteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024Every author's dream is writing a book that touches some readers so deeply that they post "birthday" pics every year on the day it was published. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Kristen G. Callow, for being a great person, a brave mom, and the biggest fan of my book "NeuroTribes." 813211
Reposted by Steve SilbermanMike B @madhominem.bsky.social · 25/08/2024I genuinely think he doesn't want to *be* president, he just desperately needs the ability to make his trials go away he's running bc he wants revenge against Biden for beating him, and now he can't have that. the idea of having to do the job of president again every day probably exhausts him 2746032
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024Excellent! Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young endorses #HarrisWalz2024. And I can tell you as a friend of the late David Crosby, Croz would have been jumping up and cheering watching the DNC and trying to write songs for Kamala. 615926
Reposted by Steve SilbermanAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/08/2024Old enough to remember when a lot of us were pleading for some kind of pushback to misinformation from the Right. What they gave us was "fact-checking," which has turned out to be like using homeopathy to treat cancer. We asked for a cure, they gave us a watered-down version of the disease. 11737129
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024Every author's dream is writing a book that touches some readers so deeply that they post "birthday" pics every year on the day it was published. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Kristen G. Callow, for being a great person, a brave mom, and the biggest fan of my book "NeuroTribes." 813211
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024In fairness, I can see why Trump and RFK Jr. get along. I wonder if they bond talking about the good old days with the late, great Hannibal Lecter. [quote via Out5p0ken on Threads from www.sheknows.com/entertainmen... 0245
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024I agree with @karaswisher.bsky.social, this is the best Downfall clip. #HarrisWalz2024 www.threads.net/@dream_disco...threads.nettrippingwithlala.com (@dream_discover_repeat) on Threads 5328
Reposted by Steve SilbermanSteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024If you wish they still made albums like they used to, they do. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' new "Woodland Studios" is a humble, unaffected little masterpiece. 910913
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024DAMN this is good. By @thatlaundry on Threads. 620231
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024I need a meme of Tim Walz offering the kid a cold glass of lemonade. 26010
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024The @nytimes.com obituary for poet and activist Hettie Jones, one of the few female voices associated with the Beat Generation. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/b...nytimes.comHettie Jones, Poet and Author Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 90She and her husband, LeRoi Jones, published works by their literary friends. After he left her and became Amiri Baraka, she found her own voice. 3222
Reposted by Steve SilbermanSteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024Incandescently brilliant piece by Tina Brown on her autistic son and Gus Walz. We must BURY Trump and Vance at the ballot box and shovel dirt down the throat of the zombie corpse of the former Republican party. Please spread this gift link. #HarrisWalz2024 www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | My Son and Gus Walz Deserve a Champion Like Tim WalzIf the Harris-Walz ticket wins, will parents of people who struggle with being different at last find a powerful advocate in the White House? 8590162
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024Incandescently brilliant piece by Tina Brown on her autistic son and Gus Walz. We must BURY Trump and Vance at the ballot box and shovel dirt down the throat of the zombie corpse of the former Republican party. Please spread this gift link. #HarrisWalz2024 www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | My Son and Gus Walz Deserve a Champion Like Tim WalzIf the Harris-Walz ticket wins, will parents of people who struggle with being different at last find a powerful advocate in the White House? 8590162
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024If you wish they still made albums like they used to, they do. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' new "Woodland Studios" is a humble, unaffected little masterpiece. 910913
Reposted by Steve SilbermanSteve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 23/08/2024This, by @garytaxali.bsky.social. 628558
Reposted by Steve SilbermanEn Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/08/2024'Trump's aides strain to magically transform Donald Trump into someone who is not Donald Trump, and who is capable of thinking about things or making coherent decisions or avoiding spending every moment in narcissistic rage.' 3898
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024The formerly important NYTimes has turned decisively dumb and offbase headlines into a daily affair. 16877
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024His guts seething with hatred, bigotry, and thoughts of revenge, Trump struggles with aides begging him to stay "on message." The aides might console themselves by remembering that hatred, bigotry, and thoughts of revenge are Trump's only message. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Carefully Scripted Week Kept Veering Off ScriptDespite calls by his advisers to focus on the issues, former President Donald J. Trump has made it clear that he intends to keep running his campaign his way. 1321931