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Steve Silberman

@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Award-winning science writer, author of the New York Times bestseller "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," and an upcoming book on cystic fibrosis, "The Taste of Salt."

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Frances Elizabeth @franceselizabeth.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
I preferred America before it was overrun with Republican goons and thugs.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
I'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.
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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
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Fact 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
Trump giving a thumbs-up at an illegal campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
The ever-astute Will Bunch on how the media is blowing the most important election of our lifetime. www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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How the media blew 2024′s election | Opinion
Plus, does America really need the world’s 'most lethal' military?
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Erik Gunn @erikgunn.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
How 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
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
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. www.npr.org/2024/08/27/n...
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Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National Cemetery
The 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.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
The best hashtag I've seen yet for JD Vance: #HillbillyVanilli.
Photo of JD Vance with American flags.
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Thinking 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...
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Mask 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.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
It'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!
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Ghost of GC (@gtconway3dg) on Threads
New 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...
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
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. www.npr.org/2024/08/27/n...
npr.org
Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National Cemetery
The 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.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
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. www.npr.org/2024/08/27/n...
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Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National Cemetery
The 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.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Two 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."
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
The best hashtag I've seen yet for JD Vance: #HillbillyVanilli.
Photo of JD Vance with American flags.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
I have such a feeling of déja vu not caring about Oasis all over again.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 27/08/2024
The 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...
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Silicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model Collapse
The dangers of talking only among yourselves.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Those headlines, translated: "Zuckerberg Regrets that His Tool to Enable Global Fascism Didn't Kill More People By Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation"
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Deeply 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...
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Warped | Nieman Reports
As 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.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
It'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.'
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
This, with the caveat that it's also never too late to have NEVER STOPPED masking. #COVID19
A '50s style advertisement featuring a redheaded housewife and a box of N95 masks with the caption, "It's never too late -- to start masking again! You can restart COVID-safe practices at anytime! No matter when and why you stopped!"
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Want 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-down
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Find 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...
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Say 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
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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
When others don’t realize that Project 2025 is already underway in the South.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
One 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.
Jimmy Stewart in a hat smiling with flowers.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
It'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.
Fox headline: Speaker Johnson issues warning on Harris presidency 'Only person our adversaries fear less than Biden'
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Say 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
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
This, with the caveat that it's also never too late to have NEVER STOPPED masking. #COVID19
A '50s style advertisement featuring a redheaded housewife and a box of N95 masks with the caption, "It's never too late -- to start masking again! You can restart COVID-safe practices at anytime! No matter when and why you stopped!"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Conservative scotus judges
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Excellent! 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.
I would like to Publicly pledge my support for the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States.
She not only has my endorsement, but my pledge to lend any assistance I can to the Campaign.
I share the same enthusiasm for her candidacy with all Democrats emerging from this weeks convention.
I am greatly encouraged by the extraordinary energy and vibrancy that has followed our week in Chicago.
— Stephen Stills
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
To 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-...
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The toll of America's anti-trans war
To 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.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Every 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."
"NeuroTribes" surrounded by cupcakes lit with candles.
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Mike B @madhominem.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
I 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
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Excellent! 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.
I would like to Publicly pledge my support for the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States.
She not only has my endorsement, but my pledge to lend any assistance I can to the Campaign.
I share the same enthusiasm for her candidacy with all Democrats emerging from this weeks convention.
I am greatly encouraged by the extraordinary energy and vibrancy that has followed our week in Chicago.
— Stephen Stills
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/08/2024
Old 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.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Every 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."
"NeuroTribes" surrounded by cupcakes lit with candles.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
In 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...
Her dad's career focus is environmental law, and growing up, Kick had all kinds of astonishing encounters with Mother Nature. In a 2012 interview with Town & Country, she recalled an especially colorful childhood event in which her dad - who has a thing for animal skulls and skeletons - took her down to the beach with a chainsaw to retrieve the head of a dead beached whale. They bungee-corded the head to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back home.
"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Kick said. "We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us."Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in a mask in "The Silence of the Lambs."
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
I agree with @karaswisher.bsky.social, this is the best Downfall clip. #HarrisWalz2024 www.threads.net/@dream_disco...
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trippingwithlala.com (@dream_discover_repeat) on Threads
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
If 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.
David Rawlings with a guitar and Gillian Welch, both in cowboy hats.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
DAMN this is good. By @thatlaundry on Threads.
Kamala as Rosie the Riveter.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
I need a meme of Tim Walz offering the kid a cold glass of lemonade.
The classic meme of Trump yelling at the kid mowing the White House lawn, but captioned by @bobschooley on Threads, "I won by a lot actually," with Trump fading into invisibility.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
The @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...
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Hettie Jones, Poet and Author Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 90
She and her husband, LeRoi Jones, published works by their literary friends. After he left her and became Amiri Baraka, she found her own voice.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Incandescently 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...
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Opinion | My Son and Gus Walz Deserve a Champion Like Tim Walz
If the Harris-Walz ticket wins, will parents of people who struggle with being different at last find a powerful advocate in the White House?
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Let me mansplain a bit about why insisting that it doesn't matter that Gus Walz is neurodivergent, "We should defend ALL boys' ability to cry" etc., is not the flex you think it is. The creatures from the MAGA lagoon attacked Gus in ways that neurodivergent kids are ALWAYS attacked: painting them as freaks and suggesting they were badly parented. Think of it this way: Calling any kid a ***** stings, but calling a gay kid the F-word hurts even more.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Incandescently 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...
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Opinion | My Son and Gus Walz Deserve a Champion Like Tim Walz
If the Harris-Walz ticket wins, will parents of people who struggle with being different at last find a powerful advocate in the White House?
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
If 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.
David Rawlings with a guitar and Gillian Welch, both in cowboy hats.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
This, by @garytaxali.bsky.social.
A graphic of Trump's orange head looking up at the blue wave. with the letters KAMALA, about to drown him.
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En 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.'
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
The formerly important NYTimes has turned decisively dumb and offbase headlines into a daily affair.
"Joy is Not a Strategy," with a photo of Kamala Harris.
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
His 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...
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Trump’s Carefully Scripted Week Kept Veering Off Script
Despite 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.
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