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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/955/021/707/632/023/original/3fd38e97f3b1d5bc.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/944/624/455/139/536/original/5a2ed013c1577416.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman During his cognitively impaired freakshow this morning, a clearly addled Trump claimed that Willie Brown threw shade on Kamala Harris as they were "going down" in a helicopter. Neither thing happened, says Brown. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/donald-trump-willie-brown-helicopter-19629432.php npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman In bizarre, freaky, super-racist outburst on the fascist website X, Trump's chief campaign spokesman suggests that Kamala smells. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/927/306/700/131/434/original/9b10ee3f27eb503b.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman It's Walz! Let's goooooooo! HARRIS/WALZ 2024! https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/915/298/398/757/817/original/49b4430836481419.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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." https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/904/905/923/798/616/original/7ccc8f851b2b5094.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @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. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/887/847/212/342/578/original/07fbdbcdc4769347.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I'm beginning to think that making truly stupid, deeply nasty people rich and famous was not the optimal plan for our society. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman "[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. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Tomorrow's @nytimes.com headline: "Was Trump's Feisty Appearance at Black Journalists' Convention Enough to Set Rumors of Racial Bias to Rest?" https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/882/757/638/577/211/original/64b40254ff339fca.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/873/005/429/865/489/original/2ec9ed4b17913f17.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub1yf4…3jc8 What I will make of it is that I have no idea what your comment means. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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] https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/865/584/079/299/948/original/fbd0fd7855b20c11.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/859/287/610/760/105/original/5bb770a2ea7ed048.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Instead of trying to be polite to a fascist monster, I like how Kamala's campaign has chosen instead to be a thousand angry bees under Trump's skin, swarming down his throat and around his eyes, stinging, stinging, as her laughing face looms in his nightmares. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/854/193/099/422/492/original/1bdd3e251f30f00d.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Must-read: Brilliant, surgical analysis by Michelle Goldberg of how bad fathering twisted JD Vance's character, leaving a hole in his core that he desperately tries to fill by adopting a series of fickle masks. [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/opinion/jd-vance-changeability.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E0.f_Wx.WGS_rVG5ir8m&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Obama gives his full endorsement to the next President of the United States, Kamala Harris. Now let's UNITE and FIGHT and send these fascists back to the sewers they crawled out of. https://www.threads.net/@barackobama/post/C94uNKXBkm6?xmt=AQGzkA9QRG4yjf2FvaPPo3U9-EVlZvS5NC9wPUNFypKFdw npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman After prominent sociopath and fraud Elon Musk viciously attacked his trans daughter on X, calling her "dead," Vivian decided she'd had enough. https://www.advocate.com/elon-musk-trans-daughter-vivian-wilson npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman In shocking twist, Trump dumps "cold fish" Vance for "a man I've admired for a long time - the very famous Hannibal Lecter," adding that he "barely knew that other guy." On MSNBC, @katyturnbc explains why Lecter is the perfect choice, "the kind of man who'd like to have you for dinner." https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/849/051/077/684/425/original/793a95827906afc2.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman After the vile, hollowed-out, sociopathic fraud Elon Musk declares his trans daughter "dead," Vivian is spilling ALL the tea on Threads. Let's support her and spread the word about Musk's lies. Read the whole thread. https://www.threads.net/@vivllainous/post/C91xDGJSUX_?xmt=AQGz7N-1tbvrpabWCSERreGzbK7j_1U4a_zCLnnNxFP9FA npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman If anyone thinks Trump's statement to his nephew that disabled people should "just die" (actual quote) is just empty talk, the GOP's Project 2025 will put it into action by framing the deficit as a "Medicare and Medicaid problem" instead of a GOP billionaire donor problem. If you want the disabled people in your life to "just die," vote red. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/health/managing-health-insurance/project-2025-medicare-medicaid npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Hollowed-out psychopathic rapist tells his violence-prone cult followers not to be "nice" to Democrats. Telling Americans to hate each other is all this traitor and his party of bigots have. Contrast this with the mood of Kamala's campaign. https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C90oLoMhs8T?xmt=AQGzmyAGTTeCu4SpbpiQVe322AhCBjFYBpUpbSd-upbaOQ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Do you like sex? YOU'RE THE PROBLEM WITH THIS COUNTRY, says the freakyfreaky, clammy-handed incels at the Heritage Foundation who can't wait to surveil your periods, architects of Trump's Project 2025, WHICH WILL PUT AN END TO ALL THAT "senseless" use of birth control. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/843/840/647/130/773/original/c58ca9c21a8e74ff.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Friends, this is the Chief Political Analyst for @nytimes, Nate Cohn. Imagine writing this paragraph without having a brief flash of clarity and thinking, "OMG, what the heck has happened to me? I used to be a journalist!" https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/843/066/125/483/933/original/37ff90c84fff24b3.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman If you're lucky enough to be in Chicago tomorrow Thursday or Friday, and want to see a Grateful Dead cover band called Tributosaurus that includes one of my favorite jazz keyboardists, Fred Simon, check out these shows. https://martyrslive.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2eH2mMbxBjzvYSqp7vxpHbUjoH6FyYA_cx6CCGACzfpoFxIo8pA4bWQb0_aem_kTsuUtbwvxSrkKHL_XRa8Q npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman "Biden's act of extraordinary patriotism completely took back the narrative on the election." https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2024/07/harris-democrats-and-biden-take-back.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Pro-tip: If you're a Republican voter, try substituting the phrase "DEI hire" for the usual N-word, *particularly if there any N-words around.* It's considered more polite but gets the same point across. "Groomer" can be similarly useful when discussing LGBT relatives behind their backs. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Is it me or is it kind of a relief to just watch ordinary people liking each other in clips instead of enraged hopped-up sociopaths shrieking about how dangerous certain other groups of people are? https://www.threads.net/@dream.foramerica/post/C9xaUSbuweF?xmt=AQGzrrm9ycN-g2s7D1CstM0DxeWroKrjlJcDjs60ynGXOw npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman The Democratic Party has raised more than $250 million since Kamala rose to the top of the ticket. Let's win this thing. https://wapo.st/4d56rea npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub18u7…d8up What a weird thing to say. It's been years for me. Count yourself lucky if you didn't share that experience. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 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. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/839/104/132/342/710/original/e7db56fba068f018.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Kamala is the stake to drive right through the heart of that vampire who's been sucking the blood out of this country for a decade. https://www.threads.net/@briantylercohen/post/C9xzShYxJQL?xmt=AQGzmchu1wezsuVgp-S-jVmk6AJ9VRnQu8YVudSYA6ivcw npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Andrea Pitzer, who wrote the authoritative history of concentration camps, warns that what Trump and the GOP are planning is a nightmarish horror that mirrors the darkest times in human history. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-massive-deportation-plan-echoes-concentration-camp-history/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Call me sentimental, but I hope the sound of Kamala's exuberant laugh rings loudly, relentlessly in the head of that fascist traitor all night long, liquefying his guts so that his satin sheets have to be changed and bleached every goddamn morning for the rest of his life. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/836/999/241/310/097/original/9bb6d2294f5c89c4.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman What is Trump, the oldest presidential candidate in history, who is obviously manifesting some sort of profound cognitive decline, hiding in his medical records? https://wapo.st/3LGaIc5 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I adore my teacher husband. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/831/607/903/791/432/original/4bb8717eb61dd869.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Now let's start addressing Trump's "frailties" as a candidate. 1) He's a doddering rapist whose name appears all over Epstein's notebooks and openly fantasizes about "dating" his daughter while leading a party that vows to end women's reproductive rights for a generation. Do I need a number two? npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Exactly this. By Mike Luckovich. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/831/175/446/041/846/original/bdf4f84f96c1881f.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Joe Biden has dropped out of the race. I have no doubt the stolen Supreme Court of Crooks will use this to commit more ratf*ckery, but now let's UNITE and FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS on defending our democracy from a fascist party led by a rapist. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/825/790/531/126/628/original/536820b583c518c5.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Malian kora master Toumani Diabaté has died. If your worn nerves need some soothing, his music was heaven on Earth. https://youtu.be/eq4xjLzj6As?si=aAOAqHohdxe3PglO npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I guess once you firmly establish your reputation in the minds of the media as someone who is utterly incapable of anything resembling coherent, logical speech but is still able to work up little squirts of spaced-out racist verbal diarrhea on command SPLAT they'll never write op-eds about your "gaffes." Trump has trained the media well. https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3dg/post/C9nHoTaplcf?xmt=AQGzBahaYvAXNIUIPvxg2e2tIA_7vtwm_9nJi7SiPnognQ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman These obvious skin jobs visiting RNC from Alpha Centauri got the Caucasian skin tones and fashion choices right but they're still struggling to mimic human movements in Earth gravity. https://www.threads.net/@doc_cropp/post/C9ld2b1tR0H?xmt=AQGzj19t-PWxNzwhvcPnpedQYZIpF90In25fLfelmqDkng npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Rest in power and song: Bernice Reagon, founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died. https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/1213897036/bernice-johnson-reagon-sweet-honey-in-the-rock-obituary npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman And here's the GOP's candidate for vice president calling RAPE and INCEST "inconvenient" for women forced by GOP laws to have their abusers' children. https://www.threads.net/@bidenharrishq/post/C9dUAEiqyWx?xmt=AQGzVg4ejIpr9X2yc--M-Nwz0sgY8Y56Z0nzD0VfB1JxkQ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I have no doubt Trump is guilty of selling our top-secret documents to our enemies - crimes more grave than those for which Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn, executed the Rosenbergs. If Trump and the GOP are not soundly defeated at the ballot box in November and the horrific schemes of Project 2025 are set in motion, we will no longer be living in the America we grew up in. In many ways we already aren't. [New Yorker cover by Anita Kunz] https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/791/456/921/193/614/original/7b3313e8fc60ebfc.jpg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Rest in peace, fitness guru Richard Simmons, who made exercise accessible to a wide range of body types. I waited on him once when I was a waiter, and despite his wild and crazy media persona, he was a very sweet, softspoken, and gentle queen, instantly endearing. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/781/280/914/286/675/original/64b9729ca39e58de.webp npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Breaking: The secret alliance of Christian billionaires working to tilt the election to Trump, destroy our republic, and turn America into a white-supremacist theocracy. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Allow me to interrupt your doomscrolling with a huge crowd in Detroit chanting "WE GOT YOUR BACK! WE GOT YOUR BACK!" to Joe Biden during his fiery speech. MORE OF THIS PLEASE. Tell the brunchlord opinion columnists at the New York Times and the New Yorker to BUGGER RIGHT OFF. We're busy fighting Nazis here. https://www.threads.net/@acynig/post/C9V5pQNSUTj?xmt=AQGz_i3TnXgERZePHubjlkf743osGq0G1Po3yQYaW95edg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman An exceptionally sweet and probing interview with Trey Anastasio of Phish by Andy Greene. I had the pleasure of interviewing Trey myself 30 years ago, and he was wonderful, and we've both been through a lot. :) I'm glad to see he's in a good space. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/trey-anastasio-phish-jerry-garcia-new-album-drugs-1235053957/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1fOPwlO6GIRJyc2idvRzbKNZu6RTjF17GLEm75-soBku5HvtitLqkUDbw_aem_ddgZKnTmCujpHtABekvVRQ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Tesla sales tanking as the brand associated with the fascist-loving white supremacist and fake savant who ruined Twitter for the lulz fails to appeal to the drivers jumping into the thriving EV market. [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/business/tesla-electric-vehicles-market-share.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6E0.ZQzw.FWGm1U6CPVp1&smid=url-share npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Neurologist/author Oliver Sacks was born OTD in 1933. In addition to being one of the most learned and articulate folks I've ever met, he was a sweetheart, and I was so happy to see him find love with writer Bill Hayes late in life. I miss you, Oliver. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/758/119/710/915/878/original/e279a43d51167668.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman That ecstatic feeling when voters defy right-wing media noise and turn out in unprecedented numbers to tell the fascists to crawl back into the sewers they crawled out of. Republique Square in Paris yesterday, photo by Olympia de Maismont. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/751/999/900/900/336/original/a2520cb45b635b0b.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman San Francisco is such a terrifyingly liberal doom-loopy place, now people are showing up at my door to compel me to eat sweet organic strawberries from Watsonville. (Thank you, @marksmotroff.bsky.social!) https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/747/171/239/242/696/original/00b6edf6255a0820.jpeg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman The ever-astute @npub143g…htnf on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 13 years ago, Ry Cooder wrote an ASTONISHINGLY prescient song. "And then the day dawned bright and hard When I stole away the court of nine The Judas men served the cause And the sacred church of law is mine Justice has been cast down I want my crown, I want my crown" https://youtu.be/9pQtYznW9qc?si=wOsDBSE_SlG3nnbd npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman SCOTUS Cancels 4th of July Celebrations, Says Holiday was Not in Constitution and May Upset Monarch npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman The headline writers that have served us so well thus far are going to have a blast under Trump: "Hillary Whines About Prison Chow"... "Hundreds of 'Vermin' Snared in Border Dragnet, President Says"... "'Groomer' Bar Burned, Arson Suspected"... "Polio Cases Soar into Thousands" npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Fans of space #jazz, #trance, hypnotic grooves, behold the cannabis-friendly majesty of Eberhard Weber's "Sand Glass." It's peak ECM and Rainer Brüninghaus' finest hour on keyboards. Charlie Mariano's solo on nagaswaram (of all things) pierces the dome of Heaven. https://youtu.be/0vN4aXWKsmM?si=rWOEt1VscC9Nc9PA npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I hate to be all newbie-ish, but can anyone tell me why trying to upload photos to newsie.social I've been getting 500 errors for days? npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman The real headline is: "Prominent Blotto Ambien Enthusiast Who Kept Trump White House Flying on Pills Demands Biden Take Drug Test Before Debate" #RonnyJackson npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Fellow "Ripley" fanatics: After watching the stunning @Netflix series with Andrew Scott, we wondered how the 1999 film starring Matt Damon would hold up. The answer: Very well! Very different treatments, but the 1999 version is harder-hitting than I remembered about Ripley's queerness and the gaslighting of women. Both are great. https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/666/897/715/929/142/original/d26248fe07ab81b5.jpg npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Asked why he listened to only classical music and Muzak in the years before his death, John Lennon replied, "If I heard anything bad, I’d want to fix it, and if I heard anything good, I’d wonder why I hadn’t thought of it." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/the-strange-journey-of-john-lennons-stolen-patek-phillippe-watch npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman A fascinating, albeit circuitous, essay by great filmmaker/editor/sound designer Walter Murch (The Godfather films, The Conversation, etc.) on history and the nature of genius. https://nautil.us/the-force-was-with-them-663645/?_sp=fab4f956-7ad7-4777-8fc8-22065a49f2b5.1719093753423