Award-winning science writer, author of "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," which became a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 25 languages. My TED talk, "The Forgotten History of Autism," has been viewed nearly two million times. My next book will be "The Taste of Salt," on cystic fibrosis.
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Last Notes 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 Now the gays have even stolen Pride month. You can't even drink a rainbow slushie without them ramming their gender ideology down your throat. https://www.theonion.com/man-hates-how-pride-month-has-been-totally-co-opted-by-1847054666 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman In a move so douchey even his critics didn't expect it, twisted, hollowed-out GOP freak Ron DeSantis vetoes all arts grants previously approved by state legislators. Remember, IF YOU HATE THE ARTS, VOTE REPUBLICAN. [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/arts/ron-desantis-veto-arts-funding-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k0.YsxU.ytPMGyrnWTt5&smid=url-share npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Via IG: @humans_of_neurodiversity with gratitude. Thanks again to Emily Brooks for the art. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Trump-appointed freakshow Aileen Cannon is so obviously in the tank for him she's even embarrassing her conservative colleagues. https://www.salon.com/2024/06/21/extremely-rare-experts-say-report-reveals-colleagues-embarrassment-about-cannons-bias/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Does every single one of prominent white supremacist Elon Musk's female employees have to sign an agreement to fuck and have a secret child with him if they get hired? I'm just asking questions. https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183083/elon-musk-secret-child-shivon-zilis-exec-neuralink npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub1ru8…3990 is my favorite young science writer, a lyrical genius, and "Becoming Earth" is a marvelous debut. I'll be attending this Commonwealth Club event online. https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-06-27/how-earth-came-alive-ferris-jabr npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Holy moly, the 911 emergency system in Massachusetts is down statewide. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/911-phone-lines-down-statewide-mass-police-fire-departments-say/3403215/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Trump's "spiritual advisor," megachurch pastor Robert Morris, raped a 12 year old girl, but says he's been forgiven by his church. MAGA evangelism is such a tidy racket for those who like 'em really, really, REALLY young. Having a cult leader who brags about lusting after his own daughter must be an inspiration to them. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-spiritual-adviser-robert-morris-half-confesses-to-molesting-12-year-old-girl npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Rest in peace, Jeanne Rose, pioneering herbalist and clothing designer who dressed no less than the @GratefulDead and @jeffersonairplane during the Summer of Love. She remained in the Haight-Ashbury long after the party was over, teaching classes on aromatherapy. Ave atque vale, Jeanne. [1969 photo of Mickey Hart in Jeanne's design by Baron Wolman] npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman This AP tweet is an instant candidate for the Museum of American Fascism. Carve it in stone and put it over the entrance. It should be an enduring source of burning shame and embarrassment for the entire organization, as well as a warning to other media. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Somebody should give Martha-Ann Alito a f*cking Xanax so her husband can stop trying to overthrow democracy. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Freakshow bigot Martha-Ann Alito, wife of extremist theocrat insurrectionist SCOTUS justice Samuel, is so triggered by rainbow flags that she daydreams about flying "Shame" flags. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-martha-ann-alito-pride-flags-left-media-1235037338 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman The best postscripts to an invitation I've ever seen. [via Scott Ruplin] npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I feel so sorry for this young woman, whose special moment at graduation was spoiled by her racist father. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/baraboo-high-school-graduation-nazi-photo-b2557484.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Here's Rupert Murdoch getting his usual fawning society-page coverage describing him as an "incorrigible romantic," rather than as "One of the most evil men alive, up to his neck in blood, responsible for the corrosion of democracies worldwide and the spread of medical misinformation that has killed millions." https://ca.style.yahoo.com/news/rupert-murdoch-marries-fifth-wife-121924735.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Judge Juan Marchan, who was attacked along with his daughter in a daily series of unhinged racist rants by the increasingly demented criminal Trump, made sure the 34 felony charges will stick. [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/nyregion/trump-appeal-conviction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU0.i_Ln.0bZA5o08FEvw&smid=url-share npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Happy 120th birthday in emptiness to Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, where I was a Zen student. Here he is in the early 1960s, teaching Sunday school at Sokoji, the sole Soto Zen temple in SF at the time. [via cuke.com] npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman OF COURSE Bill Barr still supports the criminal GOP, he wouldn't have gone through all that hassle of claiming that Jeffrey Epstein's cellmate had been unexpectedly transferred and both cameras were "malfunctioning" the night Epstein "committed suicide" in prison if he didn't. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Shameless Bag Man Up to His Neck in American Blood and Treason Says He Still Supports 'Scarface' Capone All the Way npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman A very, very lovely essay by Kristy Barlow about waking up to one's own #autistic identity - near the heart of what my book npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman So what's the headline on this, boys, "At Enthusiastic Billionaire Donors' Dinner, Trump Offers Controversial View of President Biden's Bowel Habits"? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/donald-trump-bizarrely-suggests-biden-has-s-t-on-oval-office-desk npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman As a lifelong, passionate @nytimes reader and occasional writer, it's dizzying how consistently awful and irresponsible its headlines, subheds, ledes, and spin about Biden and Trump have been. I honestly feel nausea and vertigo seeing headlines and subheds like this. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman With Elon promoting fake, misleading, and potentially explosive headlines generated by X's own AI chatbot, Grok, we've entered the Elon-Musk-slurping-up-his-own-dogshit era of the social network formerly known as Twitter. https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-ai-chatbot-grok-fake-news-trending-explore npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Historians 20 years from now, if there are allowed to be any, will smack their heads over and over about how screamingly obvious it was that Trump is a long-cultivated Russian asset who delivered just what the Kremlin wanted on a silver platter - including SCOTUS and Congress. And unless he's STOPPED and THROWN IN PRISON, the Putinized GOP will finish the job of finishing America. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I have committed a heresy: My first piece of AI “art.” Happy Easter! npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Half a century ago today, the Grateful Dead (who were officially on hiatus) and their friends played one of the WEIRDEST concerts of their 30-year career at Kezar Stadium in SF, and yes, I know they were ALL weird! But this one was weirder, though I still love it. You can hear it here: https://archive.org/details/gd1975-03-23.sbd.miller.110126.flac16/gd75-03-23d1t02.flac npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub14vn…8aaw No, it was Big Daddy Trump who keeps using that horrible word, but you're brilliant at stripping satire of all meaningful context. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman The real headline: "Kushner Touts Trump Hotel and Casino on Gaza Waterfront Once 'Animals' are Removed" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Must-read on the abyss that the Republican party is dragging the U.S. into. "The strongman is really the weak man: his secret is that he makes everyone else weaker" - Timothy Snyder https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy?r=1oa4bp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Say what you will about generative AI, it's certainly crammed all of my timelines with creepy fake-looking images that my friends keep posting as "Amazing!!" -- even friends who are art aficionados and I thought would know better. It's having a strange effect on me, which is a growing distaste and distrust of images themselves, as if the whole visible universe is being covered with some kind of slime. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman As #measles outbreak expands in FL, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz calls for Ron DeSantis' murderous, shopwboating pet quack, Joseph Ladapo, to be replaced by someone who understands public health. https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/watch-live-rep-wasserman-schultz-discusses-school-safety-amid-measles-outbreak-in-broward/3243863/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman After 16-year old Nex Benedict was bullied to death in his state, Oklahoma Republican Republican Republican Republican Republican Republican Republican Republican Republican calls LGBTQ+ people "filth." https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/02/24/okla-lawmaker-describes-lgbtq-people-as-filth/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=okla-lawmaker-describes-lgbtq-people-as-filth npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I know it's economically rewarding for media to make believe the 2024 election is a horserace between equals, and who knows what kinds of shenanigans Putin's favorite party still has up its sleeve, but the STENCH OF DEATH, of PUTRESCENT ROTTING FLESH AND SICKNESS, is hanging over Trump's GOP. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I don't watch the Super Bowl, so I only saw a bunch of complaints in social media about a swastika appearing in an ad. This is a very powerful ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xztOT9MlqRw npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman One thing to notice hard about this statement by Nikki Haley, which Daily Beast highlights as Haley boldly "dragging" Trump, is that it just reinforces GOP lies about inflation and the border. One might think a candidate running against a RAPIST would mention Trump's moral unfitness to be POTUS because he's a RAPIST, and this was a judgment for his defamation in a RAPE case, but we can't have fellow Republicans mentioning that Trump is a RAPIST who DEFAMED ONE OF HIS VICTIMS. Haley's a coward. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I know this sounds weird and implausible, but stay with me: What if billionaires and hedge-fund managers *don't want* journalists reporting the news at this critical juncture in history when America is facing a fascist takeover? Huh. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/media/los-angeles-times-layoffs-strike/index.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Having turned Twitter into a toilet of bigotry and disinformation, prominent anti-Semite and fake savant Elon Musk joins leading GOP vaginaphobe Ben Shapiro to shit all over the memories of the Jews who died at Auschwitz. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-set-to-attend-anti-semitism-discussion-at-auschwitz-with-ben-shapiro-report-says npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman We watched Todd Haynes' "Carol" last night, @wardqnormal.bsky.social seeing it for the first time. It's sublime, important, subversive, gorgeously photographed and acted, and sexy, a great non-trivial "Christmas movie" -- and a stern warning about where Republican culture wars are going. #film npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Merry Christmas and love to you all. This is the front of the card that @wardqnormal.bsky.social made and mailed out to our friends this year. It's real cross-stitch, no Photoshop or AI involved. May you have a year full of joy and good health. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman One undeniable reason to vote for DeSantis is that he's so comfortable in his own skin. The relaxed, open face of a man obviously at peace with himself. [image via @senatorgiggity.bsky.social] npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Every reporter in America should stop what they're doing, read, and absorb the importance of what Will Bunch says here. We are one election away from a fascist state ruled by a career mobster with a sadistic craving for revenge. That's what's at stake in 2024! https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman How the neo-Nazi group Moms4Liberty crawled out of the anti-vaxx/anti-mask sewers of Florida. https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/moms-for-liberty-birchers-in-heels npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Who could have predicted that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' "parental choice" voucher program would turn out to be a massive grift of taxpayer dollars to private Christian schools? https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/report-arkansas-voucher-program-gives npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Who could have guessed that the fake "court sketch" that Trump reposted of him sitting in court next to Jesus was done by an actual child rapist? GOOD WORK REPUBLICANS. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/trumps-jesus-court-sketch-is-even-worse-than-it-looks.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman New report shows advertisers fleeing X after Elon's transformation of the formerly thriving Twitter community into a churning toilet of white supremacist propaganda, Nazi bootlickers, anti-vaxx nonsense, and anti-trans hatred. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N3BA253 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman While the chimpanzees of the Republican party were flinging poo and screeching at each other, the first #Black openly #LGBTQ+ Senator was making history. https://youtu.be/MjJGbVn4elM?si=1fRrTXmdVkO7SCf7 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Rapist? Pedophile? Workplace harrasser? Wife beater? Child trafficker? No worries, bro. Just start nattering on about the "woke mind virus" and being "cancelled" and an army of Republicans and incels will rally around you, waving flags. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman As Florida reports more new #COVID19 hospitalizations than any other state, #GOP sociopath #RonDeSantis demands more sickness and death as surely as if he wrapped his cold, creepy hands around the throats of his constituents and started squeezing. https://wapo.st/3LltbuZ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman In the entire history of tweets about #jambands, this one is really, really special. Not surprised to see they have a blue checkmark. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Everyone's busting Jordan Peterson, one of the most vapid and vacuous buffoons in public life, for reciting this villain's monologue from "Skyfall" as fact, but what's worse is that it's a straight-up pitch for #eugenics. He knows as much about rats as he knows about trans people. https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1698425655690404302?s=20 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub1u2u…exue Not so surprising when you realize that autism was categorized as a form of "childhood psychosis," a precursor of schizophrenia, by Leo Kanner and his colleagues into the 1980s, as recounted in my book "NeuroTribes." npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman So, it looks like the social media blowback from the awful original opposite-of-the-truth headline worked and the @nytimes editors changed it (twice, in fact). Yes, the original headline ("Biden Won't Meet DeSantis in Florida During Tour of Hurricane Damage") should never have run, but I appreciate the change. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Babbling, blathering #GOP bigot Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Dumbass) says her bill is to protect kids "from the #transgender in our culture," which is apparently something she's heard about on her teevee. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/senator-admits-kids-online-safety?r=1e885&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman How sick, creepy, twisted-up-inside #GOP sociopath #RonDeSantis went to great lengths to intimidate a 15-year-old boy who dared to ask a question about Trump's crimes. https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-president-candidate-ron-desantis-is-afraid-of-questions-from-15-year-old-quinn-mitchell npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman If I had said to my #GOP relatives before 2016 that the election of Trump would result in lynching threats to poll workers and election officials nationwide, they would've said I was insane. Now it's just Thursday. https://apnews.com/article/election-workers-threats-justice-department-trump-f17df44d63156a28eaa0862b0aa08f0b npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Nice article about the long-awaited tribute to David Crosby on Sunday, organized by Croz's son James Raymond and others. It was sublime and SO HEALING for his bandmates, crew, friends and fans. One correction: Croz's peeps did not open with a Sam Cooke song. They opened with Croz's "Long Time Gone." https://www.independent.com/2023/08/23/review-david-crosbys-final-band-does-him-proud-in-santa-barbara/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman If Trump's twisted, wackjob, serial-killer stare in his mugshot looks strangely familiar, here's why. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman As if this could have ended up any other way but a face fit for a horror movie. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Don't underestimate the brain-healing power of seeing mugshots of this MAGA filth in custody. Even monkeys are disturbed when they witness unfair behavior; for years now, the GOP has been treating grifters, liars, and frauds like heroes. It's one reason the world has felt broken. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman An old Russian joke: npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman A deeply touching, unflinching series of #photographs by Becky Wilkes chronicling her parents' final year. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-frank-tender-portrait-of-her-parents-final-year npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman How #RonDeSantis screwed his own constituents out of $346 million in energy rebates while focusing on bashing Disney, black people, and #LGBTQ+ folks. https://news.yahoo.com/floridians-stung-desantis-veto-cost-232800873.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Aiming to promote teen hopelessness and suicide, Republicans in North Carolina pass three anti-LGBTQ+ laws in a single day, overriding governor's vetoes. https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/north-carolina-passes-3-anti-trans?r=1e885&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman A clear and present danger: Trump's terrorists doxx grand jurors who indicted him. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/politics/fulton-county-grand-jurors-far-right-internet/index.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman This tweet certainly aged well. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Underappreciated #Oppenheimer trivia: One of the few elements of Los Alamos culture that got mentioned was a "ranch school." Among the kids who went there for summer camp before the bomb was built was William Burroughs, future author of "Naked Lunch" and other dystopian novels. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman If you said the #GOP's response was, "Can't they stop with these silly indictments, Herr Sexyman is doing too many crimes to care," you wouldn't be far off. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Happy birthday in Heaven, @thedavidcrosby! Grand jury in Georgia indicts Trump. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-fulton-county-georgia-08-14-23/index.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Singer-songwriter #DavidCrosby was born on this day 82 years ago. I miss the hell out of him. Today's tribute. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691106121652862976.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Remember all that nattering bullshit about a "cage match" that provided a nice distraction from the most dangerous criminal in American history finally being indicted? npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Another way to put this is that #RonDeSantis' murderous rhetoric about "slitting throats" and "kneecapping" opponents turns moderates off because it reveals a profound sickness in his soul, some weird freaky sadism turned into autocratic policy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/11/desantis-slitting-throats-rhetoric-repels-moderates/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman You would honestly be hard-pressed to find a more ass-kicking performance by any band than this, The Band with Robbie Robertson blowing the roof off "The Last Waltz" with "Don't Do It." via @npub1h2e…aagt https://youtu.be/3IB0mNEz4Tw npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Oy gevalt: Exhibit of Allen Ginsberg's photographs to feature "poems" written by Artificial Intelligence trained on Ginsberg's images. #poetry https://news.artnet.com/art-world/allen-ginsberg-photographs-ai-poems-2347317 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman One thing I don't give a fuck about, or half a fuck, or an eighth of a fuck, or even a microfuck, is those two numbnuts billionaires and their "cage match." The planet is on fire and the leading GOP candidate for President is a fucking rapist. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman After 40 years, Red Cross finally ends blood-donation policy that stigmatized #gay and #bisexual men. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/red-cross-ends-blood-donation-rules-singling-out-gay-and-bisexual-men.html npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub1ak3…l8j2 Precisely the point of me putting scare quotes around that word. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman The little "centrist" sucker fish that swim behind the dark-money whales to provide reasonable-sounding rationales for their latest bananas manufactured culture-war obsession also play a crucial role in the Ecology of Bullshit. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Exactly this, this all day, *THIS THIS THIS*. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub1gky…hp4w I regularly use both words, "lying" and "gaslighting," to describe what Republicans do, because they mean two distinct kinds of behavior. Please learn what the words you use mean before policing other people's toots. Thanks. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub18wl…c76l I got you. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman David Byrne says he "identifies" with #autistic people. This very amazing early footage of the original #TalkingHeads trio at NYC's Kitchen in 1976 is one of the most #autistic things I've ever seen. #Neurodiversity in action. #music https://youtu.be/8fdLi_60SIQ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman I'm 3000 miles away, but #Phish just concluded an epic jam at Madison Sq Garden that phans will be seeking out for years. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman 100%: With their constant lying, gaslighting, and attacks on vulnerable people, the Republican party is giving Americans PTSD. https://johnpavlovitz.com/2023/04/15/the-maga-mental-health-crisis/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=johnpavlovitz npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub1r0k…vazc really somethin'. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Grifter-in-robes Clarence Thomas, husband of terrorist-at-large Ginni Thomas, tells friends he scrimped and saved to buy his just-folks RV, worth a quarter of a million dollars. He's lying, as usual. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html?smid=tw-share npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub14e7…4v9k Cindy, for the record, I did not make that list, but I do certainly endorse your wonderful book "Finding the Right Words." Those are all my tweets and blurbs; it's some kind of aggregator website. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Trump's crude, mob-boss style threats trigger prosecutors' warnings in coup case. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/04/feds-alert-judge-to-trumps-if-you-go-after-me-im-coming-after-you-post-00109944 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman "Of course he's hip! It's @JerryGarcia, for the love of God!" - my mind during the one long conversation I ever had with him. A sweet lil' podcast episode in which I recall what it was like to talk to the cofounder of @GratefulDead. Thanks, @JamBase! https://www.jambase.com/article/steve-silberman-jerry-stories-jambase-podcast npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Prominent #fascist John Eastman, "Co-Conspirator #2" in Trump's indictment, continues to advocate violent overthrow of the US government to defend "gender norms" and gas stoves. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eastman-reiterates-support-for-full-insurrection npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Who could have imagined that this star of the "alt-right," published by @nytimes and @washingtonpost, featured on @FoxNews and hyped by Elon Musk, would turn out to be a straight-up eugenicist who argued for forced sterilization of "low IQ" blacks? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman *Crucial* reading from Aaron Rupar on how close Trump, Eastman, and their fellow GOP traitors came to deploying the US military to impose fascist rule on the United States. https://post.news/@/atrupar/2TWentOuBH184PzqWFOse6tVipO?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=creator_organic&utm_campaign=atrupar&utm_content=august4 npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Not just rigged, incompetent: Partisan ringer judge Cannon in Trump documents case, appointed by Trump, made two major errors in previous trial. https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-documents-case-judge-made-multiple-errors-earlier-trial-2023-08-04/ npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman @npub14we…ex6e Also by Gyatso, I love these. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman "An unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy... fueled by lies." - Federal prosecutor Jack Smith, charging Donald Trump with launching efforts to overturn the 2020 election, one of the most serious crimes in the history of the United States. https://youtu.be/TDpdlw0kmBw npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman We saw #Oppenheimer and loved it. No spoilers, but the casting, pacing, and sound design were sublime. It's a masterful film. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman How the #Republican haste to prop a clearly ailing Mitch McConnell in front of a microphone to say "I'm fine" sent a dangerous public-health message. https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/27/mcconnell-health/?utm_campaign=twitter_organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman The most succinct, spot-on take I've read. npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman Hey guys, you gotta stop with these "indictments" for crimes - there won't be a single Republican left in office! npub1zqvaw8vu50d52k2kkm4ptntq84qeup9amzxudrwkfweqgxc53d8qdq6k92 Steve Silberman The #GOP's freakshow of bigotry and legal assault on #LGBTQ+ people now threatens #HIV+ prevention. #health https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/13/hiv-prep-access-braidwood-florida-tennessee/
