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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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Steve Silberman
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Sad news: Rest in peace and love Herb Greene, brilliant photographer of the Grateful Dead, the Haight Ashbury, and that era in general. We see it through his eyes.
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Steve Silberman
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Just saying, I wanted this season of "The Democrats" to be more like "Rebels" and less like "Discovery." #Trek
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Steve Silberman
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The GOP is superb at weaponizing prejudice so their BS feels like it has "a grain of truth." That's what Trump advisor Gorka just did by calling VP Harris a "DEI hire." Meanwhile, Peter Baker at @nytimes.com pitched in by driving a dump truck called Ageism and Ableism onto the White House lawn.
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Retired Army Reserve officer compiles "Deep State retribution list" for Trump, listing Democrats, J6 witnesses, and other elected officials who tried to defend democracy so they can be arrested for "treason" on live TV. [de-paywalled link to NJ.com] archive.ph/Lu3vo
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Steve Silberman
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Margaret Sullivan, the much-missed former public editor of @nytimes.com, on the bizarre collapse of our major media in the face of a fascist, rapist traitor who has been granted full immunity by a thoroughly corrupted SCOTUS stacked with GOP hacks. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Steve Silberman
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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] www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/b...
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Steve Silberman
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A shining sanitarium on a hill, full of patients in iron lungs who followed RFK Jr.'s advice on vaccines, and a back room for giving folks like Shanahan's #autistic daughter Bia-Echo experimental brain operations like the one she asked Elon Musk to give her.
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Steve Silberman
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Peter Baker's bizarrely irresponsible Parkinson's BS shames @nytimes.com again, leads American media off a cliff. www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2024/07/wild...
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Ian Miles Schlong
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NYT: Sure Godzilla is headed for New York, but why would we cover it? Everybody already knows Godzilla is a monster.
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Ward Q. Normal
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As someone whose plans for the future went from "I should be able to retire at 65" to "I don't know if my body will hold up that long" within the span of the last two years, I urge all of you to remember this.
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Steve Silberman
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"Disability should not be a fringe topic. On the contrary, to reflect on disability is to explore the fragility and potency, dependence and independence, constraints and possibilities, and hardships and joys that are a part of every human life." -- Shane Clifton, "Crippled Grace"
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Steve Silberman
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Prominent Trump advisor and former White House strategist Sebastian Gorka calls VP Harris "colored," pushing the GOP's openly racist party line that she was a "DEI hire." www.threads.net/@mediamatter...
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Steve Silberman
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"Disability should not be a fringe topic. On the contrary, to reflect on disability is to explore the fragility and potency, dependence and independence, constraints and possibilities, and hardships and joys that are a part of every human life." -- Shane Clifton, "Crippled Grace"
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Steve Silberman
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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 Billy Hayes late in life. I miss you, Oliver.
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Steve Silberman
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Margaret Sullivan, the much-missed former public editor of @nytimes.com, on the bizarre collapse of our major media in the face of a fascist, rapist traitor who has been granted full immunity by a thoroughly corrupted SCOTUS stacked with GOP hacks. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As the GOP's Project 2025 threatens librarians that stock books about LGBTQ+ folks with jail time for "pornography," Melania Trump "dazzles" while raising $1.4M from rich Log Cabin queens who think they can escape fascism by praising the fascists for her rapist husband's campaign.
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Steve Silberman
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Sen. Jim Inhofe, GOP buffoon who threw a snowball in Congress to "debunk" the global warming now causing misery and death all over the world, is dead at last. I interviewed him; he was a nasty piece of work, blathering lies, and white-knucklingly obsessed with trashing the Clintons. Enjoy Hell.
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That weird flu that's going around, with symptoms like shortness of breath, aching joints, racing heart, a terrible taste in your mouth, and an increasing sense of dread? It's looming fascism.
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Cathy Gellis
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The last time Nazis came to power in France, women didn't have the right to vote. Now they do. Voting, and making sure everyone can, is what defeats fascism.
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Steve Silberman
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#Cysticfibrosis activist Travis Flores died on May 23. This is what he told me about his children's book "The Spider Who Never Gave Up" when I interviewed him for my own next book, "The Taste of Salt." It was so typical of Travis that he bravely converted his own fear into a gift of hope for others.
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Jo Ann Singer
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We can do the same IF WE ALL VOTE.
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Steve Silberman
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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.
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Steve Silberman
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#Cysticfibrosis activist Travis Flores died on May 23. This is what he told me about his children's book "The Spider Who Never Gave Up" when I interviewed him for my own next book, "The Taste of Salt." It was so typical of Travis that he bravely converted his own fear into a gift of hope for others.
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Steve Silberman
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I'm sure if Biden steps aside to elevate Harris, the GOP and their tools in the media will throw up their hands and say, "An accomplished woman of color, oh no, we're doomed! We're utterly stumped as to how to attack such an impressive person in a way that will reach our base!"
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Steve Silberman
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It's not just that Trump has stacked SCOTUS with pro-Fascist grifters; it's that they're buffoons in black robes who really, really suck at their job. www.vox.com/scotus/35920...
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Mark Joseph Stern
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Steve Silberman
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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.
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Steve Silberman
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Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg's life partner was born on July 8, 1933. He was very sweet when I met him at Naropa in 1977 and, I suspect, #neurodivergent. Peter's gravestone in Colorado reads, "Train will tug my grave, my breathe hueing gentil vapor between weel & track." [photo by Cliff Fyman]
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Steve Silberman
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What I look like scrolling through social media
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Steve Silberman
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Oh don't worry, all that Nazi stuff is just talk. He'll never carry out those wacky policies. [ @latimes.com, 1933]
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Steve Silberman
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Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg's life partner was born on July 8, 1933. He was very sweet when I met him at Naropa in 1977 and, I suspect, #neurodivergent. Peter's gravestone in Colorado reads, "Train will tug my grave, my breathe hueing gentil vapor between weel & track." [photo by Cliff Fyman]
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Steve Silberman
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One of the most powerful quotes I've seen about how this happens to a country and how this pivotal historical moment in America feels.
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Steve Silberman
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The ever-astute Rebecca Solnit on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ward Q. Normal
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Make a band meatier Einstürzende Sauerbraten
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Steve Silberman
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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!)
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Steve Silberman
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@nytimes is back on Threads. I've deleted my post, but remain deeply concerned about its editorial standards and direction in this crucial historical moment.
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Steve Silberman
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One of the most powerful quotes I've seen about how this happens to a country and how this pivotal historical moment in America feels.
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Steve Silberman
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Sam Green's doc 32 Sounds, streaming at criterionchannel.com, is one of the most thrilling cultural experiences you can have right now. But: You MUST experience it with headphones. Do NOT settle for speakers. It's sublime, uplifting, profound. [photo of Annea Lockwood by 123cbz123]
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Steve Silberman
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Oh man, at her show tonight in Dublin, Patti Smith said, "I'm not Dylan Thomas, but I *am* Patti Smith." THAT is punk. (If you don't recognize what she was riffing on, ask your daughter.) [via @vt3103 on Threads]
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Steve Silberman
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Sam Green's doc 32 Sounds, streaming at criterionchannel.com, is one of the most thrilling cultural experiences you can have right now. But: You MUST experience it with headphones. Do NOT settle for speakers. It's sublime, uplifting, profound. [photo of Annea Lockwood by 123cbz123]
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Steve Silberman
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Oh man, at her show tonight in Dublin, Patti Smith said, "I'm not Dylan Thomas, but I *am* Patti Smith." THAT is punk. (If you don't recognize what she was riffing on, ask your daughter.) [via @vt3103 on Threads]
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Steve Silberman
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While you're reading more handwringing about Biden, this is what's happening.
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Pavel
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Well this is grim
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Steve Silberman
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Trump Says He "Knows Nothing" About Mass Deaths in Camps for Gender Subversives (tomorrow's headlines today)
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Steve Silberman
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The ever-astute Rebecca Solnit on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Steve Silberman
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Happy birthday to the Dalai Lama, a beacon of grounded compassion in a deluded world. "Compassion is the radicalism of our time," he once said. Here with my much-missed friend David Crosby, who was very inspired by the Dalai Lama's teachings.
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Steve Silberman
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As a photographer friend put it paraphrasing Henri Cartier-Bresson, "The 'decisive moment' is when you decide not to throw one into the trash." RT @arlenparsa on Threads A big secret behind making “good photos” is taking a bunch of them and then being very selective about which ones you show people
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Steve Silberman
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This is, to use a word I don't like using, insane. The partisanship and denial around mask-wearing ranks among humanity's darkest hours.
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Steve Silberman
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Do I have followers who work as waiters or flight attendants? I'm curious about the impact of COVID on your profession. In the past months I've seen waiters and flight attendants working with masks on, and others not. If you don't mask at work, do you get COVID? (This is not for publication.) Thx!
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Steve Silberman
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And yet, my point was that even this guy had soaked up the media zeitgeist while not even knowing about the historical corruption of SCOTUS. Not good.
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