Steve Silberman

I preferred America before it was overrun with Republican goons and thugs.

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.

"Nation's Republicans Admit They Were Totally Kidding About Electing Trump Again, 'Do You Think We're Nuts?'" #plausibleheadlines

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

The ever-astute Will Bunch on how the media is blowing the most important election of our lifetime. www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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

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...

The best hashtag I've seen yet for JD Vance: #HillbillyVanilli.

"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...

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!

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...

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...

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."

The best hashtag I've seen yet for JD Vance: #HillbillyVanilli.

I have such a feeling of déja vu not caring about Oasis all over again.

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...

Those headlines, translated: "Zuckerberg Regrets that His Tool to Enable Global Fascism Didn't Kill More People By Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation"

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...

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.'

This, with the caveat that it's also never too late to have NEVER STOPPED masking. #COVID19

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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

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.

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.

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

This, with the caveat that it's also never too late to have NEVER STOPPED masking. #COVID19

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.

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-...

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."

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

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.

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.

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."

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...

I agree with @karaswisher.bsky.social, this is the best Downfall clip. #HarrisWalz2024 www.threads.net/@dream_disco...

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.

DAMN this is good. By @thatlaundry on Threads.

I need a meme of Tim Walz offering the kid a cold glass of lemonade.

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...

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...

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...

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.

This, by @garytaxali.bsky.social.

The formerly important NYTimes has turned decisively dumb and offbase headlines into a daily affair.

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...