stevesilberman

stevesilberman, 9 months ago to random

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.

stevesilberman, 7 months ago to random

As a Jew, I was raised to maintain an instinctive vigilance, as if at any moment, the political winds could shift slightly and the purges, pogroms, and ovens would all come roaring back, while mobs cheered. No matter where your Jewish friends are politically, they're feeling that primordial terror.

stevesilberman, 11 months ago to random

Never forget that the thing that made it possible for #SCOTUS to kill affirmative action was racist Republican voters electing the most dangerous traitor in US history who appointed paid-off justices that perjured themselves in confirmation hearings.

stevesilberman, 10 months ago to random

Big news! I have a new column in Scientific American, for which I'm deeply grateful. The first one is on how my mother's #dementia showed me another side of #neurodiversity. Rough stuff, but the state of eldercare in the US is horrific. Please spread this link. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-my-mothers-dementia-showed-me-another-side-of-neurodiversity/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

stevesilberman, 7 months ago to random

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

stevesilberman, 11 months ago to random

RIP #DanielEllsberg. This account of how #poet Gary Snyder inspired the Pentagon Papers whistleblower is one of the most fascinating and least-known literary anecdotes of all time. Via #BeatGeneration scholar Randy Roark.

stevesilberman, 8 months ago to random

Actually, Romney's career as a serious human being ended at this moment, after which he called his discussions with this twisted, blatantly evil, hollowed-out sociopath "enlightening and interesting and engaging." He looks like he knew it, too.

stevesilberman, 1 year ago to queer

If you were wondering why Elon Musk's #trans daughter Vivian doesn't want to be related to him "in any way, shape, or form," his promotion of a vicious anti-trans propaganda film made by numbskulls on the first day of #Pride month probably doesn't help. #LGBTQ+ https://newrepublic.com/post/173184/elon-musk-personally-elevates-transphobic-video-originally-flagged-hate-speech

stevesilberman, 8 months ago to random

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

stevesilberman, 8 months ago to LGBTQ

It's something how willfully thickheaded @NateSilver538 is about how the Boebert thing is about a hypocrite pushing a moral panic about #LGBTQ+ folks living under life-threatening attacks, and the Fetterman thing is about... sweatpants. What was it Nate was allegedly good at?

stevesilberman, 8 months ago to random

Listen to the Kennedy family. RFK Jr. is a liar, a creep, and his candidacy is dangerous for our country.

stevesilberman, 11 months ago to random

Move fast, break things, drown people.

Warned of a potential "catastrophic" outcome by experts, Stockton Rush, the CEO of #OceanGate, who is missing with the other occupants of his submersible, claimed that "industry regulation is stifling innovation." #titanic https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/oceangate-titanic-missing-submersible.html?smid=url-share

stevesilberman, 11 months ago to random

Imagine if the press treated Biden's use of #CPAP as a moment to educate the public about a life-saving treatment for a common condition, instead of like 5th graders saying "Ew, he's old!"
But that wouldn't fit the GOP's pre-existing bullshit narrative, so instead we get this.

RT @thedailybeast
A White House spokesperson was forced to admit that President Joe Biden is using a CPAP machine to treat sleep apnea after reporters noticed slight indentations on his face.

stevesilberman, 9 months ago to random

Congratulations, Republicans! Idaho's Teacher of the Year hounded out of the state by twisted, hollowed-out #GOP bigots. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/08/idahos-teacher-of-the-year-flees-state-after-being-attacked-for-lgbtq-allyship/

stevesilberman, 4 months ago to random

One thing I find fascinating about Republican voters and the mainstream media is that Trump routinely says things like this and -- well, you may not have heard, but the man is running for President of the United States -- and nobody just says outright, "WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS MAN? WHAT THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT?"

stevesilberman, 10 months ago to LGBTQ

It's a metaphor, people. It's not like Ron DeSantis is an actual twisted, hollowed-out sociopath, a former Gitmo torturer who kidnaps migrant children, claims slavery was vocational school for blacks, and pushes laws that promote #LGBTQ+ teen suicide. Oh wait.

stevesilberman, 10 months ago to random

3-year-old migrant child being trafficked by prominent GOP sociopath TX governor Abbott dies on bus to Chicago. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/migrant-child-dies-on-border-bus-in-texas/

stevesilberman, 7 months ago to random

The most important story you could read or pass along this morning: If Trump wins the next election, he's planning to turn the US military against American citizens, while prosecuting the lawmakers and officials who brought him to trial for his crimes. [GIFT LINK] https://wapo.st/49mZXWU

stevesilberman, 7 months ago to random

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]

stevesilberman, 1 year ago to random

Fun fact re: #TuckerCarlson: In his college yearbook, he gave shoutouts to Dan White, the assassin of #LGBTQ+ supervisor Harvey Milk and SF mayor George Moscone, and Sen. Jesse Helms, the bigot who tried to filibuster MLK Day and wanted to put HIV+ folks in camps. Charming guy.

stevesilberman, 1 year ago to random

Honestly can't believe I have to say this out loud, but it was Trump's CRIMES that "upended democratic norms," NOT THE INDICTMENT. All this vapid handwaving about norms is a blatant attempt to give a pass to some of the most treacherous criminals in America's history.

stevesilberman, 1 year ago to random

Broadcaster Pat Robertson, who helped replace Christ's gospel of love with the endlessly overflowing sewer of hate, bigotry, nonsense, and lies that is today's #Republican Party, has died. https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e

stevesilberman, 1 year ago to random

#Jazz genius Miles Davis was born OTD in 1926. You might think his celebrity status would have shielded him from the institutionalized #racism of his era. You'd be wrong. Here's Miles, beaten bloody by a NYC cop in 1959 outside a club, after recording "Kind of Blue."

stevesilberman, 11 months ago to random

Wait till Marge Greene hears that the Jewish Space Laser people have teamed up with the Pride groomers to create a ray in San Francisco that instantly turns you trans. Will no one think of the children? [photo via Donna GianGiordano-Merlino]

stevesilberman, 3 months ago to random

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.